Chapter 22: The Battle of Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law

"What the hell is going on?!" With the angry rebuke, a whole set of blue and white folded branches and grape pattern bowls smashed down from the danqi, and the lid of the bowl flew over the autumn sideburns, and fell into broken porcelain all over the ground behind her.

On the Dan Qi, Empress Dowager Gu's eyes were blazing, and her face was full of anger, with a hint of murder!

The emperor and queen who bowed the head of the queen mother looked very calmly and watched the empress dowager's attack - the four people kneeling under the Dan Qi had different expressions: Qiu Yulan, who had no background, bowed his head timidly; Gu Yan and Deng Yi rushed to tell their grievances; Jiang Yashuang looked calm, seeing Qiu Yulan quietly looking at herself, and smiling at her with leisure, obviously very confident in her queen aunt.

After all, he is the queen's own nephew...... There is also a grandfather who is known as the dry city of the country.

Qiu Yulan bit her lip uneasily: "What should I do?" ”

She peeked up - the queen mother should be over half a hundred years old, but she looked like she was in her early thirties at most.

The queen mother's own son is the youngest prince of the first emperor, and when he landed, his half-brother had been the prince for more than ten years, which can be described as full-fledged. As a result, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was suspected of murdering the monarch when his younger brother was less than three years old, and all of them were given to death - except for a grandson who was born mentally retarded to prove the royal benevolence.

It is conceivable that the beauty and wrists of this Queen Mother Gu.

At this moment, the queen mother who is high on the phoenix seat has changed into the crimson Zhai clothes she wore during the banquet in the evening, wearing twelve tree hairpins, and a pair of red phoenix eyes are majestic and self-revealed, showing the demeanor of the regent queen mother.

However, the queen Jiang at the bottom made Qiu Yulan a little surprised: the queen is petite and exquisite, with a slightly plump goose egg face, thin eyebrows and big eyes, and a smile at the corners of her lips.

But the kind of aggressive edge conveyed by this not tall queen made Qiu Yulan unexpectedly think of a sentence in his previous life: Lori's appearance, the queen's aura!

Sandwiched between the two queens, the emperor who was dressed in a robe and wore a twelve-hanging white jade crown on his head can be regarded as tall and elegant in appearance - but the emperor lowered his eyebrows and looked melancholy, and his temperament was not like the emperor, but more like the angry concubines in the harem who were suppressed by the queen who was jealous of the queen mother.

"You two are useless too." Listening to the crying of Huigu Yan and Deng Yi, Queen Jiang, who originally looked calm, showed impatience, "One of the two frosted children, they are all beaten like this!" What a shame! ”

Empress Dowager Gu said angrily: "Why is it reasonable for your nephew to beat someone?!" ”

"That's because Shuang'er can't get used to the two of them bullying the county lord of Ningyi!" Empress Jiang said disdainfully, "What a lot of fun!" Lord Ningyi is only twelve years old, right? Still a little girl! Queen Mother, do you want to talk about what is wrong with Shuang'er's righteous and courageous actions? I think it's the old man of Guangyang who is confused! How to teach sons and nephews?! Even in the palace, he is so domineering, and he still has it outside? Is this treating our Darui world as theirs?! ”

The queen's words were fast, urgent and crisp, and Qiu Yulan, who was kneeling under the Danqi, almost wanted to stand up and applaud her!

But when the Empress Dowager Gu heard this, she was heartbroken, and said hatefully: "Did the mourning family ask you?" Shut up the mourners! ”

Empress Jiang was biased: "Queen Mother, you are the queen mother, how can you openly protect it?!" ”

"Emperor?!" Empress Dowager Gu took a deep breath and looked at the emperor.

The emperor, who was slowly sipping a bowl of fragrant tea, raised his head helplessly, was forced by the queen mother's stern gaze, showed cowardice, and said: "What the queen mother said is ......" Before the words were finished, Qiu Yulan saw that Empress Jiang stretched out her hand and pinched the emperor hard when the queen mother couldn't see it!

I saw that the emperor's face twitched, and the fragrant tea in his hand almost turned over, and finally endured the pain and said: "Queen Mother! The child feels unwell and wants to retire first - please worry about this matter for the queen mother and the queen! ”

After saying a word, I stood up, forgot to put down the tea, and just saluted and walked away!

"You ......" Empress Dowager Gu was dumbfounded, and slashed at Empress Jiang viciously, "You did a good thing!" "Although the Queen Mother didn't see it, the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not a day or two, and I guessed it!

Empress Jiang was casual: "What did you say, Queen Mother?" The daughter-in-law doesn't understand! ”

Qiu Yulan bit her lip and didn't laugh out loud: The Queen Mother who has been regent for thirty years is really strong, but I don't know what the fate of the Queen Mother Gu is, but I just met a daughter-in-law like Queen Jiang - I can continue to be regent until now I was not angry with this daughter-in-law, and the Queen Mother is really not easy!

Empress Dowager Gu gritted her teeth for a moment, slapped the long case hard, but pointed at Qiu Yulan and shouted angrily: "You come!" Yan'er and Yi'er, did you bully you before! ”

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, it was Gu Shizi who ......did something to the courtiers" Although it was said that before entering the palace, Qiu Lulan was ready to draw a clear line with the Jiang family and stand on the side of the Queen Mother, but now that she is standing on the Queen Mother's side, she is simply looking for death, of course, she will continue to maintain a good relationship with the Jiang family.

So Qiu Yulan didn't hesitate to tell the truth.

"Wait!" Unexpectedly, before her words fell, the Queen Mother's eyes narrowed, and she looked at the shabby dress on her body, "How can you, a dignified county lord, dress like this and enter the palace?!" Could it be that Princess Xihe raised her niece like this? Or is it the official canonization of the county lord?! ”

Qiu Yulan's heart froze, and Queen Jiang's face above also stiffened - but she heard an elderly female official behind the Queen Mother bow down and say: "The Queen Mother doesn't know, there are rumors in the market that the person in charge of the Xihe Palace's house is not the Princess of Xihe, but the sister of the King of Xihe, Qiu Yuqing, and her daughter Kang Lizhang!" ”

"Kang Lizhang?" The Queen Mother sneered and looked at the queen, "It seems that the folk girl who Yongfu invited to the palace for a banquet tonight is called this?" ”

Empress Jiang pursed her lips: "Yongfu? How can her little child be the master of this, it was her daughter-in-law who asked her to invite her. ”

"Bastard! The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is a royal reward for hundreds of civil and military officials, and only officials above the fifth rank in Beijing can bring their dependents to participate, and below the fifth grade, without a license! You are a little thing, and it has broken the rules to allow a folk girl to go to the banquet, if it is a good one, forget it. The Queen Mother was furious, clapping a few cases in her hands and shouting, "You actually ask such a thing to seize power and bully your cousin with your aunt!?" ”

Empress Jiang said coldly: "Lu Nushi also said that the Xihe Palace's mansion is not the princess in charge of the inner house, but the mother and daughter of Qiu Yuqing, but it is a rumor in the market - this kind of rumor can also be true?" The people in the market said it as a joke, and as the queen mother, I also believe that it is really a joke! ”

"Why did you wear such a dress to the palace today?!" Empress Dowager Gu was too lazy to argue with this daughter-in-law, and found Qiu Yulan again, "Did you despise the heavenly family, or did you suffer from someone?!" Don't worry about the turmoil just now, everything is up to you! ”

Ignoring the intimidation of "despising the heavenly family" specially reminded by the queen mother, Qiu Yulan replied in seconds: "The courtiers have been wearing filial piety in the past few months because of the new mother concubine, and they have not made new clothes......"

"Girls at this age really grow up fast." Empress Jiang immediately took over, "But Princess Xihe is also at fault, even if you are in the midst of filial piety, you should prepare a few plain clothes and dresses to prevent going out - by the way, Queen Mother, since the county lord of Ningyi is guarding filial piety, and it is Chinese New Year's Eve today, you summoned her to the palace?" ”

After such two times, Empress Dowager Gu saw that Qiu Yulan was determined to fall to the Jiang family, and her expression became gloomy: "The royal family has its own blessing from heaven, what is there to be afraid of!" You are also from Jiangmen, so you don't have the guts to do it?! ”

Empress Jiang said leisurely: "Of course not, the daughter-in-law just thinks that the queen mother doesn't like the lord of Ningyi, and even the family guards the mother's filial piety and serves her grandfather during the New Year, and she has to be summoned into the palace to teach a lesson!" The topic revolved back to the conflict outside the Liuchun Pavilion, and the queen glanced at Gu Yan at the bottom, "But if you teach the county lord a lesson, there are female officials in the palace, why bother to work Gu Shizi?" ”

Empress Dowager Gu sneered: "She said that Yan'er bullied her is the truth?" Have you asked the palace maid of Liuchun Pavilion?! ”

Gu Yan heard the Queen Mother's bias, and said loudly: "Although the Lord of Ningyi County is young, he is very cunning!" I implore the Queen Mother to torture her so that she can confess the truth! ”

"Shut up!" Before his words fell, Empress Jiang had already snorted, "The county lord is a female dependent, Your Majesty still avoids the disposal of her, and it is your turn to teach the palace and the queen mother a lesson?!" ”

Empress Dowager Gu slapped a few cases angrily, and when she saw that the queen didn't see it, she took a deep breath: "Come on, take Ning Yi down and flog thirty!" Ask again after flogging! ”

Empress Jiang was about to speak again, and Empress Dowager Gu shouted, "Why does the queen want to teach the mourning family how to deal with a county lord?!" ”

"Why would a daughter-in-law think that?" Empress Jiang said coldly.

The Queen Mother thought that she had softened, and watched the palace people walk towards Qiu Lulan, and felt that the stuffiness in her chest was slightly soothed - but the next moment, Empress Jiang said lightly: "But the daughter-in-law thinks that even if the county lord is not as good as the princess, she is also the hereditary daughter of Emperor Gaozong's royal family with a different surname...... It's better to consult Queen Ye's mother, and then decide! ”

Before the three words "Queen Ye" fell, I saw that Empress Dowager Gu's face suddenly turned the color of pig liver!

"Although Empress Ye doesn't like mundane affairs and has lived in Ganli Palace for many years, but!" Empress Jiang said, "After all, Empress Ye is the queen of the main palace of the first emperor, and the mother of His Majesty." Queen Gu, you said yes, right? ”

Empress Dowager Gu stared at Empress Jiang, and Empress Jiang smiled sweetly.

After a long time, Empress Dowager Gu gritted her teeth and said, "Then send her to Ganli Palace!" ”

"There is still a Empress Dowager Ye in the palace?!" At this time, Qiu Yulan was stunned for a moment - she was sure that the memories of her predecessor had been left, but when did there ever be two queen mothers in this dynasty?! That Empress Dowager Ye is actually still the Queen Mother!

"Two mothers, please put your anger away for a while." Qiu Yulan hadn't been taken down yet, but an attendant came up to the round and said cautiously, "The dinner is about to start...... This ......"

"Ni Jin, you send the master and servant of Ningyi County to Ganli Palace." Empress Jiang turned her head and instructed a palace maid in colorful clothes behind her, "Please show Empress Ye how to deal with the county lord of Ningyi." ”

Qiu Yulan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Empress Jiang had been helping her just now - although it was said that she was in front of the queen mother three times and twice when she answered the queen mother's question, but it also showed that Empress Jiang was still very effective in covering friendly forces.

Now it is the queen who proposes to send her to Ganli Palace, no matter what is going on with this unknown Empress Dowager Ye...... It should be safe for now...... Right......?

However, the moment she bowed down and looked up, she caught a glimpse of Empress Dowager Gu sitting upright with a gloomy but calm expression, and for some reason, her heart jumped!

"Could it be that the Empress Dowager Gu has some secret hands in the Ganli Palace?"