Chapter 256

Because the banquet will not start for a while, all the ladies are idle in the Fengluan Hall at the moment, but compared to the previous laughter, now the big guys are following the queen's mother to speak, and they set their eyes on the Duchess of the Protector who does not often get together with people. [Full text reading. 】

It's no wonder that they are curious, since the Duke of Protector settled in Beijing, no matter which family gathers or invites, the Duchess of the Protector rarely participates. Occasionally, I participated, and most of them sat quietly on the side, and they didn't show any leakage. Since last year, it seems that when Princess Chenyue's Mansion held a banquet, she had been there twice, but each time she was personally picked up by the Lord Protector, leaving many ladies to envy the love of the two of them.

Naturally, some people are envious, and there are also people who speculate indiscriminately because of jealousy, I am afraid that the protector also knows that his wife is a village woman in the mountains, and she can't take it out of her stinginess, so she came to pick up people and leave. And on weekdays, she doesn't often socialize with people, and she is afraid that she is also timid, and she probably doesn't dare to be embarrassed in the circle of nobles.

But now, this Duchess of the Protector is a person who advances and retreats, and she speaks and acts in a disciplined manner. Since Donghuamen was troubled, she seemed to be calm, and even that incident didn't seem to have any effect on her at all, and now she talks to the queen mother in an orderly and generous manner.

Not to mention how others were secretly surprised, and how they were surprised that the queen looked at her differently. Anyway, at this time, the queen mother spoke again, and asked the people of the palace around her to take Mama Liu and Sheng Rui to the side hall to rest first, and only wait to go to the queen mother's palace to ask for peace later.

Now everyone can't understand it, a toothless child, how can it attract so much attention from the queen? Listening to those words, it seems that there is also the meaning of the Queen Mother. This is puzzling, of course, I can't figure it out, including Lin Baozhu himself.

However, she really felt the kindness of the queen's mother, and she couldn't help herself in the palace, so she couldn't think about many things, so she was naturally grateful.

When they arrived in the Queen Mother's Palace, everyone saluted again, and then gave a brief lecture, and then the Queen Mother didn't say anything else, just looked at the direction of Lin Baozhu, her eyes were ruddy. The queen mother on the side and the old mother beside her hurriedly whispered comfort, and I don't know what to say, so that the queen mother laughed again.

"Duchess Protector, I heard that you have done a lot of good deeds, and it is really good to see you now." Since the Queen Mother was named, Lin Baozhu naturally got up and thanked her, but she didn't want the Queen Mother to let her kneel at all, but beckoned to call people to herself, and then looked at them for a while, and praised them again and again.

"This is the bracelet that the mourning family has worn for many years, and now I will give it to you, don't dislike the old woman's belongings." I don't know what I thought, Xu is heart is happy when he looks at it, and he can't help but smile and laugh.

Lin Baozhu was really stunned for a moment when the Queen Mother raised herself so highly, but looking at the old man with kind eyes full of unfeigned pity, she really couldn't think of why.

But even if you are entangled in your heart, your mouth is faster than your heart, of course, you are grateful again and again, and you will never be disgusted.

At this time, everyone was beating drums in their hearts, and they all guessed how Lin Baozhu ended up in the eyes of the Queen Mother. A class of mountain village women, is it possible that there are still opportunities next to them? However, speculation is speculation, everyone's faces changed, and in the end, they all smiled and echoed the Queen Mother's words.

For a while, how can there be sneering and scoffing eyes? It was the old lady of the Yue family and Mrs. Lin's mother and daughter, who both began to panic, although they did not follow suit, but they did not dare to show their heads again.

And Xia Xiaoyuan, who had been holding her fists under the wide sleeves with a dark face, felt that her eyes were stabbed by the smile when she looked at Lin Baozhu, who was envied by everyone. It should have been her own treatment, if she hadn't married the protector first, how could she have the current creation?

She was indignant in her heart, she was abandoned by the Marquis of Wenchang and ridiculed by many people, and she couldn't even pretend. At this time, he squinted, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said rashly with a sneer: "The Duchess of the Protector is a clever mouth, and she is used to coaxing people, and now who in the capital doesn't know that the Duke of the Protector is coaxed by the lady and there is not even a person around to serve him." But also, the wife can leave her family and run to the countryside to have children, how can she account for anything else. ”

After saying that, she shook her head and pretended to sigh. It's just that the words that were originally flattering came out of her mouth, and they were directly like a sword of words, full of irony. After finishing speaking, she seemed to notice that something was wrong, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and confessed: "The courtiers were reckless, and they couldn't bear to live in front of the queen mother and the queen mother, and asked the mother to forgive her sins." ”

In fact, she was also impatient at first, and she felt that the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother should be strict with the rules, so she opened her mouth rashly. After that, he took retreat as advance, thinking that at the time of the New Year's Festival, the Queen Mother would not sweep everyone's interest, and I am afraid that this matter will pass gently.

It's a pity that the Queen Mother was in a good mood, but under Xia Xiaoyuan's words, she was directly a little annoyed. She has been sitting in the harem for decades, what has she never encountered, what storms have she not experienced? If you can't see Xia Xiaoyuan's success, then you can be smiling and generous.

After the queen explained Xia Xiaoyuan's identity, the queen mother had no worries, and said coldly: "Since you know that it is presumptuous, the mourning family cannot go unpunished." After a pause, she spoke again, "Mama Wen, you personally go to the Zhengyuan Palace, ask the emperor for an order, and order the Marquis of Wenchang and his wife to go back to the house to introspect, and save others from thinking that there will be no rules when you come to the palace." ”

Seeing that the Queen Mother seems to be angry, who dares to plead? And Xia Xiaoyuan was also frightened and sat directly on the ground, and finally kowtowed again and again to ask for mercy. Seeing that Mrs. Wenchang was about to cry bitterly at this juncture, several palace people on the side hurriedly covered their mouths and dragged people out.

The Holy One attaches the most importance to filial piety, although the Queen Mother has no fertility to the Holy One, but there are several times when she sacrifices her life to protect the Holy from being calculated. Xu Yes and only a few old people in the palace know that the Queen Mother was not pregnant back then, but in order to save the saint, she could only have a miscarriage to provoke the saint's pity, and then rescue the saint who was slandered and punished and almost lost his life.

After the saint ascended the throne, he respected the queen mother as his mother and devoted himself to support, and the affairs of the harem were all important to the queen mother's favor. Fortunately, the Queen Mother is not nostalgic for the palace power, and she also restricts the palace people, so she has never made the saint embarrassed with the Queen Mother.

It is also because of this that the emperor and the queen are more respectful and filial to the queen mother.

If at this time, let a lady of the Marquis of Wenchang disturb the interest of the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother will not be happy during the New Year, I am afraid that the entire harem will suffer.

Seeing that Xia Xiaoyuan, the wife of the Marquis of Wenchang, was dragged away so mercilessly, the rest of the noble ladies who were still standing in the Lin family watching the play like this were really sitting on pins and needles. And the Yue family and Mrs. Lin were even more cold sweat, and they didn't dare to speak, let alone look at Lin Baozhu more.

After solving Xia Xiaoyuan, the Queen Mother pulled Lin Baozhu and talked about homely things, and after asking many questions, her expression was even more pity. Seeing this, the queen mother hurriedly smiled and said: "Queen Mother, the Duchess of the Protector brought her brother into the palace, and now the concubines are arranged to wait in the side hall, do you want to take a look?" Seeing that this sentence caused the queen mother to smile, the queen hurriedly continued, "I heard that my brother has been raised very well, but I was in a hurry to come to my mother's harem just now, and the concubine has not yet seen it." ”

"See, see, hurry up and let someone bring it in, the mourning family hasn't seen the children for a long time, but I miss it tightly."

In this way, under the expectation of the two giants, Mama Liu carried Sheng Jin into the hall unhurriedly, and after saluting, she was just about to walk to her wife, but she saw that the Queen Mother waved people to her again and again.

"Good, good, it's a blessing. Come, give the mourners a hug. Seeing that Sheng Jin was not afraid of people, seeing that she not only did not dodge, but grinned and giggled, and her little hands danced back and forth to hug, how could the Queen Mother not like it?

For a while, there was laughter in the palace of the Queen Mother, and when several noblewomen of the clan saw this, they praised the children in the Queen Mother's arms one after another. Which of them is not a human spirit? The most will look at the face of the superior, at the moment the queen mother's love for the Duchess and the young son is real, and there is no way to fake it, no matter what the reason is for those two people, it is right that they are good friends. So after everyone was surprised, they silently glanced at each other, and they just thought that they had never heard the rumors that were unfavorable to Lin Baozhu in the capital, not to mention her background, only happy and happy.

In fact, this is indeed the case, not to mention what Lin Baozhu came from, as long as the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother have the heart to help, it is just a matter of one or two sentences. As long as the two of them don't care about her identity as a merchant girl, who dares to say more?

And the rest are not qualified to speak in the Queen Mother's Palace, so they can only stand behind everyone in peace, looking at the women on the seats and the women of the sect smiling and discussing.

I was just happy, but I saw that Princess Chenyue was also here, and when I saw Lin Baozhu, my eyes lit up, and I asked a few words with a smile. Of course, you can't tease the cute meat dumplings like Fu dolls. Seeing that the queen mother and the queen were happy, she also smiled and begged for a reward for the meat dumplings.

When she was about to go to the Zhengyuan Hall for a banquet later, Princess Chenyue took Lin Baozhu's hand as if she was reluctant. It's just that there are too many people around, so I simply endured it until the palace banquet, and then I sat down next to Lin Baozhu.

The person who was already paying attention to the movement over there was thinking about it again. When did the Duchess of the Protector and Her Royal Highness become so friendly? Thinking of the attitude of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, and then looking at the intimacy between Princess Chenyue and Lin Baozhu now, how many people began to speculate and ponder in their hearts for a while.