Chapter 237: The Queen Mother
The corners of Minghui's mouth twitched, the little queen who was waiting for the buds to be released lived more like a Taoist temple than a Taoist temple, and the old queen mother was sitting in the world of flowers.
However, Minghui quickly retracted her words, the Queen Mother is not old, she can't be called the word "Old Queen Mother", she should also be in her forties and fifties, but she is well-maintained, her makeup is exquisite, and she looks like she is in her early thirties at most.
Just as Ming Hui learned from the two old ladies of Jiang, Empress Dowager Sun is only a middle-aged person, but her face is quiet and soft, her skin is fair, and her brocade clothes can hardly hide the color of dust.
Minghui was secretly surprised in her heart, she really didn't expect that Empress Dowager Sun's temperament was so outstanding, the county lord of Dingxiang was very beautiful, and she looked a little like Empress Dowager Sun, but if she was compared with Empress Dowager Sun, she would look vulgar.
Empress Dowager Sun was also looking at Minghui, snorted, and said, "The mourning family heard that you grew up in the Taoist temple?" ”
Minghui ......
Ming Hui had no choice but to repeat what she said to Empress Geng to Empress Dowager Sun, and Empress Dowager Sun nodded: "It looks clever, the Ming family is a scholarly family, have you ever read a book?" ”
Ming Hui hurriedly said: "The courtiers know a few words, but they have only read "The Biography of the Daughters" and "The Female Rules". ”
She didn't lie, she really read it, and her two sisters-in-law asked her to read it, and she brought it all the way from her mother's house to the capital.
"Okay, if a woman has read a book, people will be clear and open-minded, come and give the reward of the mourning family to the lady." Empress Dowager Sun said.
Minghui breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't call her "the young grandmother of the Marquis of Changping" like that father-in-law.
A female official brought the reward over, and Minghui glanced at it, it was a pair of pomegranate hairpins, a pair of jasper bracelets and a box of womb flowers.
Minghui hurriedly thanked her, and the Queen Mother smiled: "Go ahead, I'll call you into the palace to chat another day." ”
Minghui said goodbye, and Gonggong Xu called two palace maids to help Minghui hold the reward and send it to the palace gate.
Minghui didn't know that the chamberlain named Xiao Wuzi, who had taken her to Chaoyang Palace before, after learning that she was taken by Gonggong Xu to see the Queen Mother, rushed to a remote palace courtyard, and said to the attendant waiting in front of the door: "Tell your master that the Queen Mother wants to summon that she was taken away by Gonggong Xu." ”
The chamberlain hurriedly entered, and soon came out, and gave a silver ticket of ten taels to Xiao Wuzi: "The master said that this is luck, no wonder you, you still want to be rewarded." ”
Xiao Wuzi thanked him, accepted the silver ticket, and ran away.
Huo Yu had been waiting outside the palace, and when he saw Minghui coming out, he breathed a sigh of relief, he rewarded the two palace maids, accepted the reward, and helped Minghui into the carriage.
It wasn't until he entered the imperial city that Huo Yu asked, "Is it going well today?" ”
Minghui told all the things that she first saw the queen and was later called by the queen mother.
She added: "I guess the reason why Empress Dowager Sun wants to summon me is because of the relationship between the Marquis of Changping, you don't know what Gonggong Xu next to her calls me, the grandmother of the Marquis of Changping, and every time she has to say this big list, there are a lot of words." ”
Huo Yu snorted and said: "As far as I know, the Queen Mother has summoned the Lord of Xiangxian County to the palace more than once to reprimand, plus the Cheng'en Mansion made too much trouble a while ago, and the Queen Mother gave you grace, and she also wanted to knock on the Cheng'en Mansion, so that they shouldn't think about it." ”
Minghui frowned: "The Chengen Mansion wants Huo to swear to be a knight?" ”
Huo Yu chuckled: "Yes, the Chengen Mansion already has a few powerful in-laws, but it is not enough, and I still want to grasp the Changping Marquis Mansion in my hands." ”
Huo Zhanpeng is no longer angry, the Marquis of Changping Mansion is also a first-class lord, even if the next Marquis Changping does not make achievements, as long as he follows the rules, he can make the emperor change his opinion of the Marquis of Changping, and the wealth of the Marquis of Changping can be extended for at least three generations.
But Huo Zhanpeng is no longer angry, and the county lord of Dingxiang can't control him, not only the county lord of Dingxiang can't do it, but also the Chengen Mansion can't do it, otherwise there will be no old father-in-law to celebrate his birthday, Huo Zhanpeng redeemed two flower girls from the Peony Building as a joke about the birthday gift.
Huo Zhanpeng is not from a nouveau riche, the Marquis of Changping Mansion has been rich for a hundred years, Huo Zhanpeng still doesn't know how to send a birthday gift?
Therefore, Huo Zhanpeng is mud or rotten wood, but the Chengen Mansion has no way to take him, since Huo Zhanpeng can't do it, then he hopes for Huo Oath who has the blood of the Sun family.
Minghui sorted out the twists and turns in this, and sighed: "It's really boring." ”
Huo Yu smiled: "Don't worry about them, let them toss, let's have our own little day, and after this month, I will send you back to Baoding, and then the lotus flowers in Baiyangdian should also bloom, and we will go to live in Dianzi for two days." ”
"Okay!" Minghui suddenly came to her senses, and suddenly remembered one more thing, "The queen is at most ten years old, so young, oh my God, she shouldn't have a round house yet, right?" If it's a round house, it's a beast. ”
Huo Yu smiled and said busily: "Just say this to me in the future, you can't tell others, it's disrespectful." ”
Minghui stuck out her tongue: "I just told you." ”
Huo Yu said in a low voice: "When she got married last year, the queen was already twelve years old, and now she should be thirteen years old. ”
Minghui breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, the little queen was not ruined, but I really didn't see that the little queen was thirteen years old, and she looked like a ten-year-old, maybe it was because she was too thin.
Minghui suddenly remembered one more thing: "Did you go to the harem?" ”
Huo Yu shook his head, he was a Flying Fish Guard, if it wasn't for a special mission, the Flying Fish Guard would not have entered the harem.
"Why do you ask?" Huo Yu asked.
"When I went to Chaoyang Palace today, I made seven turns, and I always felt that the queen's bedroom would not make seven turns, and the little waiter should take me to copy the path." Minghui said.
Huo Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, that is, a smart and clever girl like Minghui would have such vigilance, and he asked, "Seven bends?" Did you count? ”
Minghui nodded.
Huo Yu patted her head and said with a smile: "I will find a way to inquire, fortunately, this time I entered the palace quite smoothly, don't think so much, the next time I enter the palace, it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year." ”
Minghui breathed a long sigh of relief, although there was no danger in entering the palace today, she didn't want to go to that place again.
"By the way, I saw a county lord outside the queen's palace, and a third-grade lady...... Minghui told the lady and the county lord about the lawsuit.
Huo Yu sighed for a moment and said, "That county lord should be the county lord of Baozhuang, and that lady is the wife of her mother-in-law, the political envoy Nie Hui." It is reported that the county lord of Baozhuang has not been married for three years, and Mrs. Nie stuffed the concubine into her son's house, and the county lord of Baozhuang fed the concubine with medicine, and carried the dying concubine to Mrs. Nie, so that Mrs. Nie could watch the concubine die. ”
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