Chapter 123: Visitation
Since sending gold and silver to the palace five times, but never getting a single reply, Cheng Zhu has been restless.
It is said that the concubines who have just entered the palace should have a chance to save their relatives, but there is no movement on Sister Yi'er's side. While ordering her servant to prepare a letter to send, she secretly cursed to herself, these days, it is really for her to eat and wear, climb the high branches, and turn her head to leave her Cheng family behind.
Mother Li is used to echoing Cheng Zhu's favor on weekdays, but at this time, she lowered her head and kept silent.
How she doesn't understand Madame's thoughts, no matter how she says, that Miss Table is also the master of the palace now, and it is beyond reproach, even if she doesn't come back, Miss Table is also reasonable.
When Zhaorong heard this, he took the initiative to say, "Mrs. Cheng, don't worry, this palace just wants to visit the queen mother, and by the way, I will know how my sister is doing." ”
Speaking of which, since she fulfilled the marriage ceremony, she has not been to see the Queen Mother again. The Queen Mother also said that she had done something reckless, and Zhaorong was angry with her for a few days, but in fact, she also had an apology in her heart.
Although she acted frivolously, she rarely disobeyed the Queen Mother, and she was defeated first.
But in the end, she has no regrets in her heart.
As soon as these words came out, Cheng Zhu's mind was fixed. She didn't expect that she would not be able to enter the palace easily, but there was this golden branch in the mansion, and there was no way out.
She softened, "Then I'll bother the princess." This sister is too, she left the house, and there was no news at all, which made people worry. ”
Then, Zhaorong first sent a message to Cining Palace, and estimated that the Queen Mother should have known, so she went to the palace because she picked the time.
Fang looked at Cining Palace, and a grandmother came out to greet him in the distance.
"Oh," the grandmother affectionately wrapped Zhaorong's hand, and couldn't help but look her up and down, with a smile between her eyebrows, "I haven't seen Your Highness for a long time, but you look so slim, and in the impression of the slave, Your Highness has only come here." ”
She gestured to her chest.
Zhaorong also smiled back, "At that time, you were talking about, and this palace was only what age. ”
This grandmother with a red jujube gown used to be the nurse of the eldest princess, and she has always been close to the princess. It's just that after she was married, she was still the queen's queen mother, and she was afraid that she would ruin her relationship with her daughter, so she sent her back to the township.
Now that she has entered the Cining Palace, there is only one eldest princess left under her knees, and the queen mother feels empty, so she summoned the nurse into the palace and often talked and gathered.
The nurse is a country woman, and what she sees is a completely different scenery from the queen mother, and she chats with her and mentions the countryside and wild interests, which naturally sounds interesting at first hearing.
The nurse hurriedly bent her fingers and knocked her head, and said with a smile, "Look at my memory, I have a mistaken memory." ”
After a few rounds of talking, she brought Zhao Rong inside, and she was also full of emotion.
When the Queen Mother told her that the princess insisted on marrying a small official, she was indeed a little surprised.
When the eldest princess was young, she rarely interacted with the nobles in Beijing, and the queen mother saw that she really couldn't get along with them, so she was no longer reluctant. Therefore, she has always only been accompanied by a few palace maids, and those maids have made her even more lonely and arrogant.
Now that he has fallen in love with a humble person, how can he call the nurse not embarrassed.
Fang entered the main hall, and Zhao Rong suddenly stopped, staring closely at the broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted man in front of him.
When the nurse saw the princess, she was so happy that she was about to laugh out of a flower, "Every time the slave and maid enter this palace, they cry out for the fragrance, as if they are floating in the clouds, but we have no such in the country." ”
The Queen Mother thought that she always said these insightful words, smiled and ignored them, and only beckoned Zhao Rong to enter.
Although she sat down, her eyes did not leave Jiang Huaiyang.
He drank his tea, as if he hadn't noticed Zhaorong's arrival.
He was called by the Queen Mother in the name of appreciating tea, although the Queen Mother only got a name that was hollowed out, and had no real power, but Dawu has always valued filial piety, at least the surface etiquette can not be abolished, so she still gave her a face.
I didn't want the Queen Mother to see him, and she was talking to him about the marriage to Zhaorong Chen Xiu.
The queen mother is hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and she is cold to her daughter, and on the other hand, she goes to the new emperor to intercede for her. It's good that she doesn't want her daughter to marry such a small family, but now, she can't change Zhaorong's mind, and she has to compromise as a mother.
But her compromise does not mean that the new emperor will compromise.
She was also a little scared of him because of the previous grounding, although he maintained a respect on the surface, he actually didn't take himself as the queen mother to heart. Emperor Guan Xin's face was impatient, so she had to stop talking and call the palace maid to add some tea for him.
Zhaorong frequently looked at him, and the atmosphere was cold for a while.
The Queen Mother couldn't see it, and said softly, "Zhaorong and Your Majesty may not have seen each other for a long time, but now that they meet, it is better to be close to them before." ”
Zhaorong's face was slightly different, in fact, if it was said to be close, it was also her way to please this one.
"I just saw it a few days ago." He put down the teacup and lifted his eyelids.
The queen mother's smile froze, she really didn't expect him to lose face like this in front of the juniors.
"I remember that I once said that I wanted the princess to choose between Chen Xiushu and the princess. Now that you are entering the palace, have you made a choice? His voice was indifferent, but he said the thing that Zhaorong didn't want to face the most.
The Queen Mother didn't know that there was such a thing, and looked at the new emperor, her eyes full of surprise.
She knew that the new emperor had always been cold-hearted, but she didn't expect that he really wanted to abolish her position because of Zhaorong's unauthorized family affairs.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not a joke, why is it like this." The Queen Mother smiled reluctantly.
Zhaorong's heart jumped slightly, and he wanted to prevaricate the matter, and talked about the next matter, "Brother Huang approached Sister Yuyi to the palace a few days ago, and the Cheng family was worried when they saw that she had no news. ”
Anyway, as long as she doesn't admit it, and the concubine is there, the matter can be postponed forever. Thinking that she was the eldest princess, her existence involved so much, he couldn't just say that it was wasted.
He watched coldly as their mother and daughter sang and harmonized, silent.
The eldest princess is a woman from the heavenly family, but she intervenes in the marriage of others, which is not supposed to be. Besides, she is small and reckless, which damages the royal atmosphere, even if she is really demoted to a concubine, it is reasonable.
But she only enjoyed the dignity of the princess, but did not fulfill the responsibility of the princess, so it cheapened her.
After a long time, he opened his lips, "How did the eldest princess think of her?" ”
The little lady was afraid that she was worried because she was under house arrest in the main room, so she lowered her eyebrows and pursed her lips, and her whole body was lowered. If she's really annoyed, she won't shout and make a fuss, she just turns her face and ignores people, and she is angry.
Seeing that he didn't mention it anymore, Zhaorong breathed a sigh of relief, and also had the mind to take a closer look at his expression, and a thought suddenly flashed in her mind.
"—wouldn't she not be in the palace at all?"
Although he wanted to spread the news that she was no different from the outer room, he always felt that he had been busy recently, and it was better to delay this matter any longer, so he only knew that there was a Ruan Cai in the palace, but no one knew that she was not in the palace at all.
"The princess is doing what you are doing." He lightly brushed the subject away.