Chapter 14: Ghosts

When the queen mother saw that the emperor was defending a concubine, a wave of anger rose in her heart.

was about to get angry, Meng Guqing said:

"Auntie, I'm dizzy from hunger, or let's eat first."

"Good, good."

Everyone sat in their seats, while the concubines stood beside the emperor and waited for the emperor to eat.

Meng Guqing couldn't get used to it, but at present, he should fill his stomach first.

She thought she was hungry and should be able to eat, but when she drank a bowl of mutton soup, she put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"Queen, isn't it unappetizing?"

Meng Guqing thought of the Manchu and Han banquets, and said, "Auntie, have you ever eaten Han food?" ”

"Would you like to eat?"

Meng Guqing nodded.

"I heard that there are many kinds of Chinese cuisine, southern cuisine, Jiangsu-Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, and Cantonese cuisine. Northern cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huang Eniang, do you want to try it? ”

The emperor frowned.

"In the queen's heart, apart from extravagance and waste, can there be anything else?"

Meng Guqing directly ignored him, but continued: "The banquets in our palace are all hot pot with stewed meat, pork, beef and mutton, etc., which is not distinctive. ”

The Queen Mother glanced at the Emperor.

"In addition to amazing foreigners, we also have clear standards, such as banquets for ministers, holding longevity festivals, pro-vassal banquets, pro-Mongolian banquets, wedding banquets, and so on."

The queen mother felt that this thing could be done, she glanced at the emperor, and when she saw the emperor frowning, she asked the queen again: "Where did the queen see this?" ”

"Auntie, I slept in the Buddha hall last night, and I dreamed of dragon boat mandarin fish, slippery shell balls, stewed quail in sauce, oyster sauce beef tenderloin, Sichuan sauce duck paws, etc., but before I could eat a bite, people woke up from freezing."

hehe

The Queen Mother smiled when she heard it, and even the concubine next to her couldn't help pursing her lips.

It's just that the emperor looked at the queen who was in trouble, his eyebrows furrowed, the front of the Manchu and Han seats were empty, and the back was the point.

She was wronged and starved.

"I have a music box in my hand, which was given to me by John Tang, go back and let Wu Liangfu take it for the queen to play with."

Hmph, that thing about the music box, are you rare to me?

Meng Guqing didn't answer the emperor's words, but got up and said, "Auntie, I'm tired and want to go back to Kunning Palace." ”

"Empress, let the emperor personally send the music box to you later."

Meng Guqing shook his head.

"Auntie, it's not like you don't know, I don't like music. Give it to someone who knows how to appreciate it. ”

With that, he retired.

After the queen left, the queen mother said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you have injured the queen." ”

When the queen mother saw that the emperor was silent, she drove the emperor away and said, "The emperor kneels down." ”

The emperor returned to the Qianqing Palace and asked to see him.

"Xuan."

It was a matter of government affairs, and the emperor left his emotions behind.

Ji Shi stepped forward, and then presented his 'grain planting essay' that he sorted out in the past few days, the emperor is the emperor after all, he has studied history books since he was a child, and he is also determined to become a good emperor.

There is diligence, but there is a lack of power, and now that Dorgon is dead, the emperor has great power, and there are some things that can be done.

"Master Ji, did you sort out these things yourself?"

"Your Majesty, the minister listened to the queen's mother on demand that day, and when he went back, he looked through the classics and looked for the old farmer to ask, and it turned out that the queen's mother was far-sighted, far-sighted, and had the talent of Wang Zhen. What she said about 3,000 grains of millet per tree is true. The minister also listened to the queen's words and wanted to increase the yield of millet. ”

"Mr. Ji, the queen is just talking in vain, she doesn't know a few big words, how can you believe it?"

Mr. Ji shook his head.

"Is the emperor sure that the queen is illiterate?"

“......”

"The minister and the queen mother teach, although it is only a few days, but the minister is not blind or stupid, and the queen mother is deeply hidden. A person who opens his mouth is Emperor Tang Ming and closes his mouth to the Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty is either a person who knows the past and the present, or a person with great wisdom. ”

“......”

After Ji Shi left, the emperor was not calm left and right, and Wu Liangfu entered tea several times, and saw that the emperor was in a daze.

Hey, the emperor had an awkward relationship with the queen mother because of the affairs between the queen mother and Dolgon, and he didn't like the queen that Dolgon set for the emperor, but now?

The emperor has a good knowledge since he was a child, and he has hills and valleys in his heart, so he naturally doesn't want his wife to be a woman who can't read big words, what she wants is a talented woman who can talk about the past and the present with him.

Now, Mr. Ji's words seem to have slapped the emperor in the face.

"Your Majesty, why do you say she wants to cover it up?"

"The queen may have the queen's troubles."

"What can she do?"

Yes, why does a learned man keep hiding his knowledge? That can only show that the man in front of her is not the person she loves.

Is it because of this? She loves others, so she has been acting since she entered the palace?

On acting? I learned it when I was eight years old.

You must know that in the powerful Dolgon and the eldest brother Hauge, who holds military power, if he didn't act, he would have been swallowed by the two of them.

"Wu Liangfu, let's go to Kunning Palace."

The emperor took the music box and went to Kunning Palace.

late at night

Meng Guqing woke up, after waking up.

He didn't call Angel, but got out of bed on his own, walked to the round table, and poured himself a glass of water.

"Mother, you're awake."

Angel did not sleep either, and when he found that his master had woken up, he went to wait.

"Why didn't you sleep?"

"Slaves can't sleep." The emperor is still there.

She was just about to give her master a reply, when she heard her master ask curiously: "Anqier, you said that if I am deposed, is it possible to settle in Jiangnan?" ”

"Won't my mother go back to Mongolia?"

"Why are you going back to Mongolia? Is it stocked? Just our little body. I'm afraid I'll be trampled to death by the sheep. It's better to go to Jiangnan, Jiangnan is good, and the scenery is old. The sunrise river flowers are red, and the spring river is as green as blue. Can you not remember Jiangnan? ”

"Jiangnan beautiful land, Jinling Imperial State. With green water, Zhu Lou was handed up. That's a great place. ”

Angel didn't understand, and she asked:

"Master, if you are deposed, won't you be angry?"

"At first he was a little angry, why did he give up? Even if it is abolished, I will abolish him, if he is not born and became an emperor, what is there to be nostalgic for? But I slept for a while, in fact, think about it, if it is abolished, we can leave the palace, how beautiful the outside world is, I don't want to be like the queen mother, like a man and look at my son's face. I really don't know how he reads the sage books, if I were my aunt, I would have waited for him a long time ago. ”

"Really? I didn't know that I was worthless in the queen's heart. ”

Angel is actually a little deliberate, she just wants the emperor to hear that the current master doesn't like him at all.

He is self-righteous in the province.

It's just that Meng Guqing was a little confused, looked at Angel and said: "Angel, am I hallucinating, it's the middle of the night, why did I hear a sound that shouldn't be heard?" It's strange, our Kunning Palace, won't it be haunted. ”

"Meng Guqing."

Meng Guqing couldn't help but shudder.

"Hell......"