Chapter Forty-Eight: Cining

"Put your own uncle in prison, and take the people of the first palace to coerce your mother, Zhao Surui, you really became a good emperor and played a good hand! How? Now that you have entered this Cining Palace, do you want to drag the mourning family, who has served the first emperor for decades, and gave birth to the first prince and your queen mother, to be dragged out to play the board?"

In terms of age, Empress Dowager Cao is nearly fifty years old, but she seems to be only a few years older than Lin Miaozhen, she wears a brown hat with a full set of ruby heads, and in the center is a white jade Buddha inlaid with gold distraction, surrounded by treasures. He wore a red dragon-patterned Baifu short jacket, and a double horse-faced skirt with a jade girl offering her birthday and going to sea with a dragon.

In the main hall of Cining Palace, Shen Shiqing finally saw such a queen mother as Zhao Surui.

Ignoring Empress Dowager Cao's pistol and stick, she saluted slightly: "My son asks the Empress Dowager to say goodbye."

"Please? What Ann please? The mourning family thinks that if there is no mourning family, this palace will be truly peaceful."

What is the ...... That's right.

Shen Shiqing didn't answer, Cao's words might make Zhao Surui feel uncomfortable, but she was not the son of Empress Dowager Cao.

Lin Miaozhen saw the tension between the royal mother and son, and also saluted to the Cao family: "Daughter-in-law Lin gives the Queen Mother a greeting."

Looking at her, Cao Shi laughed first:

"Hah! Lin's! The mourning family thought that you had been the queen for seven years and finally knew the etiquette, righteousness and shame that some women should have, but I didn't expect the mourning family to underestimate you! You actually picked up the son of the mourning family and bullied your own queen mother! It is not enough for the mourning family to see that you have harmed a dry child, but also to harm another son of the mourning family, you are going to harm the entire world of the Dayong Dynasty! The Lin family has really raised an excellent daughter! It's clearly a character like Bao Daji!"

If Cao's scolding of "Zhao Surui" is mean, then what she scolded Lin Miaozhen is all heart-wrenching, and she can't directly become a sword, gun, sword and halberd to kill Lin Miaozhen on the spot.

Shen Shiqing only knew that Lin Miaozhen was the queen that Zhao Surui asked for herself, and the reputation among the noble and wealthy families in Yanjing City was not good, but now she understood why those ladies in the Hou Mansion dared to arbitrarily comment on the queen of the dynasty, it turned out that the root of it was the Empress Dowager Cao.

Listening to Empress Dowager Cao's words, Lin Miaozhen's expression did not move, and she was about to kneel down when she lifted the corner of her skirt, but was stopped.

The person who stopped her was, of course, Shen Shiqing.

"Queen Mother, the queen is the queen I have chosen, she is a ***, presiding over the harem for me to solve problems, the Lin family is also diligent and cautious as a descendant, the father of the Lin family is still just a Ronglu doctor, over the years, the queen is good, the Lin family is a conscientious wife, a minister, never over-distanced, if such a queen is a person with evil intentions, then what is the queen mother who instigated the first emperor to send his brother to a real position, but caused the court to lose thousands of military horses and hundreds of thousands of silver? A double marquis but does not want to serve the country, what is the Cao family where one uncle encroaches on the acres of land as a female offender, and the other uncle lingers in the Qinglou and lustful Cao family? Queen Mother, you said that the queen is a concubine, so what am I? The King of Zhou, the King of Shang?"

"Smack!" A bucket tea cup was smashed to the ground.

Cao just looked at his youngest son, and his chest was already full of anger. ….

"You talk to the mourners like that? Zhao Surui, are you going to turn the other way?! If the mourning family had known that they had given birth to an unfilial son like you, they would have thrown you into the ...... back then."

Before she finished her words, the eunuchs and palace maids serving in the palace had already knelt on the ground firmly.

Li Nianen walked up to her on her knees and stopped her in a panic: "Niangniang! I can't say that!"

"What can't be said!" Cao Chacha waved away Li Nianen, who was blocking him, stood up and walked in front of "his son".

"The first emperor gave preferential treatment to the Cao family back then, that was the first emperor's grace to the mourning family, Zhao Surui, if it weren't for the loss of Qian'er and the throne in your hands, why would the mourning family suffer such an insult from you? You framed the Cao family and the mourning family, what other means do you have? Just do it! The mourning family has nothing now, not even the dignity of a queen mother, so it is better to end it with a rope and go underground to find the first emperor and Qian'er! The mourning family wants to see how you, who are unfaithful and unfilial and forced to die of your own mother, will go to see the ancestors of the Zhao family in the future

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Hearing Empress Dowager Cao's mouthful of "Qian'er", Shen Shiqing could feel Lin Miaozhen's body shaking slightly by herself.

Shen Shiqing probably understood why the Empress Dowager Cao has been so domineering over the years, in addition to the word "filial piety" firmly grasped in her hand, what she was holding in her other hand was "Zhao Suqian", seven years ago, the former crown prince Zhao Suqian and the first emperor died one after another, so that Zhao Surui got the throne, and also made him and Lin Miaozhen have a layer of shackles on their hearts.

Especially Zhao Suqian, he is the prince of Dayong who is expected by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the beloved person who Lin Miaozhen has loved for many years and cannot forget, he is the bright moon in the sky, everyone praises its bright beauty, and everyone wants to take its brilliance into their arms.

Empress Dowager Cao kept mentioning Zhao Suqian, as if she was reciting a spell to hold a round of the moon in her hands, she said that the moon is round, the moon is round, everything in the world is round, she said that the moon is curved, the moon is curved, and everything in the world must be curved.

If she was a little unsatisfactory, she used a person who no longer existed in the world to torture Lin Miaozhen, and also tortured Zhao Surui, so that they could only let her go.

But what does the real Zhao Suqian look like, and where can Empress Dowager Cao pretend at will?

Sighing softly, Shen Shiqing was not in a hurry or impatient, but gently pinched Lin Miaozhen's arm to comfort her: "In the thirteenth year of Mingkang, the first prince entered the court to listen to the government, and the first letter was to prohibit the nobles from swallowing up the people's fertile fields in the suburbs of Beijing. In the fourteenth year of Mingkang, the first prince read the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, feeling the dictatorship of his relatives in the late Han Dynasty, and wrote the article "The Treatise on the World and His Relatives". The queen mother, my eldest brother and the Duansheng prince of the Dayong Dynasty, has the world in mind, and wants to get rid of the accumulated evils of the Dayong dynasties, so that the people of Dayong can live in peace, so that everyone in the world can abide by the law, and oppose the interference of foreign relatives. What I am doing now, everything I can take to my eldest brother and explain it clearly, but the queen mother, you always mention my eldest brother, have you ever thought that if my eldest brother knew that you let the Cao family go like this, what would he think?"

She looked at Empress Dowager Cao with eyes that belonged to Zhao Surui:

"Mother, will my eldest brother be happy? Will I be glad that my eldest uncle is stupid and can't let the DPRK lose hundreds of thousands of taels? Will you be glad to see you use the money of the Imperial Village to make up for the deficit for your uncle? Would you be glad you said such rude words to my queen? Or will you be glad that you will use his death at every turn to make his brother come to you?" ….

Cao just didn't expect that she didn't see her youngest son's angry, aggrieved and helpless expression today.

Of course, she knows what she has been saying and doing, and over the years, whenever Zhao Surui has made her unhappy, she will think of her eldest son.

Compared with Zhao Surui, who only knows how to be willful and reckless, her eldest son is like a godsend, her eldest son helped the first emperor become the crown prince as soon as he was born, and helped her become the crown princess...... Compared with Qian'er, Zhao Surui is not only mediocre in talent, but also has the temperament of a demon king in the world, why can't she miss her eldest son?

Of course she has to be nostalgic! She wants to be missed by all! She just wants Zhao Surui and Lin Miaozhen to know that everything they got today was exchanged for her Qian'er's life!

But today's Zhao Surui, he is too different from usual.

Cao Chacha was even stopped by her son, she paused, and the first thought that came to her mind was "My son bumped into me for Lin Miaozhen, the *** who killed Qian'er".

"What are you talking about! Didn't this slut of the Lin family teach you that!"

As she spoke, one of Empress Dowager Cao's hands pointed straight at Lin Miaozhen's face, but in the next second, "Zhao Surui" was in front of Lin Miaozhen.

"No, that's what I want to say." Shen Shiqing looked at the Empress Dowager Cao, this woman seemed to have everything, but she had to grasp the point she had lost, and let everyone only see that point, because that little bit of light was enough to cover all her selfishness.

"Queen Mother, I have heard enough of the words you said through my imperial brother, what the imperial brother really wants to do, you never care, the imperial brother has the grand ambition of the whole world, you don't care, you have used the name of the imperial brother again and again to ask for benefits for the Cao family, such a trick, I

I don't want to accompany your mother anymore. Because I am the emperor of this Dayong, I am the sky!"

Shen Shiqing took a step forward, her gaze was cold, but resolute.

"Queen Mother, after so many years, do you really not understand? You can become the Queen Mother because of me."

The man was tall, with broad shoulders and long arms, like a tree, which could shelter all the wind and rain in this world.

Lin Miaozhen stood there, looking at the "Zhao Surui" standing in front of her, her heart was sour, but for the first time in so many years, she showed a sincere smile in Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Cao took a step back, another step, and when "Zhao Surui" turned around and walked out, she finally gave off her legs and sat down in her chair.

"Li Nianen, what does he mean?!"

Li Nianen didn't know how to reply to his master's words.

Your Majesty means, Queen Mother, the days when you want the wind and the rain are over.

Shen Shiqing pulled Lin Miaozhen and strode out of Cining Palace.

Standing in front of the gate of Cining Palace, she turned around and looked at the word "Cining", and couldn't help but smile coldly.

Kind.

Peaceful.

"Go to the West Garden." When she pulled Lin Miaozhen into the sedan chair, she said to a chicken.

There was silence in the sedan chair, and even the footsteps of the sedan chair man outside were almost inaudible, Lin Miaozhen looked at Zhao Surui, and her expression was a little embarrassed: "I clearly said that I was opening the harem for you, why did you come to protect me in the end?"

Shen Shiqing looked at her, obviously Lin Miaozhen's facial features were bright, and there was no resemblance to herself, but she felt that Lin Miaozhen at this moment was very similar to her before.

For the meager thoughts in their hearts, they all trapped themselves in a place of wind and rain, and let a heart pass through the knife mountain and the sea of fire in the seemingly still water-like years.

"Sister Lin, do you like blue or purple?"

Lin Miaozhen was dazed: "What? You're going to give me a head shot again? No, I didn't do anything for you today......

"Sister Lin." Shen Shiqing interrupted Lin Miaozhen's words.

"Pick a suit, let's go out of the palace to play."

Get out there and take a look.

Look at the world and the sunset outside the high walls, and look at the flowing clouds and cooking smoke that are no longer lonely.

Thinking of those, Shen Shiqing smiled:

"Sister Lin, my eldest brother died to cure the floods for the people, and he left you not only the cold moon and wine on the palace wall."

Lin Miaozhen was still shocked, she never thought that she would have to leave the imperial city one day except death.

But looking at the deep and quiet eyes of the person in front of her, her heart was more than panicked.

"Okay."

She nodded, and a tear fell on her queen's gown.

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