"Bai Zhi, is Niangniang asleep?"

"Just fell asleep. What's the matter, something happened to Yongshou Palace again?"

As soon as Gu Qingcheng finished receiving the memory, he heard someone whispering at the door of the main hall.

The hall was quiet, and her six senses were keen, although she was more than a dozen steps away, she still faintly heard a few key words.

Yongshou Palace?

Well, that was the residence of the emperor's biological mother, Concubine Xie.

For this mother-in-law, there are quite a few records in the memory bank of the original owner.

In the words of later generations, it is the best of the best.

Concubine Xie is not from a high background, and her appearance and talent are not outstanding in the harem.

Her personality and character are even more indescribable.

Thinking about it, Min Huang, as his own son, feels that his mother is "bad", which is enough to prove the strangeness of Concubine Xie.

As a daughter-in-law, the original owner faced a more real and worse Concubine Xie.

「…… This man is really confused!"

Gu Qingcheng thought back to the memory he had just received, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

Gu Tingcheng himself has a very high double business, although he doesn't understand it very well, he also understands the psychology of people like Concubine Xie-

The reason for her background made her feel inferior.

Once he gains power, he will become rampant with a "great change of temperament".

Concubine Xie's contradiction and distortion are particularly obvious when dealing with the original owner's daughter-in-law.

On the one hand, Concubine Xie was proud that her son was able to marry a daughter from a famous family with noble birth and good talent.

On the other hand, she is envious and jealous of her daughter-in-law, and every time she sees her daughter-in-law, she feels inferior from the bottom of her heart.

Low self-esteem or something, not a shortcoming, people who are not psychologically strong enough will always have low self-esteem for various reasons.

But the reason why Concubine Xie is a big wonder is that she can't handle her inferiority complex very well.

Others have low self-esteem, and they may try to improve themselves and make themselves better people.

Concubine Xie has low self-esteem, but she will only satisfy her distorted mentality by suppressing and trampling on others.

Three years ago, it was better, Min Huang did not have a pro-government, and the original queen had just entered the palace, and Concubine Xie could still restrain her temperament.

When Min Huang was in power, Concubine Xie completely trembled.

She always relied on her mother-in-law's identity and wanted to learn from the daughter-in-law of the original owner.

Gu Tingcheng: ...... Mader, sick!

If Concubine Xie was targeting her daughter-in-law for her own interests, Gu Tingcheng would be able to understand.

However, Concubine Xie is obviously just "angry", and there is not much conflict of interest between her and the original owner.

Compared with her daughter-in-law, Concubine Xie's "opponent" should actually be the Queen Mother!

As a result, she didn't dare to fight with the Queen Mother, so she brushed her sense of existence on her daughter-in-law's side.

Many times, Concubine Xie is engaged in a "battle of will", harming others and herself!

Concubine Xie's approach is so "true temperament" in the court where interests are the most important.

Gu Tingcheng: ...... In the harem, it is not a good thing to praise a middle-aged woman who is married and has children for being innocent and straightforward.

Fortunately, the original owner is not a bun, let alone such a "***" - she and Min Huang are not ordinary lucky couples, but partners with an exchange of interests.

The Gu family gave Min Huang enough support, and Min Huang gave the Gu family the position of queen.

「…… This Empress Gu is somewhat similar to me!"

Gu Tingcheng has integrated everything from the original owner, and he already has a very in-depth understanding of his "new identity" this time.

Then, Gu Tingcheng was pleasantly surprised to find that Queen Gu was not the heroine and heroine in the ancient sayings.

The most obvious feature is that Queen Gu does not have those thoughts of love and love.

Ha, born in a famous family, married to the emperor and became the queen, and is full of petty love, that is funny.

Talking to the emperor?

Do you really give a true heart?

What do you think.

I'm totally sorry for the family education I received since I was a child.

What's even more ridiculous is that there are some ancient sayings, the heroine was let down by the emperor's male protagonist, and the family was hidden by the birds, so she began to hate all kinds of things, followed by a rebirth, revenge and other dramas.

Gu Tingcheng: ......

It's a political marriage that you love and I want, and it's good to talk about interests directly.

Why do you have to be emotional?

The combination of the new monarch and the powerful minister is not only a cooperation, but also an investment.

Investing in something is inherently risky.

The emperor wants to prevent the descendants from sitting on the big side and relatives from interfering in politics;

As for the queen's family, they must also prevent the emperor from crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, "grace will take revenge"!

has been on the gambling table, buy and leave, who wins and who loses, each according to his ability.

There is no need to put on a "pathetic love" cloak for this brutal political struggle.

The original queen was very sober, she was not infatuated with Min Huang, but regarded Min Huang as her business partner.

They are husband and wife, cooperating with each other and using each other.

No one can talk about climbing anyone.

Therefore, Queen Gu will not compromise in the harem, let alone be a bun despite being noble and having a rich dowry.

For the confused mother-in-law, Concubine Xie, Queen Gu has never been used to it.

It is true that because of filial piety, Queen Gu will not really "disobey" Concubine Xie.

However, Queen Gu will use her strength to fight.

The Queen Mother, who has a higher status and more confidence than Concubine Xie, and Min Huang, the emperor's son of Concubine Xie, are all Empress Gu's "rescuers".

Some inconsequential little things, Queen Gu will not bother with Concubine Xie.

And for some issues involving principles, Empress Gu will throw the problem to the Queen Mother and Min Huang.

Speaking of which, some people may wonder, didn't Queen Gu help Min Huang fight against the Queen Mother, their cheap mother-in-law and daughter-in-law should be enemies.

Gu Tingcheng: ...... Hehe, superficial.

Later generations have said, "There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests"!

Let's say that there is no life-and-death enmity between Queen Gu and the Queen Mother, even if there is, in the face of absolute interests, enemies can be turned into friends.

In the eyes of the government bosses, there is no absolute right and wrong, and there is no such happiness and hatred.

Sometimes, for the sake of profit, even the hatred of killing the father and taking the wife can be "laughed off".

Although Empress Gu and the Queen Mother are both women, they are very mature politicians.

They will weigh the pros and cons, not the "true temperament" like Concubine Xie!

Concubine Xie thought that she did not collide with the Queen Mother, but in many cases, her "confusion" itself was an offense to the Queen Mother.

Queen Gu made perfect use of this and asked the queen mother, the wife, to clean up the former concubine.

As for Min Huang, it is better to explain.

Min Huang is Concubine Xie's own son, if there is someone in this world who really owes Concubine Xie and has to endure Concubine Xie's demon, that person must be Min Huang.

Although Queen Gu does not have those mother-in-law and daughter-in-law theories of later generations, she has always been very clear-

If there were no Min Huang as a husband, she and Concubine Xie would be two strangers, and there would be no intersection at all.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a conflict, and the root cause was not the two women, but the man in the middle.

The inaction of being a husband and a son will cause conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

As an ancient native, Queen Gu knows very well the truth of delineating responsibilities and tracing the roots, and she refuses to be outsourced by filial piety.

was targeted by Concubine Xie, she would not be stupid to think that she was not doing well, which made the elders dissatisfied.

She will convey a meaning to Min Huang: The concubine seems to have a grudge against His Majesty.

The world says "love the house and the Wu", if the mother concubine really cares about His Majesty, she will not target the concubine.

Fortunately, the concubine still has some brains and knows

The mother concubine was just confused for a while, and she didn't really want to cause trouble for His Majesty!

Queen Gu's meaning is very clear, a mother-in-law deliberately targets a daughter-in-law who is noble and helpful to her son, either she is really stupid, or she really doesn't take her son seriously.

Either that, or both.

Unfortunately, Concubine Xie seems to be the third case.

Every time Concubine Xie came to provoke, Queen Gu would express her thoughts openly and secretly - Your Majesty, your own mother doesn't love you, and she doesn't want to "love the house and Wu" for you.

Self-blame, shame?

Self-reflection?

Stupidly kidnapped by the so-called filial piety and put yourself in a humble situation?

I'm sorry, but Hongu won't!

Empress Gu does not live by Min Huang's grace, she will be the queen, not because Min Huang is pitiful, but because she has a strong family behind her.

As long as the Gu family is still there, even if she disobeys her mother-in-law and is unvirtuous to her husband, she will still be in a stable position.

And once the Gu family is gone, even if she treats her mother-in-law as an ancestor and humbles herself to the dust, she will still be abolished! It can be said that although Queen Gu is set in this small world, although she is a pure ancient native, her thinking is not "conformist" at all.

Even more rational and sober than the people of later generations.

"I like it!"

The more Gu Tingcheng understood the original owner, the more satisfied he became.

She rolled over and sat up, and with a smack, pulled the curtain open.

At the door outside the dormitory, two palace maids who were muttering quietly together heard the movement and hurriedly stopped.

One of them asked respectfully, "Niangniang, are you awake?"

Although the voice was still not loud, it was louder than when the voice was lowered just now.

At least, Gu Tingcheng was already able to hear clearly and identify who this person was-

"Bai Zhi, come in and talk!"

"Yes, mother!"

Bai Zhi answered and walked in quickly.

She saw that Gu Chengcheng had already sat up, and hurriedly walked forward in three or two steps, and took a hidden sac and stuffed it behind Gu Tingcheng.

"What's wrong? I heard in a trance, 'Eternal Longevity Palace?'

Gu Tingcheng leaned on the hidden sac and looked at Bai Zhi, his voice was neither high nor low, and his speed of speech was neither hurried nor slow.

The whole person was not shocked, as if she heard that the bad mother-in-law came to find fault again, and she didn't care at all.

"Back to Niangniang, Aunt Yuping from Yongshou Palace just came, saying that the concubine Niangniang had chest pain and needed high-quality rhinoceros horn for medicine-"

Bai Zhi is the maid brought into the palace by the original owner from her mother's house, and her ancestors have been servants of the Gu family for four or five lifetimes, and she is the most loyal.

As a loyal servant, Bai Zhi is very repulsive to a superb mother-in-law like Concubine Xie.

There is even a deep disdain.

It's not that Bai Zhi prides herself on being a noble servant of the family and has a high eye, but this Concubine Xie is really unbearable.

For example, this time, it was sent by Ming Huanghuang to ask for his daughter-in-law's dowry!