- What Yao Ji?

On this day, when Concubine Yuanxian played with her lips and tongue for a long time, as for the angry mouth foaming several times and gritting her teeth, she sighed for a long time and almost burst into tears, and finally felt that her mouth was dry and irritable, but she finally got such a response, she couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and the statue generally looked at the queen mother who was leaning on the red sandalwood peony brocade couch and had been half-closing her eyes to enjoy the palace people pressing the forehead.

It seemed that the ears suddenly quieted down, but the queen mother felt that she was not very used to it, so she opened the eyes that had always been slightly out of style but hidden edge, habitually a diagonal pick, waved her hand, and motioned to the palace people to help her sit up, and immediately there was tea and soup served, she took a sip, and then said again: "I'm thinking about other things, I didn't understand much." ”

Concubine Yuan Xian took a deep breath and snorted: "Queen Mother." ”

I had to mention the spirit, but I didn't have the strength to start from the beginning, so I only chose the important thing and said: "Yao Ji is a concubine's friend in the past, a concubine's uncle and concubine's sister, back then, my uncle was also because he helped the queen mother, so he used it as a matchmaker to match Yao Ji and Liu Shaoqing, and now he has a daughter for Liu Shaoqing." ”

"I still have some impressions of what you said." Empress Dowager Wei bowed slightly: "Over the years, what can Yao Ji do?" ”

Concubine Yuanxian was stunned again, and said: "When Liu Shaoqing returned to Beijing, her daughter was still young, and Yao Ji was also left in Jiangnan, and she didn't return to Kyoto until recently...... The queen mother, the Xiao family has a lot of means, although she can't give birth to a son, she doesn't care about taking a concubine for Liu Shaoqing, making a virtuous gesture, and has always firmly favored Liu Shaoqing...... Later, the Liu family was named a concubine and won the holy favor alone, and the Xiao family felt that they had a reliance, and instigated the rest of the concubines to secretly slander Yao Ji, so that Liu Shaoqing treated him coldly. ”

"So it's useless?" Empress Dowager Wei squinted at Concubine Xian.

Yuan's face lowered, and his voice weakened a little: "If you want Yao Ji to play a role, you have to let her gain a firm foothold in Liufu...... But when she returned to Chang'an, she was punished and grounded by the Xiao family, and Liu Shaoqing was disgusted by the design, and now even her only daughter was handed over by the Xiao family to others to be raised...... The concubine knew that Mrs. Juntai was the sister of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother trusted Liufu quite much, but it was only ...... The Queen Mother thinks about it, the concubine dares to be so domineering, is there no support from Mrs. Tai's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law behind this? The concubine is even more worried, the saint loves the concubine so much, and the concubine will be even more arrogant, if she instigates the saint and the queen mother behind her back...... The Queen Mother, the Xiao family knew that Yao Ji and I had a relationship in the past, and I served the Queen Mother wholeheartedly, but I didn't save face at all, and humiliated and bullied Yao Ji as those slaves and lowly concubines, and Mrs. Jun ignored it, isn't this ...... Like a concubine, he disrespects the Queen Mother. ”

"You keep implicating the concubine with the lady's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, don't you know that the concubine has never seen her mother's relatives and friends for many years, that is, I asked the lady to go to her bedroom, and she also refused to see her behind closed doors, and the lady of Liufu and the concubine can't contact at all, so how can they speak the same voice?" Empress Dowager Wei said lightly.

"This is just the surface, how can you guarantee that the concubine did not send her henchmen to collude with her mother's family in private." Concubine Xian said anxiously.

"You and I are in charge of this palace affairs with one hand, is it a tattered sieve? If the palace eunuch wants to collude with whom, he will collude? Concubine Xian, don't you know that the eunuch in your palace recognizes the righteous son and often walks around the palace of Yichuan? ”

"Queen Mother!" Concubine Xian was so shocked that she half-knelt up.

Empress Dowager Wei snorted coldly, and ignored the flattering smile on Concubine Xian's face, which could not be contained, but turned sideways, lightly rolled the narrow sleeves of gold silk, uncovered the hollow lid on the back of the Jinfeng incense burner, removed the mica space, took the palace man and handed over a pair of long straight incense chopsticks, gently stirred the snow-like incense ash in the belly of the furnace twice, and added a grain of incense, until Jin Fengbian's mouth spit out a wisp of fine white smoke again, which was different from the earlier nap, and this fragrance was even more fragrant.

After taking the Ming Huang brocade silk and wiping the residual smell of her fingertips, the Queen Mother raised her eyes to look at Yuan's miserable face: "I know the little abacus in your heart, but fortunately, you don't have too much ambition and greed, so you don't care." ”

Concubine Xian came back to her senses at this time, prostrate down, and her forehead was next to the silk back brocade tooth mat under her knees, full of gratitude and fear: "The Queen Mother Shengming." ”

"Tell me, what is your purpose today?"

Concubine Yuan Xian hesitated, and that plan could not be exported.

"If you don't have anything to say, just step down." Empress Dowager Wei didn't seem to have much patience.

"Queen Mother...... The concubine is selfish, first, to be good friends with Yao Ji, and secondly, to ...... She asked my father to beg on her behalf, and she also knew that I had the trust of the Queen Mother, if I refused, I would not be favored, and I would lose the face of the Queen Mother......" Seeing that the Queen Mother leaned down on the couch again, Concubine Yuan Xian immediately made a long story short: "The concubine body just wants to ask for a wife for Yao Ji, so as not to be unscrupulously bullied by the Xiao family." ”

Although she mustered up the courage to say this, she really didn't succeed in her heart, because the Empress Dowager had a bad idea about Mrs. Wei, in fact, she also heard Princess Wei say this, but today she was refuted by the Queen Mother's rebuke, and she seemed to trust Mrs. Wei without any other intentions, just the arrogance of the concubine.

Concubine Yuanxian was depressed, but she didn't know that she had a sentence: "In terms of speaking, it is appropriate to be ranked in the fourth grade, and there can be four eight-grade women, what you ask for is not too much...... That's it, seeing that you were filial in the past, I said two good words to Mrs. Tai for Yao Ji. Immediately overjoyed, stepped forward to squeeze away the palace people, personally for the queen mother to rub the forehead, while thanking the queen mother, while flattering the queen mother's hard work, full of enthusiasm to the tongue of the lotus and the "bones of the palm", did not pay attention to the palace people who were squeezed by her and almost knocked over the incense burner, when the face was lowered, it was full of disdain.

Only this "mother-in-law" and "daughter-in-law" did not have long to be disturbed by a eunuch who came to ask for help with a sweating head, this person was almost kneeling forward, obviously anxious, but he had to press the words to report quickly, only the sharp voice, or inevitably leaked out of the cry: "Queen Mother, save the Jiangnei servant...... At this time, the king of Jin wants to kill the inner servant! ”

Of course, the Queen Mother had already sat up again, and she couldn't help frowning at this time, but she was still not in a hurry: "Where is Ye'er now?" ”

The eunuch took a long breath: "The king is in the Zichen Palace. ”

"Does the saint ignore it?"

The eunuch cried and mourned: "Saint...... Drinking too much alcohol...... Because the saint ordered not to be disturbed, the lowly slaves did not dare to trespass......"

The Queen Mother's long eyebrows frowned: "In the Son of Heaven's bedroom, how can you tolerate blood and light, the saint is excessive, is the concubine also excessive?" ”

"Since last night, the saint has only left Eunuch Guo to wait in front of him, and he has ...... Even the concubine was not allowed to see him. ”

Concubine Yuan Xian originally wanted to take the opportunity to put the concubine into the well, but when she heard this, she was even more overjoyed, that Guo Ajian, isn't it Qin Sang? This time it really lived up to the plan, and finally found someone who could compete with the concubine, the queen mother has been dissatisfied with the concubine for a long time, as long as Qin Sang can get the holy favor, it is even worse than giving birth to a dragon heir......

Concubine Yuanxian is not jealous at all, just because she has already judged that the future glory and wealth have nothing to do with whether or not she has the grace of the saint, the important thing is to sit firmly on the henchmen of the Queen Mother!

It was because she hurriedly said: "The King of Jin is too stubborn, the Queen Mother, it is better to be ......" Before she could say the later words of disciplining the King of Jin, she saw the Queen Mother raise her arm to signal silence, and the Yuan family immediately lowered her eyes and sat upright.

"Jiang Yu has been waiting for Ye'er for many years, and he has always been respectful and proper, why did he anger Ye'er today."

The eunuch prostrate down: "It's the inner servant who is too proper...... Earlier, Concubine Shu asked to see the saint in front of the Zichen Palace, and the waiter did not dare to let the concubine enter because of the holy order, so there was a dispute...... I don't know how to alarm the king of Jin, I actually came out with a whip, and scolded Concubine Shu for her intentions and wanted to whip Concubine Shu! The inner servant knew that the king of Jin was not doing well, and stepped forward to dissuade him, so he annoyed the king of Jin and actually blamed the inner servant and the concubine ......" The eunuch paused slightly when he said this, and seemed to be embarrassed.

Wait for a sentence: "How about blaming Jiang Yuan?" At that time, the eunuch trembled and said: "The king actually blames the inner servant and the concubine ......" as if spit out the word "selfish" from between his teeth, and the eunuch sweated like rain: "The queen mother, the inner servant is a eunuch, how can it be ......"

Concubine Yuan Xian couldn't help laughing out loud, and didn't forget to fall into the well: "Queen Mother, King Jin is stubborn, but this concubine is too ignorant of decency, the sage has an order in front, she dares to collide, and the Jiangnei servant suffers from unjustified disasters." ”

Empress Dowager Wei was also extremely speechless about this farce, let out a long "um", and slowly stood up with Concubine Yuanxian's arm: "So, I have to go to Zichen Palace, this thing is really ...... Smile generously. ”