Queen Ma looked at Deng Zhiqiu lightly: "Zhiqiu." Although I watched you grow up and treat you like a daughter, there are some rules that should be followed. ”

Deng Zhiqiu knelt on the ground: "Zhiqiu doesn't know what mistakes he made, please make it clear to the queen mother." ”

Queen Ma: "Dignity and humility are orderly." The side concubine should guard the duty of the side concubine. If all the side concubines want to climb on the head of the main concubine, this palace will be chaotic. ”

Deng Zhiqiu looked up at Queen Ma: "Erchen didn't think of climbing on the head of the concubine." It's just that I have been playing with His Second Highness since I was a child, and I was the first to be pointed out to His Second Highness. It is normal for His Royal Highness to talk to me casually and closer. ”

She was reminding Queen Ma that they had failed her. Originally, she was the original match.

Queen Ma was so angry that she clenched the hand in her sleeve: This Deng Zhiqiu, who has been coquettish and domineering since he was a child, has not admitted that he has wanted to marry Zhu Fan for so many years, and he is still not sensible.

The others didn't expect Deng Zhiqiu to be so bold and dare to talk to Queen Ma like this directly, they were all stupid, and they didn't dare to come out.

The hall was suddenly suffocatingly quiet.

Queen Ma smiled: "You all go back." I'll talk to the two of the second family. ”

Wang Xiaoyue hurriedly stood up.

Queen Ma said, "You sit." ”

Wang Xiaoyue sat down cautiously again.

The others hurriedly saluted and took leave.

Only Deng Zhiqiu was left alone kneeling on the cold ground.

Queen Ma also ignored her and asked the female officials beside her, "Is Concubine Sun here?" ”

The female official hurriedly said: "It's early, and I see that the mother is talking to the princesses, so I'm waiting outside." ”

Queen Ma nodded: "Call her in." ”

When Sun Guifei came in, she knelt down to greet Queen Ma.

Queen Ma is directly exempted from etiquette on weekdays, but today she silently asked her to do a complete set.

Concubine Sun Guifei knew that Queen Ma specially wanted to train Deng Zhiqiu, so today's salute was also very solemn.

One after another, concubines came to greet each other, all of them were meticulous and saluted.

Deng Zhiqiu naturally knew what Queen Ma meant: this is to let her see the difference between the main palace lady and the side concubine.

Even powerful and favored people like Concubine Li and Concubine Sun can only kneel and kowtow!

Although Wang Xiaoyue is younger than Concubine Li and Concubine Sun Guifei, she is a concubine, so she can sit.

Then the female officers of the six bureaus came in one by one to return to Queen Ma's affairs.

A group of people came and went around Deng Zhiqiu.

Deng Zhiqiu didn't dare to look up, ashamed and angry, feeling that everyone must be looking at her like a monkey.

Sun Guifei and Li Shufei stood beside Queen Ma, recording one reward and one punishment, and it took more than an hour to deal with it.

A palace maid came in to report: "Niangniang, His Royal Highness King Qin is asking to see you outside." ”

Queen Ma secretly sneered: Are you in such a hurry to save the beauty?

She said gently: "I'm still busy, please ask King Qin to go to the side hall to drink tea and wait." ”

The palace maid went out.

Deng Zhiqiu became more and more angry. Queen Ma deliberately asked her to kneel for a while.

After all the female officials had returned, Queen Ma said to Concubine Li Shu and Concubine Sun Guifei: "You two are also tired, go down and rest." ”

Concubine Li Shufei and Concubine Sun Guifei bowed and retired in a proper manner.

Queen Ma asked someone to bring Zhu Fan in.

Zhu Fan returned to the dormitory with a breath of breath just now, and originally wanted to ask Deng Zhiqiu if she knew if her uncle had done these things, but she learned that Deng Zhiqiu went to greet the queen in the morning, and she has not come back yet.

So he came in a hurry.

After coming in, he glanced at Deng Zhiqiu.

Deng Zhiqiu glanced at him with red eyes.

Zhu Fan felt a sore pain in his heart, saluted Queen Ma, and smiled: "Queen Mother." Did Zhiqiu do something to make his mother unhappy? If the queen mother is angry, hit her sons a few times, don't be angry with her like her. ”

Queen Ma sighed softly: "Alas. You can't manage your harem, the queen mother can only help you take care of it. ”

Zhu Fan was already planning for the worst, Queen Ma had already known about Deng Di before punishing Deng Zhiqiu, at this time, hearing Queen Ma say this, her heart beat faster and faster, and she knelt down busily: "It was the son who made the queen mother suffer." ”

Queen Ma said: "Actually, I don't like to punish people for kneeling the most. Today, I don't want to fight for fame, and I punished Zhiqiu for kneeling for so long, but it was really because of a serious illness that I had to take strong medicine. If you don't tidy up in this harem, something big will happen in the future. ”

Zhu Fan crouched on the ground: "The son is not filial." He knelt down, and Queen Ma would definitely not let him kneel with Deng Zhiqiu for too long.

Queen Ma said, "Since the three of you are here, I will talk about it." At the beginning, your father and I asked you to marry Wang Xiaoyue as a concubine, in addition to wanting to recruit General Wang, it was also because Xiaoyue was quiet and good, and had the reputation of Guanyin slave, so that she could assist you with your irascible personality. Zhiqiu is not bad, but he likes to be small since he was a child, and he is not suitable for being a concubine. It's not nice to say, even if there is no Wang Xiaoyue, your father and I will not let Zhiqiu be the concubine, but will also point to a lady with a good personality to you, understand? I can't complain about Wang Xiaoyue about this. ”

Wang Xiaoyue lowered her head, becoming more and more like sitting on pins and needles.

She is actually the most innocent and helpless. was taken captive by Zhu Yuanzhang and them back then, saying that she was hired as a concubine, and she wanted to leave a way back for her brother, so she left.

Unexpectedly, it was like entering the tiger's den in Longtan, and there was not a day of comfort.

It's okay if Concubine Fang doesn't take her seriously all day long.

Zhu Zhang, who was supposed to be firmly on her side, also regarded her as an enemy.

Deng Zhiqiu bit his lip even more, tears rolling in his eyes.

Queen Ma's words were more uncomfortable than slapping her with big ears.

Zhu Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that he was talking about this.

He hurriedly responded: "I know, the queen mother has to teach you a lesson." ”

Queen Ma saw that he had a good attitude, and Deng Zhiqiu had been kneeling long enough today, so she said, "Get up." You two go back first. Let me say a few more words to Your Highness. ”

Deng Zhiqiu stood up with difficulty, shook, and almost fell again.

Zhu Fan wanted to help her, but he couldn't reach out, so he could only stand with his fists clenched.

When Wang Xiaoyue and Deng Zhiqiu left, Queen Ma looked at Zhu Fan with sad eyes and said, "You are really a fool." Now Wang Baobao is fighting us in the west. You treated Wang Xiaoyue like this, and Wang Baobao was dispelled by you even if he wanted to be obedient. Can't you just take this moment? Do you know how many more soldiers we have to die because of the willfulness of the two of you? ”

Zhu Fan lowered his head: "Got it." ”

In fact, he was a little unimpressed.

There are so many elite soldiers and strong generals in the Ming Dynasty, but they can't beat a Wang Baobao?

Do you have to rely on him to curry favor with Wang Xiaoyue and surrender?

Queen Ma knew that he might not be able to listen, so she could only wave her hand tiredly: "Let's go, let's go." If one day you suffer because of this, don't blame me for not reminding you. Anyway, I did everything I could. ”

Zhu Fan knew that Queen Ma was also for his good, and he was really guilty at this time, so he knelt down and kowtowed before leaving.

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Zhu Fan returned to the dormitory, and heard that Deng Zhiqiu locked himself in the room as soon as he came back and didn't come out, so he panicked, and stepped forward to bang on the door and said good things until his mouth was dry, and Deng Zhiqiu ignored him.