Chapter 100: Angering the Queen Mother
When the time for a month of grounding came, the guards guarding outside the Hexi Palace left, and Jiang Xinyue came out of the palace.
Emperor Xuanwu took advantage of the awkward limelight with the Queen Mother, and seemed to be angry and built a small kitchen for Hexi Palace, and others only felt that Concubine Zhen had a good life and could benefit from the confrontation between the emperor and the Queen Mother.
In fact, this is the emperor who feels sorry for Jiang Xinyue, afraid that someone will poison her meal, and it was the bowl of saffron white fungus soup that made him wake up.
The Hanging Mirror Division has been investigating for almost half a month, and the suspicious people in the imperial dining room have been investigated, and all the tortures have been used, but they still haven't been able to find out who is behind the scenes.
In the emperor's harem over the years, the only children who grew up were the eldest princess, the second princess and the third prince, as well as a forgotten fourth prince.
The four princes are all six years old this year, and there have been no princes and princesses in the palace for four years.
They all had miscarriages not long after they were pregnant.
Forget one or two, all of them are like this, that is, someone is plotting to kill these pregnant concubines.
Concubine Zhen is his beloved, and he will never allow Concubine Zhen to have an accident under his nose.
Therefore, the day when the lockdown was lifted in Hexi Palace was also the time when the small kitchen was built.
"The emperor is getting more and more ridiculous."
After Empress Dowager Wu placed Concubine Shu, she returned to the main hall of Kunning Palace, and she was so angry that she was still trying to suppress her feelings: "What kind of thing is Concubine Zhen?" is just a concubine, she has been a noble concubine, and he still treats people as treasures, and the mourning family can't even touch them. ”
Mama Gui has been her personal maid since before Empress Dowager Wu entered the palace, and now she is the highest-ranking grandmother in the palace.
She took a cup of warm tea and said for the Empress Dowager Wu: "The Empress Dowager also knows that she is just a concubine of a five-grade official, the emperor is to favor her again, and she is one of the four concubines when she turns the sky upside down, you are the Empress Dowager, and it is not a matter of raising her hand to treat her, the emperor is angry, what can he do to you?" ”
The Great Yan Dynasty emphasized filial piety, the Empress Dowager Wu was the emperor's biological mother, and when the Wu family was liquidated, the emperor had already taken on a cold-blooded and ruthless reputation.
The reason why Empress Dowager Wu dared to do so much with Emperor Xuanwu was precisely because the emperor couldn't do anything to her.
Empress Dowager Wu was angered by what she said: "You are right, the emperor's energy towards Concubine Shu back then was much more crazy and enthusiastic than he is now with Concubine Zhen." But the mourning family looked at the emperor and his father and the emperor were exactly the same, seeing one and loving the other, if it weren't for the mourning family's refusal to welcome back, the position of the queen mother would not be the turn of the mourning family to sit. ”
That's why she let Concubine Shu follow her old path and hang the emperor's appetite.
Thinking about it, Empress Dowager Wu became angry again.
If it weren't for the halfway killing of a concubine, Concubine Shu would still be the only woman on the tip of the emperor's heart.
Right now...... Now their years of planning have been ruined by Concubine Zhen.
"The Queen Mother, Concubine Zhen is asking to see her outside."
Empress Dowager Wu was having nowhere to vent her anger, so Jiang Xinyue sent it to the door by herself.
"How dare she come?"
Empress Dowager Wu's hand slapped heavily on the low table next to her hand, and the samadhi true fire could burst out from the top of her head: "What is she doing here?" ”
The eunuch lowered his head, not daring to look at Empress Dowager Wu's expression: "Concubine Zhen Niangniang said...... said that the emperor rewarded Hexi Palace with more than ten catties of Jiuyun Mountain's top red robe, thinking...... Thinking that there was no Kunning Palace, I specially brought a few catties to the Queen Mother to taste it. ”
Isn't this a provocation?
"Whoa!"
There was the sound of the cup and porcelain falling to the ground in the inner hall, and Jiang Xinyue patted her stomach, afraid of scaring the baby in her belly.
After a while, a little palace maid came out of it: "Concubine Zhen, the Queen Mother, please come in." ”
The palace maid opened the curtain, and Jiang Xinyue walked in with the magpie and Xiao Xuanzi, with a smile on her face that Empress Dowager Wu didn't like.
"The concubine asks the Queen Mother to say goodbye, and the Queen Mother is blessed with Jin'an."
"Humph!"
"If you are less angry, you will mourn your family, and your mourning family will be blessed."
Empress Dowager Wu deliberately didn't tell her to get up, just to let her kneel for a while, I heard that she offended Concubine Li not long after she entered the palace, and was punished to kneel for half a day, kneeling broke her knee, and now the emperor ordered the hospital to warm up.
Why didn't you kneel to death for her?
"What did the Queen Mother say? How dare the concubine be angry with the queen mother? It's too late for the concubines to respect you. ”
Who is Jiang Xinyue? What is she doing today?
She made a special trip to anger the Empress Dowager Wu, how could she let her give herself a dismissal.
Yes, as she spoke, she stood up and sat on the right hand side of the Empress Dowager Wu by herself.
"Bold!"
Seeing this, Mama Gui immediately scolded: "The Queen Mother hasn't asked you to get up yet, let alone sat down, Concubine Zhen doesn't take the Queen Mother in her eyes so much, is there any dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother?" ”
"Yikes! Mama Gui knew that the Queen Mother would call the palace up, and she also knew that the Queen Mother would give the palace a seat! ”
She tilted her head and looked innocent: "But the concubine saw that the queen mother didn't let the concubine get up, and thought that her old man had forgotten!" The concubines have always been caring, and they will not make the Queen Mother feel guilty. ”
Blame yourself for a fart!
Empress Dowager Wu was almost forced to explode foul language by Jiang Xinyue's cheekiness, but her good upbringing made her endure it.
Jiang Xinyue waved her hand, and the magpie brought the red wooden box in her hand and presented it directly to Mama Gui.
"This is the emperor's concubine yesterday, the concubine left some there, and the rest was sent to the queen mother."
What this means is that the big red robe here is the inferior goods left over by Jiang Xinyue after a round.
Empress Dowager Wu looked into the box opened by Mama Gui, and her brain only felt buzzing.
Really...... Sure enough, she shouldn't have had any hope for Concubine Zhen.
The mahogany box contained a pile of tea stalks, as well as some finely crushed tea residues.
There is no red robe of Jiuyun Mountain in Kunning Palace, but she is the queen mother, the monk palace bureau of the palace of the internal affairs house, and any good things come close to her, is she a beggar? Want to drink the residue sent by Jiang Xinyue?
"You give the mourning family ......"
"Queen Mother!"
Empress Dowager Wu's hand had been raised high, holding a teacup with blue flowers on a white background, and if it wasn't for Emperor Xuanwu's loud drink, Empress Dowager Wu would have pressed it down.
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Xinyue threw herself into the arms of Emperor Xuanwu, pinched her arm, and sobbed with tears in her eyes.
Empress Dowager Wu's eyes widened: It's started, isn't it? It's started again, isn't it?
The familiar feeling of being dominated by Concubine Zhen's cunning acting skills is here again.
"Queen Mother, Concubine Zhen is still young, if there is anything wrong, you can teach her, but please don't let me see that you always speak ill of her, punches and kicks, this is a loss of your identity, too unseemly."
Empress Dowager Wu: ?
Hasn't she had time to do anything?