After wearing the book, he was favored by the villains in line

What she said seemed sincere, but there was a bit of yin and yang, which made people feel that there seemed to be something wrong, and at the same time it seemed that there was nothing wrong, only to find out that there was nothing wrong in the end.

When Empress Dowager Xiao heard this, she sneered:

"If you hadn't saved my son's life, let alone seeing you, I wouldn't even bother hearing your name."

Lou Rongrong was not angry at all, she smiled and said:

"I have never met the Queen Mother before. Rongrong once heard from Yu'er that Xiao's family promises a lot of money, and they are the most genuine in nature. When I saw the Queen Mother today, it is true. The Queen Mother does not want to see Rongrong, but Rongrong has admired the Queen Mother for a long time. Today, I brought a gift to the Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Xiao looked at her suspiciously, only to see Lou Rongrong took out the scroll from her bosom and offered it with both hands, the maid took it from her hand and handed it to her again.

The next moment, Empress Dowager Xiao just opened the picture scroll and glanced at it, then her expression changed in an instant, she hastily put away the picture scroll, and asked sharply:

"Where did you come from this scroll?!"

It was clearly a questioning, but for some reason it seemed particularly harsh.

Lou Rongrong bowed:

"I don't know where Rongrong came from, but I only know that I want to give it to an old friend of the owner of the painting. He waited for the old friend for three days and three nights in the bitter wind and rain, and wanted to give this painting to his old friend, but when he fell down with a high fever, he became seriously ill. It was difficult to treat, and it was not delivered in the end, what Rongrong did today was just to fulfill Master Hua's wish."

Empress Dowager Xiao's hand holding the scroll tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again, her eyes were reddened, she couldn't hold back in the end, and pretended to wave her sleeves to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Seeing the situation, the grand lady in charge quietly led all the palace people back, and in the entire Yongshou Palace, only Lou Rongrong and Empress Dowager Xiao were left in just a moment.

Lou Rongrong patiently waited for Empress Xiao to settle her emotions. When she turned around to face Lou Rongrong again, she was no longer like the Queen Mother Xiao who was in power, but more like a tired woman who had taken off her armor. woman.

At this moment, she was no longer the Empress Dowager Xiao of Daqing, but Xiao Jinyi, the third young lady of the Xiao family.

she says:

"Since you have a good relationship with Yu'er, you should know that our Xiao family likes to be straightforward. I have received this gift from you. Next, let's talk about your true intentions."

Lou Rongrong is also straightforward:

"I'm here to complain to you on behalf of your son."

Xiao Jinyi didn't expect Lou Rongrong to be more straight-forward than she thought. She was about to get angry when she thought of something. She calmed down and turned her head to snort:

"My palace is sometimes too strict, but as the emperor of Daqing, how can he grow into a qualified emperor without more encouragement?"

Lou Rongrong Road:

"With all due respect, you're not being too strict. You're picking the bone in the egg, chopping the meat from the egret's leg. If there's nothing wrong with it, you have to pick out the flaws."

Xiao Jinyi stared at her with wide eyes, but Lou Rongrong spread her hands and said innocently:

"Didn't you tell me to be straightforward?"

Xiao Jinyi never expected that she would live to this age, but instead made a five-year-old girl choke, and the dirty words that would only be uttered in girlhood spun around her mouth, and finally she still didn't say it, swallowing it down and saying:

"You five-year-old girl knows what government affairs!"

Lou Rongrong Road:

"If it's said that Rong Rong doesn't understand the government, then let's not talk about the government, but talk about your partiality as a mother."

She first bowed to the tablet of Ying Yue, the eldest son of the late Xiandi and brother Ying Ze in the hall, and then said to Xiao Jinyi:

"Let's say that people's hearts are fleshy. When this big brother was still there, you favored the eldest son and despised the youngest son, so that everyone knows that the palace is the most flattering, and some are perfunctory methods that cannot find fault. So brother Ying Ze has seen all the warmth and coldness of the world since he was a child, and he is clearly born of a noble concubine, but his life is not even as good as some better-off inner officials."

Xiao Jinyi refused to believe it:

"The emperor told you?"

The sarcasm on Lou Rongrong's face flashed across:

"No, Rongrong asked the old man in the palace. It's hard to believe, isn't it? What's even more hard to believe is that you, as a mother, don't know how your son's life was when he was young?"

Before Xiao Jinyi could respond, Lou Rongrong continued:

"If it's just a little biased, that's fine. Brother Ying Ze, as the son of the former emperor, can go to his fief to enjoy himself when he is old enough to be crowned king. Unfortunately, your eldest son passed away, and another The prince's legs also became disabled, and Daqing needs an emperor, so Ying Ze's misfortune began from then on."

Lou Rongrong looked directly at Xiao Jinyi, and the ridicule in his eyes was finally undisguised:

"From when he ascended the throne when he was young to when he is today, if Brother Yingze did anything that didn't meet your expectations, you would accuse him of not doing his best, and you would tell him that if your eldest son survived, he would definitely be better than he is now." He's doing better, you're making him live in the shadow of his older brother forever feeling like he's not good enough."

Xiao Jinyi wanted to refute, but Lou Rongrong didn't give her a chance to interject, and said the most fatal sentence.

"If I were Brother Yingze, I would feel that," she said, "In the past few years, every time you said that I am not as good as your eldest brother, you were telling me."

"Why was the person who died back then not me!"

Xiao Jinyi immediately raised her voice:

"How is it possible! They are all my sons, with fleshy palms and backs, how could I think so! It's just that Yue'er has been outstanding since he was a child. I want to use his elder brother to motivate him to do better!"

Lou Rongrong ignored her arguments and continued:

"You must know that brother Ying Ze was injured in Qiu Lie. Oh, yes, you have beaten him, but you may not have seen the wound under the bandage, but I have seen it. It runs from the left shoulder to half of the chest. The skin and flesh are all open, and you can even see the texture of the flesh and bones. When you bandage it, you have to strangle it to death, because only if it is tightened enough can the pain be relieved, and you can continue to fight with the thief with a knife."

She paused, and suddenly asked curiously:

"Ma'am, guess what, when Brother Yingze's life was hanging by a thread in the forest, what he thought was, if I couldn't go back to my mother alive, I would be sad, or if my mother died, I would finally get my wish?"

Xiao Jinyi murmured and couldn't speak. Since the day she entered the palace, no one dared to talk to her like this, especially if she said something that she couldn't refute.

At this time, from her vague memory, she found the youngest son who stayed in the corner like a shadow when she was filial to her eldest son and mother. She was startled to realize that she had seldom looked at the young son's face carefully even in all these years.

But Yue'er has indeed been outstanding since she was a child...

Just as she was trying to defend herself, Lou Rongrong suddenly said again:

"By the way, you don't seem to know that the youngest son you thought didn't have an outstanding eldest son, in fact, was no worse than his elder brother in academics since he was a child, and even surpassed his elder brother at one point, but you never noticed it."