Save the villain and become the villain [Quick Wear]

Qi Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Even though they are siblings, the Queen Mother and the Prince of Qi are not one and the same. The Prince of Qi is ambitious, but he has not been able to become the regent for so many years because the Queen Mother is in charge of the government and does not want her brother to interfere."

If there is a regent, what reason does she, the queen mother, have to rule the country from behind the scenes?

Qi Yang put on a mask and followed Xiao Jinglu to Ci'an Palace.

Before entering the inner hall, you can feel the refreshing cool air blowing towards you. Ice cubes are placed in many places in the palace to cool down.

The Queen Mother sat on the couch, her makeup neatly done and her face rosy.

A docile Persian cat was lying on her lap, and the King of Qi was sitting next to her. The two were chatting, but the atmosphere was a little subtle.

The daughter of Prince Qi massaged the Queen Mother's shoulders, the Princess of Qi made tea, and the director of the Imperial Hospital knelt down to feel her pulse, wiping the sweat from her forehead with his sleeve from time to time.

Whether from the pulse or the face, it was not obvious that the Queen Mother was ill or poisoned. He could not make up a lie, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "From the pulse, the Queen Mother is in good health, there is nothing abnormal."

The King of Qi sneered and said, "The envoy said the same thing yesterday. What was the result?"

The sweat on the envoy's forehead continued to pour down, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Your Majesty has arrived."

Everyone looked towards the door. Among the Qi family, only the Qi princess stepped forward, saluted, and raised her eyes with shyness and timidity, her eyes full of tears.

Qi Yang lowered his head, took a quick glance, and knew what was going on.

Xiao Jinglu didn't even look at her. He bowed perfunctorily to the Queen Mother and said, "Is there anything you want me to do?"

The Queen Mother looked at him with a cold expression.

Princess Qi stood up and poured tea for her and the King of Qi. She turned to Xiao Jinglu and said half reproachfully, "The Queen Mother has been in a coma since yesterday. Why didn't Your Majesty come to see her?"

Xiao Jinglu endured it again and again, but couldn't help but sneered: "I am not as well-informed as the Princess of Qi. I only learned about this matter from what Chief Steward Yin said just now. In this palace, it seems that I am the outsider."

The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes upon hearing this, and looked at him appraisingly, then at the young eunuch next to him, and said, "Lu'er seems to be particularly fond of this young eunuch named Chongyang these days?"

Xiao Jinglu looked alert: "What are you going to do?"

"Lu'er is old enough to get married and have children. It's really inappropriate to hang out with a little eunuch all day long," the Queen Mother smiled kindly and pulled the daughter of the Prince of Qi to her side. "This is your sister Yan. You loved to play with her when you were little. She's almost 15 years old now. How about she marry you and become your queen?"

Xiao Jinglu couldn't hear any hidden meaning, but he had a hunch that the Queen Mother had a conspiracy, so he said bluntly: "You don't let me learn anything, so can't I listen to Chongyang singing a little song? Wen Ruyan used to bully me a lot, and her singing is not good. I don't like her."

The Queen Mother pinched her brows and asked, "Which one do you like?"

Xiao Jinglu wanted to say that he didn't like any of them, but he guessed that the Queen Mother would definitely force someone on him, so he rolled his eyes and showed his ill intentions clearly on his face: "Sister Miao has never bullied me."

The Queen Mother and the Prince of Qi and his wife suddenly looked very ugly.

Qi Yang lowered his head, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

The second daughter of Prince Qi, Wen Rumiao, is married and the second wife of the old Minister of War.

Wen Ruyan looked at the Queen Mother, then at Xiao Jinglu, and ran out crying. The Princess of Qi quickly asked someone to follow her.

The Queen Mother was about to say something, but Xiao Jinglu was unmoved and spoke first: "If the Queen Mother wants to be a matchmaker, why not arrange a marriage for Brother Pluto? This morning, I saw that Brother Pluto is very affectionate to the Fifth Miss. The King of Qi said that he wanted to bring you happiness, so why don't you arrange for them?"

He paused and continued, "Are you ill?"

The Queen Mother's eyes were clouded. She did not answer this question, but asked him: "Lu Er, what position do you think should be given to Miss Rong Wu?"

"It's not me who is going to marry you, so it's up to you to decide."

"Then I will enter the Hades Palace as a concubine, and the Emperor will draft an imperial decree."

Xiao Jinglu felt someone tapping his hand twice and refused decisively: "You should issue the decree. Brother Pluto is very fierce and I am afraid of him."

Queen Mother: "..."

Xiao Jinglu looked at the court envoy again: "What disease is the Queen Mother suffering from?"

The envoy was asked without reason, and cold sweat broke out on his back again: "I am not capable enough to tell the difference."

"Since everything is fine, I will go back first. Queen Mother, you told me the story of the boy who cried wolf. It is better to tell less lies like this."

After leaving Ci'an Palace and waiting for no one to be around, Qi Yang asked Xiao Jinglu in surprise, "Why didn't you go crazy just now and just pretended to be stupid?"

Xiao Jinglu looked grim and depressed: "The Queen Mother, the Prince of Qi, and the Princess of Qi, I can't beat the three of them together."

Qi Yang laughed unkindly.

Not long after they left, the empress dowager became drowsy again. She forced herself to write the imperial edict and stamp it.

Since it was just a concubine, there was no need for any rules. The empress dowager was also a little worried about her health, so she set the date six days later, which was the day of the Qiqiao Festival.

When Xiao Jingchen received the imperial edict, his face turned pale, but a word from the eunuch who announced the edict forced him to suppress his anger.

The Queen Mother had ordered that if she disobeyed the order, Miss Rong Wu would be hanged in five days for contempt of the royal family.

He has the ability to jailbreak, but it would expose the power he has cultivated over the years, and from then on Rong Qingyan would never be able to show her true face again, which is why he has not done so.

On the other hand, now, as long as Rong Qingyan endures the grievance temporarily, he can have the best of both worlds. He feels that he will not have other women, and there is no difference between a concubine and a princess, so he went to the imperial prison to meet Rong Qingyan and persuaded her to agree.

……

Wen Ruyan still stayed in the palace, and Gang 002 kept an eye on the situation in Ci'an Palace, reminding Queen Mother Qi Yang and the Prince of Qi and his wife of their plan.

Back in Zichen Palace, Qi Yang wrote different words on thirty-two squares with different colored inks, and asked Xiao Jinglu to spell out the first six sections of "Qingxin Jue" one by one.

This is a modification of the Schulte grid, and may be slightly more difficult, but Qi Yang was too lazy to teach him Arabic numerals.

Xiao Jinglu treated this as a game and was very serious about it. He didn't get crazy at all because he couldn't find the words. Qi Yang's eyes lit up when he saw this, knowing that he had found a way.

In the next two days, Xiao Jinglu was still called to attend the morning court. He found that he had no influence on the court affairs at all and all he heard were trivial matters. So he simply decided to change the five-day rest to five-day morning court.

As Qi Yang's inner strength soared, Xiao Jinglu gradually overcame the barrier of concentration, and his own talents also emerged.

Qi Yang sneaked into the royal library in the middle of the night and took back a book. Then he remembered to ask Xiao Jinglu: "Where did you get this copy of Zuo Zhuan?"

He went to the imperial study and looked around, but there wasn't a single serious book there.

"Wen Xun, my former study partner, once gave me a box of storybooks and... this was mixed in. Unfortunately, there was only this one copy."