Empress dowager, the queen sighed

After the letter from Huaizhou came, letters from Luoyang City poured in one after another, floating into Changle Palace like snowflakes.

A thick stack was placed on the desk, and the queen mother opened it one by one to read, at first she didn't care, but after reading it, a sarcastic smile rose from the corner of her lips.

"You are a good son of the Li family."

In the first few days, Li Xu would still go to court and ask questions about political affairs, but after a few days he would not go to court, leaving political affairs and courtiers behind, and hanging out with beauties every day.

But Mrs. Li made a lot of publicity for her son to marry a side concubine, and she said that she would pay tens of thousands of taels of silver. The side concubine needs such a big pomp, so in the future, marrying a main concubine will be more expensive than the marriage of the emperor and empress.

The embankment in Huaizhou was broken, the emperor did nothing, the concubine was extravagant for his son to marry a side concubine, all kinds of trivial things are countless.

The queen mother finally laughed, smashed the letter violently, Ruoxi hurriedly knelt down, "Queen mother, calm down, calm down."

"Tell the emperor, that's all, let him go." The queen mother stopped in time, ordered someone to fetch the brazier, and threw the letters one by one into the brazier.

The flames are scarlet.

It was getting dark, Pei Yao poked her head outside the hall, and was startled when she saw the sparks inside the hall, "What is the Queen Mother burning?"

Gong'e in the corridor did not dare to reply at all.

Pei Yao was bored and walked in on her own. The smell of burnt paper was a bit pungent. She walked over and took the letter from the Queen Mother, "I will help the Queen Mother."

The queen mother withdrew her hand, her eyes fell on the queen's skirt, she frowned, and then remembered that she was sent by someone, so she immediately looked away.

The neon clothes and feather clothes are the most beautiful, and they are colorful. Pei Yao's body is a little thinner, she can't hold it up, and her chest is too... The Queen Mother doesn't want to.

Pei Yao didn't open the letter, and couldn't imitate the Queen Mother's elegant demeanor, so she threw it into the brazier all at once, and the fire shot up all of a sudden.

The fire destroys the paper very quickly, and in an instant, it becomes a pot of ashes.

Ruoxi came in to clean up the dust in the hall, then quickly backed out.

The Empress Dowager sat on the couch with a gloomy expression, Pei Yao cheekily approached, "The Empress Dowager is not happy?"

"Have you seen anyone who would be happy to burn a letter?"

Pei Yao almost pressed against the Empress Dowager's cheek, and wanted to stick it again, but the Empress Dowager turned around, and the corner of her lips brushed against her cheek, Pei Yao froze.

The queen mother was also taken aback, but she had experienced too much wind and rain, and she had long been as calm as a mountain. Except for the reddish tips of her ears, she could hardly see any abnormal color.

Pei Yao stood up immediately, looked at the Queen Mother's face, and sat down beside her slowly, "Queen Mother."

The Empress Dowager was unmoved, she didn't even look at her, but told her: "The Empress has already warmed up the couch, and it's useless to wear low-cut clothes. Besides, you don't look as good in low-cut clothes as Shen Zhaohua, don't Compare your own shortcomings with the strengths of others, and replace them."

The calm and breezy words demoted Pei Yao to nothing.

Pei Yao blinked, "Queen Mother, am I here to warm the couch?"

"What does the empress think?" The corners of the empress dowager's lips curled up.

Pei Yao rolled up her cuffs, bent down, opened her lapels wider, and her snow-white skin was more dazzling.

The queen mother frowned, and hurriedly stood up, not wanting, the queen held her face and pressed it to the corner of her lips.

Pei Yao moved quickly, looking into the Empress Dowager Gu Jing Wubo's eyes, and slowly raised the corners of her lips, her innocent face became a little brighter.Putting on the empress dowager's thin lips, she didn't warm up any more, and opened her mouth, with the tip of her tongue poking through the gap between the empress dowager's lips.

It's a pity that she was a step too late, the queen mother pursed her lips tightly and turned her away.

But Pei Yao didn't give up, she never gave up halfway in her life, she would change places if she couldn't get a kiss.

She held the Empress Dowager's cheek tightly, the feeling in the palm of her hand was very subtle, hot and warm, she moved the corners of her lips away from the Empress Dowager's thin lips, and the soft lips slid across the curve of the lips.

Pei Yao kissed the queen mother's left cheek, but then the right cheek.

She paused, and the queen mother wanted to reprimand, so she smiled and kissed the queen mother's mouth, so that the queen mother had to shut her mouth.

The Empress Dowager was born to be extremely beautiful, with a scorpion head and moth eyebrows like a goddess, bright eyes like a fairy, like the best white lotus in a summer morning, and a thin layer of mist covered her beauty, hiding her beauty again.

The queen mother was finally defeated, but there was a force in her hands, and she wanted to push away, thinking of the queen's weak body, she stopped helplessly.

But she grabbed the queen's hand, pressed the queen on the couch the next moment, frowned and said: "Queen, can't you wait to go to bed?"

Pei Yao frowned, she couldn't tell what the Empress Dowager meant in the sudden intimacy, she refused when she got nervous, "I don't want to."

"So I didn't want to." The Empress Dowager's tone was tactful, slightly surprised, and she sneered, "Does the Empress like Aijia or the power of Aijia?"

"I like them all." Pei Yao said calmly, "There is no contradiction between liking the queen mother and liking the power of the queen mother."

"The queen is the most honest person Aijia has ever met." The queen mother smiled.

Pei Yao nodded lightly, lay on the couch, supported the edge of the couch and sat up again, following her movements, the gully under the collarbone became very clear, reflecting the red color of the palace attire, it was especially gorgeous.

She sat up straight, didn't realize it at all, and instead looked at the Queen Mother with a smile, "It's true that I like the Queen Mother, and it's true that I want to curry favor with the Queen Mother."

"If Ai's family is an ordinary person, would you still like it?" The queen mother asked directly.From the beginning to the end, she understood the meaning of the queen's approaching her, with malicious intentions.

It is very wise to find a backer in the abyss-like court, and the Queen's move is very smart.

Pei Yao calmed down, thinking of the pictures in the album, slowly raised the corners of her lips, and the corners of her eyes were also a little charming, and looked at the Queen Mother with a smile: "Of course I like it, the Queen Mother is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen."

"Girl?" The queen mother pursed her lips and smiled, poking Pei Yao's lips with her hand, "Ai's family is older than you."

"Are you a thousand years older?" Pei Yao's eyelashes trembled, "The national teacher said you lived a thousand years."

The queen mother coldly stared at the nonsense queen in front of her, and threatened her: "Aijia has indeed lived for a thousand years, are you afraid?"

"It is said in the scriptures that if people do good deeds, they will live forever. How many good deeds has the Queen Mother done?" Pei Yao was serious.

"For good deeds, Ai's family has killed countless people, and he has never done one good deed." The queen mother suddenly lost interest, turned around lightly, and did not want to talk about boring things with the little queen.

The Empress Dowager ordered Ruoxi, "Change some clothes for the Empress."

Pei Yao was dejected and looked over the Queen Mother's head, today was another day of failure.

After dinner, Pei Yao went straight to lie down, but Ruoxi came in and asked the queen mother to leave, she turned her head and took a look, the queen mother left.

Maybe it's something big.

When the queen mother was not there, she sat up, called Qingzhu to fetch the scriptures, and began to read in her mouth.

When Pei Yao waited until midnight, the Queen Mother hadn't come back yet, she couldn't stand it anymore, she lay down and fell asleep.

The queen mother did not come back overnight.

At daybreak, Qingzhu fetched the queen's clothes to change and waited for her to get up and wash.

"Where's the Queen Mother?" Pei Yao looked lazily, staring at herself in the bronze mirror with her chin resting, and sighed at the pink bubble.

Qing Zhu just wanted to speak, but heard the sound of the bead curtain, she turned her head to look, and the queen mother was standing opposite in black clothes.

"Do you want to mourn home?"

Pei Yao was startled, and turned her head to look over, "Has the Queen Mother not slept all night?"

"The queen cares about Aijia?" The queen mother walked in, raised her chin towards the green bamboo, and signaled her to go out first.

Qingzhu bowed his knees and bowed, and slowly backed out.

But Pei Yao asked the Queen Mother: "Does the Queen Mother want to comb my hair?"

"Queen, your skin is getting thicker." The queen mother said in a casual tone, and walked to the bronze mirror, staring at the little queen without makeup.

She raised her hand, and her palm fell on the queen's cheek, and a warm feeling came over her. She frowned, "Queen, your face is obviously very small, why is your skin so thick?"

After finishing speaking, the long fingers used to comb, slowly slid across the top of the head, fell on the hair, and then rested on the queen's shoulders.

The little queen's scalp is very white, and her black hair is very soft. The queen mother said harsh words in the most gentle tone, "Queen, why are you so confident that Aijia will be tricked by your beauty."

"Because you said that I am honorable." Pei Yao said to herself, raising her eyes with a smile, but the next moment, she was stunned.

She can see the desire in other people's hearts.Looking, too, can see itself, but only when looking in a mirror.

Before the Empress Dowager came, she clearly saw that it was pink, but it changed color in just a split second.

It's red!

Pei Yao stood up abruptly, panicked, and turned to look at the Queen Mother, her face was still pink.

Pei Yao couldn't be confident, she looked weird, she lifted her skirt and ran away.

The little queen fled in a panic. The queen mother didn't know why, so she subconsciously looked at the hand that had just combed the queen's hair. Did she hurt the queen?

Obviously not.

The queen mother laughed inexplicably, the child's mind is really weird, it is hard to understand.

"Empress Dowager, the prime minister is here." Ruoxi's voice sounded.

Putting aside her messy thoughts, the queen mother straightened her skirt in front of the bronze mirror. A green bamboo was embroidered with gold thread and green thread on the cuff, which was very conspicuous and could be seen at a glance.The Empress Dowager lowered her eyes and felt the texture of the green bamboo, the smile on her lips suddenly softened.

"Tell the prime minister that Aijia is incompetent."

"Young maidservant, go and pass on the message." Ruoxi saluted and retreated.

The prime minister was waiting outside and stomped his feet dryly, watching Ruoxi walk out, he greeted him regardless of his manners, "Miss Ruoxi, can the Queen Mother see me?"

"The Empress Dowager said that she is powerless." Ruoxi passed on the message.

The prime minister swayed, "That's the lives of tens of thousands of people, does the Queen Mother really care?"

Ruoxi was in a dilemma, "The prime minister should be clear about the purpose of the empress dowager's self-demotion to the palace, and I ask the prime minister not to make things difficult."

"Miss Ruoxi, it's not that I don't know what to do, but that Huaizhou broke the embankment, causing too many casualties. If we don't deal with it in time, the riots in Changsha County will spread, and the big man will be in danger."

"Prime Minister, this slave is just passing on a message. The Empress Dowager has made up her mind, you should go back to Luoyang to abbot the overall situation." Ruoxi refused to pass on any more words.

The prime minister looked at the palace in the distance and stomped his feet anxiously. The queen mother didn't care about it at this time, because she wanted to destroy the big man.

Ruoxi suddenly said, "I'm afraid the prime minister doesn't know, but the queen empress also came yesterday."

"Empress?" The Prime Minister trembled, and hurriedly thanked Ruoxi, "I see."

****

Pei Yao sat in the hall for half a day without eating or drinking, even her favorite dew was put aside.

Qingzhu and Ruoxiang stood on one side and sighed, Ruoxiang didn't follow yesterday, and didn't know what happened, so he couldn't help blaming Qingzhu who went with him: "Why are you so careless, you should have followed into the palace last night."

Qingzhu was also in doubt, this morning the queen ran out in a panic, her clothes were disheveled, she wondered if she was bullied by the queen mother.

But the queen mother has always been magnanimous, even if she gets angry again, she will not bully the queen.

Neither of them dared to speak loudly, and after muttering for a while, they saw the queen slowly get down from her seat and walk towards the inner hall.

The queen stopped in front of the bronze mirror, looked at herself in the mirror, and suddenly laughed.

Qingzhu suddenly became frightened, "Do you want to pass on to the imperial physician?"

Ruoxi grabbed Qingzhu's hand, "This is the palace, we didn't bring an imperial physician with us."

Pei Yao's mood suddenly improved, and the bubbles on her head in the bronze mirror turned pink again, she blinked and shouted: "Qingzhu, Ruoxiang, I'm hungry."

"hungry……"

"hungry……"

Ruoxi Qingzhu was startled, looked at each other, and immediately became excited, the queen said that she was hungry, then it was all right.

"Slaves will make arrangements immediately."

Qingzhu immediately walked out of the bedroom, went to the eaves and told the little maid to make lunch, before turning around, she saw a servant coming, she stopped, looked at the servant: "What's wrong?"

"Miss Qingzhu, the prime minister is here, and I want to see the empress."

"Why did you see the queen?" Qingzhu asked one more time, the prime minister should go to see the queen mother, and there is nothing to talk about between the queen and the prime minister.

The servant replied: "To tell you the truth, the prime minister will never see the queen mother."

Only then did Qing Zhu understand that the prime minister wanted to use the board of the queen to meet the queen mother on the boat, "I'll ask the empress."

Pei Yao in the hall is still thinking about a question, tick.Introducing this matter should make the other party tempted first, why did you fall into it first?

It's too late to regret.

It's all because the queen mother is so good-looking.

I also blame myself for not seeing a good-looking woman.

"Your Majesty." Qingzhu walked in from outside the hall, bowed his knees to the Queen, and said, "The Prime Minister is here, and I want to see you."

"See you." Pei Yao readily agreed, and she waited for the prime minister to come, but the prime minister came earlier.

Qing Zhu leaned over and exited the hall, telling the servant who passed the message: "Go and pass the message to the prime minister."

After a long while, the prime minister hurriedly walked into the palace. The queen was eating, and kindly asked someone to prepare a pair of bowls and chopsticks.

The prime minister refused: "Empress, it's against the rules."

"Then, prime minister, let's have some tea." Pei Yao didn't force it, as one more person would not be enough for her.

The little queen didn't say a word of greetings, the prime minister felt that the topic of entering the door was about to stop, he gritted his teeth, "Empress, Huaizhou has broken the embankment."

"Break the embankment?" Pei Yao was stunned, some places with a lot of water will build embankments to store water, and release water in the dry season, but when there is a lot of rain, the embankment will burst.But the embankment is well built, and most of the time this kind of thing will not happen.

She heard from her master that an embankment burst in the master's hometown, her parents were drowned, her brothers and sisters were starved to death, and in the end it was the old host who rescued her.

The tragic thing happened again.

Pei Yao didn't rush to agree, but first asked: "Why did the embankment break?"

The prime minister was stunned for a moment, "I haven't found out yet."

"The disaster relief should be done first, why did the prime minister come to the palace?" Pei Yao asked again.

The prime minister said: "The reason I came to see the palace is to invite the queen mother to return to Beijing to preside over the disaster relief, and I also ask the queen to persuade the queen mother to return to the palace."

"Why didn't the prime minister go to His Majesty?" Pei Yao knew but still asked.

The prime minister was speechless.Pei Yao sneered, stood up, looked at the Prime Minister, "Your Majesty is enjoying yourself if you have nothing to do, and the Empress Dowager will provide disaster relief if you have something to do. Prime Minister, she is the mother of a country, not a trafficker. Don't you think it's too much to bully people?"

"Queen, the minister is guilty, but the people are innocent." The prime minister repented. He was the head of all officials, but he was still a minister. The king had a purpose, and the minister had to do it.

"Don't blame the prime minister, if you want to invite the queen mother back to the palace, you can't do it alone, you need hundreds of officials." Pei Yao said.

People want face. How many officials were happy when they left Luoyang, and they should show off their momentum when they go back at this time.

The prime minister was dumbfounded, where to find Baiguan at this time?

Pei Yao didn't wait for the Prime Minister to say anything, and ordered Qing Zhu: "Send the Prime Minister."

The prime minister hit a wall again, standing outside the palace gate, dizzy with anxiety.

****

"Kicked out by the queen?" The queen mother was a little surprised. The little queen was familiar with Buddhist scriptures and had become a habit of serving the Bodhisattva.

"I was rushed out, and the prime minister went back to Luoyang immediately. No one else knew what the two of them said."

"The empress is right-minded and full of scheming, so don't worry about her." The empress relieved herself, recalling the 'scriptures' that filled her palace, and ordered: "The weather is fine today, let the empress come to work."

The eyes in spring are very warm, and it is most suitable for drying books to get rid of the mold.

Pei Yao came here after she was full. Rows of boxes were piled up under the eaves outside the hall, emitting a musty smell.She walked over to take a look, Ruoxi opened the box, and said: "The queen mother said that I am bothering the empress."

"What kind of books are these?" Pei Yao said, reaching out to take one.

Pages fell off as soon as the book was picked up, Pei Yao was dumbfounded and didn't realize for a while, how old are these books?

The page that fell happened to be a painting, and the two lay on each other with their necks crossed, stacked on top of each other.

Pei Yao didn't see it clearly, so she picked up the page, looked at it carefully, and clicked her tongue twice, "The drawing skills are really bad, I'm much better at drawing than her."

"That's right, then please trouble the queen to make up the missing pages." The queen mother walked over.

The corners of Pei Yao's mouth twitched, touching the Empress Dowager's watery eyes, she walked over by herself, "Empress Dowager, do you believe me when I said I fell in love with you?"

"It turns out that the queen didn't like Aijia before." The queen mother met the queen's clear eyes.

The two looked at each other.

Pei Yao's eyes were clean and flawless, the queen mother who was used to the wind and rain suddenly thought of the monarch, every time she looked at her with flawless eyes, holding her hand and talking about complicated things.

The queen mother was stunned, "How can the queen be sure of her own mind?"

"Everyone has their own desires, but I can see everyone's desires, and this morning I saw my own desires."

The queen mother frowned, "It's better for the queen to post books. Aijia is not a little girl, and she doesn't like sweet talk."

****

Pei Yao posted a box of books today.

There is a square in front of the hall, the ground is very clean, the maid moved all the bookshelves over, Pei Yao spread out the books one by one, laid out one book, and read one book. .

But soon, those pictures were lost, and they didn't exist in my mind at all.

Pei Yao disliked it: "It's not good-looking, and the movements are stiff."

There are hundreds of books in a box, and it took an hour to finish drying, and then went back to turn the books, and another half an hour passed.

Pei Yao was so tired that her back hurt, and while it was still early, she checked which books were missing pages, put them away by category, and filled them in when there was time.

When it was dark, Pei Yao put all the books into a box and asked someone to carry them to the Queen Mother.

After the book was dried, it lost a musty smell, but the pages were still very yellow. The queen mother pinched the pages with her slender fingertips, and turned the pages one by one, with a bit of interest.

Pei Yao sat on her side, squinting her eyes to see, "Queen Mother, do you look good?"

"Does the empress think it looks good?" The empress dowager asked without answering, her fingertips paused on the page, she frowned suddenly, and there was a handwriting on the page.

The handwriting is familiar, and the queen mother's memory suddenly returns to many years ago. The emperor was not good at this, so people searched for many books, and made a mark after reading one foolishly.

She never thought that she could still see it.

Pei Yao commented: "You can only get the shape, not the spirit."

The Empress Dowager was startled, this sentence was somewhat familiar, she picked up the book she had read just now, and turned to the page with handwriting, the same horoscope: only the form, not the spirit.

coincidence?

"The queen has read this book?" The queen mother pretended to be indifferent and handed the book in her hand to the queen.

Pei Yao stretched her head and glanced at the book cover, "The first page I read was not good, so I didn't read it."

The queen mother put down the book, "Did the queen sleep well last night?"

"Where did the Empress Dowager go last night?" Pei Yao was suddenly asked something embarrassing, and as the seducer, she was moved first.

Mistake, misstep.

Pei Yao looked at the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother's eyes fell on the pages of the book, without looking at her at all, which shows that the Queen Mother still doesn't like herself.

Pei Yao's eyes shifted from the Queen Mother's eyes to her hand, and there was a red gemstone ring on that hand, which was originally given to her.At that time, she didn't accept it, and the queen mother didn't force it.

"Why is the queen staring at Aijia's hand?" The queen mother slowly raised the hand that the queen was staring at, and put it in front of the queen, "Is it more beautiful than a book?"

Pei Yao was stunned for a moment, then remembered that the pictures in the book all had women's fingers on them, she felt in a daze that hands were very important if she wanted to sleep.

"Has the queen mother read the book?"

"Looking at."

"The book says that hands are very important when serving the bed."

The Empress Dowager's face turned red suddenly, she quickly retracted her hand, hid it in her cuff, and said seriously to the Empress: "Empress, you are thinking too much."

"Could it be that it's not important?" Pei Yao was suspicious.

The Empress Dowager continued to be persuasive, "It doesn't matter."

Pei Yao believed it, "It seems that the Empress Dowager will attend the bed, why did she say she would not?"

"Aijia..." The Queen Mother paused, and turned her gaze to the Queen, "Why did Aijia explain to you?"

The queen mother was upset, but Pei Yao stretched out her hand and grabbed the queen mother's hand with great force, pulling the queen mother's body towards her.With her hand in front of her eyes, Pei Yao took the Queen Mother's ring.

"You said you would send it to me."

The queen mother was taken aback, "When did the queen learn how to grab and grab?"

Pei Yao raised her eyebrows towards the queen mother, if she begs gently, will the queen mother give it?

Besides, she wanted to test the queen mother's bottom line, and she had already fallen into the pit, so she had to get something back, or she would be at a loss.

The red ring was worn on the queen's fingertip, which fit surprisingly well.

"I should take back my things myself, Queen Mother, do you want to warm up the bed tonight?"

Pei Yao forced herself to stabilize her emotions, and even warned herself in her heart that it is okay to be emotional, but not to be too emotional, this is a big taboo.

The queen mother quietly watched the ring that had been with her for many years being snatched away, the corners of her lips pursed, and soon she was relieved, she stood up, and said in a slow voice, "Queen, continue to warm the bed tonight."

"Will the Queen Mother be there? Naturally, two people need to warm the couch, and one cannot warm it up."

The queen mother was taken aback.

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