Empress dowager, the queen sighed

The Empress Dowager has not been in Changle Hall these nights.

It was the same tonight, when Pei Yao waited until midnight, her eyelids twitched, but she still couldn't see anyone, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she fell asleep on the bed.

When she woke up, Ruoxi was still waiting by her side.Today is different from yesterday, Pei Yao got used to it a little, let Ruoxi take care of her to wash and change her clothes.

Before having breakfast, the Queen Mother came back, same as yesterday, wearing a black dress with a few bamboo leaves embroidered on the cuffs.

The queen mother sat down by the food table and reached for the spoon.Pei Yao found a deep scar on the Empress Dowager's wrist. The Empress Dowager didn't like bracelets and other accessories, she could find it when she stretched out her hand, and it was more conspicuous under the black clothes.

When Pei Yao saw the scar for the first time, Pei Yao forgot to ask. Soon, the strange thing that the Queen Mother's blood could cure all poisons came to mind, and she asked curiously, "Queen Mother, have you ever been sick?"

"I haven't been sick for a long time." The queen mother looked down at the scar on her wrist, and instead of covering it with the cuff in time, she lifted the cuff to show the scar more conspicuously, "Is the queen afraid?"

The queen mother's tone was very ordinary, she was talking about a very ordinary household matter.

Pei Yao was surprised, but she didn't show it, she opened her eyes wide to look at the scar, with a bit of incredulity, it's not a new scar.

Not a scar from two months ago, like a cut from years ago.

Pei Yao remained motionless, her dark eyes rolled around, her gaze moved up little by little, and finally fell on the flat eyes of the Empress Dowager, however, she swallowed, "When did the Empress Dowager get hurt?"

The Queen Mother's blood can detoxify all kinds of poisons, so it can be seen what kind of medicine she took. Since she can nourish her blood so well, why not remove the scars.

The queen mother smiled, calmly, "I once wanted to save an old friend, I tried desperately to save her, cut my wrist and fed her blood, but I forgot, blood is sometimes useless."

His own blood can only save him.Poisonous people, others, are of no use at all.

Pei Yao looked carefully at the Queen Mother's expression, because the Queen Mother just changed her name, "Who is that?"

"A person who died to save me, for many years, so long that I don't remember her face." The queen mother thought for a while, picked up the porridge in front of her, and pursed her lips, "That person is somewhat similar to the queen. , It is said that it can spy on the hearts of others."

They are all articulate people, but the human rights are all over the world.

Pei Yao touched her face subconsciously, looked into the Queen Mother's eyes, and said, "How does she spy?"

The empress dowager stopped eating porridge, glanced at the uneasy empress, recalled it, felt that it was a hundred years ago, she couldn't remember it, and said disappointedly: "Forgot."

Pei Yao was also disappointed, took a sip of porridge, looked at the empress dowager's bright face, somehow, she laughed.

"What is the queen laughing at?" The queen mother didn't know what the little queen was thinking, how could the child have such weird thoughts.

"The man has passed away, the Queen Mother can take a look at me, I am alive." Pei Yao smiled brightly and charmingly, like the morning sun in early spring, bright and warm.

The queen mother refused again: "The queen is too young."

Pei Yao continued to work hard, "You are not only 24 years old, Queen Mother, but I am 17 years old. The difference of seven years old is not too much."

Seven years old is really not a lot in the royal family. Emperor Li Xu is in his 30s this year, ten years older than Pei Yao, but older than the Queen Mother.

The queen mother hesitated to speak, is she 24 years old this year?

I don't remember, 24 years old is 24 years old.But she was 24 years old when her king died.

Meeting Pei Yao again at the age of 24 is also an interesting thing.

After a while, Pei Yao finished her porridge and went to eat crystal shrimp dumplings. The queen mother stopped her chopsticks and looked at her quietly.

Half an hour later, there were only empty plates on the food table, Pei Yao also stopped, and said slowly: "Queen Mother, the Prime Minister came to look for me yesterday."

"The Ai family knows." The queen mother said.

What the Empress Dowager means is that you can only tell the truth, the conversation between the two of you is known to Aijia.

Pei Yao paused, and said calmly: "I have rejected the prime minister, and asked him to bring all the officials to invite you back to court."

The Empress Dowager laughed, as if laughing at the empress' stupidity, "Does the Ai family have such a big face? Empress, does the Ai family praise you for being smart or ignorant?"

The 17-year-old girl obviously ignored people's hearts. Those courtiers were men, and they would rather carry it by themselves than beg a woman.

Pei Yao was at a loss, "The Queen Mother really doesn't care?"

"The queen is disappointed? It's too late to regret it now." The queen mother stood up, put her hands on the food table, and looked down at the anxious queen. The queen's inquiring eyes jumped into her eyes.The queen mother smiled, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, the little queen is about to jump into the fire pit.

Little queen, will you regret it?

"I don't regret it." Pei Yao blurted out, subconsciously touching her bun, is the bubble red now?

Thinking of Bubbles, she got up and ran towards the inner hall.

The queen mother frowned, sure enough, she was still too young to be tested.

Pei Yao stood in the bronze mirror and looked at herself, the red bubbles were more honest than her state of mind, people's hearts might be fake, people's mouths were even more untrustworthy, but bubbles would not lie.

The Empress Dowager followed her in, and seeing her gloomy face turned into a smile, she frowned suddenly, "What is the Empress doing?"

"Will the Queen Mother regret it if she asks me, so I will ask myself, and if I answer it myself, I will not regret it." Pei Yao said firmly, turning around, her eyes and eyebrows remained the same as before, and her clean eyes reflected the Queen Mother's serious face, "Queen Mother, If they come, will you go back?"

"Pei Yao, do you think Ai's family can bring back the big man?" The queen mother asked without answering.

The great man's internal and external troubles continued, mobs rose up, the court was torn apart, the emperor was addicted to pleasure, and the whole man was already in disarray.

Just like the original state of Qi, it was devastated.

What Pei Yao has seen and understood is far less than that of the Queen Mother, and she knows even less. In her eyes, the Queen Mother is omnipotent.

"You only know the result after you do it."

"It's time for the empress to go to work." The empress dowager suddenly lost her interest, and when she turned around, she said again: "If all the officials come to invite you, the Ai family will go back."

*****

There was a box of books yesterday, and another box of books today, with the same musty smell.

Pei Yao covered her nose and turned the pages of the book. Turning page by page, she suddenly found that today is different from yesterday. Today there are pictures and words, and there are still two women.

She suddenly became interested, asked someone to move a stool over, and looked through it slowly by herself.

Seeing the high spirits of the queen, the queen mother in the hall was curious, and ordered Ruoxi: "Bring the book that the queen reads, and work as if you were working."

Ruoxi went to pick it up skillfully, "Empress Empress, the Empress Dowager wants to read the book in your hand."

Pei Yao happened to turn to the last page, and said regretfully: "A few pages are missing, is the Queen Mother in a hurry? If not, I'll make up for her?"

Ruoxi was in a daze, and the stone was knotted, "Can this be made up?"

"Okay, you wait for me for half an hour, go get the brush and ink, brushes and paints." Pei Yao confidently told Ruoxi, it's not just a picture of a small person, it's much simpler than a big painting.

Ruoxi didn't dare to refuse, so she bit the bullet and took it.

It just so happened that someone came from Luoyang at this time, and the queen mother was going to see her, so she was delayed.

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty sent Jin Yushi to help the disaster." The visitor handed the letter to Ruoyun, who then passed it on to the Queen Mother.

The queen mother didn't bother to read it, and she could roughly guess what the plot was. Jinliang opposed women's politics, pedantic and boring. Fortunately, she was either greedy or not smart enough.

"Let people stare at him, without taking action, Aijia wants to know how he died." The queen mother ordered.

"Yes, I understand. Also, the eldest prince's marriage has caused dissatisfaction among many people. The censor impeached him several times, but His Majesty ignored it. Mrs. Li intensified her efforts and added a lot of treasures to the eldest prince's palace."

The queen mother smiled, "Let her go, let her use the Li family's money, and the Ai family can't use it, has your majesty summoned beauties recently?"

"The national teacher presents a Hu girl, and His Majesty is with her every day, and there is no one else."

"I'm in love with you, it's rare, have you been promoted yet?" The queen mother sneered.

"Madam's status is equal to Madam Li's."

"The Ai family thinks highly of Mrs. Li, so she only dares to bully the helpless queen." The queen mother touched the scar on her wrist, and continued to order: "Pass the order of the Ai family, and give this lady a night pearl." .”

The tricks of the little queen are not enough to watch!

The guards retreated, the queen mother sat for a long time, took out the letter and looked at it, and saw the word national teacher, her eyes darkened, the national teacher is going to change sides?

Ruoxi walked in at this time, and handed the book to the Queen Mother, "Queen Mother, there are a few missing pages in the album, and the queen, the queen, made up for it."

"Finished? Can she draw?" The Queen Mother made no secret of her sarcasm. Jing'an can't read big characters, and Pei Yao raised can draw?

However, unexpectedly, the queen's painting was lifelike, and her movements were also very novel. The queen mother stared at it for a while, and said mercifully: "There is no need for the queen to post it. Let her fill in the missing pages."

The Queen is truly gifted.

Ruoxi went to spread the word, the queen mother threw the album aside, her mind was still thinking about the things in Luoyang city.

****

Pei Yao got a new job, she frowned and refused, saying: "My hands are hurting, I can't draw, and my eyes are hurting too, tell the queen mother, I'm going to rest."

Ruoxi glanced at her, and said cautiously: "Why don't you take your time and make up one book every day, okay?"

Pei Yao sighed, "Alright, I'll go back to rest today."

The new errand was much simpler, Pei Yao went back to rest, had lunch by herself in the hall, and at night, she went to warm the queen mother's couch.

The queen mother is still not there.

After two days like this, the prime minister came again, leading a dozen courtiers to kneel outside the hall to beg to see the queen mother.

After Pei Yao heard about it, she lifted her skirt and hurried out of the palace. There were many palace people standing under the palace wall, whispering to each other, and when they saw the queen came, they all dispersed.

They were afraid of the queen and lowered their heads to avoid it.

Pei Yao didn't go out of the palace gate, but stood inside the gate, looking out, the prime minister was in front, and there were more than ten people kneeling behind him, all of them were in official robes embroidered with birds and animals.

The official robes of the Dahan government follow the Daqi, with some changes, the gap is not too big.

Pei Yao looked at it for a while, and said to Qingzhu: "I won the bet."

Qing Zhu was also happy, "Your Majesty is far-sighted."

"Go back to rest and get ready. I'm going back to Luoyang the day after tomorrow at the latest. Have you finished eating all the meat you brought?" Pei Yao thought of the ingredients she collected from the imperial dining room, and it was hard to bring them back. Make it for the palace people to eat."

She didn't see the Queen Mother yesterday, and she didn't know what the Queen Mother was busy with. Pei Yao thought about it, she should go and find out.

Inquiring about the wind could not leave empty-handed, Pei Yao went to the dining room to collect ingredients, and then ordered Qingzhu to go to Ruoxi to inquire about the Queen Mother's preferences.

After a while, Qingzhu only brought back one sentence: "The Empress Dowager likes to be light."

Pei Yao stared at the venison in a daze, she was indifferent, she thought about it, changed her mind, removed the smell of meat with ginger, and then covered it with green vegetables, so that the smell of meat would not be there.

At this time, the prime minister outside the hall was invited into the hall.

The prime minister trembled, and the servant helped him to sit down. The queen mother didn't ask how he was, but only asked about disaster relief.

The prime minister's mouth was parched, he endured his thirst and replied: "Jin Liang went to rescue the disaster, and brought five hundred soldiers with him. He set off the day before yesterday, and he should arrive within three days."

"Five hundred soldiers? He's going to die." The corners of the queen mother's lips curled up, and she looked at the prime minister calmly.

The prime minister wiped the sweat off his face, "To tell you the truth, the embankment burst in Huaizhou, and the disaster spread everywhere. Jin Liang took thousands of dans of grain with him. I'm afraid it's not enough. I'm worried that something big will happen."

He didn't agree with His Majesty's appropriation of grain, but Jinliang didn't have a brain, so he hurriedly agreed, saying that if it wasn't enough, he would go to the state and county to borrow it. How could it be such a simple matter.

Your Majesty doesn't know the people's sufferings, or how much food is in a thousand dan, and the courtiers don't listen to their advice. It just so happens that the eldest prince is getting married extravagantly at this time, and the two poles are far apart.

This is the first difficulty, and the second difficulty is that there are too few five hundred soldiers.There is not enough food, if the people loot it, Jinliang will never return, and then there will be violence again.chaos.

None of them have brains, they only talk on paper, and the prime minister is suffering.

"Jinliang will go if he wants to. He won't accept Aijia, and Aijia won't go to rescue him. The prime minister has worked hard, so go to the side hall to rest." The Queen Mother's tone was indifferent, and she didn't take these things to heart.

The prime minister was worried, "Queen Mother, it will be too late."

"What has Your Majesty been up to lately?" the queen mother asked the emperor.

The prime minister suddenly felt speechless, "Your Majesty likes Mrs. Mei, and built a spring room for her."

"How much money did the spring room cost?"

"I don't know." The Prime Minister was sweating on his forehead.

The queen mother nodded, "Prime Minister, go and rest."

The prime minister didn't dare to say anything else, turned around tremblingly and left the hall. After leaving the hall, his legs were still trembling. After being exposed to the sun, his whole body began to feel dizzy. As soon as he lifted his legs, he felt dizzy and passed out immediately.

"Prime Minister..."

"The prime minister fainted..."

****

In the evening, the mosquitoes that came from nowhere screamed for a long time, which made people feel a little annoyed.

Pei Yao went to the appointment on time, holding the book that she just completed today, when she walked into the bedroom, the Queen Mother was standing under the window.

The slender figure was stretched very long by the lights, Pei Yao walked over, stepped on the shadow, squinted and smiled, "Queen Mother."

"The queen feels very happy stepping on Aijia?" The queen mother turned around slowly, with the corners of her lips curled up, looking at the smile on the little queen's face, she approached slowly.

As soon as the queen mother moved, the shadow of Pei Yao's head that was stepping on turned into a waist.

Pei Yao's legs trembled, and she stepped back unexpectedly, "The Queen Mother's waist is too thin."

"Why, the queen is afraid that she will be broken?"

Pei Yao stuffed the book into the Empress Dowager's hand, turned around and was about to run, when she passed the bronze mirror, she glanced at it, it was red.

It seemed that he was hopeless.

Pei Yao walked to the couch and sat down, turned her head, looked at the position by the window, the Queen Mother's figure was not moving, she retracted her gaze, and touched the ring on her hand.

She only touched it, and couldn't help but wonder who the old man the Queen Mother was talking about was.

Is it a girl or a gentleman?

If it was a girl, she must be as beautiful as the Queen Mother.

If he is a gentleman, he must be unparalleled in the world.

Pei Yao was thinking to herself, the queen mother came with a book in her hand, "Queen, the Pei family wants you to give birth to a son-in-law, but you follow the Ai family every day, the Pei family will be unhappy."

"Why do I have to make them happy? They don't care if I live or die. I don't care if they live or die. I have a good heart. If someone is a villain, I will definitely wait for an opportunity to retaliate at this time and ruin the Pei family. But if I don't, it's already a big deal for them." You are kind." Pei Yao said with a smile.

"You..." The Queen Mother hesitated to speak.

"Empress Dowager, the prime minister is awake." Qingzhu reported outside.

The queen mother said: "The queen will go back tonight."

Pei Yao immediately stood up, her brows relaxed, "Okay."

As soon as the queen left, the queen mother calmly flipped through the picture album she had patched up. The villains in the paintings were lifelike. I have to say that the talent of the queen is surprising.

The Empress Dowager has read countless books, and she also finds it interesting that the little people described by the Little Queen are very interesting. The Empress beautifies the characters a lot, and the degree of beauty is far superior to the original characters.

The queen added a page, entangled with her tongue.

The empress dowager's cold eyebrows were tinged with a kind of charm, the empress's mind is really powerful.

Pei Yao went back to her bedroom and lay down straight away. Ruoxiang waited by her side and said in a low voice: "The prime minister is here, so it can be seen that you are on the right track, empress. However, I heard that there is an extra lady in the palace. , titled Mei."

Mei Tongmei, just by hearing this title, one can feel that she is a charming woman.

Pei Yao didn't speak.

Ruoxiang was still worried, Qingzhu pulled her over, beckoning her not to speak any more, and put down the brocade tent for the queen, "Your Majesty, put it down, the maidservant is outside, please call if you have something to do."

After speaking, no one answered.

Qingzhu and Ruoxiang looked at each other, Qingzhu boldly poked into the brocade tent to take a look.

The queen fell asleep, sound asleep.

Qingzhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and gently left the bedroom with Ruoxiang.

"Things in the palace are in chaos. Why do you bother the empress? Besides, with the empress, the empress is not afraid of being bullied when she returns to the palace." Qingzhu reminded Ruoxiang.

If Xiang is concerned, he is confused, "I, I know, I won't say it next time."

Qingzhu shook her head, "What needs to be said has to be said." The empress seems to have a big heart, but she is cautious in handling things. She has done nothing wrong in entering the palace, and her courage alone is surprising.

You can't say that the queen is stupid, you can only say that the queen doesn't care about many things, and she just stares at the queen mother.

****

The itinerary for the Empress Dowager to return to Beijing was scheduled for the next day, and the palace began to get busy, especially Pei Yao, instead of going to the Empress Dowager, she stayed in the dining room and took care of the Empress Dowager's meals.

On the day of going back, the empress boarded the empress dowager's phoenix carriage with a shameless face, and the empress dowager pretended not to see it, without blinking her eyelids.

After the carriage started slowly, the Empress Dowager handed the Empress two books, "Choose one and read it."

A true scripture and a false scripture.

Pei Yao weighed it left and right, and chose a fake one to read. She had just read a few sentences, and she couldn't speak well, so she resolutely switched to a real scripture to read.

The whole journey was boring, but the little queen's voice was lively and pleasant, and the queen mother fell asleep when she heard it.

The emperor personally led the courtiers to pick him up ten miles outside Luoyang City. Before leaving, the emperor brought Mrs. Mei, and the two were in the car to chat with each other.

The courtiers dared not speak out, and the imperial guards who got close could hear the voices of teasing and amusing. Gradually, the voices became louder, and the voice of the woman was soft and charming.

The courtiers were horrified, and looked up at the dragon chariot from time to time. What the emperor did was no different from a faint king.

They didn't dare to speak out, dared not remonstrate. During the half month that the Queen Mother was away, the emperor killed many people. He used to be lustful, but now he became more violent.cruel.

Pei Yao's mouth was parched, and while she was drinking water, she lifted the curtain of the car, and the emperor's dragon chariot in the distance was getting closer.

She stopped, turned around and looked at the Queen Mother's calm expression, "Queen Mother, what will you do when you go back?"

Pei Yao was sitting by the window, with scriptures on her knees, and a thin layer of red gauze over her chest-length dress. The petals are exposed on the collarbone and bloom slowly.

"The queen has lost weight." The queen mother sighed.

Pei Yao didn't feel it, and touched her face after hearing the words, but the Queen Mother said: "It's because I lost weight here."

The white and slender fingertips pointed at the Queen's collarbone.

Pei Yao's eyes widened as the Queen Mother poked her chest...

Almost out of an instinctive reaction, Pei Yao looked up at the Queen Mother's head, without changing her color.

How did the Queen Mother manage to touch her without any desires?

Pei Yao was shocked, but the queen mother withdrew her hand and said slowly: "It seems that the Ai family doesn't raise people here, and the queen has lost weight."

"I respectfully welcome the Queen Mother back to Beijing."

"I respectfully welcome the Queen Mother back to Beijing."

Voices came one after another, overshadowing the voice of the queen mother, and soon the emperor also approached, "I respectfully welcome the queen mother back to the palace."

Pei Yao's eyelids trembled, as soon as she saw the emperor, she would face the danger of sleeping in bed.

"Your Majesty has worked hard, go back to the palace." The queen mother responded, but picked up the fake scripture book and handed it to the queen: "Read it, Aijia feels that his ears are dirty."

Pei Yao had a headache, frowning, took the book and started reading one sentence at a time. Somehow, she remembered the poem about the golden needle piercing the stamen of a peach blossom, and she dared not raise her voice and frown secretly.

To her surprise, she understood.

Pei Yao raised her eyebrows, her expression excited, "I understand."

The queen mother jumped up in fright, "Understand what?"

Pei Yao: "The golden needle pierces the pistil of the peach blossom, so I dare not raise my voice and frown secretly."

The Empress Dowager's face turned red suddenly, she snatched the book from the Queen's hand, and stuffed the real scriptures for her, "Continue reading."

Pei Yao didn't understand, "Why didn't you read it?"

"Aijia's ears are clean."

****

The Empress Dowager went to the Hall of Xuanshi, Pei Yao returned to the Hall of the Jiaofang, thinking that the newly promoted Mrs. Mei led the palace servants to greet the Empress before she sat on the couch.

Mrs. Mei is a bearded woman, and she is different from a big Han woman, her manners and demeanor are different.

Ruoxiang drove her back, but Pei Yao stopped her, "Why are you rushing? I am afraid of this lady even if I dare to demote the former concubine. Tell all the palaces to come and say hello. Let Mrs. Mei wait outside and come in with them .”

She is the queen, she has the backing of the queen mother, and she is still afraid of the concubine?

Pei Yao sat in the bronze mirror and looked at herself. The bubbles on the top of her head returned to the original pink. She had some headaches. The Queen Mother didn't like her, and she would sink herself into it. lifetime?

I lost a lot.

Pei Yao felt aggrieved for herself, sighed at the bronze mirror, groped in the makeup box for a while, and finally chose Shuangfeng's golden hairpin to wear for herself.

"Queen, Mrs. Mei is gone, it seems that she has gone to Xuanshi Hall."

"Didn't she know that the Queen Mother is also in Xuanshi Palace?" Pei Yao was surprised.

Qingzhu told her: "The Empress Dowager rewarded Mrs. Mei with a night pearl, which is said to be very big, even bigger than an egg."

Pei Yao couldn't help but reflect that she didn't seem to have received any reward from the Queen Mother, not to mention Ye Mingzhu, she didn't even have a single piece of clothing.The ring was still snatched by myself.

Does the Queen Mother like Hu Nu so much?

The author has something to say: Empress Dowager: Isn't it a ring?

Queen: No!

Queen Mother: Oh!

感谢在2021-07-1816：03：26～2021-07-1916：34：31期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～