Empress dowager, the queen sighed

After the banquet was over, Pei Yao carried a box of candy to Changle Hall, walked a few steps, Qingzhu hurriedly supported her.

"Your Majesty is drunk, why don't you go back and rest for a while and see the Empress Dowager again." Qingzhu said worriedly.

Pei Yao persisted, and refused to let go of Tang's hand, clasping her fingers tightly, "It's only a quarter of an hour away, not far away."

"But you will upset the Empress Dowager if you go." Qingzhu reminded that the master was drunk and walked swayingly, and he might say anything in front of the Empress Dowager.

The empress dowager is not an ordinary person, she can see through her mind with a few words, and the little empress dowager has no secrets at all in front of her.

Qingzhu sighed, but the little queen mother still likes to move closer to her.

The two talked a few words and arrived at Changle Palace. Pei Yao looked at the majestic palace gate and whispered to Qingzhu: "I want the Queen Mother to open a side door, I'm exhausted from walking."

Qingzhu felt that the queen was dazed, and said: "Then you might as well move to Changle Palace."

Pei Yao thought about it seriously, "It seems to make sense."

"The Empress Dowager is coming." Fulu led Gong'e to greet her, seeing the little empress dowager holding the box hard, she subconsciously went to pick it up, "I will help you."

"No, it's not important, do it yourself." Pei Yao was a little unhappy, brushed off Fulu's hand, and walked towards the hall with the most serious steps.

Fu Lu was surprised, the little empress usually treats them with a smile, this is the first time she is unhappy today, she is puzzled, the green bamboo beside the little empress shakes her head at her, trying to mouth the words: drunk.

Fulu understood, and quietly told Qingzhu: "I'm going to prepare hangover soup."

Pei Yao had already crossed the threshold on her own, the Empress Dowager taunted her: "You came early."

Pei Yao put the box in front of her and took out the key from the green bamboo sachet. The Empress Dowager was dumbfounded: "You still use a golden lock for a box of candy."

"The golden lock belongs to the warehouse and is worthless, but the candy belongs to me and is valuable." Pei Yao said with a smile, but her hands were trembling, and the key couldn't get in no matter what.

After working hard for a few times, Pei Yao became frustrated, and looked at the Empress Dowager: "Are your eyes bad?"

"Yo, who gave you the courage to scold Aijia." The empress dowager laughed, drunk.

Pei Yao poked a few more times, then looked at Miss Li eagerly, but Miss Li turned her eyes sideways, not looking at her.

Pei Yao stuffed the key into Miss Li's hand, reached out to hug her, buried her face in her neck, and rubbed it vigorously, "It smells so good."

The Empress Dowager was impatient, she lifted her back collar rather indecently, and mercilessly pushed the person away, "It's taking advantage of Ai's family again."

Pei Yao squinted her eyes, her lips curled into a smile, and the phoenix hairpin on her hair poked the Empress Dowager's shoulder sorely. She didn't feel it, but smiled instead, "Li Lexi."

The name Li Lexi is really nice, just like the empress dowager.

The Empress Dowager didn't smile any more, she came down in a daze, looked at Pei Yao with the coldest light rarely, savoring the title just now.Her eyes fell on Pei Yao's cheeks, her pink eyes were bright red, and she saw the phoenix hairpin which was an eyesore, she raised her hand to take it.

With a bang, it fell to the ground.

Pei Yao's heart trembled, and she involuntarily lowered her eyes to stare at Fengzan, then stepped on it with her foot, and then grabbed the Empress Dowager's hand.

Pei Yao smiled, the winter wind blew in from the palace door, making her shiver and her head cleared up.

"Look at me, don't look at it."

After she finished speaking, she regretted it again, what could she compare with her own hairpin.

The empress dowager glanced at her, and reached out to open the candy box. There were candies of various colors in it. The candies in Jiugongge looked very interesting. She ate a piece of orange candy with a smile, "The queen, the little queen dowager is quite generous."

"That's right, I got a lot of silver, which was given by the Zhao family. I gave it to you before, but they took it away. I asked for it, but they didn't give it to me. Queen Mother, do you think I should take it by force?" Pei Pei Yao sat down, leaning half of her body on the Empress Dowager, as if she was her pillow, still saying familiar titles.

The empress dowager had sugar in her mouth, so she didn't speak in a hurry, she agreed with the little empress dowager in her heart, and waited until the sugar had melted before she nodded: "Alright."

"Yes, we won't suffer from this." Pei Yao pulled the Empress Dowager together.

The Empress Dowager saw through her tricks, "It's you, it has nothing to do with the Ai family."

"No, mine belongs to the Queen Mother." Pei Yao insisted, her eyelids drooped, she was sleepy, and her mind was dizzy.

Seeing her dizzy expression, the Empress Dowager did not push her away, she still ate sweets slowly, and said: "The ones that belong to the Ai family are still the ones that belong to the Ai family, not yours."

The Empress Dowager got up, picked up the drunk, put her on her bed, and went out.

Pei Yao slept in a daze, her winter clothes were thick, and it was uncomfortable to lie on the couch.She got up in a daze, touched the Empress Dowager's closet, pulled out a pajamas inside, it was white, she put it on immediately, then turned back and lay down on the couch.

When the empress dowager came in again, she found that the little empress was wearing her pajamas and got into her quilt.

Looking at the familiar people, the Empress Dowager put the hot water on the table resignedly, feeling a strange feeling in her heart.

There was a clean veil in the hot water, and after wiping the face of the drunk, the Empress Dowager threw the veil back into the water, tore off the brocade tent, and went to the outer hall to eat candy by herself.

The candy box looked very big, but there was not much candy in it. The Empress Dowager finished eating it in one afternoon, and at dusk she went to Xuanshi Hall to listen to the courtiers discuss matters.

The emperor was very diligent and listened to him the whole time. The courtiers had their own ideas about the conscription this time.

The Empress Dowager remained silent, sipping lotus seed tea in silence, thinking that the little queen's candy was getting sweeter and a little sluggish.

After the few courtiers spoke, they all stopped. For a while, they were silent, and they all looked at the empress dowager.

The Empress Dowager raised her head, her eyes wandered, "What's the matter?"

"The household department is in a hurry, and the money is not enough to recruit soldiers." The prime minister looked embarrassed.

"Where's the money? The Ai family didn't touch your money." The Empress Dowager mocked.

Ever since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, she has never held a birthday banquet, let alone built a palace on a large scale, and there is no change of money on the books.

The prime minister knew best that the late emperor was licentious, he wanted to draft talent, and built a palace. He couldn't say it. The emperor also looked solemn, and said: "Ask the people for borrowing."

"Borrow? Your Majesty has the face to ask people to borrow?" The Empress Dowager asked back.

The emperor's face turned red, and he was speechless for a while, the prime minister immediately made a relief, "You can ask the merchants to borrow it."

"If the prime minister wants Luoyang to follow suit, just go and borrow it." The empress dowager finally got impatient, and stood up to look at the crowd, "You all understand the truth that water can carry a boat or capsize it. Borrowing money at this time, It is to force their hearts to turn to the traitor."

The emperor was in a hurry, and glared at the empress dowager: "tell me what to do."

"Your Majesty has sent Pei Sui. If you think about it, he will bring good news." The Empress Dowager said casually.

The emperor's incompetence and irritability made her want to laugh inexplicably, but she was too young after all.

"Pei Sui went alone." The emperor's voice weakened.

"Go alone?" The Empress Dowager frowned, "Where are the [-] troops from Xuzhou?"

The emperor was confident: "General Pei is not in the right mind."

The Empress Dowager laughed angrily, and soon she calmed down again, "Soldiers and horses from Xuzhou, do you save them to carry the coffin for yourself?"

The aura in the emperor's eyes weakened. Even if the empress dowager cursed openly, she was powerless to refute. After enduring it for a while, she fell silent.

Seeing that the little emperor was ugly, the prime minister immediately passed the steps: "It's better to transfer Xuzhou's soldiers and horses back to Luoyang."

The other courtiers also followed suit, and the Empress Dowager walked up to the map and pointed at Xuzhou: "If they are transferred back to Luoyang, the rear will be empty, which will give them an advantage. If they meet in Xingyang, what do you think will happen?"

"Emperor, you keep soldiers in Xuzhou, but you recruit troops in Luoyang. Do you have a lot of money?" The empress dowager spoke sharply, making everyone speechless for a while.

"Recruiting and raising soldiers, how much money do you waste in a single sentence? If the late emperor left you several million taels of silver, you can spend like this. How much money can the treasury take out now?"

The empress dowager did not save face for the new emperor, which embarrassed the courtiers. The emperor was timid for a long time before asking the empress dowager: "Do you think Pei Sui is trustworthy?"

"Believe it or not, his wife and children are all in Luoyang City." The Empress Dowager shook her head.

But the emperor said: "Taking hostages is not the way of a gentleman."

"The Way of a Gentleman?" The Empress Dowager laughed suddenly, without concealing her sarcasm, "The ancestors of the Han Dynasty stole the country, and the emperor was licentious. Does your majesty think they have the way of a gentleman? Can your way of a gentleman bring a big man back from the dead? "

The prime minister frowned, the little emperor was too tender.

The little emperor was speechless, and the prime minister immediately spoke softly: "The empress dowager is absolutely right to make General Pei the commander in chief, and the Pei family is still in Luoyang."

The Empress Dowager said: "Deprivation of the title of Marquis of Loyalty, the epidemic was caused by the Pei family. They surrounded Pei's mansion and took Pei Ze into Dali Temple. Then tell Pei Sui that it is very easy to turn against the big man. The Pei family will be buried with the big man." , it's not difficult."

Everyone in the hall gasped, especially the little emperor. This obviously forced Pei Sui to turn against the big man.

She disagreed: "Empress Dowager, it's inappropriate. Pei Sui had a rebellious heart. If he did this at this time, he would be forced to a dead end."

The Empress Dowager stopped looking at the emperor, and turned her attention to the Prime Minister, "What does the Prime Minister think?"

The prime minister was scheming, different from the emperor's innocence, and immediately echoed: "The empress dowager's words are very reasonable."

The emperor sat slumped on the dragon chair, and the empress dowager slowly raised her foot, glanced at the crowd, "Give Xuzhou's soldiers to Pei Sui, then it's a gamble."

The faces of the others turned pale. The big man really had no spare money to recruit troops. Transferring troops was the best way. They tried their best to dissuade the emperor, but the emperor didn't believe it at all. Only the empress dowager could change his majesty's mind.

****

When Pei Yao woke up, it was already dark, Ruoyun lit the lamp, and approached the couch, "The empress dowager is awake."

"Where's the Empress Dowager?" Pei Yao asked wearily, and moved her head out of the quilt, her dark and clear eyes were shining brightly.

Ruoyun smiled and said: "The Empress Dowager is in the Xuanshi Hall, you should get up and have dinner first, and you will be back around Haishi."

Pei Yao nodded, got up and changed her clothes.

Ruoyun's eyelids twitched when she saw the white pajamas on her body. It was the clothes of the Empress Dowager, she hurriedly said: "You change the pajamas first."

The Empress Dowager loves to be clean, and she will definitely not use what others have used.

Somehow, the little queen mother actually put on the clothes of the great queen mother.

Ruoyun didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he quickly changed it, and took it to wash it himself.

Pei Yao didn't feel anything, she had dinner after changing clothes, ate slowly by herself, and then digested in the hall after eating.

The Empress Dowager didn't come back until near Zishi.

After returning, Pei Yao did not go up to meet her immediately, but stood on the side and looked at her, "I'm back."

"Why haven't you left yet?" The Empress Dowager was a little surprised when she saw her, and frowned when she saw her standing upright.

Pei Yao snorted softly, "I'm happy when I'm eating candy, but I won't recognize anyone after eating, I won't leave tonight, warm my couch."

The Empress Dowager glanced at her, without making a sound, went to the bathroom to take a bath and change clothes.

While Pei Yao was searching for a fitting pajamas in the closet, Ruoyun's eyelids trembled with fright, "Empress Dowager, this slave has sent someone to fetch your pajamas for you."

Ruoyun was so flustered that her eyes didn't look right, Pei Yao was sensible and didn't look any further, she just waited quietly.

The Empress Dowager, who didn't wait for her pajamas back, but waited until she came back from the bath, looked her up and down, fixed her eyes on her waist, and said, "I don't have any pajamas to wear."

"You don't ask questions during the day, but now you know how to behave?" The Empress Dowager laughed at her.

Hearing this sentence, Ruoyun was taken aback, did the Queen Mother know?

Pei Yao took a look at Bai Yun, and frowned, "No one will reject me, I can't be so cheeky to ask for it."

The Empress Dowager felt helpless when she saw her faceless appearance, and ordered Ruoyun: "Choose something that fits well for the Empress Dowager to wear."

Ruoyun took the lead, and tremblingly went to choose the clothes, Pei Yao followed suit, and found that they were all white, with green bamboo embroidered on the cuffs, and there was no need to choose the clothes that fit, they were clearly the same, so there was no need to choose.

Pei Yao was once again surprised by the Empress Dowager's hobbies, and the Empress Dowager talked about other things: "I heard that the Empress Dowager got a lot of money, the nunnery is poor, and Master Jing'an's illness is unknown. It will be clear."

"Don't make fun of me. I brought you a money box when I came back last time. Who made you angry? I took the money box away." Pei Yao picked one at random and sent Ruoyun out. Walking in front of the Empress Dowager, "Will you change it for me?"

"The beauty trick has changed again?" The Empress Dowager's tone was cold, she pinched the cuff of the pajamas with two fingers, and threw it lightly. The pajamas fell on the couch, and she reached out to untie Pei Yao's belt.

Pei Yao opened her arms and raised her chin proudly, "If you can let Miss Li serve you once, you'll be like a ghost."

Hearing the ghost words, the Empress Dowager's complexion changed slightly, her eyes suddenly darkened, and the hand that was pulling the sash also followed suit, causing Pei Yao to frown, "Am I getting fat again?"

With a soft tone and lack of confidence, the Empress Dowager smiled and said, "Eat less, I heard you ate another table tonight?"

Pei Yao's face turned red, "It hurts to be hungry."

"I can't afford you anymore." The Empress Dowager threw her belt on the ground, took off Pei Yao's dress, the skin under her neck was faintly visible, she poked Pei Yao's chest with her slender fingertips: " Why is there no meat growing here?"

"It doesn't want to, just like the empress dowager doesn't like me, it can't be forced."

The Empress Dowager smiled, and gently pulled her fingertips, the middle garment fell apart, revealing her snow-like skin, the heart garment blocked the most beautiful view, her hand followed the heart garment, and landed on Pei Yao's lower abdomen.

Pei Yao held down her hand at this time, "I'm not allowed to touch here if I don't like it. You can touch it only if you like it and have desire."

After speaking, he quickly put on his pajamas and got under the quilt.

The Empress Dowager was surprised, she silently acquiesced to her behavior, staring at the bulging quilt, she blew out the lamp in the hall.

However, as soon as she lay down, the spineless man moved over.The Empress Dowager opened her eyes, staring into the darkness, not moving.

After Pei Yao got close, she turned around, staring at her pale skin in the darkness, and slowly moved towards Miss Li.

She first touched Miss Li's cuff, then her wrist, and clenched her wrist tightly, then rubbed Miss Li's shoulder, and then leaned over softly.

In the second half of the day, she couldn't feel the warmth and was dissatisfied with the status quo, so she greedily slipped into Miss Li's arms.

The Empress Dowager stared at the small black shadow in the dark, she did not move or refuse until the shadow stopped.

Pei Yao's whole body was stuck to her body, like a dog's skin plaster.

The Empress Dowager smiled lowly, her body trembled slightly, Pei Yao raised her head, "If you laugh again, I will kiss you."

Domineering and soft, not at all threatening.

The Empress Dowager did not speak or move.Pei Yao was dissatisfied again, frowned, sniffed, and brought her lips closer to the Queen Mother's neck.

The touch is wrong, wrong.Pei Yao grabbed Miss Li's shoulders, leaned her body on her body, groped her lips with both hands, and pressed her soft lips against her.

Pei Yao was finally satisfied, she bent her eyebrows, the light in her eyes brightened in the darkness.

The Empress Dowager obviously felt Pei Yao's joy, if she turned on the lamp, she would be even happier, but she doesn't know how to light a lamp.

Although she didn't move, Pei Yao felt very comfortable kissing the soft corners of her lips. The corners of the lips were close to each other, kiss once, let go, and touch again.

She is very familiar, so familiar that she can retract and release freely in the dark, until she curls the soft corners of her lips.

The Empress Dowager finally raised her hand to touch the back of her head.After a while, Pei Yao felt sleepy for a while, reluctantly let go, fell on Miss Li's body, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The Empress Dowager opened her eyes, stared at the quiet person, her lips curled up, she carefully put the person aside, and then she got up.

Ruoyun waited outside, holding a lantern, the two went to the side hall together.

The sleeping hall is occupied by Pei Yao, they can only go to the side hall.

There was a pen and ink in the side hall, and the Empress Dowager picked up a pen and wrote a few words. She felt that the handwriting was wrong, and suddenly remembered that it was the left hand who wrote letters to Pei Sui in the past few years.

I haven't written it for many years, but it's a bit rusty.It was still early, she practiced calligraphy first, and only after she was familiar with it did she pull out the letter paper and dip it in ink to write.

Pei Sui was hesitant, not decisive, what was lacking was a force.

She found the letter Pei Sui gave her last time, addressing her as Master, it was too dazzling, she frowned and tore it up.

It was not until the sky was bright that he wrote a letter, handed it to Ruoyun, and sent it out of Luoyang City.

The Empress Dowager returned to the couch to rest.

At some point, Pei Yao woke up, opened her eyes, she was a little confused at first, but gradually became conscious, the sky was bright, and she could clearly see the appearance of the person beside her.

When Pei Yao woke up, the Empress Dowager was also forced to open her eyes, a little annoyed that Pei Yao woke up so early, she stared at Pei Yao's sleepy and confused look, and stretched out her hand to push away the hand that was pressing on her.

The next moment, Pei Yao woke up completely, moved her abandoned hand back to its original position, and closed her eyes again.

Empress Dowager: "..." You will never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.

She put her hand on Pei Yao's heart, feeling the rapid heartbeat, but slowly exerted force, hoping that she could suppress the frequency of the heartbeat.

"Taking advantage of me." Pei Yao muttered, her mind was in a mess and she was still a little sleepy, she turned over and turned her back to the Empress Dowager, wanting to sleep for a while.

"The old lady of the Ming family is celebrating her birthday today, why don't you go?" The Empress Dowager finally had the courage to speak, she had nothing good to say, and said mockingly: "They gave you so much money, and you are so stingy that you don't even want to give away a single ginseng. "

Pei Yao was stunned, "I don't know about this, no one told me." She frowned annoyedly, and quickly let go, and stuck to the Empress Dowager again, "I'll give you the money."

"The little queen dowager wants to squeeze Aijia?" The empress dowager reached out, pushed away the hand clasping her shoulder, and carefully examined the light in Pei Yao's eyes, "Does Aijia look like a fool?"

"Aijia's birthday, you didn't give anything. Now, when other people celebrate their birthdays, you still want to get something from Aijia. Good people let you do it. What is Aijia doing?"

"You are a good person." Pei Yao laughed lowly, got up straight and glanced at the window, "Aren't you going to court?"

"The little emperor made Ai's family unhappy, and Ai's family didn't want to go."

"You're really casual, so I'll take you to Ming's house for a while?" Pei Yao has her own little Jiujiu in her heart.

The Empress Dowager frowned, "No."

For so many years, she never went to a banquet, and this time is no exception!

****

Pei Yao wore a Langjun's Lanpao, and chose a red robe for the Empress Dowager.

From the beginning to the end, the Empress Dowager frowned, unwilling to wear or move, and was finally pulled into the carriage by Pei Yao.

The carriage went out from the lower east gate, avoiding the courtiers, Ruoyun was also sitting in the carriage, after leaving the palace, she really couldn't stand the empress dowager's cold look, and couldn't wait to get off the carriage.

A group of people came to Dongshi, stopped at the street corner, Pei Yao got out of the car, but the Empress Dowager closed her eyes and refused to move, Pei Yao let out a cry, "Doctor Meng."

The Empress Dowager opened her eyes and lifted the curtain to look.In winter, Dongshi is a bit desolate, with pedestrians walking in twos and threes.

Looking around, there was no Meng Qi, she frowned, but saw Pei Yao walking towards a teahouse.

Meng Qi is at the tea shop?

The Empress Dowager thought for a while, and got out of the car. When she stepped on the ground, she felt a little uncomfortable.

And Pei Yao came out from the tea shop, the corners of her lips curled up, "Physician Meng is taking a pulse, do you want to go and see?"

The empress dowager was silent.

Pei Yao took a step back by herself, but before she could turn around, she was stopped by someone, "The Ai family will buy you a Buddha statue, the old man likes it."

Pei Yao curled her lips as if triumphant, and pulled the queen mother towards the jade shop, "How much silver did you bring?"

The Empress Dowager did not answer, but looked towards the tea shop.The window of the teahouse was open, and a few people were faintly visible in the lobby. Pei Yao walked too fast, so she just took a look and missed it.

But she didn't see Meng Qi's figure.Meng Qi likes to have a pulse diagnosis outside and does not charge a fee for the consultation, which is quite popular with the common people.

Pei Yao entered a gorgeously decorated shop, and said to the store owner, "The best in your shop..."

Before she finished speaking, the Empress Dowager covered her mouth, and she said to the store: "Let's take a look."

The author has something to say: Ms. Li: Nouveau riche.

感谢在2021-08-0220：52：40～2021-08-0316：50：31期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～