Melting love and rhyme make up the red building

The queen mother gently brushed her black hair back with her hands, a smile appeared on her face.This is what she is most satisfied with now, and she still has a head of jet-black hair after she is over half a century old, which is justified!

Qiu Rong, the maid serving at the side, said softly: "The Empress Dowager!" The Empress Dowager came back to her senses and said with a smile: "I think of the past, I am old!"

Qiu Rong said with a smile: "Where is it? Who doesn't praise the Queen Mother's appearance when she sees her? When the former Concubine Nan'an came to pay your respects to the old man, she said that the Queen Mother didn't look old at all!"

The queen mother shook her head and sighed, "I'm just being polite."

Qiu Rong was about to persuade her, but she heard the little palace maid outside say: "Queen Mother, Concubine Jing has come to pay her respects."

The Queen Mother couldn't help smiling, and said: "It's because she comes early every day, so come in."

"Greetings to the empress dowager, hello to the auntie!" With a delicate smile, Concubine Jing walked in lightly, stepped forward and saluted.

The queen mother turned her head and said with a smile: "You girl calls Aijia a lot."

Concubine Jing signaled Qiu Rong to step aside, stood behind the queen mother, brushed her black hair with her slender hands and said with a smile, "What hairstyle does the queen mother want to wear today?"

"It's just a homely thing, and it's not very interesting to mess around with it!" The queen mother replied lazily.

Concubine Jing flipped her hair lightly with her slender hands, divided her hair into several strands, twisted and twisted the hair around her head like twisting twists, Concubine Jing supported the braided hair with her hands, and said to Qiu Rong who was standing aside: " Don't be silly! Come here and help bring the jewelry box."

Qiu Rong hurriedly smiled and held it with both hands. Concubine Jing traced it with her eyes, then took a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin and pinned it on, and took a purple jade cherry hairpin and stuck it on the left temple, which made the Queen Mother's neck stand up , Elegant and luxurious.

Qiu Rong couldn't help clapping her hands when she saw it. The Queen Mother took a closer look in the bronze mirror, nodded and smiled and said, "Your skills are still high, but I don't know why this hairstyle is?"

Concubine Jing smiled and said, "It's just that I've heard people talk about this hairstyle before, and the most noble one is called the 'snake bun'. The concubine has practiced it in private for a long time! I wonder if the Queen Mother likes it or not?"

The queen mother smiled and said: "I like it very much, but it's hard to feel sorry for you." After saying that, she turned around and stretched out her hands to Concubine Jing, and said, "Come here, look at your haggard face, let me take a look." Concubine Jing smiled Help up the queen mother.

The Empress Dowager took Concubine Jing's hand and walked outside.

After sitting down, Qiu Rong came over and said, "Queen Mother, Empress Yuan Concubine and Empress Li Concubine are here to greet you."

The queen mother said casually: "Let them kneel down, just say that Ai's family is not feeling well today, come back tomorrow."

Qiu Rong agreed to go, the Empress Dowager said again: "In a while, no matter who it is, they will say that there is no one in the Ai family." Then she said to the maids at the side: "Let's all go down."

"Yes." Qiu Rong hurriedly took people out, leaving Concubine Jing alone in the room.

The Queen Mother turned her eyes to Concubine Jing again, put away her smile and said slowly: "Zhen'er, do you have something to say to Auntie?"

Concubine Jing glanced at the Empress Dowager, and she clearly read a trace of love and pity from the majestic expression of the Empress Dowager, and said aggrievedly: "Aunt Mingming, my concubine..."

The queen mother calmed down and sighed: "Now you are the only one in the palace, even the queen dare not do anything to you, why did I hear that you were in the back garden yesterday to make things difficult for a court lady? Why?"

Concubine Jing hurriedly laughed and said: "You must have misheard, old man. It's not that the concubine has nothing to do. Her health has only improved in the past two days, so she went to the garden to relax. How could she quarrel with a court lady!"

The Empress Dowager said: "It's not that good. If you want the Emperor to value you from now on, you must be more dignified and generous, and pay attention to your words and deeds." Concubine Jing lowered her head and said yes.

The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Jing's pitiful look, and couldn't bear to say anything about her, so she said: "You are my niece, Aijia knows that you are also filial on weekdays, and the emperor often praises you here! Your body is also weak, and you are usually filial You should take good care of yourself, those court ladies look down on them, let Luyun and the others teach them a lesson, don't lower your status."

Concubine Jing responded in a low voice, and muttered again.The Empress Dowager didn't hear clearly, so she asked, "What did you say?" Concubine Jing whispered, "The one I saw in the garden yesterday was not a court lady, but Concubine Yuan's cousin."

The Empress Dowager wondered: "Concubine Yuan's cousin, what is she doing in the palace? Does the Empress know?" Concubine Jing said: "I think I know, otherwise she wouldn't be so courageous."

The queen mother asked again: "What are you doing here? Do you know?" Concubine Jing shook her head and said, "I don't know. Later, when the concubines were going back to the palace, they met a few more. Concubine Yuan's order to enter the palace, I don't know why."

The Queen Mother thought for a while and said: "The Concubine Yuan is not in good health recently, she has been ill for a long time, maybe she begged the Emperor to let her family come to visit."

Concubine Jing said: "Think about it carefully, old man. Aren't you going to be drafted in a few days? The concubine's thinking must have something to do with entering the palace as a candidate. Those women are all beautiful, and none of them are worse than the concubine. In time, the courtiers and concubines will fall out of favor with the emperor." After speaking, Concubine Jing lowered her head dejectedly.

The Queen Mother interjected: "The girls in our family are supposed to be the queen's life, how could they fall out of favor?" After saying that, she remembered that Concubine Jing is still just a mere concubine, not even a noble concubine, and she couldn't help sighing in her heart. tone!

Seeing Concubine Jing's helpless look, the Empress Dowager persuaded: "Zhen'er, don't worry, you have only been in the palace for three years, and you have given birth to a dragon son. Are you afraid that you will not be able to win the seat in the future? But we have to take it slowly. In a few years, if you work harder, you will give birth to more princes for the emperor. As the saying goes: mothers are more expensive than children! It won't take many days. Although you can't sit on the queen's seat immediately, the queen's body is very weak Yes, she is ashamed of the emperor for not being able to continue the dragon veins for the royal family, and she is weak-tempered, so you have the final say in this harem? Who will be able to shake you by then?"

When Concubine Jing said this to the Queen Mother, there was a slight smile on her face.

But thinking of the girls I met in the garden, I said sadly: "You old man didn't see that the younger sisters of the concubine Yuan are really rare in the world. If they enter the palace, they will be liked by the emperor." ,That…."

The Empress Dowager interrupted: "You mean that the most urgent thing is to prevent those women from entering the palace?"