Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 216 You are very confident
She kept praying in her heart: If the princess is safe and sound this time, she is willing to eat fast and chant Buddha for the rest of her life, even if she loses ten years of life.

But everything they feared did not come.

The empress dowager's cold gaze gradually retracted, and the anger in her eyes disappeared without a trace, "What the princess said is very true, but the Ai family underestimated you."

She rubbed her waist lazily: "Princess Concubine enters the palace for the first time after marriage, Aijia, who is a mother-in-law, can't treat granddaughter-in-law slowly." She bit the word "granddaughter-in-law" heavily.

The Empress Dowager personally extended her palm to Zhao Xiwei: "It just so happens that Ai's house has new wine, why don't you go and taste it together?"

Zhao Xi looked slightly at the Queen Mother's palm. On the five fingers, there were nail covers decorated with pearls and emeralds, but there was no aesthetic feeling. It only gave people a kind of eerie horror with white bones inlaid with gold.

The queen mother stretched out her hand like this, and she had no room to refuse.

But if you don't refuse, won't you be caught in the urn if you go to the Empress Dowager's Palace?
In just a split second, she made a decision.

"The concubine should have gone to visit the queen mother with the prince, but the prince is discussing political affairs with His Majesty now. If the concubine leaves the prince and goes to the queen mother's palace alone, it may not conform to the etiquette."

Since she must go, she will drag Li Xuanye along.

Although the Empress Dowager is in control, Li Xuanye is not a puppet to be manipulated by her—not to mention crushing the Empress Dowager, he must have the strength to stand up to court.

Zhao Xiwei is not a saint, what she has been seeking in her life has always been to live well.

Not to be oppressed by others, not to be hurt by others, to live freely.

Marrying His Highness the Crown Prince is to find a backer.

Now, she is like a little ant, facing the powerful queen mother, she is in danger of being trampled to death at any time.

So, without even thinking about it, she unceremoniously and unpretentiously moved Li Xuanye out.

She knew that this was the only strength she could borrow.

It has to be said that Li Xuanye is really a universal card.

The smile on the Empress Dowager's face froze for a long time, and finally she took her hand back.

Li Xuanye has a strong personality, and he is both a descendant and an elder, so he has a natural advantage in the patriarchal clan, so it is more smooth and unimpeded to exercise the power of the government.

For example, if the Empress Dowager wanted to impeach Zhao Ziyi, she had to find a way to get through Yushitai to catch the fact that Zhao Ziyi had an illegitimate daughter.

As soon as the boundary is crossed a little, the old officials will come out and chatter endlessly, saying that the hen governs the morning and the woman interferes in politics.Just these sour officials can make her blood boil.

And if the prince wants to deal with the queen mother, it will be much easier.

He directly writes a ginseng notebook, which can make the emperor nod.

——Just like the last time Wang Fan committed a crime, it was just molesting a few women, the prince acted vigorously and cut off a group of school captains, and within a few days, all the palace gate guards and patrol battalions were replaced his people.

Of course, the Empress Dowager holds Wei's military power and treasury, so the Crown Prince can't really do anything to her.

In a simple sentence, it is the current situation that neither the queen mother nor the prince can bring down the other.

Although the queen mother has a trump card in her hand, it is difficult to play: unless she wants to rebel.

She is not an impulsive young man, so she will not fight the prince to the death just because of Zhao Xiwei.

After the queen mother figured out this relationship of interests, the displeasure faded away.

Concubine Xian could see clearly that she took advantage of the situation to support the Queen Mother's wrist almost at the moment when the Queen Mother closed her hand. Everything was so just right and so logical: "The Queen Mother is eccentric, and there is only one bottle of wine in total. Even the ministers and concubines I can't even drink it."

"Look at your mouth, how can the Ai family do without you?" The queen mother just laughed, and the embarrassment was resolved in this way.

Zhao Xiwei bowed his knees and said, "The concubine respectfully sends the queen mother off."

"What's the rush?" The queen mother smiled again, and patted her on the shoulder very affectionately: "It's hard to enter the palace once, and the Ai family has a gift to reward you."

Zhao Xi was stunned for a moment.

I saw Eunuch Chang walking over holding a red lacquered box.There was a weird and sinister smile on his face, and one could conclude without hesitation that this was a big gift with malicious intentions.

The sky is gloomy, the north wind is howling, dark clouds cover the sky, and snowflakes are rampant.

The entire imperial palace seemed to have lost its vitality and color all of a sudden, like a black tomb filled with bones, in which countless ghosts and ghosts were buried.

Zhao Xiwei suddenly felt his fingers were cold and stiff, and without warning, he remembered Li Xuanye's warm palm.

It's really strange that she has become more and more squeamish within a day of being married.

Back then, she didn’t even have a warm cotton-padded jacket in the wind, frost, rain and snow, and she went up and down the mountains and rivers, chasing prey all over the mountains and plains, her fingers got sores from the cold, and she didn’t even frown, and continued chopping firewood and washing clothes.

Now he can't stand the little bit of cold wind, and he even begins to yearn for Li Xuanye's warmth.

Wouldn't she become a delicate flower in the future?
I remembered that stern and majestic face again.

With such a backer, it's good to be a little girl once in a while.

Zhao Xiwei thought wildly, watching Eunuch Chang walk up to him.

"The princess is invited to accept the gift." Eunuch Chang didn't even bend his waist, he was very arrogant.

Zhao Xiwei's eyes fell on the red box.

It was a very ordinary box, with no patterns, no decorations, and nothing but blood-red lacquer.

But inexplicably gives people a very strange and terrifying feeling.

She hesitated, guessing various possibilities in her heart.

Could it be a hidden weapon?
Impossible, killing the Crown Princess in full view would definitely be a major event that shocked the government and the public.

No matter how much the queen mother hates her, she won't fall into such a big trap.

Could it be poison?
It's also unlikely, if you want to give poisoned wine, you have to make up a justifiable crime.

Don't say she didn't do anything wrong, even if she did something wrong, the prince will judge it.

Could it be some shady gift?

With the experience of Wang Fan going to the Zhao Mansion with a red bellyband to make trouble, it is difficult for her to have a good impression of the Wang family's family style - she has reason to suspect that the Queen Mother must have done such a thing.

However, now that she is the Crown Princess, if she wants to embarrass her with such tricks, it would be a big mistake: After all, if it spreads out, the empress dowager and the royal family will lose face first.

She made up her mind, and Eunuch Chang was getting impatient, and reminded with a smirk: "Crown Princess, this gift is specially customized for you by the Empress Dowager. There is no such precedent in the whole palace."

Zhao Xiwei looked at the queen mother suspiciously.

The Queen Mother just smiled: "Fang Jieyu is so contemptuous that the Crown Princess has been wronged, and the Ai family will naturally want to make up for you."

(End of this chapter)