After transforming into An Lingrong, he became the King of Juan and was crowned the Sixth Palace.

In the Queen Mother's Hall, there is the calm smell of sandalwood, and the light smoke lingers, making people feel like they are outside the world.

The Queen Mother looked good, leaning on the silver antler-encrusted imperial concubine's couch near the window, slowly drinking the medicine one mouthful at a time with her bamboo-breathed hand.

An Lingrong greeted An respectfully, and the Queen Mother casually asked her to get up and sit down, saying: "I haven't asked you to come over to accompany the Ai family these days. I only heard outsiders talk about you doing something for the emperor. The Ai family doesn't know what it is." Something happened, so tonight while Hui Concubine is here, I specially asked you to come over and chat with the Ai family."

An Lingrong suddenly had an idea in her mind, and she replied respectfully: "It's nothing, I'm just passing the time."

The Queen Mother didn't even raise her head and said, "Then tell me what you want to do to pass the time. The Ai family will be relieved to hear it."

So An Lingrong Xuxu picked some interesting things to say, and the Queen Mother seemed to be listening with a faint smile.

After a while, the Queen Mother took the water handed to her by Zhu Xi and rinsed her mouth with one hand. She frowned and said, "It's so bitter."

Before he finished speaking, the sapphire blue skirt behind the ebony-carved mirror screen with the Chinese character "Shou" in the hall swayed, and it was Meizhuang who came out.

Meizhuang glanced at An Lingrong worriedly, and without saying much, he just held a white porcelain plate in his hand, with several pickled hawthorns on it.

She walked up to the Queen Mother with a smile on her face and said: "This is a newly made hawthorn. I ordered it to be sweeter. It is sour and sweet for appetizing. This is the best thing for the Queen Mother to take after taking medicine."

The Queen Mother showed a faint smile and said, "In this harem, you and Concubine An are the most filial."

As he spoke, he picked up one and held it in his mouth. He nodded and said, "It's really good."

Meizhuang lowered his eyebrows and smiled, with a humble and generous expression, and said: "It's fine if the Queen Mother likes it. I just thought that the medicine is bitter, and if you eat something extremely sweet, it will feel uncomfortable in your mouth. It is not as delicious as sweet and sour."

The Queen Mother nodded and smiled, agreeing very much.

Just now, she turned to look at An Lingrong and said calmly: "Concubine An, do you know you are wrong?"

Ben talked harmoniously together and discussed family affairs, and the room was peaceful and peaceful.

Suddenly hearing such a sentence, An Lingrong immediately knew what the Queen Mother was saying. She knelt down and said neatly: "I am afraid that I don't know. Please make it clear to the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother's eyes were so sharp that An Lingrong did not dare to raise her head at will.

The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes slightly and said coldly: "You are so brave, you dare to interfere in the government affairs as a concubine."

Meizhuang stood aside, and when he heard the Queen Mother speak with such an expression, his face suddenly turned white in surprise.

The porcelain plate she was holding was unstable, and the hawthorns contained in the plate immediately fell out. The hawthorns rolled all the way away, leaving only little bits of crimson juice dripping all over the floor.

The Queen Mother glanced at her sideways and said, "The Ai family asked her, but you panicked first."

Mei Zhuang forced his smile and said, "Let the Queen Mother laugh."

An Lingrong was bold. She raised her head and looked directly at the Queen Mother, with a kind of beauty that did not care about the life and death of Meizhuang.

"I don't know why the Queen Mother said this. I really don't dare to commit such a capital crime."

The Queen Mother sat up. She did not speak harshly, but the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes made people feel stern due to her solemn expression.

She said calmly: "Aijia, you can tell yourself how much you were involved in the issue of the title of concubine."

An Lingrong saw that the Queen Mother was not angry, and Zhu Xi had a business-like expression, so she knew that the influence of this matter had been maximized.

Moreover, the Queen Mother must have received the news from the Emperor. After the matter was completed and there were no problems, she called her over to suppress it.

To prevent her from going to bed or competing for favor, she would run over and interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty.

An Lingrong can also understand this.

After all, the Queen Mother is an old person in the palace, and there is no way to change the decay in her bones.

Therefore, An Lingrong could only follow the Queen Mother's wishes and smooth the fur of the old orange cat in front of her.

"I am extremely frightened by the Queen Mother's words. No matter how young and ignorant I am, I still know that concubines in the harem are not allowed to interfere in politics. This is the teaching of our ancestors, and I will never dare to violate it."

After saying this, seeing that the Queen Mother's face softened a lot, An Lingrong continued: "The Emperor is a wise monarch. He has already made a decision in his heart about the matter of pursuing the title of concubine. Is it beyond the power of this concubine? What I can do. Yes, I just want to comfort the emperor not to worry about government affairs."

The Queen Mother pondered for a moment, her eyes gleaming, and she seemed to regard An Lingrong as a master who had nothing to hide, was a little clever but easy to handle.

She cleared her throat, adjusted her sitting posture, and then said slowly: "Even if you are not interested in political affairs, do you dare to say that you have no selfish motives in this matter?"

"The Empress Dowager knows it clearly. I have nothing to do with my concubine in pursuing the title of concubine."

An Lingrong paused, met the Queen Mother's gaze, and said, "But when it comes to selfishness, I do have some."

"I live deep in the palace. Although I don't hear about foreign affairs, there are different opinions in the palace, and some of them are heard. The emperor is the king of a country. He is always worried about the government and forgets to eat and sleep. I am lucky to be able to serve you. I just hope that the emperor can have his wishes fulfilled and that his beauty will always show."

An Lingrong thought about it several times and finally said it: "But sometimes things don't go as planned."

The Queen Mother is the emperor's biological mother and once in charge of government affairs.

There are some words and things that you really don’t need and don’t need to hide from her.

The Queen Mother thought thoughtfully and said, "Why is God unwilling to obey people's wishes? I'm afraid someone is going to go against Heaven."

An Lingrong said in a low voice: "What the Queen Mother said is absolutely true, but I know that the emperor is the son of God and will be blessed by God. I dare not and cannot participate in political affairs. I can only try my best to pay attention to the emperor's food and daily life."

"If there is selfishness, it is my selfishness that cannot be tolerated at all. When the Empress Dowager asked me today, I had no choice but to tell the truth. I hope that the emperor will live long and be safe, and that I can also be cared for and live a peaceful life."

After listening to An Lingrong's defense, the Queen Mother looked slightly relaxed.

She casually pulled the hair that was scattered behind her head and said kindly: "Which concubine in the harem doesn't have this kind of selfishness? That's all, get up."

An Lingrong straightened her clothes and stood up, as if receiving a general amnesty, and stood aside with her head bowed respectfully.

The Queen Mother stroked the wind hair on the soft brocade blanket covering her body, and sighed slowly: "Your selfishness is the same for everyone. Only with the emperor can you have you. When the emperor is here, no matter if you fall out of favor in the palace, Those who are favored are still favored. After all, they all have hope and hope." After the Queen Mother finished speaking, she felt a little sad and coughed twice.

Don't turn your head, you will see Meizhuang as far as you can see.

The Queen Mother looked at her and said: "Mei'er, although you have filial piety towards the Ai family, your thoughts should also be directed to the emperor. Although you have a child and have become a mother, you still wear such clothes all day long at such a young age." What are you doing plainly?"

Compared to An Lingrong, the Queen Mother actually preferred Meizhuang, who had a good family background and no pretensions.

Therefore, the Queen Mother was dissatisfied that Meizhuang could only get one concubine in the end. This was undoubtedly a cruel thing for the young Meizhuang.

After the princess grows up, if the power of the current dynasty cannot match that of foreigners, the first way to resolve the war is to make a marriage.

As for the candidate for marriage, the princess was naturally selected from the concubines who were not favored and had a low status among the concubines of the current dynasty.

Thinking of this, the Queen Mother, who liked Meizhuang, advised again: "The Ai family is still willing to dress brightly, but you are not willing to do so. It is pointless to hang out with this old woman from the Ai family. You should always plan for yourself."

An Lingrong stood aside and said nothing.

Meizhuang's dress is indeed too modest for her status.

A double-breasted feather gauze dress with hazy silver background, narrow sleeves, a few sparse azure and green wisteria patterns, and a sapphire blue Nuro palace skirt without patterns, which does not reach the floor, and does not wear sachets or jade pendants.

On the plain dress, only the twist of the chin was embedded with a pearl. Dressed like this, even the favored aunt in the Queen Mother's palace was more luxurious than her.

Meizhuang lowered half of his face and said: "The Queen Mother said this, it seems that I didn't mean it on purpose. It's not that I don't want to get close to the Emperor. It's just that the Queen Mother's well-being is the Emperor's wish, and I should be more filial to the Queen Mother; secondly, I My sisters also served the Emperor very well."

Mei Zhuang smiled slightly, "I'm not good at dressing up, so I can't compare to the Queen Mother's eyesight, but I hope the Queen Mother will give me some guidance one day when she's free. I've benefited a lot from the Queen Mother, and I can't chase her away. Ken is gone.”

After explaining to the Queen Mother, Meizhuang turned to look at An Lingrong again, the emotions flowing between his eyebrows were so real.

"Besides, I also have Concubine An and Princess Hehui supporting me. The emperor has many concubines, but not one is too many, and none of the emperor's concubines are too few."

Hearing that Mei Zhuang brought the topic to her, An Lingrong smiled, nodded and said: "Sister Mei said that Princess Hehui's body is the most important at the moment. In recent days, the concubines and children in the palace have always... …”

As soon as these words came out, the Queen Mother had no face to continue targeting An Lingrong.

Because the main culprit that caused the emperor to have few heirs was the queen who didn't want her concubines to get over her head.

As a result, the Queen Mother subconsciously ignored An Lingrong's words and continued to say to Meizhuang: "This girl Ai Jia used to look stable, but now she is becoming more and more eloquent. With you accompanying Ai Jia, and with the medical skills of Tai Hospital, Ai Jia, How can the family’s health be so bad?”

Meizhuang said with a smile: "This is all the credit of the imperial physician. The concubine is just a follower, and it is really of no use."

The Queen Mother said: "I'll take the medicine with Ai's family later, and then go back if you have nothing to do. It's boring to stay here all day."

Meizhuang said: "The imperial doctor told me to wait for the medicine before coming over to take a pulse from the Queen Mother. If everything is fine, the dosage of the medicine should be reduced accordingly. I would like to stay here and listen to what the imperial doctor has to say, so that I can give some advice. Those little palace maids who prepare the medicine cannot be neglected by the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "You are always more careful than others."

After saying that, she turned to look at An Lingrong, with a happy expression. She called An Lingrong over, took An Lingrong's hand and said, "Good boy, Aijia didn't expect you to be so angry. I don't blame the emperor for favoring you." , you are allowed to accompany me in the imperial study."

An Lingrong hurriedly knelt down and said: "The Queen Mother's words are serious, I really don't dare to be my concubine."

The Queen Mother ordered An Lingrong to sit in front of her and said: "The Ai family originally heard from the queen that it would be very appropriate for you to accompany the emperor in the imperial study room, but the Ai family was not at ease. Is the imperial study room a place where the concubine can enter without permission? How about you?" Always a smart person.”

"If this wisdom is not used in the right way, or if you blindly encourage the emperor to handle state affairs or punish people according to his own likes and dislikes, and become a disaster to the country, the Ai family will never tolerate you."

An Lingrong hurriedly lowered her head and said respectfully, "I don't dare, I, my concubine."

The Queen Mother said: "The Ai family is just worried for nothing. When I talk to you today, you are indeed a thoughtful and knowledgeable person. The emperor has good taste. After all, the maids in the imperial study are not as good as you, so you should be good." Go and accompany the emperor."

"There is only one thing: you are not allowed to discuss state affairs arbitrarily, and you are not allowed to interfere in politics. Otherwise, the Ai family can tolerate you, and the ancestors and ancestors cannot tolerate you."

An Lingrong bit her lip, with a humble expression, and said: "The Queen Mother taught you a lesson very well. I will take it to heart. It's just that I don't have the ability to understand political affairs. There is the Queen Mother above me, and there are hundreds of civil and military officials below me. Your Majesty." If you are wise and decisive, how can you leave room for my concubines to influence you?"

"I am young and ignorant, and have not experienced any major events. It is inevitable that my actions and words are not thoughtful enough. I would like to ask the Queen Mother and the Queen to teach her a lesson."

The Queen Mother raised her eyes slightly and said: "You are young, and you have been in the palace for three years. It is very good to have such a big heart and magnanimity. With you by the emperor's side, the Ai family is also relieved, so you will serve the emperor well, and you will be able to return to the emperor as soon as possible." It would be better to have a son and a half daughter."

An Lingrong felt a little relieved and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother looked slightly tired and leaned back on the soft pillow again.

An Lingrong saw the opportunity, walked to the cabinet in the corner of the palace, opened the copper filigree sugar bowl in the lacquer plate with double dragon pattern, added half a spoonful of snowflake sugar powder and mixed it into the water the Queen Mother drank, and said: "The Queen Mother teaches ministers It’s been a long time, please drink some water to moisten your throat.”

The Queen Mother drank it with a smile, and said with kind eyebrows: "Mei'er is calm and steady, but you are clever and quick. After the death of Queen Chunyuan, the emperor always has no one who can help him. If you can serve him with all your heart, Not only can the queen feel more relaxed, but the emperor can also have no worries."

Meizhuang stood behind the Queen Mother, always looking at An Lingrong with the expression of a good sister. Hearing what the Queen Mother said, he smiled and said: "The Queen Mother is too flattering to my concubine."

The Queen Mother was lying on the chair, feeling increasingly sleepy, and said lazily: "The Ai family is getting older, and when the sleepiness sets in, I won't keep you here."

An Lingrong and Meizhuang quickly stood up and left.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes for a moment, then slowly called An Lingrong and said: "This is a very appropriate way to deal with the matter of pursuing the title of concubine. It covers all aspects. If it were the Ai family who made the decision, it would probably be like this."

The Queen Mother smiled with emotion and joked: "As the old saying goes, a woman's lack of talent is a virtue. The Ai family doesn't think it makes sense, but she is so talented that she will end up with a bad fate. It's a pity."

An Lingrong nodded silently, indicating her clear meaning.

After leaving the Queen Mother's palace gate, An Lingrong and Mei Zhuang walked back together.

The green bamboo in the courtyard ripples with the breeze on the grass, and the lotus flowers in the lotus pond sway gently with the water waves.

The moonlight was bright, and the silver light filled the entire palace. The clear light shone on the palace walls, reflecting deep and shallow shadows.