The queen is alluring

Chapter 51

"The Ai family underestimated you, I didn't expect that your ambition is not small." After hearing this, the Queen Mother's complexion suddenly turned ugly, and she couldn't help standing up from the golden nanmu couch.

Both Eunuch Zhang and Bizhu were frightened, and they quickly kowtowed to the ground, although they understood how the Queen Mother could get angry so easily, they still said nervously: "The Empress Dowager, please calm down, the Queen Mother, please calm down..."

"The concubine just wants to protect herself." Yun Qing also got up, but she didn't show any panic.

At the beginning, the reason for the military power in the Cold War was to let the royal family and the court take their guard off, but now the military power is returned, partly because it will take a lot of risk to deal with this matter. Without the military power in hand, she believes that the little emperor and the queen mother There is enough space to consider whether to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and the other half is that she does have selfish intentions...

The queen mother raised her eyebrows and looked at Yun Qing quietly, as if she wanted to see through her thoughts and guess the truthfulness of her words, but in the end, she still gave in and said: "The Ai family will find a way to deal with this matter. Let’s drive to the Palace of the High Heaven”

"The Empress Dowager Xie is sympathetic," Yun Qing said lightly, but her eyes were full of smiles.

It seems that this deal has been reached.

The pitch-black night gradually enveloped the entire palace, the bright moonlight sprinkled with coolness, and there was a tinge of coolness in the air.

Yun Qing took Feng Luan back to Chenxi Palace. The first thing he did was to finish writing the paper that had not been written this afternoon, stamp it with the golden seal of the phoenix pattern, and send someone to the House of Internal Affairs, so that the House of Internal Affairs would follow the instructions of the concubine. Li Meiren, Hua Meiren, and Lu Cainu were rewarded at the same level, and in the name of the queen mother, they each rewarded 50 taels of silver and a piece of silk and satin to the eunuchs of these three palaces, indicating that they would serve their master more wholeheartedly.

After the second watch, the thousand gates of the imperial palace were silent. Yun Qing bathed and changed clothes under the service of Gong'e, and her long black hair, which had not been trimmed since the full moon, hung flat on the moon-white obscene clothes, sticking to the slender body. Around the waist, after taking off the usual complicated dress and rouge, that delicate and delicate face was even more dusty.

"The Empress has become more and more beautiful and charming, and the servants are so envious." A maidservant who was served by Yun Qing stood in front of the mirror, combing Yun Qing's hair with a red gold phoenix-tailed ivory comb. Qingsi said with a smile.

There was genuine admiration in her eyes, without any falsehood.

Yun Qing got up, her petite figure only touched Man'er's slender shoulders, she climbed onto the huge ivory bed embroidered with phoenix red silk, tilted her head lazily, and said sullenly: "Xiao Man, your mouth is also It's getting sweeter and sweeter, but I don't know if it's the empress dowager's teaching, or it's the result of what I've heard and seen after following this palace."

Man'er burst out laughing, she packed up the jewelry in front of the mirror, classified them into various jewelry boxes, and then turned around and walked to the bed to cover Yun Qing with a thin quilt, and said in a somewhat clumsy way: "The empress only knows how to tease the slaves, but it's true. The slaves have become shy recently. If they can say a few words in front of the queen mother, they can always make a fortune."

"Hmph..." Yun Qing said in a lukewarm voice, but his eyes were already closed.

Man'er has only been in Chenxi Palace for more than half a month, but she and Yun Qing seem to have known her for decades because she was originally the daughter of a criminal minister and was imprisoned at the age of three. In the dark, the palm-sized place surrounded by the four corners of the palace walls and cornices - Yongxiang.

If it weren't for a sudden change, she should have been the daughter of a high-ranking official. With her talent, beauty and talent, she should now be the emperor's concubine, the empress of a certain palace, because her father is Li Gengyu, the former minister of household affairs. , the mother is the jewel in the palm of Prince Yi, Princess Furong.

It's a pity that when the first emperor was approaching the age of seventy, Li Gengyu had a relationship with the eunuch Fu Qing, who was collaborating with the enemy and treason.In fact, he was not guilty of death, but in order to kill a hundred people, deter the court, and restore Gangchang, the late emperor sentenced a group of people related to Fudeqing to ransack their homes and behead them. His family, but together with the newborn baby and those maids and servants, were all thrown into Yongxiang as slaves.

Princess Furong was extrajudicially merciful because she was the only daughter in the palm of Prince Yi, Lao Qiansui, and because of the court's civil and military pleadings, she was allowed to return to the palace to remarry on the grounds that Li Gengyu had been 'divorced'. However, this princess is also a fierce character. After learning that her husband was stabbed to death and her daughter entered Yongxiang, she touched a pillar on the Jinluan Hall and died. The blood gradually turned purple and shocked the court.

Because of this accident, Prince Yi, who had always been weak, fell ill and died soon.Also because of this accident, the late emperor often regretted that he should not have been so ruthless and implicated a group of irrelevant people during his lifetime. However, those old, weak, women and children who were confined in Yongxiang were afraid of letting them out because they hated and caused trouble. And since then, he has been detained in a messy place.

In ten years, the ignorant baby who was in the swaddling state has been born, but every day because of heavy work and bad tea leftovers, his face is sallow and emaciated.Or maybe it was predestined in the dark, on the day of Yun Qing's wedding, when the two concubines were sent to Yongxiang, Yun Qing saw that stinking, damp and messy place. A 13-year-old girl with firm eyes but full of sincerity.

For some unknown reason, Yun Qing pointed to her face which was gradually covered with silt and could barely see a piece of snow-white skin, and said to the little emperor: "This girl, my concubine wants it."

At that time, Man'er's name should be Li Yue'er, but when the little emperor was stunned for a moment, and then asked her name, the flexible girl immediately said that she was called Xiaoman, and made up a life experience for herself at will, saying that she was A child who was once bought by Shangshu's mansion.

Afterwards, she followed Yun Qing into the Chenxi Palace and became a personal maid.

Yun Qing still remembers that night, the starlight was thin, and there was even a drizzle in the sky, but when Eunuch Zhao held a lantern to guide her and Yongxiang, the moment he saw Man'er's eyes, he felt the kindness at that time. The brilliance of perseverance is brighter than the stars and the moon.

Perhaps, it was this kind of gaze that was still waiting for hope in despair, that kind of intelligence that knew how to protect itself with lies, which made Yun Qing seem to have found her own kind, and brought her out of that place.

The night was silent, and the wind outside the window suddenly blew violently, accompanied by bursts of thunderstorms from the torrential rain, crackling against the window sill.

Yun Qing slowly opened his eyes, only to see Maner who had already retreated hastily entered the inner hall again, and whispered to her: "Empress, the maid from the outer hall is here to report, and Eunuch Zhao from Lingxiao Hall is asking to see the empress." .”

(End of this chapter)