The Prime Minister's Wife

Chapter 5
The queen in a red phoenix robe, and the noble concubine in a golden-purple palace attire stepped forward and saluted the queen mother: "My concubine has seen the queen mother, and the queen mother is blessed."

Bo Qingqing cast a secret glance at the queen's wife who was married before the emperor ascended the throne. She was born in a general family and was over forty years old. Kneeling on the ground, everyone flicked their sleeves and said lightly: "Excuse me, get up." The tone was not very kind.

The queen mother smiled and asked, "Why do you come here when you are free?"

I saw the imperial concubine stepped forward with a smile, and said coquettishly: "After returning to the mother, the emperor was afraid that the queen would get tired of chatting, so he specially asked the concubine to arrange a wonderful show in the imperial garden, and waited for the empress dowager's eyes to review, so that the concubine could report to the emperor. .” After speaking, he laughed first, provoking the Queen Mother to call her a monkey, and everyone couldn’t help laughing together.

Looking at the upturned corners of her mouth, Bo Qingqing naturally showed a smile, and suddenly felt a cold gaze looking at her, and she couldn't help yelling "No" in her heart, when she heard the queen say indifferently: "This must be Mrs. Zuo Xiang."

"Back to the empress, she is the sister-in-law." Mu Zhaoyue hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

"I didn't ask you." The queen shouted coldly, her cruel eyes fixed on Bao Qingqing, with a ferocity that was about to be torn apart.

Bo Qingqing secretly gave Mu Zhaoyue a reassuring look.

To listen to the mute, Queen Kui figured it out, and couldn't help sneering in her heart.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped forward to salute, and said silently: "The concubine Zuo Xiangfu, Mrs. Bo, kowtowed to the empress, and the empress is a thousand years old."

Mu Zhaoyue was about to repeat what she had said, when the empress waved her hand: "I want to hear her greet me personally."

"What?" Mu Zhaoyue cried out.

"Queen..." This is difficult for the strong.

Mu Zhaoyue still wanted to say more, but the queen glanced over and immediately spoke.

The others knew that the queen was a strong man, but they dared not speak out due to the queen's status.

Bo Qingqing lowered her head, her expression was indifferent, with a slight smile in her eyes, she knelt quietly in a corner, as if the matter had nothing to do with her.

After a while, the queen mother smiled and said: "Queen, you are taking a big joke. Be careful to frighten our Mrs. Zuo Xiang and Yue girl, and don't let them get up."

The empress immediately smiled and said: "Really, nothing can be hidden from the empress mother's piercing eyes."

Turning around, he casually said to Bo: "Get up. Everyone says the rumors are not credible, I just want to try it. Seeing everyone's anxious looks, I know the rumors are true. Mrs. Zuo Xiang is indeed dumb."

Bo Qingqing ignored the Queen's sarcasm, and those who humiliate others must first humiliate themselves, and after thanking them indifferently, they stood quietly by the side.

The queen looked at her carefully and said: "You really look good, why didn't I notice it before."

The old Taiwei's wife glanced at her, and raised the volume and said, "Mrs. Zuo Xiang, Mrs. Zuo Xiang has just arrived, so you didn't notice her just now." The word "just arrived" was particularly heavy.

Bo Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, and she cast a sideways glance at the old Taiwei's wife. The old lady told the queen in a disguised form that she was late, and she should be punished for contempt of the royal family.

Sure enough, the queen's complexion darkened, and the others couldn't help but look at the dumb Mrs. Zuoxiang with sympathy. Who made the eighth princess fall in love with your husband, so she should step aside quickly to avoid disaster.

Mu Zhaoyue glanced nervously at Bo Qingqing, and Bo Qingqing gave her a reassuring look, and said with a sweet smile: "Go back to Empress Empress, Lord Zuo brought his concubines and his family into the palace, and just greeted the emperor at the front. That's why the empress didn't see the concubine."

Mu Zhaoyue couldn't help but feel relieved when she heard it, and quickly repeated Bo Qingqing's words, and everyone smiled knowingly after hearing it.

The meaning in the words was that she and Mu Zhaoyue entered the palace together, and because Mr. Zuo Xiang took her to greet the emperor first, that's why she arrived late.

Naturally, the queen couldn't make a fuss in front of the emperor because of this matter, she said with a gentle smile, "The emperor is also very curious about Mrs. Zuoxiang, and it is inevitable that she will meet her." After speaking, she covered her lips with a silk handkerchief and smiled.

The others couldn't help being stunned. The emperor was naturally curious about the many rumors about this Mrs. Zuo Xiang, but the rumors seemed to be a bit inconsistent with the girl in front of him. It is not surprising that the rumors are exaggerated.

When Mu Zhaoyue saw the empress making fun of Bo Qingqing, she was about to get angry, but she was pressed down by Bo Qingqing, and she smiled sweetly: "The empress is joking, the emperor has a lot of things going on every day, so why don't you have time to pay attention to this concubine's trivial matters?" Little things." It means that those who pay attention to these rumors are all idlers with nothing to do.

Uh...Mu Zhaoyue held back her laughter, and repeated Bo Qingqing's words with a serious face. Seeing the empress's discolored face, she couldn't help but give her thumbs up to this little sister-in-law.

There was a sneer in Bo Qingqing's heart, everyone thought that the queen was the most favored by the emperor, but Bo Qingqing knew that the power of the six palaces was not in the hands of the queen, but in the hands of Concubine Qiao next to her, so she deliberately poked hard her sore spot.

The queen's face turned red and turned white, and she was unable to step down, when a father-in-law replied, probably meaning that the serious banquet was ready, and the queen mother and queen were invited to lead the crowd to the imperial garden.

The queen took a breath, turned around as if nothing had happened, and respectfully said to the queen mother: "Queen mother, the emperor asked us to go to the imperial garden, and we will go there together."

Deliberately glanced at Bo Qingqing and said: "The queen mother will give Yiyuan a good look, and help her choose a good son-in-law."

"Okay, okay, Aijia is old, but his eyesight is still there." The queen mother joked, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

Bo Qingqing also walked towards the imperial garden with the crowd, and suddenly felt two eyes behind her, looking at her viciously, and smiled disapprovingly.

In the imperial garden, it had been repainted a long time ago, and it was dressed up like a fairyland on earth. Bo Qingqing took Mu Zhaoyue to a place where there was no one, covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and sneezed several times before she recovered.

At the palace banquet, according to the usual practice, the higher the official position, the higher the seat of the courtiers, and the seats of the female family members are naturally the same, but there are also distinctions among the female family members who have imperial orders and those who do not.

Bo Qingqing is Zuo Xiang's wife, Zheng Yipin Gaoming's wife, and the head of all Gaoming's wives, so the seat is naturally arranged at the front.

After bidding farewell to Mu Zhaoyue, when Bo Qingqing walked to her place, she couldn't help being stunned. Someone was actually sitting in the place that should belong to her. past.

Because the one who took her place was none other than Yuyanhua's biological mother—Yun Ji, who was looking at her provocatively.

The anger in Bo Qingqing's heart suddenly rose. She was angry not because Yunji took her place, but because they killed her mother.

(End of this chapter)