Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 131 Your Majesty, Is He Worthy of the Queen Mother?

Since I had been sitting in the carriage and couldn't see outside, I didn't distinguish between east and west, so naturally I didn't know which direction the carriage was going and where it was going.

So when I found that the carriage finally stopped at the foot of Fahua Temple Mountain after more than an hour, I couldn't help being surprised.

And it was only at this time that I realized why the scene I saw in the palace and stopped outside the west palace gate was familiar.Because the scene at that time was obviously the same as the day when Ming Qi was going to Fahua Temple to pray with me a few years ago.

It’s just that there were more Li Wan and Han Yuting in our group at that time, or, in other words, it’s just that our group lost me when the Queen Mother and the deceased Han Yuting were absent, and the accompanying concubines also changed from Li Wan to the current concubine. I.

The carriage stopped at the foot of Fahua Temple Mountain. After Mingqi and I got off the carriage, Commander Yang ordered people to stop the carriage as usual, and we went to Fahua Temple together when we came back.

Visiting Fahua Temple three times is different every time.

When I stood at the foot of Fahua Temple again, looking up at the 99 steps above my head, I couldn't help standing there and paused.

I actually didn't think about anything at the time, but maybe I was paying too much attention in this way, so after I stopped, I attracted the attention of others.

When I paused, Mingqi turned his head and frowned at me.

"Miss Zhaorong?"

And Qihe standing behind me called me after seeing Mingqi turned his head.

"Ms. Zhaorong can't climb up by herself, so she needs someone to carry her?" After Qihe, Fang Yan also opened his mouth, with a hint of ridicule in his words.

I didn't know that Fang Yan was there before, and I didn't know until I got out of the carriage that Fang Hao also came together.

I shook my head when everyone looked over, and was about to answer no, but suddenly I heard Mingqi frowned and said: "Commander Yang, carry someone on your back." There was an impatient look on his face.

"No." After Mingqi finished speaking, Commander Yang walked in front of me and squatted down in front of me.

"Ms. Zhaorong, please come up." After squatting down, Commander Yang turned to me again and said.

I:"……"

I, who can climb up by myself, heard the words of Mingqi and the others, and saw the reactions of the crowd, and I suddenly felt dumbfounded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, and Commander Yang for your kindness, but it's not necessary, I can climb up by myself." Feeling dumbfounded, I first glanced at Mingqi who was frowning, then walked away from Commander Yang a few steps away, and shook hands with everyone. shook his head.

"Isn't Zhaorong empress feeling ashamed because you are the only one who can't climb up, and feeling embarrassed, deliberately trying to be brave in front of us?" But as soon as I finished speaking, Fang Hao opened his mouth again. Just like the same ridicule.

Naturally, after Fang Hao's words fell, Ming Qi's eyebrows became a little tighter than before, Qi He also looked at me with a face of disapproval, and Commander Yang directly moved aside a few times. He took another step, and squatted down in front of me unswervingly again.

As for me, I was once again dumbfounded by the way everyone believed that I had climbed up, and at the same time I took another look at Fang Yan.

It suddenly occurred to me that during these days in the palace, except for the one time when I was drafted into the palace, I had never seen Fang Hao at any other time. Most of the time it was Qihe who served Mingqi by his side.

And compared to the surprise when we met during the draft, Fang Hao has inexplicable hostility towards me today, and I don't know where her hostility came from.

I kept looking at Fang Hao probing, and Fang Hao didn't know if it was because my gaze was too direct, she puffed up her chest when she looked at me, showing a confident look as if she was not afraid of me.

"What? Could it be that the lady Zhaorong was caught in the mind of the servant, and she was going to become angry with the servant?" After puffing out his chest, Fang Hao sneered at me again.

"Fang Hao, shut up!" But this time before I could speak, Qi He scolded Fang Hao after Fang Hao finished speaking.

"Fang Hao, don't be disrespectful to Lady Zhaorong, apology!" After scolding, Qi He said to Fang Hao again.

Fang Hao has always had an unruly temper. In the past, except for me and Mingqi, he was rarely afraid or polite to other people.So after Qihe asked her to apologize to me, she immediately showed a unwilling and dissatisfied expression on her face.

"I……"

"no need."

Fang Hao wanted to speak again, but was interrupted by me.

Based on my understanding of Fang Xi, I know that if she is really asked to speak, what this girl says will definitely not be easy to hear.

"It doesn't matter." I shook my head after interrupting Fang Hao and said.

I actually don't care that Fang Hao is disrespectful to me, after all, I have known her temperament for a long time, and I know that she is a little unforgiving in her mouth, but in fact she is not bad in her heart.

But I also know that if she continues to speak, she will not offend me, but she may offend Mingqi, after all, Mingqi looks impatient at first glance, especially since he seems to be in a bad mood today Bad look.

Thinking that Fang Hao might anger Mingqi, I couldn't help but looked at Fang Hao worriedly, and suddenly felt that I was too used to Fang Hao before.

After all, Fang Hao's temperament is easy to provoke people, and it was okay when I was protecting her before, but now without my protecting, and Ming Qi only treats her and Qi He only because of my past face. The two took care of him a little more, and since he was a man, he couldn't be in the harem to control and protect Fang Yan all the time.

So if Fang Yan continues like this, sooner or later he will get into trouble.

So if that time really comes, I don't know if Mingqi will protect her at that time, and I don't know if I can protect her again at that time.

Fang Hao didn't understand my worries about her.

When I looked at her, she immediately showed an angry look about to jump up, I saw her mouth opened, and she was about to speak, but she was pulled by Qihe and swallowed what she wanted to say go back.

"Miss Zhaorong, I'm sorry, Fang Wei is blunt, but in fact there is no malice, so if she has disrespected Mistress Zhaorong, the servants are here to apologize for her and Mistress Zhaorong, and I hope that Mistress Zhaorong will have a lot, Don't argue with Fang Yan."

After Qihe pulled Fang Hao behind her, he bowed his head and apologized to me.

And when I looked at Qihe's appearance of worrying that I would be displeased by Fang Hao's disrespect, which would be disadvantageous to Fang Hao, so I specially protected Fang Hao behind him to block my gaze, I couldn't help feeling in my heart Sighing, I was glad that Fang Hao still had Qihe by his side to remind and protect him all the time.

"It's okay, I didn't take it to heart." Seeing this, I sighed in my heart, shook my head and said with a sigh.

"However, Qihe, you should mention Fang Yan more in the future. After all, not all other people in the palace will not care about her like me." After shaking my head, I couldn't help but tell Qihe again.

I hope in my heart that Qihe can mention Fang Hao more in the future than today, so that Fang Hao will not accidentally get into trouble in the future.

"No." Qihe said to me after my words.

"Thank you, Madam Zhaorong, for your reminder. This servant will definitely look at Fang Yan more in the future." After being blessed with me, Qi He said again.

"That's good." I nodded when I heard the words, and then I stopped looking at Qihe and Fang Hao, but looked at Mingqi.

After all, it was delayed for a long time because of Fang Yan, so when I looked at Mingqi, I could clearly see Mingqi's cold and impatient expression at that time, which was obviously a little more than at the beginning.

But even so, Mingqi didn't have an attack after all, he just looked at us with frowning eyebrows.

And when I looked at Mingqi like this, I naturally knew that Mingqi would be so patient with the other party, but it was because Fang Hao was someone who had followed me before, and I knew that my opponent was always used to it, and I also knew that the two of them had always been against each other. I am loyal, and in addition, I solemnly entrusted them to him before my deathbed, so Fang Xi and He are a little more forgiving than others.

After watching Mingqi, I looked at Commander Yang and the Imperial Guards.

Different from the obvious impatience on the surface of Mingqi, the imperial guards kept their heads down when Fang Hao was hostile to me, obviously understanding that they should not be allowed to interrupt and express their opinions at this time.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, we'd better go up earlier."

I didn't keep my eyes on Commander Yang and the others for too long. After I took my eyes away from them, I looked at Mingqi again, and then said.

Mingqi glanced at me after my words, and then he nodded with calm eyes, then turned around and walked up the stone steps first.

"Commander Yang, you'd better get up, not to mention that I could climb up by myself, even if I can't, I will insist on climbing up. After all, no matter what the purpose of coming to Fahua Temple, sincerity is necessary. The nine hundred and ninety-nine stone steps are designed to test our sincerity."

After seeing Mingqi walking up the stone steps first, I turned my head and spoke to Commander Yang who was squatting in front of me.

But Commander Yang got up immediately after my words. He first looked up at Mingqi in front of him, and then nodded to me after seeing Mingqi's reply: "No." After answering, he got up. .

After Commander Yang got up, I didn't say any more. I also walked up the stone steps and followed Mingqi.

Qihe and the others at the back naturally didn't hesitate after Mingqi and I walked up the stone steps, and they also followed.

After that, a group of people went up the mountain in silence without saying a word. After climbing the 99 stone steps, more than half an hour had passed, and the sky that had been gray had finally dawned, and a dazzling morning glow appeared on the horizon.

However, obviously no one in our group would pay attention to the morning glow. After entering the Fahua Temple, Mingqi was quickly welcomed into the Fahua Temple by an elder waiting at the entrance of the Fahua Temple. Walk towards the main hall of Fahua Temple.

"Qihe, you and Fang Yan will take Meng Zhaorong to the wing room first to wait."

But Mingqi didn't let me follow him into the main hall of the Buddhist hall. When he was about to reach the entrance of the main hall of the Buddhist hall, he suddenly turned his head and said to Qihe.

"promise."

Naturally, Qihe would not disobey Mingqi, so she answered with a smile after Mingqi's talk, and then looked at me, "Meng Zhaorong, please go to the wing with your servant to rest!"

In the past few years, my body has gradually recovered, so in fact, even if I have just climbed 99 stone steps, I don't feel too tired.

However, I also know that Mingqi obviously does not intend to let me continue to follow, so even after hearing Mingqi's words at this time, I have more doubts in my heart than when I left the palace, but in the end I didn't say anything.

After I took another look at Mingqi, I turned around and went to the wing room in the backyard of Fahua Temple with Qihe and Fang Hao.

"Madam Zhaorong, please wait here. If there is anything to do during this period, you can directly summon the monks outside, but I hope that Madam Zhaorong will try not to leave the room at will."

After sending me to the wing, Qihe spoke to me again, obviously implying that neither she nor Fang Hao would stay in the wing with me.

And I frowned after hearing Qihe's words, and I wanted to ask Qihe and the others what they were doing at Fahua Temple today, why they asked me to come with them, but now they let me stay in the wing room, don't let me out.

It's just that I just thought about it, when I remembered Qihe's expression of not saying anything in Yanfu Palace, I knew that even if I asked, it would be a waste of questions, Qihe wouldn't tell me anything.

"I see." After thinking this through, I didn't open my mouth in vain, and sat down on the chair in the wing room after I finished my answer.

"That's it, I will take my leave first." Qi He blessed me after I said this, and then left the wing room with Fang Hao, who had been sullen all the time.

"Qihe, what do you think the emperor means today? Why did you bring Meng Zhaorong here so well?"

After He Fangxi and the two left the wing, I was sitting in the wing and heard their voices coming from outside the wing one after another.

"It's just normal, but today is the death day of the Empress Dowager. The emperor clearly came to Fahua Temple to pray for the Empress Dowager. Why did he bring an outsider?"

"Besides, I haven't seen the emperor in previous years. He brought other people here? Why did he bring this Meng Zhaorong here this year? Could it be because she is similar to the queen mother?"

"But even if this is the case, she is not the queen mother. If the emperor brings an outsider like Meng Zhaorong here, isn't the emperor afraid that he will make the queen mother sad?"

"I said Fang Hao, please keep your voice down."

"The emperor is the master, and the master's mind is something that we slaves can only guess."

"Also, Fang Hao, you still have to restrain your temper in the future. Let's take the example of being at the foot of the mountain just now. Thanks to Meng Zhaorong, he is not a narrow-minded person. Otherwise, if you are disrespectful to Meng Zhaorong like you, if you change to a narrow-minded master. If you don’t, you will have to shed a layer of skin today even if you don’t die.”

"Fang Hao, you used to be protected by the Queen Mother. But now that the Queen Mother is gone, you just want to reassure the Queen Mother, and you should restrain your temper, or you will get into trouble one day, and when the time comes I'm afraid no one can protect you."

"Hmph, I know, I didn't mean to do that to Meng Zhaorong."

"I just remembered that today is the death day of the Empress Dowager, but the Emperor brought Meng Zhaorong, an irrelevant person, here. I just feel worthless for the Empress Dowager. The Emperor knows that the Empress Dowager treats him, and she treats him."

"I know, Fang Hao, of course I know what you said."

"But Fang Hao, don't forget, the queen mother is no longer here, and it is impossible for the emperor to guard the queen mother all the time."

"Why not?"

"Could it be that just because the queen mother is gone, the emperor will forget the good things the queen mother has done to him? Will he erase the position of the queen mother in his heart? Does the emperor feel worthy of the queen mother?"

"No one will guard one person all the time, let alone the other person has long since passed away."

"Fang Hao, you were still young when you lost your mother, so you don't understand the pain of being left alone at this time. The emperor, he doesn't want to do this either."

"And Fang Hao, no matter how the emperor and the queen mother are, or how the emperor and Meng Zhaorong are, it is the emperor's business, and it is not our turn to be slaves to comment."

"Fang Hao, you just need to know that the queen mother doesn't want to see the emperor live in pain all the time."

The two of them, He Fangxuan, gradually moved away, and their voices also became smaller and smaller as they gradually moved away, becoming less and less audible.

It's just that I didn't seem to realize that at that time, I was completely stunned when Fang Hao said that today is my death day, and Mingqi came to pray for Fahua Temple for me.

(End of this chapter)