After I was reborn, I became the queen mother by fortune telling

Chapter 244
Yin Yan, the envoy of Ningqiu Kingdom, brought Mu Xun, the former great prince of the Great Xia Kingdom, to Beijing with the sole purpose of letting the Empress Dowager see her "resurrected" son with her own eyes.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager said: "Right now Xun'er is actually being detained by the Ningqiu Kingdom. If they don't agree to their conditions, they won't let her go."

The Queen Mother continued to repeat this sentence, and Mu Qingyuan interrupted her impatiently.

"So, the Empress Dowager said that she would agree to their conditions. What are the conditions?"

The Empress Dowager opened her mouth, as if the words came to her lips but she couldn't say them.

Her face was also red for a while, white for a while, cloudy or sunny.

Mu Qingyuan seemed to be very patient. The Queen Mother didn't speak, so he picked up the teacup on one side, lifted the lid, skimmed off the tea leaves, and slowly sipped the tea.

The queen mother didn't say anything, but Mu Qingyuan could roughly guess it.

Gold, silver and treasures are something that one would look down on when one comes to Ningqiu country.

Moreover, although the queen mother is an expensive queen mother, it is impossible to directly give Ningqiu the money from the treasury.

The best thing the Empress Dowager can give is influence over the emperor.

After a long silence, the Queen Mother finally spoke.

"This condition is not actually a condition."

"The envoys of Ningqiu Kingdom came here to settle the matter of the border between the two countries with Great Xia Kingdom. Since then, there will be no more disputes on the border between the two countries, and it is a good thing for the people to live and work in peace and contentment."

"The envoys of the Ningqiu Kingdom said that as long as the emperor agrees not to revise the previously established borders, they will return Xun'er to the Ai family. Oh, no, it should be said to be returned to the Great Xia Kingdom."

After Mu Qingyuan listened patiently, she smiled back in anger.

He didn't know what the Queen Mother was thinking.

She actually wanted to cede the land to herself in exchange for a fellow countryman.

Even if this countryman is her son, her own elder brother, it is not enough to offset that piece of land and the people on the land, as well as the Daxia people who sacrificed to protect the country.

Seeing that Mu Qingyuan was smiling, the queen mother thought that he agreed.

Can't help but let go of a hanging heart.

She remembered what she said to Yin Yan, the envoy of Ningqiu: "The Ai family is the queen mother, so you can rest assured that the emperor still listens to the Ai family."

Indeed, since Mu Qingyuan came to the throne, he has always listened to the queen mother no matter whether it is arranging candidates for the prime minister or which women to bring into the harem.

Even when the queen mother wanted Han Hui to be the queen, Mu Qingyuan didn't go to tell the queen mother that he disagreed.

So the Empress Dowager is very sure that she can persuade Mu to stay away.

What's more, this boundary was originally set by the first emperor when he was alive, but now the citizens of Daxia Kingdom cross the boundary to harass the other party.

Seeing Mu Qingyuan's smile, the queen mother was relieved.

You must know that Mu Qingyuan rarely has any expression on his face, let alone a smile.

In her ears came Mu Qingyuan's smiling voice: "So the queen mother wants me to give up the disputed area between the two countries to Ningqiu country, and then I can exchange the freedom of the eldest prince?"

"Yes! Yes!" The Queen Mother hastily explained: "Anyway, Xun'er is the emperor's elder brother, so what is the land that doesn't belong to Daxia? "

As the Queen Mother was talking, she suddenly noticed that Mu Qingyuan's expression had changed.

Although it was still the smiling face, his eyes were as cold as ice.

The queen mother immediately shut her mouth.

"Queen Mother, what are you talking about? There is one thing I want to tell the Queen Mother. Every inch of land in the Great Xia Kingdom was bought in the past and present. The blood of the people and soldiers of the Great Xia Kingdom in the future, let alone for my brother , even if it's for me, no one can exchange it!"

The queen mother was stunned for a moment.

It was the first time for her to seriously examine the unfamiliar yet familiar emperor in front of her.

Some people say that today's saint doesn't like women, he is very masculine.

Some people say that the emperor is weak and can be bullied, so the prime minister vaguely wants to learn from his father in court and control the government.

Some people said that the emperor couldn't even control his own harem, and some concubines even committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake.

Although the queen mother didn't believe these words, there were many people who said them, and she couldn't help but add these words to the real Mu Qingyuan.

She gradually forgot how much this young man surprised her and the first emperor.

Especially the first emperor, who almost spent the last few years of his life on cultivating Mu Qingyuan.

This made the queen mother very jealous.

If his own son was still there, how could it be Mu Qingyuan, the "wild species" who was raised outside?
So, no matter what, the queen mother more or less looked down on this forcibly bound "son".

She even has a feeling that she can control the harem and even influence the front court.

Today, she suddenly felt that this might just be her own illusion.

However, the Queen Mother is the Queen Mother after all.

She said in a deep voice: "Why is the emperor so disregarding family affection? Is it because you are worried that your emperor's brother will affect you when he comes back?"

"Why would I disregard family affection? If the emperor wants to return to the country, even if I use the army, I will escort the emperor back to the country. However, I want to know two things. First, whether the emperor really wants to return to the country. Second, Does the emperor know that the queen mother wants to exchange dozens of miles of Daxia kingdom for him to come back?"

The queen mother shook her head: "The Ai family doesn't understand, this is not the land of the Daxia Kingdom, why can't it be given to the Ningqiu Kingdom?"

Snapped!
The sound of a heavy palm being slapped on the wooden table startled the Queen Mother.

"Who says this isn't the land of Great Xia Kingdom?" Mu Qingyuan's deep voice seemed to be dripping with blood, "This is the land reclaimed by countless ancestors and guarded by brave soldiers. At that time, a wrong terrain graph can blindly determine the shape of the boundary?"

"But back then..." The Empress Dowager was stunned for a long while, and suddenly her expression changed, "The Ai family knows about the emperor's difficulties. The emperor can rest assured that after Xun'er returns to the country, the Ai family will not let him live in the palace."

"I've already decided on this matter, no." Mu Qingyuan firmly rejected her.

The queen mother couldn't help sneering: "If your brother didn't go to Ningqiu country to be a hostage that day, then sooner or later you will go. He has suffered so much for you, so you don't want to help him?"

"I am grateful for Brother Huang. If there is a chance, if he is willing, I will definitely take him back to the country."

"But now is that opportunity?"

"Take a step back and say, the land was exchanged for the emperor's brother, is he willing to be exchanged like this?"

The atmosphere in the room immediately became tense.

After a long time, the queen mother said very sadly: "Then the emperor is unwilling to help the Ai family? The life of the Ai family's son is very miserable!"

Mu Qingyuan shook his head slightly: "Empress Dowager, don't forget why the Brotherhood of the Emperor suddenly wanted to leave Ningqiu country that day, which caused countless things in the future. If there was no such thing, maybe the two countries would not have fought at all. Brother Huang has also returned to the Great Xia Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)