It’s Better to be the Empress Dowager - Chapter 104

When Master Tang came to Xiping under Jinling, he walked for more than three months. She came alone, ignorant and fearless, and rammed into the world of that prestigious but ignorant man.

Now that two years have passed, time has changed, and Tang Shishi has resumed the path of the time. However, this time, she was no longer alone.

The mysterious man had become her husband, and she even gave birth to his son. When Master Tang came, he didn’t invite people to see him, he stumbled on the road, and there were many unsatisfactory places in the accommodation. Now it is escorted by someone, making the journey easier in an instant.

Although there are still some grievances, compared with the first time, Tang Shishi is very satisfied. Because of Zhao Zigao’s presence, Zhao Chengjun was very careful on the road, not only allowed the elite soldiers to disguise themselves as family members, and always surround the Tang Division’s carriage, and even the best scouts from the army, made a special trip to clear the way for the Tang Division’s carriage.

Even so, Zhao Chengjun was still not at ease. After their team left the fief, Zhao Chengjun refused to let everyone say that Zhang was King Jing. Instead, he pretended to be an ordinary official and only said that he would return to Beijing to report on his work and take his wife and children to the post. When the maids were outside, they only called Master Tang “Mrs.”

Two months later, on a rainy and sinful afternoon, Master Tang lifted the curtain of his car and saw the city wall of Jinling. The tall and majestic city gate stands in the mist of snow and rain, rising from the ground, silently, watching the crowds from the past and present in silence.

In the Six Dynasties, Fendai, a tiger in a dragon pan, Jinling, she is back again.

Zhao Chengjun probably offended too many people. When he entered the city, he was still very low-key and didn’t disturb anyone. Zhao Chengjun is in Jinling, where there is a royal mansion. As early as a month ago, the servants in the mansion received a letter and sorted out the palace early.

Du Juan helped Master Tang get out of the car, and Master Tang stepped on the ground again, and he was sincerely relieved. Even Dujuan complained of misery, Da Da Da complained: “It is counted, if Jinling does not come, the bones of slaves and maids should be scattered. Wang Hao, it turns out that this is the imperial capital Jinling, which is not the same as Xiping Mansion!”

“Isn’t it?” Master Tang was so tired that she didn’t even have the mood to speak. She asked the nurse to hug Zhao Zijiao and carefully lifted the baby. Master Tang saw Zhao Zixun flushed, leaning on the nurse’s shoulder, breathing evenly. Master Tang lowered his voice and asked, “Is he asleep?”

“Back to the princess, I just fell asleep. The little princess is so tired, he usually sleeps so lightly, this time he didn’t even enter the city gate to wake him up.”

Master Tang took a closer look at Zhao Zigao again, and saw that he was asleep peacefully, so he covered the infant again and said in a low voice, “Let him sleep well. I will take him to the main room and let him sleep in the bed. Yes. Now, Jinling is wet and cold. Put a soup woman under his feet, check it more diligently, and change it as soon as it gets cold.”

The nurse responded: “The slave understands.”

Yan Bao led the nurse to settle Zhao Zigao, Tang Shishi stood in front of the second door with strong support, and ordered the people to unload the cage and move it into the main courtyard. Zhou Shunhua also got out of the car and walked behind Tang Shishi to ask for peace: “Wang Hao, can I help you with my concubine?”

Master Tang saw Zhou Shunhua, glanced at her still flat lower abdomen, and said with a smile, “No need. Zhou Meiren has been pregnant for more than four months, and she hasn’t shown her feelings yet. It seems that the road is too bumpy and has not been properly raised. The most important thing for Zhou Meiren is to maintain her body. I don’t have anything important here, so there is no need for Zhou Meiren to worry.

Zhou Shunhua said that she was pregnant in August, and it is now December. Her lower abdomen is quiet, saying that she is unmarried and everyone believes it, and it is really not like a pregnant belly in April. Now that Zhou Shunhua can cover it up with generous clothes, Master Tang would like to see it. After another month, how would Zhou Shunhua explain.

Zhou Shunhua didn’t know how many times she had heard such words along the way. In the past, she had bowed her head, not arguing or arguing, just thinking she couldn’t hear it. But now she smiled and nodded to Teacher Tang: “Thank you, the princess for your concern, and the concubine will be well raised.”

Master Tang feels that Zhou Shunhua’s words are not quite right, but this is not a place to study. Zhao Zixun has frequently looked in this direction for her skill in talking with Zhou Shunhua. Come on, Master Tang is very self-aware, and soon let Zhao Zixun’s heart-felt love leave: “Beauty Zhou has been on the road and has worked hard, you should go back and rest. I have a maid here to help.”

This time Zhou Shunhua had no courtesy, so he really went back. After Zhou Shunhua walked away, Du Juan was not irritated: “She is not even a side concubine. What kind of music does she put in front of the princess? It’s really shameless, and she doesn’t know how to praise her.”

“Okay.” Master Tang drank the cuckoo and said, “Hurry up and pack things, put things away early, and we can rest early.”

Du Juan responded and hurried to urge the young man to move things. Master Tang placed the objects roughly, and just after sitting down and taking a sip of tea, the palace messenger came.

Master Tang didn’t have time to change his clothes, so he greeted him quickly. Zhao Chengjun-He was called away when he entered the city, and has not returned until now. Only Tang Shishi and Zhao Zixun are left in the mansion who are qualified to receive palace envoys. Master Tang hurriedly sorted out her makeup. When she hurried to the front hall, Zhao Zixun was already there and was speaking with the servant.

The father-in-law in a big red python robe saw a beautiful and slim beauty walk into the main hall, smiled and stood up, and said, “The slave has never visited the princess, presumably this is the famous princess Jing, right?”

“Father-in-law, please.” Master Tang turned sideways and gave a half-little, and smiled and motioned for the red-clothed father-in-law to get up, “It’s the concubine, please sit down.”

The visitor was the **** next to the Queen Mother Yao. After a few words of courtesy, he half-pushed and half-sit down. When Zhao Chengjun was not there, Master Tang was seated, and his father-in-law was a guest, Zhao Zixun accompanied Master Tang to start.

Master Tang once again felt the benefits of seniority, even though she was a female dependent, but on this occasion, it was still she who spoke, Zhao Zixun’s support. When the father-in-law greeted him, the main goal was also directed at Teacher Tang: “The empress dowager has been talking about it for a long time, and it can be regarded as looking forward to the prince and concubine. Princess, is this way peaceful?”

“Thanks to the blessing of the queen mother and the emperor, everything is peaceful.” Teacher Tang asked with a smile, “the concubine hasn’t greeted the empress dowager for a long time. I don’t know how the empress is recently?”

“The queen mother’s phoenix body is healthy and healthy, and Princess Lao misses it.” The father-in-law said with a smile, “the queen mother also misses King Jing and the princess very much. These days, the empress always talks about it, saying that King Jing has been away from Beijing for twelve years, so don’t count it. , King Jing was still a young and weak prince when he left.—In a blink of an eye, King Jing even had his son. The Queen Mother missed King Jing very much. Today, after learning that King Jing and the princess had entered Beijing, she immediately went out of the palace to come to the Palace of Jing. We minions persuaded us to persuade them.”

Teacher Tang smiled quietly when she heard the words, she didn’t believe that the Queen Mother would miss her and Zhao Chengjun, thinking that they were about to die. But the father-in-law’s words are already here, and the subtext is very clear. Master Tang can only answer: “We were negligent. Today we should have entered the palace immediately to greet the queen mother, but it was too late. I’m afraid I will lose my courtesy. I don’t know what day is convenient for the empress dowager, so that the concubine can greet the queen mother?”

“The queen mother likes the princess the most. Whenever the princess goes, the empress will be happy.” The father-in-law said with a smile, “It is better to choose a day than to hit the sun, and it will be good for a slave to see tomorrow.”

When it was so tight, Master Tang smiled and said happily: “This can’t be better. Father-in-law will speak for the concubine. Tomorrow, the concubine will visit the empress dowager.”

The father-in-law’s goal was achieved, and he smiled more sincerely: “This is natural. It is an honor for the slave to be able to spread the word for the princess. The princess has to clean up the palace today, and the slave is inconvenient to disturb, so we will leave.”

“Father-in-law, what are you talking about?” Master Tang politely winked at Du Juan. Dujuan stepped forward to exchange tea for his father-in-law, and took the opportunity to stuff a heavy purse into his father-in-law’s hand.

The father-in-law weighed the weight inside through the sleeves, and finally showed some sincere smiles. He stood up and said, “It’s getting late, the slave should return to the palace. The princess will stay.”

Master Tang stood up and walked his father-in-law to the door in person: “Father-in-law, go slowly.”

The father-in-law repeatedly said to stay, but Tang Shishi was a female family member, and it was not convenient to leave when it was delivered to the door. Zhao Zixun originally followed Tang Shishi, but at this time he passed Tang Shishi and sent his father-in-law out of the house in person. Master Tang stopped at the entrance of the main hall and watched with a smile. He turned back to the house after the red inner court messenger was no longer seen in the python suit.

“It’s not a greeting card. I go to the palace to please the elders. What do you do in court clothes?” Tang Shishi felt a headache here. She sat on the rose chair for a while and asked, “I only glanced vaguely when I entered the city. Look clearly. It seems that the popularity of Jinling in the past two years is quite different from that of Xiping Mansion?”

Shishi Tang is a princess, and can’t open the curtain to look out. The maidservants like Dujuan can most intuitively feel the difference in Beijing. Du Juan replied, “Yes, the clothes that Jinling wears are very different from those of Xiping Mansion. I haven’t even seen many skirts.”

Master Tang sighed: “Jinling and Xiping are so far apart, the fashions are naturally different. I will enter the palace tomorrow, and I will dress too grandly and rustically and make people laugh. At this time, it is too late to order, that’s all. , Go to the clothing store to buy some clothes, and you should be urgent for the time being.”

Du Juan frowned, wondering: “But, how can the princess go out before the prince is back?”

Female family members must be accompanied by a man when they go to the streets. They are the elder brother when they are not married, and the husband-in-law after they are married. Master Tang also had a headache when he heard this: “Where has he been, can he find it?”

Du Juan shook his head. She is a maid in the house. She doesn’t even know where the gate of Jinling City opens. Where does King Jing go? Zhao Zixun sent her father-in-law back from outside. He paused for a moment when he heard what Tang Shishi said, “If the princess wants to go out, the children are willing to accompany him.”

Master Tang was startled, and after seeing Zhao Zixun, he realized afterwards, yes, as long as he is accompanied by a man, his son will do as well. Master Tang only had Zhao Zixun in his heart, and he didn’t regard Zhao Zixun as his son at all, so he didn’t expect Zhao Zixun for a while.

Master Tang was anxious to buy clothes, so he didn’t refuse any more, and responded happily: “Okay, I have a son.”

In the absence of King Jing, Master Tang was the largest in the palace. She ordered to go out, and the concierge quickly set up the carriage. In order to conceal people’s eyes and ears along the way, the carriages of Prince Jing’s Mansion are very low-key. There is no gold or jade or mark of Yinjing Palace, but the wood is very good and it is very comfortable to sit in.

In order to save trouble, Master Tang directly asked the coachman to go to the largest and most expensive garment shop in Jinling. Will not necessarily solve the problem, but money can.

As long as you spend enough money, there are no worries that can’t be solved.

The carriage stopped in front of the clothing store, and Du Juan jumped out first, and then helped Shishi Tang to get out of the carriage. Shi Shiran stepped off the wooden platform while holding her skirt, and stood in front of the busy street. The little second of the clothing store saw a young and beautiful lady with gorgeous clothes, and hurriedly ran over to solicit: “The little one has met the lady, and the Langjun. The two are really talented women, what do you want to see?”

Zhao Zixun was slightly startled when he heard this. Before he could react, Master Tang coldly interrupted Xiaoer Dian’s words: “He is not my Langjun, but my son.”

Xiao Er was stunned, and Zhao Zixun’s reveries disappeared. He coughed slightly, and said with a solemn face: “Don’t be rude. This is the lady, how can you wait for offense?”

The shopkeeper’s flattering smile completely collapsed. He looked at the slender and handsome Zhao Zixun, and then at the young and charming Teacher Tang, thinking that he had really seen a ghost in his heart. With his ten heads, he could not guess that two men and women of equal age and appearance were not husband and wife, but mother and child.

It’s simply outrageous.

Dian Xiaoer smiled and apologized. Master Tang’s own business is also in business, and he knows the hardship of these little people. When Master Tang first met Zhao Chengjun, she also admitted the father and son wrong. She was like this herself. How could she blame the ignorant Dian Er?

Master Tang reprimanded a few words, and then let the matter go. The shop Xiaoer quietly wiped off his sweat, and quickly led Master Tang into the shop to look at the clothes, before daring to mention the matter.

Tang Shishi had this intention, she only walked two steps, and a familiar and shocked voice suddenly came from behind: “Tang Tang Shishi?”

Master Tang turned his head and saw the person coming. He was equally surprised: “Is it you?”

Tang Yanyan couldn’t close her mouth when she saw that it was Master Tang. Holding her skirt, she quickly ran to Master Tang, and said in surprise: “I didn’t dare to recognize it just now. I didn’t expect it to be you! Big sister, where have you been all these years, why didn’t you contact us?”