It’s Better to be the Empress Dowager - Chapter 117

The Queen Mother Yao didn’t take Zhou Shunhua to heart, but she never expected that she would say such a thing. Queen Mother Yao looked serious, and said, “Bold! A mere concubine, dare to slander Princess Jing.”

Zhou Shunhua knew that it was not easy to gain the trust of the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother Yao just scolded her and did not drive her out, which shows that the matter is true. Zhou Shunhua lay on the ground, with his forehead deeply pressed to the ground, and said: “The concubine knows that he is humble and contemptuous, and is not as good as Princess Jing’s position in the heart of the Queen Mother. However, there is absolutely no word in the true words of the concubine. False. If the empress dowager doesn’t believe it, you can look back and think about it, since Master Tang entered the Jing Palace, has she ever done anything to benefit the empress dowager?”

The Queen Mother Yao followed Zhou Shunhua’s thoughts and found out that there was nothing. Queen Mother Yao paused slightly and said: “She… She tried many times, but her ability was limited and she didn’t succeed.”

“Niangniang, this is just a disguise of Master Tang!” Zhou Shunhua said duo, “She has always pretended to be a pig and eat a tiger, pretending to be stupid and vain. In fact, she has a lot of scheming. The rudder is very fast. Why do you get bad things so often when you arrive at the Jing Palace? The empress dowager might as well think about it, this way, Feng Qian died, sister Ren and I became concubines, and the other beauties were deported, who is the biggest The beneficiary? All these are interlinked. If there is no one behind, the concubine herself will not believe it. Master Tang has the name of the princess, the favor of King Jing, and the son next to her, she earns a lot of money. It’s full, and she alone is the most likely person to do all this.”

The Empress Dowager Yao has been going smoothly over the years, and no one has rebelled. Slowly, her temperament has been nurtured. She has lost her early vigilance and was taken away by Zhou Shunhua’s words. The Queen Mother Yao’s face gradually became difficult to look, and she believed in her heart, but she still said tyrannically: “Nonsense, who is Princess Jing, can I still be unclear about the Ai family? Even if the Ai family looks away, the palace Can your mother, Jing Wangfu’s internal response, be able to make a mistake?”

“The empress mother, the defensive heart is indispensable!” Zhou Shunhua raised her head courageously, and stared at the queen mother Yao earnestly. “The empress is a first-class wise man in the harem. She is a first-class wise man. The means of a wise man cannot deceive you. , But for those who deliberately pretend to be stupid, the empress dowager will inevitably be contemptuous. Such a despise will easily fall into the trap of the other party. If the empress dowager doesn’t believe it, you might as well ask Master Tang to come over and give it a try.”

The mixed thoughts of the Queen Mother slowly calmed down, yes, no matter who lied, you will know by a try. Real gold is not afraid of fire, as long as Master Tang is really loyal, he is not afraid of temptation at all.

Tang Shishi surrounded the white fox collar cloak and looked curiously at the lantern market in Jinling. Although Jinling is not as cold as the northwest, it is humid in the south of the Yangtze River, and the cold is like tarsus maggots, which cannot be driven away. Winter is not better than the northwest.

Zhao Chengjun saw that Master Tang’s cloak was loose, and couldn’t help but stop, bowed his head and tightened the lace: “Tighten it tightly, be careful of cold.”

The model Tang Shishi carefully arranged was destroyed by Zhao Chengjun. She was so angry that she patted Zhao Chengjun’s hand angrily: “Don’t move, I managed to arrange the neckline.”

“The tie is so loose, it will fill the wind.”

“You are so ugly like this! Let go!”

Neither of them could persuade anyone, and in the end each stepped back. Master Tang retired the cloak, and Zhao Chengjun came to tidy up the hair on the neckline.

Zhao Chengjun grabbed it casually, and saw the fluffy white fox fur surrounding Master Tang’s face. The indescribable ice and snow was cute. Zhao Chengjun couldn’t help but squeezed Master Tang’s face and smiled: “It’s very beautiful.”

Master Tang was so angry at his perfunctory attitude, she glared at Zhao Chengjun forcefully, and said, “You didn’t even care, what’s so good?”

“You look good.” Zhao Chengjun looked at Master Tang and said, “With you here, who else can notice the clothes?”

Master Tang gave Zhao Chengjun a look of disgust, and then a smile appeared in his eyes. Master Tang pretended to be serious and said: “Okay, let’s go see the lights.”

The Queen Mother Yao did everything in order to bring the emperor and the queen together. Just so, Zhao Chengjun used the reason to create a chance for the emperor to be alone, leaving the emperor’s team and taking Tang Shishi alone. Zhao Zixun originally followed Zhao Chengjun. After passing a few stalls, he didn’t know whether it was intentionally or not. The distance between Zhao Zixun and the front was getting bigger and bigger. A wave of people swarmed by. Zhao Zixun soon lost sight of Zhao Chengjun and Tang Shishi. .

Zhao Zixun is very interesting, and after he understands what Jing Wang means, he won’t even bother about it. Each couple went their own way, but it was also neat. Zhao Zixun looked back and found that he and Ren Yujun were the only ones left in the team.

Zhao Zixun frowned, glanced over the guards, maids, and passers-by, making sure that he didn’t see anything like Zhou Shunhua. Zhao Zixun felt uncomfortable inexplicably, and asked, “Where is the side concubine?”

The guards looked around and said in doubt: “The subordinates don’t know. It seems that Concubine Zhou has not been noticed along the way.”

Zhao Zixun frowned tightly. He left the guard maid to Ren Yujun, with only two people with him, and hurriedly confessed: “You continue to look at the lamp, I’ll go back to Shunhua.”

Ren Yujun’s cheerful expression slowly solidified her face, her smile faded, her eyes dropped, and she whispered: “Okay.”

After Zhao Zixun finished speaking, he turned and walked back without even looking at Ren Yujun. Ren Yujun stood there for a long while. She looked back, Zhao Zixun didn’t look back, looking forward, the figures of King Jing and Master Tang were long gone.

Ren Yujun smiled bitterly. The gap between people is so big. King Jing was stern and cold, but he was obedient to Tang’s teacher, Zhao Zixun was passionate and ruthless, except for Zhou Shunhua.

And she is just a supporting role who is not even qualified to play.

Master Tang didn’t know that the people behind her had been lost. She watched the lanterns all around, but didn’t have the heart to pay attention to other people. Master Tang suddenly caught a glimpse of an extremely beautiful revolving lantern, and pulled Zhao Chengjun’s clothes corner in surprise: “Look, lord, revolving lantern!”

Zhao Chengjun looked up and saw it. It is rare for him to see Master Tang so interested, and said: “If you like it, buy it.”

Master Tang saw the words on the stall, and quickly grabbed Zhao Chengjun and said, “Look, it takes a hundred wen to buy a lamp, but only ten wen is needed to win a game. Ten to one hundred is too cost-effective, and only ten arrows are needed. In five, you can pick a lamp at will, prince, shall we try it too?”

Zhao Chengjun was not optimistic about this, but Master Tang liked it, so he nodded and responded: “Okay.”

Master Tang paid ten cents, got ten short arrows, and eagerly shot at the target. However, the weight of these arrows was uneven, and Master Tang was not a person who was good at martial arts. In a blink of an eye, six arrows were thrown out, and Master Tang didn’t even touch the side of the target.

Master Tang was angry, she threw down the short arrow and said, “It’s boring, don’t play anymore.”

She said that she was leaving, Zhao Chengjun held her shoulders and said helplessly: “Don’t give up halfway. Why don’t you know if you haven’t finished the trial?”

With that said, Zhao Chengjun picked up an arrow, tried the weight, and threw it at the target. The feather arrow hit the bullseye. After that, Zhao Chengjun didn’t take much effort. He supported Tang’s shoulder with one hand, and threw one hand with the other. One arrow was hit, and he quickly hit four.

But the problem also came. There were a total of ten arrows, five of which would be considered a win, but Master Tang had already wasted six just now. Master Tang just judged that he couldn’t get the lamp, so he gave up in anger.

Teacher Tang raised his head to look at Zhao Chengjun, with a pity in his tone: “There is only one missing, and I still can’t get it.”

“How come.” Zhao Chengjun said as he pulled a hairpin from Master Tang’s hair bun, he got acquainted with the feel, and then steadily cast it out. With a sound of “Zheng”, the hairpin was in the middle of the red heart. Master Tang stayed for a while before touching his hair bun slowly. Sure enough, there is no hairpin there.

Master Tang faintly said, “Swap a golden hairpin for a paper lantern, Lord, you are really a genius in business.”

The guard had already stepped forward and pulled the hairpin back, Zhao Chengjun took it, and reinserted the hairpin for Teacher Tang. He heard these words and said with a smile: “Isn’t this brought back for you? But the edge of this hairpin is too sharp, which is dangerous to you and your child. I will go back and give you a new set. Don’t use this.”

Master Tang nodded, anyway, she has a lot of jewellery, it makes no difference if there are more sets and less sets. The stall owner has long seen that the guests in this group are not ordinary people. The stall owner saw the opportunity very quickly, and did not pursue Zhao Chengjun’s behavior as inconsistent with the rules, and said graciously to Master Tang: “Madam, congratulations on winning. Which lamp do you like, the villain will take it down for you.”

Although victory is impossible, it is still very happy to win. Master Tang happily pointed to the revolving lantern and left with the lantern contentedly.

Not long after I left, there were people buying candied haws on the side of the road. The stall owner saw Master Tang’s eyes on the candied haws, and immediately said to Zhao Chengjun: “Lang Jun, Madam is beautiful like a fairy, don’t you buy a bunch for Madam?”

Zhao Chengjun thought to himself, what does the good-looking Master Tang have to do with buying candied haws? But Master Tang was touted, his eyes lit up happily, Zhao Chengjun helplessly signaled the guard to give money.

Master Tang still had a lamp in his hand, so he couldn’t get candied haws. Zhao Chengjun took it upon seeing the situation, and said, “I will hold it for you, and if I want to eat it, I will feed you.”

Master Tang looked at Zhao Chengjun’s hand, instinctively suspicious: “What if you get on my face?”

“will not.”

Master Tang took a bite suspiciously. While biting the candied haws, she asked vaguely: “Is there any sugar on my face?”

“No.”

“Really?”

Without saying a word, Zhao Chengjun gently touched her cheek with the candied haws, and said, “Now I have it.”

Master Tang was stunned for a while, and suddenly became angry. Zhao Chengjun smiled and handed the candied haws to his subordinates, took out the veil, and carefully wiped the face of Master Tang: “Okay, don’t be angry, it’s gone now.”

Zhao Chengjun had a low hand for a while, and he had to cautiously coax Master Tang all the way. Master Tang bought a bunch of things in a mess, and finally healed. She felt a little tired, so she went back with Zhao Chengjun.

It was too early when Master Tang returned to the Forbidden Garden. She asked people to put things away, and went upstairs to Lanyue to greet Queen Mother Yao. The ethics is strict, and there are elders, even if you retire, you must get the consent of the Queen Mother.

When Master Tang went upstairs, he learned that Yao Peier had returned early and was resting in the box, but the emperor had not yet returned. Master Tang remained silent about the emperor’s housework, and soon she was led to the resting place of the Empress Dowager Yao.

Master Tang entered the door, but for some reason, she intuitively felt that the atmosphere was not right. It was as if there was something in the air that quietly changed without her knowing.

The Queen Mother, lying half-sit and half-sitting, leaned on the collapsible, and when she heard Master Tang come in, she lazily lifted her eyelids and said, “Princess Jing is back. I heard that you bought a lot of things outside and want to come and have a good time.”

Facing the Queen Mother Yao, Master Tang instinctively raised three points to be careful, and smiled softly: “Let the empress laugh. The concubine has never seen such a prosperous light market. She was curious for a while, so she turned around more.”

The Empress Dowager Yao’s face still had that smile, but this time, Master Tang felt that the Queen Mother was looking at her inexplicably. why? She only left for less than an hour.

Queen Mother Yao casually said: “The Aijia remembers that King Jing hated trouble the most, but now, I have the patience to accompany you for so long. The separation is too long, and the Aijia doesn’t understand King Jing anymore.”

Master Tang laughed: “You and the prince have not seen each other for 13 years. It is inevitable that you will be strangers. But in any case, the prince is your son, and your filial piety to you will not change.”

“Yes.” The Queen Mother Yao suddenly smiled and waved to Mother Feng. Mother Feng stepped forward and presented a kit politely. Queen Mother Yao picked up the kit and turned around and said, “My family treats him like a parent and child, but there are always things that are not eye-catching and want to separate the feelings between our mother and child. Due to the situation, the Ai’s family has something to say, and even if they give King Jing some food, they have to worry about the melon field and Lixia. This is a medicine for strengthening the body. If the Ai’s family is not good, you can directly reward it. You can take it back and quietly exchange it in Jing. In the king’s water, give King Jing a drink.”