It’s Better to be the Empress Dowager - Chapter 128

In the past fourteen years, the Ci Ning Palace has infinite scenery and is the most lively place in the Forbidden City. Now only three days have passed before Ci Ning Palace has declined.

Decay has nothing to do with form. The glazed tiles of Ci Ning Palace are still shining brightly, but the declining breath permeates from a brick-tile.

Once the emperor and the courtier, Xiaozong died, and Wu Zong died, neither of the two Yao empresses survived. The eyes of the people in the palace are the most snobbish. Seeing that the Queen Mother has no chance to recover, they naturally fled the Ci Ning Palace.

In the former prosperous Ci Ning Palace, now there are only a few sweepers left. Master Tang walked to the door, and the old lady saw her and hurriedly ran in to report.

Du Juan frowned and cursed from behind: “It’s no rules, the queen is here. They just came to greet you, so dare you run?”

Master Tang waved his hand and said, “That’s it.”

The court ladies and eunuchs cuddled from front to back, and walked into Ci Ning Palace with Master Tang. Master Tang looked around and asked, “Why is this mess here?”

An **** flattered and replied: “Return to the empress. Yesterday the Queen Mother moved from Kunning Palace to Cining Palace. Everything was moved here, but it hasn’t been put away yet. It looks a bit messy. What are you guys trying to do, I didn’t see the empress? Have you come here? Throw out the tatters quickly and don’t block the way for your mother.”

Master Tang saw the dressing boxes, books, and clothes piled up randomly on the ground, and felt ironic in his heart. Once these were honors that a queen could only enjoy, and in only two days, it became a “tattered” that stood in the way. Life experience is really unspeakable.

Master Tang stopped the eunuch’s movements and said indifferently: “The Queen Mother has just moved to Ci Ning Palace, and no one has stopped here. There is no time to pack up. Let’s put it here. Go in and see the Queen Mother.

The eunuchs repeatedly said to be careful, and escorted Tang Shishi into the hall. Pushing open the door, the light inside was dizzy, Yao Peier did not open the window, sitting on the chair, staring at the window lattice in a daze.

Master Tang covered his mouth to cover the subtle damp smell in the air. Once the east hall of the Cining Palace was unoccupied, it was used to pile up debris, but now Yao Peier moved in without thorough cleaning, the taste can be imagined.

Seeing that Yao Peier didn’t understand, the **** sharply shouted, “I am presumptuous, I am not polite after seeing the empress?”

Yao Peier had heard Master Tang coming, but she didn’t want to move and still sat blankly. It wasn’t until she heard this that she showed some vigor and laughed at herself: “Queen Empress…Yes, now the queen has changed.”

Shishi Tang was pregnant and didn’t want to go to the damp and cold place, so he didn’t move on, just stood at the door and watched Yao Peier. It was overcast today, and the hall was gloomy. Yao Peier leaned in the shadows motionless, like a lifeless wood, decayed little by little in the cold and damp. And Master Tang was standing in the only light spot, with slaves like clouds behind him, and the spring scene was just right.

Teacher Tang suddenly remembered that when she was a show girl, on the first day she entered the palace, they lined up to the Chuxiu Palace and saw Yao Peier’s phoenix scenery passing by on the side of the east wall of the Ci Ning Palace. Envy drove them to the side of the road a long time ago, made them kneel down, and were not allowed to look around. In their identities, even looking up at the queen is offensive.

At that time, Yao Pei’er was so beautiful, all the ladies watched Yao Pei’er away in surprise and envy, and quietly lamented Yao Pei’er’s life. Yes, I was reborn in the belly of the eldest princess, and grew up happily. At the age of thirteen, I was taken into the palace by my grandmother as a queen. Who doesn’t envy such a fate?

Who would have thought that that would be the culmination of Yao Peier’s life. Yao Peier was born on the top of the mountain, so every year after that, she would fall into a deeper abyss.

In the second year of Shentai Master Tang entered the palace, Yao Peier was the queen; in the fifth year of Shentai Master Tang became the most favored beauty, sent to the fief of King Jing in the name of the leader, Yao Peier still regarded as a queen steadily, although there is no round room, but in the harem No one dared to neglect her; Shentai six years, Master Tang became a princess, pregnant with a child, Yao Peier is still wearing the most gorgeous clothes, guarding the most promising widow.

Today, Master Tang has become the new queen with a second child in her belly, and Yao Peier is still the perfect body.

Shishi Tang walked high step by step, while Yao Peier slid into the abyss step by step. A queen is complete from beginning to end, which is incredible, but now Yao Peier has become the empress dowager and will be widowed for a lifetime.

Master Tang couldn’t help sighing when he thought of this. If he had known this, would Princess Nanyang and Queen Mother Yao let Yao Peier enter the palace? Maybe, it would.

Master Tang said to Yao Peier: “The Queen Mother, it’s cold in the East Hall, and staying for a long time is not good for your health. If the Queen Mother is uncomfortable, open the windows for ventilation, or let the palace maid accompany you to the Imperial Garden. Spring is here, and the Imperial Garden has more flowers. opened.”

“It’s rare that you still remember me.” Yao Peier smiled extremely lightly, her voice still light and fluttering, and said, “What does spring have to do with me. I don’t want to meet people. I’m afraid I’m neglecting the queen. The queen should go elsewhere.”

The **** raised his eyebrows and immediately scolded the presumptuous. Master Tang raised his hand and stopped the eunuch, saying, “Since the Queen Mother does not like to be disturbed, the palace is not too difficult for others, so let’s go. The Queen Mother takes care of her body and goodbye.”

After Master Tang finished speaking, he took the maid and **** and left. Yao Peier didn’t want to see her, and she didn’t want to see Yao Peier much. The negative affection for Master Tang has already been achieved, and how Yao Peier’s life will be afterwards will not be the matter of Master Tang.

Master Tang walked out of the east hall, and as soon as he looked up, he saw that the front hall door was tightly closed. In the past, the Queen Mother Yao lived alone in Cining Palace and naturally occupied the main hall, but now Zhao Chengjun has also thrown Yao Pei’er over, and Yao Pei’er is the East, and the Queen Mother is the West. In terms of status, Yao Pei’er is more noble than the Queen Mother. It stands to reason that Yao Peier should live in the main hall.

However, the old tiger Yuwei is here. After all, the Queen Mother Yao is a figure who has controlled the court for many years. Yao Pei’er is afraid of the Queen Mother Yao to his bones. How dare to grab something with the Queen Mother Yao? Yao Pei’er moved to the companion hall and spent the whole day in a daze, without quarreling or quarreling. People are also harmonious.

With such a big movement in and out of Master Tang, it is impossible for the Empress Dowager Yao to not know that Master Tang is here. With the door still closed, it was an order to chase off guests from Master Tang.

It’s a pity that if Master Tang is someone who can look at people and consider others, she won’t be called Master Tang anymore. Regardless of the resistance of the Queen Mother at all, Master Tang said briskly: “Why is the main hall closed? Is the Queen Mother unwell? What are you still doing, why don’t you help the Queen Mother open the door?”

The eunuchs rushed up and pushed the door. Before the **** could get started, Feng Chang’e pulled the door open with a cold face, and said hardly: “Which wind brought the empress? The empress is uncomfortable. She has taken the medicine and has fallen asleep. The queen has. What’s the matter, let’s come again the next day.”

Master Tang raised her eyebrows and said, “The empress dowager is uncomfortable? The palace must come in to see it. The queen mother is regarded as the grandmother of this palace, and she has been kind to this palace before. If the queen mother is sick, how can this palace ignore it.”

“Dare you!” Feng Niangchang stopped Master Tang with a black face, but how could she be able to beat both fists and four hands alone? Soon Feng Chang’e was pulled away by the eunuchs, and Master Tang stepped over the threshold without hesitation. , Looked around and walked in the direction of Queen Mother Yao.

The palace remained the same as before. These partitions, incense burners, and floor-to-ceiling hoods were all familiar to Master Tang. Once she was here tremblingly to greet the Queen Mother Yao, and when she returned to Beijing in a different status, she had to mediate with the Queen Mother Yao carefully. Who would have thought that in less than a year, Master Tang would be able to ignore the guards of the Queen Mother Yao, sway in the Ci Ning Palace, and drive straight ahead?

Feng Hao saw Tang Shishi walking directly towards the Queen Mother Yao’s inner room, his eyes blackened with anger, and he yelled: “Shameless boy, how dare you be presumptuous! When the Queen Mother was in power, you didn’t know where you were. Where is the courage to be presumptuous in front of the empress?”

“Yes.” Master Tang opened the curtain in front of the Queen Mother Yao’s bed and looked at the aging person inside with a smile, “When the mother was the queen mother, I was only six years old, and I didn’t even change my teeth. Who could have thought that now? It’s my turn to visit the Queen Mother.”

Queen Mother Yao closed her eyes, completely ignoring Master Tang. Master Tang didn’t care either. She glanced across the face of the Queen Mother Yao, sighed faintly, and said regretfully: “I haven’t seen you for a few days. How old is the Empress Dowager. I didn’t know her age at first, but now she sees it. There has been a change. The empress had previously committed herself to her face, and she admired her.

“

The Queen Mother Yao moved her eyes, she couldn’t bear it, she opened her eyes and reprimanded: “Bold! You are nothing, but you dare to come in front of the Aijia for a day or two. The Aijia has been the queen for 13 years and the queen mother for 14 years. , How many big winds and waves have broken through. Do you really think that you can fight against the Ai family if you are the queen? Dream, you can’t even protect yourself, do you think that Zhao Chengjun will let you sit on the queen’s seat for a long time ?”

“I don’t know if it will last for a long time, but I know that Niang Niang’s life is completely over.” Master Tang was unmoved, still smiling, looking down at the Empress Dowager Yao, “The Empress Dowager, you forced me to drink the poison at the beginning. My child is unfavorable. When I was looking for someone to frame my name festival, did you think about today? Probably not. The empress dowager’s eyes are above the top. How can I see the grief of a small person like me.”

“Unfortunately, the most offensive people in the world are the little people.” Tang Shishi released his fingers, and the tan gauze tent slowly fell, dividing Shishi Tang and Queen Mother Yao into two worlds. Master Tang is separated into a bed net, looking coldly at the vague figure inside, and whispered: “Congratulations, the queen mother begs benevolence and benevolence, no one will bother the queen mother to be clean again. Empress mother, I wish you a good old age. “

After the teacher Tang finished speaking, he threw down his sleeves without reluctance, turned and walked outside. The Queen Mother was struggling to get up from the bed, and through the gauze tent, staring at Master Tang viciously: “The Ai family has fallen to the point where it is today. It is because of the soft-heartedness and mistrust of Zhao Chengjun that allowed him to live to this day. You have a humble background and fine work. Your identity is new. The Aijia is waiting. You are deprived of your position by Zhao Chengjun, and the dust is knocked out. The day when your own son refuses to recognize you!”

Master Tang laughed, and kept walking, and continued to walk forward: “Then the queen mother must live longer, be careful not to see it.”

Master Tang ignored her at all, Queen Mother Yao was not reconciled, pulled a dry and hoarse voice, and roared: “The biggest mistake in this palace is to let the throne fall into the hands of his son who is not his biological son. How do you think you are better than Lai’s family? , Your fate, I’m afraid it’s not as good as Laijia!”

Master Tang stopped suddenly. The Queen Mother said that she fell out of favor and Master Tang didn’t care. The Queen Yao said Zhao Chengjun was just using her. Master Tang still didn’t care. But the Queen Mother said that someone else would inherit the throne in the future, and Master Tang suddenly couldn’t bear it anymore.

This sentence is undoubtedly poking Master Tang’s painful foot. No matter how well-behaved and cute Zhao Zigao is, no matter how obedient Zhao Chengjun is to her, it is impossible to compare, Zhao Zixun is the prince.

When Zhao Zixun takes the position in the future, he will naturally worship his biological mother Xu. Teacher Tang has no gift or nourishment. What’s the point? Empress Dowager Yao has at least the merits of listening to politics. But what about Master Tang?

She has nothing. Queen Mother Yao is right,

When Zhao Zixun takes the throne, Tang Shishi’s fate will only be worse than that of the Queen Mother Yao.

Master Tang paused for a while, everyone inside and outside was holding their breath, not daring to raise their heads. Even the Queen Mother Yao leaned behind the curtain, staring at Master Tang panting.

But Master Tang did not look back in the end. She didn’t say a word to the Queen Mother Yao, and walked away like a winner who didn’t bother to respond to the provocation.

Feng Diao’e was controlled at the door. Her hands and feet were firmly restrained, unable to move, she could only stare at the teacher with her eyes. She thought about Zhou Shunhua, thought about Feng Qian, thought about anyone, but she did not expect that Master Tang gave them a fatal blow.

Feng Baobao and the Empress Dowager Yao were arrogant and smart all their lives, but who knew that they had taken a look at Tang Shishi. For five years, they have been played with by her. Now Feng Dibao doesn’t know whether Master Tang is really stupid or pretending to be stupid.

Teacher Tang walked in front of Feng Chang’e. Feng Chang was not reconciled, and struggled with all his strength: “Traitor, spy, ungrateful! You will not end well.”

Before Feng Dazed finished speaking, he was covered with his hand. The **** flatteredly followed Tang Shishi and said, “The empress is calmed down, that old Yuan’e is delirious and has been taken down by the slave. This thief is bold enough to offend the empress empress. Empress, what do you want to do?”

Teacher Tang said in a light tone, “Since you are unconscious, you can’t wait in front of the Queen Mother. You can send it to the laundry bureau and do rough work.”

I listened too much, and rushed to respond: “The mother is sincere and filial, the slave obeys her orders.”

Master Tang walked out of Ci Ning Palace, looked back at the plaque of Ci Ning Palace for the last time, and said, “The Queen Mother of the West must be quiet. From now on, no cats and dogs are allowed to come in and disturb the Queen Mother. If you let the palace know that your Yin and Yang are against your condition, you will all give them your palms. Xing Si Lunzhu. Do you remember?”

The court ladies and eunuchs were taken aback, and tremblingly responded: “Yes.”

Master Tang’s eyes swept over the crowd, brushed his sleeves, and walked toward Zhong Cui Palace without a hurry: “My palace is tired, go back to the palace.”

“Yes.”