Husband is extremely regent

Chapter 106 The Imperial Garden Primary Selection 1
Through the only window, no, it should be the exhaust vent, and a foul smell can be smelled as soon as you get close.

Yao Shi took advantage of the dim light to see a disheveled woman tied to the frame, and a court lady was whipping vigorously with a strange whip.

Every time she was whipped, the woman on the shelf raised her head and screamed in pain, Yao Shi could clearly see the woman's face burst into tears for a moment, the Queen Mother said that she would take good care of her daughter, but she didn't expect it to be like this.

"Mrs. Liu, you can't startle the snake."

Yao Shifang wanted to ask, but the female officer immediately covered her mouth from behind and pulled her away from the grove.

Yao shi wiped away her tears as she walked and watched her daughter's reaction when she was beaten. It was definitely not the first time she was beaten. Why would the Queen Mother torture her daughter like this? It doesn't make sense.

When there was no one around, the female officer explained in a low voice: "The Queen Mother will torture Miss Liu every few days, and stop when she is almost out of breath every time, but she won't touch Miss Liu's face, probably because she doesn't want to touch her face." Let you find out."

"Why did the Queen Mother treat my daughter like this?"

Yao asked puzzledly that the Queen Mother was planning to usurp the throne for her son, and without her husband's support it would be impossible.

"Prince Ding who died in the Nancheng flood, after repeated investigations..." The female officer looked around vigilantly to confirm that she was not approaching, and then said: "It is the real Prince Ding, and the queen mother will not let go of the original culprit who killed her son."

Yao turned around in surprise, and suddenly remembered something, no wonder the Queen Mother proposed to let Ran'er marry Prince Ding.

It turned out that it was the scourge left by the flood. The Queen Mother really did a good job. Not only did she want to win over her husband for her use, but she also wanted to continue to avenge her son.

At the beginning, when she revealed the news to the queen mother, she thought it was for her daughter's good, but she almost sent her daughter to hell with her own hands. Now that I think about it, I really regret it, so I can only find another way to save my daughter.

"What is the purpose of the queen telling Mrs. Ben the truth?"

Yao shi is a shrewd person, the queen will not tell her this for no reason, there must be some purpose.

Hearing this, the female officer nodded slightly and said, "The Empress has no other intentions, but thinks that Madam must know the truth in order to make the right choice."

"It's just like that?" Yao shi didn't believe it.

"It's just that." The female officer said with a smile: "Madam Liu has to tidy up, so that no one will see the clues."

"Miss, please lead the way." Yao knew that the Empress Dowager's people should not notice, she already knew the truth, so she took out a handkerchief and wiped away the tears on her face.

"Mrs. Liu, it is inconvenient for this servant to appear with you." Outside the Yushu Garden, the female officer stopped and said, "You go in first, and remember to keep normal, especially in front of the Empress Dowager."

"Mrs. Ben understands."

Yao shi nodded and walked into the imperial garden.

Find the two nieces and greet the empress empress together, and the empress empress let them be flat.

Looking at the two girls of Liu's family, he said: "After all, it is the queen of the door. There is a heroic look on her brows that cannot be concealed. They are all good girls."

"Thank you, empress, for your compliment."

Yao turned around and said to the two nieces: "Hua'er, Lian'er, why don't you come forward and thank the empress."

The two little girls stepped forward to meet again. The queen took the sisters' hands and looked left and right. After asking their names and ages, she said, "They are all the same age as flowers. What do you usually like to do at home."

"Back to the empress, the courtiers like to read books in their spare time." Liu Zhaohua replied obediently, she did have a bit of bookishness, it seems that she is not lying.

"Reading is good." The empress praised in a hurry: "Reading is not only for literacy, but also for understanding the past and the present. Coincidentally, I recently got a new set of "Floating Life", and I will give it to you today."

"Thank you, Empress, for the reward."

Liu Zhaohua joyfully took over the bookcase from the palace lady with both hands.

Seeing that her sister got the reward, Liu Zhaolian also said timidly: "Back to the queen, my daughter likes to cook delicious food, and she especially likes to eat.

Hearing this, the Empress Empress couldn't help laughing, seeing that she was younger than Lu Xu, and still a bit naive, she said, "It's good to be young, and you can do whatever you want. The imperial dining room has prepared a lot of delicious food today. Sister, let's go and try it together."

"Thank you queen!"

The two sisters bowed to the ground and went to play with Yao Shi's permission.

Mrs. Yao also took his seat, and several girls came to see the Empress one after another.

Suddenly, the eunuch announced: "Mrs. Lu is here."

It turned out that the husbands of the fourth and fifth wives had no official positions, and they were not ordered to enter the palace, so they had to invite Mrs. Lu, who was meditating in Sanqing Temple, to bring the sisters into the palace.

Mrs. Lu can give birth to such a handsome son as Lu Yi, so her appearance is naturally good. Although she is nearly [-] years old now, she has been well maintained. She looks like a fifty-year-old. When he was young, he was unparalleled.

Mrs. Lu brought her two granddaughters to salute.

The queen quickly ordered the eunuchs around her to help Mrs. Lu up, and asked her to sit next to her.

Looking back at Lu Yi and Lu Jie, he said: "The Lu family has beauties, what you said is true, you two sisters should really come out and walk around more, don't let Xu'er monopolize everything else."

What the queen said was not just polite words. Without Lu Xu, Lu Yi and Lu Jie's looks were the best among these girls.

"The empress don't praise them, they are as skinny as monkeys at home." Mrs. Lu smiled modestly, but she was still very happy when someone praised her children for their good growth.

But the empress said: "Old madam, you seem to have eaten a elixir. After so many years, you still look the same as before. When you come to this palace, you feel that you are nothing."

"The Empress is too embarrassed to praise her old age." Mrs. Lu looked at the two granddaughters and said, "Yi'er and Jie'er are children of the fourth and fifth families. Whatever you do for the Lu family, don't be as troubled as Liu Yatou."

This sounded like scolding his own girl for being bad, but on the surface it was a modest excuse, but in fact it was telling the queen that the two children did not plan to participate in the draft.

Mrs. Lu took the initiative to mention Lu Xu, and the empress had no choice but to reveal a piece of news: "A few days ago, there were some disturbances in the capital, and a group of people went to Longyin Villa to make trouble. Xu'er dismissed that group of rebels by himself, and he himself was injured, and now he is recuperating in the villa..."

"Xu'er is injured!"

Lu Yi and Lu Jie asked in shock, realizing that they had lost their composure.

Kneeling on the ground to make amends, he said: "My daughter has lost her manners, please forgive me, empress."

"You sisters are deeply in love, what is the crime, get up quickly." The queen smiled and said: "The so-called caring makes chaos."

In fact, although the scale of the turmoil was not small, not many people knew the truth, and the daughter of the boudoir didn't even know what happened outside, so the two were so shocked when they heard that Lu Xu was injured.

"The healing medicine for Xu'er will be delivered soon, and he will recover naturally after taking the medicine."

The queen knew Lu Xu's temperament well, so she deliberately lowered her voice and said, "If she misses such an interesting thing as the crown prince choosing a concubine, she will cry to death."

"You two sisters go over there too, let's play with everyone."

After teasing Lu Xu, the empress sent the two sisters away. After all, there were still many people waiting to greet them.

Lu Yi and Lu Jie stepped back in response, and came back to life immediately after getting out of the sight of the elders, even disregarding their image, they found a place to sit down and find someone to watch the excitement.

Soon they found Liang Xi in the crowd, wearing half-worn clothes, but she seemed to be squeezed out by the ladies of various houses, sitting alone in the corner and sulking, the sense of justice of the two burst out instantly, deliberately very He came to Liang Xi's side in a high-profile manner.

"Miss Liang, why are you sitting here alone in a daze?"

Lu Yi and Lu Jie put Liang Xi in the middle, one on the left and the other on the right. From the perspective of others, they deliberately squeezed Liang Xi.

Before Liang Xi opened his mouth, he sighed and said, "They saw my outfit today, and said that a person with a shallow background like me cannot be selected, and there is no need to make friends."

"What's that called?" Lu Yi said disdainfully, "It's as if they will definitely be elected."

"What's so good about entering the palace..." Lu Jie looked around and said in a low voice, "I'm just going through the motions to see who wants to be elected and who will be elected."

"Can you see this!?" Liang Xi looked at the two sisters in surprise and suspicion.

"As Xu'er said, what a person wants to do can often be seen from their clothes."

Lu Yi pulled Liang Xi's clothes and said: "For example, if you deliberately dress up poorly, you can tell at a glance that you are not interested in entering the palace, but don't make it so obvious next time, so as to leave people talking, you can dress up well Be plain and elegant, just try to keep a low profile and not show off your head."

Liang Xi said helplessly: "It's the first time I've entered the palace, so I don't have any experience."

"Why are they here?" Lu Jie inadvertently caught sight of three distinctive figures.

"Who?"

Lu Yi and Liang Xi immediately looked in the same direction gossiping.

I accidentally saw Yin Cangyue from Beiyi, Shen Xing from Houtu, and Kong Qingxue from Xuebu. They also came to participate in the draft?

"Guess whether they entered the palace to be the emperor's concubines, or whether they were elected as the crown prince." After Liang Xi was curious, he said with some concern: "They are all prettier than the other, and look at our lady here, I am afraid Can't compete."

"You are worrying too much." Lu Yi disagreed: "According to the practice of our court, the crown princess must come from a famous family, and I will definitely not choose a foreign race to be the crown princess, most likely to be the emperor's concubine."

"These princesses are more capable than the other, and this harem will be bustling in the future."

Lu Yi and Lu Jie looked at each other, after thinking about it, they felt that not entering the palace was the most sensible choice, luckily the Lu family didn't need their help in the palace either.

Liang Xi's scalp was numb, and he echoed in a low voice: "I'm worried about your background, but with my background, I'm afraid I'll get a three-foot white silk or a glass of poisoned wine before I meet the emperor."

"The three of you are very self-aware."

Suddenly a voice sounded behind them, and the trio turned their heads to see who was so bold.

In the end, he caught sight of Nanliguo's unique golden mask by surprise, and quickly knelt down to salute in fright: "See Your Highness, Your Highness, forgive me."

"What crime do you want this hall to forgive you for?"

Mo Jinli was urging and urging her to come to the Imperial Garden, and she was already extremely reluctant.

I didn't expect to see three girls whispering to each other as soon as I came in, and I deliberately teased them when I thought it was interesting, I didn't expect the three girls to be so unintimidated.

It was not the first time for the three of them to see Mo Jinli, but it was their first time seeing Mo Jinli at such a close distance, and they had just finished arranging the affairs of the harem, so how could they have the guts to answer His Highness the Crown Prince's questions.

"Too timid, Bai has been with Lu Xu for so long."

Mo Jinli shook his head and walked away, the three of them heaved a long sigh of relief, fearing that His Highness the Crown Prince would continue to question him.

Lu Jie whispered, "We don't have Xuer's life."

"Look quickly, His Highness is walking towards Princess Shen Xing."

Liang Xi noticed that Mo Jinli went straight to Princess Chen Xing: "The Prince's Palace must not be interested in Princess Chen Xing's beauty."

Lu Yi retorted: "You have said it yourself, His Highness the Crown Prince looks better than Xu'er, how could he fall in love with Princess Shen Xing's beauty, most likely His Highness didn't know they were there, so he went over to ask."

"real or fake?"

Lu Jie asked incredulously.

In fact, Lu Yi's conjecture was correct, Mo Jinli did not expect that the three princesses of the tribe were also in the imperial garden.

The appearance that Shen Xing had always been proud of had been repeatedly attacked in Nanliguo, and she had long since dared not rely on her beauty, especially when Lu Xu was not present, her appearance was still unable to break through.

There are too many beauties like her in Nanliguo, that's why a shocking beauty like Lu Xu is needed to suppress them, otherwise these beauties will cause troubles.

Facing Mo Jinli's words "Why are you here", Princess Shen Xing pretended to be calm and said: "I heard that the queen empress is going to choose a concubine for your highness the crown prince, Shen Xing has nothing to do, come and watch the excitement."

"Are they too?"

"probably."

Princess Shen Xing did not expect that Beiyi and Xuebu would also leave the princess in Nanli, and she really felt a little uncomfortable.

Mo Jinli saw it in his eyes: "There is no need for the thick soil department to keep the princess in Nanli country."

They were able to suppress the chaos so quickly, thanks to the proper disclosure of some information by the Ministry of Health and Soil during the negotiations.

Dali Temple only put on a show when interrogating the Houtubu, and did not use any severe punishment. Even if they asked for compensation, they were talking about it, and they didn't really need compensation.

"You have to put on a show, otherwise the people in the fifth department will see the problem."

"Unexpectedly, there are so many people pretending to be today."

Mo Jinli laughed at himself, turned around and went straight to the queen, Baoguang followed behind.

The mother and son had just met and hadn't spoken yet, and the woman who wanted to enter the palace hadn't even approached, when the eunuch reported loudly:
"The Queen Mother is here!"

"Welcome to the Queen Mother!"

The queen and the prince stood up to greet them.

The rest of the people knelt on the ground one after another, not daring to move.

Everyone in the capital knew that the emperor and the queen mother fought against each other, so that the queen mother didn't even show up for her own birthday banquet.

The queen mother said, "Exempt from etiquette, keep your body flat", everyone dared to stand up, and suddenly seeing Mrs. Lu, she said with a smile on her face: "The descendants of the Lu family strive for success, and Prime Minister Lu is the emperor's right-hand man. I can't blame Mrs. Lu for living better and better." Young, totally unlike the Ai family who is busy running around for his children and grandchildren, and Huafa is born early."

The Empress Dowager's words were full of gunpowder, and people knew she was right as soon as they heard it. The right minister, Lu Yi, was dissatisfied with standing on the emperor's side.

(End of this chapter)