Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 123 Appreciating Paintings (Part [-])
Stepping suddenly stopped, Jiang Changning's expression turned serious, the emperor actually blocked her on this road!

"Princess, it's the Queen's Empress." Xiao Chun reported.

Jiang Changning breathed a sigh of relief, only then did she realize that the queen was sitting in the pavilion not far in front on the left, frowning slightly, stepped up and down, and walked towards the pavilion.

"Jiang's family in Prince Jin's mansion has met the empress, please greet the empress." Jiang Changning suspected that the empress and the emperor were of the same breed, so he was playing tricks instead of the usual one.

Although this is useless, it is also possible to scare people.

She is not happy, why make the other party happy?

"Princess Jin doesn't need to be too polite." The queen held her hands up.

Jiang Changning stood up straight, smiling calmly, with cold eyes.

"This palace is too spacious. It is rare for Princess Jin to enter the palace. I am afraid that Princess Jin will get lost and go to a place where female relatives should not go. If I come here to accompany Princess Jin, Princess Jin will not refuse, right?"

The queen's words made Jiang Changning startled at first, then delighted, a faint smile appeared in his eyes, and the assistance that came to the door on his own initiative must be used, "With the empress's company, no one will lead you astray."

Accompanied by the queen, Jiang Changning entered the Fushou Palace together.

"The queen is here!" The queen mother didn't want to see her daughter-in-law. The queen was not chosen by her, but the heroes who pushed the emperor to the throne.

"Hearing that my mother has acquired a calligraphy and painting by a famous artist, my daughter-in-law also wants to see it, so that she can learn a lot." The queen laughed.

The Empress Dowager summoned Jiang Changning into the palace to taste famous calligraphy and paintings, but it was just an excuse. She mainly asked about the situation of Prince Jin's residence.

The empress intervened, making the empress dowager unable to say something clearly, holding back her anger, and ordered the maid to bring a calligraphy and painting.

There are a lot of things in the queen mother's warehouse, so the maid picked a calligraphy and painting at random, and brought it in.

After unfolding it, Jiang Changning almost couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

This "Songhe Yannian Picture" is clearly the Qianqiu Festival, a birthday gift from the Jin Palace to the Empress Dowager.

Taking the gift from Prince Jin's mansion, and summoning Princess Jin to the palace to taste it, is this making a fuss?
"This painting." Jiang Changning looked at it deliberately for a moment, "It looks familiar to me."

"It doesn't look familiar. This is a birthday gift from the Jin Palace to the queen mother." The queen also doesn't want to see the queen mother, she is the master of the harem, and the queen mother is above her, interfering in palace affairs everywhere.

The Empress Dowager's expression was quite wonderful.

It was Gao Yanyun who rescued her, "Your Majesty has been admiring this painting for the past few days, and when they heard that your Majesty wanted to paint it, the palace servants mistakenly thought that your Majesty wanted this painting."

The Empress Dowager's expression softened, "Go and get that "Picture of Golden Pheasant in Hibiscus"."

"Yes, ma'am." Gao Yanyun went to the warehouse to find "Picture of Golden Pheasant in Lotus".

"Golden Pheasant of Furong" was painted by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are hibiscus, golden pheasant, butterfly and chrysanthemum on it.

There is also a poem inscribed by Huizong: Qiu Jin resists the frost, Eguan brocade chicken, known all five virtues, ease is better than mallard
In the painting, a branch of hibiscus protrudes from the left side, a golden pheasant perches on the flower branch, two colorful butterflies chasing and playing in the upper right corner, and a cluster of autumn chrysanthemums dancing in the wind in the lower left corner.

Two hibiscus flowers are half open quietly, and a golden pheasant suddenly flies to the branch of hibiscus, bending the branch and breaking the tranquility.

The branch trembled slightly, and the golden pheasant ignored it, looking back at the pair of dancing butterflies.

The whole painting has clear layers and alternate density and density, full of vitality in the autumn colors.

Although Song Huizong was a fatuous and incompetent emperor, he had profound attainments in calligraphy and painting, much better than a certain emperor who was known as a perfect old man.

It's just that history changed in the middle of the Liao Kingdom. The chaos of the younger brothers divided the Liao Kingdom into three, and then it was unified by the Emperor Gui and the Kingdom of Gui was established.

In the last years of the Gui Kingdom, the people were in dire straits, and the Helian clan rose up and seized power, which led to the disappearance of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties that Jiang Changning was familiar with.

"Chun'an, what do you think of this "Picture of Golden Pheasant with Hibiscus"?" asked the Queen Mother.

"The golden pheasant is vividly and realistically depicted, with fine brushwork, gorgeous colors, and poetic and artistic purpose. It is worthy of being a treasure in the painting." Jiang Changning talked in general.

The queen also praised: "The color is gorgeous, elegant and noble, showing the royal style of grace and wealth."

"This golden pheasant is very well painted, with colorful and luxurious feathers," said the Queen Mother.

The queen said: "Yes, the feathers of this chicken are really well drawn. Look at the yellow feathers on the head of this chicken, which has a fluffy feel. The feathers on the tail are long and hard, dense and not messy."

The queen mother frowned, and continued according to her original intention: "A chicken is a chicken. Even if it has gorgeous feathers, it is still a chicken. Unlike a phoenix, it is the king of all birds."

These words meant something, Jiang Changning understood, this was beating her.

She is a human being, not a chicken, and she doesn't bother to be a phoenix.

But she knew that if she didn't respond, the queen mother would continue to chatter and summon her into the palace.

"Chickens have chicken coops, and phoenixes have phoenix nests. Although chickens are common, they are virtuous birds. As the saying goes, the head of a chicken is better than the tail of a phoenix." Jiang Changning laughed.

The queen mother's face changed slightly, she didn't expect Jiang Changning to be out of control.

But at this time, the queen also echoed, "The chicken is an auspicious bird, and this down-and-out phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken."

It's a good thing that Jiang Changning doesn't want to enter the palace!

Shameless old thing, helping his son to do such a nasty thing, is really a lowly thing to serve the king for sex.

Jiang Changning was out of control, and the queen mother was already furious, and what the queen said added fuel to the fire.

What does it mean that a downcast phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken?
Don't you know that the emperor is a dragon and the queen is a phoenix?
The queen mother said angrily: "If you can't speak, just shut up."

Now the empress was even more sure that the empress dowager was helping the emperor to pimp her, she was not ashamed in her heart, and said stubbornly: "That's what the saying goes."

Meaning, she didn't say anything wrong.

Seeing that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were about to pinch each other, Jiang Changning happily withdrew and watched the play from the sidelines.

"The phoenix is ​​a divine beast, and the chicken is just a poultry, so how can they be compared?" The queen mother believed that the phoenix was more noble than the chicken.

When she was a concubine, what she envied and wanted to wear the most was the queen's bright yellow phoenix robe.

After becoming a queen mother, all her clothes are embroidered with phoenix patterns.

The queen thought that the queen mother was trying to persuade Jiang Changning to enter the palace. Concubines can't wear phoenix robes, only the queen can.

Is the queen mother going to let Jiang Changning replace her and become the queen?

In the previous dynasty, there were married women who changed their names and surnames and entered the harem, acting as imperial concubines.

The empress is angry. She has been an empress all these years and has worked diligently to manage the palace affairs. Even if she has no credit, she has worked hard, right?

The queen mother wants to take her queen position, but there is no way!

"The chicken and the phoenix are two things of the same thing. In "The Biography of the Dutiful Son", it is said, 'Father Shun lay down at night, dreamed of a phoenix, and named himself a chicken. Take the phoenix as the chicken." The queen quoted the scriptures.

The Empress Dowager's face turned completely cold, and she said in a strange way: "The Empress has read a lot of books."

"My grandfather once said: reading can be sensible, understanding is self-cultivation, and self-cultivation is life." The queen pointed at the queen mother.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking to each other, and they hated each other deeply from the bottom of their hearts. Jiang Changning was fine, so that they would not think of her, she quietly looked at the painting.

(End of this chapter)