Stepmother Shaoguang

He Shaoguang in the palace ate and drank well, no one made things difficult for her, and the queen mother never summoned her again.

The hearts of the Lu family outside the palace were in suspense. At first, the old lady didn't know about Lu Xiaowen and He Shaoguang's previous plan, but her intuition told her that the Empress Dowager's matter was not easy.

Mrs. Lu called Lu Xiaowen to Dingxiangyuan alone, and asked him if he knew why?
"The empress dowager repeatedly pushed back. The person I sent to the palace to deliver the message didn't even meet Shao Guang. I don't believe those excuses. Tell me, what are you hiding from me? Do you know what the empress dowager means this time?"

Mrs. Lu can still hold her breath now, but if she continues to live like this, she will go to the Queen Mother herself to ask for someone.

That day the palace banquet was over, he led the horse and quietly waited for He Shaoguang and Xu Ruyun in front of the palace gate, but there were two of them when he went, and only Xu Ruyun was there when he came back.

He panicked for a moment, but seeing Xu Ruyun's expression remained normal, he guessed it was nothing serious.

Xu Ruyun told him that Miss Qiao had left He Shaoguang behind, saying that they hadn't seen each other for a long time and asked her to stay with her in the Empress Dowager's palace for a night.

He had heard of Miss Qiao a little bit, and she had frequent contacts with He Shaoguang before, especially after Princess Zheng gave birth.

But this person is most famous for her submissive nature, how could she do such a spoiled thing in front of so many people today?

Lu Xiaowen couldn't help worrying, was it because Miss Qiao Si wanted to keep her, but because the Queen Mother had other plans?
Lu Xiaowen knew that he was ruthless in besieging King Yan. If he hadn't rejected the servant sent by the queen mother to send him a message to find someone to replace the dead body of King Yan, even if King Yan lost his glory, what the queen mother prepared for him would have kept him rich and honored for life.

Lu Xiaowen thought that the queen mother hated him for being merciless.

In fact, the Queen Mother knew how many people had been killed or injured in the city, and she had no hope that Lu Xiaowen would agree to help her.

What she complained about was that he told the sage early, and joined the sage to come out to catch the turtle. If he didn't come up with that idea... the sage didn't hold back. She knew that she would definitely beg the sage to let King Yan go.

It was all because of his advice, which kept her in the dark and missed the life of her youngest son.

The queen mother was suffering, but at the same time felt that what He Shaoguang said was right.

Under the entanglement, people are actually thinner than they were during the Chinese New Year.

He Shaoguang didn't need to greet anyone, he really practiced the four words of eating and waiting to die every day, until Lu Xiaowen came to his door.

He is a foreign minister, a big man, even if he is on duty, he shouldn't come to the concubine's bedroom.

But he knew that there were only a few concubines living around the West Sixth Palace where the empress dowager lived, and the place was clean, so he slipped in when no one was prepared.

When He Shaoguang saw him in the courtyard, his face looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Why are you here?" She asked with her mouth. On New Year's Eve, everyone at the palace banquet had a special maid to take care of her. She didn't let the maids follow, so the queen mother stayed in the palace and called a little maid Zhiyue from her side to serve her.

But she didn't dare to command the people around the queen mother, so she usually did things by herself, and Zhiyue was happy to be at leisure, too lazy to serve her, and often slacked off.

This time she was basking in the rare sun in the courtyard, and Zhiyue was leaning against the pillars to take a nap.

Lu Xiaowen pointed at Zhiyue, indicating that it is not convenient to speak here.

He Shaoguang understood, she got up from the teacher's chair and followed Lu Xiaowen to the back of a bamboo forest.

"You are familiar with the terrain of the palace. I have been here for a few days and haven't found this place." He Shaoguang was amazed that there is such an empty place in the palace.

"The Queen Mother...does it make things difficult for you?" Lu Xiaowen asked the most worried question in his heart, and at the same time pulled He Shaoguang, who was half a head shorter than him, to turn around. After confirming that all the parts on his body were intact, he felt relieved when he saw that He Shaoguang was walking a little unnaturally.
"Is there any injury on the body? Can there be punishment?"

As she said that, she still wanted to start, bent down and lifted her skirt to check the injury.

"What kind of torture?" He Shaoguang was stunned, and was startled by his actions and jumped aside.

"I just accidentally sprained it when I was watering the flower seedlings in front of the side hall the day before yesterday." He Shaoguang laughed when he realized it, and quickly comforted him, "I'm fine everywhere, and the Queen Mother didn't make things difficult for me. I haven't seen her in the past few days."

Lu Xiaowen was a little embarrassed by her half-step back, so in order to relieve herself, she quickly followed up the topic: "It's good that you are fine, mother let me come and see you."

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He Shaoguang looked at him silently, Lu Xiaowen's embarrassment just now hadn't eased, he didn't know what to say for a while, and the bamboo forest fell into silence.

After a while, He Shaoguang found his own voice: "Uh... Mother asked you to climb over the Queen Mother's wall?"

Lu Xiaowen, who climbed over the wall and came in, cleared his throat and explained: "Of course not, but I thought that the people my mother sent to pay her respects to the Queen Mother were turned away, and I didn't even see your face. It's still impossible to see you in a fair manner."

It was precisely because the people in front hadn't even caught a glimpse, that their people in the mansion were even more worried.

He Shaoguang shook his head: "I didn't even know anyone came to the mansion."

"It seems that the Queen Mother is waiting for me..." Lu Xiaowen sighed after hearing her talk with the Queen Mother that day.

"I've been wondering."

He Shaoguang was very confused: "The filial piety of a saint is no less than that of King Yan, why is the Queen Mother always..." partial?

Lu Xiaowen leaned on a bamboo tree. He was also confused before, but after getting along with King Yan, he understood.

"A child who always puts the country first and uses you to wrong you in big things, or a child who thinks about you and always travels thousands of miles to send you strange things, which one do you like?"

People naturally like to have fun, but no one can say that a saint is not filial if he does this.

He was afraid that the imperial power would be coveted by his brothers, so he killed the other brothers and left his own younger brother to be sent to the fiefdom. He could only return to Beijing once a year, but he was also given the supreme honor and wealth of gold and silver.

It's a pity that the Empress Dowager was still dissatisfied with this alone. She complained that the fiefdom given to him by the saint was too barren and too far away, and she could only see her youngest son once a year.

And in the harem, where he can't balance, it is inevitable that he will use the status of the empress dowager to suppress a certain party. When doing this, have you ever thought that the empress dowager has experienced decades of deep palace struggles and is already tired?

Of course, this is what a queen mother should do. She understands that being a saint is not easy.So although she was reluctant, she would still help her eldest son every time.

"Don't worry, I will go see the Queen Mother tomorrow and let you go home with me."

After Lu Xiaowen learned the whole story from her mouth, he calmed down a bit, and he already had a countermeasure in his mind.

"Okay, you..." He Shaoguang was about to say something when he was interrupted by a raised female voice.

"Second Madam Lu?"

"Ah, it's Zhiyue next to the queen mother. She won't be able to find me later, so she should ask questions. You go, I'll go back first!"

He Shaoguang hurriedly walked back through the bamboo forest.