Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 704 Shocked
Zhao Mingyue didn't know how she got back to the palace.

Originally, Empress Dowager Zheng was very angry and wanted to scold Zhao Mingyue severely and punish her to kneel for half an hour.But seeing Zhao Mingyue's distraught look, she was startled.

"What's wrong? What happened?" She asked Zhao Mingyue.

Zhao Mingyue shook her head and said nothing.

She felt powerless.Completely ignoring that her mother and the palace people were here, she walked into the inner room on her own, climbed onto the bed silently, and covered herself completely under the quilt.

Empress Dowager Zheng was worried, so she walked in, seeing this, she hurriedly said, "How can you sleep like this? What if you're holding your breath?" She stretched out her hand and wanted to pull the quilt, but Zhao Mingyue pulled it so tightly that she couldn't pull it off anyway. move.

"Are you all dead? Don't you know how to help? What if you're bored?" Seeing that the maids were not moving, Queen Mother Zheng could not help cursing angrily.

She completely forgot that the moment before Zhao Mingyue came back, she swore that no matter how much her daughter begged for mercy, she would punish Zhao Mingyue well and never be nice to her.

The maids hurried over to pull the quilt.

The quilt was torn off, and the Empress Dowager Zheng was startled when she saw Zhao Mingyue lying there with tears streaming down her face.

"What's wrong?" She asked quickly, "Did Jinning bully you?"

Zhao Mingyue didn't move and didn't speak, she let the tears flow down her ears and flow into her earframes.

Empress Dowager Zheng's anger welled up, and she stood up abruptly: "I'll ask your brother to find him."

"Don't..." Seeing that her mother was about to leave, Zhao Mingyue got up and said to Empress Dowager Zheng, "Don't go looking for him."

Empress Dowager Zheng stopped, turned around and looked at her daughter: "Then what are you talking about? What happened? If you don't tell me, I can only go to Du Jinning."

Zhao Mingyue burst into tears with a "wow": "I won't marry him, I won't marry him, don't go looking for him, I don't want to marry him again."

Zhao Mingyue has a cheerful personality, no matter what happens, she is cheerful and rarely sheds tears.

Seeing her daughter crying like this, Empress Dowager Zheng felt very distressed. She walked over and put her daughter in her arms, and coaxed her like a child: "Okay, okay, don't marry him if you don't marry him. Then let's marry Qi Muyuan."

"No, no, I won't marry Qi Muyuan either..." Zhao Mingyue waved her hands again and again, crying louder, "I won't marry Qi Muyuan."

"Okay, then don't marry." The Empress Dowager Zheng coaxed, asking with her eyes the mother who was going to pick up Zhao Mingyue.

The nanny shook her head and said in a low voice; "When the old slaves got there, the princess, Mrs. Du, Mrs. Qi and a woman were talking in the room behind closed doors. As for what they were talking about, the old slave didn't know .When the princess came out, it was as if she had lost her soul."

When she heard that Zhao Mingyue was actually talking with Du Jinning in the room behind closed doors, Empress Dowager Zheng's expression darkened.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a woman in the room, when Zhao Mingyue came back, her clothes were neat and nothing seemed to have happened, otherwise she would have ordered someone to arrest Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan at this moment.

Zhao Mingyue cried for a long time, until she was tired from crying, then she stopped and lay there quietly in a daze.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Zheng gave her a few words of advice in a soft voice, then she stood up, and told the maids to take good care of the princess, and was about to go out.

"Mother..." Zhao Mingyue called her hoarsely, "Don't go to Du Jinning."

Empress Dowager Zheng stopped and turned around: "If you want me not to look for him, then you have to tell Empress Mother what happened just now."

"You all go out." Zhao Mingyue ordered the palace servants.

Empress Dowager Zheng waved her hand, and all the palace people in the palace retreated.

Zhao Mingyue didn't want to say it at first, she hoped that everything today was a nightmare, and when she woke up after sleeping, she would completely forget about it all.

But she knew her mother's temperament, and she must make this matter clear.

When Du Jinning was found, she didn't know if he would anger the queen mother and cause her death.

Although Du Jinning hurt her heart deeply, she still didn't want Du Jinning to lose his life because of it.

When only she and Queen Mother Zheng were left in the hall, she said: "He...he likes Qi Muyuan."

"You, what did you say?" Queen Mother Zheng couldn't believe her ears.

"He and Qi Muyuan... together."

It took a long time for Empress Dowager Zheng to finally understand that she was not mistaken about her daughter. Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan had broken sleeves. They liked each other, so they couldn't be consorts.

"..."

Empress Dowager Zheng felt very complicated.

She worked so hard to prevent her daughter from liking and marrying Du Jinning. Now Du Jinning helped her achieve her wish, which made Zhao Mingyue give up. But Queen Mother Zheng couldn't be happy at all. Instead of being grateful to Du Jinning, she was very resentful.

Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan were the only ones chosen by the royal family to choose a consort for the princess. When will it be their turn to reject the princess, and in this way.

Especially this includes Qi Muyuan, whom Queen Mother Zheng has long been optimistic about!

Although many nobles and officials in the court had child prostitutes in their families, the Empress Dowager Zheng was incapable of accepting such things.She was full of disgust and disgust towards Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan.

Zhao Mingyue knew her mother very well.Seeing the expression on Empress Dowager Zheng's face, she knew something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, don't bother them, I won't make a fuss about marrying that person again, really."

Empress Dowager Zheng looked at her daughter's eyes that were red and swollen with anticipation, sighed, and agreed, "That's fine. In exchange, you can't refuse the marriage arranged by the empress mother."

Zhao Mingyue didn't want to mention the matter of getting married at all at this time, but in order to stop her mother, she nodded obediently.

Empress Dowager Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and patted her head: "I'll let someone come in to wash your face and apply to your eyes. Get a good sleep, and mother will come to see you later."

"Well, good." Zhao Mingyue was more obedient than ever.

This made Empress Dowager Zheng feel that perhaps it was not a bad thing for Du Jinning to make Zhao Mingyue give up, at least Zhao Mingyue would no longer make a fuss about marrying him who was a restrained wife.

But when she came out of her daughter's bedroom, she still went to find Zhao He, and told Zhao He that Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan were married and that they were a couple.

She said: "I know that because you trust Qi Bokun and let him do things more faithfully, you hand over a part of your power to Qi Muyuan; and Du Jinning, I heard that he is also highly appreciated and trusted by you. Now this Since the two are in such a situation, you have to be careful when using them, and don't make any mistakes."

The art of kingship lies in balance.Just like Du Jinning's original analysis, if there is one member of a family who is an important minister in Beijing, the others can only be appointed outside, otherwise the emperor will not be able to entrust him with important duties.

Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning were just good friends at first, but now they are obviously a couple, so they can only be suppressed by one, so as not to let all the power in the DPRK and China fall into their hands.

　Tired today
　　
　
(End of this chapter)