Queen's scheming

Chapter 224 Gu (V)
Shen Qingyi sat in front of the empress dowager's canopy bed, reciting the Heart Sutra softly, over and over again, endlessly, only when the empress dowager interrupted her and said she was thirsty, would she make tea herself, and she would have a cup of tea. One for the Queen Mother.

Shen Qingyi has been serving the Empress Dowager for nearly a month, and the weather is getting warmer, but Shen Qingyi's heart is getting colder and colder, the cold penetrates into the bone marrow, Li Tianyou seems to have completely forgotten her, This is something she has never encountered since she met Li Tianyou. Ever since Li Tianyou saw her for the first time, he has been pampering her in his heart. Such a sudden letting go made Shen Qingyi feel as if she had come from the stove. , fell into the ice hole, how could not warm up.

The Empress Dowager already knew about Ru Meiren, and Li Tianyou had never appeared in the Cihui Palace during this time, but the Empress Dowager did not say a word after all, but she looked at Shen Qingyi with a hint of inexplicability.

Because she has to deal with the common affairs of the Six Palaces, Shen Qingyi accepts greetings from the concubines every morning. Of course, there is no Rumeiren here. Rumeiren has to serve the emperor every day, and Li Tianyou has specially allowed her to come to greet her.After accepting the greetings from all the concubines, Shen Qingyi will handle the affairs of the six palaces alone, no matter how busy she is, she will not let Nanny Jiang, Yulian, and Yuhe intervene, and will do everything by herself, and even watch the Ministry of Internal Affairs issue orders to the palaces.

After finishing his work, he finished his meal in the afternoon and didn't take a nap, so he went to the Empress Dowager's Cihui Palace and sent An Qingyao to rest. He sat in front of the Empress Dowager and recited the Heart Sutra over and over again. He never got tired of it until An Qingyao woke up from a nap. , she went to the small kitchen to look at the Queen Mother's medicine, and watched with her own eyes the palace people from grasping the medicine, taking the medicine to making a thick soup, serving it to the Queen Mother, and serving the Queen Mother.

Dinner was served with the Empress Dowager and An Qingyao at the Cihui Palace, and when I returned to the Ningsu Palace, I started to embroider. From the red and swollen fingers I poked before, to the ability to embroider handkerchiefs with smooth silk threads, Shen Qingyi ordered the House of Internal Affairs to draw A picture of mountains and rivers, according to the eight-meter-long picture, I copied it stitch by stitch. I didn't go to rest until midnight.Yulian and Yuhe wanted to dissuade them, but they were stopped by Jiang Nanny. During the few days when Shen Qingyi was very interested in embroidery, Jiang Nanny didn't say anything, but quietly lit a lot of flowers around Shen Qingyi. Red candle, so as not to hurt the eyes.

Then Jiang Nanny transferred a maid from the Jiaofang Division to Ningsu Palace. The maid was not beautiful, but she had a very good figure. One night, Jiang Nanny removed the red candle beside Shen Qingyi, leaving only two The light was so dim that Shen Qingyi couldn't even see the swaying boat on the picture.Nanny Jiang let the maid into the Nuan Pavilion, there was another little maid playing the flute, the maid danced to the music, the dance was very beautiful.From that day on, Shen Qingyi learned to dance from that court lady named Xiao Wu.

"Mother Jiang, why did you let your empress learn how to dance with the palace maid? If it spreads out, I'm afraid it will ruin your empress's reputation." Yu Lian finally asked after holding back for a long time.

Mother Jiang looked at the slender figure reflected in the window through the window of Linghua plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and said: "Embroidering at night, even if the candlelight is as bright as day, it will hurt your eyes after all, not to mention that the empress still has to embroider continuously." Two or three hours, but this dance is different, if you learn it skillfully, you can exercise your body, the empress is depressed, even if Bingniang cooks and eats differently, she can't raise her body well, just dance like this for a while Dancing is the best, and besides, this dance consumes energy, and the empress will be tired if she dances for an hour at most, and she can sleep more peacefully at night, unlike embroidery, which has been embroidered all night, and at midnight, she is still tossing and turning!"

Yu Lian bit her lower lip desperately with her white teeth, and said, "How long will our mother be like this? Your Majesty is going too far!"

It's not that Yu Lian didn't want to take action, but everyone stopped her. Mother Jiang even said bluntly that Yu Lian's current half-way behavior has harmed her own child, and may implicate Shen Qingyi, and even the Queen can't do it !Although Yu Lian is impulsive, she is not stupid. She also knows that Shen Qingyi may not be able to protect her now, Li Tianyou has been fooled by Rumei, and she is afraid that she can't remember her mother.

On this day, Shen Qingyi was sitting in the sedan chair, not knowing what she was thinking, when suddenly a calm male voice sounded beside her ear: "Empress Empress."

Shen Qingyi frowned slightly, and did not lift the curtain of the sedan chair, but asked softly inside the sedan chair, "Young General Tang?"

"It's Wei Chen, Wei Chen only needs to say a few words to the empress, you can just listen." Tang Zihan's voice was very low, as if he was afraid of being heard by others.

Shen Qingyi's first feeling was that Li Tianyou was in danger, and immediately said: "What's wrong with the emperor? Is it safe for you to speak like this?"

"Right now, the people carrying the sedan chair are all hidden guards. Don't worry, the empress! The emperor is fine, and his life will not be in danger, but there are some strange things. The minister is still investigating, so please let the empress know Still act as usual, don't worry too much, I will find out the matter soon, and now the emperor has not used the secret guards for a while, if the empress has anything to do, she can talk to Deng Liangyuan, she is the emperor The secret guard arranged for you, if you have anything to tell Weichen, you can also go through her!" Tang Zihan told him everything he could think of.

This is not his job. Li Tianyou seems to have forgotten the hidden guards during this time. It is Tang Zihan who really can't see Shen Qingyi's three souls and seven souls, so he arranged for the dark guards and told Shen Qingyi personally. The matter is just to reassure her, so that she can have a hope in her heart, instead of living so half-dead.Shen Qingyi should be a graceful peony shining brightly under the sun, and shouldn't decay like this.

"I know, Young General Tang must be careful in everything." Shen Qingyi said softly in the sedan chair.

Listening to Shen Qingyi's words with a hint of emotion, Tang Zihan showed a knowing smile, it was worth taking such a big risk just for Shen Qingyi.

Shen Qingyi tried her best to conceal her different state of mind, but the Queen Mother still noticed a thing or two.The Empress Dowager stared at Shen Qingyi with a dim expression, and asked in a gentle voice: "The Empress seems to have something happy today, even the reading of the Heart Sutra has become much faster?"

Shen Qingyi took a deep breath, seeing that there was no one around the queen mother but herself, she whispered: "The concubine is still a little restless, and the queen mother noticed it all at once."

The Empress Dowager's heart turned a thousand times, but she didn't show it on the face, could it be that this Shen Qingyi finally couldn't resist and was going to betray Tianyou?
Naturally, Shen Qingyi didn't notice the Queen Mother's strangeness. She really couldn't share such happy things with others. She only thought that the Queen Mother was different from others. Li Tianyou would tell the Queen Mother any secrets, and he could do it himself. Shen Qingyi like this Thinking about it, he put his hand in the queen mother's ear and whispered: "Mother, the emperor has a reason for this. He didn't abandon the queen mother and the concubine. The concubine doesn't know exactly what happened, but Mr. Tang The general has already begun to investigate, and I believe the truth will be revealed soon!"

(End of this chapter)