Wife Hua

Chapter 281
The empress dowager loved the meek and respectful Mu Hua even more, and asked someone to serve birthday peach cakes.

Soon the maid brought the carefully prepared birthday peaches.

"These few were pinched by Aijia himself. Others Aijia couldn't bear it, so I only rewarded you."

Mu Hua wanted to kneel down again to thank her, but the queen mother took her arm and said with a smile: "You don't have to kneel back and forth, the Ai family has received a lot of kneeling and worship today, and this time is not missing you. The Ai family values ​​your generosity and stability, You are reserved, but I don't like you being too respectful and docile."

"Your Majesty, what do you think?"

The empress dowager glanced at the emperor with a smile.

Mu Hua faintly felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't detect anything wrong. She was led by the queen mother like a puppet, and her lowered eyebrows were tightly frowned. She didn't care what the queen mother said to the emperor.

"Mu Qi, take your daughter down." The emperor closed the folding fan and waved at Mu Qi, "You don't care to come here quickly, the empress is going to take your daughter away."

"emperor!"

The empress dowager smiled and said: "The Ai family just likes Mu Hua, when did you want to snatch your daughter from the courtiers?"

Mu Qi hurried upstairs, and after bowing deeply to the emperor, he quickly walked over, "Huahua, go back with dad."

Mu Hua pressed her temples, her eyes still shining brightly, she gently broke free from the empress dowager, and walked up to Mu Qi, "The empress dowager's birthday banquet will start soon, I have already told Yang Liu and the others that we can't participate in the birthday banquet together. I will go out of the palace with you, and the Empress Dowager will take care of you, so you don't have to worry about it."

The queen mother nodded in satisfaction, "Let Mu Hua and Jia Min sit together in a while, the two little girls are good, they are rivals on the polo field, they are good sisters in front of Ai's family, and they can talk about misunderstandings. "

The queen hurriedly said: "Girls always compete for victory. A while ago, they wanted to compete, but they turned around and made up again. Mu Hua, you should learn more from the master of Jiamin County, and you will be even better." The empress dowager's favor is good for you... in the palace in the future."

"A courtier's daughter doesn't need to benefit in the palace." Mu Qi blocked Mu Hua behind him, his eyes were gloomy, and he looked at the queen without fear, "It's enough for a courtier's daughter to be protected by my minister."

"presumptuous!"

The queen's phoenix eyes concealed anger, "Mu Qi, are you talking to me?"

"I just want you to know that I'm not someone who trades his daughter for glory and wealth." Mu Qi looked even more angry than the queen, "I've treated her badly for many years, and finally got her back. It's too late for me to love her in every possible way. I don't want her." Entering the palace to serve the nobles, and Huahua's temperament is not suitable, the queen empress puts her mind on girls from other families, and the ministers don't need you to worry about it."

The Empress Dowager's eyes were astonishingly bright, "Your Majesty is really a good minister." The neutral words were full of ridicule and dissatisfaction.

"I like the fact that he is not afraid of power and is not easy to be threatened by others." The emperor made no secret of his admiration for Mu Qi, "The commander of the Shenji Battalion only needs to be loyal to me, and he doesn't need to curry favor with anyone."

The queen's heart trembled.

The fan in the emperor's hand played tricks, and he said lazily: "The birthday banquet hasn't started yet? I'm already hungry."

Mu Qi tugged Mu Hua, "Sit with me, don't listen to nonsense from irrelevant people." Mu Qi only had time to wink at Yang Liu for nothing, before Mu Qi took him down the second floor.

The Empress Dowager said flatly: "The emperor is so hungry, it's the Aijia's fault. There is still a few hours before the auspicious time for the banquet, the emperor first used two pieces of birthday peaches to pad his stomach, after all, Aijia's big birthday is always the same. It was calculated by Qin Tianjian, it is not good to disrespect God and change the time. The Ai family can still sit here today and enjoy the emperor's filial piety, thanks to the grace of God not to take back the life of the Ai family last year."

The emperor continued to play with the fan, with a faint sarcasm on his lips, when he saw Liu Sanlang running up to Mu Hua and being treated with disgust by Mu Qi with eyes not eyes, the emperor used the fan to cover the smile on his lips, his warm eyes curved into a smile Cheng Yueya, "Go talk to Mu Qi and teach Liu Sanlang a lesson! Don't show mercy to me."

"...obey the order."

Father-in-law Wuyong didn't dare to look at the face of the empress dowager, he lowered his head and ran down the second floor quickly, and the emperor's casual words came from behind him: "Since I am the queen mother of heaven's grace, I would rather endure hunger and starvation than ruin your auspicious time, dim sum and longevity peaches, I don’t dare to use it, if my mother ruins the auspicious time because of me, and you have poor physique because of it, I can’t bear the name of being unfilial.”

The empress dowager took a deep breath, the heat in her chest dropped a lot, and she said meaningfully: "Actually, Aijia has no regrets seeing the emperor grow up. Now the emperor doesn't need Aijia, and Aijia doesn't need to worry about the emperor being punished by courtiers again." They deceived and deceived you. Even if the Ai family is dead, they still have the face to meet their ancestors. The Ai family raised a good son for the late emperor, a good emperor!"

"The son of Ai's family is no longer the one who was shocked by the courtier's memorial and didn't know how to reply when he first came to the throne. He was so frightened by the military situation of the barbarians that he could only hide behind Ai's family."

The empress dowager took a sip of tea and said with relief: "The Ai family can finally put all these years of hard work into the hands of the emperor. From now on, the Ai family is just a peaceful and wealthy old woman. The Ai family has worked hard for many years and wants to rest."

"Queen, eldest princess."

"Yes, my concubine is here."

"Help Ai's family to rest for a while, and let's go there after the birthday banquet begins."

"……Yes."

The queen glanced at the emperor, and helped the empress dowager to stand up.

"Princess!" The queen mother handed over the other wrist and said with a smile: "We have been separated for many years, mother and daughter, and you have nothing to say to Aijia?"

Princess Honglian was stunned for a moment, then supported the Empress Dowager's wrist, and said softly: "The emperor is filial to you, he is the emperor, and his ambition is not small..."

"The Ai family didn't say he was unfilial."

The Empress Dowager was supported down the second floor and walked slowly towards the Palace of Compassion and Peace.Many courtiers and wives also followed, saying that they were paying their respects to the Empress Dowager in advance.

The emperor propped his chin, looked around the slightly empty surroundings, and raised the corners of his mouth: "I thought it could be avoided, but I can't escape after all. I don't want to see blood all over the capital."

"Your Majesty, just now the Empress Dowager delivered the decree to let Concubine Wei enter the palace. Feng Wei must be the escort to deliver the decree, and the slaves may not be able to stop her."

"...Today is her birthday, I have received this slap!"

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Mu Qi glanced at Liu Sanlang as a warning, and said in a low voice: "The emperor asked me to teach you a lesson, what does this edict mean, I don't need to tell you..."

"It means that I have another respectable elder, and I must follow Uncle Mu's teaching carefully."

Mu Qi paused for a moment, and said in a low voice: "You help me look at Huahua first, today's situation is complicated, you two juniors, don't mess around."

Liu Sanlang nodded, Mu Qi glanced at his daughter worriedly, turned around cruelly and went up to the second floor again, standing beside the emperor to report something.

(End of this chapter)