Palace scheming: Empress Leng Gong I

Chapter 47
After rearranging her clothes and hair, she took a deep breath, adjusted her mood slightly, and went out to see him again.

Xuanyuanze in the imperial study had already sat upright in front of the case, and was seriously reviewing the memorial. When passing by him, Yun Qing saw that his resolute handsome face was a little cold.

"Since the queen has already come, let's go back after you have something to say!" Just as Yun Qing bowed slightly to him and was about to withdraw, Xuanyuan Ze's cold voice reached Yun Qing's ears at the right time.

She paused, turned around and saw that he didn't even raise his head, as if he was just asking casually.

"Back to the Emperor, the Empress Dowager intends to go to Huangjue Temple to offer incense and worship the Buddha recently, and ask Yun Qing to come to consult the Emperor's opinion, can the selection banquet be held as soon as possible?" Yun Qing replied respectfully with her head lowered.

The air in the study room became a little oppressive for a while, and the attitude between the two of them was so alienated that even Yun Qing was a little uncomfortable, and getting along with them these days was even more embarrassing.

Xuanyuanze glanced at her indifferently, then continued to approve the memorial in his hand, and said casually: "Since the queen and the queen mother are so keen, let's choose it in the future."

"The day after tomorrow?" Yun Qingxiu frowned and raised her head.

"Why, the empress thinks it's not right?" Xuanyuan Ze didn't raise his head to Yun Qing's question, and there was a faint dissatisfaction in his voice.And the hand holding the pen has swollen veins, clearly suppressing the unhappiness in his heart.

She was the one who asked to hold a banquet by herself several times, and she was the one who disdained to serve him. Now that he complied with her request, she was not satisfied!
Could it be that she really had to force him to go crazy like before to be satisfied?

Yun Qing also heard the dissatisfaction in his tone, and hurriedly explained, "I'm afraid that the time will be a little short in the future, so why not set it on the 28th of this month! After Xuanfang, Yun Qing can also start to arrange for the first day of the junior high school. incense ceremony."

"Then it's 28. The empress will handle everything carefully, so I can rest assured. As long as the empress remembers to send someone to remind me, I will go there directly."

It turned out to be just because of this!

Xuanyuanze heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hand lightly when he heard the sound, and ordered: "Okay, if the queen has nothing else to do, then step back first!"

Even though he immersed himself in the review just now, he couldn't read a damn word.He thought, if she continued to stay here, she wouldn't be able to finish reading these notebooks tomorrow.

"Yes, Yun Qing is leaving!" With a bow, Yun Qing suddenly felt a little depressed when he turned to leave.

This weird feeling didn't come from what happened between the two of them just now, but from the short, business-like dialogue between her and the people inside.

She suddenly sighed, it turns out that people's hearts are really changeable!The moment before, he still looked gloomy, but the moment after, he was as cold as ice.

After the incident in the Imperial Study Room the day before yesterday, Yun Qing and Xuanyuan Ze never saw each other again.

One was that Yun Qing deliberately avoided him, and the other was because of the good news from Southeast Flying Pigeon in the past two days, saying that after the corpses were burned, the spread of the plague had been brought under control.Although some critically ill patients died one after another, no one else was newly infected. It is believed that the plague will be completely controlled in the near future.

After gathering the imperial physicians of the palace and some well-known local doctors to fight day and night, they finally found the best medicine to completely cure the plague.

It was Li Qinglan who sent the letter from the flying pigeon, asking the emperor to send medicine for reinforcements, and to rest assured that the plague would be completely eliminated in about half a month, and there would be no more such plagues to worry about.

Today is the day when the emperor holds a selection banquet, and Yun Qing has been busy these two days.

When she came out of Concubine Hua's Palace in the morning, she happened to meet Yun Ya and Zhao Cairen who were going to visit. Although they both saluted and greeted Yun Qing when they saw Yun Qing, Yun Qing saw that Yun Ya's face was written all over. hatred of oneself.

Yun Qing didn't pay any attention to this, just dismissed the two of them lightly, and then left Zhu Hua Palace.

After lunch, Yun Qing was not idle at all.From the selection of seats at the selection banquet to the dishes she chose, she had to go through them one by one, and then assigned Xiao Taohong and the chief eunuch of the imperial dining room to go and check them carefully.

Later, Ling Ge will present the selected singers and dancers and all the repertoires for Yun Qing to choose. Finally, Yun Qing will also present the pure gold waist engraved with the names and ranks of all the beautiful girls specially made by someone earlier. The cards were given out one by one for them to show their strengths at the dinner party and the then emperor could pick them up.

It wasn't until the lights came on that Yun Qing was finally free. After taking a bath, accompanied by Bitao and the others, she set off for the Liangyi Palace to have a banquet.

The most attractive thing about the palace at night is the beautiful lights that are radiant and dazzling.

Especially when banquets are held in the palace, the whole palace is full of flowers, which is three points more charming than the palace in daytime.

"The empress is here!" As Yun Qing stepped onto the steps of the palace, the eunuchs on both sides outside the palace also shouted their greetings, and the slightly warm atmosphere inside the palace quickly fell silent.

"My concubine is waiting to see the empress, the empress is a thousand years old!" When the queen stepped into the hall, everyone bowed to her at the same time, and after she smiled and let everyone calm down, all the women in the hall gave a slight smile. Fu, and then return to their respective places.

After everyone looked up and saw the queen who was dressed lightly tonight, they were startled, and when they looked neutral, there was a look of surprise, making everyone involuntarily look at Yun Qing and then at the dresses of themselves and others, and suddenly found that, I really made a mistake in how I dressed tonight.

It turned out that although Yun Qing was wearing a queen's red dress, apart from wearing a phoenix hairpin representing the queen, she only stabbed a few exquisite jade bead flowers obliquely at the temples of the cloud, and then pulled the loose Two strands of hair hang down to the side of the neck. The whole dress is extremely simple, but it makes people look dignified and elegant.

Such a queen made all the women in the palace secretly annoyed, especially Yun Ya, seeing the stunningly beautiful Yun Qing, her beautiful eyes immediately turned a little cold.

She didn't expect that Yun Qing's simple makeup would easily become the envy of everyone, and even though she spent so much time dressing up, she couldn't compare to her casual hair.

Sure enough, Shibie will look at her with admiration for three days. She, Yun Qing, is really no longer the incompetent lady in Yunfu who let herself be trampled on easily.

And Yun Qing's face was calm, ignoring Yun Ya's jealous gaze, but her beautiful eyes swept towards the group of gorgeous women one by one, smiling indifferently.In the end, her eyes fell on Bai Zixian, who was the only one dressed up tonight.

She found that tonight when all the women were competing for beauty, she was the only one wearing only a light blue dress, with only a gold hairpin that she had rewarded earlier on her head.

There was only a light layer of makeup on her face, and against the backdrop of a group of beautiful women, although she was clear, she looked very pleasing to the eye.Yun Qing found that although her appearance was only considered good-looking, her gentle and light demeanor made people feel very comfortable.

Bai Zixian, who had been sitting alone all this time, was also looking at the queen who had just entered the palace. Their eyes met. The queen smiled at her and nodded in satisfaction; Thoughtful.

"The emperor is here, the concubine Hua is here!" The voice of the eunuch's transmission came again from outside the hall, Yun Qing stood up calmly, and waited quietly for Xuanyuan Ze who entered the hall with all the women of his highness, facing him who was walking towards him Looking at him, he said: "The concubine has seen it, long live the emperor, long live long live!"

"The empress is free." Xuanyuanze stretched out his hand to gently support Yun Qing, and with a flick of his back clothes, he sat down on the throne in front of him, waved his big hand, and said loudly to the people below: "Your honor is flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" All the girls thanked in unison, and at this moment Concubine Hua also gave Yun Qingying a blessing, and said softly: "Sister Hua Concubine pays respects to Queen and Sister, and wishes my sister all blessings!"

"My sister is pregnant, so there is no need to perform such courtesy in the future!" Yun Qing didn't reach out to stop her, but calmly watched Concubine Hua give her a complete blessing, and then raised her hand to give way.

And everyone can also see that although the Queen's voice is gentle, she doesn't really mean to avoid Concubine Hua's ceremony.

From this point of view, it is impossible to figure out who is more honored and favored among the current empress and concubine Hua.

"Thank you sister for your concern! Hehe, my sister is not pregnant yet, how can she be so fragile?" He Ruowan felt hatred in her heart, but smiled calmly on her face.

She glanced at the only seat next to the emperor with her beautiful eyes, and immediately tightened her fingertips, without taking a step, she just smiled and asked: "I don't know where my sister should sit at this moment, please give me some pointers."

She originally thought that, as the main concubine second only to the empress, she should also sit with the emperor at the banquet.

But she did not expect that this woman, Yun Qing, would be so insidious that she would forcefully squeeze her seat, leaving only the seat for the empress and empress to sit together.

Hmph, did she think that she could squeeze herself away from the emperor with such a small trick?
"Because my sister is pregnant, I was worried that my sister's taste would conflict with the emperor's, so I ordered someone to prepare a baby-raising meal. Let's see if it suits your taste, sister?" Yun Qing sat beside Xuanyuanze. , looked at He Ruowan standing in front of him faintly, smiled and raised his sleeves and pointed to an independent empty seat not far away, signaling He Ruowan to sit there.

"Chenqie, thank you sister for taking so much trouble for my sister. In fact, my sister has a good appetite recently. I don't feel sick for the time being, but my sister has a heart." Disdain.

Although he was a little unwilling, he still thanked Yun Qingfu, and then sat on his seat alone.

Xuanyuan Ze didn't interrupt, just glanced at the decoration scene in the hall indifferently, turning a blind eye to the woman below who was throwing winking eyes intentionally or unintentionally.A pair of charming handsome eyes are slightly deep. Compared with the smiling emperor in the draft that day, today he looks very cold and attractive.

He saw that Yun Qing had really put a lot of thought into today's party selection. It seemed that she was not only concerned about choosing a party for herself, but also seemed to be very enthusiastic about it!
After what happened between the two of them in the imperial study a few days ago, she didn't see him at all these days.Even the news that she was going to the banquet was notified, but only one eunuch in her palace came.

He was wondering, if it wasn't for these trivial matters, would she have been able to avoid him all the time, and even never see him!

"Since everyone has arrived, the queen will announce the opening of the banquet!" Xuanyuan Ze's voice couldn't help but be a bit dull when he turned to look at the beautiful woman beside him.

It is said that women are the ones who please themselves, but every time she sees her, she never pays attention to dressing up, but she is so beautiful that he can't take his eyes off him, so that he can't tolerate anyone else except her.

"Yunqing obeys the order!" Respectfully, Yunqing immediately asked Ling Ge to announce the opening of the banquet, and then under Ling Ge's order, the instrumental music, singing and dancing that had already been prepared also came on stage.

Therefore, all the people in the room ate the delicacies carefully prepared by the Imperial Dining Room, accompanied by the melodious orchestral sound, and admired the beautiful dancers with beautiful postures. Today's selection feast officially started.

"Why didn't the queen wait for me today?" Amidst the sound of the orchestra, Yun Qing heard the people around her suddenly speak, and the tone was unpleasant, which made her raise her head inexplicably.

She saw that the man was looking at her upright, his handsome eyes concealed some dissatisfaction, and he was asking her for a crime with a sullen face.

"Uh, does the emperor mean to come to Fangyi Hall tonight?" Yun Qing was slightly stunned, not knowing what he was talking about.

If it was because of this, then she was puzzled, didn't he and Concubine Hua walk together just now?Why do you say that you don't wait for him at this moment?
"The empress is well-educated and sensible, and she does things safely. Why don't you know that on such important occasions as the empress and empress, you will walk together?" His complexion was not good, looking at Yun Qing's clear and beautiful eyes, his anger increased little by little.

She looked so innocent, Yun Qing didn't expect him to blame her for this matter, he felt that he was dissatisfied with her heart and made things difficult on purpose.

With a faint smile, she looked straight into those suddenly deep eyes, and the corner of her lips raised a mocking arc: "Then Yunqing, please ask the emperor, is the emperor's wedding an important occasion?"

She has always been trying her best to do her duty as a queen, but he, who has violated this rule from the beginning, suddenly wants to restrain himself at this moment, which is really unimaginable.

"Are you blaming me?" Xuanyuanze tightened his palms, and his original anger suddenly disintegrated because she suddenly mentioned the situation of the wedding day. With a soft voice, his pair of handsome eyes locked tightly on her also disappeared. Can't help showing a trace of self-blame and light joy.

He thought that she would always ignore any indifference and difficulties from him; he thought that he would not have any fluctuations in her heart at all; he thought that only she could easily make her chest tight, and she would be forever The wind is clear and the clouds are calm.

But she will suddenly blame herself, is it because she is in her heart, is she already different from before?
Seeing the complex look in his eyes that suddenly overflowed, Yun Qing was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help thinking about the reason for the sarcastic words she blurted out just now.

Is she blaming him?
It seems that from the very beginning, she didn't care about his ruthless behavior during his wedding; all along, she never cared about making things difficult for him, but how could she suddenly want to retort uncontrollably?
"Yunqing doesn't blame the emperor. The emperor is deeply affectionate. He is a rare infatuated man. How could Yunqing blame the emperor for his infatuation for a woman he loves?" After thinking about it, she couldn't figure it out either. He could only shake his head in denial.

But I don't want to, her words are even more resentful when heard by others.

She could feel that Xuanyuan Ze's gaze became a little inexplicable after hearing her words, the anger just now was gone forever, and even the corners of his lips that had never been raised since entering the palace, immediately raised slightly.

With a hot face, Yun Qing suddenly realized that he seemed to have said something wrong again.And his smile made her even more flustered suddenly, and she felt a little embarrassed because she said more and more wrong things at this time.

"I also hope that my infatuation can only be given to one person!" And this person is you!

He stared at her deeply, the tenderness in his eyes made Yun Qing a little surprised and flustered.

He kept the last sentence deep in his heart!The reason why he didn't say it was because he knew that with her heart, she would never agree with his sudden love for her.

In her eyes, she has always loved Wan'er deeply, but that love now confuses him.

He has indeed been infatuated with Wan'er for many years, and has always had her in his heart, and is willing to continue to love her for the rest of his life.But Yun Qing's appearance made him gradually realize that the gentle and virtuous Wan'er in his eyes was actually full of dark scheming, so strange that he didn't want to recognize it.

But Yun Qing is so unique, like a snow lotus isolated from the world, proudly standing on the top of a cliff that is far away from his reach, he can only feel his heart beat, but he can't pluck it.

Her cold and indifferent posture can always easily make him angry; her clear and clear eyes always inadvertently make him fall in love with her; her prettyness and beauty always make him want to follow her The figure of lingering...

I thought that her indifference towards her was a means by which she wanted to attract her attention; I thought that when I saw the detached care for her by Brother Huang and Brother Yi, I was just angry at her for being unruly and seductive. Three hits and four; I thought that the reason she was desperate to stand in her way that time was just because she had a heart for herself...

However, when her shadow had unconsciously reflected on his heart, he discovered that she was thinking of someone else.It was the mysterious man who openly asked him to see her because of her.

Yun Qing, did she know how extremely angry his heart must have been at that moment?

He even had a crazy impulse to make her truly his own woman from now on; let her, in his heart and eyes, only have one himself!
However, her sad tears and indifferent expression can easily awaken his impulse, making him just want to really walk into her heart in his own way.

He thought so much, in her eyes, he could see even a little affection for him, but he failed.

Her beautiful eyes, which are as clear as a mirror, are always filled with disdain and disregard for herself.

Yunqing, oh Yunqing, does she know how much effort he has spent in order to read the tenderness he wanted to see from her eyes?
"What does a beloved man want, but he hopes to be with him for the rest of his life. Yun Qing is really happy for Concubine Hua's younger sister. It is also her blessing in this life to have the emperor's affection. Although the emperor may have thousands of harem, he can be loved by three thousand Being in one body is the greatest luck in her life. Yun Qing hopes that she can live up to the love of the emperor and grow old with him!" Yun Qing smiled and wished them sincerely.

She knew that the person he loved was Concubine Hua, and as an emperor, he was rarely infatuated.

It's just because he is an emperor, the love between Concubine Hua and him has changed unknowingly.Provoking her over and over again made her sympathize with Xuanyuan Ze.

If he saw He Ruowan like that, how shocked would he be?

(End of this chapter)