Glory all the way

Chapter 224 Brother and Sister
As night fell, the palace lanterns burning everywhere in the palace revealed a soft light, making the solemn Miyagi a little more peaceful during the day.

In the side hall of the Taihe Hall, Emperor Jiayuan was concentrating on reviewing the memorial. Seeing the emperor's handwriting on the memorial was scrawled, Zhou Fu paused in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him with a smile: "Long live, rest for a while, you all I have been reviewing the memorial for more than an hour, if the Queen Mother finds out, I will blame you for not caring about your own body."

Taking a deep breath, Emperor Jiayuan put down the vermilion pen in his hand, raised his eyes and asked, "What time is it?"

"If you go back to Lord Long Live, it's just passed the first moment of Xu time."

Zhou Fu replied softly, with a pair of eyes, involuntarily glanced to the outside of the main hall.

Hearing the announcement of "Princess Qingcheng seeks an audience" from outside, Zhou Fu was relieved immediately, and the next moment, the emperor's voice sounded in his ear, "Princess Xuan, come in."

"Yes, the slave obeys."

Not daring to delay for a moment, Zhou Fu went out to meet him.

Wearing a deep purple floor-length dress, Princess Qingcheng stepped gently across the threshold of the side hall.

Today's her, with high hair on her temples, exquisite makeup, and a long radiant dress, her eyes also seemed to be flashing with inspiration, which was a little more charming and gorgeous than usual.

"I have seen the emperor."

She bent over and saluted, and when she heard the word "Pingshen", Princess Qingcheng got up, walked to the soft stool beside the brocade table and sat down.

A palace maid brought up the freshly brewed hot tea, and Princess Qingcheng held the tea bowl in her palms as if shivering from the cold.

For a long time, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became a little strange.

Seeing this, Zhou Fu raised his eyes and winked at the maidservants and eunuchs standing in the hall, followed them and retreated lightly.

Emperor Jiayuan touched the hot tea bowl, and suddenly there was a smile on his face, "Ling'er, isn't it good to live in the palace? Moving to the Princess Mansion, being alone, isn't it lonely?"

"Brother Xie Huang is sympathetic, but I have long been used to living alone in the palace, and I see them dealing with me with forced faces and smiles all day long. After seeing them a lot, I find it even more boring, so I decided to move out of the palace earlier. Go, everyone is happy."

Princess Qingcheng replied coldly.

The smile on his lips froze, and Emperor Jiayuan raised his eyes to look at her, "Oh? Forced to smile?"

Even the disdainful smile on Princess Qingcheng's face was still as beautiful as the first snow blooming.

"Women in the palace, only when they see you, the emperor, can they smile from the heart. Does the emperor not know it?"

After all, Princess Qingcheng stood up and bowed profusely, "If it wasn't for Sanlang, I would not go to Beijing this time. Once Sanlang recovered from his illness, I would leave for Mobei. So, I hope that Brother Huang will be sympathetic to my sister again." .”

Emperor Jiayuan's face turned black in an instant.

On the back of the hand holding the tea bowl, blue veins with clear lines protruded, and the balls of the fingers turned white due to the use of a lot of force, and the water in the tea bowl shook slightly.

Taking a few deep breaths, Emperor Jiayuan put down the tea bowl, took the bright yellow handkerchief and wiped his hands and said: "You are not taboo, you are not afraid, I killed him because of this?"

Smiling instead of anger, Princess Qingcheng stood up and said with a bright smile: "Brother Huang, you won't do it."

This situation was just like the night before she got married, when Emperor Jiayuan's heart froze, and the cruel words in his mouth just stopped.

The four eyes met each other, one pair of eyes was full of anger, while the other pair of beautiful eyes was calm.

After a while, Emperor Jiayuan was defeated.

"Ling'er, you are sure about me, do you think I won't do anything to you? But even so, I have a limit to tolerance, you can't use this to blackmail me."

Emperor Jiayuan said weakly.

"Threat? Brother Huang, you are joking. In the whole world, besides the empress dowager, who else can threaten you? Ling'er dare not, and she can't."

Giggling, Princess Qingcheng turned around and sat back on the soft stool, but her eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of melancholy.

Princess Qingcheng's words made both of them fall into the memories of the past, and the hall fell into a long silence.

After an unknown amount of time, hurried footsteps sounded outside, Emperor Jiayuan frowned, then raised his eyes, and saw Zhou Fu came in with his head down and said, "Long live, the empress dowager is not feeling well, and the imperial doctor has been ordered Going to Shoukang Palace."

"Understood, get ready to drive away and drive to Shoukang Palace."

Said in a deep voice, Emperor Jiayuan concealed his anger when he heard Zhou Fu's reply.

On the side, Princess Qingcheng laughed again, "Brother, am I wrong? If I sit in the Hall of Harmony for a while longer, she might come chasing me. You still let me live in the palace? For the sake of the empress dowager I'm in good health, I'd better move out of the palace."

Saying that, disregarding Emperor Jiayuan's darkened face again, Princess Qingcheng got up and walked away.

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Zhou Fu's forehead, but he stood aside with his head down, wishing that he was not in the hall.

Deathly silence.

Zhou Fu didn't even dare to look up to see Emperor Jiayuan's face.

I don't know how long it took, only to see the tassels under the curtain of the imperial case swaying, Emperor Jiayuan got up and walked over, "Go and see the Queen Mother."

"Yes."

Lifting his sleeves to wipe his sweat, Zhou Fu hurriedly followed.

In Shoukang Palace, after hearing the little eunuch's reply, the Empress Dowager waved her hands impatiently.

"The slave retire."

Kneeling and kowtowing, the little eunuch stepped back out of the inner hall, and the next moment, he heard the voices of maidservants kowtowing to Emperor Jiayuan in the courtyard.

"What did the imperial doctor say?"

Outside the screen, Emperor Jiayuan asked Nanny Lu who had served the Empress Dowager personally for decades.

"Returning to Lord Long Live, the imperial doctor said that the Empress Dowager caught a cold, which caused her old illness, so she should calm down and recuperate for a few days, and it will not be a problem. Therefore, Lord Long Live is relieved."

Nanny Lu replied.

With the sound of footsteps, Emperor Jiayuan entered the inner hall, and sat on the soft stool in front of the heating kang from a distance, "Queen mother, are you feeling better?"

The Empress Dowager's brows were a little more gloomy.

She didn't seem to remember the last time the emperor sat beside her, held her hand and told herself to rest well.

Could it be that their mother and son have become estranged to this point?
The Queen Mother sighed, "It's been an old problem for so many years. It's like this when it comes to winter. There's nothing wrong with it. According to the imperial doctor's advice, just take care of it."

"The queen mother is good to rest. When she recovers from her illness, why not go to the garden in the suburbs of Beijing to recuperate for a while, and when the seal is sealed, I will pick you up for the new year, okay?"

Emperor Jiayuan suggested.

In previous years, as soon as winter came, the Empress Dowager's body was always sick and recovered. Therefore, most of the time, she lived in the royal garden on the outskirts of Beijing, and would not come back until the year before.

But this year, because of the return of Princess Qingcheng, when Emperor Jiayuan said these words again, the Queen Mother couldn't help thinking a little deeper.

Looking fixedly at Emperor Jiayuan, the Empress Dowager's eyes were full of judgment and reproach.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager said quietly: "The old man said well, I can't help my mother, now, Ai's family is really old."

What the Queen Mother said suddenly ignited the anger in Emperor Jiayuan's heart.

"Queen, Concubine Rou has been with the late emperor for so many years. No matter how much hatred and resentment you have in your heart, it should be gone. You put all your dissatisfaction with Concubine Rou on Ling'er, isn't it too much?" Isn't it fair?"

Emperor Jiayuan suppressed the anger in his heart.

"unfair?"

The voice suddenly became sharp, and the queen mother sat up and looked at Emperor Jiayuan in disbelief: "It's not fair? Aijia treated her badly. You think it's unfair. How did the first emperor treat Aijia? As a son of man, have you ever complained about the injustice of the mourning family, and went to the former emperor to say something unfair for the mourning family?"

The emotional agitation made the empress dowager pant heavily, and gradually, her face turned from white to red, and her irritability made her very different from the dignified and kind empress dowager in front of people.

Emperor Jiayuan couldn't bear it in his heart, so he stepped forward to sit on the side of the warm kang, stretched out his hand to stroke the Queen Mother's back, and persuaded softly: "Mother, I know that you are suffering in your heart. Without you, I would not be where I am today. Therefore, my son I feel sorry for you and understand you, and I will not disobey you for anything. However, the grievances of the previous generation should not affect Linger, she is innocent. Now, Xiao Han died in battle, and his mother, Linger, is not yet 30 years old. Can't you have the slightest bit of pity?"

Emperor Jiayuan's actions warmed the empress dowager's cold heart a little, but his words, like snow pouring down from the nine heavens, enraged the empress dowager again in an instant.

"Have pity on her? Seeing her face, the Ai family will not think of that lowly maid. I want the Ai family to take pity on her unless the Ai family dies."

The Queen Mother said angrily.

The appearance of Princess Qingcheng is [-]% similar to that of her mother, Concubine Rou. If she changed her clothes and makeup, it would probably be [-]% similar. Seeing Princess Qingcheng, the Queen Mother saw Concubine Rou through her face, and then saw her and the former emperor. The scenes of tenderness and sweetness, so since Princess Qingcheng grew up, every time she saw her, the disgust in the queen mother's heart deepened.

Emperor Jiayuan couldn't hold back what the queen mother said.

The action of stroking the queen mother's back suddenly stopped, Emperor Jiayuan stood up, said coldly, "The queen mother rests, the son has political affairs to deal with", and hurried out of the inner hall.

Accompanied by the back view of Emperor Jiayuan striding away with a face full of cold smoke, the medicine bowl and teacup on the kang table in the inner hall shattered to the ground. Nanny Lu fell on her knees to send the emperor away, and quickly got up and went in. In the inner hall, after a while, the empress dowager's repressed cursing and Lu Nanny's coaxing voices sounded in the inner hall.

Princess Qingcheng's belongings were moved in after the Princess Mansion on Qingping Street was renovated, only her belongings remained in the palace.

On the second day, Qin Tianjian calculated the auspicious day for relocation, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs moved out of the palace and moved into the Princess Mansion according to the rules according to Princess Qingcheng's wishes.

After the morning court, in the side hall of the imperial study, a maidservant was dragged down by Zhou Fu's orders because the tea was too hot, and sent to Shen Xing Si Zhang to punish her with twenty sticks.

(End of this chapter)