The queen is alluring

Chapter 63

"So the empress wants to leave the palace so much." Suddenly, the emperor threw away Gong'e, who was tidying up her robe sleeves, with a displeased voice.

Yun Qing raised her head in doubt, only to see the emperor's dark and deep eyes staring at her. It was impossible to detect happiness or anger, but the displeasure was very obvious.

Ling Yexuan's long and narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, could he smile so brightly when he returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion?He also saw this kind of smile in the woods on the back mountain that day, and in those few days, he was inexplicably entangled in whether she, who was smart and calm, was so scheming and unprepared in private.

Thinking of her cold and defensive attitude towards him, but how she treats others so gently and submissively in private, Ling Yexuan felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart, which made him want to get angry.

The atmosphere was still good just now, but suddenly it became gloomy and solidified because of the emperor's wrath, but the maid's legs trembled in fright, and she knelt on the ground with a plop, unable to speak, but trembling uncontrollably, sobbing .

"Your Majesty, forgive me. These court ladies are very young and have never served before, so they don't know the rules." Eunuch Zhao hurriedly smoothed things over, and straightened the emperor's cuffs while talking.In fact, the sleeves were good, and there was nothing wrong with them.

"Empress, go back early, I'm going to court early too." The emperor glared at Yun Qing coldly, and then strode out of the bedroom.

A gust of cold wind mixed with a faint scent of ambergris blew past her, and Yun Qing's body couldn't help but stiffen.For some reason, the emperor's moodiness made her feel ominous and uneasy....

At five o'clock, it was not yet bright, and the gray sky was covered with sporadic raindrops, small and subtle, but with the coolness of autumn.

Because the Empress Dowager conceived a reward for visiting relatives, and used a red pen to delineate the Minister of Rites to personally organize the reception. Therefore, at Maozheng, Bizhu led thirty young eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rush from Jianzhang Palace to Chenqi Palace. , issued the imperial decree to the empress dowager, counted the rewards, and after confirming that they were all the same, took the empress's gold seal and stamped it, and sent it back to Jianzhang Palace for a reply.

Then, I saw that the gold ingots, jewelry, silk and satin cloth, etc. that were rewarded were all wrapped in large boxes tied with big red flowers, loaded onto cars in batches, and escorted out of the palace by thousands of additional imperial guards sent by the palace. The [-] people on duty from the Ministry of Internal Affairs held high the signs of respect and evasion, and beat the gong with music, so that the mighty and magnificent scene along the way was blocked by the people of Jinling, and there were endless voices of admiration and admiration.

And Yun Qing, under the escort of Leng Zhantian, rode in the same carriage with Man'er, and returned to the prime minister's mansion first.

The gates of the two vermilion bronze lions of the prime minister's mansion had already been opened, the sound of firecrackers shook the sky, red chips were flying, red lanterns were hung, and the gold-plated plaque was tied with red silk and satin. From a distance, it looked like a mass of bright red Burning flame.

Feng Luan stopped in front of the prime minister's residence, Leng Zhantian helped Yun Qing off the sedan chair, and then stepped into the palace surrounded by a group of people.

"Old Minister Leng Zhong, all the family members of the mansion welcome the empress to return to the mansion to visit her relatives. The empress is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old." The young servants knelt down and kowtowed in unison, shouted three times, and prostrated and kowtowed.

"Father, please get up." Yun Qing stepped forward and committed himself to helping Leng Zhong up.

"Old minister, thank you empress." Leng Zhong stood up slowly, looking at Yun Qing's immature but resolute face with eyes full of love and longing, tears almost overflowed from his eyes.

"The next official greets the old prime minister." At this time, a low voice with a polite smile sounded outside the door, and everyone immediately looked back, only to see Wu Yisi, Minister of Rites, stepping into the door with a smile, clasped his fists and said with a smile: " Congratulations to the old prime minister and congratulations to the empress."

"Master Wu" Leng Zhong hurriedly suppressed the excitement just now, and instantly recovered his usual gentle, but wise and calm smile, and stepped forward: "Master Wu has been tired all the way, Leng has already prepared some thin wine, To reward my lord for working so hard all the way."

Wu Yisi wanted to be upright, and he was on official business, so he declined with a smile: "It's unnecessary, in fact, it should be a blessing for me to be an official, but now that the ceremony is over, I don't want to be an official." Disturbing your empress, Yu Guozhang and Guojiu are reunited, and the empress dowager is still waiting for the next official to go back and reply to the order."

"It turns out that Master Wu still has official duties, so Leng won't keep him. If Your Excellency goes to the palace to see the Empress Dowager, I hope you will go back and tell the Empress Dowager. The old minister is grateful for the Empress Dowager's kindness." Leng Zhong said with a smile.As long as he is no longer in front of Yun Qing, he is a deep and wise prime minister in the officialdom.

"That's for sure, I'll take my leave now," Wu Yisi said, and then kowtowed to Yunqing: "The empress has worked hard all the way, and she hopes to cherish the phoenix's body, and rest earlier."

"Thank you for your concern, Man'er, for seeing off Master Wu and all the nuns and adults of the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Yun Qing said indifferently, and then winked at Man'er.

"Slave servants to send you adults." Man'er understood Yun Qing's meaning, and hurriedly led a few maids holding silver ingots and silk and satin cloths to follow the footsteps of those adults and hurried out of the gate. The maids and eunuchs of the House of Internal Affairs and Jianzhang Palace all offered rewards one by one, and Wu Yisi was rewarded heavily.

Half an hour later, Yun Qing returned to the backyard surrounded by everyone.

However, as soon as they entered the room in the backyard, Leng Zhong and Leng Zhantian couldn't wait to ask Yun Qing how he was doing in the past few days and whether he had suffered any grievances.

The family's concern warmed Yun Qing's heart, but she still sensed the clues from their uneasy expressions, so she asked directly: "What did father and brother hear in the palace?"

Yun Qing walked slowly to an ebony table, and sat down on the soft cushion at the side with a little tiredness. There was a bit of tiredness that couldn't be concealed on that delicate and petite face.

Because the bed was occupied by the little emperor last night, she sat on the phoenix couch outside the hall all night. Now, with the complicated family-confessing etiquette, Yun Qing's six-year-old child's body was already a bit overwhelmed.

Both Leng Zhong and Leng Zhantian were slightly taken aback, but they thought that Yun tended to be intelligent and introverted, so they didn't hide anything, and said: "To tell you the truth, Empress, more than ten days ago, the old minister did hear something unfavorable to the court. The gossip of the empress."

Although Leng Zhong didn't say what the rumor was, Yun Qing already knew it.

"So?" Yun Qing raised his cold eyes to look at Leng Zhong, whose complexion was tense, and his eyes were full of deep but troubled expression, and asked expressionlessly.

"Empress Mingjian, if it's an ordinary concubine, it's fine, but if it's a beautiful woman, I'm afraid it will anger the emperor..." Leng Zhong blurted out, but suddenly felt something wrong and stopped. His brows were tightened, and Shen Rui's eyes were a little uneasy.

(End of this chapter)