famous concubine

Chapter 596
The queen mother did not answer her immediately, but slowly turned her head and looked out the window, staring at the slightly slanting sunlight for a while, then looked away, took a sip of tea leisurely, and then looked at her, saying calmly: "Yes , as long as you stand here and divide the beans, you can leave the palace."

The girl smiled and blessed the Empress Dowager, her voice was cheerful and inexplicable, and said: "Yes, the minister is leading the order."

Seeing her face full of joy, the Queen Mother rolled her eyes in astonishment for a moment; however, the thing that really shocked her happened in the next second, in front of her eyes.

I saw that charming young girl, smiling sweetly, took the box brought by the maid, and then arranged the three small barrels in a line.

Then, she suddenly lifted the box containing three catties of beans, tilted the box with one hand up and one down, and then the beans fell into the three small buckets at an extremely cheerful speed.

In the blink of an eye, she poured all the three catties of red, green and white beans into three small buckets equally.

After the girl finished pouring the beans, in the astonished and angry eyes of the Queen Mother, she suddenly lowered her head and lowered her eyebrows, with a look of sincerity and fear, and said, "I report to the Queen Mother, my daughter is guilty."

"Oh, are you guilty? What are you guilty of?" The queen mother lowered her eyes, and glanced at the three small buckets in front of the girl calmly. Her sharp eyes were filled with forbearance and coldness, and her emotionless voice rang in the girl's ears. .

"Aijia just asked you to pick beans to test your impetuous temperament; what is your fault?" When she uttered the last two words, the Queen Mother's voice suddenly rose a few degrees. Seeing the corners of her eyes twitching, she was clearly impatient. pole.

"My daughter's crime is that my daughter has concealed something from the Queen Mother." The girl's melodious voice contained trepidation, but her lowered eyebrows were flickering with cunning.

"Huh?" The Queen Mother puffed up her chest, although she was furious, she still held her identity and quietly uttered a lukewarm inquiry.

"Because of my recent study of medical books day and night, my vision has been disturbed, and even the color of objects has also been extremely disordered; in fact, as far as my current situation is concerned, um, what I mean is that my daughter can see any color at present. , no matter whether these colors are blue, red or yellow; in the eyes of courtiers, it has only one color, and that is black."

"So these beans, the court lady can't tell what color they are at all, so I can only divide them into three small buckets based on their weight."

When the Queen Mother heard this tricky reason, she was silent for a quarter of an hour without speaking.

Regardless of whether the oriental language is true or not; since this girl dares to raise such a question, even if she summons the imperial doctor to testify, it may be difficult to expose this cunning girl.

Unexpectedly, the girl's mind turned so fast, she asked the girl to pick beans of three colors; the girl immediately thought of the tricky excuse of not being able to distinguish the colors, and pushed her to make things difficult.

But... this girl's calculations are good, but she is not easy to be fooled.

The Empress Dowager's complicated gaze fell on the three small buckets containing beans.

After a while, she looked at Dongfang Yu without showing any emotion, and asked slowly: "So, it's really hard for you to pick beans from Aijia."

"It's just that, once Aijia's decree has been made, it can't be changed casually; otherwise, if the news gets out, people in the world will laugh at Aijia."

Hearing the words in Dongfangyu, his heart skipped a beat for no reason.

She blinked her eyes, turned her eyes and silently glanced at the beans.

Could the queen mother still want to make some ideas from these beans?

The Queen Mother stared indifferently at the girl's slightly surprised expression, and sneered inwardly.

"These beans were originally the easiest to pick out based on their color; but you just said that something happened to your eyes; it is indeed not easy for you to pick these beans; but Aijia thought about it and decided to pick these beans out of them." In addition to distinguishing from the color, you can also distinguish from their different shapes; in this way, the small condition of your eyes will not affect your picking beans."

From their shape to distinguish?

Damn, she sees that the queen mother is probably bored in the harem, thinking of ways to torture people every day when she is full and has nothing to do!
Let her divide the three catties of beans, and her eyes should really suffer from color blindness.

It's getting dark, can you not be blind?
"Ahem..." The suppressed cough sounded in unbearable pain, and suddenly floated in from outside the hall like a ghost.

When the queen mother heard this familiar cough, she couldn't help but frowned helplessly.

Didn't he just leave?Why did it come back for no reason?

That's right, this suppressed coughing sound naturally came from Mobai's mouth, which is his signature feature, and he also likes to use this special way to appear on the stage, not only can it be logical to remind others to pay attention; The coughing sound made others less alert to him.

May I ask, who would be wary of a sick child who coughs all day and probably only has half his life?
"Mobai, why are you back again?" Although the queen mother was puzzled and displeased, she finally softened a little when she saw his uncomfortable appearance.

"Cough... I want to report to the Queen Mother, I don't want to turn around to bother you; but when I came outside the palace gate, I suddenly remembered that the second lady once told me that it's time to change the medicine prescription today; since the second lady is here, I don't want to disturb you." I had no choice but to turn back and ask her for a prescription."

Mo Bai originally had a sickly pale face, but now because of his continuous coughing, he became even paler, almost transparent.

The queen mother squinted her eyes and looked at him for a long time, her eyes were suspicious and implied a bit of helplessness.

After a long while, she sighed faintly, lowered her eyes, her strong face showed a faint tired look, she waved her hand, and sighed: "Okay, then you guys go out."

Dongfang Yu winked quietly at Mo Bai, his eyes were full of smiles, and his face was calm and docile.

The two blessed the Queen Mother, turned around and were about to leave.

But the Queen Mother suddenly raised her head, staring at their backs with treacherous eyes, and said, "Oh, Xiaoyu, after you leave the palace, you should stop by the Leng Mansion to see Princess Youlan."

This kind tone and approachable attitude are not at all like the usual attitude of a woman who rules the harem with dignity and strength.

Hearing this, Dongfangyu and Mo Bai stopped at the same time.

Mo Bai didn't look back, he didn't even move his eyes, he just stood upright like this, with a tall and solitary figure, with his head raised slightly, blending his calm and desolate body into the thin yellow sunlight , the thin and transparent shadow elongated on the ground, dizzy into dots of shadows in a trance.

He kept looking straight at the outside like this, and said slowly and indifferently: "Queen Mother, Xiaoyu's life is equal to the life of my minister. If you insist on letting her go to Leng Mansion, please take it here immediately." It's my life."

(End of this chapter)