Emperor's Lazy Queen

Chapter 12

"Uh... You guys should stay warm in this room! Anyway, you'll be fine if you go, it's really cold today, and you have to blow cold wind when you walk back and forth." Du Xiaoyue finally decided to go there alone. up.

In the Taixuan Palace at this time, apart from the queen mother, the emperor Tan Wenhao was also here.

"Emperor, have you never stepped into Zhaoyang Palace in the past four days?" The queen mother leaned on her toffee chair, enjoying the pinching legs and beating the waist of the maids, and sat aside. Said the emperor who was drinking tea heartily.

"Mother, my son is busy with state affairs these days, so I haven't been to the queen's place for the time being." Tan Wenhao put down his teacup and replied with a smile.

"No time?" The Empress Dowager sat upright, "It seems that Concubine Li Gui has served her bed twice. My son, the empress mother knows that you like Concubine Li Gui, but this is the harem, so you can't spoil only one, otherwise...you know the pros and cons of it of!"

Tan Wenhao didn't say anything. He watched the women in the harem fighting in the palace since he was a child. In order to fight for favor, some of them were injured. After watching it for more than 20 years, he has already become numb. "Mother, did the queen complain to you about something?" Tan Wenhao felt that the queen mother specially invited him here to talk about this matter. If it wasn't for what the surname Du said in front of the queen mother, how could the queen mother ask about such things? ?According to people in the palace, the man surnamed Du seems to be very popular with the Queen Mother.

"It would be great if she complained! The Ai family sees that she doesn't have such a heart at all!" The queen mother smiled lightly, "To be honest, the Ai family thinks that girl is honest, unlike her father who looks scheming and has no ambitions. Well, the Ai family wanted to hand over the real power of the harem to her, but she pushed it back to me with a look of consideration for others. However, this is also good, and it suits the Ai family's wishes."

Tan Wenhao just listened silently without saying anything.The power of the Du family can no longer be ignored. If the real power of the harem is added, it is really unimaginable; however, this Du Xiaoyue is really strange, how can there be a queen who does not want to hold the power of the harem?Didn't Du Kangyong tell her that after entering the palace, he would take over the power of the harem queen?But then again, with Du Xiaoyue trembling after seeing the emperor, I'm afraid she doesn't have the ability to control the harem!

"The Ai family just thinks that this Du Xiaopeng is a good girl. Although she is not stunning, the Ai family is quite pleasing to the eye. There is no flashy air in her whole body. She speaks softly and treats people kindly. I heard that she is a concubine. She doesn't have much status, so she doesn't have the arrogance of those ladies, so it's natural, and I'm very happy talking to her." The Queen Mother continued, a little like trying to sell Du Xiaoyue to the emperor, "There are only two things that are not good, and one thing is, She is Du Kangyong's daughter, the Ai family can't spoil her all the time, secondly, she seems to be quite afraid of seeing you, "

"Report to the emperor and the empress dowager, the empress dowager is here." Before she could finish speaking, a court lady came into the room and knelt down to report.

Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager signaled the maids who were beating their legs and waists to stand aside, while Du Xiaoyue also slowly moved into the room.

When Du Xiaoyue entered the room, she realized that besides the queen mother, the emperor was also here in this warm room!It's been three days since I entered the palace, and it's the first time I saw the emperor in the empress dowager's bedroom!One must know that the emperor is a very busy person, how can he have time to sit here?After being stunned for three seconds, Du Xiaoyue quickly knelt down and greeted the two most distinguished figures in the palace: "Du...the concubine pays respects to the emperor and the queen mother." Logically speaking, the elders should be paid respects first, but in In the royal family, the emperor is the boss, and it is right to pay homage to the elders after the emperor.

"Xiaoyue, don't be restrained, get up and sit next to Ai's house." The queen mother smiled and waved to Du Xiaoyue, "Look at your face flushed from the cold, come over here to warm the stove!"

If you don't invite me all the time, my face won't be red from the cold!Du Xiaoyue was just thinking about it in her heart, but she said in her mouth: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for your concern, my concubine is not cold!" No wonder it's not cold, it's still snowing outside, why isn't it cold?And just coming in from the outside, the cold and heat, really can't bear it.If it was normal, Du Xiaoyue would consider going to sit there, but today the emperor is here, everything has to be careful!

"Not cold? You are shaking all over!" The queen mother exposed Du Xiaoyue's prudence very shamelessly.

"No, my concubine...the concubine just saw the emperor... trembling with excitement!" Du Xiaoyue is more and more admiring her ability to open her eyes and tell nonsense, and a random person can be used as a perfect excuse .Du Xiaoyue had never experienced such a cold winter in the south before, and she couldn't bear the cold weather here.

"I'm trembling with fear just looking at it!" The emperor said coolly on the side.This Du Xiaoyue was standing there, her whole body was shaking non-stop. At the same time, she was trying her best not to shake her body, and she also pretended that nothing happened. This kind of state of battle between heaven and man was really seen.

"Your Majesty is joking, why are my concubines afraid of my Majesty?" Du Xiaoyue lowered her head and replied while biting her lips secretly, restraining herself from shaking any more.

"Really?" Tan Wenhao said in a cold voice with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "Then raise your head and watch me reply!"

Don't you tremble just looking at you?Du Xiaoyue pursed her lips, took a deep breath, raised her head, and met those sharp eyes, her body was still shaking, but her heart was peaceful.His eyes are very cold and without warmth, coupled with his handsome face, they appear indifferent and aloof, and at the same time have the feeling of laughing at the world.Such a person should be proud of the world!Du Xiaoyue sighed in her heart, but such a person is also lonely!It's a pity that that good-looking face, if it really smiles, instead of the faint smile at the corner of the mouth, it may be a beautiful person.

Du Xiaoyue's appearance should be considered ordinary in the harem, without any special features, it can only be said that she is not ugly.But the moment she raised her eyes, Tan Wenhao saw the calmness and composure in her eyes. Although her whole body was still shaking, the indifference emanating from the inside out had already shaken her body. It was covered up.But Tan Wenhao saw the pity flashing across her eyes and the slight smile drifting from the corner of her mouth, and was troubled in her heart: what does the pity in her eyes mean? Is she pitying herself?What do you want her to take pity on?Who is she, she actually looks at herself with that kind of eyes!

"Okay, you two don't look at each other there, it makes me, an old woman, feel like I'm superfluous!" The queen mother said with a smile, "Okay, Yue'er, if you feel cold, you Let's go back to the palace first, the Ai family wants to take a nap." After finishing speaking, he still gave the emperor a vague look.

"Yes, Queen Mother." On the surface, Du Xiaoyue answered smoothly, but in her heart she wanted to scold someone. The Queen Mother is simply fooling people. It's freezing cold, so she eagerly summoned herself, but she still hasn't said anything yet. At ten sentences, you will be out of the way!
"The minister there has also retired." Tan Wenhao naturally knew what the queen mother meant, got up, and bowed to the queen mother.

"Okay, okay, okay! You guys go back to the palace first!" The queen mother yawned in a contrived manner at the end of her speech - in Du Xiaoyue's eyes, it was like this. You know, yawning is more important to Du Xiaoyue than eating. Still homely!

After bidding farewell to the Queen Mother, Du Xiaoyue walked slowly behind Tan Wenhao.

What did the Empress Dowager's eyes mean to Tan Wenhao at the end? This is not Du Xiaoyue's concern. The relationship between mother and child should not be guessed by the third person.Why did Du Xiaoyue walk slowly? Isn't she afraid of the cold?

It wasn't that she wasn't afraid of the cold, but that the emperor walked together, and she couldn't stride over him, walk in front of him - if you want to be punished for disrespect, you can try.

With a blank mind, Du Xiaoyue followed the emperor and left the Taixuan Palace.At the intersection leading to the emperor's bedroom and the queen's bedroom, Du Xiaoyue, who was wandering while walking, unexpectedly discovered that the emperor was actually walking on the road towards Zhaoyang Palace.

"Uh..." Du Xiaoyue felt that it was necessary to remind the emperor that he was going the wrong way, "Well, your majesty, you are going the wrong way. The way you took is to Zhaoyang Palace, and you should take the one on the right."

"Did I go the wrong way?" Tan Wenhao stopped, turned around, and looked at Du Xiaoyue whose lips were purple from the cold.

"No...no!" He is the emperor, even if he is wrong, he has to say he is right - if you want to lose your head, you can try to sing the opposite of him blatantly. "Your Majesty, you can go wherever you want. How could you go the wrong way? You're not a three-year-old child..." Du Xiaoyue really wanted to slap her, why talk so much?Why did you say the last sentence without thinking at all? "What the concubine means is that with the emperor's wisdom, of course he wouldn't make the low-level mistake of going the wrong way." Alas, Du Xiaoyue, you really don't have the talent to flatter, how can you say that so wrong!
"The empress doesn't seem to want me to go to Zhaoyang Palace?" Tan Wenhao looked at Du Xiaoyue who lowered her head slightly and kept pursing her lips. She seemed not good at catering to others - she had to admit that her flattery was the most in her life It was the worst time to listen to it, but it felt a sense of freshness.The other concubines were very happy when they saw that she was going to their bedroom, but she was eager to point out that she was "going the wrong way" - her meaning was too obvious.

"It's a honor for the emperor to come to the Zhaoyang Palace where the concubine is. How could he not want you to go, the emperor?" Finally regained his inner composure. All right.What we have to do now is to deal with the emperor's 'whim' - go to Zhaoyang Palace.

Whispered softly, it was no different from the voices of ordinary concubines; timid and timid, it was a 'normal' behavior after seeing the emperor, Du Xiaoyue was evaluating herself in her own heart.Don't let yourself stand out, don't show those things that have been deeply rooted in your bones, and let yourself behave mediocrely, this has always been Du Xiaoyue's mentality when she met the emperor.

(End of this chapter)