Emperor's Lazy Queen

Chapter 18

"Queen, don't you justify yourself?" The queen mother leaned slightly and asked solemnly.

"The concubine has violated the palace rules, and the concubine has nothing to say." Du Xiaoyue still lowered her head, as if she was about to cry, "So the concubine accepts any punishment from the queen mother and the emperor."

"Every prisoner will try every means to justify himself so as not to be punished. But the queen looks like she is eager to be punished. Does the queen like being punished?" Tan Wenhao said calmly, "Queen, lift up Let me start answering my words." I accidentally saw her calm but smiling eyes that day, it was very unforgettable, and at the same time, I was also curious, every time she faced herself, there was a gleam in her eyes What is it, is it really as she has shown, panic or just lowering her head to hide her truest emotions?
"Back to the emperor, it's not that the concubine doesn't defend herself! The concubine knows that the palace rules are the face of the royal family. If the concubine violates the rules of the palace, she violates... the royal family's face. Therefore, the concubine can't justify herself." !Almost said the wrong thing again, Du Xiaoyue breathed a sigh of relief in the dark, and at the same time lowered her head even lower, staring straight at the floor, trying to warm the cold ground, "So, please punish the queen mother and the emperor, my concubine No complaints." Hurry up and sentence, kneeling here is neither soft nor warm, it is very tiring!

After Du Xiaoyue finished speaking, the whole room was surprisingly quiet, and all that could be heard was the sound of light breathing.

"Queen, get up first!" The queen mother spoke slowly, turned her head and glanced at Tan Wenhao who had been looking at Du Xiaoyue coldly, and then looked at all the concubines sitting below with serious faces, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, "Queen, this time Shi Ai's family has made a decision in their hearts, so don't worry about it."

"Yes!" Du Xiaoyue, who was wearing a phoenix robe, stood up, still lowered her head, but her body did not continue to tremble, because at this moment, for some reason, Du Xiaoyue wanted to shake her whole body, but she couldn't do anything ——As calm and indifferent as if the teacher caught him into the office and punished him every day for sleeping in class every day.

"Yang Shanggong, tell me, what punishment will you receive if you intentionally miss the palace?" The queen mother asked Yang Shanggong who was standing beside him in a nonchalant manner.

"Back to the Empress Dowager, there are different punishment methods depending on the seriousness of the circumstances and the reasons..."

"Just talk about the queen's situation." The emperor interrupted Yang Shanggong's long speech that was about to be endorsed in a cold voice impatiently, "You have been following the queen today. You know the situation best, so you answer the truth."

"Back to the emperor, back to the queen mother." Yang Shanggong seemed a little worried that he would be punished, and suddenly knelt down, "According to the queen's situation, she should be punished with three months of confinement."

Ah!Sure enough, as I expected, it seems that I had read the palace rules randomly that day, and still remembered some things that were useful to me!The corner of Du Xiaoyue's mouth raised slightly, she liked this way of punishment very much.

"Get up, go down first." The queen mother said to Yang Shanggong, and then looked at Du Xiaoyue, looking at the head that had been pointing at her, "Queen, I think you are the first offender. Let me punish you with two months of confinement, and during the confinement period, you are not allowed to step out of Zhaoyang Palace."

"Thank you for the grace of the queen." Changing the title at the right time has brought us closer - although I really don't like her "extra merciful grace" in my heart, I still have to look happy on the surface!Two-Face!Du Xiaoyue lamented in her heart that if she continued to live in this palace like this, she would really soon become an out-and-out double-faced person. !
With the "gift" from the Empress Dowager, Du Xiaoyue walked briskly along the way, humming an out-of-tune tune towards Zhaoyang Palace.The red silk and green bamboo on the side were very puzzled: Miss was fined and grounded, why is she so happy?
"Miss!" Qingzhu couldn't help herself, and regardless of the time and place, she asked anxiously, "Miss, you have only been in the palace for less than a month, and you were punished by the empress dowager, aren't you sad at all? Is it embarrassing to punish you like this in front of the empress?"

sad?Embarrassed?Du Xiaoyue didn't feel it at all, but liked what the queen mother did today!However, Du Xiaoyue couldn't say these words out of course! "Oh, it's really sad and embarrassing!" Du Xiaoyue said perfunctorily.

Of course, Hongsi could hear Du Xiaoyue's absent-minded words, but she didn't say anything, she just took a deep breath silently - it was not the first day that Du Xiaoyue was out of state, she could ignore other concubines and go to Zhaoyang every day The palace showed off how the emperor favored them, but Du Xiaoyue was always in a daze, no matter what they said, she could still greet them with a smile!Could it be that she really didn't care that the emperor never favored her?
"But Qingzhu sees that miss is very happy now!" Qingzhu exposed Du Xiaoyue's lies face to face.

"Kiss the green bamboo!" Du Xiaoyue stopped, turned around, and smiled slightly at the green bamboo and red silk, "What kind of mood do you think I should be in right now? Do you want to cry and cry? Beating and scolding like a resentful woman, and then crying and passing out gorgeously—is this the ultimate sadness?

I don’t know if you have heard a saying that things must return—that is to say, when people are deeply sad, they don’t cry but laugh; when they are extremely happy, they don’t laugh but cry!So, it's not that I'm not sad now, but very sad! "

"Really?!" Qingzhu didn't really believe it. After looking at Du Xiaoyue's face for more than ten seconds, she still refused to believe that Du Xiaoyue was as sad as she said. Laughing, and still laughing with pride!

"Of course it's steamed! Otherwise, it's boiled?" Du Xiaoyue couldn't hide the smile in her eyes, she turned around and walked back, "Let's go! I'm so sad, I want to go back and eat to make up for my injury young heart!"

"Miss, do you want to turn grief and anger into appetite?" Qingzhu asked Hongsi softly.

"Almost!" Hongsi also said softly, "I guess she's already hungry!" No matter what she said about steaming or cooking, anyway, the saying about eating must be true!
It was night, in the imperial study room, the candlelight was flickering, but three figures could still be seen clearly, besides the bright yellow figure, there were two black figures standing in front of the bright yellow figure respectfully.

"Nongdie, what's the situation in Du's mansion today?" Tan Wenhao looked at the two men in black with their faces covered, and asked one of them without any emotion.

"The queen returns to the Du mansion today, and the whole family of the Du mansion will welcome you." One of them bowed slightly and replied, "It's just that the people in the Du mansion are not relatives from other countries. Angrily. Later, the empress had a little conflict with Prime Minister Du." The man in black paused for a moment, glanced at Ming Huang's figure, and continued, "The empress asked to stay overnight in Du's mansion. Agreed, when the two sides were at a stalemate, Prime Minister Du's second wife, the queen's own mother, came out to smooth things over—the queen seemed to listen to the second wife Du's words very much."

"The Queen wants to stay in the Du Mansion?" Tan Wenhao repeated it softly, followed by a moment of silence.

The two men in black still stood there, waiting for the order from the person on the high seat.

About half a cup of tea, Tan Wenhao, "Gui Die, have you found anything?"

The other man in black called Hui Die also bowed slightly, but his voice was neither humble nor defiant: "I received a tip today that Captain Xu of Linshui Pass did not reach an agreement with them in the end, but wrote a memorial instead. It may be sent to the capital in the near future. But Hui Die thinks that they will definitely not let the memorial be sent to the palace safely."

"Captain Xu?! Sure enough, I didn't misunderstand the person!" Tan Wenhao raised his lips lightly, "Gui Die, discard the memorial; Nong Die, continue to spy on everyone in the Du family!"

"Then... what about the queen?" Nong Diewei asked hesitantly, "It seems that there is no one around the queen who arranges for us—she seems not as weak as before!"

"I have my own opinion!" Tan Wenhao lightly raised his right hand, rested his hand on the memorials piled high on the desk, and at the same time glanced at Nongdie, and said casually, "The queen is now grounded. Nongdie today you Foul!"

"Yes!" Nongdie bowed her head, but there was no trace of regret in her voice.

"You guys step back, I'm going to rest." Tan Wenhao said so, but his right hand randomly took out a copy from the pile of memorials, and flipped through them.

The candle shadow flickered slightly, and when Tan Wenhao looked up again, the two black figures had disappeared like dream butterflies.Closing those stereotyped memorials and rubbing my head with my hands, a burst of irritability came from my heart. "Eunuch Liu, what time is it?" Wei Wei raised her voice, calling out the door.

Eunuch Liu, who came in response, opened the door, walked in, and bowed back: "It's already the second quarter of the day. Please rest early, Your Majesty!"

"Ah."

"Does the emperor want your empress to sleep with you tonight?" The emperor didn't make it clear which empress he would like to sleep with today, so he dared not make arrangements without authorization.

"Go to Jiaoyin Pavilion." Tan Wenhao got up and walked away.

Jiaoyin Pavilion is Li Qianrou's bedroom.

"Yes!" Eunuch Liu replied, but he sighed in his heart that this Concubine Li Gui was really loved by the emperor, and among those who entered the palace at the same time, including the empress, Concubine Li Gui was the person who served the bed the most times.

Du Xiaoyue leaned on the soft couch, and casually read Fengyue's novel by the dim candlelight.

"Miss, haven't you rested yet? It's almost two quarters of the hour!" Hong Siu was about to go to sleep, but seeing the candle in Du Xiaoyue's room was still on, she thought it was Du Xiaoyue who forgot to put out the candle when she was sleeping.

"I don't sleep until midnight." Du Xiaoyue turned a page, "Hongsi, you go to sleep first!" Before finishing a sentence, another page was turned.

"Miss reads so fast!" Hongsi looked enviously at Du Xiaoyue flipping through the book.

"It's okay!" Du Xiaoyue was not humble, and adjusted her posture at the same time, turning her body sideways so that the light would be brighter. "These books are actually not very interesting. They are similar, but they are quite boring to read."

(End of this chapter)