Emperor's Lazy Queen

Chapter 8

Du Xiaoyue sat down obediently, and the palace servants beside her had already served a bowl of millet porridge.Du Xiaoyue took a sip and put it down.

"Why, this porridge doesn't taste good?" Seeing that Du Xiaoyue had only taken a sip, the Queen Mother asked in puzzlement, "This rice is the first-class rice that was paid as a tribute this year, and I just drank it for the first time today!"

"No!" Du Xiaoyue shook her head with a smile, "It's delicious, but it's a little hot. I want it to cool down, so there's no need to rush it." In fact, in the modern age of food discovery, Du Xiaoyue has tasted better than this It's a pity that she can't cook, but can only eat porridge.

"Well, not bad!" The queen mother smiled, listening to Du Xiaoyue's words was also very useful, "Xiaoyue, you don't have to come to pay your respects every day, just come once every few days. You are now the queen, and the palace, big and small I have to take care of things, and I will be really free if I leave these complicated things to you!"

"The concubine has just entered the palace and doesn't understand anything. The concubine thinks that it is best for the queen mother to manage the affairs of the palace. Let the concubine study in this palace for a year or two before helping the queen manage the harem. The best way." Du Xiaoyue said so, but in her heart she was wondering if the queen mother was testing herself, if she really agreed, it would be really difficult to live in this palace in the future: with the strength of the Du family, if Let the people of the Du family control the power of the harem, I am afraid that the people of the royal family will be very dissatisfied with the people of the Du family!
"That's right!" The queen mother nodded, then chuckled, "It seems that I have to continue to worry about my old bones!"

"It's because the concubine is not good. She can't share the mother's worries and make the mother work hard." Du Xiaoyue continued to whisper.Ha, from now on, I can really live a comfortable life. I don’t have to take care of the affairs of the palace, and the queen mother doesn’t have to pay her respects every day. The emperor probably hates people from the Du family. As for those concubines and concubines. Yes, soldiers will come to block them, and they don't take the initiative to pay attention to them on weekdays. With the current strength of the Du family, they dare not do anything!
Then, Du Xiaoyue continued to chat and laugh with the Queen Mother. Ten minutes later, the concubines who entered the palace together yesterday came to greet the Queen Mother, but Li Qianrou was missing from those people.

When Du Xiaoyue returned to Zhaoyang Palace, three women followed behind her.

"Sister." Zhang Xueman asked puzzledly while drinking tea, "Why didn't Sister Li go to greet the Queen Mother?"

"..." Du Xiaoyue was silent, just smiled lightly and remained silent.

"Of course it's because of last night..." Tong Ruyan blushed in the middle of speaking, and said nothing, just drinking tea.

"I don't understand why the emperor favored Sister Li first, and why not Sister Du? Sister Du is the queen!" Zhang Xueman said in shocking words.

Upon hearing Zhang Xueman's words, Tong Ruyan squirted the tea out of her mouth; Liu Mengnan just raised her eyebrows and continued to drink tea; Du Xiaoyue resisted the urge to spray tea, swallowed the tea in her mouth, and said softly Whispering: "You can't guess the holy will, we are all the emperor's wives, and it's the same whoever the emperor favors."

Tong Ruyan wiped the water from the corner of her mouth with her handkerchief, and said in her jade-like voice: "Sister Zhang, maybe it will be you tonight!"

"Why not Sister Du?" Zhang Xueman continued to ask.

"..." Tong Ruyan was also silent.

Du Xiaoyue continued to drink tea, ignoring what they said.At this time, Liu Mengnan drank all the tea in the cup, and then got up: "Sister Du, maybe it's because Mengnan changed to a new environment and didn't sleep well. Mengnan is a little tired, so I will leave first."

"Okay, sister, let's go back to rest early! I'll visit my sister another day." Du Xiaoyue stood up without leaving anyone, and said with a professional smile.

After Liu Mengnan left, Tong Ruyan and Zhang Xueman also left one after another.

"Okay, let's go!" Du Xiaoyue said to Hongsi, "Redsi, is Qingzhu back yet? If you come back, ask the maid to close the door. I'll go to sleep first. I woke up too early this morning." I'm sleepy now!" After finishing speaking, he yawned a few times in a cooperative manner and stretched himself.

"Not yet! How can you buy what Miss asked for in a short time!" Hongsi complained, "Miss actually wants us to buy Fengyue novels—these are forbidden books in the boudoir, how can Miss read those books? "

"I'm not Miss Boudoir now, I'm already married!" Du Xiaoyue said with a smile.In ancient times, there was no TV, no computer, no mobile phone, no MP3, MP4. Du Xiaoyue didn't know what to do after waking up every day. In the ten days since I first came here, I have read the history books here once. The old Du Xiaoyue's bookshelf It's almost finished, and now that I'm in the palace, I have nothing to do, so I can only read those Fengyue novels to relieve my boredom!
"Can……"

"Okay, Hongsi, after you read those books, I promise you will rush to read them with me!" Du Xiaoyue said cheerfully. Fengyue novels are equivalent to romance novels. You know, having a perfect Love is the dream of many girls! "Okay, I'll go to sleep for a while, remember to wake me up when Qing Zhu comes back!"

"Miss, I'm back!" Qingzhu's shout successfully stopped Du Xiaoyue's footsteps, and when she looked back, Qingzhu was standing at the gate of the main hall.

"Hehe, I'm back! Are you tired or thirsty? Do you want some water?" Du Xiaoyue clung to Qing Zhu like a pug, and enthusiastically took what was in Qing Zhu's hand, watching the maids waiting on the side Eyes widened, the majestic mother of a country actually flattered a girl!
Qingzhu couldn't bear Du Xiaoyue's sudden enthusiasm, she quickly backed away, avoiding Du Xiaoyue's warm and considerate, and said dutifully: "Miss, I brought back what you asked for. I went to the Internal Affairs Department when I left the palace , the people from the Internal Affairs Department told me that the court ladies can leave the palace at most once a month."

"Oh, thank you!" Du Xiaoyue didn't listen to Qingzhu's words in her heart, took Qingzhu's cloth bag, put it on the table, opened it, and immediately brightened her eyes: "Wow! There is such a powerful Fengyue novel in ancient times —— "Red Apricot Out of the Wall", "The Complete Biography of a Chinese Girl's Tryst", "The Complete History of Sister-in-Law and Uncle's Love History"...Qingzhu, where did you find these books?" When Du Xiaoyue raised her head and asked Qingzhu, the red silk and The maid at the side had already blushed.

"Cough!" Qingzhu's expression was unnatural, "Well... I went to the bookstore and asked the boss, and the boss gave me a bunch of books, and I brought them back without reading them."

"Oddly!" Du Xiaoyue laughed tremblingly, and warmly gave Qing Zhu a big hug, and by the way gave Qing Zhu a resounding kiss on the cheek, "Qing Zhu, I like you so much, from now on, you Go out of the palace once a month, help me buy this thing!"

Qing Zhu didn't respond, no, it should be said that she was frightened by Du Xiaoyue's enthusiasm, she recovered after a while, pushed Du Xiaoyue away, and at the same time stepped back quickly, with a trembling voice: "Miss... kissed..."

"Uh..." Du Xiaoyue was stunned, "Qingzhu, what does your engagement have to do with me asking you to buy books for me when you were young?" Just after she finished speaking, Du Xiaoyue suddenly understood what Qingzhu meant, and couldn't help laughing out loud, " Haha, Qingzhu, you are so cute! I like you even more now!"

Hongsi couldn't bear to watch from the side, stepped forward and whispered: "Miss, don't make fun of others, everyone is watching!"

It was only then that Du Xiaoyue remembered that there were a group of palace maids present, and those palace maids had abnormal complexions and abnormal eyes, uh, it should be said that they looked at Du Xiaoyue abnormally: frightened, contemptuous, frightened... Almost all unkind eyes Both.

"Uh...well, if you want to read books, you can borrow them from me. No rent is charged!" Du Xiaoyue smiled awkwardly, "However, you can't lend them to people outside Zhaoyang Palace. Green bamboo, red silk, you want You can also see..."

"We don't watch it!" Red Silk and Green Bamboo answered in unison and solemnly.

"If you don't read it, pull it down! I'll read it slowly!" Du Xiaoyue didn't care, and put the book away by herself, "By the way, you guys remember to close the door, I'm going to rest, don't bother me!" Close the door , hide in the house and read novels, so that no one will bother you!
Du Xiaoyue packed up her things, and went into the bedroom by herself, but she didn't know whether it was on purpose or not, she left out a book, and that book was placed on the table so big, it was very conspicuous.

Hongsi picked up the book, "Red Apricots Out of the Wall", and sighed softly. She used to think that Miss Fourth had a bad temper, but now she actually started reading these forbidden books... "Qingzhu, tell me, we follow Miss Fourth. Blessing or curse?"

"Go and do your own business!" Qing Zhu asked the maids to leave, and then said softly, "I don't know, Miss Fourth is easy to get along with, and she is kind to people. She eats and sleeps all day long. Follow her It's very easy, unlike the time when I was with Da Furen, I had to raise my mind all day long, lest Da Furen get angry and punish me."

"Yeah!" Hongsi nodded, agreeing, "After following Miss, I feel much more relaxed. However, we have entered the palace now, unlike before, as long as the family has enough money, we can redeem ourselves. Now we have to go out. Gong, you have to wait until you are 25 years old, and it is not easy to see your family."

"Miss! Miss! Wake up, the imperial decree is here, go to the main hall to receive the decree!" Early in the morning, the red silk rocked Du Xiaoyue, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, while Qingzhu and other court ladies were busy preparing clothes and washing. thing.

"What the hell, tell the edict to wait!" Du Xiaoyue turned over and muttered inarticulately, "It's still dark, I'll sleep for a while!"

"Ouch! My aunt, if you delay the time to receive the order, you will be beheaded!" Hongsi didn't care that she couldn't say unlucky words early in the morning, and whispered in Du Xiaoyue's ear, "Qingzhu, Xiuxiu, come quickly, Help the lady up, even if she closes her eyes, she has to be carried to the main hall!" Delaying the time to receive the order is disrespectful to the emperor!

(End of this chapter)