Happy Wife Ying Ying

Chapter 386 The Empress Dowager Arrives
Chu Zijiu knew that he could no longer bargain, so he quickly bowed and said, "I am the emperor's master!"

After saying this, the imperial decree that had been written was handed over to him.

Chu Zijiu was startled, everything has been prepared a long time ago!So the so-called asking for his opinion is just a formality?

The emperor has already walked in front of Yingruo, "It seems that my aunt has taught you well!"

"Yes!" Yingruo lowered her eyes, "His Royal Highness has taught my ministers everything, and my ministers will always remember it."

Li Guangyu said: "If the emperor has no other orders, then the minister will leave."

The emperor raised his eyebrows and looked over, "If you want to resign, then you can. The little girl is the princess of Zehui County that I appointed personally. I just happen to be free at the moment, so I will talk to her about the Eldest Princess."

Li Guangyu's face darkened.

"The Empress Dowager is here!" The eunuch's sharp shout sounded from outside the palace.

The emperor frowned, and raised his foot to meet the door a few steps.

While turning around, Li Guangyu quickly grabbed Yingruo's little hand, squeezed it hard, and then let it go suddenly.Silently said a few words, "Don't be afraid!"

Yingruo smiled at him, and silently replied three words, "I'm not afraid!"

With him here, she is really not afraid of anything, even if she is about to face a person who stands at the top of the Cui family's power.

Because of the queen mother's entry, Yingruo saluted behind a group of people.

The emperor didn't need to kneel, Chu Zijiu and Li Guangyu performed the courtesy of courtiers, so she naturally didn't need to kneel.

"Why did the queen mother come here in person? Your leg hurts badly recently, if you have something to say, just let your son go." The emperor helped the queen mother in.

The Empress Dowager said: "They all sit on chariots, there is no need to walk. The emperor has a heart!"

The play of mother's kindness and son's filial piety sounds sincere, but Yingruo feels the alienation in it.

The so-called incongruity is probably like this!
The mother refuses to delegate power, and the son wants to seize power. Since they have different positions, it is naturally impossible to be in the same heart, even if the two have the closest blood relationship.

The emperor helped the queen mother to sit on the soft couch, and looked up at the three people standing there, "I have something to say to the queen mother. You should step back!"

"Don't mind!" He lifted his eyelids and opened his mouth, "The Ai family heard that the emperor's new Zehui County Lord has entered the palace, so he came here to take a look. Does the emperor have any objection?"

The emperor sneered, "What is the empress talking about? Ze Hui, why don't you come over to see the empress."

Yingruo knew that this kneeling was inevitable, so she stepped forward, knelt down, kowtowed and said, "I pay homage to the empress dowager!"

The queen mother tried her best to widen the gap between her eyes, without the slightest smile on her face, "Are you that girl?"

Yingruo didn't answer, just lowered her eyes and looked at the floor tiles under her feet.

The queen mother said: "Raise your head and let Aijia take a look."

Ying Ruo followed her words, and everyone said that a life of seventy is rare since ancient times, and the queen mother who has passed the age of seventy is obviously old.

Even though she has been pampered and well-maintained all these years, she couldn't let go of her day and night worries and calculations. Therefore, the sparse hair on her head was all white.The wrinkles on the face are even more criss-cross, especially the nasolabial folds on the corners of the lips, which are so deep.

The eyelids are loose, so the eyes are triangular, even though they are cloudy, they are still bursting with sharpness.

"If you are skinny, you will not be blessed if you look at it."

This is obviously mean.

Both Chu Zijiu and Li Guangyu were holding their breath, but they also knew that they couldn't speak at this moment.

The emperor sneered, "It's not been 20 years since my mother worshiped Buddha, but it's been ten years! There are three realms in Buddhism, and my mother only cultivated to the first level. If Zehui is unblessed, then Mizhou is already in dire straits."

The queen mother snorted coldly, and cast a sneering glance at Li Guangyu, "The Ai family thought that Mr. Li was responsible for Mizhou's surviving the flood this time! After a long time of trouble, did you rely on a little girl?"

Li Guangyu had a faint smile on his lips, "What the queen mother said is true! She has always been my lucky star. Not only the people of Mizhou have been blessed by her, but the ministers have also been blessed by her."

Not blushing, not panting, so calm, the corners of Yingruo's lips curled up unconsciously.Her brother Guangyu blatantly slapped the queen mother in the face and said that she "has no blessings"!

"Are you happy?" The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows.

Yingruo said: "Thanks to the blessing of the emperor and the queen mother, the minister is indeed very happy."

The Queen Mother snorted, "Do you really think you are a blessed one?"

Yingruo smiled and said: "The emperor loves the people like his own son, that is the blessing of the subjects of the Daqi Dynasty! It is the blessing of the emperor's kindness that tens of thousands of people in Mizhou are saved from suffering."

The Empress Dowager sneered, "He's a very eloquent one. According to what you're saying, the floods in Jeju and Jiangzhou are because the emperor's fortune has not arrived?"

Yingruo secretly clenched her hands into fists, secretly admiring this ancient woman's sharp mind.At this age, the reaction is not the slightest slow.

"The courtier thinks that it's not that the emperor's blessing didn't arrive, but that the local officials there didn't accept it properly."

"Bold!" The Queen Mother sternly shouted, "A court official is someone you, a little girl, can talk to?"

"Queen mother, calm down!" The emperor said lightly, "This little girl is the county lord I just canonized, and she is a person who has contributed to the community."

The queen mother stood up awkwardly, "The emperor praised her so much, but is she so obsessed?"

"The Queen Mother is careful!" Li Guangyu stepped forward, "Since ancient times, the title of Marquis and Prime Minister has been reserved for those who have meritorious service. At the beginning of the founding of the Daqi Dynasty, all the titles of Dukes and Marquises were rewarded by the Taizu. , In the current peaceful and prosperous age, as long as you have made meritorious service to the country, you should still be rewarded. This does not violate the ancestral system. Speaking of this, I remembered how the current title of Wen'anbo Mansion came about? Among the titles awarded by the ancestors, there seems to be no Wen'an House, right? Later, did the Cui family do any great things that benefited the community?"

"You... are bold!" The queen mother stretched out her hand and pointed at Li Guangyu tremblingly.

"Since the queen mother is not feeling well, it is better to return to the Compassionate Ning Palace to rest earlier!" The emperor said coldly, "Come here! Send the queen mother back to the palace!"

Li Guangyu took the opportunity to reach out and lifted Yingruo who was kneeling on the ground.

The queen mother sat down instead, "What does the emperor mean? Ai's body is very good, why do you say you are unwell?"

The five or six servants who poured in from the door stopped in a daze, not knowing how to react.

The emperor said bluntly: "The queen mother has already returned to the government, and said that she will not interfere with the affairs of the court. I just canonized a county head, and the mother came here to embarrass me. If it was not because of illness, how could she do such a thing?" Slapping me in the face?"

(End of this chapter)