The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 330 Fetal Movement (Two more)

Gu Jiao's entry into Renshou Palace was basically done by brushing her face. All the masters and palace people in Renshou Palace knew her and knew that she was the Queen Mother Zhuang's heart, and no one dared to stop her.

Despite Queen Mother Zhuang's orders, no one was seen this afternoon.

Concubine Zhuang was not so lucky.

As soon as she arrived at the gate of Renshou Palace, she was stopped by the guards.

Concubine Zhuang: "You go and pass it on, I have something urgent to find the Queen Mother."

Ouchi master: "Sorry, the queen mother ordered me to see no one."

Concubine Zhuang Gui frowned: "But I just saw someone go in."

"That's Miss Gu, she went to see the Empress Dowager." The master finally knew not to hate Gu Jiao.

Concubine Zhuang was relieved when she heard that it was a cure, but the next moment, she asked worriedly: "Is the queen mother's phoenix body against harmony?"

The master said: "The Empress Dowager felt a little unwell yesterday, so she invited Ms. Gu into the palace to treat her. Today, Ms. Gu is here for a follow-up visit for the Empress Dowager."

Concubine Zhuang thought for a while: "Then I will go in to visit the Queen Mother even more."

"This……"

Concubine Zhuang said: "I won't make things difficult for you either. The Empress Dowager won't let you bother her. Miss Gu never said that. You go and invite Miss Gu here."

"Yes." The Ouchi master glanced at the little maid beside him.

The little maid understood, and hurriedly caught up with Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao was talking to Eunuch Qin in the small garden in front of the palace.

The little maid said: "Miss Gu, Eunuch Qin, Concubine Zhuang is here, she wants to see Miss Gu."

Eunuch Qin is a fine person, Concubine Zhuang Gui is not familiar with Gu Jiao, most likely she wants to see her because she hopes that Gu Jiao can inform the Queen Mother for her: "...The Queen Mother is reading the scriptures, and the servants dare not disturb her."

"Well, then I'll wait too." Gu Jiao didn't do anything special.

"Okay." Eunuch Qin smiled, and took Gu Jiao to the bedroom of Empress Dowager Zhuang.

In fact, the Empress Dowager loves Miss Gu, and she doesn't mind her interruption at all, and even has some fun in the boring day-to-day official duties.

But Miss Gu has never been arrogant, she has her own duty and bottom line.

She is good to the Queen Mother, not because she wants to be favored by the Queen Mother, but because she sincerely hopes that the Queen Mother can live a good life.

Eunuch Qin went to see Concubine Zhuang at the gate of Renshou Palace, and said politely: "Miss Gu is also waiting for the Queen Mother to summon her."

Speaking of this,

Concubine Zhuang can't say anything more.

Fortunately, there were not many excerpts today, and Empress Dowager Zhuang left the study not long after.

Eunuch Qin reported: "Empress Dowager, Miss Gu and the imperial concubine are here."

Empress Dowager Zhuang hummed: "Let her in."

This is about Concubine Zhuang.

She understands the rules she made, Jiaojiao can come in, but others cannot.

"Yes." Eunuch Qin led Concubine Zhuang Gui into the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Gu Jiao just finished the review for Empress Dowager Zhuang, and her throat recovered well, but she seemed to have a bit of heatstroke in the hot weather, Gu Jiao took ginger slices and sesame oil to scrape her arms.

Concubine Zhuang respectfully saluted: "Queen Dowager."

"Tell me, what's the matter?" The Empress Dowager Zhuang asked lightly. After all, she hurt her throat, and it still hurts when she used her throat.

Eunuch Qin and his palace servants had already retreated, and there were only three of them left in the huge bedroom.

Concubine Zhuang glanced at Gu Jiao who was scraping for Empress Dowager Zhuang, and understood that Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't mean to avoid Gu Jiao. She lowered her eyes and said softly: "Queen Mother, do you really ignore Heng'er's marriage? What's wrong with Heng'er?" Can marry..."

She looked at Gu Jiao again, thought about her words, omitted the unfriendly modifiers, and said directly, "Gu Jinyu? She is just the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Ding'an. Even Lie Heng'er has become the laughing stock of the capital."

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at her indifferently, as if signaling her to continue.

Concubine Zhuang glanced back and forth on Gu Jiao again, and said, "What's more, Gu Jinyu took the credit for Miss Gu's work back then. It's not fair to Miss Gu to praise her like this."

Empress Dowager Zhuang said in a deep voice, "Don't use other people as rafts."

Concubine Zhuang Gui hesitated to speak: "...Yes."

Gu Jiao continued to scrape, she had no intention of participating in the conversation between the two.

As for the Empress Dowager Zhuang, she didn't respond much to Concubine Zhuang's complaints.

Concubine Zhuang couldn't help being anxious.

This is not quite the same as she imagined. The Queen Mother is hard-hearted, but she loves Zhuang Yuheng. She didn't agree to send Zhuang Yuheng to Chen Guo as a hostage.

Why is it that Zhuang Yuheng has been tricked like this by His Majesty, but she is not moved at all?

Concubine Zhuang continued: "Empress Dowager, Heng'er's wife must be in the right family and help him, but what does Gu Jinyu do? She is not even the blood of Marquis Ding'an! Is it possible that Marquis Ding'an's mansion can still look after her in the future? Moreover, I suspect that His Majesty simply wants to install a trick in the dealer!"

The Marquis of Ding'an is His Majesty's confidant. By marrying Gu Jinyu into the Zhuang family, His Majesty can stop the Zhuang family's plan to marry other Zanying families, and also monitor the every move of King An and the Zhuang family.

Concubine Zhuang felt that His Majesty planned it this way.

In fact, the emperor had no such intention, but just as the emperor did not trust the Empress Dowager Zhuang, Concubine Zhuang also did not trust the emperor's intentions.

The banker can't go wrong, and can't lose a great opportunity to marry a powerful family.

The stronger King An Jun is, the more help her son King Ning will have.

"Aunt..." Concubine Zhuang Guifei saw that reasoning was not working, so she played the family card.

Empress Dowager Zhuang closed her eyes and meditated.

Concubine Zhuang was so anxious that she simply kicked the ball to Gu Jiao: "Miss Gu, what do you think?"

She knew that Gu Jiao and Gu Jinyu had a bad relationship, and she believed that Gu Jiao would not speak for Gu Jinyu, nor would she care about the battle between the Zhuang family and the Ding'an Houfu.

Gu Jiao belongs to Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Gu Jiao continued to scrape for her aunt, paused, and said, "This is the marriage of King An, shouldn't he make the decision himself? After His Majesty bestowed the marriage, did you ask him if he would accept it? On behalf of the imperial concubine Was it his own will?"

Concubine Zhuang was immediately stopped by the question.

Concubine Zhuang returned without success.

After Gu Jiao finished scraping the empress dowager Zhuang's Sha, she went to clean up her black gunpowder.

The land in Bishui Hutong is limited, she dare not let go too much, for fear of blowing up the house.

There is enough space in Renshou Palace, and it will be fine if it is blown up.

Eunuch Qin came into the house to serve Empress Dowager Zhuang. Empress Dowager Zhuang's complexion improved a lot, and her chest no longer felt tight.

Eunuch Qin presented freshly cut melons and fruits, and said, "Is the queen mother really ignoring the marriage of Prince An?"

The Empress Dowager Zhuang mocked and sneered: "The emperor beheaded the Ai family first and then played. How can the Ai family manage it? Is this Jiangshan really named Zhuang? The Ai family has been stained with blood all these years. The family's power comes easily, but who sees the Ai family as walking on thin ice?"

Eunuch Qin thinks so.

Outsiders only saw the queen mother calling the wind and calling for the rain, but did not see the blood dripping from the queen mother's back.

Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently: "If Zhuang Yuheng wants to divorce, he will come to beg his family on his own. If he doesn't say anything, then he accepts it."

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud bang from the small lawn in the side hall, and the entire Renshou Palace seemed to tremble three times.

The expressions of the two changed.

Eunuch Qin rushed out with small steps: "Miss Gu, Miss Gu, are you alright?"

A large piece of the lawn was blown bald.

Gu Jiao was nowhere to be seen.

Eunuch Qin was terrified: "Miss Gu!"

"I'm here."

A weak voice came from the top of Eunuch Qin's head. Eunuch Qin looked up and saw that Gu Jiao was blown into a little black face, chicken nest head, drooping arms and legs, soulless like a puppet. Hanging on a high eaves corner.

Gu Jiao opened her small mouth and exhaled a mouthful of black smoke.

Eunuch Qin: "..."

Gu Jiao was blown into a coma, and after being rescued by the experts, she climbed onto her aunt's phoenix bed and slept soundly all afternoon.

It was almost evening when she woke up, and her aunt left her to have dinner at Renshou Palace.

She thought for a while and said, "Auntie, let me make milk dates for you."

The main reason is that I am embarrassed that my aunt's lawn was blown up today, so I have to make up for it.

Milky dates are made from goat cheese, sun-dried red dates and almonds. The red dates have their own sweetness, no need to add sugar, full of milky aroma, delicious and nutritious.

Red dates and almonds are not hard to find, but goat cheese has to be picked up from the imperial kitchen.

When the cook of Renshou Palace went to the imperial dining room to fetch goat cheese, Gu Jiao went to the imperial garden. She planned to pick some flower petals and dry them to make tea.

Not long after she had picked them in the imperial garden, a few young maids came over, and they also picked some flowers with baskets.

Gu Jiao put the full basket on the stone table, and went to pick another basket full, these petals looked so much, once dried, there was almost nothing left.

Gu Jiao returned home with a full load.

It happened that the goat cheese was also brought over, so she handed the basket to Eunuch Qin, and turned to the small kitchen to make milk dates.

Inside the Huaqing Palace, the little palace maid knelt down on the floor with a huff.

The emperor and Concubine Jing sat on the chairs, the emperor frowned and looked at the young maids who had been newly chosen to serve Concubine Jing, Long Yan was displeased: "How do you serve Concubine Jing? You have lost all the concubine's jade pendants?" !"

Concubine Jing sighed: "I don't blame them, I lost it myself. I seemed to hear something when I went to the Imperial Garden just now, but I didn't pay attention to it for a while, and I thought it was lost at that moment."

"Slave, I found it, but I..." a little maid said tremblingly.

Concubine Jing said softly: "Don't be afraid, just speak up, I don't blame you."

The little maid boldly took a step forward on her knee, kowtowed her head, and said: "The servant picked up a jade pendant in the imperial garden. I didn't know that the concubine lost it, so I thought about handing it over to the aunt in charge. The servant put the jade pendant on the Put it on the table, wait for the maidservant to pick the flowers to get the jade pendant, the jade pendant is gone!"

The emperor said in a deep voice, "Why did you randomly put the jade pendant on the table?"

The little maid said fearfully: "The jade pendant is broken, and the servants think it's worthless, it's not a good thing..."

"Broken?" The emperor looked at Dowager Jing in surprise.

Concubine Jing nodded bitterly, but did not speak.

Cai Nanny said earnestly: "It was the empress dowager who fell down two years ago and broke the jade pendant. One corner was smashed to pieces and could no longer be attached. But that was the memory Princess Ning An left for the empress dowager. Think, so even if it is broken, the empress still wears it on her body every day."

Hearing that Concubine Jing fell, the emperor's heart hurt like a needle, and he only regretted not taking Concubine Jing back to the palace to take care of her earlier.

"I made my concubine suffer." He said guiltily.

Concubine Jing said: "Your Majesty is serious. It's just a fall. When people are getting old, there will always be times when their legs and feet are inconvenient."

"I look at Renshou Palace..." The emperor wanted to say that the legs and feet of the person in Renshou Palace are really sharp, even more so than before suffering from leprosy. He probably also felt that it was inappropriate to always mention the Queen Mother. He cleared his throat, looked at the little court ladies kneeling on the ground, "At that time, who else had been to the Imperial Garden besides you?"

The little maids looked at each other.

Although one piece of the jade was broken, the remaining half is still priceless. It is not an ordinary beautiful jade, but a thousand-year-old cold jade from the Yan Kingdom. This little maid doesn't know the goods, but it doesn't mean that others don't know the goods either.

"Say!" the emperor said coldly, "Who took the concubine's jade pendant?"

Everyone kowtowed, and it was the little palace lady who picked up the jade pendant just now and said: "Your Majesty, the servants really didn't take it! The servants don't know the goods, so how can they get a piece..."

She didn't dare to talk about Poyu now.

The emperor asked deeply: "Then besides you, who else has been to the Imperial Garden?"

The little palace lady thought for a while and said: "There is a girl... I don't know which palace she is from. Look at her clothes, she doesn't look like a palace concubine, nor does she look like a palace lady. On the left cheek... there is a red birthmark."

It is neither a concubine nor a maid, and there is a red birthmark on the left side of her cheek. Who is it if it is not Gu Jiao?

This is embarrassing.

If it was an ordinary jade pendant, the emperor would not be bothered to pursue it, but it happened to be the thought that Princess Ning'an left for Concubine Jing, and it was also someone whom the emperor had cared about.

The emperor cared no less about her than Concubine Jing.

Eunuch Wei glanced at the emperor with a complicated expression.

Miss Gu couldn't rub the sand in her eyes, His Majesty really dared to send someone to ask her if she picked up a jade pendant, I am afraid that Miss Gu would never talk to His Majesty again.

Well, although I am already angry with His Majesty now.

But the nature of the matter is different.

Ms. Gu is not a person with dirty hands and feet, but she can't resist His Majesty not to let go of any clues for investigation.

What's more, Miss Gu is now in Renshou Palace, what will the Empress Dowager think when she finds out about this? If you don't scold His Majesty bloody, you won't let it go.

The queen mother herself can be wronged, but Miss Gu can't.

Eunuch Wei broke into a cold sweat silently, it's over, it's over.

The emperor regained his composure, held Concubine Jing's hand and said, "The little miracle doctor won't pick up the jade pendant on the table, the queen mother loves her, and all the treasures in Renshou Palace want to give them away. Although the millennium cold jade sent by Ning An is precious, , but still can’t catch her eyes. Ning An also gave me a piece back then, since it’s all Ning An’s thoughts, I’ll ask someone to bring it to my concubine later.”

"Slave, get it now!" Eunuch Wei didn't wait for the emperor to give him an order, and went out in a hurry, as if he was afraid that the emperor would regret it in the next second.

The emperor said: "These little maids are ineffective and have lost the jade pendant of the concubine mother. From now on, they will not serve the concubine mother. I will choose some capable palace servants for the concubine mother."

Concubine Jing smiled: "I eat fast and recite the Buddha's name, so I don't need too many people around me, just Madam Cai is enough."

The emperor said: "Cai mama is also getting old, and it is inevitable that when she is unable to do what she wants, if there are a few smart palace servants by her side today, they will not lose her jade pendant without noticing."

Gu Jiao knew nothing about Huaqing Palace, so she went to the small kitchen to make milk dates and flower cakes, and there were still a lot of flowers left.

The little maid smiled and said, "I'll put a sachet for the girl, and the girl can take it home to make dried flowers."

"Alright." Gu Jiao nodded.

The little maid found a gold silk sachet for dried flowers, and put the remaining petals in the basket all at once.

After dinner, Gu Jiao returned to Bishui Hutong.

Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head in the yard, his expression was not quite right.

"What's wrong?" Gu Jiao stepped forward and asked.

Gu Xiaoshun said: "Master Gu fainted, and he hasn't woken up yet."

It turned out that after Gu Jiao went to visit his aunt, Lord Gu Hou did not leave, but asked his son where Yao Shi had gone. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Yao Shi coming out of the house with a big belly.

This is no longer a fat ball, but a real ball in my stomach!

There is nothing more terrifying than a man traveling for a period of time and coming back to find his wife has a big belly.

It's nothing if it's just this, but Xuan Pinghou walked over behind him, and said a few words with Yao Shi with a smile.

Xuan Ping Hou, the most romantic and unrestrained man in the whole capital, smiled seriously and also carried a trace of ruffian and evil, Gu Hou Ye immediately felt that the sky was falling!

Gu Houye has always been troubled by his own appearance, but he also has to admit that Xuan Pinghou is indeed prettier than him. If this prodigal son hooks his fingers, countless women will follow him.

Could it be...his Yaoyao was also tricked? !

Otherwise, he really couldn't figure out why Xuan Pinghou appeared here!

His heart was filled with anger, and the top of his head was green.

Master Gu couldn't hold it anymore, stuck out his tongue, rolled his eyes, and fainted——

Gu Jiao went to Yao's room, felt the pulse of Master Gu, and said, "He's fine."

Yao shi nodded, although this husband is sometimes quite confused, but in the end it is two... No, he is the father of her three children now, and she does not want them to become fatherless children.

but--

Yao shi looked at her bulging belly, did the baby move so much at six months? Why does it always feel like this kid is trying to kick his father?

At the end of the month, the bills are cleared, don't waste it.