Chapter 68: Meeting Empress Xu
Everyone filed into the bedroom and paid their respects to the Queen. After the Queen spoke, Song Qingyue dared to raise her head and take a look with her peripheral vision. But when she saw it, she was shocked. She was still holding steady, but something came from behind her.
There were sounds of gasping from several ladies, and the sound of clothes rubbing against the ground.
Because the queen's face was so swollen that her original appearance was no longer visible, as if she had been inflated, and her skin was that yellow and gray color, and she no longer looked like a normal person.
Song Qingyue's mind was confused. She guessed that the Queen was suffering from either liver disease or kidney disease, liver cancer or uremia. There might even be problems with both organs. But she was not a medical student, so she was panicking.
Random thoughts underneath.
"Everyone...sit down." The queen's speech was already a little unclear. She had a nanny beside her to help her wipe away the saliva that could not be controlled from the corners of her mouth.
Song Qingyue quickly lowered her eyes, not daring to look any further.
A nun standing nearby said on behalf of the Queen: "I will give you a seat."
The palace maid brought small embroidered pieces one by one, and everyone automatically sat down on both sides in the order they had been in the side hall.
Song Qingyue sat so close to the Queen that she could even smell the smell of the unfriendly patient on the Queen's body, or rather, it was more like the smell of a dead person. She nervously felt that it was difficult to breathe.
In fact, she really hoped that she would faint directly like she did in front of the emperor last time, so that she would not have to face this embarrassing and shocking situation again.
The queen first invited the fiancées of the two young masters from the East Palace to come forward and talk.
The two young masters were both concubines, and their mothers were both Crown Prince Liangdi. It is said that the mother of the third young master was quite favored, and the prince personally asked the third young master to have a legitimate daughter from the Ningyuan Hou Mansion as his first wife.
Song Qingyue thought to herself: Even though the prince has been deposed for many years, there is still internal fighting within the East Palace. Maybe they all thought that the queen would be able to regain the prince's position before she died?
Ningyuan Houfu is not that stupid, right? What are you doing with the abandoned East Palace?
It was all the fault of the emperor's indecision.
In fact, it cannot be said that Emperor Yourou is concerned about it. The current emperor is too face-saving. He likes his subordinates to praise him as a benevolent and wise emperor through the ages, but he is afraid that history books will say that he is cruel and unkind.
Moreover, the friendship between the emperor and the empress has been deep for decades. Empress Xu has never made any mistakes, she has always been respectful and simple, and she is a very competent and good empress.
Although the prince made many mistakes that made the emperor question his ability to be a king in the future, in the end the prince never touched the red line of rebellion.
In the original work, after the prince was restored to power, he was framed by King Su, which made the emperor suspicious, so he decided to rise up and resist, and was eventually sentenced to death for treason.
Now for some unknown reason, the prince has never been restored to the throne, so King Su doesn’t have to frame him, and the East Palace doesn’t need to rebel to gain a chance of survival. This has led to the emperor never being cruel to the prince and saying that he will be restored to the throne.
Yeah, but no matter how you look at it, you don't like it, and you can't trust him and just hand over the country to him.
It was so procrastinated that the Queen and many ministers in the court thought that there was still hope for the East Palace.
I don’t know what Miss He Liu thinks.
She was very obedient and listened to the Queen's intermittent and even somewhat unclear instructions.
After that, the queen looked at everyone again. Song Qingyue was so nervous that her face turned pale because she was located very close to the front.
But at this time, someone was suffering more than her.
The queen's gaze was fierce, until it pierced Meng Wanfeng.
The queen never expected that Meng Wanfeng not only successfully helped his eldest grandson's wife, Zhou, to save her life, but also used some unknown method to hook up with Li Zhu, the eldest son of Prince Jing, so that the upright and stubborn child would beg her in person.
Be your own wife.
With such a character and such methods, even the queen regretted not killing her directly.
However, she did not invite Meng Wanfeng to come forward to speak, but instead turned her attention to Song Qingyue.
"You, you are, Song, that concubine of the Song family?" she said with difficulty, panting.
Song Qingyue quickly got up from the embroidered pier, and seemed to be very frightened, lying on the ground like a prostrate, shivering.
The Queen looked at her rather unflattering behavior with cold eyes, sneered and said: "She looks... quite... good-looking. Come on, I... don't eat people."
There were waves of low chuckles in the hall.
Song Qingyue said with a tremor in her voice: "Thank you so much, Queen."
Afterwards, the queen gave a few symbolic words of admonishment and let everyone go out.
As soon as Song Qingyue came out of Weiyang Palace, she felt refreshed and couldn't help but let out a long breath. But before she could relax for a few seconds, another Xiao Huangmen came up and asked: "Is this Miss Song San?
Concubine Shu is waiting for you!"
Song Qingyue immediately tightened her skin again, and said very cautiously: "Then please lead the way, father-in-law!" After saying that, he played the pipa and took out a purse from his sleeve. The little yellow doorman was so fast that he could rival an old pickpocket.
With a swish, the purse disappeared.
The two of them walked forward quickly, and the little yellow gate didn't say anything. Song Qingyue was a little unhappy, wondering if her money was wasted.
It wasn't until they reached the entrance of Chengqian Palace that the little yellow gate whispered: "Concubine Shu doesn't like to contradict her, so I'll just lower my head and listen later. Please go in and report, please wait here."
"Thank you, father-in-law!"
Before she finished speaking, the little yellow gate took the lead to go in and resume his life.
Song Qingyue's half-dozed eyes suddenly opened. It turns out that money is still useful! She stood at the door of Chengqian Palace and waited for a while when footsteps came from behind.
Another Xiaohuangmen led five girls over. One of them was bright-looking and dressed extremely luxuriously. She walked at the front with her head held high and her chest high. After seeing Song Qingyue, she immediately said loudly: "Hey! That's the one in front of you.
Who is it? It can't be the concubine who seduced the eldest cousin, right?"
Chapter completed!