"The Queen Mother! The Queen Mother...The Queen Mother!!" The Queen Mother was in a very good mood while wandering in the beautiful Imperial Garden, but her original interest was interrupted by this sudden harsh and high-pitched cry.
"Wood, how long have you been staying in this palace? Have you forgotten all the etiquette? Do you dare to scream in front of the Queen Mother? Speak up!" Caixia took several palace maids and several fast ones.
He stepped forward to stop Eunuch Wu and gave him a fierce look.
Eunuch Wu shrank his neck and knelt on the ground honestly, "I have seen the Queen Mother. I beg the Queen Mother to make the decision for me!"
"What happened?" The Queen Mother glared at him dissatisfied, then frowned and said angrily, "What's wrong with your face?"
Eunuch Wu had a gloomy look on his face, and there was a big swelling on his forehead. How could he still have the dignity and nobility that he had when he left the palace? At this moment, Eunuch Wu looked like a stray dog that had been beaten up and thrown into the street.
The Queen Mother became angry when she saw it, "Say! Who did it?"
Okay! She even dares to attack the people around her. As the saying goes, even when beating a dog, you have to look at the owner! If this person dares to attack Eunuch Wu, it seems that he does not take her seriously!
"Queen Mother, please calm down." Little Princess Fengling pouted her little mouth and comforted her sweetly.
The Queen Mother's eyes naturally fell on Lie Yan who followed, and her eyebrows furrowed tightly.
"Queen Mother, you really need to educate these dog slaves. They can't even carry a sedan chair. They stagger around as if they had been hungry for days and nights in the palace. It's really hard to go out now.
It’s so disgraceful!” Lieyan said with disdain while shaking his little hands.
"Don't say they are slaves in this palace, just say that ordinary slaves from wealthy families will not do things like them! Where are you doing things? This is a slap in the master's face!"
"I think it is really necessary for the Queen Mother to send a few old people in the palace to re-educate them. I am the one who took care of them today. Lieyan knows that the Queen Mother is a kind-hearted and kind-hearted old man, and treats the younger generation well.
She is extremely kind, so she would definitely not have sent someone here specifically to embarrass us juniors! If it were someone else who didn't know the Queen Mother's personality, then I'm afraid there would be a misunderstanding. The Queen Mother deliberately sent these treacherous slaves here.
He gives my wife little shoes to wear and specializes in treating her." Lie Yan chuckled lightly, "I just don't know what my wife did wrong, so that she is so unworthy of the Queen Mother."
The Queen Mother's old face was slightly stiff. She had to finish all the things that should be said and should not be said by herself. The Queen Mother really felt that she could not come to Taiwan.
The Queen Mother did reveal a slight dissatisfaction with Lie Yan in her words. Those knowledgeable servants would naturally act according to the opportunity, but what they didn't expect was that Lie Yan would actually shout out like this.
What should the Queen Mother say now? To say that she is not a "kind-hearted" elderly person, but that she deliberately wants to embarrass the younger generation? Impossible!
The Queen Mother glared and glanced at the stunned Eunuch Wu.
Eunuch Wu suddenly screamed something bad in his heart. He rolled on the ground, kowtowed and shouted, "The queen mother spares her life. It's a slave who makes her own decisions. It's a slave who takes advantage of others' power to embarrass Young Madam Mu!! Everything belongs to a slave."
Wrong! I beg the Queen Mother to spare this slave’s life, please be merciful!”
The Queen Mother was so angry that she kicked Eunuch Wu on the head and yelled angrily, "You slave, how dare you be rude to Mrs. Mu! Come here! Drag the Ai family out and slap them with thirty boards!"
Lieyan's eyes glanced toward the sky, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth that looked like a smile but not a smile.
Act, act, you act, I'll just watch from here! You expect me to intercede for this Eunuch Wu? Do your dreams! It's none of my business if you beat your little slave!
The Queen Mother looked at Lie Yan several times, and when she saw her raising her chin slightly and looking at her with an indifferent expression, she could not help but grit her teeth in annoyance.
She was just talking about dragging him down and beating him up thirty times. Most people would naturally beg for mercy for Eunuch Wu because Eunuch Wu was her slave, and then the Queen Mother would be able to follow the donkey downhill.
Why don't you spare Eunuch Wu's life?
But now, Lie Yan clearly didn't want to speak.
What's even more outrageous is that Lie Yan saw that the two were going to drag Eunuch Wu out, so she followed him out with great interest and "enjoyed" the scene of Eunuch Wu being beaten.
For ordinary people, it would take half a life to get down to the thirty level board.
It wasn't until he saw Eunuch Wu groaning and being carried down that Lie Yan walked up to the Queen Mother with a smile on his face. He pretended not to see the Queen Mother's blue face and praised innocently, "The Queen Mother is truly worthy of being the Queen Mother."
I, the Queen Mother of the Jin'ao Empire, am indeed fair and just in dealing with others, and Lie Yan admires me endlessly."
The Queen Mother twitched her old face, and the corners of her mouth were very stiff.
Little Princess Fengling, who was supporting the Queen Mother at the side, couldn't help but let out a loud snort.
The Queen Mother subconsciously controlled her facial emotions, trying to make herself look less serious, and her expression became more and more natural and kind.
"Mrs. Mu, the Ai family came to you today because of yesterday's matter about the Zhuyu Pill and the Moisturizing Pill." The Queen Mother tried her best to soften her facial expression and try her best to appear like a kind-hearted old man.
Nodding and smiling at the flames.
"Queen Mother, Lie Yan knows everything and has endless words to say. There really is nothing more to say. I already said everything I should have said yesterday." Lie Yan blinked and said, "I am very honest." Seeing that the Queen Mother
In his eyes, he looked extremely cunning.
The Queen Mother secretly gritted her teeth, waved her hands and said with a smile, "The Ai family doesn't have any other intentions. I just hope that if Madam Mu meets that mobile vendor again by chance, she will buy a few more boxes for the Ai family.
When we come back, it doesn’t matter if the price is higher, as long as it’s value for money.”
"Oh." Lie Yan smiled and nodded, "So that's what the Queen Mother meant! Lie Yan knows. Don't worry, as long as I have a chance to see the vendor selling Zhu Yudan again, I will definitely help the Queen Mother buy a few more boxes.
!”
"That's the best." The Queen Mother thought Lieyan "understood" what she meant, and nodded with a smile on her face.
The Queen Mother has lived for such a long time. She was so confused by Lie Yan yesterday that she naturally forgot some key points. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, how could a person like Lie Yan possibly use the "only" two boxes of good things?
Leave it to her and Concubine Gong?
At least Lieyan would hide a box or two in his hand. The Queen Mother's intention today was to ask Lieyan to spit out these two boxes of good things for her and hand them over to the Queen Mother!
It's just Lieyan's fault whether he understands it or not. The Queen Mother only thinks that she understands!
Lieyan smiled calmly along the way, and he and Fengling walked slowly along an artificially dug pond. The water was filled with lotus flowers of various colors, which were very colorful.
Lieyan felt a little strange, the lotus flower was blooming out of season.
Although winter is over and spring is in full bloom, it is obviously not the season for lotus flowers to bloom.
However, when you get closer to the pond, you feel a warm feeling. It must be that the craftsmen have built something like a heater nearby, which has transformed the surrounding environment.
"This Four Seasons Pond is specially used to nurture lotus flowers." Little Princess Fengling pouted and snorted, "The Queen Mother likes lotus flowers the most. The craftsmen have thought of many methods and supplemented them with various elixirs.
, only then can this lotus flower bloom all year round.”
Lie Yan smiled and said, "The Queen Mother is really a person who cherishes flowers."
"The Queen Mother's favorite is the three-color lotus. Look at how big it is and how beautifully it blooms!" Caixia, the personal palace maid, smiled and pointed at the graceful lotus in the center of the pond.
Lie Yan took a look and saw a medium-sized flower bud squeezed in the middle of the three-color lotus. It was not a lotus, it looked a bit deformed!
What is a double-tilled lotus? It means there are two flowers in bloom. What does it mean to squeeze just one among them?
Lie Yan's eyes flashed, and he looked at the Queen Mother with a half-smile, and dared to invite her into the palace today. One was to ask about Zhu Yudan's whereabouts, and the other was to make insinuations and ponder her words. He had ulterior motives.
"This plant is indeed blooming well. Look, Lieyan. There is such a nondescript flower bud squeezed into the middle of this double-headed lotus. It is really unsightly, isn't it?" The Queen Mother asked with a smile.
"It is indeed very nondescript. Let's take us as an example. The couple is living a good life. This mistress insists on squeezing in, but she is not looking for a beating." Lie Yan smiled and nodded, "The Queen Mother should give the order as soon as possible.
, let the gardener pluck that flower bud quickly! Otherwise it will look very dazzling."
The Queen Mother's old face froze slightly, and Fengling, who was originally looking proud, also turned dark.
Does this woman not understand or something? How dare she directly compare her noble Princess Fengling to a shameless mistress? This is simply abominable! It is clear that the Queen Mother means that she, Lie Yan, is the bud squeezed in the middle.
It was she who stepped in and took away her noble status as the young lady of the Mu family, Princess Fengling!
The personal maid Caixia smiled and stepped forward to smooth things over and said, "But Mrs. Mu, look at those two lotuses side by side. A discerning eye will see that they are of noble birth and have an ethereal appearance, but the bud in the middle looks malnourished.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like it came out of a nook and cranny. Inadvertently, she climbed onto one of the parallel lotuses first. We often say that bamboo doors are against bamboo doors, and wooden doors are against wooden doors. This is the concept of the family.
It is a long-standing rule that has been passed down from our ancestors. This is not completely unreasonable, is it? After all, a husband and wife are a lifelong matter. If they are not in the right family, their words are boring, and they will have no fun.
, that means we are tired of looking at each other!"
"What Aunt Caixia said makes sense, but what does what you said have to do with the lotus we admire?" Lie Yan smiled, turned to look at Caixia, whose face was slightly stiff, and looked at her with a questioning expression.
, as if she really didn’t understand what Caixia was talking about.