The Queen Mother ignored Zhenliang's angry eyes and stared at Nangong Lie closely, waiting for his answer to punish Zhenliang.
Apparently, she had heard somewhere that after Concubine Liang returned to the palace, the emperor only made her kneel for half an hour. After that, not only did he take her to enjoy the sour plum duck all to himself, he also gave her the gift of turning on the light to sleep with her at night.
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In the eyes of the Queen Mother, how could these measures be punishment? They were clearly the best favors, and her unlucky little son bore all the blame.
Therefore, unless the emperor can allow Nangong Yu to enter the palace today, she will ask the emperor to make up for the punishment that should be given to Zhenliang, and that punishment must first pass her level.
Nangong Lie lowered his eyes and said nothing, as if he was thinking about how to punish Zhenliang, and also seemed to be thinking about how to deal with the Queen Mother, or he was not prepared to answer the Queen Mother's question at all.
After all, in this palace, he doesn't care whether other people will make irresponsible remarks. He has the right to decide whether his woman is alive or dead, good or bad, and the punishment he gave Nangong Yu is really light.
The Queen Mother should understand better than anyone else, but instead of being satisfied, she even wanted to argue with him. It can only be said that in her eyes, he has never been her biological son.
At this moment, Zhenliang hated the Queen Mother's insidiousness and would rather offend Nangong Lie than make the Queen Mother feel happy. After turning her head quickly, she quickly covered her eyes with her hands and kneaded her before Nangong Lie could react.
Then, he started to pretend to cry "woo woo woo".
Although she didn't shed a single tear, Zhenliang thought she could control her sad emotions quite well, and she successfully destroyed the original solemn atmosphere.
In the eyes of the Queen Mother, Zhenliang was a cunning and cunning girl who could not be compared to being cowardly and obedient. Seeing her crying like this, I couldn't believe my eyes and ears.
Nangong Lie glanced at Zhenliang coldly, and could clearly see that the corners of her eyes were not wet, and she was obviously pretending to cry.
In fact, he has already thought of a countermeasure, but since this little woman also has a countermeasure, he might as well see whose countermeasure is better?
As everyone knows, Nangong Lie will soon regret his hasty decision, and even more convinced that women are a disaster. It is because of his connivance that he was used and ridiculed by this woman.
The Queen Mother hated to see anyone crying in front of her. Seeing Zhenliang crying like it was endless, she couldn't help but angrily scolded, "Well, why are you crying?"
Listening to Zhenliang's intermittent cries, Nangong Lie actually felt that she was singing, and had an urge to laugh. However, when he saw the Queen Mother's ruthless face, all his mood was ruined, and only more so.
I am eagerly waiting to see what medicine this little woman is selling in her gourd.
What Zhenliang was waiting for was the words that the Queen Mother was concerned about. She slowly stopped crying, glanced at Nangong Lie sadly, and then sobbed, "Didn't the Queen Mother hear how cruel the emperor was?"
Are you punishing the concubine? Hmm? If the concubine can exchange punishments with the Third Prince, for example, she is not allowed to leave the Qiongyu Palace for three months, the concubine must think that the punishment she received is lighter than the light! It is a pity that the Third Prince is still the Third Prince.
Your Majesty, I am still a concubine! Even though the emperor punished me severely, I knew that it was what I deserved after making a big mistake. I was convinced, but I just thought about having to continue to suffer like that.
I regret leaving the palace that day! If I could choose again, I would never harm others or myself again."
Seeing that Zhenliang had been talking for a long time without getting to the point, the Queen Mother stared at her impatiently, as if she would be rude to her if she dared to talk nonsense.
Zhenliang just wanted to amuse her and make her angry. Seeing that the time was almost up, he glanced at Nangong Lie with sad and affectionate eyes, and replied shyly, "The Queen Mother may have heard that the second day after I came back from the palace, the Emperor
He punished my concubine by kneeling for half an hour, and then he took me to eat pickled plum duck. At night, I asked my concubine to turn on the light and go to bed. As everyone knows, this was just a superficial phenomenon. That day in the imperial study room, the person kneeling under my knees was
Washboard."
"Kneeling on the washboard?" The Queen Mother stared at Nangong Lie in disbelief, her eyes widened. She really couldn't believe that such a trick of tormenting women would come from this son who didn't understand romance.
Although there is no such thing as kneeling on a washboard in Daxin Kingdom, the Queen Mother can imagine how painful it would be for a woman with delicate skin and tender flesh to kneel on a washboard.
While the Queen Mother looked at Nangong Lie, Zhenliang also looked at Nangong Lie with twitching corners of her mouth. The former was shocked and disbelieving, while the latter was provocative and demonstrative.
Zhenliang couldn't figure out Nangong Lie's thoughts. She didn't know if he would expose her. If he exposed herself, then she would definitely be punished twice. If he didn't expose herself, then she might be exempted from punishment.
This is just a gamble of choice. Zhenliang bets that Nangong Lie will not expose her, because she can feel more and more that the Queen Mother does not like Nangong Lie as a son, and Nangong Lie respects the queen mother but is also extremely dissatisfied.
Hi, so she bet that she was not as annoying as the Queen Mother in Nangong Lie's mind.
No one saw that when Zhenliang said the word washboard, the corner of Nangong Lie's mouth twitched violently.
At this moment, the Queen Mother asked him for confirmation with her eyes. Although he wanted to deny it, but by some strange coincidence, he lowered his eyes to avoid the Queen Mother's direct gaze, thus indirectly admitting it.
The Queen Mother took a deep breath, feeling that she really didn't know enough about her son.
Under the hint of the Queen Mother's eyes, Zhenliang continued knowingly, "After kneeling on the washboard, I accidentally fell down because of pain in my knees. The emperor also said that I deserved my punishment and no one was allowed to help me.
After I got up from the ground, the emperor took me to the Shijiu Garden to eat sour plum duck. I was flattered and thought that the emperor had forgiven me. Unexpectedly, the few pieces of sour plum duck I ate made my concubine upset.
One night’s belly.”
Hearing this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but smile, as if her face was filled with countless words "should".
Regardless of whether it was really cold that caused a stomachache, or the emperor had tampered with the sour plum duck, the Queen Mother felt that it was really cold and deserved it.
"Going to bed with the lights on after dark sounds like a pardon or a gift. In fact, that night, I was the only one guarding the empty room. How could the emperor be seen?" When he mentioned going to bed that night, Zhenliang glared quietly.
Nangong Lie glanced at the Queen Mother's eyes, but they were full of resentment, "The Queen Mother doesn't know that from that night on, the emperor also punished the concubine not to sleep with him for six months, wuwuwu... Although this matter
It has not been disseminated to others, but it is an unwritten agreement between the emperor and his concubines. Wuwuwu... The Queen Mother is also a woman, and she should understand how painful such a punishment is."
"You...this..." The Queen Mother did not expect that the tone of the punishment in Zhenliang's mouth would change at the end. She was so cruel and cruel, and her face turned red for a while.
And Zhenliang said these words in front of Nangong Lie. Since Nangong Lie never refuted it, the Queen Mother would not doubt that Zhenliang was just talking nonsense, so she completely believed that it was true.
To put it more clearly, the matter of sleeping in bed is a matter between men and women. The Queen Mother was also young, so she naturally understands the feeling. It is a matter of face, so she will not continue this topic. She even said that sleeping in bed is better than not being able to enter the palace in March.
He could only complain, "Your Majesty, you should take care of those spoiled women who dare to do anything and say anything. This is not a slap in the Ai family's face, but a slap in the face of the Ai family."
Slap the emperor in the face!"
Zhenliang glanced at Nangong Lie quietly and found that his face was even more gloomy and terrifying than she expected. There was a strange calmness before the storm was about to come. Fortunately, he kept his thin lips tightly pressed and did not expose her.
Zhenliang gradually became convinced that he would not settle accounts with her in front of the Queen Mother.
She won this gamble.
The atmosphere suddenly became extremely awkward. None of the three people left or spoke. They all had their own thoughts. Among them, Zhenliang's thoughts were the most obvious. So she raised her head and looked at Nangong Lie for a while, and then at the Queen Mother.
, but the more I looked at it, the more unpleasant it became.
I heard that the Queen Mother gave birth to two sons in total, one Nangong Lie and one Nangong Yu. However, Zhenliang clearly felt that the Queen Mother had completely different attitudes towards the two sons. She treated her younger son Nangong Yu like a doting son.
She is a loving mother with a smile of relief on her face, but when she treats her eldest son, she never smiles. She speaks in a subtle way, and is even a little mean and unkind, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Maybe in order to cultivate Nangong Lie to become the emperor, the Queen Mother had strict requirements on him since he was a child, so he developed a habit, right?
It makes sense to think like this, but Zhenliang feels sorry for Nangong Lie for the first time. With such a mother who has never been gentle and soft-spoken, she doesn't get praise, and most of the things she gets are scolding and criticism.
How could he feel so good? Perhaps, his cold, distant and lonely temperament, which was not good at getting along with others, had something to do with the Queen Mother.
Just when Zhenliangwu was thinking about it passionately, the Queen Mother said: "The Ai family has always liked that girl Wu'er, and originally planned to ask the emperor to point it out to Yu'er, but the girl wanted to marry the emperor wholeheartedly. The Ai family and the
We talked with her several times, and seeing that she had made up her mind, I had no choice but to follow her wishes. How about your Majesty making her the fourth-grade Concubine Xuan?"
Nangong Lie calmed down some of his gloomy expression, and said in a cold and respectful voice, "I will follow my mother's arrangements and have no objection."
The content of the chat between the Queen Mother and the Emperor should be regarded as extremely private, but she said it openly in front of Zhenliang, which not only made her understand the infatuation of the woman named Wuer for Nangong Lie, but also made her understand the Queen Mother
I like Wuer very much and can guarantee that the two of them will be equals in the future.
Zhenliang guessed silently that the Queen Mother deliberately let her hear these words, either because she didn't pay attention to her existence at all, or because she deliberately made her angry and irritated her, right?
