So, Zhenliang sat down and saluted the Queen Mother, lightly opening her red lips, "I am extremely ashamed. I am wearing a veil to see the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, and other empresses. It is indeed my concubine who shows poor etiquette.
This is not considered appropriate, but the purpose of wearing a veil to cover my face is not to prevent everyone from seeing my true face, but to fear that everyone will be frightened by my lineup, especially now it is lunch time, I
I'm afraid that everyone will lose their appetite because of my ugly appearance. I don't dare to show my true face to others, not for myself, but because I'm afraid of affecting everyone. I hope the Queen Mother can understand."
No one took their eyes away from Zhenliang's face. No one except Queen Hua Mo wanted to believe Zhenliang's sincere words.
Look, Concubine Liang's facial skin exposed outside the veil is fair and soft, her beautiful eyes are clean and clear, as dazzling as stars, especially her lips hidden behind the veil that open and close, printing beautiful lips on the veil
So, how scary can her face be?
They didn't know what the Empress Dowager wanted to see in Concubine Liang's face. They all had the same idea. They all wanted to see clearly how ugly the two brown spots on Concubine Liang's face were.
In fact, they didn't completely believe the rumors from the outside world, so they had two doubts about Zhenliang's appearance: First, Concubine Liang didn't have the legendary big brown spots on her face, but because of her plain appearance, she was afraid of being caught by them.
The beauty was so compared that she deliberately said she was ugly and covered it up with a veil; first, Liang Fei did have brown spots on her face, but they were definitely not big brown spots, at most they were small spots like freckles.
"The Ai family has lived for most of their lives, and what kind of strange faces have they never seen? I'm just here for lunch, and how can I still be disgusted by you? Just take off the mask and let the Ai family see it." The Queen Mother spoke, and this momentum was extraordinary.
Invisible.
Although the Queen Mother was not jealous of Concubine He like other concubines, she was also curious about her appearance. If she was not ugly, she could take the opportunity to punish her. If she was really ugly, it would be nice for everyone to appreciate her and ridicule her.
Not bad!
Zhenliang raised her lips and smiled, which meant that it was a foregone conclusion that she would be unveiled.
Although she didn't think the brown spots on her face were scary, if it scared someone later and the Queen Mother blamed her, Zhenliang would feel very wronged.
So, Zhenliang stood up from his seat generously, walked to the back of the seat, knelt down towards the Queen Mother and said, "I can't guarantee whether it will scare people. Please forgive me, Queen Mother.
Otherwise, even if I die, I will not dare to take off my veil."
The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes and looked at Zhenliang who was kneeling on the ground. She was speechless for a moment. The caution and firmness she inadvertently revealed was very similar to her cold and arrogant sister.
When she thought of her sister, the person who made her feel resentful even though she was enjoying all the glory and wealth in the palace, the Queen Mother's disgust for Zhenliang became even stronger.
"Okay, Aijia forgives you." The Queen Mother gritted her teeth. Today, she had to humiliate her sister's daughter to vent her anger.
"Thank you, Queen Mother, for your kindness." Zhenliang slowly stood up from the ground, and before taking off the veil, he scanned the crowd from left to right.
Except for Queen Hua Mo, all the other women's faces were filled with eagerness, curiosity, gloating, and viciousness like snakes and scorpions, but there was no trace of sympathy or kindness.
In fact, she felt that it was no big deal to lift the veil in front of everyone. The difference was whether she took the initiative to lift the veil, or whether others forced her to lift it. The former made her feel calm, while the latter made her resist.
and unhappy.
Zhenliang really regrets it. If she could have predicted the current scene, before leaving the palace, she should have asked Jin Ye to put some colorful rouge on her face and take the veil later. Although it would not disgust them to death, at least it could
Pretend to be a ghost and scare them to death.
"Haha, it seems that everyone is ready, then I think I am too ugly."
After the sarcastic words were spoken, Emperor Hua Mo was the first to close his eyes. Although Concubine Liang had a smile on her face, she could still see her helplessness, anger, disgust and other bad emotions. If she had been there today
She must be a part of seeing Liang Fei's true appearance, and she didn't want to be the first one.
As for Hua Mo, she had no way to avoid leaving, and no way not to look at her. She could only adopt this compromise method, which not only gave Liang Fei the best respect she could, but also gave herself the respect she deserved.
When the gauze scarf on his face fell into Zhenliang's hand, the slightly noisy scene fell into momentary silence.
Except for the queen, everyone else saw Zhenliang's face and the two shocking large brown spots on her face.
After a brief silence, many people burst into unabashed laughter.
Zhenliang stood there quietly, letting the coldness spread all over his body. He bit his lip stubbornly for a moment and showed a firm smile that he thought was graceful.
Finally, Zhenliang cast his eyes on the queen's face, whose eyes were still tightly closed, and her cold heart gradually warmed up.
"Empress?" Zhenliang couldn't help but call Hua Mo softly. Little did he know that Hua Mo wanted to open her eyes immediately, but when she heard the roar of laughter from other women, she was so angry that she didn't open her eyes, as if she was late.
After a while, it seemed that he could make up for the trauma suffered by Concubine Liang, "If the Queen doesn't open her eyes, will there be no chance today?"
Hearing Zhenliang's relaxed and inviting words, Hua Mo slowly opened her eyes and saw clearly her face with big brown spots.
Although the two brown spots shocked Hua Mo, there was no trace of disgust on Hua Mo's face or even in his heart.
She warned herself that if she watched it a few times, she would get used to it and it wouldn't be a big deal.
When Hua Mo opened her eyes, Zhenliang put on the veil again, covering her cheeks, and said jokingly, "Have you all seen enough? If anyone wants to watch again next time, just tell me, and it will all be in vain.
, don’t charge a penny.”
When the Queen Mother saw Zhenliang's face, although she wanted to laugh like everyone else, she still held back. Her sister was so thick-skinned that she dared to push such an ugly daughter to the emperor. Fortunately, she didn't.
If it was her Yu'er who recommended it to her, she would never agree.
But the Queen Mother said to Zhenliang, "Concubine Liang's face is a bit strange, but it is far from as scary as the rumors say. Why do you need to wear a veil in the future? Just show it. There is beauty and ugliness.
Everyone quickly got used to seeing the real gesture."
Zhenliang let out a cold snort in his heart, "Bad girl, I will do it if you tell me to do it? What if I don't do it?"
"What the Queen Mother said is that I don't want to live in a veil all day long, but the emperor said that I don't like my concubine to show up in public, so I must not show my face to too many people, otherwise he will get angry.
, Maybe I dug out those people's eyes." As Zhenliang spoke, the expressions of the concubines suddenly changed. While they were frightened in their hearts, they secretly sighed that Concubine Liang was really insidious. Not only did she use the emperor as a shield,
Moreover, at the critical moment, the Queen Mother was not informed in advance that there was a possibility that their eyes would be gouged out.
Zhenliang just used Nangong Lie to show off at will. Seeing these women turned pale with fear, he couldn't help but said in his heart, "Don't worry, the emperor was just joking with his concubines. How could he gouge your eyes out?"
The Queen Mother basically believed in Zhenliang's words. Because of her sister, she could not deny the emperor's special favor towards Zhenliang.
"The Ai family just said that they don't like women wearing veils. Since the emperor doesn't like you showing your face, then find something else to cover your face and wear it, okay?"
Is it ok?
Zhenliang really wants to ask directly: Is it okay if I say no?
"I will consider another way to cover my face when I get back. Thank you Queen Mother for the advice."
The dishes had been served one after another by the palace maids, and the Queen Mother finally ordered in a comfortable mood, "Everyone, let's have a meal."
Zhenliang didn't want to eat this lunch after a quarter of an hour. It wasn't that she wasn't hungry, but that she had no appetite. But even if she was the first one to finish her meal, she couldn't leave, so she could only forcefully eat it.
She could not leave until both the Queen and the Queen Mother were finished.
By the time Zhenliang walked out of the palace, it was already an hour later.
When her gold, silver, copper and iron accompanied her out of the Cining Palace, seeing no one around, Jinye and Yinye both looked at Zhenliang with red eyes and said, "My queen, you have been wronged."
Zhenliang was startled. She had been bullied and laughed at by so many people in the hall before and she didn't even want to shed tears. Now, just because she heard such a simple words of respect from two girls, her nose was sore and her eye circles were red.
.
However, Zhenliang would not allow himself to shed tears because of such a trivial matter in front of them. He tried his best to smile brightly. Zhenliang put his left arm on Jinye's shoulder and his right arm on Ginye's shoulder.
He said sarcastically, "Oh, my amnesia has struck again. I have completely forgotten what happened just now. How about you guys remind me?"
Jinye and Yinye's eye circles couldn't help but become redder. The more relaxed their young lady spoke, did it mean that the sadder she felt? Unfortunately, they were not good at comforting people, and they didn't know how to comfort the young lady most effectively.
Yes, we can only comfort in the way we can.
"My queen, everything has a cycle of cause and effect. Those who laugh at my queen and bully her will definitely get the punishment they deserve." Jin Ye came first to comfort him.
"What kind of cause and effect cycle? I directly cursed them. After a while, the brown spots on the empress's face suddenly disappeared, and hundreds of them grew on their faces, causing them to scare themselves to death."
Zhenliang smiled cheerfully, letting them help her speak word by word, enjoying the happiness of being sincerely protected.
Suddenly, something the Queen Mother had said came to mind. Zhenliang frowned, stopped Tongye and Tieye and said, "Later, go ask the people in Qiongyu Palace who can do that kind of thing."
