After listening to the emperor's story, the Queen Mother finally calmed down a little.
"A weird master teaches a weird apprentice," she said.
"How weird the aliens are." The emperor laughed.
The Queen Mother exhaled and stopped talking.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The Prince of Jin'an County said happily and leaned over to salute.
"What are you thanking for?" the Queen Mother asked with a straight face.
The prince of Jin'an County smiled.
"Of course I would like to thank Your Majesty for comforting your Majesty. Your Majesty will not be angry anymore. Otherwise, the trouble the child will cause will be greater, and the child's sin will also be greater." He smiled.
The Queen Mother looked at him.
"Don't mess with these people in the future." She said, "You have grown up in the palace until now, how do you know that people outside are sinister. Don't think that the woman was a fool. In her eyes, it is not certain who is the fool."
The prince of Jin'an County smiled and said yes, bowing and thanking him.
"My son, please retire," he said.
"What's the hurry?" the Queen Mother said with a straight face, "I'll have dinner with the Ai family in the palace before leaving."
"The child has not left the palace for a month and has already been in and out of the palace so many times. If she stays to have a meal, the empress will be criticized by others." Prince Jin'an said with a smile.
The Queen Mother snorted.
"Is the Ai family afraid of people talking about it?" she said.
Prince Jin'an raised his head and smiled.
"The queen is not afraid, but the child is reluctant to let go," he said.
Seeing the young man's back shaking away as he exited the palace door, the Queen Mother's sullen face relaxed into a smile.
"Glib tongue," she said, "I don't know who I learned it from."
"It's because I'm in poor health and I don't discipline him enough." The emperor said with a smile.
The Queen Mother gave him a blank look.
"There is no need for the emperor to rush to clear up the relationship. The Ai family knows that he was raised by the Ai family." She said, "This is all learned from the Ai family."
The emperor laughed.
"Now it looks like it is." He smiled.
The Queen Mother sighed and also laughed.
"Anyway, the Ai family doesn't like this Cheng family." She suddenly dropped her smile and said, "Your Majesty can promote her in any way for the sake of national affairs, but don't let her get involved with the Ai family."
The emperor smiled.
"Mother, she is a little girl, how can I promote her? She is not a man, and she is given an official position." He said, "She has meritorious service, and I have already rewarded her parents, elder brothers, and if I promote her again, I will
I don’t think the courtiers would agree.”
"A woman's family is nothing more than a marriage." The Queen Mother said slowly.
"Although Mrs. Cheng's mother died young, her father is still there. Her parents have the final say in her marriage. How can I interfere?" the emperor said with a smile.
"Yes, this is a family matter." The Queen Mother nodded with a smile, "However, Madam Cheng once suffered from a serious disease and was a woman who never married. Although she was lucky enough to be cured by an expert, there are bound to be bad consequences for the stupidity of the world.
In your mind, after all, she has meritorious service to the country and has parents. Your Majesty still needs to keep a close eye on her to prevent those lowly people who tend to follow the trend and take advantage of the opportunity to cling to her."
A humble person who tends to be in favor of others.
The Queen Mother emphasized these words.
The emperor looked at the Queen Mother for a moment and finally nodded.
"The queen has thought carefully," he said.
"Also, since they have all gone out, the marriage should also be put on the agenda." The Queen Mother said, "Prince Ping and Prince Qing are still young and there is no rush. Weilang will be twenty during the Chinese New Year."
The emperor looked at the queen mother.
In the past, the one who was most reluctant to marry Prince Jin'an was the Queen Mother, but now it is also the Queen Mother who takes the initiative to mention it. It seems that the Queen Mother has completely given up hope of adding another heir to the palace.
However, it is indeed time to give up hope. It was difficult to have children when I was young. Is it possible that now that I am about to know my destiny, it will be easier to have children?
Like Tong Neihan, who is determined to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal? His adopted daughter is not as old as his granddaughter?
The emperor couldn't help but smile, a smile that was somewhat envious after all.
Although his heirs died one after another, he still left behind a grown-up prince.
You can let it go.
The emperor nodded.
"Let the Queen Mother choose the princess for him," he said.
What the two people in the palace said, King Jin'an didn't care after he left. He walked faster in the palace and looked ahead.
"Your Highness, there is no rush." The old chamberlain who saw her off personally said with a smile from behind, "Your Highness is not the only one who wants to see Mrs. Cheng."
"Who else?" Prince Jin'an asked casually and glared after finishing the question.
The old chamberlain in the Queen Mother's Palace laughed more and more, her eyes disappeared.
"I want Your Highness to have a beginning and an end, so I brought Madam Cheng into the palace, so I naturally have to send her out," he said.
Prince Jin'an looked at him and laughed.
"You're still very thoughtful," he said with a smile.
The old chamberlain smiled and hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Your Highness, I don't dare to address you like Your Highness," he said.
Everyone knows that it is his rank, and the court officials and subordinates can call him this, but in front of the royal family and the Jin'an County Prince, he is always a domestic slave.
The prince of Jin'an County smiled and said nothing.
"Your Highness, go ahead. Madam Cheng was tripped up by Master Cui." The old chamberlain smiled and said, "I won't send you away. The Queen Mother can't stay away from her."
Prince Jin'an nodded with a smile.
The two of them left one after the other.
As soon as the old chamberlain returned to the Queen Mother's Palace, a young chamberlain came over quickly and whispered a few words to him. The old chamberlain's expression changed slightly and he looked outside the palace door.
"There's nothing you can do about it." He murmured, "Everything in the world is so difficult to have both ways. If you follow your brother's wishes and lose your sister-in-law's wishes, if you please him, you will inevitably dislike the old man."
At this time, the Prince of Jin'an County had already stood beside Cheng Jiaoniang, and Cui Qinshi was bowing and retreating.
"What did he tell you?" Prince Jin'an asked.
"He said thank you to me," Cheng Jiaoniang said.
The two of them staggered out and walked out. The waiter who led the way followed them with their heads bowed, keeping a distance of not too far but not too close.
"He said that he was enlightened when he heard me say that he only studied music but not the piano. He finally understood the dilemma and was able to escape from the cage." Cheng Jiaoniang continued.
"That's the right thing to thank." Prince Jin'an nodded and smiled.
"But isn't it His Highness who made him famous?" Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Prince Jin'an said oh and continued to smile and nod.
"Yes, he should thank me too." He said, "I will ask him for a thank you gift. When it arrives, I will share half with you."
Cheng Jiaoniang smiled slightly.
"Okay." She said.
The two carriages were waiting outside the imperial city.
"I won't send you off. Sixth Brother cannot live without people at home." Prince Jin'an said.
Cheng Jiaoniang saluted and watched him get into the car first.
Prince Jin'an, who got into the car, lifted the curtain and waved to her with a smile.
Cheng Jiaoniang saluted again and watched the car drive away.
"Madam, let's get in the car." Banqin said hurriedly, handing over the stove.
It is not a short walk from the Queen Mother Palace to the Imperial City Gate.
Cheng Jiaoniang took the stove and got into the car.
The carriage drove slowly along the Imperial Street.
On the wide imperial street, there were not many carriages and not many pedestrians. Most of the people coming and going were the Yamen's messengers and the palace servants.
"How come there are so many clans in Beijing all of a sudden?"
An official who was walking towards the imperial city stopped and squinted at the passing carriage and said.
This official was wearing a green official robe, neat boots and hat, and a silver fish bag hanging from his waist. He was obviously dressed to meet a saint.
"Master Feng, that's not the clan." The chamberlain who led the way said with a smile, "That's Mrs. Cheng."
Lady Cheng.
Feng Lin's face darkened.
"Nowadays, common people can come to see you again and again even if they are naked?" He said, "Don't your Majesty know that there is a long queue of officials waiting to see Zhongshu?"
"Master Feng, you have just returned to the capital, but you don't know that Mrs. Cheng, although she is a commoner, has great achievements..." the chamberlain said hurriedly, with his eyebrows dancing, ready to tell these things about Mrs. Cheng.
These things about Mrs. Cheng are something that everyone must talk about when they have free time, but there are too many people talking about them, and it is not my turn to talk about them. I finally have the opportunity to tell them to people who don’t know.
Which one is better to talk about first? The drunken nine cities in Maoyuan Mountain, or the tombstone inscriptions in the Lost Forest? Or the latest one, which is also the most qualified one in the palace to talk about the pure piano music that only immortals can hear?
The chamberlain was so excited just thinking about it that he didn't notice the increasingly ugly expression on the face of the adult in front of him.
"With merit?" Feng Lin said, "Didn't Your Majesty give you a reward for merit?"
"Yes, yes." The chamberlain nodded hurriedly and said, "Her adopted brother, her father and mother... Sir, do you know where that gong came from? Speaking of which..."
"Since she has already been given a gift, why are she summoned one after another?" Feng Lin did not allow him to continue speaking. He interrupted and said slowly, "Besides, she is still a woman. What reason does she have to be summoned to the palace by His Majesty?"
The waiter finally realized something was wrong.
"I want to listen to the piano, so..." he said.
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted again.
This time the voice of the adult in front of him was full of anger, and he looked at him coldly.
"Listen to the piano?! So many courtiers with important state affairs are waiting to be summoned in order, but this little girl can drive up and down the royal street openly." Feng Lin shouted, "Tingqin! You have to be arrested just to listen to the piano.
By summoning him, is this to let the world know that the emperor is obsessed with happiness and does not care about state affairs?"
The chamberlain was already stunned with fright.
He was just a low-ranking young man from the Huang family, not a lieutenant of Shence. He was suddenly scolded by a court official and was so frightened that he was stunned.
Moreover, it was the emperor who was scolded by the court officials.
Of course, it is not uncommon for officials to scold the emperor.
"And you, this slave, as the Emperor's personal servant, not only did you not advise me, but you dared to spread rumors and exaggerate about it, your intentions are to be punished!"
Accompanied by Feng Lin's shout, the waiter finally knelt down with his feet weak.
Not to mention a civil servant wearing a green robe and a silver fish bag, even an ordinary civil servant, the chamberlain can't bear to be scolded by him. It's not that he has no eggs, but that even the military attachés at the same level have to fear the three civil servants.
point.
What's more, this civil servant is not one of those pampered civil servants in the court. He is Feng Lin, Judge Feng who broke down the family and exterminated the clan without blinking an eye. Feng Lin, the nicknamed Judge Ghost, was passed over by many people.
The chamberlain knelt down to confess his crime and did not dare to say anything. He just kowtowed repeatedly and cried bitterly in his heart. How could he be so unlucky that he came to pick up this unlucky judge! Look, he was really unlucky!
