The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 631 There is 1 more chapter today

Chapter 631 There is one more chapter today

[It didn't hang up, but after coming back yesterday afternoon, I fell asleep from four o'clock until midnight, so I didn't even send a leave note... I feel better today, try to get more. 】

Two quarters of an hour later, the palace was cleaned up.

"Good good!"

Half of Emperor Longyuan's face was glowing red with excitement, and he praised repeatedly: "Aiqing really won my heart, so I went to Renshou Palace with my relatives, and what I said and said was nothing more than that!"

"I don't dare to be praised by His Majesty. I have just been around His Majesty for a long time, and I have a little experience. Compared with the beginning of His Majesty's ascension, before Wuxi invaded the sea, he clearly discerned the truth and made a plan to make a powerful industrial country. Policy, what I say and do is nothing more than small tricks, how can it be as good as His Majesty's eventuality?"

These words obviously hit the emperor's itching again, although he first wanted to engage in industrial innovation, mainly because he worshiped Taizu, so he wanted to follow the gourd.

But now it seems that it is a crooked attack...

No, it should be said that it is God's will in the dark!

"Ai Qing is too modest..."

"Your Majesty is far-sighted..."

Concubine Rong stood in the corner, secretly looking at the two monarchs and his ministers who were having a good time talking, especially looking at Emperor Longyuan's excited and ferocious expression, she couldn't help but feel a dark tinge in her heart.

Ever since she got the chance to be on duty, she can be said to have tried her best, but the feedback she got was far less than Jiao Shun's flattery - her flattery sometimes even had the opposite effect.

Sure enough, it's no longer possible to entertain people with sex.

Concubine Rong bit her red lips and hesitated for a moment, then silently exited the curtain, looking for the queen who had left with an excuse.

For a childless concubine like her, if she wants to have a good end after the emperor's visit, she must either ask the emperor to make arrangements in advance, or she can only have a good relationship with the future queen mother and concubine [Wu Guifei].

Now that the road ahead is blocked, it is natural to retreat to the next best thing.

In fact, Concubine Rong is not willing to take this path. After all, she blindly competed for favor a few years ago, and her relationship with the Queen and Concubine Wu was not close, but now she is about to bow her head...

Hey~

Concubine Rong unconsciously stretched out her hand to caress her lower abdomen, thinking to herself that she was all to blame for her disappointment, if she could give birth to a dragon son early, why should she be so anxious?

At this moment, her gaze caught the queen's figure, but it turned out that the queen hadn't left too far away, but was listening in the corner near the curtain.

This is a bit strange.

The conversation between the emperor and Jiao Shun didn't involve any secrets, even he was allowed to listen in, so why should the empress hide outside to listen?

"Miss?"

Puzzled in her heart, she cautiously approached and whispered, but the queen's delicate body trembled suddenly, as if she had been frightened.

"Ah~"

Seeing her cover her heart with her hands, she said in shock: "It turns out to be Concubine Rong's sister, why, could it be that His Majesty has some orders?"

So she is here in a daze?

Concubine Rong felt more and more weird, but she didn't ask rashly, she just shook her head and sighed: "Master Jiao really has some tricks, no wonder after Sister De Concubine's accident, not only was he not implicated, but he was even more favored than before."

The Empress still couldn't calm down about this matter, she subconsciously shook her head after hearing Concubine Rong's words, "Your Majesty relies heavily on Jiao Changqing, it's not all because of his talent and skills, the most important thing is that he and His Majesty share the same aspirations, and both intend to carry out the New Deal. Plus……"

In the middle of speaking, she suddenly woke up and quickly covered her mouth.

"Plus what?"

Concubine Rong instinctively asked.

"nothing!"

The empress knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, so she was willing to say anything more, and hurriedly said: "Since the matter of ranking in the palace examination has been settled, I will entrust this to Sister Concubine Rong. Report it to her, the old man will know."

Looking at this scene, Concubine Rong knew that her previous guess was indeed correct, the queen must have something to do with Jiao Shun's secrets!

And because she heard the Empress mention the Compassionate Ning Palace, she said by the way: "Speaking of Compassionate Ning Palace, I heard that recently..."

However, in the middle of speaking, Concubine Rong suddenly stopped talking.

"How did you hear that?"

This time it was the Queen's turn to be curious.

In fact, what Concubine Rong originally wanted to say was that Jia Yuanchun was often summoned by the Queen Mother recently, but when the provocative words came to her lips, she suddenly felt that it was meaningless.

At the beginning, she and Jia Yuanchun were at odds, mainly because the two families were closest to each other, and Jia Yuanchun was favored more than her, and she had a fake and noble face that was annoying.

That's why she tried every means to step on Jia Yuanchun's position.

But with the current situation, even if Jia Yuanchun is doomed, so what?

What's more, I don't want to compete for favor now, but to build a good relationship with the empress and Concubine Wu, if I provoke you wantonly at this time, it may backfire.

That's why she stopped talking in time.

However, the Empress could directly choose to be secretive and second, but she couldn't answer. She hurriedly said perfunctorily: "It's nothing. I heard that your majesty is planning to postpone this year's birthday due to His Majesty's illness. I don't know if it's true."

"That's true."

After the queen confirmed it, she added casually: "But even so, we must have a little bit of filial piety."

"Don't worry, ma'am, I won't do that stupid thing!"

The queen nodded slightly, her eyes subconsciously swept behind the curtain, and then stepped out of the bedroom.

Concubine Rong sent her all the way to the gate of the courtyard, and was about to return to the bedroom, when someone outside the courtyard scolded: "Who is sneaking around there, come out!"

Concubine Rong subconsciously stood still, and looked out, and saw a little eunuch with an embarrassing expression coming out of the corner, who seemed very familiar to him.

The eunuch in charge beside the empress had obviously recognized the little eunuch, and his tone and expression softened unconsciously, and he asked again: "So it's Li Zhong, what are you doing in Qianqing Palace instead of accompanying His Highness?"

Only then did Concubine Rong recognize that the little eunuch was Li Zhong, Prince Yao's companion.

But Li Zhong replied: "The villain is ordered by His Highness, and I want to ask Mr. Jiao when he can enter the palace to give lectures."

As he spoke, he couldn't help showing a look of expectation.

Concubine Rong was secretly surprised, she had heard before that Jiao Shun was different from those great Confucians, the knowledge taught was very novel and interesting, but she never expected that Prince Yao would be so interested in just a few lessons.

Even Li Zhong seemed to be looking forward to Jiao Shun's lecture.

We must know that although Li Zhong is not showing off the mountains and waters now, but in the future when Prince Yao inherits the Datong, he is very likely to become today's Dai Quan, and considering the age of Prince Yao, the authority and reliance he has obtained may not be the same. It will still be above Dai Quan.

Does this mean that...

Then Jiao Changqing can continue the current relationship between the monarch and his ministers in the future, or even go beyond it?

Thinking of this, Concubine Rong's desire to win over Jiao Shun became stronger.

Compared with the Queen, Concubine Wu, and Concubine Xiande, she is the most superstitious about the imperial power. She usually only cares about the competition in the palace, and doesn't pay much attention to the situation outside the court, so she only thinks that she has won the emperor's admiration. It will be invincible in the world, but who knows that once the civil servants get together, it can even cause the emperor a headache?

So when the queen was sent away, the more she thought about it, the more enthusiastic she became. She walked around outside the curtain a few times, but she still couldn't find a chance to 'strike'.

How dare a concubine in the palace contact foreign ministers without authorization?

As for taking the mother's route...

Concubine Rong comes from Fuyang Hou Zhou's family, theoretically her natal family is quite powerful, but her father and brother have no ambitions, they only know how to carry cages and birds all day long, she secretly hinted at the family to make friends with Jiao Shun, but the reply from father and brother was all evasion Word.

So the natal family can't count on it for a while.

Then only...

Concubine Rong gradually strengthened her faith, and made up her mind to find out the mystery hidden by the queen.

The words are divided into two parts.

On the other side, the empress walked around in the Compassionate Ning Palace, chatted with the Empress Dowager about family issues, then left again and returned to the Chuxiu Palace.

She sat down in front of the dressing table a little tired, and ordered the maid to remove the heavy phoenix crown on her head, while she repaired her makeup in the mirror, her gaze swept to the mahogany box in the corner intentionally or unintentionally, as if her eyes were stuck Usually, the mind is full of the ridicule of the previous emperor.

Your Majesty's joke was too much, how could she take the initiative to read such filthy text? !

Usually, he was terrified of it, and only when he needed to confirm whether the memorial was safe, he would carefully open the wooden box and take a look, but he didn't even dare to look at the cover, let alone open it for a closer look.

On the contrary, the emperor himself, holding these two memorials, couldn't put them down, and didn't know what's so interesting about them!

also……

What does the emperor mean when he said that the words in the memorial cannot be fully believed?

Doesn't Jiao Shun still dare to falsify in the confession?

"My lady, my lady?"

Awakened by the maid's soft call, the queen looked away in a panic, and subconsciously said: "Okay, you are not needed here, you all go back."

After all the maids bowed and bid farewell, the queen was confused again, why did she drive people out at this time?

Then unconsciously, she shifted her gaze to the mahogany box again.

"It seems that I haven't checked it for a few days."

Muttering to herself and hesitating for a while, the queen finally got up from the dressing table, first took out a key from the secret place, opened the mahogany box, took out a box that was a smaller size from the inside, and then took out a key from the closet. Take out the second key.

It was not the first time for her to open the box, but this time, for some reason, her hands trembled and it was difficult to align with the keyhole, and finally she had to use her left hand to stabilize her right wrist, and only then did she successfully open the box.

When the lid of the box was carefully lifted and the two stacked memorials came into view, the queen hurriedly shifted her gaze as if her eyes had been scalded.

According to the past, she should have locked the box again at this time, but this time she did not move, and her mind was like a revolving lantern, suddenly showing the appearance of the emperor reading the memorial at night, and flashing the words she had glimpsed at the beginning, From time to time, it is also interspersed with the past when the emperor and empress were inseparable like glue.

After an unknown period of time, the queen recovered from her trance, and suddenly realized that she was pressing on the memorial with one hand, and her two slender fingers clasped the side of the memorial. Move, you can open the memorial to watch.

"Ah~"

With a flushed face, she let out a low cry, retracted her jade hand as if she had been electrocuted, and closed the lid of the box in one go, and put on two shackles, but she still couldn't calm down...

(End of this chapter)