If not abolished

Chapter 160 Unnamed Draft 6

The Guide to a Qualified Queen - Part 1: Listen More, Talk Less

"My grandmother always told me to listen more, watch more, do more, and talk less. If I can't do something, I should just act dumb and never promise anything."

At that time, I didn’t know the reason why I entered the palace. Not only did I not know it, my family was also confused.

His Majesty has been on the throne for three years. An Lu was the selection judge and had indeed planned to hold the selection in September of that year. His Majesty's first queen died of illness three years ago. Now the throne is vacant, and the aristocratic families are racking their brains to get their daughters on the selection list, ready to gamble for the position of queen.

Unexpectedly, in March, an imperial edict arrived at the house, an imperial edict to appoint a queen.

After hearing the imperial edict, my father and I were so shocked that we were speechless.

My eldest sister fainted, my grandmother and mother's eyes turned red, the house was in chaos, and my father-in-law, who was supposed to announce the imperial edict, was so frightened that he didn't know what to do. He gave me the imperial edict and left in a hurry, forgetting even to take the reward money.

Oh, if this gets out, I’ll probably be known as a stingy person.

But I didn’t have time to think about all this now, so I walked over to my grandmother and comforted her.

She held my hand and cried, murmuring, "How could this happen? How could this happen?"

After my mother had my sister carried back to the room, she looked at me, came over, held my hand and cried. However, I didn’t know why my mother was crying.

The imperial edict says that I must enter the palace in three days to prepare for my wedding.

Time was too short and I had no time to prepare anything. Although I didn't need my parents to prepare a lot of dowry, I still had to prepare silver, money, jewelry, clothes and other things. I used to live in the countryside and didn't have any decent things. Last month, I went to the Prime Minister's house for a flower-viewing banquet, and I borrowed my clothes and headgear from my eldest sister.

Now because of this incident, I can only give most of the dowry that my mother has prepared for my elder sister over the years to me. My elder sister woke up once, but fainted again when she heard about the dowry. Alas, she is so fragile.

I am sitting in my grandmother's room now. My grandmother stopped being sad and told me that with my temperament and brain, I would not survive more than three days in the palace. It's her fault. She has raised me to be too stupid and without any scheming. Now I have to go to the place where women are most troubled in the world. What should I do?

That day, my grandmother talked to me for most of the night, teaching me all kinds of principles. She didn't care whether I understood them or not. She just told me a lot of things all at once and asked me to write them down in the morning and bring them to the palace.

I thought at the time that I probably wasn’t that stupid.

Before I could finish my thought, my grandmother said that stupid people don’t think they are stupid, otherwise how can they say “great wisdom appears foolish”.

You are really a god.

The next day, my sister came to my room and told me to find a way to avoid going to the palace, even if I was sick, or find an excuse to refuse.

"Why?" I asked.

"This way I can replace you." She replied with a somewhat smug tone.

If my brain is only enough to survive three days in the palace, then my sister will probably only survive one day.

Later, the quilt in my room became thinner and the charcoal fire became less at night. This was probably something my mother did. As the ancient saying goes: Like mother, like daughter.

The girl next to me looked at me and I didn't know what to do.

"Please bring two more beds." Fortunately, it is already March and not that cold, otherwise I would really get sick.

Later, my mother and sister looked at me every day as if they wanted to poke two holes in my quilt, and then I had less and less quilts.

Maybe God took pity on me, so when the day came for me to enter the palace, I was still safe and sound.

For the past three days, I have seen the whole family busying themselves with this matter. Now they are about to leave. The one who is reluctant to leave is my grandmother, as for the others, forget it. Fortunately, I can let my grandmother come to the palace to see me in the future.

A few hours later, I entered the palace. I was not expecting to see His Majesty right away. My palms were sweaty and I could only follow the maid in front of me carefully.

"Mother, we're here."

"Hmm." I looked up and didn't see anyone in the hall. I couldn't help but walk in, puzzled.

Then groups of palace maids surrounded me, bathing me, burning incense, and dressing me up.

I felt like I had been reshaped. By the time I finished all these, it was almost dark.

"Gugu" Oh my God, I know without looking that my face must be very red. Is there a crack in the ground for me to hide in?

I thought I would hear the palace servants making fun of me, but they acted as if they heard nothing and continued doing their own things. The nanny brought over a plate of something that looked extremely exquisite.

"My lady, use some."

I picked it up and put it in my mouth. It melted in my mouth and was so delicious.

Madam is so nice, but I will have to give her some money later.

When everything was ready, the palace servants lined up to go out.

"My lady, for the next two months, I will teach you all the rules of the palace."

"it is good."

Mammy was about to say something.

"Mother." Suddenly a little ball came running in from outside. He was white and plump. When I saw his face, I thought of a big glutinous rice ball. Hmm, I felt like eating it.

Before I could react, the little ball jumped into my arms, forcing me to take a few steps back.

"This is……"

At this time, a woman in gorgeous clothes walked in from outside. Seeing this scene, she first bowed to me, and then said to the little girl who was holding me tightly, "Your Highness, please let go of the queen first."

Your Highness, I looked down at this little ball, and he happened to look up at me.

"If you don't let go, you have to hold Mother." He said in a bad temper.

"Your Highness. The Queen is about to have a meal, or Your Highness could join in." The nanny came to the rescue.

"Okay then." The little boy let me go, but he was still pulling my clothes. I smiled and held his little hand instead. He was so happy.

After eating with me, the little Dumpling became listless and wanted to sleep. I had to coax him to sleep. In his sleep, he pulled my sleeve and wouldn't let go. It took me a lot of effort to pull him away.

Only then did I realize that I was now in the Eastern Palace, and that little boy was the Crown Prince, the only child of the late Queen, who was only five years old now.

Why did he call me mother as soon as we met? Doesn't that mean he doesn't even know who his own mother is?

When I walked into the bedroom, the woman was still there. I just found out that she was Concubine Yang Zhao, who had been taking care of the prince.

"I just got here and I don't know a lot of things. I'll need your advice from now on."

"My queen, you are embarrassing me."

Next, Concubine Zhao told me about some people in the palace, especially His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"Why does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince act like that when he sees me? What's the reason?" I asked the question in my mind.

Concubine Zhao seemed to be in a dilemma and said hesitantly: "When the late queen passed away, the prince was only two years old. How could he remember anyone? There has never been such a thing before, so this concubine is not very clear. Maybe the queen and the prince are destined to be together."

"I see."

"Your Highness is tired today, and you have said so much. It is getting late, Your Highness, please have a good rest. I will take my leave now."

"Thank you for today."

"How can I thank you, my lady?"

I lay in bed, unable to sleep, thinking about what happened today.

I didn't expect that before I met the emperor of any empire, a cheap son and a love rival came and arranged the future queen in the East Palace. This is really fresh.

Over the next few days, I learned the rules in the East Palace and played with the prince. Maybe we really got along well, the prince was very attached to me and would make a fuss if he wasn't around for a while.

In addition to Concubine Yang Zhaofei, I also met another high-ranking concubine - Concubine Wen Shufei. Perhaps it was due to the unfamiliar climate and climate, but I fell ill as soon as I arrived at the palace. However, it was not the imperial physician who came to treat me, but Concubine Wen Shufei. I thought at the time that this palace was really strange.

Later, there was one more person who often came to the East Palace.

By the way, I have been in the palace for more than two months, but I haven’t even seen the current emperor.

As I sat down, the little prince ran towards me, threw himself into my arms and hugged me tightly, refusing to let go.

I am now used to his behavior when he sees me, so I touched his head and asked him what's wrong.

He said that when he woke up from his nap he didn't see his mother and thought she had left him alone again.

Alas, what a poor child who lacks motherly love. Please love him more in the future.

Three months passed quickly, and less than two months after my fifteenth birthday, I became the new queen.

From then on, rumors and literary works about me began. Here are a few of the good ones I've read:

A Few Things About Miss Song Er in Lianying Lane

The Empress's Two or Three Close Friends

The Emperor and Empress

……

It is said that the author of "Close Friend" is one of my close friends, and I guarantee that the content is true.

Regardless of whether the content is true or not, I grew up in Jiangnan. Half a year ago, my father was transferred to the capital and I was taken home. I have only been in the capital for three months. How could I have such close friends there? It would only be true if this was written by my little sister in Jingchu.

"What's going on outside?" Sitting in the hall, I couldn't see clearly. I just saw a lot of people, and it seemed like they were moving something.

"Your Highness, it was His Majesty who ordered all the crabapple blossoms in the palace to be moved to Chonghua Palace. He also said that from now on, they cannot be placed anywhere else except in Your Highness's palace."

"is it?"

"I like Begonia so much."

I remember on our wedding night, he asked me what my name was.

I replied, Song Wei Yu.

After hearing this, he murmured: Wei Yu, Wei Yu Haitang. He immediately said, I will call you Xiao Haitang from now on, okay?

I thought to myself, call it whatever you want, as long as you like.

I didn't answer for a moment, so he asked again.

"Okay, thank you, Your Majesty."

For ten days in a row, he stayed at my place and went to pay respects to the Queen Mother every day. The Queen Mother hinted to me, both explicitly and implicitly, that I should not pamper him. I could only smile and say nothing.

You can't even take care of your own son, what can I do?

However, we do need to find a way to get him out of Chonghua Palace, but how can we do it without making him angry?

Just as I was thinking about it, the palace maid came and said something.

"Your Majesty, the Empress Shufei and the Empress Zhaofei are here."

"Please come in quickly."