flstandardbreds Chapter 114 Why Did She Kill Me?
Chapter 114 Why Did She Kill Me?
This made Queen Mother Lan very angry, "The Queen is cursing me!"
Queen Qin lowered her attitude, but there was not much respect in her eyes. "Your Majesty, you are too polite. I dare not say that... However, there are so many doctors in the palace. If the Queen Mother has a headache or a fever, she will ask someone to summon Miss Mu to the palace for treatment. If this gets out, where will our Imperial Hospital put its face? We must not let people think that Your Majesty neglected the Queen Mother... Don't you think so?"
"As soon as the talented people entered Shouxiang Palace, the Queen came. This news is quite well-informed..."
What I mean is, how dare you spy on me.
Queen Qin spoke very softly, "Your Majesty, you misunderstood. I came here to see you because I heard that you were not feeling well. Could it be that I have to pretend to be deaf and dumb to please you?"
Empress Dowager Lan didn't want to get entangled with her. This woman had been stuck in the palace for half her life. She used to think she was an easy target, but she turned out to be a tough one.
But she couldn't touch her!
Not for any other reason, just because she is the queen and the mother of the prince!
"I just heard that the Imperial Astronomical Observatory has already predicted an auspicious date. I have watched Ye'er grow up. He was in poor health before, but now he is getting married. I just want to give some advice to his future princess. The queen is so nervous. Is she afraid that I will eat her?"
Queen Qin smiled and said, "The Queen Mother has always been kind and loving. How could she embarrass a little girl? However, today the Governor of the Nine Provinces Canal Transport came to the palace to report on his work. I think Your Majesty must be very curious about what happened during the time he was imprisoned for no reason..."
Sure enough, the Queen Mother's face changed when she heard this.
Your Majesty was already very dissatisfied with Prince Yong's actions, otherwise she would not have been so unwilling to even put in some superficial effort and directly fell out with the Queen Mother.
Yuan Xiao is now in the palace to report on his duties, and it is hard to predict what will happen next...
"Since the Queen is so worried about Miss Mu, then just take her away... I have finished what I wanted to say!"
From beginning to end, Mu Qingyan just bowed to the Queen Mother and did nothing else.
He followed Queen Qin for some unknown reason.
Back at Qingluan Palace, Queen Qin dismissed the palace maids with a solemn expression and pulled her to sit down. "How dare you go to Shouxiang Palace alone? If Prince Ling hadn't sent the letter in time, you would have died there!"
Mu Qingyan was puzzled. The Empress Dowager had ordered her to enter the palace, and everyone in the Duke's Mansion had witnessed it. If she died inexplicably in Shouxiang Palace, how would the Empress Dowager stop the gossips?
As soon as Queen Qin saw it, she knew that she didn't understand the seriousness of the matter. "Do you think that if the Queen Mother summoned you to the palace, you would be able to leave safely? She is the Queen Mother. She could find a random excuse to punish you. Who would know? Do you think there are not many wronged souls in Shouxiang Palace? When the time comes, she will insist that you have left the palace. Who would dare to search the Queen Mother's bedroom?"
"Why did she have to kill me?"
Queen Qin sighed, "Who said that killing someone requires a reason? If she does, then she has plenty of reasons to kill you. The first time you entered the palace, Yunxi was punished by His Majesty to kneel. The second time you entered the palace, she almost lost an important chess piece. Later, at the palace banquet, she repeatedly contradicted her and Yunxi... Before, she listened to the Duke's wife and asked His Majesty to grant you a marriage, and she also wanted to let you die so that the sin could be attributed to Prince Ling. Now she finds out that you have not only won Prince Ling's heart, but you are also a thorn in her side. Do you think she can let you go?"
Mu Qingyan smiled bitterly, "Thank you, Queen, for saving me again..."
Queen Qin sighed again, "I know you are a capable woman, but this is the palace after all, separated from the outside world by many walls. No matter how capable you are, you can't fly away with wings. If you really become Princess Ling, maybe she will still have some concerns, but now that everything has not yet become a reality, she will be less afraid. You must always remember not to lose your life in vain..."
Yes, she is the queen mother after all.
Even if Prince Yong rebels in the future, Your Majesty will take the royal family's reputation into consideration and at most imprison her, but will not take her life.
After all, it was Prince Yong who rebelled. In the eyes of the world, the Queen Mother was just a woman in the harem who couldn't even leave the palace. The rebellion must have nothing to do with her. If Your Majesty punishes her too harshly, you will also be criticized.
"Empress, since you have contradicted the Queen Mother many times, will you..."
Queen Qin smiled and shook her head, "No, no matter how cruel she is, she won't touch me. Although my Qin family seems to have no successor, my uncle is still a great scholar of the time who is admired by the world, a veteran of three dynasties, and his merits are worthy of being enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. I still have the Crown Prince and His Majesty, so she dare not. But if the Queen Mother summons you again in the future, you can find a reason to refuse. She can only attack you in the palace. As long as you don't enter the palace, she can't do anything to you. The wedding date is set, you can wait for your marriage with peace of mind, but you must be careful in the mansion, after all, the Duke's Mansion is not a pure land after all..."
"it is good……"
"Lord Yuan is coming to the palace to report today. He is your uncle. I guess you haven't met him yet?"
Mu Qingyan shook her head.
"We should have finished discussing official business by now. Let's go wait outside the imperial study. You can go out of the palace with him so that he can take care of you..."
Mu Qingyan thought that there was no need to be so nervous. It was broad daylight. Empress Dowager Lan would not chop her to death in the street, right?
But since Queen Qin had already said it, she couldn't refuse, so she followed her to the imperial study.
When I arrived, I happened to meet Yuan Xiao coming out.
"I am here to meet the Queen..."
"Master Yuan, please don't be polite... Miss Mu will also be entering the palace today, so I would like to ask Master Yuan to send her back to the palace safely..."
Yuan Xiao glanced at Mu Qingyan and said with a smile, "As her elder, this is my duty."
Mu Qingyan bid farewell to Queen Qin and followed Yuan Xiao out of the palace.
Queen Qin watched them walk away before she walked into the imperial study. When Emperor Jianning saw her coming, he put down the memorial in his hand and asked, "Did they send them away?"
"Well... this girl is smart, but not cautious enough. After all, she is still young..." Queen Qin paused and continued, "But Your Majesty, Prince Yong has not made any move yet. Isn't it a bit hasty for us to break off relations with the Queen Mother?"
Emperor Jianning raised his hand and asked her to sit down.
"It is precisely because he will not act rashly for the time being and he keeps stirring up trouble behind the scenes, making the government unstable, that I want to force him to rebel... He is a filial son, and the Queen Mother's difficult life in the palace, doesn't that give him a perfect reason to start a rebellion?"
"Then, Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with the Crown Prince of Yi Country? I see that if he can't marry the princess, he won't plan to go back..."
Envoys usually don't stay in Kyoto for long. He has been here for a long time, but there is no news of his departure. It is possible that he is trying to take this opportunity to plant spies in Kyoto.