Chapter 24(1/2)
The old lady returned to Yong'an Palace and did not dare to learn the emperor's words to the empress dowager like this. If she did, the empress dowager would definitely be furious. Wouldn't she become the one who sowed right and wrong in the middle? If the two palaces fought, she would be the one who was responsible for the trouble.
So the old lady thought about it and pinched the emperor's head and tail, changed her meaning, and said, "The emperor said, "It is better to ask Lord Li to set up a Yang house outside the palace, so that the great gift will be available. Otherwise, the Ministry of Rites will really send things to Li's mansion, which will make things difficult for Lord Li. I believe that the lord will never dare to accept it."
Mrs. Li sat down at the empress dowager's lower head. She heard this and her face was thrusting, and she immediately got out of cold sweat.
The old lady said in a tactful manner, but she was a person who had been immersed in the inner house for many years. How could she not understand the meaning? Today, she came here, but her Li family was reckless. She probably offended the emperor from the time when the Yong'an Palace sent someone to pass the message.
At this moment, he heard the queen mother on the seat smile sarcastically and said, "What can I do to take it? The Li family is a relative of the Ai family, and the Ai family is the emperor's mother and the one who raises the emperor. From the time she took it over, she lived in the Li family. What's wrong with marrying her? Why don't she set up a girl's mother's house in the Li family? Why don't Li Tianji need to set up another house? The Yang family is all village women and farmers, so they should be the ones who cannot give a big gift!"
The old lady knew the queen mother's temperament, but she was not surprised when she heard this.
This is precisely because she dared not reply to the emperor's words on the spot.
The old nanny said timidly: "The Empress Dowager calms down, the Emperor's words make sense..."
Mrs. Li's heart skipped a beat here and felt something was wrong.
The empress dowager's temperament is that the more others don't let her do it, the more she wants to do it. This temperament has become more and more powerful since she beat her to become the empress dowager.
She called the Li family her relative, but in fact, Mrs. Li knew in her heart that the Li family was not a distant relative. The reason why the Li family had today's status was because of some of the matters of the Empress Dowager, her parents' family refused to do it, so she handed it over to the Li family, which was favored by the Empress Dowager. Now the Empress Dowager is so close to her relationship, just to make the emperor unhappy. In the end, the consequences were to ask her to come to eat.
This is something that Mrs. Li definitely doesn't want to see.
I have to think of a way.
Mrs. Li thought to herself.
The Empress Dowager turned to look at Mrs. Li and said, "You don't have to worry that the emperor will refute the face of your Li family. Go back and wait. This new queen can't marry in the palace, and it doesn't conform to the ancestral system. She will still go to your Li family at that time."
Mrs. Li kowtowed and thanked her, saying, "I dare not. The new queen's body is noble, and the Li family really cannot be the new queen's mother's family."
The queen mother glanced at her sideways and said, "What's the point that can't be taken?"
Mrs. Li hurriedly kowtowed again and said with a smile: "It's my reckless body, and I'm actually making things difficult for the empress."
The empress dowager thought to himself that the Ai family was not in a difficult situation. The Ai family did not feel embarrassed. It would be nice to let the fool live in the Li family. Isn’t this just to make the little emperor clear that his queens are controlled by the Yong'an Palace? It would be better to let him see his own situation clearly and not have any delusions of confronting the Yong'an Palace.
But Mrs. Li was full of assertion that she was embarrassed, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "How dare I destroy the mother-son friendship between the Empress and the Emperor, I am ashamed! I went back now and scolded my ignorant son, how dare I put forward such delusions!"
After saying that, Mrs. Li stood up and looked like she was about to leave.
Queen Mother: "…"
Where did the mother-son friendship between the Ai family and the little emperor come from? What can you destroy?
"I'm leaving." Mrs. Li said, with a look of anxiety on her face, as if she was sincerely considering the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother frowned and said, "Let's go back."
She felt more and more that she could not talk to Mrs. Li. The old lady is now older and confused, and she speaks like a chicken and a duck.
Mrs. Li thanked the Empress Dowager again, and then she felt a little reluctant to leave. She hunched over and slowly retreated from Yong'an Palace.
The old lady said nervously: "Will that servant still go to Yangxin Temple to reply?"
"What are you going to say?" The empress dowager frowned even more. "The Li family has retreated. If there is anything else to say, let him worry about it. He always has to make a place for that fool before the ceremony! Without the Li family reaching out, the emperor would have to pay for the house from the private warehouse. His private warehouse..." The empress dowager said this and curled his lips: "It's not as much as the Ai family."
Let’s talk about Mrs. Li returning to the mansion, Li Tianji was having fun with his wives and concubines at home. When she heard that her mother was back, she hurriedly left the person and came to Mrs. Li.
Previously, Li Tianji thought Fangcao and Ruier should have a better chance of being favored than that fool.
But who knew that someone was sent to the palace caused a sensation. Fangcao caused a struggle and was executed by the empress dowager. Rui'er had no news after that. On the contrary, the fool, because he was the first to be sent to the palace, was benefiting from the imperial prison and under the current court officials, he really wanted to become the queen.
Who would have thought that a fool is really going to be a queen!
Li Tianji then became interested and took the person home before the wedding. One was to sell it in front of the empress dowager, and it was also good to be with the emperor on the surface, and the other was to coax the fool. Even if he was stupid, he would be the mother of a country in the future. It would be a good thing to win her over, and it would be a waste of his life. He had taken on this thankless errand, and traveled thousands of miles to Minze County to select people, and suffered a lot of hardships in the middle...
When Li Tianji was moved, he asked Mrs. Li to go to the palace to ask the empress dowager.
But now...
Li Tianji stepped over the door and entered the flower hall. When he saw that Mrs. Li looked slightly dark and she was holding a tea bowl in her hand and didn't drink it, as if she was angry at the palace.
Li Tianji couldn't help but tremble: "Greetings to my mother, did my mother be scolded today?"
Mrs. Li put down the tea bowl and her face became even more solemn. She shook her head and said, "I was not reprimanded, but the matter was even more serious than being reprimanded..."
After saying that, Mrs. Li told Li Tianji about the things in the palace today.
Li Tianji looked relaxed. He sat down under the old lady Li and asked the maid to bring him some tea. Then he said, "There is no need to be afraid. The empress dowager we have always been. If we want to offend, wouldn't we have been to Minze County and get a fool village girl back from my son to get back from his son and offend the emperor to the end? If we do things, there will be no turning back. My son is not afraid."
Mrs. Li slapped the table and repelled the servants in the flower hall, and scolded, "I'm confused! How can two things be confused? The former is the trend of the general trend. If you go to find a woman, it is God's way of doing it. How did you make your fault? We originally thought that this ceremony of the Queen's Day could not be held, but judging from the momentum, not only will this wedding be held, but the ceremony of the Queen's Day is going to be held, and the new emperor's official power is not far away... If so, then you will find this girl and return to Beijing, which is a good thing! How could the emperor take anger on you? The latter is different... The Li family rushed forward and wanted to be the new queen's mother's family. The emperor must look down on us, and they will think that we have received the orders of the Queen Mother, and deliberately do not take the emperor seriously, thinking that he can be the emperor's family. The consequences of these two are completely different..."
When Li Tianji heard this, he gradually came back to his senses.
"If the new royal rule is in power, it cannot be said to be the same as that of the past." He said.
Mrs. Li nodded: "That is, no matter how weak and sick the emperor is, he is the emperor. As long as he takes power in power and holds real power, even if... even if he only has a few years of life, he cannot be offended. Even if the empress dowager has great power in the harem, he will eventually be trapped in the harem. We can no longer do things for the empress dowager like before, and ignore anything else. We have to change our way and slowly take it."
Li Tianji immediately lowered his head and thought deeply: "... Since the emperor has spoken, let's set up a house as a Yang's house. Then we will send some servants to the house. In the future, we will not abandon this house and keep careful attention. We can also make up for the new husband. Silver and jewelry are indispensable."
Mrs. Li nodded: "Today, the Empress Dowager has expressed displeasure. I am not suitable to go to Yong'an Palace again. Then you go directly to the emperor and cry and beg him to accept the house. You must show your loyalty and express your previous mistakes. Then you said that you dare not destroy the friendship between the emperor and the empress dowager. Only in this way can both sides not offend. Otherwise, the empress dowager should hold a grudge against us."
Li Tianji nodded quickly.
After that, the two of them talked carefully for a while and talked about everything, so that they could not make any omissions and did not do good things, but offended others...
After chatting with Mrs. Li, Li Tianji begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother to find a good house. One of the places he loved was the house of an official who retired and returned home when Emperor Hui was there. The descendants of this official were incompetent and could not enter the official again. He had no support at home and was stretched, but he had inexplicably insisted that he would not sell his ancestral home.
Li Tianji spent a lot of effort to build this house.
Then he went to a famous jewelry vegetarian in Beijing, paid the money, bought some ready-made ones, and set some styles for craftsmen to make. When he returned to the mansion, he also picked and selected some things from the old lady and his private warehouse, and put them together, and looked decent.
This is not the end.
Li Tianji thought that if he really welcomed someone into Yang's house, the women of the Li family would definitely go to Yang's house to get in touch with each other and win over the relationship.
So he carefully instructed his wife...
After this, Li Tianji packed up and went into the palace to pay homage to the emperor.
Because the Li family had close ties with the Empress Dowager, Li Tianji got some convenience and entered the palace very smoothly. The guards reported to the Yangxin Hall. When Li Tianji arrived at the Yangxin Hall, an eunuch led him to Hanchun's room.
In the past, Xiao Yi summoned ministers in the West Warehouse, but Li Tianji's officials were donated. He had never been to the court and was only devoted to using the power of the empress dowager to do business and make money. Of course, he was not worthy of such treatment. Li Tianji didn't care at all, and even thought that going to Hanchun Room would be more close, good things...
This room is Hanchun indoor.
Yang Yao'er is trying out the sleeves that Mama Liu made for her.
Madam Liu carefully tied it to her hands and said, "It looks not very good, but it doesn't hurt if you put it on. The girl practices for a while and has strength in her arms, but when she writes in the air, she naturally doesn't need this thing."
Yang Yaoer nodded and stretched out her fingers to tick her sleeves twice.
Seeing her move, Xiao Yi said, "Since you've put it on, go and write. I just taught you two days ago, but I haven't forgotten it?"
Yang Yaoer nodded and shook her head again.
Nodding was to say the first half of his words, and shaking his head was to say the second half of his words.
Xiao Yi gradually understood her behavior and understood what she meant. He then lightly pointed his chin: "Well, go and sit down."
Yang Yaoer went to the table to sit down, but Xiao Yi sat on the couch across a bead curtain.
The couch was the one that Yang Yaoer saw when she came back to pay homage to Xiao Yi. She couldn't help but stretched her neck and went to see Xiao Yi through the bead curtain. She couldn't hold the pen in her hand and dyed her sleeves with ink dots.
Seeing this, the palace servant next to her did not stop her. She just changed her clothes afterwards.
As I looked at it, someone came.
The palace people lit the indoor lights even brighter. A man wearing a blue cloth straight came in with his back slightly. He lowered his head and went to the couch and knelt on the ground to salute.
"My minister Li Tianji, see the emperor."
Li Tianji?
Yang Yaoer was in a daze for a while and always felt that this person looked familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't remember it.
After stretching her neck for a long time, she felt tired, so she sat back and stared at the man not far or near.
Li Tianji noticed the gaze, but he didn't dare to look up, thinking that the emperor was looking at him.
He remembered what his mother told him, and immediately cried out, admitting his mistake while crying, almost howling in the emperor's thigh.
"It is my fault. If I ask me to destroy the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager, even if I die, I will never forgive my crime..."
"I hope the emperor will give me a chance to atone for my sins..."
"I bought a house in Jingning Lane. This house has a very good feng shui. It has put a lot of thought into the pavilions, towers, and Xuanxi Zhaiyuan. I beg Miss Yang to accept it to make the Yang family's house..."
"I took Miss Yang to Beijing at the beginning, but now I don't dare to neglect it. I will prepare some gold, silver, jewelry, and give me a gift..."
Li Tianji cried while talking with a sincere tone, as if he wanted to offer the entire Li family.
Xiao Yi had long expected that he would do this, so he was not surprised, so he kept sitting on the couch and looked at him coldly.
The Li family is the lackey of the empress dowager and a group of real villains.
What is a real villain? It is to do villain's business and be open-minded and generous. It is easy to ask them to peel off their faces and flatter. To put it bluntly, such people are heading for profitable places.
But such people are also excellent.
Because whenever you are beneficial, they will willingly turn into the sword in your hand and go wherever they point.
Li Tianji is really a talented person. After talking, he cried back and forth, and he cried for two incense sticks.
To be continued...