Emperor Chongming's expression was slightly condensed, and he shook his head in an incomprehensible manner.
The Queen Mother has been fasting and chanting Buddha in these years, and rarely appears on such occasions. She has not participated in any large or small activities of the royal family for many years. No one expected that the imperial concubine's Qianqiu Banquet would come today.
However, I was stunned for only a moment. I saw the Queen Mother slowly approaching surrounded by palace people. The princes and ministers quickly lifted their robes and knelt down, and bowed respectfully: "See you, Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is a thousand years old.
Chitose!"
Emperor Chongming and his concubine stood up and walked down the imperial platform, greeting the Queen Mother with everyone.
"Why didn't the Queen Mother send someone to inform the Queen?" Emperor Chongming smiled respectfully and said, "If the Queen Mother knew that the Queen was coming, I and the imperial concubine should have gone to welcome the Queen in person."
The Queen Mother is wearing a thick black robe embroidered with phoenix patterns, with a string of precious Buddhist beads hanging around her neck. She has a calm posture and a cold demeanor. She has lived in seclusion for many years, but she has not lost the majesty of a high position in her eyebrows.
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"The Ai family just suddenly remembered that today is the Imperial Concubine's Qianqiu Banquet, and realized that I haven't been out for a long time to liven up the excitement, so I didn't inform you of the last minute decision." The Queen Mother said lightly and glanced at Concubine Wu, "Concubine, you don't mind.
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Concubine Wu quickly smiled and said: "What are these things that the Queen Mother said? The Queen Mother is willing to come to add blessings and splendor, and I am too late to be happy, so why would you mind?"
Regardless of whether she meant it or not, the Queen Mother accepted the compliment calmly.
Anyway, she didn't come here for the imperial concubine today.
With the support of the emperor himself, the queen mother climbed up the wooden ladder to the royal platform and sat down on the phoenix chair slowly and slowly. After she sat down, the emperor and the concubines took their seats.
The princes and ministers below also began to sit down one by one.
"Why did the Queen Mother come to attend the imperial concubine's Qianqiu Banquet?" In the attic, after the noble ladies stood up and took their seats after saluting, someone wondered, "I heard that the Queen Mother has not been involved in foreign affairs for many years and is unwilling to participate in various activities in the palace."
"The Queen Mother devoted herself to worshiping Buddha in those years and really didn't take care of other things, so the power in the harem was solely controlled by the imperial concubine."
"But the Queen Mother has always liked the Queen and preferred the Queen. It seems that it was only after the Queen died..."
"Shh, do you want to die? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Yun Zishu listened to the whispers of the ladies, her expression calm and calm, and she turned a blind eye to the eyes that fell on her face.
"The emperor has always wanted to make the imperial concubine his queen, but due to the obstruction of the empress dowager, he has never been able to do so." Princess Baozhu looked at Yun Zirou and couldn't help but guess, "This time, the empress dowager is attending the imperial concubine's birthday for the first time.
Didn’t you change your mind and agree to make the imperial concubine the queen?”
Regardless of whether it is true or not, these words obviously touched Yun Zirou's heart, and a smile appeared on her face: "Thank you for your good advice, it would be great if this is true."
"Your Highness the Ninth Princess." A noble girl next to her looked over and looked at Yun Zishu, "I heard from Princess Baozhu that you bought a set of phoenix crowns worth ten thousand taels of gold in the Imperial Treasure Pavilion and planned to give them to the imperial concubine as a gift.
is that true?"
"Fake." Yun Zishu said indifferently.
The noble lady was confused: "Huh?"
She didn't go to Changchun Palace just now, so she didn't know that this set of phoenix crowns had caused a controversy.
Others at the table looked at her one after another, their eyes a bit strange: "False? But many people clearly saw and heard the conversation between the Ninth Princess and the shopkeeper of Yubao Pavilion that day..."
"The things are real, and the conversation is also real." Yun Zishu raised her eyes slightly, "But I never said that the phoenix crown was given to the imperial concubine."
"Why is Jiu Mei so stubborn?" Yun Zirou's expression turned cold, and the good mood she had just felt was instantly wiped out, "Just give it what you want, just a set of jewelry? As for your repeated denials? I was in Changchun just now.
I told you when we were in the palace, no one will complain about you stealing the spotlight, why are you so stubborn?"
She had already told her mother and concubine about this matter, and so many princesses and noble daughters also knew about it. If Yun Zishu dared to go back on her words at this juncture and embarrass them and their daughter, she would definitely make her look good.
Yun Zishu's eyes were cold: "Then who told you that the set of phoenix crowns I bought is for the imperial concubine?"
"You -" Yun Zirou choked, and then said coldly, "That day in the Imperial Treasure Pavilion, so many people saw you buying a phoenix crown hairpin."
"So what?" Yun Zishu's tone gradually became colder, "Did I ever say that the hairpin was for the imperial concubine? Your eyes are fine, but your ears seem to be hallucinating?"
When Yun Zirou heard this, her expression froze a little bit, and she still thought that Yun Zishu was lying: "Although the phoenix crown hairpin is not a formal phoenix crown, not everyone is qualified to wear it. The mother-in-law is now in charge of the harem, except for her
Who else can you give it to? Is it possible that you want to keep it for yourself?"
Yun Zishu said coldly: "I can give it to whomever I want. Do I still need you to arrange my things?"
After the words fell, the air became silent.
Yun Zirou's face turned livid, and the others also kept silent uneasily. Apparently, they had not expected that the Ninth Princess had such a tough temper, and were not at all polite to the Eighth Princess because of Concubine Wu's birthday.
Tensions were rising in the attic, and the atmosphere dropped to freezing point.
No matter how others tried to please Yun Zirou, no one dared to get involved when they saw the two princesses arguing like this.
Compared to the stagnation in the attic, it was noisy and peaceful outside.
"I heard that the Ninth Princess has prepared an extremely expensive gift for the noble concubine, and the Ai family would like to come over to see it." The Queen Mother smiled, without showing any emotion on her face, "The noble concubine wouldn't mind opening the Ai family's eyes."
Concubine Wu smiled respectfully and said: "Of course I won't mind, but Xiaojiu hasn't presented the gift yet, and I haven't been able to see you yet."
"Really?" The Queen Mother frowned, as if she was a little surprised, "The Ai family thought they had just presented it in Changchun Palace."
The emperor was also suspicious and said calmly: "Why don't you ask Zishu to come over and ask."
"Isn't this not good?" Concubine Wu showed the grace that a concubine should have and smiled reservedly, "The gift is voluntary, how can there be any reason for asking for it?"
I don’t know what Yun Zishu’s little bitch had in mind. She delayed offering the congratulatory gift, was she deliberately causing trouble for her?
"How can this be called asking for money? I'm just curious. I want to ask how Yun Heng is doing lately." The emperor turned to his servant and ordered, "Call the Ninth Princess over."
"yes."
The chamberlain went to deliver the message, and the oral message was quickly transmitted to the attic.
Yun Zirou's anger subsided a little, and all the noble ladies looked at Yun Zishu without saying a word. Under the gaze of many eyes, Yun Zishu stood up calmly, followed the servants out of the attic, avoided the crowd and walked on the path of confinement towards the imperial palace.
tower.
Leng Yue and Leng Shuang followed behind, and the journey was quiet.