The concubine didn't say anything, so Nanny Qin knew that she had no intention of going back. Otherwise, she wouldn't have let them come to serve her.
After a while, she heard the concubine say: "The days are quite fun now. It's quite nice to tease Mrs. Liu and entertain a few children. Why can't I think about it and want to go back to live?"
Aunt Xing and Aunt Mao don't understand. Unlike the palace ladies like them, the concubine can leave the palace whenever she wants and go wherever she wants. The weather is so cold now that the concubine cannot go outside even if she lives here. This is different from the palace ladies like them.
What difference does it make to live in a palace?
At least the scenery in the palace is more beautiful.
Nanny Qin understands the concubine.
The concubine was unwilling to enter the palace when she was young. After entering the palace, she always felt that the palace was like a cage. Even though the cage has been opened and she can enter freely, she no longer wants to live in the cage.
It's not the concubine's body that wants to break out of the cage, but her heart.
I just don’t know if the emperor will agree.
The concubine doesn't care whether the emperor wants it or not. He is his son and she is my mother. Even if he becomes the emperor, he must obey my mother!
As for the only woman with a higher status than herself, huh, if she dares to force herself, she will... cry to her!
Tsk, ever since she successfully robbed Jingshou Palace, no one has been afraid of anyone in so many years!
Seeing the concubine's expression, Grandma Qin shook her head helplessly.
The Queen Mother and the Dowager Queen were obviously better than biological sisters, but because of some trivial matters, they had a quarrel after the Emperor ascended the throne. She and Aunt Ding who was beside the Queen Mother were helpless.
The concubine felt better when she thought that the queen mother would be angry again if she couldn't call her back.
Aunt Zheng first taught He Yunxi the etiquette of saluting. Seeing that she was doing well, she started teaching her the etiquette of walking. He Yunxi also wanted to see how the noble ladies in the capital lived, and she learned a lot.
It's motivation.
Soon, the hour came and the concubine asked He Yunxi to go back.
After returning home, she went to greet Mrs. Liu, only to find out that Mrs. Liu had also been left to study by the concubine in the morning. Not only in the morning, but also in the afternoon, she was asked to stay for an hour.
Liu's etiquette has not been forgotten. The biggest problem is self-confidence. Before the concubine came on the stage herself, Liu had changed a lot, but she still did not meet her requirements.
Not only did they have to learn, Lu Yunjiao and Lu Yunqing each sent an aunt to their side to teach them from elementary school.
He Yunxi was deeply moved by the concubine's sacrifice for them, and decided to prepare some more meat for the hot pot for the concubine at noon.
She went to the kitchen to give instructions, and then prepared the base ingredients for the spicy hot pot and the soup base for the copper hot pot.
Now that the weather is so cold, she fried a few more portions, divided them into bowls, and they all solidified in half a day.
The dishes in the copper hot pot are a little different and need to be cooked half-cooked.
The concubine did not explicitly say for whom the copper hot pot was prepared, but she could probably guess it. After all, there were not many people who could order it personally.
He also asked her to learn the etiquette of saluting.
But she was a little curious, was the relationship between the concubine and the queen mother so close? She just arrived in the capital last night, and the queen mother came to see her today?
Doesn't it mean that the relationship between the two is not good?
That's not right. If the relationship was really bad, how could the concubine order herself to prepare a copper hot pot with her character?
It seems that what Lu Yan said is true. In her previous life, the concubine passed away in Luohe Mansion. The queen mother was so sad and grieved that she suffered a serious illness, which caused her body to collapse.
When she was still doubting whether the Queen Mother would really come, the Queen Mother had already arrived in casual clothes. She prepared the hot pot and took it to the Queen Mother's yard, and then she found that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the yard.
Several maids and guards whom she had never seen before were standing in the yard. Aunt Zheng and Aunt Xing were also in the yard, but Aunt Qin was missing.
It’s really here!
He Yunxi sighed in his heart, and then heard the concubine's voice raised several degrees: "If you don't go back, if you don't go back, I won't go back even if you order me."
"You are the concubine!" The Queen Mother's voice was neither urgent nor slow, but there was a majesty that no one could ignore.
"Yes, I am a concubine, not a queen mother. So I don't have to carry it all day long like you. Are you tired?"
He Yunxi listened to the concubine talking, and one can imagine that she must be rolling her eyes at this time.
The Queen Mother did not follow her words and continued the topic: "The Ai family is telling you about returning to the palace."
"I also gave you the answer, I won't go back." The concubine said, "I have lived in that boring palace all my life, and I don't want to go back."
"Do you know how dangerous it is out there?" The Queen Mother was obviously angry, and her tone was a little harsh.
"Who knew I was here? If you didn't come, I would be safer." The concubine snorted coldly.
"Zhuang Ruoxi!"
Oh, the Queen Mother is very angry.
If it were anyone else, he might be frightened by the concubine's behavior, but who is the concubine?
"Oh, I heard you. You don't need to be so loud. My ears are pretty good."
He Yunxi felt that the concubine should be picking out her ears at this time.
Hearing the conversation inside, she felt like she was listening to a worried old lady scolding her naughty little sister.
The queen mother wanted to say something more, but the concubine interrupted her: "Oh, I already told you that I won't go back. If you keep telling me, I will kick you out! Humph, ever since I robbed Jingshou Palace and asked you to live in Cining Palace
, you just don’t like me, so don’t look at it.”
"Zhuang Ruoxi!" The Queen Mother really couldn't suppress her anger.
"I told you that my ears are pretty good." The concubine said. A gust of wind blew and the aroma of the hot pot spread into the room. The concubine suddenly stood up and said, "I'm already hungry after telling you. Yun Xilai
Got it? Why don’t you bring the food over quickly!”
He Yunxi asked Fufeng and the others to take the hot pot and vegetables to the next room, pushed open the thick cotton curtain, and first saw the Queen Mother who was so angry with the concubine.
She knelt down and said, "I have seen the Queen Mother and the Concubine in Chang'an."
When the Queen Mother saw He Yunxi, the anger on her face dissipated a lot. She returned to the main seat and sat down, saying, "Get up."
"Thank you, Queen Mother." He Yunxi stood up.
The Queen Mother was looking at He Yunxi and did not speak. He Yunxi did not dare to speak casually, and the room suddenly became quiet. The Queen Mother was afraid that she would scare He Yunxi, so she said: "What do you call Princess? I'm not used to it at all, so I'll call you grandma. The hot pot is ready.
Are you ready? I'm hungry."
The queen mother looked at the concubine in surprise, was she defending a junior?
This is strange.
"Grandma, the hot pot is ready." He Yunxi responded.
"Let's go and eat hot pot." The concubine stood up and said, "Oh, I didn't know the Queen Mother was coming. Today I'm preparing spicy hot pot. You have a bad stomach and you can't eat this kind of food. I won't keep you here."
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When He Yunxi saw the Dowager like this, he felt that she was deliberately trying to make the Queen Mother angry. She was probably dissatisfied with the Queen Mother for keeping her in the palace for so many years.