What was supposed to come was coming anyway. He turned around hurriedly and stood outside the imperial study room door and shouted.
"emperor."
The emperor in the room was discussing something with Xiao Mingxuan and Luo Jiuli. When he heard Eunuch Qi's slightly anxious voice, he raised his head and said:
"Come in."
Eunuch Qi got the order, opened the curtain and walked in.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, and the Queen Mother are on their way to the Royal Study."
Before and after the writing desk, the 'brothers' looked at each other, and Luo Jiuli raised his eyebrows almost invisible.
What kind of luck does she have? She has to witness with her own eyes the quarrel between the emperor and the queen mother and the breakup between mother and son.
The emperor patted the invisible dust on his body.
"What is supposed to come will come."
Xiao Mingxuan smiled lightly.
"She's here, but she can't change the emperor's decision, can she?"
The emperor said nothing and looked out the door with a heavy gaze.
Just because, at this time, everyone heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door and the sound of all the palace people kneeling down to say goodbye.
"Slave, please see the Queen Mother."
The Queen Mother, who was dressed in a luxurious robe that trailed to the floor, stepped down from the sedan chair. Her delicate hands wearing exquisite nail polishes were placed on the back of the accompanying eunuch's hands, and her face was as dark as if it were dripping with water.
Walking up the jade steps in front of the palace, someone happened to lift up the heavy curtain in the imperial study room.
A humble and gentle smile appeared on the corner of the emperor's lips, and he spoke with some surprise:
"Why is the Queen Mother here?"
The Queen Mother stared at the Emperor in silence, then looked at Xiao Mingxuan and Luo Jiuli behind the Emperor, looked at them for a moment, and waved her hands slightly.
The palace attendants all around him immediately retreated, and the Queen Mother walked into the study alone.
She doesn't care why Luo Jiuli is in the palace now. All she thinks about is that her brother was imprisoned in Dali Temple, her nephew was imprisoned in the palace, and Concubine Hu Guifei was also imprisoned in Jade Palace.
The entire Hu family is on the verge of collapse and is in danger.
"I heard that the emperor captured Lord Sima and imprisoned everyone in Sima's mansion. The Ai family was really surprised and came here to ask how the emperor planned to deal with it."
What he said was somewhat interesting. Not only was it interesting, Luo Jiuli, an outsider, could see it almost instantly.
One is not a biological mother, and the other is not a biological son.
You don't need to care about each other's feelings when speaking, you just need to express your true thoughts, and even the anger is not disguised or fake.
The emperor still smiled courteously and peacefully. In his eyes, the Grand Sima Mansion was just a minister, not his mother's family.
"The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law, not to mention the ministers who make mistakes."
"Servant?"
When the Queen Mother heard him address him like this, she smiled coldly.
"When the Ai family and the emperor were orphaned and widowed, it was thanks to this minister that the emperor was able to successfully succeed to the throne."
On the side, Xiao Mingxuan sneered when he heard that the Queen Mother was so blatantly putting gold on Hu Jue's face.
"What the Queen Mother said is a little biased. The reason why the Queen Mother became the Queen Mother of a country and the reason why the Emperor's brother became the Emperor is not just the work of Da Sima alone."
"First, when my father died, although a crown prince was appointed, the prince at that time was incompetent, tyrannical and immoral, debauched and corrupt, and the people in the government and the public were distraught."
"Secondly, because they no longer have the suppression of the imperial father, the vassal kings in various places are ready to take action and want to replace him, which makes the people everywhere panic."
"Thirdly, although the emperor's brother is not the eldest son of the emperor, he knows people well, is magnanimous, has military exploits, has unique insights in using troops on the battlefield, and dares to take risks. In the court, even Old Master Liang
Everyone praises the emperor's political strategy as a genius."
"What's more, General Shen, Duke Guo, Old Master Liang, the late Censor Xie, and many famous and unknown generals and ministers, none of them are not brave and courageous."
"How come today, when it comes to the Queen Mother's words, everyone's achievements are attributed to Da Sima alone?"
Xiao Mingxuan either didn't say anything, and once he spoke, it was a dimensionality-reducing blow.
Luo Jiuli couldn't help but cover her face, "My lord! You really don't want to save any face for the Queen Mother."
Look at the Queen Mother's blue and white complexion, her disordered breath, her embarrassed expression, and her anger that would have eaten Xiao Mingxuan alive.
Tsk tsk tsk! Xiao Mingxuan is really the Queen Mother’s nemesis.
"Nine Kings, you are so presumptuous!"
The Queen Mother was at the end of her rope. She originally wanted to use her identity as the Queen Mother or even as the Queen Mother in front of the Emperor to use her emotions to reason and ask the Emperor to give Da Sima a lighter punishment.
But I never thought that Xiao Mingxuan and Luo Jiuli would be in the imperial study room.
I never thought that Xiao Mingxuan would be so arrogant.
"Your Majesty, I have always been unruly. If I offend your Majesty, please forgive me."
This sarcastic tone not only made the Queen Mother angry to death, but even the Emperor couldn't help but lower his head and curl his lips.
If the person in front of him was not his nominal queen mother, he would really like to praise Xiao Mingxuan for his courage.
After so many years, looking at the entire capital, Xiao Mingxuan is the first person who dares to make the Queen Mother so angry.
Of course, Xiao Mingxuan dared to do this, and he also acquiesced.
Although the Queen Mother is a woman, the relationship behind her cannot be underestimated.
As the saying goes, don't let others snore and sleep on the couch.
He has suffered from fear and fear for so many years, and he must no longer be led by the Queen Mother and Da Sima.
"Mother, please calm down."
The emperor spoke calmly to reassure him.
"King Jiu is my biological brother, so I still know him well. He is outspoken and outspoken, has a bad temper, and easily offends people. However, he has no ill intentions. Please forgive me, Queen Mother."
On the side, Luo Jiuli, as an outsider, could tell that on the surface the emperor was trying to appease the Queen Mother, but in reality he was trying to appease Xiao Mingxuan.
The Queen Mother was also furious at anyone who dared to angrily rebuke Xiao Mingxuan for being "presumptuous".
Even the emperor had never reprimanded him like this.
Xiao Mingxuan naturally heard what the emperor meant. The coldness in his eyes gradually faded away, and there was only a look of indifference in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him.
The Queen Mother is also not stupid, although she has never guessed the emperor's true intention.
But she could hear what the emperor meant when he said such words, and whose standpoint he was speaking from.
This fact undoubtedly made her angry even more fierce, and she clenched her hands wearing exquisite armor tightly.
But she knew that she couldn't be angry at this moment. The purpose of her visit was not to quarrel with the emperor, but to ask the emperor to spare the life of Da Sima and the lives of everyone in Sima's house.
The emperor is the emperor after all. He is no longer the submissive child in front of her. He is the emperor, the eloquent emperor of the Changning Dynasty who holds the power of life and death.
When she thought of this, the Queen Mother loosened her fingers, her blue and white complexion gradually returned to blood, and her tone was no longer as stiff as before.