Gu Qingcheng:...Haha, that’s superficial.

People in later generations have said, "There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests"!

Not to mention that there is no life-and-death feud between Queen Gu and Queen Mother Wang, even if there is, they can turn enemies into friends in the face of absolute interests.

In the eyes of the bigwigs in the government, there is no absolute right or wrong, nor is there any satisfaction in settling grudges.

Sometimes, for the sake of profit, even the hatred of having one’s father killed or one’s wife stolen can be “laughed off”.

Although Queen Gu and Queen Mother Wang were both women, they were very mature politicians.

They will weigh the pros and cons instead of being as "true to their nature" as Concubine Xie!

Concubine Xie thought she had not offended Queen Mother Wang, but in many cases, her "confusion" itself was an offense to Queen Mother Wang.

Queen Gu took perfect advantage of this and asked Queen Mother Wang, the legitimate wife, to deal with the former concubine.

As for Min Huang, that is easier to explain.

Min Huang is Concubine Xie's biological son. If there is anyone in this world who really owes Concubine Xie and has to endure her mischief, that person must be Min Huang.

Although Queen Gu did not have the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law theories of later generations, she was always very clear about the differences.

If she didn't have Min Huang as her husband, she and Concubine Xie would be two strangers and would have no intersection at all.

There was a conflict between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. The root cause was not the two women, but the man in the middle.

The inaction of husbands and sons will lead to conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Although Queen Gu was an ancient native, she understood the principles of distinguishing responsibilities and tracing her roots, and she refused to have filial piety outsourced.

Being targeted by Concubine Xie, she would not be so foolish as to think that she did not do well and that was why her elders were dissatisfied.

She would convey a message to Min Huang: Mother seems to still have resentment towards His Majesty.

People always say "love the house and love the dog". If my mother really cares about Your Majesty, she would not target me.

Fortunately, I still have some brains and know that my mother is just confused for a moment and does not really want to cause trouble for Your Majesty!

Queen Gu’s meaning was very clear. A mother-in-law who deliberately targeted a daughter-in-law who was of noble birth and could be helpful to her son was either really stupid or she really did not take her son seriously.

Or, it's both.

Unfortunately, Concubine Xie seems to be the third case.

Every time Concubine Xie came to provoke trouble, Queen Gu would express her thoughts openly or secretly - Your Majesty, your own mother does not love you, and is not willing to "love the whole family as well as the whole family" for you.

Self-blame and shame?

Self-reflection?

Are you foolishly being kidnapped by the so-called filial piety and putting yourself in a humble situation?

Sorry, I don’t know how!

Queen Gu did not live by relying on Min Huang's favor. She became queen not because of Min Huang's favor, but because she had a powerful family behind her.

As long as the Gu family still exists, even if she disobeys her mother-in-law and behaves unvirtuously towards her husband, her position as queen will remain secure.

Once the Gu family is gone, even if she worships her mother-in-law as an ancestor and humbles herself to the dust, she will still be abandoned!

...It can be said that although Queen Gu is a pure ancient native in the setting of this small world, her thoughts are not "conventional" at all.

Even more rational and sober than people in later generations.

"I like it!"

The more Gu Qingcheng understood the original owner, the more satisfied she became.

She turned over and sat up, and with a swish, she pulled open the curtain.

At the door outside the bedroom, two palace maids who were huddled together and whispering to each other heard the noise and quickly stopped talking.

One of them even asked respectfully, "My Lady, are you awake?

Although the sound was still not loud, it was louder than when he lowered his voice just now.

At least, Gu Qingcheng was able to hear clearly and recognize who this person was——

"Baizhi, come in and talk!"

"Yes, my lady!"

Bai Zhi responded and walked in quickly.

Seeing that Gu Qingcheng had already sat up, she hurriedly walked over in three or two steps, took out a hidden bag and stuffed it behind Gu Qingcheng.

"What's wrong? I vaguely heard 'Eternal Longevity Palace'?"

Gu Qingcheng leaned against the hidden bag and looked at Bai Zhi, her voice neither too high nor too low, and her speaking speed neither too fast nor too slow.

She was completely calm, as if she didn't care at all when she heard her annoying mother-in-law coming to pick a fight again.

"Reporting to the Queen, Aunt Yuping from Yongshou Palace just came and said that the Queen Dowager has chest pain and needs high-quality rhinoceros horn as medicine—"

Baizhi was a maid brought into the palace by the original owner from her natal family. Her ancestors had been servants of the Gu family for four or five generations and were the most loyal.

As a loyal servant, Bai Zhi is very disgusted with a top-notch mother-in-law like Concubine Xie.

There is also a deep disdain.

It’s not that Bai Zhi thinks she is arrogant because she is a noble servant of a noble family, but this Concubine Xie is really unbearable.

For example, this time, he was sent here openly to ask for his daughter-in-law’s dowry!