Chapter 343 The Secret of Promotion
The Queen Mother was finally tricked out by Su Xiaoxiao. Since entering the palace, she has never returned home.
Everything at home is so familiar and strange. The lotus in the lotus pond is still so gorgeous, but the boy who paddled a small boat to pick lotus flowers and lotus leaves for her will never suddenly jump in front of her and call her sister again.
I don’t know if it’s appropriate, but tears have already flowed into her eyes.
"Your brother, my biggest wish is that you can be happy. You should be more patient for us!" Madam Qi said beside her.
"Mother, it’s all my fault!" The Queen Mother was miserable. Now that she saw her mother, her suppressed emotions finally broke out.
The Queen Mother threw herself into her mother's arms and burst into tears.
Finally, the Queen Mother came to her brother's room alone. Just when she was distracted, a gust of wind suddenly blew and the scroll on the top of the bookshelf was blown down.
The Queen Mother stayed where she was. This was her brother's painting, why was it put away?
She bent down to pick up the scroll and slowly unfolded it. The tears that had just been wiped off burst out again.
It was a vast grassland with herds of cattle and sheep. There was a small wooden house not far away. Looking further away, there were the backs of two horses galloping.
She had envied her brother's life outside the Great Wall since she was a child. She joked with her brother that she would go to the Great Wall in the future, build a small wooden house, and herd cattle and ride horses every day!
Unexpectedly, her brother took it seriously. No wonder he had always said that he wanted to take her back to the frontier.
A huge pain came over her. If it weren't for her love brain, her brother would not have died. The queen mother
cried out in grief and passed out!
When she woke up again, what came into her eyes was not the luxurious furnishings of the palace, but a crude wooden house. In front of her was a simple small table with a coarse porcelain kettle and two large coarse porcelain bowls on it.
There was no suffocating incense in the air, but a refreshing smell of grass.
"Miss, are you awake?" The maid Shui Wen said, pouring a bowl of water and handing it over: "Miss, have a cup of tea!"
She took the bowl in surprise and took a sip. The sweet spring water made her feel refreshed immediately. She drank the whole bowl of water in one breath.
She must be dreaming. With the help of Shuiwen, she walked out of the wooden house. Everywhere she looked was fresh green.
The sky was blue and the fields were vast. The wind blew the grass low, and the cattle and sheep became concrete in front of her eyes.
Next to the thatched cottage was a shiny black horse. It was her brother's horse, Heifeng.
She stepped forward involuntarily, and her slender palm brushed across Heifeng's soft mane.
She hoped that she would never wake up from this dream.
"Auntie!" Su Xiaoxiao appeared in front of her holding a bunch of wild flowers that were bigger than her.
"Xiaoxiao?" The queen mother was a little dazed.
"Do you like it here? This is my gift to you!" Su Xiaoxiao said, and stuffed the flowers into the queen mother's hand.
She touched Su Xiaoxiao's hand, and the unique warmth of the human body startled her.
"Xiaoxiao, am I dreaming?"
"Of course not, I stole you out, and this is outside the Great Wall!" Su Xiaoxiao was very proud.
"No, I am the empress dowager, and if I suddenly go missing, everyone's saliva can drown Huaiyu. I have to go back, and I want to die in the palace!" The empress dowager said, and hurried to leave.
Su Xiaoxiao stopped her: "The empress dowager is dead, she suffered from a serious illness and died. Now, the emperor is presiding over her funeral!" The
empress dowager looked at Shui Wen, and Shui Wen nodded at her.
"The Queen Mother is dead, so who am I?"
"You are Qi Ling'er, the freedom-loving Qi Ling'er!" Su Xiaoxiao's voice was full of appeal, and Qi Ling'er remembered the past events that she had almost forgotten.
Shui Wen had tears in her eyes. Her young lady was not even forty years old, but she had been tortured to the point of being emaciated. After only one day in Saibei, her eyes had regained a bit of spirit.
The princess was right, only by risking one's life can one survive!
"What's going on with Shui Wen!" Qi Ling'er felt that her thoughts were all confused. She didn't know whether it was reality or a dream, nor did she know whether she was alive or dead.
"Miss, listen to me!"
Shui Wen told Qi Ling'er everything.
It turned out that when she left the palace, Su Xiaoxiao replaced her with a paper figure. The Queen Mother had been bedridden because of the death of the previous emperor, and she died yesterday.
Shui Wen told her firmly: "Miss, there is no more Queen Mother Qi in the world, only the shepherdess Qi Ling'er."
"But what about Huaiyu and Huaian?" She is a mother, how can she abandon her children and hide here to enjoy a peaceful life alone!
Her children, in the deep palace where people are eaten without spitting out bones, how many people are eyeing them covetously!
"Aunt, brother Huaiyu said that when he grows up, he can protect the ninth brother and Dashuo!" Su Xiaoxiao told Qi Ling'er what Gu Huaiyu said word by word.
"I'm not a good daughter, not a good sister, and not a good mother!" Qi Ling'er felt that she had done nothing well! "
Aunt, Brother Huaiyu said that he would rather have a lively and free mother than you who struggled and was unhappy. He also said that this was his uncle's wish and the wish of all your family members!"
Su Xiaoxiao finished speaking, and added: "It is also Xiaoxiao's wish!"
Shui Wen added at the right time: "The Queen Mother passed away, and we can't go back! Don't let the emperor down!"
Qi Ling'er sighed. Huaiyu was most like her. He always thought of others but never cared about himself.
Xiaoxiao seemed to understand Qi Ling'er's thoughts and said, "Brother Huaiyu said that he would not force himself and would not let the people he cared about get hurt. Please rest assured!"
Qi Ling'er stayed in the pasture outside the Great Wall. Without fine clothes and delicious food, and without servants around, she and Shuiwen were self-sufficient, and her body gradually recovered.
Gu Huaian was very sad for a while when he learned that his mother had passed away, but with the comfort of Gu Huaiyu and Su Xiaoxiao, he was getting better day by day.
The emperor re-employed a group of people. Guangyi Hou, who had been idle for many years, was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. The previous Minister of the Ministry of Hu, Qian, was dismissed because of greed.
Guangyi Marquis's legitimate son Chen Minzhi, a small leader of the patrol camp, was now directly promoted to the Yulin Army.
The sons and nephews of the second and third branches of Guangyi Marquis's mansion were also promoted.
Even the unreliable little daughter of Marquis Guangyi was invited by Su Lingxi to the Girls' School, where she was responsible for managing the Medical Girls' Workshop and the Equipment Manufacturing Workshop.
In addition to the Marquis Guangyi Mansion, several other noble families that were neglected by the previous emperor were also promoted to varying degrees. Of course, the most eye-catching one was the Marquis Guangyi Mansion.
Among the noble families, the most discussed topic now is how the Marquis Guangyi Mansion won the favor of the new emperor.
There is no wall that is impenetrable. Later, everyone knew that the Marquis Guangyi Mansion was able to rise to prominence because it had won the favor of Su Xiaoxiao.
Now there are rumors in secret that the new emperor listens to Princess Anle the most, and as long as you can please Princess Anle, your road to promotion will be smooth!
So, many people began to get restless.