Concubine Chun, who had been silent in the palace, whispered, "I think the Seventh Prince's gift is very good. It represents fullness and vitality. He wants the Queen Mother to be healthy."

"Mother..." Defei looked at the Queen Mother. At this moment, her expression was calm and it was impossible to tell whether she was happy or angry. But Defei thought that if the Queen Mother was angry, she would take all the blame on herself and would never let An'er suffer again.

"For so many years, I have always wanted a Cuju. I didn't expect that Lao Qi would understand my thoughts. Lao Qi, you are really a thoughtful and good child."

Everyone:?

ah.

no.

Is the Queen Mother praising the Emperor's son?

It's just a game of Cuju, does it have any special meaning?

[What the Queen Mother said is right. Gifts are not divided into high and low categories. No matter what the gift is, it is most appropriate to give it to the heart.]

[Brother, you finally don’t have to be scolded this time. It’s not easy.]

The prince breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the empress dowager cautiously, "Grandma, are you missing the emperor?"

"When I first met your grandfather, he was about your age..." The empress dowager's eyes revealed a deep longing, which was fleeting but still captured clearly by the meticulous Emperor Zi'an.

The Queen Mother smiled, hiding the emotion in her eyes, and carefully handed the Cuju to the grandmother beside her, "Keep it well and put it in the most prominent place in my bedroom."

Seeing something reminds her of the past. Although this Cuju is not the same one as before, it brings back many good memories for her.

"Grandma Empress, when you get better, your grandson will play Cuju with you." Emperor Zi'an chuckled.

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Okay, okay, it's settled. You must come to my palace often to see me in the future."

Emperor Zian: "...Sun'er obeys your command."

[Hahaha, my brother is dumbfounded. It is common for other people to enter and leave the palace. My brother is definitely unlucky. Hahaha]

[But for the sake of the Empress, my brother is not afraid of bad luck, come on! ]

Next, Concubine Rou presented the Empress Dowager with a picture of a hundred years of longevity that she had embroidered herself.

Concubine Rou came from a merchant family and was an expert at embroidery. The longevity paintings she embroidered were stunning.

Defei took out the Buddhist beads that she had prepared long ago and handed them forward.

As soon as the Queen Mother took it, there was a "click" sound, and the whole string of Buddhist beads broke!

108 Buddhist beads scattered and fell to the ground with a tinkling sound.

Everyone looked horrified.

At a birthday party, broken Buddhist beads are a bad sign.

Especially since it broke into pieces right after the Queen Mother took over.

This……

No one dared to look at the Queen Mother.

At this time, the Queen Mother was holding Abao, her face gloomy.

Concubine De was also panicked and quickly knelt down, "Mother, I didn't scare you, I am sorry, I don't know why the beads broke."

"I heard that Concubine De got this string of Buddhist beads from Huguo Temple, but why do I think it looks fake?" someone whispered.

Concubine Rou frowned, "I heard that the Buddhist beads in Huguo Temple are all strung together with gold threads, but these beads are obviously not made of gold threads. This is really a fake string of Buddhist beads."

Lady Shu: "Sister Defei, I'm afraid it's a bit inappropriate for you to give a fake Buddhist bead to the Queen Mother at her birthday banquet."

Huipin said weakly, "I have heard from the people that breaking Buddhist beads is a taboo..."

You talk back and she talks back, and the spit from everyone is about to drown Concubine De.

Almost everyone pointed the finger at Concubine De, saying she had ill intentions.

Concubine Hui, who was a few years older, said, "Cousin De, did you feel that you had escaped from the cold palace and gained the emperor's favor because of his love for the little princess, and that you had become arrogant and no longer cared about the empress dowager's birthday? You used a string of fake Buddhist beads to pretend to be in front of the empress dowager."

"I didn't." Concubine De was speechless.

She also couldn't understand why the Buddhist beads were broken.

[That string of Buddhist beads is not the one from Huguo Temple. The one that Beautiful Mother prepared for Grandmother Empress was replaced by someone else.]

Abao saw the Buddhist beads dropped on the ground at a glance.

Still the same 108 beads.

There is also one that is blood red.

But there is an evil spirit in this blood-red bead.

But she clearly remembered the Buddhist beads of her beautiful mother. The blood-red beads contained pure Buddhist energy that could protect people.

Concubine De was surprised and looked at the Buddhist beads on the ground with wide eyes.

A closer look revealed that the broken beads were of inferior quality and were indeed not the Buddhist beads she had obtained from the Huguo Temple.

[Grandma, please take a good look at that string of Buddhist beads. That string of Buddhist beads is not the one prepared by the beautiful mother. Someone is trying to frame the beautiful mother at the Queen Mother’s birthday banquet.]

A Bao waved his little arms and made various noises like "Aba Aba", trying to make the Queen Mother understand what she meant.

The Queen Mother sat up straight and glanced at everyone with a stern look.

All the concubines immediately fell silent.

The Queen Mother is going to be angry!

I'm afraid Concubine De is in trouble now.

Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother said, "Show me the beads. Why do I feel that there is something wrong with this string of Buddhist beads?"

[Grandma Huang, you are so smart]

[As expected of the last palace fighting champion, you noticed such small details. You are so smart, Trojan~]

Trojan horse?

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment.

How did Po come up with the word Trojan Horse?

Want a Trojan?

arrange!

After the banquet, she ordered someone to make a small wooden horse for little Abao.

Grandma just picked up the beads on the ground——

Ah Bao was staring at the beads in the Queen Mother's arms when he saw a wisp of black gas coming out of the only red bead on the ground.

Like a tadpole with its tail tucked in, it rushed towards the Queen Mother.

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With a chilling aura of evil spirits!

[My goodness, it's the spirit of an evil spirit! You want to use my mother to harm Grandma Huang, but you can't do that!]

【I kick! 】

A Bao aimed at the evil spirit, raised his little foot, and kicked it right in the center of the evil spirit.

All Abao heard was a scream!

It’s still a woman’s voice!

The evil spirit froze for a moment, then dispersed like fireworks.

The Queen Mother looked down and saw A-bao waving his little hands, stretching his little legs, and lifting his little feet. It looked like he was stretching...

So cute.

[Oh yeah, the evil spirit has dissipated, Grandma Huang is fine]

The Queen Mother was shocked. Could Po's feet be from a god?

Just by lifting it like this, the evil spirit was kicked away. It was so powerful.

After picking the beads, grandma had no idea that so many things had happened.

The Queen Mother glanced at the beads on the jade plate.

"It is definitely not the Buddhist beads from Huguo Temple. Perhaps Concubine De took the wrong one." The Queen Mother said casually.

Concubine De frowned, she was sure that she had not taken the wrong one.

It was just that on the way here, Zhilan was holding it, but when she was talking to Concubine Rou and Concubine Hui, the Buddhist beads fell.

Wait, was it at that time that the Buddhist beads were swapped?

"De Fei, you didn't handle this matter seriously enough." The Queen Mother looked stern.

The concubines bowed their heads and dared not say a word.

Although the Empress Dowager did not blame her harshly, the fact that Concubine De's beads were scattered at the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet was, after all, a bad sign.

If the Emperor knew about this, he probably wouldn't be so fond of Concubine De.

snort.

The favors shown to the women in the harem have always been changeable.

Everyone was happily waiting for the Queen Mother to punish Concubine De.