Inside the palace, the queen rolled up her sleeves, holding a brush, and was basting chicken wings. As she did so, she introduced them to the palace maids gathered around her, "This is called Barbie Q! It's in English, remember that!"
"oh oh……"
The Queen frowned and said, "Repeat it."
Palace attendants: "Eight...Eight must be deducted..."
"It's not a buckle, it's a Q! Never mind, just remember it!"
Aunt Hua smiled and brought a plate of skewered meat. "Madam, I have prepared it according to your request: a piece of meat, a piece of green pepper, a piece of meat, and a piece of pineapple..."
"Okay, okay! Put it on for me!"
While they were roasting, a noise came from outside. The Queen frowned, "Who is this? It's so noisy in the middle of the morning. They're still making noise even though they're under house arrest. Optimus Prime, go and take a look!"
The young eunuch, renamed Optimus Prime, bowed and left in small, cautious steps. He returned after a while, "Your Majesty, is this the princess and the young princes?"
"Ying'er?" The Queen stood up, threw the brush into the oil pan, and called to the palace maids, "Hurry, hurry! Hide everything!"
The palace servants were stunned for a moment, then immediately stepped forward to move things.
The queen did not forget to fan the air with her fan, trying to blow away the smell of meat.
Aunt Hua was puzzled and stepped forward to ask, "Madam, why are you doing this?"
The Queen sighed. "Her father is still sick, and I'm barbecuing in the palace like nothing happened. How could I let the child see me?"
Aunt Hua suddenly understood.
The queen suddenly remembered that she was under house arrest and the children might not be able to come in, so she explained and walked towards the palace gate.
Seeing this, Aunt Hua stretched out her hand to stop him, "Madam, your mouth..." The oil on it hasn't been wiped off yet...
The Queen had the door opened.
"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen!"
"Mother..." Zhao Ying said anxiously.
"Grandmother! They won't let me in!" Shangguan Ersansi complained in unison.
Shangguan Qingyue had already thrown himself onto the Queen's legs like a little cannonball, "Grandmother!" The little guy raised his head and looked at her eagerly.
"Come, let the Imperial Grandmother take a look!"
The queen picked up Shangguan Qingyue with heartache. She was under house arrest, and the little kids must have been scared!
However, the next second, Shangguan Qingyue's big eyes looked behind her and sniffed around like a puppy.
"Grandmother, where's the barbecue?"
Queen: ...
Zhao Ying stepped forward and asked with concern, "Mother, are you okay?"
"Mother is fine!"
Seeing that the queen was safe and sound, Zhao Ying became more and more certain of her guess that her father must have seen something and wanted to protect her mother.
Since this was the case, she couldn't expose her father's thoughts.
She wants to take advantage of the situation.
"Mother, wait a minute. I'm going to find father and ask him what mistake you made and why he has put you under house arrest." Zhao Ying pretended to be anxious and angry, and turned to leave.
But when he saw the woman in front of him with pearls and jade in her hair, he stopped suddenly.
Seeing this, the palace maids and the imperial guards saluted and said, "Greetings to the Imperial Concubine!"
Concubine Yang?
Zhao Ying chuckled inwardly, but remained expressionless, allowing Concubine Qi's eyes to scan her up and down.
That look, filled with condescending contempt, was very uncomfortable.
Zhao Ying wanted to laugh even more. No one had ever looked at her like that in her life.
Really...looking for death.
She is no longer the person who could endure anything in the future. She has led an army of 150,000 and massacred cities. What can't she do?
A concubine is not enough.
Zhao Ying smiled faintly.
Imperial Concubine Gao spoke sharply, her tone drawn out. "So it's Princess Chengqian! I wonder who it is? Why, Princess, won't you pay your respects to me?" She looked at Shangguan Qingwan and the others, "And these other children, are they also so ignorant of etiquette?"
Zhao Ying was about to speak when she was interrupted by the Queen's calm voice. The Queen did not have a trace of arrogance, but was calm, which made her look more noble. "Noble Concubine."
Aunt Hua said, "Noble Consort Gang has just been canonized. She doesn't know the rules and regulations, and she hasn't even paid her respects to our Empress yet!"
Concubine Gang was furious and stared at the Queen as if she wanted to eat her. The Queen was puzzled as to why she hated her so much. Did she provoke her?
But the empress was no pushover. Her supreme status over the years was not solely due to the favor of Emperor Jianxi. Seeing that Concubine Gang was reluctant to pay her respects, the empress gave a look to several palace maids.
The palace maids stepped forward, led by Aunt Hua, and said, "If Imperial Concubine Gao doesn't understand the rules, then we, the servants, will be the only ones who can make her understand!"
"How dare you! You bunch of old slaves! How dare you touch me! Ouch!"
Before she could finish, she felt a sharp pain in her knee. It was indeed Nanny Hua who kicked her. Immediately afterwards, several maids pressed Concubine Gang to the ground.
The palace maids behind Concubine Gang were startled and wanted to stop her but didn't dare.
Concubine Gang cursed loudly, "You fake, since you humiliated me like this, I will inform His Majesty and I will tear you into pieces!"
She looked at Zhao Ying and smiled coldly, "How can you be worthy of being a princess if you are so ignorant as to not recognize Mount Tai? Without me, you..."
The Queen was shocked when she heard this, her face turned pale, "What do you mean?"
At this moment, Concubine Gang had been released. Her hair was askew due to her violent struggle, but she didn't care. She walked up to the Queen and said, "You impostor, do you think you can deceive the Emperor forever? You have taken away the favor, glory and wealth that should have belonged to me. If it weren't for me, how could you have the prestige you have today? Yet you come to show off to me. How can you be so shameless?!"
The queen frowned and said nothing.
He put Shangguan Qingyue down and protected him behind him.
Seeing this, Concubine Qi became even more proud. "Fortunately, God has eyes, allowing me to personally expose your true face and let me take back everything that belongs to me!"
"Everything you have? What should belong to you is that cruel and perverse Prince Yan. What does it have to do with my father?"
Concubine Gang was not annoyed. Her arrogant eyes swept over the faces of the Queen and Zhao Ying one by one, sneering, "Okay, okay, okay, you really won't cry until you see the coffin. Then I will show you who is the woman in the Emperor's heart, and who is the one most worthy of being the Queen!"
"Lanxiang, help me back to the palace. It's almost lunchtime. The Emperor said he wants to go to my Xuanyang Palace with all the concubines to admire the divine peacock."
She let the palace maid support her and suddenly turned around, "I wanted to come over and ask the Queen to come with us. Although the Queen is under house arrest, the Emperor said that if I come to invite him, he is willing to give me a favor. I wonder if the Queen will give me that?"
The Queen didn't respond, so Concubine Gang looked at Zhao Ying again and asked, "Princess, why don't you come with us?"
"OK!"
Shangguan Qingyue jumped out from behind the Queen and said seriously, "Yue'er wants to see peacocks! Grandmother, Mother, let's go see peacocks together!"
Concubine Gang sneered, "Sometimes adults are not as sensible as children."
She looked at Zhao Ying.
Zhao Ying picked up Shangguan Qingyue and said, "Your Highness, go first. I will be there soon. As for the Queen Mother..."
"I will go!"
"In that case, I will wait for you in Xuanyang Palace."
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