Chapter 1065 I will wait for the Queen Mother to show her magical powers
The palace coup 20 years ago is still vivid in my mind:
When the late emperor entrusted the country of Gan to Jiang Xue, did he ever think that this girl would become a thorn in his heart? Now, not only has the thorn not been removed, but it is about to bloom.
Jiang Xue stroked her pregnant belly and smiled: "It's hard for the Queen Mother to worry about me. But the imperial physician told me not to eat this almond cake..."
She deliberately dragged out the last word, and her eyebrows twitched slightly as she looked at Feng Ziqing's carefully drawn distant mountains.
Xiao Zhan interrupted at the right time: "I am really greedy, why don't you let me taste it for the princess?"
Green smoke rose from the gilded animal-head incense burner, casting the shadows of the four people on the coiled dragon pillar, as if they were actors in a shadow play.
Feng Ziqing clenched the secret letter in her sleeve - it was a secret report from the northern border about the whereabouts of an old friend.
She looked at Jiang Xueyun's calm and composed look and suddenly changed her mind. This play would be more exciting if it was left for the finale.
The imperial study was filled with sandalwood incense. Xiao Zhan's jade tablet turned an arc in his palm: "The almond cakes prepared by Her Majesty the Queen Mother, I am afraid that the princess and I cannot afford them."
He glanced at the gilded food box, as if he saw his aunt trembling as she took the cup of poisoned tea.
Feng Tianyu was not the only one who died in the Western Expedition at the hands of the Dangxiang. Countless loyal souls were buried in Western Xia, all because of the words "clear the emperor's side" spoken by the people before them.
Feng Ziqing's fingertips trembled slightly, and she put on a decent smile in an instant: "Yun Che's words make me sad. When you were young, you loved the apricot blossom cakes made by your cousin the most."
The golden armor knocked lightly on the jade table, causing ripples in the teacup.
"It's because I ate too much when I was young."
The young man in the black python robe suddenly sneered: "Now I feel sick just by looking at cakes."
The crimson-purple phoenix robe shook violently, and suppressed gasps could be heard amid the sound of pearls and jade colliding:
“Your Majesty, look, the Princess and Yun Che are so aggressive that it makes my apology banquet seem like a Hongmen Banquet.”
She turned to the young emperor sitting on the dragon throne, tears just hanging on her eyelashes.
"apologize?"
Jiang Xue stood up suddenly, and her red-gold hairpin emitted a cold light in the hall.
She walked in front of Feng Ziqing and suddenly smiled: "If the Queen Mother can bring back the spirit of the hero who died seeking medicine for Heng'er, I will burn incense and swear brotherhood with you in the Imperial Temple."
"You are forcing me!"
"Is this embarrassing for the Queen Mother?"
Jiang Xue brushed the memorial on the table with her red sleeves, and leaned over to whisper in Feng Ziqing's ear: "Since you know it's hard to force someone to do something, why do you come to ask for peace with such sincerity like a venomous snake?"
She deliberately emphasized the last two words and watched with satisfaction as goose bumps appeared on the back of the other person's neck.
Feng Ziqing suddenly took a half step back and bowed deeply: "I know that I have committed a grave sin."
When she turned to Jiang Heng, tears finally fell: "I only hope that the emperor will understand. I believed the slander and made a big mistake. In recent years, I have copied thousands of Buddhist scriptures in front of the Buddha, hoping to atone for my sins."
Jiang Xue sneered, and the pearl crown in her mouth jingled as she shook her head: "This is what I admire most about the Queen Mother. She lies more sincerely than the truth."
She suddenly stopped smiling and bowed towards the throne: "Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered that there is something important in the palace..."
Before he finished speaking, a dark figure had already passed across the golden brick floor.
Xiao Zhan hurriedly saluted and followed, but at the corner, Jiang Xue grabbed his sleeve.
The two of them hid in the shadow behind the Panlong Pillar and happened to hear the conversation in the imperial study clearly.
The crisp sound of rings and pendants came from the corner of the palace corridor.
"Why is Heng'er lingering here?" Xiao Zhan lifted up the drooping wisteria branches.
Jiang Xue leaned against the red pillar and chuckled, "Queen Mother Zifeng's sedan chair will pass by here soon. Do you think she will still be able to wear that loving mother mask?"
"Since you trust Heng'er, why do you have to wait here?"
"It is because I believe in him that I want to witness the wonderful show with my own eyes."
She twisted her fingertips around the jade tassel on her waist: "When she hits a snag, I'll add a few more words at the right time, wouldn't that be exciting?"
Xiao Zhan shook his head and laughed: "If you want to embarrass her, you could have done it in front of the palace just now."
"We must always give Heng'er some dignity."
Jiang Xue looked towards the imperial study: "As a son, it is embarrassing to see his biological mother being humiliated in public."
Feng Ziqing was standing in front of the imperial desk clutching her gilded armor, her voice very soft: "I have been tossing and turning all night, and I really regret it. Can Heng'er speak to the princess on behalf of my mother..."
"Does your mother know what you are best at?"
Jiang Heng put down his red brush and said, "Write the word 'calculation' on the corners of your eyes and eyebrows."
Feng Ziqing staggered back: "How can you speculate about your biological mother like this?"
"I would like to believe you."
The young emperor stood up, his black dragon robe brushing across the gold fragments on the ground: "But you are trying to deceive the three most astute rulers of the world."
He tapped the memorial on the table with his fingertips: "How can you, as stupid as you are, understand what true repentance means?"
Feng Ziqing suddenly laughed crazily: "Unfilial piety is a crime that cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth! Even if you are..."
"I do owe you my life."
Jiang Heng interrupted her, his eyes frozen with a thousand-year-old ice: "But you have always regarded me as a stain and a pawn.
In this deep palace, only my aunt and cousin have ever given me warmth. "
He raised his hand and opened the beaded curtain, and the morning light cut through the gloom in the room: "So mother, please don't force me to uncover those dirty old stories."
Feng Ziqing stared at her son's silhouette against the light, and was shocked to realize that the baby in his cradle had already grown sharp teeth that could bite people.
Jiang Heng turned the jade ring in his hand, his tone nonchalant:
"Don't be afraid, mother. No matter what happens, I will never kill you. I just suddenly remembered that the Buddha's light from the Shodaiji Temple can purify people's hearts the most."
When he raised his eyes, they suddenly turned cold: "If the Queen Mother is willing, I can arrange for the imperial carriage tomorrow."
"I won't go!" Feng Ziqing hurriedly took a half step back, and the golden hairpin on her temples made a crackling sound.
She had been sent to worship Buddha last month, but within ten days, her carefully maintained face had dimmed by three points. If she were to be trapped in that place with ancient Buddhas and green lamps...
Thinking of this, she was suddenly shocked to realize that the young emperor in front of her was exactly like Jiang Xue, with wolf nature in their bones.
The young emperor stood up and brushed off the wrinkles of his dragon robe: "In this case, mother, you should rest well."
His fingertips skimmed over the memorials on the desk, and suddenly slammed them heavily on the sandalwood desk: "If you reach out to the previous dynasty again."
"I understand!" Feng Ziqing clenched the shark silk handkerchief in her sleeve, her nails almost piercing the silk.
There was a sinister flash in her eyes as she lowered her head, thinking that the news about Ateli, the witch from the Western Region, should arrive soon.
When that person brings a new plan, I will make Jiang Xue pay back the money with interest.
As soon as the vermilion palace door closed behind her, Feng Ziqing heard the voice that made her blood freeze.
"Her Majesty, please stay."
Jiang Xue walked over slowly, holding the hand of her maid, her pregnant belly made more obvious by her pomegranate red palace dress.
She admired Feng Ziqing's livid face, and the smile on her lips deepened: "It seems that the Queen Mother has hit a snag again today?"
"Put away your pretense!"
Feng Ziqing turned around abruptly, her phoenix corona and necklace rustling:
"Don't think you can rest easy just by coaxing Heng'er into obeying you. The blood-related mother-son relationship is not something that an outsider like you can separate."
The light laughter spread in the breeze. Jiang Xue stroked her bulging belly and said leisurely, "Then I will wait for the Queen Mother to show her magical powers."
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