Chapter 792 The Emperor is Cheating (Thirty)
April 8th, Buddha’s Birthday!
After seven or eight days of "hunger strike", Concubine Xie finally forced Min Huang to lift the house arrest order on her.
"I knew that Jiulang would never really keep me locked up forever!"
"Humph, so what if he's the emperor? After all, he crawled out of my intestines. Can he really be unfilial to his biological mother?"
Concubine Xie was very proud. Not only did she change into a brand new palace dress, she also brought enough palace maids and eunuchs with her.
The group of people marched towards the palace gate in a mighty procession.
Rows of carriages have gathered at the gate of Taiji Palace.
The Queen Mother was a Buddhist and would go to Ci'en Temple on the outskirts of Beijing to pray for blessings on Buddha's birthday every year.
As the saying goes, "what goes around comes around," the Queen Mother did the same, and many concubines in the harem followed suit and burned incense.
On the Buddha's birthday, all the noble ladies above the rank of concubine in the palace would follow the Queen Mother to Ci'en Temple.
Although Queen Gu and Queen Mother Wang fought to the death, on the surface, they were a "harmonious mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" relationship where everyone was happy.
Gu Qingcheng personally held the Queen Mother's hand and respectfully escorted her to the carriage.
"My lady, the Concubine has not arrived yet!"
The person who came to report was a young eunuch, about 20 or 30 years old, tall and slightly fat.
He looks very friendly, smiles whenever he speaks, and his smile is very natural.
His name was Zhao Fu. He was the chief eunuch of Anyi Palace and also a close confidant of the former queen, Queen Gu.
Perhaps the time that the master and servant spent together was not long, only three short years.
But Zhao Fu was very loyal to Queen Gu.
It’s not that Zhao Funu is strong-willed, or that Queen Gu is charismatic, but that Zhao Fu is a smart man.
He had a very sharp eye for people. He could tell from Queen Gu's words, actions, and behavior that she was a strong person.
It’s never wrong to follow the strong!
Zhao Fu chose to be loyal to Queen Gu, and Queen Gu chose Zhao Fu among many eunuchs. Zhao Fu stayed in the palace for more than ten years and served the late emperor.
When the previous emperor passed away, many eunuchs were buried alive with him, but Zhao Fu was the only one who escaped.
No one knows how he did it, but Queen Gu feels that Zhao Fu was able to survive not just because of luck, he must have had means beyond ordinary people.
Therefore, when choosing the chief eunuch, Queen Gu promoted Zhao Fu.
In the past three years, Zhao Fu has proved himself with his actions.
He is indeed smart and extremely capable.
Zhao Fu also played a significant role in helping Queen Gu weave such a large network in the harem.
"Your Highness, the auspicious time for departure is almost here. How about you escort the Queen Mother out of the palace first?"
Zhao Fu is so smart, he is definitely a very good person at dealing with people.
But he also couldn't understand Concubine Xie's train of thought -
Why did she have to be late? Was it to show that she was more noble than the Queen Mother?
But what matters most is not such trivial matters.
On the contrary, Concubine Xie's behavior is unruly and disrespectful.
The key is that it is easy to miss the auspicious time.
Zhao Fu feels that people may not believe in Buddhism but they cannot blaspheme it.
We are all going to worship Buddha, why do we have to be late——
In one word, stupid!
Four words, meaningless! "Well, I will escort the Queen Mother out of the palace first, and you, go to Ganlu Palace."
Gu Qingcheng could have a better way of handling it.
It is definitely possible to cover all aspects and have the best of both worlds.
But, she didn't want to! She still followed the habit of the original owner and threw the trouble directly to the person who should deal with it the most - Min Huang! You let your troublemaker mother out yourself, so you have to deal with the new trouble she created yourself.
Filial piety should be done by the filial son himself, and never outsource filial piety! Gu Qingcheng said: I am the queen who cooperates with you, not a little wife who comes to be bullied!
Zhao Fu's forehead twitched: ...I knew it would be like this! Haha, as expected of the Queen, she is so domineering.
Knowing his own queen's behavior, Zhao Fu said in a somewhat presumptuous manner, "Why don't you escort the empress dowager out of the palace first."
Because for an excellent eunuch chief steward, he only needs to obey the master's orders and must not give suggestions to the master without authorization.
"Yes! This old slave saved it!"
Zhao Fu bowed and responded, then quickly went to Ganlu Palace.
Gu Qingcheng, on her side, called on everyone to set off.
At a command, the large army moved.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
By the time Concubine Xie, who wanted to be the "finale", arrived, the palace gate was already empty.
"Great! Great Gu, you actually don't take me, the concubine, seriously?"
Concubine Xie was so angry! Having a daughter-in-law of noble birth had this biggest disadvantage -
She looked down on herself from the bottom of her heart!
In fact, whether it was Queen Gu or Gu Qingcheng, they had never shown any contempt for Concubine Xie.
They are all true noble ladies from aristocratic families, and they never look down on people who are not as good as themselves in background, knowledge, or wisdom.
Because they don't need to, they are noble and excellent enough in themselves, they will not be jealous of others.
There is no need to elevate yourself by belittling others.
They are able to treat everyone fairly and impartially.
Of course, even if Queen Gu and Gu Qingcheng really hated someone, based on their plot, they would never show it at all.
They are always humble and polite, giving people a warm feeling.
However, Concubine Xie has an inferiority complex. Even if Queen Gu and Gu Qingcheng perform perfectly, she always feels that the other party looks down on her.
Queen Gu & Gu Qingcheng: ...If you insist on thinking this way, there is nothing I can do.
To put it bluntly, Gu Qingcheng really doesn't care what Concubine Xie is like.
Looking at the entire harem, the only person who cares about Concubine Xie is Min Huang.
Min Huang: ...I don't want to care about her, but I have no choice! His biological mother is someone he can never get rid of in this life.
After hearing Zhao Fu's report, Min Huang did not blame Gu Qingcheng.
Why blame her? Blame her for abandoning Concubine Xie and escorting the Queen Mother out of the palace first? What a joke! She is the Queen Mother, Min Huang's mother in terms of etiquette.
If Gu Qingcheng disrespected the Queen Mother for the sake of a concubine, then she would be wrong.
Not to mention that Min Huang would be "reprimanded", even the court officials would submit a memorial to impeach him when they heard about it.
The Queen is a person who abides by the rules of etiquette and is also the smartest person. She would never do such a stupid thing that would give others an advantage.
Ever since Min Huang was able to hear people's inner voices, he had a subversive understanding of the people in the harem.
In the past, if the Queen had "passed the buck" like this, Min Huang would have blamed her in his heart for being too arrogant and aloof, even if he didn't say anything.
But now, Min Huang only thinks: "Aqing is in a dilemma! On one side is etiquette and law, and on the other is my beloved's biological mother."
"For the sake of the overall situation, she can only take etiquette into consideration."
"Besides, Aqing didn't ignore my mother. Didn't she send her most useful eunuch to look for me?"
Fortunately, Huoshui couldn't hear Min Huang's inner voice, otherwise it would be stunned -
As expected of Her Majesty the Queen, she even made the Emperor start to do PUA himself!
(End of this chapter)
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