Chapter 38: Palace Fighting Champion
Concubine Chun, who had been silent in the palace, whispered, "I think the Seventh Prince's gift is very good. It represents roundness, fullness, and vigor. He wants the Queen Mother to be healthy."
"Mother..." Concubine De looked at the Queen Mother. At this time, the Queen Mother's face was calm and it was impossible to tell whether she was happy or angry. But Concubine De 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 the Seventh Prince actually understood my thoughts. Seventh Prince, you are really a thoughtful and good child."
Everyone:?
Ah.
No.
Is the Queen Mother praising the Emperor's son An? It's
just a Cuju. Does it have any special meaning?
[Grandma Empress is right, gifts are not divided into noble or humble. 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.]
Di Zi’an heaved a sigh of relief and looked at the Queen Mother carefully, “Grandma Empress, do you miss the Emperor?”
“When I met your Emperor, he was as old as you…” The Queen Mother’s eyes revealed a deep longing, which was fleeting, but was still captured clearly by the careful Di Zi’an.
The Queen Mother smiled, concealing the emotions in her eyes, and carefully handed the Cuju to the nanny on the side, “Keep it well and put it in the most conspicuous place in my bedroom.”
Seeing the object reminds her of the person. Although this Cuju is not the same as before, it will bring back many good memories for her.
"Grandma, when you are well, your grandson will play Cuju with you." Emperor Zi'an chuckled. The empress
dowager smiled, "Okay, okay, it's settled. You must come to my palace often to see me in the future."
Emperor Zi'an: "... Grandson obeys your command."
[Hahaha, my brother is dumbfounded. It is common for others to enter and leave the palace. My brother will definitely be in trouble. Hahaha]
[But for the sake of the empress, my brother is not afraid of trouble. Come on! ]
Next, Concubine Rou gave the empress dowager a picture of a hundred years of longevity that she had embroidered by herself. Concubine
Rou came from a merchant family and was proficient in embroidery. The picture of a hundred years of longevity that she embroidered was very stunning.
Concubine De took out the Buddhist beads that she had prepared and handed them forward.
As soon as the empress dowager took it, there was a "click" sound, and the whole string of Buddhist beads broke!
108 Buddhist beads scattered and tinkled on the ground.
Everyone was horrified.
At a birthday banquet, the broken Buddhist beads were a bad sign.
Especially when the Queen Mother just took it and it broke.
This...
No one dared to look at the Queen Mother.
At this time, the Queen Mother was holding A Bao with a gloomy face.
De Fei was also panicked and knelt down quickly, "Mother, I didn't scare you, I'm sorry, I don't know why the Buddhist beads broke."
"I heard that De Fei got this string of Buddhist beads from Huguo Temple, but why do I think it's fake?" Someone whispered.
Concubine Rou frowned, "I heard that the Buddhist beads in Huguo Temple are all strung together with gold threads, but these are obviously not made of gold threads. They are really fake beads."
Concubine Shu: "Sister Defei, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to give a fake string of beads to the Queen Mother's birthday banquet."
Concubine Hui said weakly, "I heard from the people that it is a taboo to break the beads..."
Everyone was talking and spitting, and Defei was about to be drowned by everyone.
Almost everyone pointed at Defei, saying that she had bad intentions.
Concubine Hui, who was a few years older, said, "Court Lady De feels that she has been released from the cold palace and has gained the emperor's favor because of the emperor's love for the little princess, so she has become arrogant and no longer takes the empress dowager's birthday seriously? She 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 couldn't understand why the Buddhist beads were broken.
[That string of Buddhist beads is not the Buddhist beads from the Huguo Temple. The Buddhist beads prepared by the beautiful mother for the imperial grandmother were replaced by someone.]
A Bao saw the Buddhist beads that fell on the ground at a glance.
It was still the same 108 beads.
There was also a blood-red
bead. But there was an evil spirit in this blood-red bead.
But she clearly remembered the string of Buddhist beads from the beautiful mother. The blood-red beads contained pure Buddhist energy and could protect people.
De Fei was surprised and looked at the Buddhist beads on the ground with wide eyes.
After a closer look, the broken beads were of poor quality. They were not the Buddhist beads she had asked for in the Huguo Temple.
[Grandma, please take a good look at that string of Buddhist beads. That string of Buddhist beads was not the one prepared by the beautiful mother. Someone wants to frame the beautiful mother at the Queen Mother’s birthday banquet.]
A Bao waved his little arms and made various noises, 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 were
immediately silent. The Queen Mother was going to be angry!
De Fei was afraid that this time she would be in trouble.
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, you are so smart]
[As expected of the last palace fighting champion, you noticed such small details. You are so smart, Trojan~]
Trojan? The Queen Mother
was stunned for a moment.
How did A-Bao come up with the word Trojan?
Want a Trojan?
Arrange!
After the banquet, she will order someone to make a small Trojan horse for little A-Bao.
The nanny just picked up the beads on the ground -
A-Bao was staring at the beads in the Queen Mother's arms, and saw a 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 with a "whoosh".
With a chilling aura of evil spirits!
[My goodness, it's the aura of an evil spirit! You want to use my mother to harm the Empress Dowager? No way!]
[I'll kick!]
Abao aimed at the evil spirit, raised his little foot, and kicked it with a "bang", hitting the center of the evil spirit.
Abao only heard a scream!
It was a woman's voice!
The evil spirit was stunned for a moment, and then it dispersed like fireworks. The Empress
Dowager lowered her head and saw Abao waving his little hands, stretching his legs, and raising his little feet. The posture was like stretching...
so cute.
[Oh yeah, the evil spirit is gone, the Empress Dowager is fine] The Empress Dowager
was shocked. Abao's feet, are they immortal feet?
Just by lifting it like this, the evil spirit was kicked away. It was amazing.
The nanny who picked up the beads had no idea that so many things had happened. The
empress dowager glanced at the beads on the jade plate.
"It is indeed not the Buddhist beads from the Huguo Temple. Maybe Defei took the wrong one." The empress dowager said casually.
Defei frowned. She was sure that she did not take the wrong one.
It was just that on the way here, Zhilan took it, but when she was talking to Roufei and Huipin, the Buddhist beads fell.
Wait, could it be that the Buddhist beads were swapped at that time?
"Defei, you did not handle this matter carefully." The empress dowager looked stern.
The concubines bowed their heads and dared not speak.
Although the empress dowager did not blame her loudly, it was an ominous sign that Defei's beads were scattered at the empress dowager's birthday banquet.
If the emperor knew about this, he would not be so fond of Concubine De.
Humph.
The favors of women in the harem have always been changeable.
Everyone is still happily waiting for the Queen Mother to punish Concubine De.
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