Chapter 263 Exploration
"The concubine pays homage to the grandmother."
Although I don’t know why the Empress Dowager Huayang suddenly came to the door this time, Madam Zheng can only greet her with a smile. After all, apart from other places, at least in this harem, the Empress Dowager Huayang is Madam Zheng’s elder.
"Get up!"
The Empress Dowager Huayang gently raised her hand, signaling Mrs. Zheng to excuse herself.
"How are you doing recently?"
"Thanks to grandma, everything is fine."
"That's good, it's hard for you to manage this huge harem."
"It's not hard, this is what a concubine should do."
The two asked and answered, and their words seemed extremely harmonious. If someone who didn't know the inside story saw this scene, they might really think it was a scene of "grandmother loving grandson daughter-in-law filial piety"!
However, in fact, these are just some scenes between the Empress Dowager Huayang and Mrs. Zheng.
After the two exchanged pleasantries.
Madam Zheng began to try to get into the topic, and said: "Grandmother is here today, I wonder if there is anything I need to do for you?"
The Empress Dowager Huayang shook her head with a smile and said: "It's nothing, maybe it's because of getting older, people suddenly become inexplicably wanting to talk to someone. I happened to pass by here today, so I wanted to come in and chat with you gossip."
"It turns out that this is the honor of my concubine."
Mrs. Zheng agreed with a smile on her face, but in fact, she is the only one who knows exactly what she thinks in her heart.
Looking at the smile on Mrs. Zheng's face, the Empress Dowager Huayang also had a 'kind' expression on her face.
Actually, what the Empress Dowager Huayang just said was indeed true, because when she first entered Madam Zheng’s palace, it was indeed the Empress Dowager Huayang who walked in on a whim.
It was only after she walked in that the Empress Dowager Huayang suddenly changed her mind.
"Fusu recently handled the government affairs, but is it going well?"
"This... the concubine doesn't know about it. The affairs of the court are what their men should do. The concubine is just a woman, so how dare she talk too much."
"It's true, how can us women control those men! But the king's decision this time is indeed a bit reckless. After all, Fusu is still young now. Isn't it right to let him touch the court affairs rashly at this time? It’s pulling seedlings to encourage growth.”
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Mrs. Zheng did not respond to this sentence.
See here.
The Empress Dowager Huayang also seemed to realize what she said was wrong. After pursing her lips, she immediately changed the subject and said, "But if there is any problem, you can ask Fusu to ask Xiong Qi for help. He is Fusu's after all. Dear uncle, it must be because of this consideration that the king specially appointed Xiong Qi as the 'Prime Minister of the Right' before leaving this time."
"The concubine wrote it down."
Madam Zheng responded respectfully.
"Well! It's the best. I'm old, and it's easy to babble. This time I came to chat with you for a while, and the old man's mood suddenly became much more comfortable."
"It's getting late, and it's time for me to leave."
The Empress Dowager Huayang stood up, ready to leave.
Madam Zheng got up quickly and said: "I will send my grandmother away."
After sending the Empress Dowager Huayang out of the house all the way, Madam Zheng narrowed her eyes when she saw the imperial sedan chair of the Empress Dowager Huayang leaving. After a while, she turned and returned to her palace.
Madam Zheng sat back in her original seat. Just as she was seated, Madam Zheng realized that a cold sweat broke out on her back at some point.
"What a powerful old man!"
Although Madam Zheng has been constrained by the Empress Dowager Huayang for so many years, before that, Madam Zheng always believed that it was because the Empress Dowager Huayang was older than herself, and there was a "family of relatives from Chu" behind her. If you support him, you will be suppressed so miserably.
But until just now, Mrs. Zheng realized for the first time how powerful this empress dowager is.
The few conversations between the Empress Dowager Huayang and her just now seemed to be just ordinary chats, but it was the temptation of the Empress Dowager Huayang from beginning to end.
The old man obviously discovered something, but he couldn't be sure for a while, so he tried to test it in other ways, so that he could actively expose his flaws.
Actually tell the truth.
Madam Zheng's feelings for the Empress Dowager Huayang are also quite complicated, similar to Ying Zheng.
Although the Empress Dowager Huayang has been suppressing her in the harem all these years, it is precisely because of the relationship with the Empress Dowager Huayang that Madam Zheng has been able to survive in the harem until now.
Even the fact that she was able to conceive Fusu was largely due to the Empress Dowager Huayang.
Factually speaking, Mrs. Zheng herself is indeed related to the Empress Dowager Huayang by blood. Even the reason why he was able to become Yingzheng's concubine at the beginning was due to the Empress Dowager Huayang.
From this aspect, Mrs. Zheng should have thanked the Queen Mother Huayang.
So in the face of this situation, Mrs. Zheng should actually send a little information to the Empress Dowager Huayang, but unfortunately this idea is not realistic, and Mrs. Zheng does not dare now.
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And at the same time.
the other side.
Not long after the Empress Dowager Huayang left Madam Zheng's palace, her complexion became gloomy at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Just now Madam Zheng was quite calm in the face of her temptation, but it was precisely because she was too calm that the Empress Dowager Huayang confirmed that something was wrong with the other party.
After all, at Yao Meiren's banquet, Mrs. Zheng's behavior was very 'impulsive'.
And now suddenly become so calm and cautious.
These two diametrically opposed personalities appear in the same person. If nothing happened to Mrs. Zheng, it is obviously impossible for the Empress Dowager Huayang to believe it.
It can only be said that the **** is still old and spicy.
Madam Zheng thought that her performance was not exposed, but she didn't know that sometimes there were no flaws, which itself was a kind of flaw.
Originally, even if there was something strange about Mrs. Zheng, the Empress Dowager Huayang would not pay too much attention to it. However, when the Empress Dowager Huayang described "Beauty Yao's banquet", "the extra guards in front of Mrs. Zheng's palace", "Mrs. Zheng's abnormality" ······
After all these situations are linked together.
A bad premonition suddenly appeared in her heart.
Return to Huayang Palace.
The Empress Dowager Huayang pondered for a while with a sullen face, then suddenly said: "Go and check, what are Xiong Qi and the others doing recently?"
Recently, the situation in Xianyang as a whole has been considered peaceful, so even the Empress Dowager Huayang couldn't think of where her 'bad premonition' came from.
Finally thought about it.
The only possible problem in the recent period is probably Xiong Qi, because Xiong Qi's position of "Prime Minister of the Right" was not honorable.
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(end of this chapter)