Chapter 1395 The Foolish Empress 18
Seeing what the queen was about to say, Xining immediately raised her hand: "Queen of love, there is no need to say more, I know your thoughts."
If he opened his mouth, it would not mean that his ability could be compared with that of the palace painter. If you keep going like this, you won't have so much time.
But in order to change the subject, she took a step back and looked at it: "This painting is a bit too empty for me. I'd better draw something next to it."
The queen immediately said: "How about I paint peonies, or dragons and phoenixes?"
"No, it's not good!" Xining looked at the queen: "Either repaint it and include you too."
The queen immediately pursed her lips and smiled, but said: "I don't dare."
"As the empress, you show off to the world and stay by my side. Why not? Paint when you have time. Paint slowly, don't be in a hurry. Paint me more beautifully, but don't paint me in a way that doesn't look like me." Xining laughed. He walked towards the inner hall.
Your Majesty must have been very happy. After saying "Zongzhi", she hurriedly followed.
After sitting down, Xining didn't want to delay for too long and said directly: "Queen of love, I took the time to come here today. You and I, husband and wife, didn't say any polite words. We just ate the food without saying a word. After that, I still have to approve a lot of memorials.”
"Yes, Your Majesty! It is already a blessing for me that Your Majesty is here." The Queen was also well-educated and did not complain at all. She ordered people to serve the food.
The dishes on this table are all the body master's favorites. It is obvious that the queen is very concerned about the body master.
But think about the owner's attitude towards the queen? Except for drinking some wine and consummating the marriage during the wedding, for three whole years, I disliked the queen for not being charming and boring, and never stayed in the queen's palace again. Even the carefully crafted crested jade hairpin was thrown under the cabinet.
Now let’s see what’s wrong with the queen. On the other hand, the oily-headed and pink-faced man has a peach blossom face and charming eyes, and you can tell he is a messy person at a glance. This kind of person is just plain-faced and has no demeanor at all.
After Xining finished half a bowl of rice, he put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm done."
After eating, she was about to leave. The queen put down her chopsticks and said quickly: "Your Majesty, why don't you have some more soup..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately bowed his head and apologized: "I have overstepped my bounds, please punish me."
Xining shook his head: "It's just about a bowl of soup. Just ask if you ask. This is not the imperial court, but the Jiaofang Palace. I know that you want to stay with me. When I have some free time in the future, I will come over and spend time with you." Chat.”
The Queen showed her face: "Yes, Your Majesty!"
She has beautiful features and a smile as clean and comfortable as celadon.
Xining stood up, and the queen immediately stood up and followed him out.
When she arrived at the door, she felt funny when she saw the queen standing there. It's really quite satisfactory, unlike those who are flirtatious and see the light of day, hooking up from beginning to end. I almost shouted: "Uncle, come and play often when you have time!"
Xining urged: "You haven't finished eating yet, go in and eat. It's been a long time since we last met, and I've lost a lot of weight. Sometimes you don't have to think too much. You are the queen who was brought back in my sedan chair, and no one can change your position. From now on. With an imperial heir, whether he is yours or not, you need to teach him well.”
The queen bit her lip, she was so moved that she almost cried, and her voice was choked with sobs: "I sincerely obey the imperial edict."
Sitting on the dragon chariot, Xining couldn't help but sigh.
Men and women were equal in the Chen Dynasty, but the emperor looked at whether the first direct heir of the late emperor was a boy or a girl. The queen used to be a handsome man. I heard that if she didn't marry into the palace and became the queen, she would be ready to take the imperial examination.
He must have ambitions too. But once you enter the palace and become a king, you can only fold your wings and take the emperor as your guide.
If he has not entered the palace, he may have married a wife and had children. If he is named on the gold medal list, he may also have achieved fame.
Now that she has become a queen, she is not favored by the empress, and is even bored. Even a faceless person with no title can be sarcastic. How pitiful!
Back in the palace, Xi Ning asked the palace maid to take off her gold-studded jade clothes, while giving an order: "Go to the warehouse to pick a good inkstone and send it to the queen. As the queen loves bamboo, choose one with bamboo. .”
"Yes!" The general manager responded immediately: "I will pick it up immediately."
The general manager said to go.
He took off his fancy clothes, took off his ruby head and face, and put on simple clothes.
The body owner’s hair was black and long, so Xi Ning told her, “Just make a simple bun and put on this white jade crested hairpin, and put the rest away.”
Xining finally felt more comfortable. Why does Mao wear so many clothes, just to show that he is rich? But she didn't know that she was the empress. Even if she was wearing ordinary clothes, everyone in the palace knew that she was rich. Just like the twelve items weighing more than ten kilograms or even twenty kilograms, the layers of gorgeous clothes turned out to be clothes racks and exhausted me half to death.
The chief steward came over excitedly, holding three inkstones on the plate, all carved from bamboo.
Xining thought about the furnishings on the queen's desk, and finally selected bamboo with a pattern similar to that of the brush wash, and asked the chief steward to deliver it in person. He also named him, either as a gift or as a gift. There was no need to kneel down to express gratitude. She wouldn’t be able to see it anyway, and if she saw it, she wouldn’t have any more meat.
The chief steward then left with a smile.
After eating, take a rest. Tell the palace maid to call her when the chief steward comes back.
The chief steward came back about three quarters of an hour later and said that the queen was so moved that she knelt down even though she was not allowed to do so.
"That's good." Xining said meaningfully: "There are many people in the palace who take advantage of the high and take advantage of the low. Even if you are the queen, if you are said to be an abandoned queen, you will see the excitement."
When the chief steward heard this, he immediately said: "You shouldn't dare to do this. After all, you are the queen and your majesty's true husband!"
Xining smiled: "Oh, really? Then my concubines, do you usually greet your queen?"
The chief steward rolled his eyes and said, "I heard that I didn't. It's because the Queen feels that there will be too many people to disturb her, so she doesn't need to pay her respects."
"You won't go even if you call me, but you will lose your face!" Xining said emphatically: "By neglecting the queen, you are actually slapping me in the face. I will have time to find out in the future and deal with them one by one."< br>
The Chief Manager didn't dare to say anything more. As the saying goes, a king's kindness is unpredictable, especially the empress. In the past few days, she didn't know whether it was because she had a new idea or something. Sometimes she would speak in a roundabout way, and sometimes she would think of something venomous when speaking.
But it won’t take long for these words to spread. Even if the news hadn't spread, the empress was eating together and being rewarded. Anyone with some brains would know how to do it.
Xining glanced at the chief manager, who lowered his head and did not dare to speak. It was funny in her heart, but in fact she just wanted to let everyone know that the queen is not abandoned by me, I still love her.
In the next period of time, the queen's place will inevitably become lively. It's time to ask the queen to help solve the problem that these male concubines are too idle.
Thinking of this, Xining asked: "How many male concubines do I have now?"
The chief steward immediately took out a book from his arms.
Khan, carry a small notebook with you. Also, a good memory is not as good as a bad writing. After all, there are only a few people who have a photographic memory.
The chief steward looked at the book: "Your Majesty, you currently have one concubine, eleven concubines, and twenty-eight concubines. A total of forty!"
ah? Xining almost rolled off the beauty's bed. Why are there so many? That’s right.
I couldn't help but mutter: "Why are there so many? When did you receive them?"
Even if it's one per day, excluding the inconvenient days, it would take two months to go through it once.
The chief manager smiled and said: "Not many, only forty, how can it be considered too many! There are eighty-one emperors, and half of them have not arrived yet."
Dizzy, still eighty-one. This will take four months to complete!
She also said that she would go and check them out one by one when she had time... She felt a little headache.
The chief steward observed the situation and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, twenty of the concubines are dancers and eight are singers. They usually dance, sing, and sleep. Those eleven concubines have all been canonized."
This is much better, but even the king and queen are together, there are twelve, which is a lot!
I really don’t know how the father will tell the difference when the empress gives birth to a child.
But it doesn't matter, the empress and the concubine were both selected from the sons of important ministers. Of course, the children born to the empress are all direct descendants.
(End of chapter)