Chapter 53 The Queen's Means

After Prime Minister Xia and Mrs. Linglong left Shou'an Palace, Nanny Yang chased after them.

"Ma'am, the Empress invites you to have a cup of tea in Jingning Palace."

Jingning Palace is the palace where the Queen lives, Madam Linglong naturally knows it.

Prime Minister Xia looked at Nanny Yang warily, "What did the empress do?"

Nanny Yang smiled and said, "It's nothing, just drink a cup of tea and chat."

Prime Minister Xia thought for a while, "Then, the prime minister will also go together."

Nanny Yang bowed, "Master Xiang, let's go back first, the Empress and Madam are talking about women's affairs, Master Xiang should not be present."

Mrs. Linglong knew that the queen left her alone, and it was absolutely impossible to just chat. She remembered that she had said nothing in the empress dowager's palace just now. Would the queen want to blame herself?

But the empress dowager didn't even question her, so what can the empress say?

She grabbed Prime Minister Xia's sleeve and said worriedly: "Master, this concubine cannot go to Jingning Palace alone, or you can let Concubine Mei go with me."

Prime Minister Xia said: "Okay, you go with the nanny first, and look for Concubine Mei for the truth."

Nanny Yang laughed, but her eyes were stern, "Master Xiang, please don't bother Concubine Mei."

Prime Minister Xia smiled back, "Women are afraid of things, and it is always a good thing to have relatives to accompany them."

Nanny Yang said indifferently: "Then go with Xiangye, but the name of relatives can't help reminding the servants that Miss Xia and Xiangye are also relatives."

Mrs. Linglong really had enough today. In the Empress Dowager's Shou'an Palace, the Prince Regent targeted her everywhere. Even a slave beside the Empress Dowager dared to scold her. Now the Empress's mother, Yang Nai, repeatedly spoke out to provoke her. Where did you learn in Fuchu in the past?

She looked at Nanny Yang, and said coldly: "The Empress Dowager only cares about the family affairs of the Prime Minister's mansion. You are a slave, how dare you talk about the minister's family affairs? How many heads can you lose?"

Mother Yang smiled instead of anger, "The slave's head is here, if Madam wants to take it, just take it."

Mrs. Linglong said angrily: "How dare you despise me like this? I am also the prime minister's wife after all."

Prime Minister Xia looked at Mrs. Linglong's ferocious face, and the disgust in his heart rose again. In fact, he didn't think he found a superficial woman before. When he met her, she was very talented and her paintings were special. Well, later he said that because he was afraid of Yuan's jealousy, he swore to close his pen and stop painting. He only thought she was generous and gave up a lot for him.

Therefore, even though her performance did not satisfy him in the later life, since she gave birth to a pair of children for him and gave up her own interest in painting, he felt that it was understandable and bearable.

However, today the Empress Dowager said that compared with Yuan Shi, Yuan Shi was a hundred times better than her, and he couldn't stand it all at once.

Men are like this, he doesn't think it's a problem, but when others talk about it, especially when someone with a higher status than him talks about it, something strange starts to appear in his heart.

"Okay, Mrs. Prime Minister, please!" Nanny Yang said sarcastically.

Mrs. Linglong stubbornly said: "No, I won't go. If the Empress Empress has anything to do, she can order someone to come to the mansion to announce the decree."

Prime Minister Xia pulled Mrs. Linglong away, and warned in a low voice, "You must not offend the queen again today, otherwise, Wan'er will never want to marry the prince."

Mrs. Linglong didn't expect to go up to this floor for a while, and she was a little panicked when she heard Prime Minister Xia's words, "Then what should I do?"

Prime Minister Xia thought for a while, "Today, you must be wronged, go ahead, forgive me, the queen won't do anything to you, I'll go find Empress Mei Fei right away, and ask her to go over and watch, there is Mei Concubine With your empress here, the empress should have some scruples."

"But..." Mrs. Linglong panicked, but after thinking about it, she felt that there was nothing to panic about. Since the Empress Dowager just said that she would not pursue the matter of regretting the marriage, the Empress can't make things difficult for her.

Asking her to go is at most a reprimand, and she just accepts it.

"Okay then, I'll just go as a concubine." Mrs. Linglong said.

She turned around, looked at Nanny Yang, and said domineeringly: "Let's go, lead the way."

Nanny Yang bowed and said ironically, "Madam Xiangye please."

Prime Minister Xia was extremely annoyed, but he couldn't make trouble, so he walked away coldly.

After Prime Minister Xia left, Nanny Yang stood still and looked at Mrs. Linglong, "The queen has an order. In order to pray for the queen mother during the month of Avalokitesvara's birthday, all female relatives who enter the palace must kneel three times and kowtow nine times. Tranquility Palace."

Mrs. Linglong went mad with anger when she heard this, "Why do you have to kneel and kowtow to the Jingning Palace three times to pray for blessings? This is clearly making things difficult for others."

Nanny Yang said indifferently: "It's not aimed at Madam. That day when the young lady entered the palace, she also knelt and kowtowed three times to the Jingning Palace, and she knelt all the way in from the palace gate. Madam must know about this matter. Eldest lady has to enter the palace like this, as a concubine, do you have the privilege?"

Nanny Yang specially emphasized the word "madame" to show her irony.

"You..." Madam Linglong was so angry that her face turned blue, but she was unwilling to kneel anyway, she clenched her fists and said, "I won't kneel unless the queen personally orders it."

Yang Nanny said: "The servant is giving the order on behalf of the empress. This is the empress's intention. If the lady is not willing, does it mean that she does not want to pray for the empress dowager? If so, the servant will go back to the empress dowager first."

How dare Mrs. Linglong let her say this to the Queen Mother? He gritted his teeth and knelt down, "Okay, if I pray for the Empress Dowager, I am willing."

These three kneelings and nine kowtowings, Madam Yang carried out consistently, asking Mrs. Linglong according to the standard of kneeling and kowtowing in the palace that day.

Madam Linglong was so angry that she almost shed tears, she had never been wronged like this before.

The queen had already returned to the Jingning Palace first. When she returned to the palace, she watched Mrs. Linglong knelt down and entered from a distance.

Standing in front of the corridor, she looked at Mrs. Linglong coldly, and asked Zian next to her, "Do you know why I did this?"

Zian's gaze was directed in the same direction as hers, but she felt that it was meaningless for the queen to do so. After treating her in the palace, she was still vicious when she returned home.

"I know, the empress is standing up for the minister's daughter." Zi'an said.

The queen shook her head slowly, "No, with her temperament, it's useless for me to stand up for you here. I want your father to see that your mother is far superior to her."

"My daughter doesn't understand." Zi'an was a little puzzled.

There was a cold gleam in the Queen's eyes, "To govern people is to govern the heart."

Zi'an still didn't understand, and looked at the queen suspiciously.

The queen turned her head and asked her, "Do you know the story between your father and Chen Linglong?"

Zi'an said, "I'm not sure, but I heard that I admire Chen Linglong's talent."

The queen sneered, "What talent does Chen Linglong have? You have been in the mansion for many years, have you seen it? Your father was attracted by a painting back then. That painting was not drawn by Chen Linglong, but by your mother."

Zian groaned, she was really shocked, she really didn't know about this.