Chapter 920 Stop Pretending
However, he was too busy today, so he didn't go to Yonghe Palace immediately.
Instead, after approving some of the important memorials, the servants of the Yonghe Palace came to shout for the second time, and then he put down what he was doing and drove to the Yonghe Palace.
One is because I am really busy.
Second, the queen mother slapped him in the face several times.
Naturally, he wouldn't immediately go over as soon as the other end yelled, that's impossible.
After all, the relationship between people is mutual.
At this moment, Ruoyin was sitting in the main hall of Yonghe Palace with the Queen Mother.
The queen mother doesn't talk much, so she doesn't talk nonsense.
Just sitting there, looking at the nose with the eyes, watching the heart with the nose.
Originally, she was about to eat, but the servants around the Queen Mother invited her to the main hall, saying that the Queen Mother wanted to eat with her.
But this has been sitting for more than half an hour, and the dishes haven't been served yet, and I don't know what kind of mess it is.
Just when Ruoyin was curious, the queen mother whispered to Aunt Cui, "Go over and ask why the emperor hasn't come yet. If he really doesn't want to show his face, the Ai family will eat with the queen first, but you can't do it for the sake of it." He was alone, so hungry that his chest stuck to his back, and Ai's family didn't even eat lunch."
Aunt Cui nodded slightly and was about to go out.
At this moment, the eunuch's voice came from outside: "The emperor is here!"
Come on, people are coming.
Ruoyin was shocked when he heard the voice.
According to the current situation, the Empress Dowager will have dinner with her and the emperor.
But she didn't ask anyone to report to the emperor.
Moreover, she and the emperor are in a cold war.
He wouldn't take the initiative to come here for her.
As for why no one was asked to go to the emperor to apply eye drops.
It is also because she has no confidence and certainty.
Besides, he was cold to her.
She also found someone to bring him a message.
Isn't this asking for trouble.
In case people ignore her at all, it's not as simple as asking for trouble.
Instead, he humiliated himself.
After thinking about it, the only possibility is that the queen mother invited the emperor to have a meal.
However, as far as she knew, the mother-child relationship between the queen mother and the emperor was not so good, right?
Didn't their mother and son also have a lot of trouble?
Before Ruoyin could figure it out, a bright yellow figure appeared at the door.
Without looking closely, Ruoyin stood up and saluted gracefully.
After fourth master entered the room, he glanced at Ruoyin in the room from the corner of his eye, and his eyes paused slightly.
But with just one glance, he withdrew his eyes, and gave the queen mother his usual expression, "Blessings, Queen Mother."
"Get up." Concubine De waved her hands and said calmly: "You came just in time, otherwise the Ai family would almost send someone to your Hall of Mental Cultivation."
After hearing this, Ruoyin understood.
It turns out that this dinner was really invited by the Queen Mother to the Emperor.
"There are so many memorials, I forget the time when I look at them." Fourth master got up, glanced at Ruoyin from the corner of his eye, and then sat down on the grand teacher's chair in the room.
Concubine De raised her chin, and ordered the servant: "Okay, since the emperor is here, let the dining room set the meal."
"Hey." After a young eunuch answered, he went out swiftly.
Not long after, a servant came in with three long desks.
They were placed in front of the fourth master, the queen mother, and Ruoyin respectively.
Immediately afterwards, the servant of the dining room carried the food box and placed the food on the desk in front of the three of them.
Since it was here with the queen mother, the queen mother was in charge, and Ruoyin and fourth master were guests.
Therefore, she could sit at the table and eat without waiting for fourth master to speak.
The royal rules are extremely strict, and during the whole meal, the three words "food is not spoken" are vividly interpreted.
Even if the queen mother held this Hongmen banquet, she had a lot to say, but she kept everything in her heart.
Ruoyin also followed the rule of not talking when eating, and ate in silence the whole time.
Fortunately, today's meal is not bad, basically it suits her taste.
Especially the spicy beef dish is very appetizing.
She ate two small bowls of rice with the beef.
This made the concubine De at the top see it, and the displeasure in her heart dissipated a bit.
After all, there is no shortage of rations in the royal family.
It's something a mother-in-law likes to eat, so it's good for fertility.
If Ruoyin was a gentleman, he wouldn't eat this or that, so the queen mother would think that she was afraid of poisoning her courtyard.
However, the queen mother's eyes glanced at each other between fourth master and Ruoyin.
A pair of experienced eyes that have read countless people sensed that something was wrong.
It is not the first time that the emperor and empress have had meals with her.
In previous years, during festivals, I ate here with her.
Before the meal, the two will also say a few words.
When eating, although they don't speak, they will make some eye contact more or less.
When the situation is good, there are still sparks in the two pairs of eyes.
The Queen Mother also came from a young age.
Sometimes when I saw it, I pretended not to see it.
But today, except when the emperor came in, the empress saluted.
After that, the two never spoke again, let alone making eye contact.
This is too abnormal.
Could it be... is the emperor acting like this to her?
The Empress Dowager, who didn't understand the situation, thought that Fourth Master was deliberately putting on a show in front of her, and her face suddenly sank.
The game was finally set up, don't start it yet, this is the form of losing.
After finishing the meal, the Empress Dowager sat on the head.
Fourth Master and Ruoyin sat face to face and drank tea.
"I heard that the queen's mother is not feeling well, but did you ask the imperial doctor to see her?" Fourth Master asked.
"Look, that's not the case." The Empress Dowager said with a stern face, "As long as the Ai family thinks about Sisi not being able to eat or sleep well in the funeral palace, and being bitten by mosquitoes, it will be all right. "
Fourth master: "Fourteenth brother is doing his filial piety. After Huang Kao is buried in the imperial mausoleum, he will be able to come back. Don't worry about Huang Erniang."
"To put it bluntly, it will take some time until the late emperor is buried in the imperial mausoleum. If the late emperor is not buried until a year or two later, wouldn't the Ai family not see him for a year or two?"
There is no reliable time to move from the funeral palace to the imperial mausoleum for burial.
We have to wait for the arrangement at the imperial mausoleum, and then pick an auspicious day.
For a short period of time, a few months will do.
Longer ones, for several years.
"It's not as serious as Queen Mother thought. A few days ago, someone from the Imperial Mausoleum said that the arrangements are almost the same, and even the date has been fixed. In September this year, Huang Kao will be moved to the Imperial Mausoleum for burial. "
"But it's only June now, so the fourteenth of the Ai family will have to stay in the funeral palace for three months." The queen mother said with a sad face.
Fourth Master: "..."
Next, the Empress Dowager said something more, which was nothing more than talking about the Fourteenth Lord.
Then, as she was talking, she changed the subject and asked indifferently: "By the way, Emperor, Aijia heard that when you were in the hidden residence, you built a secret passage between the front yard and the main courtyard?"
The translation of this sentence is: the emperor, the Ai family knows, you care about the queen, so stop pretending. As long as you put the fourteen back, you can take the queen away.