Seventh Master, Madam didn't go back to the mansion today.

In the Empress Dowager Yaohua Palace, the sound of weeping and mourning filled the entire palace, and the Empress Dowager pinched her brows in annoyance.

"Queen Mother, you must decide for your concubine! You have persuaded the emperor, but he still doesn't want to stay in my palace. Since the concubine Zhen was released, the emperor has been with her every day, and he doesn't treat the concubine at all. Put it in your eyes." The queen lay at the feet of the queen mother, crying with tears.

The Queen Mother was getting impatient. In fact, she had always known in her heart that this queen was not good-looking, but for the sake of family glory, the queen could only be her!

"You have to fight for your own favor! Aijia can only help and persuade, crying and howling at every turn. If it were Aijia, I would hate you so much!!"

The empress wiped away her tears, pouted her mouth and suppressed her crying: "The concubine knows it's wrong. Empress Dowager, the emperor is over thirty years old and has no heir under his knees. Are you not in a hurry, Empress Dowager?"

"The Ai family knows. It's not that you don't live up to it!" The queen mother sighed and rolled her eyes.Even if I locked the emperor in her dormitory, I still can't do anything. If there is no woman of the right age in the clan, how could I choose her to be the queen.

"You step back first, the Ai family will take care of this matter." The queen mother sighed a long time, and waved the queen away.

The queen finally closed her mouth knowingly, and knelt silently.The queen mother immediately sent Dechun to find the emperor and concubine Zhen. Concubine Zhen had not recovered from her illness, so she dragged her sick body to obey.His pale face and thin body seemed to be blown away by the wind at any moment.

"Aijia asked you to come and retreat, do you know something?" The queen mother stared at Zhenfei and said without hesitation.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, the queen mother looked at the emperor and asked, "Emperor, what did Aijia tell you that day?"

Emperor Qizhen lowered his head and stood aside, not daring to speak.

"The Ai family said at the beginning that it was okay to let Concubine Zhen go, but the emperor had to have a son with the queen as soon as possible. The emperor was not in the queen's palace every night these days, and he ignored the orders of the Ai family. The emperor wanted to let Concubine Zhen come back again. Are you going to Beiyuan?"

"Mother! My son knows his mistake." The emperor knelt down and begged.

"The reason why the emperor is like this is because the concubine Zhen is not good at persuasion. From now on, concubine Zhen is ordered to come to the Aijia Palace every day to punish and copy the scriptures. Without the permission of the Aijia, the emperor is not allowed to see the concubine Zhen privately until the emperor and the empress are born." Until the next prince." The Empress Dowager slapped the table heavily with her palm, and the Buddhist beads were shaking violently at her fingertips, just like the life of Concubine Zhen who was on the verge of falling.

After receiving the Queen Mother's order, the emperor sat in the imperial study all morning, staring blankly at the book on the table without reading a single word.

Concubine Zhen is the only person in the palace who can speak his mind. The queen mother wants to separate them, and the emperor's heart is ashamed.But he also knew in his heart that if he still forcibly disobeyed the Queen Mother, Concubine Zhen could only die.

At this time, the eunuch outside the door came to report Qi Yutao's greetings when he entered the palace.Seeing that he suddenly had hope, the emperor pulled Qi Yutao onto the dragon chair and sat with him.

"Hey! Your Majesty! No way!"

The emperor pressed him down again: "Sit down, sit down! I'm about to die of aggrieved, I want to talk to you."

Qi Yutao moved his butt, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

"Today the Empress Dowager punished Concubine Zhen and completely forbade me to meet her. Only after I and the Empress gave birth to a prince can I see her."

"You don't know, for decades, the queen has been against Concubine Zhen everywhere. Concubine Zhen loves to take pictures, but the queen refuses to allow it. I will send a pearl vest to Concubine Zhen, and the queen will go to the queen mother to complain. Concubine Zhen loves to dress up like a kid. The queen even caught her and scolded her endlessly, and she would cry and make trouble when I said a few words to the queen, and my head is getting bigger!" The emperor sighed with his head down.

The emperor looked up at his younger brother, eyes full of envy: "I really envy you, you don't have a wife and you are light."

"Why should the emperor be envious? When my younger brother and that Jiang family get married, I'm afraid they will have to live like this..." Qi Yutao replied with a sigh.

The emperor grabbed his arms and asked: "What should I do? The queen mother forced me to have a prince with the queen, but I really treat the queen..."

"Oh, it really doesn't work. Your Majesty, you can just make up for it. Anyway, you can't see anything at night, they all look the same!" Qi Yutao persuaded.

The emperor rolled his eyes at him: "What kind of bad idea are you talking about?! If it were you, would you be able to let it go? I'll bring Mrs. Jiang to your room tomorrow and try it!"

"No, no, I know I'm wrong." Qi Yutao hastily waved his hands and refused.

The two brothers just sat opposite each other, thinking about their future life, and said "hey" loudly at the same frequency.

Because the empress dowager's ingenious birthday banquet won praises from envoys from various countries, countless reporters rushed to interview and report.But the empress dowager and the emperor were inconvenient to come forward, so the empress dowager entrusted this task to the fourth master Qi Yuze. Mingqing and the princess secretly supervised all the reporters' reports to see if there were any scribbles.

Qi Yuze has always been in charge of the head office of the Ministry of Rites, and his temperament is smooth and well-mannered, so he is especially handy when dealing with envoys or foreign affairs.Qi Yuze immediately held an afternoon tea party to receive envoys and reporters from various countries.

Officials from the Ministry of Rites sent Li Ruyu over to assist.Li Ruyu was afraid that he would not be able to do it alone, so he brought Qiao Tongzhi with him.Qiao Tongzhi's father has a high official position, and he has a good relationship with the adults in the court. Basically, Qiao Tongzhi will contact the adults in such a situation.

On the day of the tea party, Qing and the princess wore beautiful foreign dresses, held a small parasol, and walked among the crowd with the hem of the skirts.A Chinese woman can wear a foreigner's skirt with such temperament, and disregards the traditional feudal vision. Wearing this kind of skirt with bare shoulders has attracted the exclamation of envoys from all over the world.

An envoy from Amerinca came over and extended his hand politely: "This beautiful lady, may I invite you to dance a ballroom dance together?"

Qing and the princess smiled: "Yes."

Under the hall, the two danced beautifully with their skirts spinning to the soft tune.The elegant melody coupled with the dance steps of the two of them made everyone present mesmerized.

At this moment, Li Ruyu happened to bring Qiao Tongzhi along.

"Second brother Qiao, have you contacted all the officials above the third rank? The queen mother asked these officials above the third rank to come forward and accept interviews on behalf of Daning."

"It's been arranged, don't worry."

Qiao Tongzhi walked into the hall and saw a dignified and generous Daning woman dancing with foreigners. Her confident dance steps were as bright as stars in the sky. She was the focus of today's banquet and attracted everyone's attention. .

"Wow, this woman, Brother Qiao, look, she is actually wearing a foreigner's skirt!"

"Second brother Qiao??" Li Ruyu waved his hand in front of him, but found that he was watching intently.

Li Ruyu patted his chest and joked: "Second brother Qiao, you have never been interested in beauty, why are you also sexually addicted now?"

"Ah? Oh, I just think this woman looks so familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere before." Qiao Tongzhi regained his composure, knowing that he had been rude just now, and pretended to be calm, and said in a concealed manner.

"Have you seen it in your dream? Is this the lover of your dreams?" Li Ruyu smirked.

"Go, think everyone is like you." Qiao Tongzhi rolled his eyes and turned away.

"Hey! What's wrong with me? I'm very specific! I only like my little sister Nangong."

"But people don't like you!"

Qiao Tongzhi walked ahead gracefully, ignoring Li Ruyu who was behind him in a panic.

During the banquet break, Li Ruyu and Qiao Tongzhi were interviewed in the Flower Hall.

"Excuse me, is your emperor in power now?" The reporter's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's, and the interview questions were not polite.

"Uh, our emperor..." Li Ruyu was thinking about how to answer this question, when he suddenly passed the reporter and saw a lively figure behind him, looking for him in the crowd.

Li Ruyu was taken aback and quickly pulled Qiao Tongzhi to hide behind him.

"Excuse me, what kind of image does your empress dowager have in your heart?" The reporter then asked.

"This girl is really annoying! How did you find her here..." Li Ruyu was thinking about something in her heart, and she didn't listen to the reporter's question seriously, and murmured to herself.

The reporter next to him nodded in understanding, and made a note: This woman is really annoying.

"Master Li, so you are here!!" The Japanese princess saw him and was about to run over to find him.

"Oh my god."

Li Ruyu was startled, and ran away.The photographer next to the reporter snapped the shutter, leaving behind an indistinct shadow of Li Ruyu.

......

The first round of newspapers came out soon. The Empress Dowager read the newspapers with reading glasses, and smiled with satisfaction at the foreign journalists' praise of Daning Kingdom.

Suddenly, I saw a few strange photos in the following photos of Daning country style: one is a somewhat vague woman grabbing Li Ruyu's ear; the second is two people chasing shadows running around in a daze; Li Ruyu jumped up and down like a monkey.

The foreign reporter also wrote in the back: Daning country's interesting lover.