The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 271 Ai's Jiaojiao (two more in one)

"Who is it? How dare you stop the Queen Mother Feng Jia! Don't get out of the way!"

The father-in-law who was serving by the queen mother's side, surnamed Qin, looked at Gu Jiao and said sharply.

Gu Jiao's dress does not look like a noble person in the palace, but it is not a palace maid, her clothes are not luxurious, and her temperament is very cold.

Gu Jiao didn't dodge, she looked at the golden phoenix swaying about ten paces away in front of her, the huge golden phoenix embroidery shone brightly in the light, dazzling.

Behind the long gauze curtain, a few figures could be vaguely seen. The figure in the center was dressed in a black embroidered golden phoenix robe and sat upright, with an imposing manner, familiar and unfamiliar.

"Auntie!"

Xiao Jingkong finally pulled himself out of the ground. He resisted the small pain in his body and jumped towards the Queen Mother's Fengxuan.

He jumped from the back of Fengzhao to the front of Fengzhao, and suddenly saw Gu Jiao who was in the middle of the path, he murmured, "Jiaojiao?"

Jiaojiao?

Empress Dowager Zhuang was slightly shocked.

Xiao Jingkong was covered in mud and grass clippings, jumped over, and dropped grass clippings while jumping back, said very solemnly: "Jiaojiao, I didn't run around!"

Gu Jiao came back to her senses, yes, you didn't run, you just jumped and jumped.

Gu Jiao raised her hand to remove the grass clippings on the little guy's head and body, and took out the handkerchief to wipe the dirt on his face.

Eunuch Qin originally planned to pull the two ignorant people away, but when he turned around, he saw Empress Dowager Zhuang's expression through the gap of the gauze curtain without any displeasure.

Not only that, but the queen mother can also see some ecstasy.

Empress Dowager Zhuang doesn't like children. This is something that all the six palaces know. Even the two daughters of King Ning rarely come to Empress Dowager Zhuang, but now Empress Dowager Zhuang is looking at the little girl and the dirty little girl. Bald, not at all bored.

I can't even take my eyes off.

An inexplicable emotion suddenly rose in her heart, and she herself didn't know what was going on.

Zhuang Yuexi sat beside the Queen Mother, looking at the Queen Mother's face, a trace of tension flashed across her eyes.

Gu Jiao was almost done wiping, Xiao Jingkong tilted her little head, looked at Fengzhao who was aloof, thought about it, and called, "Auntie?"

Eunuch Qin changed his expression, strode forward and said, "Bold! Who is your aunt!"

Xiao Jingkong waved his hand and said seriously, "She is!"

Eunuch Qin's temple jumped: "That's the Queen Mother!"

"It's Auntie.

Xiao Jingkong looked at Feng Huo and asked inexplicably, "Auntie, why are you here to be the Queen Mother?" Are you not going back with us? "

Empress Dowager Zhuang was suddenly stopped.

She didn't know the child, but why would it be difficult for her to answer the child's words?

Also, that strange emotion intensified.

She is the queen mother, but looking at these two children, her heart suddenly became a little chaotic.

She opened the curtain, trying to take a closer look at them.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Something big has happened!" Eunuch Wei hurriedly entered the Huaqing Palace.

The emperor glanced at him: "What's the hurry?"

Eunuch Wei sighed: "Girl Gu and her brother were stopped by the Queen Mother!"

"What?" The emperor stood up and walked out in stride.

"Mother!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang had just opened the curtain when the emperor arrived panting, he stood in front of Gu Jiao and Xiao Jingkong, and said breathlessly to Empress Dowager Zhuang, "These two are the guests of Zhen Xuan entering the palace. , If there is a place to collide with the mother's queen, I will also look to the mother's queen, Haihan."

When she heard that it was the emperor's person, Empress Dowager Zhuang lost her interest in watching it.

Her eyes turned cold, she lowered the curtain, and said indifferently, "Since he belongs to the emperor, the emperor will take him away."

She didn't intend to punish the two of them, but who would believe it? In everyone's eyes, she is the ruthless, unscrupulous, and ruthless demon queen who ruins the country.

Empress Dowager Zhuang did not explain.

"Empress my mother," said the emperor.

"Place drive." Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly.

Feng Zhuo walked slowly beside Gu Jiao and Xiao Jingkong.

But just as they passed by, Empress Dowager Zhuang couldn't help lifting the gauze curtain and saw the thin and immature face in the sunlight, with delicate eyebrows and eyes, skin like porcelain, and a red birthmark on her left face. .

The girl obviously had no expression, and her face was cold.

However, I don't know if it was Empress Dowager Zhuang's illusion, but she always felt a little wronged in her heart.

What is she wronged? She hasn't been cured of her sins yet.

Empress Dowager Zhuang lowered the curtain.

The whole afternoon that followed, the girl's face and the grievance that made her worry about her mind lingered in her mind.

The relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was tense. He had long been worried that Gu Jiao would be implicated because of this, so he was very cautious, but unexpectedly, he let the empress dowager Zhuang run into him.

To be cautious, he asked Eunuch Wei to personally send people out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, Gu Jiao and Xiao Jingkong got into the carriage back.

Xiao Jingkong felt a little depressed: "Jiaojiao, does my aunt not want us?"

Gu Jiao touched his little bald head.

She doesn't know either.

But my aunt seemed to really ignore them.

Xiao Jingkong climbed onto Gu Jiao's leg and threw herself into Gu Jiao's arms to find comfort.

Gu Jiao hugged and stroked his little back, Xiao Jingkong fell asleep sadly and aggrieved.

The driver is the third son.

He waved the whip and the carriage started to drive, but just a few steps away, he was stopped by a familiar voice.

"Wait!"

It's Zhuang Yuexi.

She caught up and stopped Gu Jiao's carriage, forcing the third son to tighten the reins to stop the carriage.

The third son thought the girl was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.

Zhuang Yuexi ignored him, she walked to the car window and said to Gu Jiao, "Miss Gu, if my aunt has something to say, let me tell you."

Aunt, she had never called her like that in front of the Queen Mother, but she called out in front of Gu Jiao affectionately and affectionately.

Gu Jiao gently opened the curtain.

Zhuang Yuexi's eyelashes trembled, and she looked at Gu Jiao coldly and said, "Auntie hopes that what happened today will not happen again, you don't come to the palace to look for her in the future, she is the queen mother, and all the previous things were originally expedient, You don't have to think about it that you shouldn't have."

Gu Jiao looked straight at Zhuang Yuexi.

Zhuang Yuexi's scalp was numb from the straightforward and sharp eyes, but she didn't show it on her face. She took a purse from her wide sleeve and threw it to Gu Jiao, "This is still a problem. Give you!"

This is the purse that Gu Jiao embroidered for her aunt herself. Her stitches are not very good-looking, but they are very durable.

On the day my aunt left, she didn't take anything from Bishui Hutong, only simple clothes and this small purse that never left her.

This was Gu Jiao's only thought when she stayed with her aunt.

Now, the aunt has it back.

Gu Jiao stroked the folds on the purse, and silently lowered the curtain without saying anything.

Seeing Gu Jiao's appearance of being abandoned, Zhuang Yuexi's heart was filled with unspeakable joy, and there are people who block her in the alley and threaten that she will not be able to pay the price.

The brother is hers, and so is the aunt!

Zhuang Yuexi returned to Renshou Palace.

Empress Dowager Zhuang is sorting out her set of coarse clothes. She is already an empress dowager. This kind of folk clothes should not be on the table and should have been thrown away.

But she didn't throw it away, she brought it back to the palace and kept it in a box.

Today, she turned her clothes over and spread them out on the large and luxurious bed, tossing and digging in her pockets, as if she was looking for something.

The little palace maid asked, "The Queen Mother, what are you looking for?"

"Ai's family is looking for..." Empress Dowager Zhuang was stunned.

Yeah, what is she looking for?

Do you feel like something important is missing?

But what?

Zhuang Yuexi walked into the house with flickering eyes: "The Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Zhuang asked, "Did you see anything else when you brought your clothes?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang stayed at the banker's house for one night, and the clothes were washed by the banker's servants and sent by Zhuang Yuexi himself.

Zhuang Yuexi lowered her eyes: "No, only this set of clothes."

This night, Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't sleep very well. As soon as she closed her eyes, it was the little girl's aggrieved eyes. She tossed and turned in the middle of the night, and finally fell asleep, but she dreamed of the little monk again.

The little monk asked her tearfully, "Auntie, why are you here to be the queen mother? Are you not going back with us?"

Won't you go back with us?

You are our aunt...

Early the next day, through the thick beaded curtain, the courtiers felt the aura of Empress Dowager Zhuang, don't mess with the old lady or punish your whole family.

After the court disbanded, Empress Dowager Zhuang called Mrs. Zhuang aside.

In the corridor outside the side hall, Mrs. Zhuang gave a salute to Empress Dowager Zhuang: "The Empress Dowager."

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "Aijia has something to ask you."

Mrs. Zhuang: "The Queen Mother, please speak."

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "Who was Aijia with during the more than a year when Aijia disappeared?"

Mrs. Zhuang was surprised: "Why did the empress dowager suddenly ask this?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently: "You only need to answer Aijia's words."

"Yes." Mrs. Zhuang cupped her hands and said, "After the Queen Mother escaped from Leper Mountain, she became a homeless person and went to a small village. Her Majesty's people found her and temporarily put the Queen Mother under house arrest."

Empress Dowager Zhuang said impatiently, "Aijia is asking, who are they?"

Master Zhuang said with a serious expression, "Xiao Liulang, the champion of the new division."

"Xiao, Liu, Lang?" Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned. The name was very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I heard it. However, if I lived in his house, it seemed to make sense.

Mrs. Zhuang continued: "Xiao Liulang is from His Majesty, and has been in touch with His Majesty since he was in the village. After that, he went to Beijing to take the exam. On the surface, it was to take the exam, but in fact it was to hide the public's attention and bring the Empress Dowager into the capital. In the county seat, the whereabouts of the Queen Mother was discovered, and she went to the door to meet the Queen Mother, but unfortunately the Queen Mother did not know Henger at that time, and she injured Henger. Henger was afraid of being a rat, and did not dare to force it, so she had to go back to Beijing to discuss with me Countermeasures. I have to contact my subordinates and force Your Majesty to reopen the Imperial Prison. Since Xiao Liulang wants to enter the capital, he will not leave the Queen Mother in the countryside."

In fact, the situation at the time was far from the case. It was obvious that they were using Xiao Liulang, but Zhuang Taifu combined all the things in retrospect, and felt that Xiao Liulang had planned it.

If Mrs. Zhuang lied and deceived Empress Dowager Zhuang, Empress Dowager Zhuang might have seen the flaw, but he really felt that way.

Empress Dowager Zhuang retracted the gaze that fell on his face: "There are many people in the family, don't people doubt it?"

Mr. Zhuang said: "Xiao Liulang is a poor boy from other places. He claimed that the Queen Mother is his aunt, and there is no relatives in the family who came to defect to him, so no one doubts anything. The Queen Mother suddenly asked them... ...is it because they came to find the Queen Mother?"

What happened in the palace yesterday, Zhuang Yuexi had someone deliver a letter to Mrs. Zhuang. Of course, she didn't say that she went back to find Gu Jiao, but only talked about the chance encounter in the imperial garden.

Mrs. Zhuang said: "They gave the queen mother medicine to make the queen mother lose her memory, and took the opportunity to approach the queen mother and capture the queen mother's heart. The queen mother must not be deceived by them."

That aunt was fake, and they could only use her. This realization made Empress Dowager Zhuang uncomfortable.

But it's weird isn't it?

Shouldn't she have been angry, angered, and ordered to kill their whole family?

But why is there only sadness in my heart?

The weather was fine and the sky was cloudless.

Mr. Gu hadn't been to Bishui Hutong for a few days. Today he was going to supervise the mansion built for the Queen Mother. Passing by Bishui Hutong, he decided to visit Yao Shi.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he met Gu Jiao who came back with Xiao Jingkong in his arms.

Xiao Jingkong fell asleep, lying in Gu Jiao's arms, tears still hanging from her eyelashes.

Gu Jiao's expression was three points colder than before.

Lord Gu has not seen this unfilial daughter for a while, she seems to have grown taller, and her eyebrows are more like Yao Shi.

"Where did you go?" he asked angrily.

Gu Jiao ignored him and stepped into the yard.

Gu Houye gritted his teeth: "I'm talking to you! Didn't you hear me?!"

Gu Jiao looked at him coldly: "You better not mess with me today."

Gu Houye was heartbroken by her cold eyes, and with a shake of his hand, the drawings fell out.

Gu Jiao wasn't interested in his stuff, but she didn't want to see it, and then she stopped.

Gu Houye hurriedly picked up the blueprints, slapped the dust off with his hands, glared at Gu Jiao and said, "What are you looking at? It's not a mansion built for you!"

When the words fell, remembering that he rarely showed himself in front of this stinky girl, he brushed off the drawing again and said to her, "Do you know what this is? It was a mansion built by the Queen Mother's Ministry of Work for Miss Zhuang."

"What is this?" Gu Jiao asked while holding the sleeping Xiao Qingkong with one hand and pointing at a small dot on the drawing with the other hand.

Lord Gu raised his eyebrows and said, "Gujing."

"what about this?"

"Begonia tree, it should be tall, with straw mats tied to the tree, it is said that it is the kind that can hold a child."

"Why have a child?"

"How do I know? Go ask the queen mother if you have the ability!"

It is rare for him to incarnate as Gu Ran, and his tone is arrogant! But after speaking, he subconsciously raised his hand and hugged his head!

In the end, Gu Jiao didn't beat him.

It's... quite surprising.

Gu Jiao continued to ask curiously, "What is this?"

Today is probably the longest conversation between the father and daughter since they met. After saying so many words, this girl hadn't even started to beat him!

Is this girl finally becoming filial? Life is so good!

"This is the bamboo, this is the dog house, this is the chicken coop, here is the bird cage, here is the vegetable field, here is the East House, here is the West House..."

Grandpa Gu said with a bright face, but while talking, he noticed something was wrong.

He looked at the drawings, and then looked at the yard in front of him.

What are you doing?

Isn't this the house?

Gu Jiao also saw it.

She took out the purse in her arms and looked at it carefully for a long time.

I don't want you anymore. She has to listen to her aunt say these words.

The next day, Gu Jiao took the opportunity to return to the emperor to visit the palace again. This time, it was her turn to play missing. She went to Gongfang, and people disappeared.

There are guards in the palace, but it is not too difficult for her to escape.

She came to the imperial garden.

Maybe the weather is good, maybe because the Queen Mother Zhuang doesn't want to stay in Renshou Palace, in short, she often sits alone in the garden lately in a daze.

When Gu Jiao came over, she was staring at a potted plant of Xifu Begonia.

"Who is it?" Eunuch Qin saw the shadow on the ground at a glance, looked back at Gu Jiao, and said vigilantly, "It's you again!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang also turned her head when she heard the words.

Seeing Gu Jiao's first glance, Empress Dowager Zhuang's mood actually jumped, but the next second, when she thought of something, her heart cooled down again.

"What are you doing here?" Empress Dowager Zhuang asked in a deep voice.

Gu Jiao said, "I'm here to find my aunt."

Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently: "There is no aunt of yours here."

"Yes." Gu Jiao said with a slight grievance.

Empress Dowager Zhuang's heart suddenly twitched, she squeezed her fingers and said coldly: "Don't play this kind of trick with Ai's family, you were not born when Ai's family made a bloody path in the harem, these are all Ai's family. Play the rest! Is it true that the Aijia will take you in!"

Gu Jiao did not rush to refute, but stretched out her hand and spread her fingers, revealing the wallet in her palm.

Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't know what she had lost at first, but when she saw this purse, she instantly knew that what she had been looking for was it.

Empress Dowager Zhuang's eyes became even colder: "How can Aijia's things be in your hands?"

Gu Jiao lowered her eyes and said very aggrieved and obediently, "Someone gave it to me, said you gave it back to me, and said you don't want me anymore."

How could Aijia not want you? You are the Jiaojiao of Aijia...

Empress Dowager Zhuang suddenly flashed these words in her mind——