The Cixin Palace is as empty and deserted as ever. The scattered palace maids are doing their own things. No one dares to speak, which makes the people who come in extremely depressed.
This gloomy feeling made Gu Qingchen very uncomfortable, and it also made him less and less willing to have more contact with the Queen Mother, even though they were the only blood relatives in the world.
The lingering sandalwood filled the noses, and ice was placed in the hall early. The queen mother sat in the main hall to drink tea. There were two palace maids with eyes waiting carefully next to her.
Gu Qingchen curled his lips. It seemed that the Empress Dowager had changed a group of people.
Since the Empress Dowager returned from Fahua Temple, the palace knew that the Empress Dowager seemed to have a bit of a strange temper. The palace maids who served her often changed into another group in three months. Others thought that the Empress Dowager was old and had some quirks, only Gu Qingchen knew that she was worried that her identity would be discovered.
If Qingluan hadn’t been with the Empress Dowager forever, even the emperor would have doubted it.
Although she had a lot of dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother, Gu Qingchen did not want her identity to be exposed, otherwise there would be a bloody storm in the harem, and even implicated some innocent people.
Seeing Gu Qingchen coming, Qingluan had already prepared some refreshments considerately. Gu Qingchen glanced at him and found that they were all the things he loved to eat. Compared to the Empress Dowager, the relative, Qingluan cared more about him.
If Qingluan was not so stupid and loyal, perhaps Gu Qingchen would not let her return to the Empress Dowager and would make her a great help to her. It’s a pity…
“Qingchen, do you know why the Ai family asked you to come here this time?”
Gu Qingchen came back to his senses and met the empress dowager’s scheming eyes, and for a moment he was a little dazed. The person in front of him was so strange that he didn’t even have the interest to speak.
The Empress Dowager Qin back then, Concubine Wan was so gentle and kind, and how cruel and ruthless the Empress Dowager is now. Gu Qingchen felt a little sad. Although they were the same person, they had been carved into different shapes by time.
“Qingchen!”
I was very dissatisfied with Gu Qingchen’s trance. Could it be that this child was thinking about Yanzhi again? The beauty is in trouble, so this woman should be removed as soon as possible.
Gu Qingchen glanced at the murderous aura in the empress dowager’s eyes and couldn’t help but be shocked. Who is this murderous aura to?
When Gu Qingchen completely came to his senses, the Empress Dowager had already returned to her original appearance.
“I am stupid and don’t know the Queen Mother’s thoughts, so I hope the Queen Mother will make it clear.”
“You are not stupid, you have not put your mind on the Ai family. The Ai family asks you, do you know what happened in the palace these days?”
In the face of the Queen Mother’s rebuke, Gu Qingchen was very serious in the face of the Queen Mother’s rebuke.He smiled indifferently, “This minister naturally knows.”
“So what do you think? The emperor is extremely stupid, which is a great opportunity for us to act. What’s more, someone has helped us deal with Gu Jiang, which saves us our troubles. As long as we operate a little bit, it will be easy for you to ascend the throne.”
“Empress Dowager!”
Gu Qingchen frowned, his expression obviously unhappy. Has she forgotten what she said? He never avoided that high position.
The empress dowager’s face was not good either. What was this? She worked hard to pave the way for him, but in the end he didn’t care. Did she really care or was she instigated by Yanzhi?
The empress dowager was gloomy and became more and more confident that her guess was correct. Her precious nephew must have been instigated by Yanzhi. No wonder, if Gu Qingchen had the intention to fight for the throne, wouldn’t her husband have another powerful opponent?
Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager added a little more to the point of not letting such a dangerous person stay by Gu Qingchen’s side.
Gu Qingchen didn’t know the empress dowager’s thoughts, and only thought that she refused her and made her feel unhappy. However, he was really not in the mood to listen to the empress dowager’s continued nagging. An empress dowager who didn’t care about his opinions at all was useless even if he said much.
The two of them talked for a while
Then they parted in disagreement.
On that afternoon, Gu Jiangliu sat upright in the imperial study to review the memorials. The heat was so strong that the cicadas outside the window were chirping, and the eunuchs were catching cicadas everywhere with nets, but in the end they were still dropping into the bucket.
Gu Jiangliu took a sip of tea, and felt that the thin single clothes were still stuffy and unbearable. His heart was even more irritable and anxious. He wanted to get angry when he saw a little unhappy.
He had no intention of reviewing it, and got up and walked to the window. The wind blew in front of him with the heat, making people feel even more suffocating.
“Get some ice in the life of the warehouse. If it is not enough to set ice in such a hot weather, will it be so hot that I will be so hot?!”
Gu Jiangliu was so angry that the eunuchs were so scared that they held their breath and were serving carefully. Ice had already been placed on all sides of the study room, and the huge ice cubes had only melted half. Everyone thought that the study room was probably the coolest place in the whole country, but Gu Jiangliu still felt hot, and the irritability in his heart urged him to sweat in.