When the Empress Dowager saw that the Emperor was protecting a concubine, she felt angry in her heart.

Just as he was about to get angry, Meng Guqing said:

"Aunt, I'm so hungry that I'm dizzy. How about we eat first?"

"Okay, okay."

Everyone sat down in their seats, while the concubine stood beside the emperor, serving the emperor's meal.

Meng Guqing couldn't stand it, but for now he should fill his stomach first.

She originally thought she was very hungry and should be able to eat, but when she drank a bowl of mutton soup, she put down her bowl and chopsticks.

"Queen, is it not to your liking?"

Meng Guqing thought of the Man-Han banquet and said, "Aunt, have you ever eaten Han food?"

"You want to eat?"

Meng Guqing nodded.

"I heard that there are many types of Han cuisine, including Southern cuisine, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, and Guangdong cuisine. Northern cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huang'e Niang, do you want to try it?"

The emperor frowned.

"In the Queen's heart, besides extravagance and extravagance, is there anything else she can think of?"

Meng Guqing ignored him directly, but continued: "The banquets held in our palace are all hot pots with stewed meat, pork, beef and mutton, etc., which have no special characteristics. If other countries come to worship, think about it.

Let’s organize a Manchu-Han banquet, with hundreds of dishes on the table, which will make foreigners’ jaws drop and they won’t dare to make mistakes.”

The Queen Mother glanced at the Emperor.

"In addition to surprising foreigners, we also have clear standards ourselves, such as hosting banquets for ministers, longevity festivals, pro-vassal banquets, pro-Mongolian banquets, wedding banquets, etc."

The Queen Mother felt that this matter could be done. She glanced at the Emperor and saw that the Emperor frowned, and then asked the Queen: "Where did the Queen see these?"

"Auntie, when I was sleeping in the Buddhist hall last night, I dreamed of dragon boat mandarin fish, slippery shellfish, braised quail in soy sauce, beef tenderloin in oyster sauce, duck feet in Sichuan sauce, etc. But before I even took a bite, I woke up from the cold."

hehe

The Queen Mother laughed after hearing this, and even the concubine next to her couldn't help but pout.

It's just that the emperor frowned when he looked at the serious empress. The whole table of men and women in the front was empty, and the focus was in the back.

She was wronged and hungry.

"I have a music box in my hand, which was given to me by Tang Ruowang. I will go back and ask Wu Liangfu to take it to the queen to play with."

Huh, that crappy music box thing, do you think I’m a curiosity?

Meng Guqing did not answer the emperor's words, but stood up and said: "Aunt, I am tired and want to go back to Kunning Palace."

"Queen, I will ask the Emperor to deliver the music box to you in person later."

Meng Guqing shook his head.

"Aunt, it's not like you don't know that I don't like music. Give that thing to someone who knows how to appreciate it."

With that said, he resigned.

After the queen left, the queen mother said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you have hurt the queen."

Seeing that the emperor remained silent, the empress dowager drove the emperor away and said, "Your Majesty, please kneel down."

The emperor returned to Qianqing Palace to help the world and seek an audience.

"Xuan."

It was a matter of government affairs, so the emperor put aside his emotions.

Ji Shi stepped forward and then presented the "Essays on Grain Planting" that he had compiled in the past few days. The emperor is still the emperor after all. He has studied history books since he was a child and determined to become a good emperor.

Diligence is there, but power is lacking. Now that Dorgon has died, the emperor has great power and can do some things.

"Master Ji, did you sort out these things yourself?"

"Your Majesty, I listened to the Queen's video on demand that day. When I got back, I read the classics and looked for old farmers to ask questions. Facts have proved that the Queen has the talent of Wang Zhen in climbing high and looking far into the distance. Her statement of three thousand grains of millet per plant is true.

I also listened to the Queen’s words and wanted to increase the production of millet.”

"Mr. Ji, the Queen is just lying. She doesn't know a few Chinese characters. How can you believe it?"

Mr. Ji shook his head.

"Is your Majesty convinced that the Queen is illiterate?"

"..."

"Although I have only been teaching for a few days with the Empress, I am neither blind nor stupid. The Empress hides her secrets. Anyone who opens his mouth is Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, and those who shut up the Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty are either familiar with the past and the present, or they are knowledgeable.

A man of great wisdom.”

"..."

After Ji Shi left, the emperor was not calm. Wu Liangfu had tea several times and saw the emperor in a daze.

Hey, the emperor had a quarrel with the queen mother because of the matter between the queen mother and Dorgon, and he also disliked the queen Dorgon had chosen for the emperor, but now?

The emperor has been very knowledgeable since he was a child. He has a lot of problems in his heart. Naturally, he does not want his wife to be an illiterate woman. What she wants is a talented woman who can talk to him about the past and the present.

Now, Mr. Ji's words seem to have slapped the emperor.

"Your Majesty, why do you think she wanted to cover it up?"

"The queen may have her own reasons."

"What difficulties could she have?"

Yes, why does a knowledgeable person keep hiding his knowledge? That can only mean that the man in front of her is not the one she loves.

Is it because of this? She loves someone else, so she has been acting since she entered the palace?

Talking about acting? I have been learning it since I was eight years old.

You must know that between the powerful Dorgon and the eldest brother Hauge who holds military power, if he had not acted, he would have been swallowed up by the two of them long ago.

"Wu Liangfu, let's go to Kunning Palace."

The emperor took the music box and went to Kunning Palace.

late at night

Meng Guqing woke up. After waking up.

He didn't call Angel, but got out of bed on his own, walked to the round table, and poured himself a glass of water.

"Mother, you're awake."

Angel didn't sleep either. When he found his master awake, he went to wait on him.

"Why didn't you sleep?"

"My servant can't sleep." The emperor is still there.

Just as she was about to report back to her master, she heard her master ask curiously: "An Qi'er, do you think it is possible for me to settle down in Jiangnan if I am deposed?"

"Won't the empress return to Mongolia?"

"Why are we going back to Mongolia? Sheep herding? We are both small in stature. I am afraid of being trampled to death by the sheep. It is better to go to Jiangnan. Jiangnan is good. The scenery is familiar to me. When the sun rises, the flowers on the river are redder than the fire, and when spring comes, the river is green.

Lan. Can you not remember Jiangnan?"

"The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling. It is winding with green water and has Zhulou in the distance. It is a good place."

Angel couldn't understand, so she asked:

"Master, if you were deposed, wouldn't you be angry?"

"I was a little angry at first. Why should he be deposed? Even if he was deposed, I was the one who deposed him. If he hadn't been born well and became an emperor, what would be worth remembering? But I took a nap. Actually, thinking about it, he was deposed.

We can leave the palace. The outside world is so beautiful. I don’t want to be like the Empress Dowager, who likes a man and has to look at his son’s face. I really don’t know how he reads the sage book. If I were an aunt, I would have to wait for him.

.”

"Really? I don't know that I am worthless in the queen's heart."

Angel actually had some intentions. She just wanted the emperor to hear that the current master didn't like him at all.

It saves him from being self-righteous.

But Meng Guqing was a little confused, looked at An Qi'er and said: "An Qi'er, am I hallucinating? Why did I hear something I shouldn't have heard in the middle of the night? It's strange, our Kunning Palace, not

It must be haunted too."

"Meng Guqing."

Meng Guqing couldn't help but shudder.
Chapter completed!