Chapter 312 Confrontation
The agarwood melts away, and the fragrance spreads.
The heavy door of the imperial study was pushed open with a creak, and the footsteps of the eunuch chief gradually approached.
The emperor's eyelids moved, and he looked up at him.
The eunuch chief stepped forward, "Your Majesty, the Queen wants to see you."
"Hmm?" After a long time without speaking, the emperor did not make a sound. He cleared his throat and then hummed, with a slightly raised eyebrow, asking.
The eunuch chief said: "I brought soup and some snacks. The Queen said that Your Majesty has been very tired recently because of the grain transport. She cooked it herself."
The emperor sneered with a playful look.
"Why? Without the grain transport, I am not worthy of her personal visit! She is not doing it for the grain transport, but for the Minister of Justice. She really thinks I am dead!"
The eunuch chief stood beside the emperor and lowered his head.
The relationship between the emperor and the queen has always been unfriendly, and he knows the truth better than anyone else.
The emperor was silent for a moment, then his eyes fell on the empress dowager again, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Bring the things in."
Outside the imperial study.
The queen stood there anxiously, wondering what to do if the emperor didn't see her, and saw the chief eunuch coming out.
"His Majesty said, thank you for your hard work, let the imperial kitchen make these things, your Majesty is busy with all the affairs of the harem every day, it's really tiring."
The queen was almost anxious, so she didn't have the heart to waste time with him, so she just smiled politely: "Can I go in?"
The chief eunuch asked a little eunuch on the side to take the food box that the queen personally carried, and slowly opened the food box.
While moving, he said: "Not now, your majesty has been reviewing memorials for an afternoon, and now he is very tired and wants to rest for a while, why don't you change the time."
As he spoke, the chief eunuch suddenly took out a small box with exquisite craftsmanship from his sleeve.
The small box opened, revealing three silver needles embedded in fine velvet.
He pinched out a needle and stabbed it towards the soup in the food box.
The Queen's eyes widened at this moment.
"What are you doing!"
Her voice suddenly rose several degrees in anger and astonishment.
After the eunuch stabbed the soup, he signaled the eunuch to take out the pastries inside, and then said to the Queen with a decent and respectful smile: "Your Majesty also knows that His Majesty's diet has always been a rule."
The Queen's face was dark, and her breath suddenly became heavy, "Are you afraid that I will poison you?"
The eunuch stabbed the silver needle at the snack again, "I dare not, I am just doing my job."
The Queen raised her hand and slapped the eunuch.
"You are so presumptuous! I am the Queen! Who are you humiliating by playing these things in front of me! Who gave you the courage!"
The eunuch's head was slapped by the Queen and he turned to one side. He licked the corner of his mouth as if nothing had happened, and the silver needle stabbed the last piece of snack.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. It is a palace rule that everything your Majesty wants to eat must be inspected. I will serve your Majesty and will not be careless."
After saying that, the eunuch chief put away the silver needle, put away the small box, and took the food box from the young eunuch. "If your Majesty has no other instructions, I will send the food box to your Majesty."
The queen almost made him explode.
The eunuch chief didn't even look at the queen, and turned around with the food box and went into the imperial study.
The moment the door of the imperial study slammed shut, the queen felt like she almost vomited blood.
It's really too much!
She is the queen!
This damn eunuch humiliated her in public like this!
There is really no law!
But she didn't dare to really rush into the imperial study now.
Anger was roaming in her heart, and her chest was aching. The queen pulled the handkerchief in her hand tightly and left.
After leaving the imperial study, she was still trembling with anger.
Imperial study
The eunuch brought the food box in, and the emperor ordered him to light the lamp.
When the candlelight came on, the emperor looked at his face and said, "Why are you doing this?"
The eunuch remained silent.
The emperor sighed, "Want to vent my anger?"
The eunuch still didn't speak.
The emperor smiled unhappily, "You old thing, you are getting more and more childish. If you provoke her like this, she will definitely make things difficult for you. You can't stand her torment."
The eunuch said sullenly, "It's better to torment an old slave than torment Your Majesty."
"Doesn't your face hurt?"
As the emperor was talking, the empress dowager, who was lying on the ground, moved.
The emperor and the eunuch turned their heads to look over.
The hairpin on her head shook, making a crisp sound of hitting the ground, and then the empress dowager sneezed loudly.
The saliva could splash three feet.
As the sneeze fell, the Empress Dowager almost bounced up from the ground.
Her agile movements seemed like she was not an old lady who had lived a life of luxury, but a female general on the battlefield.
After she sat up, her face was filled with shock and confusion, as if it took her a long time to realize where she was.
After she realized it, her face, which had lived a life of luxury, turned completely black.
She was still in the imperial study!
And, on the ground!
From this situation, it seemed that she had been on the ground since she fainted.
Realizing this, the Empress Dowager raised her eyes and looked towards the table.
She saw that the Emperor and the chief eunuch were both staring at her with an expression of watching a play. The Empress Dowager was almost stimulated by this scene and vomited blood for the second time.
She snorted heavily, with a thick layer of shame on her face, and supported herself on the ground with her hands and stood up.
"I really have a good son."
The emperor sat on a wide chair, holding his chin with one hand, looking at the queen mother, "My mother can even fake the imperial edict. I am indeed a good son. The world is shared with my mother."
"So, you are going to take revenge on me like this?" The queen mother looked at the emperor with a motherly look, wishing she could shoot him through.
It's all lighted now.
She has been lying on the ground for five hours!
Five hours!
She is a queen mother!
Not just a humble maid!
The emperor was amused by the queen mother's words, "Revenge? My mother is too suspicious. You are my biological mother. How could I take revenge on you?
I just watched my mother fall asleep, thinking that she had to help the queen to manage the six palaces and help the court officials to deal with private affairs. It was too exhausting and stressful, so I couldn't bear to disturb her.
Am I not considerate enough?"
"You" The anger in the queen mother's heart was like a bundle of firecrackers, which exploded immediately.
She raised her hand and pointed at the emperor.
The relationship between the queen mother and the emperor has been tense over the years.
But they have always been able to save face for each other.
This is the first time.
The queen mother was so angry that she could crack on the spot when she thought that she had been lying on the floor of the imperial study for five hours without anyone paying attention to her.
She opened her mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
The emperor looked at the queen mother and said quietly: "It seems that I have been really filial to my mother over the years. Those who can spit out blood are those who have enough nutrition on weekdays. If they were poor, they would not spit out blood. They are just bitter water."