Chapter 243 The little gentleman in the palace

Chapter 243 The little gentleman in the palace

Champion Hou's son was a toddler under the support of the palace maid, and from time to time simple words popped out of his mouth, making several people around him laugh.

Cui Xiaojun was also one of the audience members, the smile on his face never disappeared, he felt that this little thing was the cutest creature in the world.

A familiar voice said in her ear: "Today's innocence will become noisy and naughty in a short time, and finally it will be an ambitious descendant of the Han family. You watch them grow up, but you don't understand how. How did the change happen."

The six palace maids bowed and stepped back, and the other palace maid picked up the child and stepped aside.

Concubine Cui showed a teasing smile. She also liked this little thing, but she looked farther.

Her arrival ruined the atmosphere in the room, Cui Xiaojun whispered, "Aunt, go to my place."

Cui Xiaojun took the lead out of the house, and Concubine Cui said to the maids, "Have you never brought any children? Move out all the tables and chairs here."

Cui Xiaojun's room was next door. She screened the palace maid, served tea to her aunt herself, stood aside, and respectfully held the ceremony of her son and nephew.

Concubine Cui sat upright, took a sip of tea, and said, "What's more volatile than children? Ordinary people have thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, like us, three years is enough, maybe you will be sitting tomorrow, but I I'm going to kowtow to you below."

"Auntie is serious."

"Heavy, but true." Cui Taifei put down the teacup, leaned forward, and reached out to gently stroke her niece's cheek, "With so many descendants of the Cui family, you have the best temperament and the smartest. Is it like this now?"

Cui Xiaojun's face was slightly red. He wanted to refute, but he changed his mind and said, "If my aunt becomes the queen mother, will it also change?"

Concubine Cui smiled and retracted her arm, "I will not change, because I have long been ready to become the queen mother. I missed the queen, and I will never miss the queen mother again."

"Congratulations, aunt, you can always achieve what you want."

"Aren't you jealous?"

"I don't care about my identity, as long as I can stay with Juan Hou for the rest of my life."

Concubine Cui first laughed, and then sighed, "It's rare to have a lover in the world, and the royal family is even more difficult. There are many lucky people here. Are you sure that you have found it?"

Cui Xiaojun lowered his eyes slightly, "Aunt can't see through everyone in the world just because of her own experience."

"Haha, what a 'see through'. After all, young people are always reluctant to accept the guidance of the old man, and have to stumble over by themselves. I think at the beginning, why is my idea different from yours? Wait until everything is empty. , only when the foot on my body is real can I understand how stupid I am. You are still young, you can be naive for a few more years."

"What's the matter with my aunt coming to me?" Cui Xiaojun was tired of Cui Taifei's cynicism, but they lived in the same courtyard and it was difficult to escape.

Concubine Cui didn't seem to understand the meaning of expelling guests in the words, and took a sip from the teacup, staring at her niece, not letting go of any clues, and then said: "The Tired Hou has left the capital."

Cui Xiaojun was startled at first, and then heaved a sigh of relief, "He has given up the fight for the throne..." She finally no longer had to be in suspense. Ever since she heard the news of King Ying's assassination, her heart has not been at peace for a moment, even if it is the cute next door Child, she can't let her forget her worries completely.

It didn't take long for Cui Xiaojun to feel strange again. There was something wrong with his aunt's eyes, as if he was hiding something, "Auntie, he is tired..."

"You do not know."

"Don't know what?" Cui Xiaojun was stunned.

Concubine Cui revealed a smile again, "This trick of Hou Juan is obviously to retreat. He can hide it from others, but not from me. It seems that you are also one of the people who have been deceived."

"Leaving the capital of Marquis Tire means withdrawing from the battle for the throne, and will no longer be protected by the Eighth Battalion of Suwei. How can it come from retreating to advance? And...and we haven't been in touch for a long time."

"Hey, do you think everyone in the palace is the Queen Mother's confidant? If Hou Juan wants to contact you, he can always find someone to help him. If he doesn't even have the ability, he would run all the way back to the capital to fight for the throne. He would be the stupidest in the world. As for advancing by retreat, this is an obvious thing. Marquis Juan has won the support of a group of people, especially those scholars. They are not only betting on benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but also their own lives, even if Marquis Juan wants to Exit, and they won't agree."

Cui Xiaojun's heart swayed again, but on the surface he remained calm, "Auntie came here specifically to tell me these things?"

"I don't want to see you being kept in the dark and ignorant. What if Hou Juan really survives a desperate situation? The Queen of the Cui family must be prepared in advance."

Cui Xiaojun is not stupid at all, and of course he understands his aunt's intention. "No matter how aunt tries, I just don't know what I don't know, and I can't help you."

But Concubine Cui did not give up, "You can't help me, but there is one person who can help you."

Cui Xiaojun refused to answer.

"You don't have to believe me, but there is one sentence that you must keep in your heart: Wang Meiren is by no means an ordinary person, don't be deceived by her humility and gentleness, she is a very scheming woman. The queen mother has been fooled, Keeping her by her side as a maid is a form of humiliation on the surface, but it is actually the queen mother who is hurt, and before she knows it, the queen mother is being influenced by Wang Meiren."

Cui Xiaojun remained silent.

Concubine Cui stood up and said, "Don't think about me or the Cui family, you have to think about yourself and Hou Juan, and Wang Mei has a plan, but she was only a maid in the past, from a poor family, and I haven't seen much. In the world, for her, the struggle for power is a big gamble. If she wins, she is the queen mother. If she loses, she has nothing. This kind of person is very smart and very dangerous. The place to retreat. If she just kills herself, it's nothing. The most terrifying thing is that she will implicate others. "

"Fan Hou is her own flesh and blood..."

"It's also the only bet in her hands." Concubine Cui smiled, "You see your mother-in-law twice every morning and evening, why don't you stay for a while tonight?"

Concubine Cui left, knowing that she had persuaded her niece. As for how to dig out the truth from her niece's mouth afterwards, it was another matter. She was not worried at all.

After all, Cui Xiaojun is young and can't fight against the scheming elders. Knowing that her aunt has ulterior motives, she is still moved. Cui Taifei seized her weakness. When she thinks that Wang Meiren's plan will affect the life and death of Juan Hou, Cui Xiaojun can no longer take it easy.

Wang Meiren usually serves the Queen Mother personally, but she has her own residence in the wing of the bedroom, and she has one room to herself. This is the biggest difference between her and ordinary palace maids.

Cui Xiaojun greeted each other once in the morning and once in the evening. Each time, he would first salute the Queen Mother's room in the courtyard, and then go to the wing to see Wang Meiren.

Occasionally, the queen mother would go out to meet each other, and each time her expression was different, sometimes indifferent, sometimes hateful, sometimes very happy, she would ask Cui Xiaojun about the emperor's diet and daily life, which made Cui Xiaojun more creepy than hatred, she knew very well. , The "emperor" in the Queen Mother's mouth refers to the dead Si Di.

This evening, the queen mother also came out, and her expression was more natural than ever, without the slightest madness.

Cui Xiaojun knelt on the futon, motionless.

The queen mother stared at Cui Xiaojun like a stranger, and after a while she said coldly, "Has Han Ruzi communicated with you?"

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, since the concubine entered the palace, I haven't had a few words of contact with Marquis Juan."

"Well, wait and see, if Han Ruzi leads his troops to the frontier, and honestly resists the Huns for Da Chu, you and Wang Meiren will soon be able to reunite with him in the palace. If Han Ruzi plays any tricks, your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will be able to reunite with him tonight. Let's say goodbye to each other."

Cui Xiaojun has always been more afraid of the queen mother, and now she is even more frightened.

When the queen mother returned to the house, the eunuchs stood guard at the door.

Cui Xiaojun knelt for a while before getting up with the help of the palace maid and went to the wing to meet her mother-in-law Wang Meiren.

Every time she sees her daughter-in-law, Wang Meiren is very happy. She gave birth to a son for Emperor Huan, but she has always been in a low position. She even wanted to be a maid for the Queen Mother, but she never showed the appearance of being humiliated. Instead, she was conscientious and dedicated to serving the Queen Mother. Be careful.

"Did the queen mother scare you?" Wang Meiren asked with a smile.

Cui Xiaojun forced a smile.

The palace maids withdrew, leaving only the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Wang Meiren said, "Don't worry, the queen mother is very suspicious now, and she has a cold face to everyone."

Cui Xiaojun couldn't help but asked in a low voice, "There are rumors that the queen mother is... yes..."

"Pretend to be crazy?" Wang Meiren smiled and shook her head, "No one can pretend to be like this for so long. If my son has an accident at a young age, and the successor I choose always has twists and turns, I will go crazy too. ."

"But the empress dowager didn't look like... she was insane."

"The queen mother is really crazy, but it doesn't mean she won't get better, and it doesn't mean she has lost all her senses. Even a crazy queen mother will hold the power in her hands tightly, maybe even tighter."

Cui Xiaojun felt a chill, thought for a while, and said, "Marquis Tien has left the capital, did your mother-in-law hear?"

"Well, I persuaded the empress dowager to send Hou Juan out of the capital."

Cui Xiaojun's heart tightened, "Mother-in-law doesn't want Marquis Tien to compete for the throne?"

"The foundation of Hou Juan is too shallow, what can you use to compete for the throne? The queen mother is not really choosing the emperor, she is avenging the emperor."

"Si Di?"

"When she was confused, the queen mother thought that Si Di was still alive, but when she was a little more awake, she believed that Si Di was killed. Only by mixing the capital into a mess can the murderer emerge. This is her plan. When the emperor's accident happened, Marquis Juan and I were still living in a small courtyard outside the palace and had no power, so the Queen Mother did not doubt Marquis Tien and was willing to let him out of the capital. The price was Marquis Tien had to guard the frontier and resist foreign aggression for her. "

"The queen mother said that if Hou Juan really goes to the frontier, she will send my mother-in-law and me there too."

"I hope so. It's not certain who will be the queen mother in the future."

Cui Xiaojun looked at Wang Meiren in surprise.

Wang Meiren smiled and said: "I'm not talking about myself, but Concubine Cui. The person the Queen Mother doubts the most is the Cui family, and the person the Cui family hates the most is also the Queen Mother. This is a battle between them. Hou Juan, you and I better stay out of it. Although you are also the Cui family."

"Marrying Marquis Juan, I'm Marquis Juan's person."

Wang Meiren got up, walked over to her daughter-in-law, and said softly: "Then let's pray together that Hou Juan will be smooth sailing, and also pray that the Queen Mother can win, the situation is not too favorable for her, she is not fully ready, I hope the Cui family will continue Hesitate, there will be no more surprises."

When Cui Xiaojun left, she felt a lot more relaxed, believing that her mother-in-law did not deceive herself.

Wang Meiren was sitting in the house but she was very worried. She hoped that her daughter-in-law could bring the news that "the queen mother is not ready" to Taifei Cui, and urged her to act as soon as possible. .

She also hoped that her son would understand her intentions, and take advantage of the most chaotic time to return to the capital and seize the throne.

This time, she and Ruzi must win.