sbdcsierra Chapter 351: The Empress Dowager's Ugly Appearance Was Seen by Princes and Ministers
Chapter 351: The Empress Dowager's Ugly Appearance Was Seen by Princes and Ministers
After fighting with the Empress Dowager Cixi for so many years, the Queen knew that the Empress Dowager Cixi's weak point was that she loved her own son and her personality could not be shattered.
The Empress Dowager Cixi choked as expected.
Damn bitch, she hasn’t learned how to be filial to her mother-in-law in all these years since entering the palace.
I have learned how to talk back to my mother-in-law.
Did she dare to say no? Wouldn't that prove that she, as a mother, didn't love the emperor, her own son?
Facing the emperor's expression of begging for maternal love, the Empress Dowager Cixi forced a smile:
"Haha, the queen has a sharp tongue. I naturally love my son."
Seeing that the Empress Dowager was frustrated, the Queen was satisfied and gave Qin Wan a piece of cake:
"Come on, Wanwan, have a piece of mung bean cake. It will help you cool down in this hot weather."
This suggestive remark made the Empress Dowager Cixi's face turn black again.
If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Qin Wan would have wanted to applaud the Queen.
As expected, women who can survive in the palace are both good at talking and smart.
Of course, the Empress Dowager Cixi doesn’t count.
The Empress Dowager Cixi was lucky to give birth to a son, and her son was also lucky to become the emperor.
"Speaking of the Ninth Prince, he is a descendant of the royal family after all. The Emperor and Empress must carefully examine him and not let a bastard who came from nowhere mess up the royal bloodline."
As soon as the word "bastard" came out of her mouth, Qin Wan clearly felt the breath of the queen beside her suddenly turned cold.
Even the emperor, who had always been happy to play peacemaker between his mother and his wife, showed an unhappy look on his face.
The Queen had already told the Emperor in detail what happened in the year Xu Linxi was born.
The old Duke and the Zhenguo Duke personally went to the palace to explain Xier's identity, and the emperor believed that Xu Linxi was his legitimate son.
Besides, he had seen Xier before. Jiang Defu said that she looked exactly like him when he was a child.
With the testimony of Qingyun from Baiyun Temple, the emperor became more convinced that his legitimate son was not dead.
"Mother, please be careful with your words. Xi'er is the legitimate son of me and the Queen. I am very sure of this. I don't want to hear you say the word bastard in the future."
The emperor's face turned cold and his tone was also cold.
Seeing her son's attitude towards her, the Empress Dowager Cixi also became angry.
Can't help but sneer:
"Your Majesty is doing this for your own good. Your Majesty does not want the Seventh Prince and Concubine Yuan to happen again in the palace."
This statement not only means that Xu Linxi is a bastard, but also implies that the queen is cheating on the emperor.
The emperor's face turned black when the scandal that he didn't want to mention was brought up again.
With a cracking sound, Qin Wan looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the wine glass in the queen's hand was crushed.
Although the queen came from a military family, she was a woman after all. The fact that she crushed the cup with her bare hands showed that she was really angry.
Qin Wan had reason to believe that if the person opposite her was not the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Emperor's biological mother, the Empress would have rushed over and torn her apart with her bare hands.
The Eastern Empress Dowager, who had been silent the whole time, glanced at the Western Empress Dowager and said disdainfully:
"Using bastards to confuse the royal bloodline is something that only a daughter from a small family like the Yuan family could do.
As for the upbringing of a noble lady, you, who come from a humble family, would not understand it even if I told you.
Besides, you are also a Buddhist. You make such outrageous statements without any basis. Aren’t you afraid of creating bad karma and going to the hell of tongue-pulling after you die?
There is a god above us. Have you forgotten the last time the Seventh Prince and his mother were struck by lightning?"
She mocked the Empress Dowager Cixi with her background, and then cursed her with her faith. It turns out that the Empress Dowager Dong was the master at making fun of people.
Qin Wan looked at the Queen Mother Dong with starry eyes.
It’s good to have a high status and position, so you can be so direct with people.
"you……."
The Empress Dowager West was so irritated that she couldn't speak a word, and her fingers trembled as she pointed at the Empress Dowager East.
I was so angry.
Unable to convince the Eastern Empress Dowager, the Western Empress Dowager asked the Emperor for help:
"My son, your mother has been humiliated like this, and you don't care?"
The emperor didn't want to care.
Not only did she expose his scars and insult his wife and legitimate son, the emperor's filial piety could not suppress his dissatisfaction with his own mother.
"It's the Queen Mother who went too far."
The emperor said this coldly, then looked at the singing and dancing in the hall and no longer paid attention to the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Seeing that no one paid attention to her, the Empress Dowager Cixi angrily picked up a piece of cake and put it into her mouth.
I don’t know if it was because I was out of breath or something, but I choked on the pastry.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
The cake crumbs choked her trachea, and the uncomfortable Empress Dowager Cixi started coughing loudly in public.
Such a big commotion attracted the attention of everyone in the hall, and they all looked towards the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Then everyone watched as a stream of pastry crumbs spewed out of the Empress Dowager's nostrils.
Everyone:……..
The Empress Dowager Cixi did not expect to lose her composure in front of the palace. Due to her humble background, she always attached great importance to her manners in front of the ministers.
Now she had lost all her manners, and her ugly appearance with cake crumbs coming out of her nose was seen by all the princes and ministers present. The Empress Dowager Cixi felt ashamed and angry.
She covered her mouth and returned to the palace with the help of palace maids.
After all, she was his own mother. Seeing that the Empress Dowager Cixi was choking, the Emperor quickly instructed a young eunuch beside him to call an imperial physician for the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Qin Wan, who was standing opposite, saw the Empress Dowager Cixi fleeing in panic, and a look of gloating flashed in her eyes.
If you dare to call her friend a bastard, I’ll choke you to death.
Qin Wan watched such a good show that her appetite was whetted. She ate and drank happily as the queen kept feeding her.
Then...I had to pee urgently.
"Your Majesty, I want to change my clothes."
The queen quickly asked her personal maid to take Qin Wan to the side hall.
The side hall sounded very close, but it actually took me less than half a quarter of an hour to get there.
Qin Wan sighed that it was worthy of being an imperial palace, it was so big.
After settling the major event in her life, Qin Wan walked out of the side hall comfortably and ran into her "friend regardless of age difference" Jiang Defu.
"What a coincidence, Eunuch Jiang, I see you again, eh? Aren't you serving the Emperor? When did you come out?"
Jiang Defu was holding a pot of wine in his hand. When he saw Qin Wan greeting him with a smile, he felt very fond of this prince's granddaughter, who had a very pleasant conversation with him before and was not very arrogant.
A smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
"Miss Wanwan, the emperor and his ministers are very happy to drink, so he asked me to take out his treasured wine and drink with them. I am here to get the wine for the emperor."
Jiang Defu said this, pointing to the young eunuch who was following him.
There was a pot of wine on the eunuch's tray.
Qin Wan could smell the rich aroma of wine through the wine jug.
Qin Wan shrugged her nose. It was worthy of being the emperor's collection. It smelled so good.
Jiang Defu was amused by her pouting appearance.
The two of them returned to the main hall together.
"Miss Wanwan is still young and cannot drink. When you grow up, you can ask the emperor for more."
Jiang Defu said in a mysterious and low voice into Qin Wan's ear:
“I’ll tell you a secret, Your Majesty, there’s still plenty of this kind of wine.
Miss Wanwan is the granddaughter of Prince Ding. If you ask the emperor for her, he will definitely give her to you.
The Emperor has always respected Prince Ding."
Jiang Defu was worried that Qin Wan would take the Empress Dowager Cixi's words to heart.
He secretly reminded Qin Wan not to go because the Empress Dowager Cixi might say something in front of Prince Ding that would affect the relationship between the Emperor and Prince Ding.
He is worthy of being the emperor's caring eunuch, an old fox, who always remembers to think about his emperor.