Chapter 36 The Queen Mother orders you to kneel and wait
Shen Ning said nothing, turned around and walked out.
The slender and straight back exudes a cold and decisive look, without the softness that women should have nowadays. It looks like a piece of cold iron, hard and difficult to chew.
Just as he was speaking, Shi Qi had already left quietly, and only Shi Qin was following behind Shen Ning.
The palace was no match for a dragon or a tiger, at least not for the regent.
But if the Queen Mother and the Emperor want to die alone, it will be easy to enter the palace and difficult to get out. There are so many imperial guards in the palace, and Shi Qin and Shi Qi alone will obviously not be their opponents.
After all, two fists are no match for four palms.
So Shiqi returned to the palace to move reinforcements.
They knew that the Queen Mother's murderous intention towards Shen Ning was real.
No queen mother would tolerate a servant girl embarrassing her in public, and this servant girl even rebelliously killed the princess. It would be too much to cut the body into pieces.
Regardless of whether the regent princess is a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers, or she has some clever tricks for self-protection in her mind, as personal guards, they cannot be careless and must put the safety of their master first.
Shen Ning entered the palace on the Prince Regent's carriage and got off the car outside the palace gate. When she stepped into the palace gate, she saw a nanny waiting there, looking at her expressionlessly, with a look in her eyes.
"This is the regent princess." The eunuch who delivered the order said in a gloomy voice, "Mother Wei has been kept waiting for a long time."
Nanny Wei nodded and was about to say something when she looked up and saw the eunuch who delivered the order was blushing with a few fingerprints on his face. She couldn't help but be slightly surprised: "What's wrong with Eunuch Hu's face?"
"Our family offended the Princess Regent, and the Princess punished us to slap our own mouths." Eunuch Hu smiled sinisterly, "It doesn't matter, we slaves are thick-skinned and thick-skinned. If the master wants to punish us, we have to accept it. This is our duty and rule. "
Upon hearing this, Nanny Wei gave Shen Ning a meaningful look, turned around and said, "Please come with the princess and the servants."
Shen Ning followed her fearlessly on the palace road. Wherever she looked, the people standing guard were all eunuchs.
She said indifferently: "This is the way to the harem."
"So what?" Nanny Wei frowned, her tone full of coercion, "The Queen Mother wants to see you, does the Princess still want to resist?"
Shen Ning glanced at her expressionlessly and said nothing.
There is no point in arguing with a grandma.
The Queen Mother of Qin lived in Shou'an Palace. When the emperor succeeded to the throne, she was fourteen years old. The Queen Mother of Qin, a woman who fought out of the harem and successfully ascended the throne of the Queen Mother, had a strong nature and a strong desire for power.
After her son ascended the throne, she originally thought that she could listen to the government from behind the curtain and promote her mother's family by the way, making the Qin family the most powerful family in the Yong Kingdom, with a legacy that lasted for hundreds of years and continued to be honored and favored.
Unexpectedly, the late emperor actually asked Ji Yucang, who was only 21 years old at the time, to serve as regent.
This young god of war has always been regarded as a wizard of the Yong Kingdom. He went to the border at the age of twelve and created one legend after another.
The Yong State is now strong and prosperous, and Ji Yucang is indispensable.
It's just that the credit is too great. The Queen Mother will not tolerate it if it threatens the emperor's status.
What's more, Ji Yucang has always been at odds with the Qin family. When the late emperor was in power, the Queen Mother suggested several times that the descendants of the Qin family be sent to the border to train with Ji Yucang.
But Ji Yucang refused seven times in a row and replied word for word.
He said that the children of the Qin family were dull and would die if they went to the border to fight, and if they became generals, they would risk their lives as soldiers.
Even if the late emperor tried to persuade him, he would not be moved.
At that time, the Queen Mother held a grudge against him in her heart.
Before the emperor ascended the throne, the Queen Mother thought that after she took control of the regency, she would be the first to cut Ji Yucang's military power in half and let the Qin family lead the army.
By then no one can threaten the emperor's throne.
But the late emperor did not play his cards according to the rules.
Before his death, he drafted two edicts, one appointing Ji Yucang as regent to assist the emperor in governing the country, and the other strictly prohibiting the harem from intervening in politics, directly cutting off the Queen Mother's idea of supporting the Qin family.
The Queen Mother was so angry that she almost wanted to whip the corpse.
But the former emperor was also a jealous master. He knew that Ji Yucang, who had military power as regent, would definitely intimidate the court and make people afraid to have dissent. However, the military power in Ji Yucang's hands was also a threat to the new emperor.
So he poisoned Ji Yucang, and the antidote was left in the little emperor's hands. If there is no antidote when the poison occurs, it will make people miserable.
Those antidotes were enough to last until the emperor came to power.
It's just that the Queen Mother is too anxious. She can't wait to let the Qin family enter the court, let them grasp the power, and make them a ubiquitous force in the court.
So even if the regent was poisoned, she was unwilling to do so and wanted to kill the regent immediately. That's why she came up with the idea of letting Qin Yanshu marry the eldest princess of Pingyao.
Arriving at Shou'an Palace, Nanny Wei went in to report.
Shen Ning stood silently outside the palace gate, her face calm and not at all nervous and uneasy as she should be when meeting the Queen Mother.
After a while, Nanny Wei came out and said in a somewhat condescending tone: "The Queen Mother is unwell. She ordered the Princess Regent to kneel down first."
"Kneel down and wait?" Shen Ning smiled half-heartedly, with a cold and mocking look in her dark eyes, "Why don't Aunt Wei go in and ask the Queen Mother, who has more weight to say between her and the Regent? Who has more power?"
"You!" Nanny Wei's face darkened, "You are just the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, how dare you openly disobey the Queen Mother's order?"
"I am not only the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, but also the concubine of the Regent." Shen Ning said coldly, "The Regent gave me the right not to kneel before the king. Is Aunt Wei blatantly disobeying the Regent's order?"
Aunt Wei's expression changed, and there was a trace of concern in her eyes, obviously she was very afraid of the Regent.
Of course no one dared not listen to what the regent said.
She just didn't expect that just a few days after Shen Ning married the regent, she would move out the regent to suppress others. She was weak for a moment, snorted coldly, turned around and returned to Shou'an Palace.
Shen Ning stood leaning against the palace door, counting secretly in her heart. If the Queen Mother really wanted to make things difficult for her, she would have no time to stay here and play with her.
Fortunately, the Queen Mother was not so stupid as to know that it would not be easy to get Shen Ning into the palace, so these low-level threats could be avoided.
Aunt Wei quickly left and returned, her attitude slightly more restrained than before: "The Queen Mother, please come in."
Shen Ning said nothing and walked into the palace gate.
Shi Qin followed closely step by step, never missing a step.
Walking into Shou'an Palace, I looked up and saw Princess Jiahe sitting next to the Queen Mother, with a calm expression on her face, as if she was waiting to catch a turtle in a urn, waiting for her to die. Her eyes seemed to say, "You can't escape after entering the palace. Look at you." Do you still dare to continue to be arrogant and domineering?
However, Shen Ning just glanced at her indifferently and quickly looked away, looking at the Queen Mother sitting on the phoenix couch.
The Queen Mother in front of her looked to be in her early thirties, with a bright face and graceful appearance. She was wearing a grand phoenix robe and sitting on the main seat, with a calm and majestic look on her face.
Women in the harem generally enter the palace relatively early, usually between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. If they get pregnant early, they often give birth to children at the age of seventeen or eighteen.
Today, the little emperor is fifteen years old and Princess Jiahe is twenty.
Calculating the age at which she entered the palace and gave birth to children, the real age of the Queen Mother should be over thirty-five. She took the position of Queen Mother at such a young age. If the Regent hadn't interfered, she could have listened to politics behind the curtain. She would have been as comfortable as she wanted for the rest of her life. Just be comfortable and do whatever you want, no need to serve the emperor, no need to look at people's faces.
She will become the most noble woman in the world, and all the people will step under her feet.
Unfortunately, with the existence of the regent, the dream of listening to the government behind the curtain was shattered, so the queen mother always wanted to get rid of the regent and then quickly.
It is best to do this on the day when the young emperor takes charge, which is when the regent dies suddenly.
"Princess Regent." Nanny Wei reminded her majestically, "It's okay if you didn't want to kneel down outside just now, but now that you are meeting the Queen Mother, you should kneel down to pay homage to the Queen Mother."
Shen Ning said calmly: "The Regent said I don't have to kneel to anyone."
The Queen Mother's eyes were calm, and there was a faint air of murder in her eyes: "If the Ai family insists on your kneeling?"
Shen Ning raised her head and looked at the Queen Mother, her eyes were dark and strange, and her voice was much softer: "The Queen Mother will not do that."
"You..." The Queen Mother's eyes were stunned, and the anger on her face visibly faded away, and then she nodded numbly, "You are right, the Yi family really doesn't know how to do that."
"Mother?" Princess Jiahe turned her head in surprise, "What did you say?"
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