0p0 Chapter 230: The Houmen Madam Nursery School has started (End)
Chapter 230: The Houmen Madam Nursery School has started (End)
The eunuch in front of the emperor understood what he meant and retreated with the guards surrounding the palace.
Shen Chuqing looked at the scorching sun above her head and subconsciously opened her arms.
She should be thankful that her father was very shrewd and never dismissed the palace maids he bribed when he helped Yuan Yi ascend to the throne.
She should be thankful that someone came to remind her, allowing her to save her own son.
In the winter of the tenth year of Hongjing, Emperor Wen of Yuan died of illness.
Crown Prince Yuan Siqi succeeded to the throne.
Because the new emperor was young, the empress dowager ruled the country from behind the curtain and the prime minister handled state affairs on his behalf.
Seven years later.
When the emperor reached the age of fifteen, the prime minister voluntarily resigned and returned to the countryside, and the empress dowager retreated to the harem.
All matters related to the court were in the hands of the emperor.
In the same year, officials who tried to take advantage of the vacancy left by the prime minister to advance further were horrified.
The top three in this year's imperial examination, and even most of the top ten, had recuperated with the emperor in the Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion.
It was also at this time that they vaguely realized that the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion was not a temporary refuge that was not involved in the situation in the court, but was clearly a preparation ground for the emperor to select his confidants.
The ministers who did not make preparations for both scenarios and did not even think that the temporary residence of a prince could have any interests involved.
At this time, looking at those young people whose fathers were officials in the court and who occupied important positions as soon as they entered the court, they regretted it so much that their intestines turned green.
Chengenhou Mansion.
Bu Shian had just placed the two teacups when a shadow appeared in front of him.
Without even raising her head, she filled the teacup opposite her with fruit tea.
Without being asked, the person just put his face closer.
"You didn't even ask how I left the palace?"
Bu Shian kept moving his hands and spoke very calmly.
"What are you asking? I'm asking you, the Queen Mother, to tell the Emperor openly that if he doesn't allow you to leave the palace for free meals, he'll find him a stepfather."
"How could that be? This time, I clearly said that if he is not allowed to leave the palace for free meals, I will marry him."
Hearing the proud tone of the voice, Bu Shian poured himself a cup of tea.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this is worse than threatening the emperor to find him a stepfather."
"What are you thinking? The emperor is only fifteen. He has just switched from studying to not worrying about anything. Why does he have to do it all by himself?"
"He's so busy that he barely sleeps for two hours a day, and yet you still want him to get married and have him take care of the family line. You're worried that the child won't die suddenly, right?"
Shen Chuqing snorted twice and sat opposite.
"Huh, my biological mother doesn't feel sorry for you, but your godmother feels sorry for you first."
"How about I give this son to you? You can go to the palace and live out the miserable days of being unable to do anything. I will live out the comfortable days of being able to do whatever you want."
She kept on mumbling, and the next moment her mouth was filled with soft cake.
"Don't nag me. Just focus on eating. Don't bother me with nonsense."
Shen Chuqing chewed the pastry in her mouth and rolled her eyes at Bu Shian.
"You're annoyed with me now, chew chew chew. When you first came to me to conspire, chew chew chew, you still disliked me, chew chew chew, for not talking too much and being serious, chew chew chew."
"What kind of snack is this? It seems like I've never eaten it before. Zhuang Shuqin, you're eating it alone again without telling me."
"I will punish you, put you under house arrest, and steal all the cooks from the Marquis of Cheng'en's mansion."
At this moment, a gentle young man's voice came from behind her.
"Mother, you said the same thing last time."
Shen Chuqing's body stiffened, and when she turned around, she met the helpless gaze of the emperor.
At this moment, she seemed to be back in her childhood, and the feeling of being caught eating secretly by her father came back to her.
She patted her chest and muttered.
"Fortunately, you are not like your father, otherwise you would suffer."
The emperor held his forehead helplessly, feeling that his once generous and decent mother had become less and less like her former self since she became the empress dowager.
It was only after he became emperor that he realized that his dignified and magnanimous mother was a man of her own plans.
He can climb over walls, climb trees, crawl through dog holes, and pretend to be sick and sleep like a eunuch.
All of this was done just to evade the guards and sneak out of the palace, then come to the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion to eat, drink, and pet the cats.
No, the palace is missing the Queen Mother for food or drink.
Even the cats, some owned and some not, were brought to the palace as tribute by local foreigners in large numbers.
Why did his mother fall in love with the fat orange cat that was as fat as a pig next to the old lady Hou, who was his godmother?
Seeing that the atmosphere between the emperor and the empress dowager was becoming subtle, Zhao Xiu, who was standing behind the emperor, coughed lightly.
"Ahem, mother, His Majesty happens to be on an incognito tour of the capital today, and he's a little worried about the food outside, so..."
Bu Shian took a sip of fruit tea and waved his hand perfunctorily.
"It's not the first time, no need to make excuses."
"If you're here for a free meal, just say so. Don't make up such lame excuses."
"You are now an official in the court. Can you please use your brain before speaking and doing things?"
"How could an emperor go on twenty incognito tours in a month, every time staying inside the capital, and always at noon?"
Zhao Xiu touched his nose awkwardly, wanting to say that this excuse was the emperor's idea.
After all, he was taught by his mother, how could he be so stupid.
But the one in front is mother and the one behind is king.
As a son and a minister, he could not refute anyone and could only agree to everything.
Just like that, in this free-eating scene that happened for the twentieth time this month, the only one who got hurt was Zhao Xiu.
After dinner, the two of them went into the study without even taking a rest.
Several other young ministers close to the emperor also came to the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion one after another. After briefly greeting the two people chatting in the yard, they went straight to the study.
Bu Shi'an cracked melon seeds and shook his head helplessly.
"Shen Chuqing, please control your son. He is using the study in my Cheng'en Marquis Mansion as the imperial study."
Shen Chuqing, who was called, was not at all flustered. She took away the last handful of melon seeds on the plate before replying.
"What do you mean my son? That's your son."
"A godmother is also a mother. As a son, don't be so stingy to use your study."
Looking at the plate that was emptied a cup of tea earlier than yesterday, Bu Shian laughed out of anger.
"Okay, I'm stingy, so don't come to my house to eat for free in the future, you honorable emperor and empress dowager."
"After all, I'm such a stingy person that I can't bear to buy ingredients for you guys to cook. Just sit in the yard and let the northwest wind blow."
Shen Chuqing, who was cracking melon seeds, suddenly felt that the seeds in her hand were no longer fragrant.
Just throw away the melon seed shells and flick the handkerchief.
"No, Qinqin, we are friends who have risked our lives for each other."
"Sister Du, how could you bear to leave me starving?"
Bu Shi'an just watched her performance, and when she secretly looked up to observe him, he rolled his eyes.
"Huh? A life-or-death friendship? Why don't I remember ever being in any life-threatening situation with you?"
Shen Chuqing chuckled, feeling righteous and confident.
"There's no danger, but there's life."
"If you didn't cooperate with me, how would those two old men die?"
"Taking someone else's life doesn't count as taking their own life, we are accomplices."
"We are good sisters who are planning to kill each other, so what's wrong with eating your rice?"
Bu Shian: "...My mother tongue is speechless."
Decades later.
After the life of Empress Dowager Shen Chuqing came to an end, Bu Shi'an, who had many children and grandchildren, also reached the limit of the lifespan of this body.
She patted the system beside her that had already replaced the bodies of several cats whose lifespans had expired.
On a sunny afternoon, I closed my eyes and disappeared from the world.