In August, it was a hot summer day, and it was so hot that it was airtight. On half of the walls of Weiyang Palace, the roses were drooping, looking pitifully wilted in the sun.

Queen Nalan was leaning on the tatami coquettishly, with a row of crystal clear ice placed in front of her couch. The emperor ordered the aunt in charge to transport it from the underground warehouse of Huayi Palace, specifically to relieve the queen's summer heat.

This month, Queen Nalan was eight months pregnant. Her body was too heavy to move, and her hot flashes made her want to drink iced sour plum soup.

Oops, it's so hot, Bin'er, hurry up, here's the iced sour plum soup, I'm getting so hot.

Queen Nalan leaned against the couch and panted.

Although the sour plum soup relieves the heat, can Long Si endure it? Has the Queen ever thought about it?

I haven't seen anyone yet, but I can only hear the harsh words of the Queen Mother of Kangning Palace.

Greetings to the Empress Dowager, the empress dowager has a golden body!

The maids and palace servants of Weiyang Palace all knelt down and said "shuashua".

Mother, good luck, mother... Nalanqin dragged his heavy body and was about to get up when Empress Dowager Zi Xuanyue quickly motioned for her to get down.

Five years have passed, and the charm of the Purple Royal Concubine has not diminished. She has her hair tied up in a high bun and dark eyebrows. She is still as charming and graceful as a queen.

Queen, Prime Minister Nalan is here

Oh, dad...

The empress stood up with difficulty, her voice choked with excitement. She hadn't seen her father for a long time, well, it had been a year.

Prime Minister Nalan: I pay my respects to the Queen Mother!

Queen Mother Zi: Oh, Master Nalan, how are you doing lately?

Prime Minister Nalan: Thank you, the Queen Mother, I... I ask the Queen Mother to take care of you. Everything is fine.

That's good. Now in the peaceful and prosperous age, the Ai family's original decision... what does Ai Qing think?

Um, Queen Mother, I wholeheartedly respect the Queen Mother. I think the Emperor must also understand this heart!

With that said, Prime Minister Nalan knelt down heavily to the Queen Mother and the Emperor. He had truly achieved the humility of a minister, but there was no trace of being the head of the state.

Emperor: Prime Minister, please excuse me and please get up quickly.

The emperor said, stepping forward to help Prime Minister Nalan up.

Queen Nalan was stunned for a moment. She looked at the awe-inspiring expressions of the royal mother and son. Her heart felt sour and tears came out of her eyes. Suddenly, she vomited non-stop.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty...what's wrong with you? Your servant Jin'er hurriedly stretched out her hand to support Queen Nalan.

Prime Minister Nalan was so anxious that he no longer cared about etiquette. He quickly stood next to his daughter Nalanqin and patted her back anxiously.

The emperor also asked eagerly: Qin'er, what's wrong with you? Is it okay?

After Queen Nalan finished vomiting, she collapsed on the ground. Her face was as white as rice paper, with tears streaming down her face.

The emperor hugged Queen Nalan back to the couch with distress, his face full of love and care.

Hurry, call for Dr. Du... the palace maid Jin'er hurriedly ordered.

Jin'er: Madam, what's wrong with you? Drink some bird's nest porridge. You must be weak and weak now because you have lost both your energy and blood.

The Queen Mother Zi's eyes were so cold that she didn't even look at her daughter-in-law, and her thin lips parted slightly:

Drink it, drink something to replenish your qi, he is so delicate...Oh, I pity the grandson of the Ai family, he has such a rotten mother's body.

The emperor was speechless after hearing what his mother said.

He suppressed his displeasure and said: "Mother, it's too hot today and Qin'er is heavy. It's because my son didn't take good care of her. Please take care of her, your grandson will hear it."

After hearing this, Queen Mother Zi had a look of disgust on her face. She turned to Prime Minister Nalan and said coldly: Master Nalan came to the palace today. What business do you want to report?

At this moment, Prime Minister Nalan was worried about his daughter. When he heard Queen Mother Zi's question, he felt worried and angry.

Huh, this old witch is even more cruel now, and she doesn't even feel sorry for her pregnant daughter-in-law... Sigh, I'm afraid Qin'er won't have a good life in the future... I really regret that the late emperor and the old minister were guilty, guilty!

Prime Minister Nalan thought about it again and again, but still suppressed the indignation in his heart. He bowed to the Queen Mother and said:

Queen Mother, I feel no guilt towards you, are you right? I hope the Queen Mother will treat Qin'er well...

Queen Mother Zi said: What are you talking about? How dare you talk to the Ai family like this? Are you threatening the Ai family?

Haha, you are getting more courageous. Alas, brother said, sooner or later something will happen because of you... Today the Aijia... someone is coming.

When the emperor saw it, he was shocked by his mother's temperament...

The emperor said: "Wait a minute, queen mother, just let me handle this matter."

Outside the palace gate, a group of guards entered the palace and wanted to capture Prime Minister Nalan.

Prime Minister Nalan said: Late Emperor, everything has changed now. Nalanbo is really ashamed of you. I am guilty!... Cough cough.

Prime Minister Nalan looked sad, and he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

Queen Nalan said: Mother, Mother, please forgive my father. He spoke carelessly to you because he felt sorry for his son and was impatient. Please let my father go.

At this time, Queen Nalan had gotten up from the couch tremblingly. She grabbed the lapel of Emperor Ming Jing's clothes, feeling sad and pitiful.

Queen Nalan said: Your Majesty, you must forgive your father. I know that my father has no evil intentions!

The emperor looked at Prime Minister Nalan and the Queen Mother, and had his own decision in his heart.

All she saw was that the Purple Queen Mother had cold eyes. She glanced at Emperor Ming Jing, and her heart was filled with anger. She did not expect that the emperor would stop her arrangement.

Queen Mother Zi thought to herself: Hum, if it were not for her biological son, the Ai family would have been in control of the political power during the Bamboo Forest Incident.

Alas, if you hadn't been soft-hearted back then, now the Ai family is the master of the world, where would you still have "I" to deal with it? Hum!

Having said that, Emperor Ming Jing has always been as clear as a mirror to the Queen Mother Zi's thoughts. He knew that the Queen Mother was very scheming, and his Shangguan was determined to never allow the regime that had ascended the throne to be unstable or allow any changes to occur again.

In Emperor Ming Jing's heart, no matter what his mother's thoughts were, he believed that a tiger's poison would not eat its seeds. But... some things must be strictly controlled.

After thinking about it, Emperor Ming Jing walked to the Queen Mother Zi. He held her hand and said warmly: Queen Mother, this is the way it is today, the future is long, ah...

The Queen Mother Zi looked at Emperor Ming Jing for a long time, and finally the clouds turned.

Weiyang Palace felt cold and desolate for a while.

Just listen to the Queen Mother Zi say: Alas, the Ai family is really stupid in handling this matter. Prime Minister, please get up quickly. Xiao Zhu, please help Prime Minister Nalan get up quickly.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After the instructions were given, Queen Mother Zi's heart was still turbulent. Today she had a disagreement with her son Emperor, and more or less a trace of annoyance arose in her heart.

The Queen Mother Zi thought to herself: It's just that the emperor is quite filial, greeting him every morning and evening, no matter how cold or hot the weather is. The cost of food and clothing in Kangning Palace is several times higher than that of all the harems.

Thinking of this, Queen Mother Zi's cold face gradually disappeared, she walked towards Queen Nalan and said warmly:

Queen, it’s important to take care of the fetus. It’s just that the queen misunderstood the king. Don’t worry, it’s all right. The queen heard that you have been tired and uncomfortable during your recent meal break, so she specially prepared some refreshing food for you.

Queen Mother Zi put on a concerned smile and gently stroked Nalanqin's swollen belly.

Pearl, bring the cup of rock sugar and snow pear stewed by the Ai family to the queen. Remember, the Ai family will take care of the food in the Weiyang Palace from now on. The Ai family will naturally feel sorry for their grandson.

In this way, the undercurrent of blood that was about to flow was temporarily stopped.

Empress Dowager Zi finally left Weiyang Palace amid the greetings of everyone.

In the afternoon, the cicadas stopped chirping in the imperial garden.

Qiao Wanbi, who is pregnant, has been frightened by the noise of these little things these days.

She no longer wanders around like before. As the saying goes, the mother is worth the child, so she has to protect herself every moment during the pregnancy.

Currently, the harem only contains the queen and she is pregnant with a dragon fetus, so there are always jealous eyes looking for opportunities...

What Empress Dowager Zi cares most about is her legitimate grandson, and her concubine Qiao Wanbi can only be regarded as a foil. Hum, no matter what, my child is the center of my heart.

Qiao Wanbin's palace servants saw the Queen Mother Zi's care for the Weiyang Palace, and they all recounted it to Qiao Wanbin. The teasing made her worried, and she couldn't help but think of her father and brother's loyalty to the Queen Mother.

In fact, Qiao Wanbi knew that Shangguan definitely didn't like her. She was granted the title of concubine just because her father and brother had a lot of troops and helped her conquer the world.

Qiao Wanbin's father was the general who stationed the army in Mobei, the border gate of the Northern Tang Dynasty, and her elder brother was the military staff general.

It has always been said that father and son stationed troops and cleared the borders.

Therefore, in the palace, Emperor Ming Jing treated the daughter of the Qiao family well, and granted her the title of concubine upon entering the palace. This was unprecedented in the ancestral system of the palace. It was also the emperor's great favor to the Qiao family's honorable family.

Chun'er, have you gone to see the Empress Dowager leave Weiyang Palace?

In addition, you go to Huayi Palace to get some ice...it's so hot today!

Qiao Wanbin held a round-eyebrow fan in her hand and kept shaking it, but the wind blowing out was also very hot, which was really annoying.

After a while, Chun'er came back and reported: Concubine Wan, the guards of Huayi Palace refused to give the ice, saying that they needed to save it for Weiyang Palace.

Qiao Wanbin was so angry that she almost fainted, her almond-shaped eyes already filled with mist.

Weiyang Palace, Weiyang Palace, do you think Xiafei Palace is easy to bully?

Let's go to Zhaoyang Palace. Today I want to see if the emperor can level a bowl of water... Humph!

Madam, the emperor just went to Weiyang Palace. When the servant returned to the palace, he bumped into Eunuch De.

Well, it's good to have love, it will save me the trouble!

Qiao Wanbi came to Weiyang Palace angrily despite the scorching sun.

From a distance, I saw the emperor wearing a snow-white thin shirt and thin trousers, holding a fan in his hand and fanning Queen Nalan the cool breeze.

Qiao Wanbin stood outside the palace in a daze: The emperor's beautiful eyebrows and gentle smile towards Nalanqin are so enviable.

When will she be able to have such pampering? Alas, I am afraid there is no hope in this life...

As soon as she entered the palace, Qiao Wanbin suddenly felt cool and comfortable.

Oh my god, it’s true that people with the same fate have different fates. There are a lot of ice placed in the Weiyang Palace, especially in the queen’s bedroom, where there are a series of ice basins surrounding the two sides of the couch.

Your Majesty, please rest and let your servants serve you.

Well, Emperor, just let Xiao Dezi do it.

Meet the emperor, meet the queen!

Qiao Wanbin looked at the emperor and empress with a look of indifference, she hesitated to speak...

(To be continued)

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