Husband is extremely regent

Chapter 117 The Queen's Mission

The grove in the palace is still full of green in late autumn.

The fallen leaves on the ground have been fermented for a long time, giving off a very unpleasant smell.

Lu Xu walked through it in distaste. In order not to get his shoes dirty, he didn't even touch the ground with his feet, but lightly touched the leaves with his toes for strength.

When she was outside the dark room, the smell wafting from inside almost knocked her down, Lu Xu couldn't help complaining: "The empress obviously asked her to enter the palace to watch the draft, but instead she gave her a map and asked her to come and see it." Take someone here."

Standing on the tree, he lightly looked at the dark room in front of him.

Unexpectedly, there is such a gloomy and frightening place in the majestic and majestic palace.

Walking to the only small wooden door, he took out the dagger and swiped lightly, and the lock with the Feng face fell to the ground.

The moment the door was pushed open, Lu Xu smelled the rotten stench, immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and walked into the dark room after a while.

The light in the dark room was very dim, and it took a while for Lu Xu's eyes to get used to it. When he found the person lying paralyzed in the corner, Lu Xu suddenly lost his good mood. He didn't expect that the person the Empress asked her to save was Liu Zhaoran.

Liu Zhaoran has long since lost her former radiance, and now looks like a humble ant, waiting for salvation in the dark.

Even if it was Lu Xu, who was the deadly enemy in the past, it was a life-saving straw at this time. Liu Zhaoran's eyes lit up when he saw Lu Xu, and he tried to open his mouth but couldn't utter a word.

Lu Xu walked over and deftly opened her collar.

In addition to the criss-cross welts, a thing was found on her neck.

It was this thing that made her unable to make a sound. When Lu Xu was about to reach out to take it off, Liu Zhaoran immediately raised his hand to block it.

look up.

Liu Zhaoran shook his head, signaling not to move.

After thinking about it, Lu Xu withdrew his hand and groped around her.

Sure enough, she felt something hard on her left foot, opened her trousers and saw a shackle connected to her flesh and blood.

Lu Xu knew this kind of punishment. In order to prevent the prisoner from escaping, he burned the shackles until they were hot and put them on the prisoners' feet. When the temperature dropped, the flesh and the shackles were connected together, and the other end was fixed to the wall.

When he took out the dagger and was about to cut off the iron chain, his movement suddenly froze.

Lu Xu couldn't figure out why he knew that Liu Zhaoran had shackles around his neck and feet.

Forget it, let's talk about it after taking people out first.

He swung the dagger to cut off the chain, lifted Liu Zhaoran and walked outside.

As for the guards inside the woods, and the people outside, Lu Xu had already dealt with them before he came in, and he carried her all the way to the outside of Xizhimen.

There was already a carriage parked there, Lu Xu lightly jumped onto the driver's seat of the carriage.

The curtain was immediately lifted from the inside, Yao came out, and was so excited that he couldn't speak when he saw his daughter.

Lu Xu put the person down, and explained in detail: "Mrs. Yao, there are things on her neck and feet, first let Shangguan Shouruo come over and take a look, and you must not take them off by yourself, especially the things on her neck. There are organs, and taking it down by force will endanger Miss Liu San's life."

"Understood, I understand... I won't move around."

Yao took her daughter and hugged her in her arms, tears streaming down her face.

"Miss Lu Xu..."

Just as Lu Xu was about to leave, Mrs. Yao called to stop Lu Xu.

Turning around in doubt, Madam Yao said, "Thank you!"

"Thank you, empress."

After leaving a word, Lu Xu hurried back to Yuxiu Palace.

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Queen Mother here.

Aunt Liu replied: "The Queen must not have thought that the Queen Mother's order was a trap."

The phrase "children are the most important" is to make her think that the beautiful girls placed by the queen mother are women who are good for the children, and deliberately brush them off in the first round.

In fact, the people arranged by the Queen Mother, they couldn't think of who they were.

"Mingyue prides herself on being extremely smart, and Aijia let her know what it means to be clever and be misled by cleverness."

"There is one more thing." Aunt Liu said: "Lu Xu entered the palace today, and the slaves saw her gray hair from a distance. I don't know why."

"White hair is not the point, the point is that she is still alive." The queen mother thought for a while and said: "No matter what the reason is, you should be watched secretly, and don't let her spoil our good deeds, especially if people stare at her." Close to the grove, Aijia doesn’t want to come closer.”

"The slaves have already sent more people near the woods, not even a fly can fly in." Aunt Liu respectfully said, "Is the queen mother too careful, the queen will not tear you apart for Liu Zhaoran."

"They have already broken up with the Ai family, but they didn't break it in front of outsiders."

"I'm a little confused." Aunt Liu said, "It's not time to tear your face apart, why did the Empress Dowager embarrass Mrs. Lu in public last time?"

"The Ai family just wants them to know that the Ai family has not given up." The queen mother stroked her temples gracefully and said, "Madam Lu is not easy to deal with, but the Ai family heard that the fifth house of the Lu family is restless, so you can ask the Ai family Ask Mrs. Fifth, if there is anything I need help from Aijia."

"The slave will let people find a way to get close to the Qing family."

"You know this Fifth Madam!" The queen mother was a little surprised, she didn't expect Aunt Liu to be ready to deal with the Lu family.

"Ms. Qing is a very interesting person." Aunt Liu said with a smile: "In order to marry Lu Yi, she secretly drugged Lu Yi's study, but it was not Lu Yi who lived in the study that night, but the fifth son, Lu Xiu. The two are about the same size, so the result can be imagined."

"Old Madam Lu originally didn't want such a woman to enter the door, but two months later, Qing Shi became pregnant, and Madam Lu only let Qing Shi in because of the child. Unexpectedly, Qing Shi always remembered the past. They always target Lu Yi and his daughter everywhere, and deliberately spread rumors from time to time to slander Lu Xu's reputation."

After Aunt Liu finished talking about Qing's past, she lowered her voice and said, "Qing's heart is hard to calm down now, and he is focused on finding a way to get ahead. The Empress Dowager can help her."

"It takes a chance to help her."

"Slaves will make arrangements."

Suddenly a eunuch hurried in.

Kneeling on the ground with a plop: "Queen Mother, it's not good, something happened in the small forest."

The queen mother stood up from the phoenix seat abruptly when she heard the words, sat down again after a long while and said: "Forget it, it's not like there is no chance in the future, the time is still long."

"Tell me what's going on?" Aunt Liu asked the eunuch to explain the situation.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the servant passed through the woods just now and found that all of our guards outside were gone. When I went in, I found that they were all lying in the woods."

"Who did it?" Aunt Liu was still in shock, she thought about it carefully and said: "There is no such person around the Queen who can quietly bring down our people and take them away without any effort."

"Just because the Queen doesn't have such talents around her, doesn't mean there aren't others around her."

"The Empress Dowager refers to Lu Xu..." Aunt Liu hesitated and said, "Probably not, the girls around her don't have the ability either."

"Send someone to ask right away if Lu Xu has been in the Palace of Yuxiu all this time." The Empress Dowager said with a serious face, "Once Lu Xu fully recovers, it will be a disaster for us, you should understand."

"Slaves understand."

Aunt Liu sighed: "It's been more than three years, she can't recover."

The Queen Mother shook her head, and said slowly after a long time: "We said a lot of things that shouldn't be said in front of her. Once she fully recovers, she may remember those things, and then it will be a catastrophe. Hurry up and find a way to hook up with the Qing family, and you must let her be used by us, and the Ai family must know everything about Lu Xu."

"The servant will do it right away."

Aunt Liu left in a hurry, and the draft didn't stop here.

In Yuxiu Hall, the Empress quietly looked down at the beautiful women who were teaching Auntie how to practice.

Suddenly seeing a shadow floating in, the Empress finally had a smile on her face: "Xu'er, sit next to Bengong, you can't see the side clearly."

A "yes" came from below, Lu Xu walked to the empress, and said in a low voice: "The matter is settled, why did the empress save Liu Zhaoran? If the empress spreads the matter, it will be difficult for the emperor to tell the victims of the flood family members."

"Don't worry, the Empress Dowager dare not." The Empress Dowager said firmly, "Once word spreads, the matter of Prince Ding will not be kept secret."

"It's the minister who is worrying too much." Lu Xu glanced across the embroidered girls below, and saw Lu Yi and Lu Jie inside, as well as Liang Xi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Empress, why are the three of them down here?"

"You have to go through the whole set if you go through the motions."

The empress looked at the three of them and said: "The three of them are all good, but it's a pity that they don't intend to enter the palace to be concubines."

Lu Xu glanced again and found three familiar figures, and asked in surprise: "Princesses from Houtu, Beiyi, and Xuebu, they also want to participate in this kind of training."

"They are not princesses now, they are compensation for the turmoil last time." The Empress and Lu Xu exchanged glances, and Lu Xu immediately nodded to express his understanding.

She used to be a princess, but now she is the abandoned son of the three major tribes.

If she wanted to gain a firm foothold in the harem, she could only put away her airs as a princess and become the emperor's concubine.

"How are you and Fanxing?" The empress smiled mysteriously and knew, "I let you enter the palace this time to let you meet Fanxing."

"Empress, your motives are impure."

"If you want a horse to run fast, you must not only feed it well, but also satisfy its needs."

Lu Xu immediately covered his face and snickered, and after a while he said, "Grandmother and father have repeatedly ordered and refused to allow the courtier's daughter to meet him alone in private."

"So I will help you." The empress covered her face with a smile and said, "Today is the first round of the draft, and there are still a few rounds to come. Every time I ask him to pick you up, so that you can meet up from time to time, and have a good time together." Relieve the pain of lovesickness."

"The pain of lovesickness, it shouldn't be enough."

"Isn't it?"

The queen stroked Lu Xu's long hair: "Look, although there are many beautiful women down there, are there any who can match up with the crown prince?"

Mentioning Mo Jinli, Lu Xu shook his head and said: "It's good to choose a family with a matching background. If you want a matching appearance, unless my mother is resurrected, I will give my minister a younger sister."

"You're talking stupid again." The empress couldn't help sighing, "With the looks of this palace and the emperor, how could you give birth to his appearance? Whose lady doesn't feel inferior when she sees him, let alone being his Crown Princess."

"Fate is a wonderful thing." Lu Xu thought for a while and said, "Just look at my father and mother."

"Your father and your mother came together, it was indeed beyond our expectation." The empress recalled: "At that time, there were a lot of marriage proposals in the Shanglu Mansion, and all the aristocratic families in the capital went. I didn't like it until I met your mother at the South Market Market."

"Your mother was wearing two braids, wearing a white dress, and said some strange but funny things."

"What strange and interesting words?" Lu Xu asked curiously, and the empress thought for a while and said, "The sentence that impressed me the most is that women should dance in the square when they are old, and that what women are most afraid of is not death, It's not that the husband has changed his mind to accept a concubine, but that he is getting old and out of shape."

"Although the court lady doesn't know what square dancing is, the following words... the court lady thinks it makes sense."

Lu Xu imagined that he was old and ugly, and his figure was out of shape again, and couldn't help shivering: "Empress, is there any way to not grow old?"

"If I have a way, it won't be what it is now." The empress looked at the beautiful girl below and said, "It's nice to be young, I'm so envious."

"If His Royal Highness hadn't called you Queen Mother, who would have believed that you have been a mother for more than 20 years." Lu Xu looked at the Queen and said, "The Empress Empress looks exactly the same as when I first saw you. Defeating beauty."

"Your small mouth is used to making me happy." The empress stroking Lu Xu's long hair: "I have always envied your mother."

"Mother should also be very envious of you, Empress Empress." Lu Xu said lightly: "Mother has a lot of fate. She was not close to each other when she was young, and she often couldn't even eat when she was young. She finally met my father, but she has a courtier's daughter. The early illness was not as smooth as the empress's."

Mentioning that her mother, Lu Xu, was full of sadness, the Empress Empress was taken aback and said, "I have only met your mother a few times, so I don't know that her life is so ups and downs."

"When my daughter-in-law and mother-in-law were alive, my daughter-in-law was still young and didn't know much about her." Lu Xu also said full of grievances: "Now that my daughter-in-law has grown up, my father doesn't want to mention my mother, even I don’t even know her surname.”

"I only listen to Lu Xiang calling her Han'er, as for her surname..." The empress thought for a while and said, "Go back to my palace and ask the emperor."

"Thank you empress!"

Lu Xu immediately knelt down to salute, but was stopped by the empress and said, "Don't kneel back and forth, I will feel tired even if you are not tired."

Pulling Lu Xu to sit next to him, looking at the beautiful girl below, he said, "The queen mother specially instructed me to choose some good-looking and fertile women to put next to the emperor. If I deliberately avoid choosing them, it will be against the queen mother. Yizhi, the second is that I still want a princess, how do you think I should choose?"

"The courtier should not have asked about this matter. The empress asked, and the courtier dared to say something."

Lu Xu thought for a moment and said: "The empress can select according to the selection standards of the past dynasties, and keep those who meet the standards, and the emperor will decide who will be retained in the end."

Hearing this, the empress couldn't help laughing: "You are a ghost, but what you said is very reasonable. There are standards for beautiful girls. We don't care who sent the beautiful girls. If they meet the standards, we will keep them." If you don’t meet the requirements, you will be sent back to marry yourself.”

"Zhen'er, call the female officer in charge of the teaching, I have something to tell them."

(End of this chapter)