Chen Palace

Chapter 28 The Royal Family
When Yuan Qi came to visit again the next day, Chen Lu was able to get up, thanked the emperor for his concern, and she asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, what happened to the Tatar envoy?"

"They are still in the embassy. The young man hangs around in the brothel and Chu Pavilion all day long, and the day before yesterday he even fought over a girl in a flower boat..." Yuan Qi gritted his teeth and said angrily: "The Huahua River and Mountains in the Central Plains make them happy to leave. Asking for it this time will definitely be even more depressing!"

Chen Lu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I remember that another messenger called the young man Lord Mu Na."

"What about this?"

"Your Majesty, I know a thing or two about the customs of the Tatars. They also call each other's surnames on solemn occasions. 'Muna' is just a name in Tatar language—who is this person? "

Yuan Qi raised his eyebrows: "You mean..."

"Based on this alone, I wouldn't doubt him, but that day, when I pointed my sword at each other, he made a very strange movement——"

Chen Lu picked up the flying phoenix inlaid with amber jade hairpin, and made a movement of drawing the sword obliquely.

"Ordinary warriors usually dance with a sword flower when they rise up. If the opponent is an elder, at most the first move will be courtesy. If he draws his sword obliquely like this, if he pulls it out, it will fall at the top—this is the Tatar It is a unique gesture of the Tartar royal family, which means: fight with me, and I forgive you all injuries."

Yuan Qi stood up abruptly: "You mean, that man is from the Tatar royal family?"

"Nine times out of ten."

"Too much deceit, do they think that I am a fool and blind all over the world?! This time I want to let him come and go."

Yuan Qi sneered, turned his head, and the young emperor stared at the beautiful lady with tender and admiring eyes: "This time it's thanks to you again!"

Chen Lu smiled and shook her head: "The emperor really killed me when he said that, but there are only a few Tatar royal families, so there are no portraits of them in the court?"

One word awakened the dreamer, and Yuan Qi immediately realized the strangeness. He got up and wanted to go back to Qianqing Palace. Before leaving, he grasped the slender catkin of Chenlu—

"You have a good rest! I'll come back tomorrow."

He stared at the young girl, holding it in his hands with fiery determination.

After a while, he only said these two words, as if something was chasing him, he hurried away.

Interesting……

Chen Lu couldn't help but smile, such a rich man, unexpectedly being so embarrassed——

What a fool!
This should have been said coquettishly, but in her mind, it echoed like a nightmare——

what a fool...

Many years ago, who was so embarrassed that he couldn't even say a word of love?
Yuan Xu...

She narrowed her eyes.

Yuan Qi didn't see the complicated eyes of the beautiful woman behind him—even if he saw it, he probably thought it was a different kind of charming and fresh. He hurried back to Qianqing Palace, took out the portraits of Tatar dignitaries collected in the army, and compared them one by one.

Nothing was found, no matter which one it was, it was very different from this handsome and overly handsome messenger.

Annoyed in his heart, he summoned Qu Yun's powerful guards and said, "Go to the capital camp to send an order to surround the Tatar envoy's premises!"

After a cup of tea, the guard returned to the palace, but his face was pale and his eyes were dodgy.

"What's the matter, you sent an order to come back?" The emperor looked up at him, knowing that something was wrong, he frowned, and was about to ask, only to hear someone outside said lightly: "I asked him to come back!"

"Mother?!"

Yuan Qi turned around in amazement, only to see that the palace door was wide open, surrounded by maids and maidservants, and the Empress Dowager, supported by the left and right, entered slowly.

She was dressed in a light silver silk dress with the word "Fu" engraved on it, and she was covered with a waistcoat. She showed her majesty from looking around.

"Mother, why are you here?"

"If I don't come today, there will still be a place for me in the Sheji Ancestral Temple in his year?!" The queen mother sneered, glanced at all the people in the hall, and immediately fell to her knees.

"Why did the queen mother say that?"

"Let me ask you, why do you want them to surround the messenger's house?"

"The queen mother told me that there may be Tatar royal family among the envoys—they entered the country in disguise, and they clearly came to investigate the reality of my celestial dynasty and wait for future action."

"There are such things!"

There was a flash of light in the Empress Dowager's eyes, Yuan Qi only felt that in an instant, those pupils were crystal clear and colorful - the Empress Dowager must have been a great beauty back then!
This thought flashed in his mind, and in the dark, another pair of eyes that bullied Shuang Saixue and were unparalleled in his heart faintly emerged.

He shook his head, dismissed these wild thoughts, and told the Queen Mother about the doubts.

The Empress Dowager thought for a moment, then sighed, and said, "Your Majesty, you'd better give up!"

"Mother!"

Yuan Qi's heart burst into flames, knowing that she was going to talk about it again.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager said: "Even if the royal family pretends to be an envoy, we can only endure it. The two countries will fight each other, and they will not be beheaded. If you hurt him even the slightest bit, how will the people of the world think of you?"

Yuan Qi raised his eyebrows: "Mother, when the two countries send envoys, the most important thing is integrity! If the leader of one party regards the other party as nothing, conceals his name, and sneaks in in disguise, then he has an intention to do something wrong. At this time Do you still want to talk about benevolence and forgiveness?!"

The queen mother was sullen and interrupted him: "So, the emperor has made up his mind to tear himself apart with the envoy? You have to think clearly, once you offend the Tatars, the world will fall into war again!"

"I hope that the world can rest and stop fighting, but the character of a jackal is not familiar with it!"

Yuan Qi has no return to his usual respect and etiquette, and his vision is unstoppable——

"The queen mother had better read the letter from Khulu Khan. He asked for 20 young women, 200 million taels of gold and silver each, as well as silk, satin and iron ware, as well as craftsmen such as firing porcelain and shipbuilding... If I agree to him, I will give you money." What a shame for the world!"

"Hulu is always rude, so why should he be as knowledgeable as him? The emperor acted so rashly. If there is a war, what will my dynasty have against those [-] cavalry?"

The Empress Dowager sat in the middle and pointed to Yuan Qi with her fingers: "Don't even think about it. In terms of military strength, generals, and morale, how can we compare? What's more, Jiangnan is suffering from floods this year, and the mountain is plagued by locusts—— "

"Mother, don't worry about these government affairs!" Yuan Qi said firmly.

He sneered, with murderous intent in his eyes, like a long sword out of its sheath, scanning the people around the Queen Mother
"The empress dowager lives in the harem for a long time, and some people wantonly spread these court affairs, making Cijia uneasy. Shouldn't such a person be punished?"

In a word, everyone was scared out of their wits, only Aunt Ye was at ease.

The empress dowager turned pale with anger: "The emperor meant that I should not interfere with state affairs?!"

Yuan Qi personally took the fragrant tea from the hands of the palace servants, and bowed to present it to the Queen Mother, with a solemn and filial piety——

"How dare my son have such treasonous thoughts. It is right for the queen mother to worry about state affairs, but there are always some villains who are not safe and stir up the restlessness in the palace, so I have to warn them to make an example to others!"

The Empress Dowager refused to take the teacup, and said angrily: "The emperor wants to go his own way on purpose, and it is dangerous to do it with the country and the country!"

Yuan Qi held the ceremony even more respectfully, and said: "The minister is also for the reputation of my heavenly court——has the queen mother forgotten how insulting and disrespectful Hulu was to you in the last letter!!!"

This last sentence made the Queen Mother choke and had nothing to say.

When Yuan Qi was young, the queen mother supported the court alone. Hulu Khan once wrote a letter. The words were very frivolous and disrespectful. There was even a sentence about you and me being widowed and widowed, why not make fun of each other, which is simply naked insult.

Yuan Qi sent the Queen Mother away, pondering in the Qianqing Palace, he hesitated, he thought for a while, and then came to the Biyue Palace where the morning dew took a rest.

"Is the emperor really going to war with the Tatars?"

The girl hadn't rested yet, she hurriedly greeted her, and after hearing what she wanted, she asked.

"I am not warlike, but if the Tatars regard the courteousness of the Celestial Dynasty as a provocation that is weak and can be bullied, I will not be afraid of a war!"

The girl snorted, her smile rippling under the moonlight, making people dazzled——

"But the Tartars don't want to go to war with you!"

Shocking, she said.

(End of this chapter)