Seeing Emperor Dehui acting careless again, the Queen Mother became more and more depressed as she listened, and couldn't help but tighten the cup in her hand.
"emperor!"
After Emperor Dehui finished speaking, the Queen Mother couldn't help but let out a low drink, but then suppressed the anger in her heart, sighed deeply, and said: "The Ai family knows that you have never been interested in seeing the Queen, but Emperor, please ask yourself, In this harem, who can be as devoted to you as the queen? For you, she can even abandon her own life. "
Emperor Dehui's fingers tapping on the table suddenly paused, and a faint crease appeared between his brows, "Could it be that the Queen Mother wants to pick up the flowers in the morning and bring up the old things again?"
Emperor Dehui's gaze lingered on the Queen Mother's face for a moment, then fell on the tea cup in front of her, and said in a very plain tone: "Yes, when I fell into the water, it was the Queen who saved me regardless of her own life, but Won’t I also let her get her wish and make her the queen? I can’t give her anything other than the supreme honor and rights.”
As he spoke, a cold light flashed in Emperor Dehui's eyes, but it dissipated without a trace in an instant. After he finished speaking, Fang raised his eyes and looked at the Queen Mother again, with a hint of depth in her eyes, "The Queen Mother should know that there must be a limit to repaying a favor."
"Extorting favors in return?" The Queen Mother suddenly stared at Emperor Dehui, the anger in her eyes seemed to be rekindled.
She almost laughed at Emperor Dehui's words, and immediately raised her eyebrows and asked: "In the past twenty years, has the emperor ever had a good attitude toward the queen? The emperor sang and sang every night, and the number of people in the harem was increasing day by day. If it weren't for the queen's conscientiousness, How can the emperor enjoy the peace of the harem when he works hard and takes care of all the affairs of the harem for you? The Ai family would like to ask, whose favor is the emperor extorting from in order to repay a favor? Who is he repaying? "
After hearing this, Emperor Dehui raised his lips and smiled noncommittally. Then he picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He said without changing his expression: "As a queen, she should work hard for everything in the harem. If she feels that she is not up to her ability, I will You can change someone else to do it, it’s not that difficult.”
The Queen Mother was startled when she heard this, her face suddenly turned pale, and her heart suddenly sank like a boulder falling into the lake.
The queen is her biological niece. She worked hard and tried her best to push her to the throne of the queen. In order to prevent the queen from falling by the wayside and maintain the glory of the family forever, what if the emperor took away the power of the queen? Is it equivalent to weakening the power of her mother's clan and openly slapping herself in the face?
The Queen Mother suddenly darkened her face, her brows filled with anger, and she suddenly raised her voice: "What does the Emperor mean by this? You must not forget that she is not only the Queen of Nanling, but also your cousin and your only one." A beautiful wife!"
"Wife?" Emperor Dehui raised his eyebrows, and a smile with unknown meaning appeared on his lips. His narrow red phoenix eyes looked colder and colder, "What the mother said is wrong. She is a queen, but she is only a queen." She can be a queen, that’s all.”
"You!" The Queen Mother suddenly became angry, her eyes widened suddenly, and she glared at Emperor Dehui. Her lips trembled slightly, but she didn't say a word for a long time.
Emperor Dehui's words "that's all" contained too many meanings, and expressed his attitude vividly - in his heart, the queen was just a queen, and he would not treat her as his wife, let alone let her She became the future Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother felt her heart suffocate, and an indescribable sadness and anger surged from the bottom of her heart, spreading uncontrollably in her chest, almost engulfing her whole body. The grand blueprint in my heart that had been built for the family's glory for generations collapsed at this moment and turned into ruins.
It wasn't until this moment that she suddenly realized that the man in dragon robes before her was no longer the son who obeyed her words.
A look of sadness flashed across the Queen Mother's eyes, but only for a moment, it was replaced by an imperceptible harshness. She stared at Emperor Dehui, her eyes as sharp as a knife, and asked angrily: "How could the emperor have such thoughts? Even if you don't care about the relationship between husband and wife with the queen, how can you completely ignore the relationship between mother and son with the Aijia?" Don’t you care?!”
Hearing the Queen Mother's questions, Emperor Dehui turned the blood jade finger between his fingers and said without a trace of emotion in his tone, "The Queen Mother's words are wrong. If I don't care about the love between mother and son, how can Zhou Baiqing be able to sit on the Imperial Guard?" The position of commander-in-chief of the army is to take charge of more than 30,000 forbidden troops in the imperial city for me?"
"Zhou Baiqing?" When she heard that Emperor Dehui called him by his first name in private, the Queen Mother couldn't help but sneered, "He is your uncle and your relative——"
"It doesn't matter who he is. I just want to tell my mother that only by knowing what is enough will not be humiliated and knowing where to stop will it be possible for a long time."
Emperor Dehui's face changed, and there was a hint of embarrassment in his expression. He immediately interrupted the Queen Mother's words, and his voice suddenly became colder, "Since I have handed over the lifeblood of the entire imperial city to my mother, I will I gave it to the Zhou family, I don’t know how my mother will let me take care of the love between mother and son?"
The Queen Mother was suddenly startled. A certain word from Emperor Dehui seemed to have touched a chord in her heart. A bit of surprise flashed across her eyes, but she quickly restrained herself.
After a brief shock, the Queen Mother slowly clenched her fists and asked in a deep voice: "Is the Emperor warning the Ai family to know how to be content?"
Seeing that the anger in the Queen Mother's eyes gradually faded, and there was a hint of probing, Emperor Dehui did not say anything, but calmly withdrew his gaze from her face, and then lowered his eyes to play with the blood jade finger between his fingers. A touch of irony quietly passed through the bottom.
The Queen Mother stared at Emperor Dehui closely, as if she wanted to read some clues from his face, but seeing Emperor Dehui lowering his head and saying nothing, the Queen Mother felt a little worried and suspicious in her heart.
After a long time, she suddenly laughed at herself and murmured to herself: "The emperor has grown up now, and I am afraid he has long forgotten how he climbed to this supreme position by stepping on the beautiful road paved by the Zhou family for you. It turns out that it is The Ai family made a mistake, they actually expected the emperor to be grateful to the queen for saving your life and the Zhou family for supporting you. It is really ridiculous, ridiculous!"
After hearing this, Emperor Dehui frowned and couldn't help but look up. But seeing the Queen Mother lowering her eyes and covering her forehead, her face was slumped, and her expression could not hide her sadness. A complex look flashed in Emperor Dehui's eyes, but it disappeared in an instant, replaced by a kind of extreme indifference.
One of the mother and son was preoccupied, the other was silent. For a moment, there seemed to be a layer of gloom in the air, which made people feel depressed.
"Reporting to the Emperor and the Queen Mother, Prince Lu is asking for an audience outside the palace."
Just when the atmosphere in the hall was a bit dull, Pei Rong, who was guarding outside the hall, opened his mouth to report.
"Didn't this kid leave the palace? Why did he come back?" Emperor Dehui muttered to himself, then raised his brows and ordered Peirong: "Hurry up!"
As soon as Emperor Dehui finished speaking, he saw the Queen Mother caressing her forehead, looking slightly depressed, but the sad look on her face just now was gone.
Emperor Dehui glanced at her lightly, with a trace of sarcasm passing across his lips, and then he buried his head in fiddling with the teacup, and suddenly said: "Since I can remember, everything my mother asked me to do, no matter how reluctant I am, I can't do it." I have done everything according to my mother's wishes, but I hope that my mother will not interfere in Huaizhou's life in the future."
Emperor Dehui's voice was low, but extremely heavy, as if it contained a sense of hatred and a hint of warning.
The Queen Mother was shocked, and just as she was about to say something, she saw Luo Huaizhou slowly walking in from outside the palace, saluting the two of them and saying, "I have met the Queen, and I have met the Imperial Brother."
