Ape remembered that His Highness and the Crown Princess had made an agreement before. She would handle all matters in the harem and the East Palace. Since the Crown Princess did not ask for help from His Highness, it should be fine.
Moreover, I had eaten and drank enough, and I was in a very good mood. When I was in a good mood, I would not lose my temper, and I had enough patience to argue with the queen.
Leng Xiao slowly walked into Feixia Palace. She walked by herself without a carriage along the way. Fine beads of sweat oozed from her white forehead and stuck to her forehead. Although she didn't exercise enough, she still had enough food.
Entering the palace, one could see the queen's gloomy expression.
As a mother-in-law, she was unable to deal with things. It could be seen from what happened to Concubine Hui that Leng Xiao knew this.
She is Nangong Yitian's biological mother. If he doesn't have to, he doesn't want to get into too much trouble with her.
She stepped forward to salute, and the queen wanted to scold her for kneeling down, but seeing that she was heavy, she couldn't bear the embarrassment and asked her to stand and speak and was not allowed to sit down.
Leng Xiao had guessed it before he came.
"I ask you, have you grounded Hong Liangyuan?" The queen immediately launched an attack to accuse her.
Leng Xiao said: "If you go back to your mother, your daughter-in-law will indeed confine Hong Lingling to Huiguang Hall."
"For what?" the queen asked coldly.
"She took Si Nian away from the study without authorization..."
The queen interrupted her and said in a sullen voice: "You ground her just because of this trivial matter? Are you trying to show off your majesty as a princess? Making a fuss out of a molehill."
Leng Xiao lowered her hands, "Mother, she took Si Nian away in the study without notifying anyone. How much panic will this cause? My daughter-in-law thinks it is not making a fuss. Moreover, my daughter-in-law thinks she is using Si Nian to compete for favor. I am absolutely We will not allow anyone to compete for favor with our children.”
The queen was furious, "What do you think? Do you have any real evidence? Didn't she just like Si Nian and take him there to eat a few cakes? What's the big deal? Even if she was reckless and didn't inform the people waiting in the study, what's the matter? Just say a few words to her, but you are going to make a big fuss, not only kicking the cook out of the East Palace, but also grounding Hong Liangyuan, is it necessary?"
The queen became more and more angry as she spoke and glanced at her belly, "As for using children to win favors, don't you have the guts to do so because you have children in your belly? Besides, even if they really want to invite favors, they are just forcing you to do so. The people who came out have all entered the palace, and you didn’t arrange for them to sleep with them, so you just left them hanging, is it your fault?”
Leng Xiao said: "Before they entered the palace, they already knew that they were just decorations. They knew they couldn't do anything but did it because they were lucky. The choice was made by themselves, and they must bear the consequences themselves."
"What do you mean by knowing that you are just a decoration before entering the palace?" The queen was really annoyed that she said this, and couldn't help but raise her voice, "Even if this is what the queen mother advocated, people have also entered the palace. It's a foregone conclusion. You You can't be so stingy anymore. As the Crown Princess and the future mother of the country, if you are blindly narrow-minded, you will be disliked by others sooner or later. Do you know what people outside say about you, the Crown Princess? They say that you can't even live in a small household. I can’t compare to any woman from my family background, but I know how to be jealous and my methods are vicious.”
Leng Xiao was silent. She couldn't control what was said outside. She had done everything she could. At this time, she would rather not share her husband with other women in exchange for the so-called virtuous reputation.
Seeing that she lowered her head and said nothing, the Queen felt that she had spoken a little too harshly, and raised her hands and said: "Forget it, since you are pregnant, I can't bear to criticize you too much, but you can't do this in the future. Let Hong Liangyuan be released, and then arrange for the two of them to sleep in the bed. The Lu Shi was originally listed in the sleeping room book, and I think it's okay, so just follow the sleeping room book."
