The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 377 Mother's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety (Part 2)

Gu Jiao is not good at dealing with emotional problems, but she remembered that her aunt liked Xue Ningxiang very much, but she couldn't remember Xue Ningxiang after her brain was smashed once.

"Miss Gu is here!"

The servants of Renshou Palace saluted Gu Jiao.

"Is the queen mother there?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Yes, I just went to court." The palace man added, "His Royal Highness King Ning is also here."

Well?

King Ning is back?

After Gu Jiao got closer to the palace, she could hear some movements in the court without deliberately inquiring. A few days ago, King Ning took Tang Yueshan to the north to suppress the bandits.

They said they were suppressing bandits, but in fact, they used the opportunity of suppressing bandits to investigate the military situation at the border - Chen Guo was restless again, and quietly stationed a lot of troops at the border.

Since it was about political affairs, Gu Jiao didn't bother, and went directly to the swing to bask in the sun.

She is not afraid of tanning, although it seems that this body cannot be tanned.

While swinging on the swing, she was secretly thinking about when she would find the pleasure of finding Concubine Jing again. That woman had harmed her aunt for so many years, and even if she couldn't be pulled down immediately, the interest would have to be charged.

Just as he was thinking about it, an inaccurate call suddenly came from behind him: "Auntie?"

"Huh?" When Gu Jiao's figure swung back to the ground, she stretched out her toes and stopped the swing.

Then she turned her head and looked at the handsome young man who walked through the Hanging Flower Gate, "Prince Ning?"

King Ning was in a daze for a moment, he let out an ah, came back to his senses, and smiled a little apologetically: "Sorry, I recognized the wrong person."

His eyes wandered back and forth on Gu Jiao's body, "It's really similar."

Gu Jiao looked down at her clothes, it wasn't the Tsing Yi she used to wear, but the lake blue skirt with water sleeves and tunic worn by her aunt after she got dirty last time.

Is it because of the wrong clothes? still--

Gu Jiao has never asked her aunt why there are so many young women's clothes in her bedroom? She thought her great-aunt had prepared it for her.

But right now, it seems not.

That's right, it shouldn't be.

Obviously the styles are different.

As long as it doesn't involve tasks, Gu Jiao is not a person who will care about the details of clothing.

Yao shi normally makes clothes for her by speculating on her preferences, but in fact she is not so picky about clothes, just like someone who likes to eat meat,

But if you give him a table of vegetables, he will not refuse to eat them.

Whichever suit she got in the cabinet is whichever suit she can wear, and she happened to be wearing this suit today.

King Ning rescued Gu Jiao once when he and Princess Rui were attacked. The two were not very familiar with each other at that time, and now I don't know if it was because he had heard about the relationship between Gu Jiao and the Queen Mother, or because Gu Jiao's body made him Dressed in a familiar way, he actually took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Gu Jiao.

"Has anyone ever told you that you look like Aunt Ning An?" He asked.

"Princess Ning An?" Gu Jiao shook her head, "No."

King Ning smiled and said: "My aunt married Saibei far away when I was very young, and I have never seen her since, but my aunt is very kind to me, and I always remember her."

Gu Jiao snorted and asked, "Do we look alike?"

Then she will have to doubt her own life experience.

"No, you don't look alike..." King Ning said, his eyes fell on the birthmark on her left cheek, "But this place, she was injured and left a small scar, which is always painted with cinnabar A crabapple."

Gu Jiao touched her own birthmark.

King Ning couldn't help but look at Gu Jiao a few more times: "I was busy catching assassins last time, but I didn't think they looked very similar. I saw you today..."

It can make King Ning look like Ning An in three words. It seems that she is really similar to Princess Ning An except for this face.

Most people will be very happy to be praised as a princess, which means that she has the temperament and aura of a princess, which is a high praise.

However, Gu Jiao was very calm.

Neither happy nor unhappy.

King Ning said again: "I've heard about the Queen Mother. I haven't thanked you and your family for taking care of the Queen Mother. If you need anything, you can come to Ning Prince's Mansion to find me at any time."

Regardless of whether King Ning was assassinated last time because of Princess Rui's sake, or because of the prince's duties, it is an indisputable fact that Gu Jiao escaped unharmed because of him.

Gu Jiao nodded: "Okay."

King Ning seemed very happy, and smiled: "Then it's settled. By the way, I heard from the Queen Mother that you have good medical skills. I wonder if I can invite you to see a doctor at your residence."

"The consultation fee is not cheap." Gu Jiao said.

King Ning probably didn't expect Gu Jiao to react like this, ordinary adults would be honored to be able to go to the palace for medical treatment, and they would be so honored that they would have to charge the consultation fee, King Ning probably didn't expect Gu Jiao to react like this, he didn't know how to accept it for a while talk.

After a while, he couldn't help but say, "This is natural."

Gu Jiao said: "When I'm free, I'll send someone to deliver a post to the palace."

King Ning smiled: "Then it's settled, I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first."

After King Ning left, Gu Jiao got up from the swing and walked to the aunt's study.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang was reading the brochures, when she saw Gu Jiao coming in, she hummed angrily.

My aunt was always like this, so Gu Jiao didn't feel that she had done something unreasonable. She walked over and handed Xue Ningxiang's letter to her aunt.

"What?" asked the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

"Xue Ningxiang's letter, does my aunt still remember her?" Gu Jiao asked.

Empress Zhuang frowned in thought.

Gu Jiao reminded: "Goofy's mother."

When it comes to puppies, the Empress Dowager Zhuang has a good impression. Give a candied baby that can be licked all day in her yard. It's not noisy at all, and it's much better than Xiaoqingkong!

Then Empress Dowager Zhuang remembered Xue Ningxiang.

The main reason is that Xue Ningxiang's cooking is delicious, while Liulang's cooking is terrible. As long as Gu Jiao is not around, she will call Xue Ningxiang to cook.

"The food is well cooked," said the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

"Read the letter first." Gu Jiao said.

Empress Dowager Zhuang read the letter at a glance. To be honest, Xue Ningxiang's handwriting was really ugly, but with Gu Jiao's "bead and jade in front", Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that this kind of handwriting was barely acceptable.

"Yo." Empress Dowager Zhuang raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Xiangxiang is quite popular."

Look at this reaction, as expected of my aunt.

Gu Jiao sat down opposite the Empress Dowager Zhuang and looked at her without blinking: "Really? Then how should we solve this matter?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't speak, but stretched out her hand, making a "bring it" gesture.

Gu Jiao pretended not to understand: "What?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly: "Stop pretending to Ai's family! Make up for yesterday's performance fee! Otherwise, we won't talk about it!"

just know.

"That's good." Gu Jiao sighed, reluctantly took out the candied fruit box, counted five and put them in the Empress Dowager Zhuang's hand, and said with a heartbroken face, "There are only a few of these, and there is no room left." Gotta eat."

The Empress Dowager Zhuang choked on Gu Jiao's exaggerated and eye-catching acting skills. It's a good thing that this girl didn't enter the palace to compete for favor, otherwise, who could be fooled by her acting skills?

but--

Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at her little fist.

It seemed that she didn't need to put on a show, as if she punched down, the emperor would lie down.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang took the candied fruit and said to Gu Jiao: "What's so difficult about this? Who does she like, Aijia can just marry her."

The issue is--

Xue Ningxiang didn't write who she liked in the letter.

Gu Jiao raised her eyebrows: "Then I should write her a letter?"

"Forget it, she won't say such things in the letter." Empress Dowager Zhuang called Eunuch Qin, "You send two reliable people to the county seat of Youzhou."

Empress Dowager Zhuang explained the matter, and Eunuch Qin took orders.

This is the convenience brought by power, no matter the method or speed of solving the problem is simple and rude.

With her aunt taking over, Gu Jiao doesn't have to worry about this matter, she is just curious, one is the middle-aged uncle Nuan, and the other is the infatuated little wolf dog, who will Xue Ningxiang choose to marry?

Gu Jiao was thinking about it, when the eunuch's message came from outside the door - the emperor is coming.

The emperor came to find the Empress Dowager Zhuang to act.

Even if the emperor is now gradually disgusted with Concubine Jing, he will not see her true face so quickly, so the emperor always thought that the murderer was still in the dark and hadn't made a move yet.

Gu Jiao who has grasped the whole truth - no, she not only made a move, but also smashed her own foot.

Forget it, let's act, it's not a bad thing.

The aunt has tolerated the emperor for so many years without knowing that the emperor was drugged, who can say that she really doesn't care about the mother-child relationship in the past?

Gu Jiao also kept the truth from her aunt.

Therefore, my aunt also thought that Concubine Jing was holding back.

"Is the queen mother going to visit the imperial garden today?" the emperor said lightly.

This is also a bad acting!

Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes, she didn't leave Renshou Palace, Empress Dowager Zhuang was too lazy to act with him: "Go, why not? But—"

She elongated her tone and deliberately glanced at Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao understands.

Candied fruit.

I understand!

Just in time, she also observed how far the emperor's medicine effect on the aunt had reached. Nan Shiniang said that when Chinese medicine practitioners need such a large dose of medicine, it means that the medicine effect is almost impossible to maintain.

She wasn't quite sure whether it was Concubine Jing's white medicine that couldn't last, or my aunt's black medicine couldn't last, or both medicines were failing at the same time.

Gu Jiao gestured to her aunt that there was no problem.

Empress Dowager Zhuang raised her eyebrows and looked at her "five candied fruit" with satisfaction: "Let's go."

emperor:"……"

Is it an illusion? Why does it feel like the Queen Mother is drooling while looking at me?

The two of them didn't have any complaints about Gu Jiao's little tail, so Gu Jiao followed her leisurely.

Eunuch Qin and Eunuch Wei are naturally there too, but they have a low sense of presence, unlike Gu Jiao, who is sitting on the Queen Mother's phoenix——

The emperor and Empress Dowager Zhuang walked all the way to the Imperial Garden.

The weather is fine today, and there are many people in the imperial garden.

Coincidentally, Concubine Jing was also there.

Empress Dowager Zhuang entered her role as soon as she left Renshou Palace, and she was not affected by Concubine Jing's existence at all, but the emperor beside her froze slightly when she saw Concubine Jing.

There is a panic of being caught.

Concubine Jing looked at the emperor with a hurt face.

The emperor knew that he shouldn't do this, and that his concubine mother was the most important person to him, yet he left concubine mother and Queen Mother Zhuang to go out to visit the garden.

but--

Gu Jiao understood, the effect of the black medicine had only been brought into play a little, the emperor hadn't completely disliked Concubine Jing, his mood at the moment was probably guilty and complicated.

Gu Jiao speculated that Concubine Jing had expected this, so she wanted to come out and see with her own eyes how far the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother had reached, and this was most likely related to her next plan.

Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't know about it, it was originally played for Concubine Jing, it's good that the real deity is here, so as not to tell her through other people's mouths, the effect will be compromised.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the emperor tenderly, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead: "Hong'er, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Let's sit in the pavilion."

"No." The emperor returned to his senses, but did not avoid her touch.

Concubine Jing's eyes deepened.

"Hey, isn't that your mother and concubine?" Empress Dowager Zhuang seemed to see Concubine Jing just now, her tone and eyes could not pick out the slightest mistake, "Eunuch Qin, go and invite Concubine Jing over here."

"Yes!"

Eunuch Qin went to invite Concubine Jing.

Nanny Cai knew that it was extremely irrational in the past at this time, but sometimes people will really think that they can control everything after winning for half their lives, and Concubine Jing agreed.

Several people sat down in the pavilion.

With four stools, Empress Dowager Zhuang sat beside the emperor without hesitation, and Gu Jiao sat on the other side of the emperor, which caused Dowager Jing to sit directly opposite the emperor.

"Hong'er has lost weight recently, so I need to eat more." The Empress Dowager Zhuang gently picked up a piece of crab cake and handed it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty doesn't eat crab cakes." Dowager Jing reminded me gently.

Empress Dowager Zhuang: ...forgot that this silly son was picky.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang said calmly: "He likes it now! Is it? Your Majesty?"

She smiled and gave him a threatening little look.

The emperor frowned, and took the piece of crab cake with disgust.

Empress Dowager Zhuang's handkerchief fell to the ground and was stepped on by herself, so she picked it up conveniently.

Then she picked up the handkerchief and put it on the emperor's mouth: "Oh, why is it the same as when I was a child, eating food all over my mouth? Come, the queen mother will wipe it for you!"

The emperor's temples were throbbing: ... are you looking for death! Don't think that I didn't see that this is the handkerchief you stepped on with your feet!

The eyes of the two fought back and forth more than a dozen times, but it was not the same thing in the eyes of Concubine Jing.

It is clear that they are very close!

Concubine Jing didn't know that the two of them were acting, and she thought they were really starting to rebuild the old one.

A burst of deep jealousy welled up in her heart, Concubine Jing poked the veil in her hand to pieces!

Um. . . . Good morning?