After Dawn Chapter 22: Male Queen (2)

Walking alone in the bustling streets of the capital, the voices of hawkers hawking, the voices of stall owners and customers coming and going to bargain, the voices of two poor girls walking arm in arm whispering... all mixed together , Qing Ran has a feeling of being separated.

In Song Qingran's memory, she sees the same palace walls, the same decorations, and the same people day after day. She is the queen. No one dares to challenge her dignity. Everyone talks to her. She is always cautious at all times, and she strictly demands her words and deeds, as if she was imprisoned in a mold, and her every move has been arranged. The only person who can talk to her well, her husband, the current emperor, never takes her seriously. The women he favored changed one after another, but it was never her. He gave her the respect she deserved as a queen, but he would never give a woman the pity she longed for.

In the fifteen years she was in the deep palace, the feelings in her chest were exhausted little by little, and she no longer longed for the feelings of the beautiful people in the book, but gradually understood the importance of power. So she held the Six Palaces tightly in her hands, and all the concubines and wives were in awe of her. If you can't be the emperor's favorite woman, she will be his most useful woman, so that she can always sit in this high position, instead of being like most of the women in the harem. However, it ended up with a red face and withered bones buried in a deep palace, and the ghost disappeared without anyone asking.

She did. Before Song Chenchen appeared, she was the empress who Zhou Jingsheng praised and praised. There are not a few beautiful women in the harem, and there are not one or two people who are favored by Zhou Jingsheng, but no one has ever been able to take her place. She also thought that she would live like this forever, until Zhou Jingsheng died, until her son ascended to Dabao and the position of Empress Dowager, and lived her lonely but powerful life.

Although lonely, she is much better than most women in this world.

Only Song Chenchen broke all this.

Song Qingran doesn't hate the original Song Chen, the younger brother in her mind is still the unparalleled man, but she hates the current Song Chenchen, hates her for occupying her younger brother's body, and hates her for bewitching the emperor , hate her for harming her own life and her own child...

Song Qingran's biological son, the eldest prince, was scolded by the emperor for his reckless behavior because he broke through Zhou Jingsheng's and Song Chenchen's The scoundrel, fell off the cliff, life and death do not know.

A good one to meet a bad guy.

——It's just murder and silence.

Zhou Jingsheng, you are so cruel!

Disgust, hatred, despair... Countless negative emotions hit Qingran. She closed her eyes and covered her chest. The blush on her face because of the fireworks in March also faded a bit. With Song Qingran's beauty The unparalleled appearance adds to the beauty of the sick Xizi.

"The little lady has an unbearable heart? Why don't you go to the palace with my son and invite the imperial doctor to treat you?" A **** with an oily face and a face pretending to be dashing frivolously provoked Qingran with a golden paper fan in his hand. Chin, after seeing her face clearly, she said obsessively, "This son is the cousin of the current queen, as long as I say something, don't say your heart disease, it is..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a dog around him who naturally took it over: "Even little lady, your lovesickness can be cured for you."

After finishing speaking, the few people standing in front of Qingran raised their heads and laughed loudly, with very proud expressions on their faces.

Song Qingran's emotions were gradually suppressed, Qingran raised her head, her face without makeup and powder showed no expression, but a pair of slightly raised phoenix eyes had an aura of indifference.

"Go!"

Several playboys were stunned for a moment, and the person who claimed to be her cousin who was looking directly into her eyes took a step back subconsciously, but then he reacted, with an excited look on his face: "Yo, I thought I found a sick beauty, but I didn't expect it to be a little wild cat?"

Qing Ran didn't have time to delay with them, frowned and was thinking about how to clean up the few people in front of her, when suddenly there was a sound of horses not far away, and a man got off his horse and ran towards her quickly: "Wei Chen I have seen the Queen Mother."

"General Zhou, don't be too polite." Qing Ran said generously, raising his hand to flatten him.

After the person who was called General Zhou by Qingran stood up, several of the **** disciples who had been so arrogant before suddenly became so frightened that their legs were softened, and then they stiffened their necks and turned to look at Qingran. Only then did they notice The imposing manner of reaching the other party is indeed not something that ordinary girls can have.

What's more, that seemingly simple plain dress was actually woven from Celestial silkworm silk, which was produced in very small quantities throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.

They were blinded by the beauty before, thinking that she was dressed simply and didn't follow her servants.

The sound of "popping" sounded one after another, and several playboys knelt down on the spot and banged their heads.

"The Empress, please spare your life!"

"The Empress, please spare your life!"

……

Fortunately, Qingran was blocked by a few people in an alley. Although you could see the lively market outside, what happened inside was not easy to attract the attention of outsiders. Zhou Jingwen was familiar with it at a glance. A closer look reveals that it was Song Qingran who rushed in to salute.

"Niangniang, how do you deal with these people?" Zhou Jingwen asked.

An unpleasant smell suddenly came, Qing Ran frowned slightly, Zhou Jingwen keenly noticed the displeasure on her face, and kicked several people on the ground: "Go away."

Several people scrambling and running away, leaving yellow water stains on the ground, Qing Ran's expression was indifferent, she knew that Zhou Jingwen would not let them go.

—as it used to be.

The story is a bit old-fashioned, but it doesn't prevent it from being a help for Qingran to complete her mission.

Zhou Jingwen, the younger brother of the current emperor Zhou Jingsheng, was adopted by an old prince who had no children under his knees since he was a child, which cut off the possibility of ascending the great treasure, and also made him and Zhou Jingsheng have a little brotherhood.

But this friendship ended fifteen years ago when Song Qingran married Zhou Jingsheng.

Song Qingran and Zhou Jingwen are childhood sweethearts and have already made a private lifelong agreement. They said that when Song Qingran meets Sheng, Zhou Jingwen will marry her and pass the door. Who would have thought of Zhou Jingsheng's imperial decree, Song Qingran will become the queen of the dynasty , Lover becomes uncle.

Zhou Jingwen had already told his brother what he was thinking, but Zhou Jingsheng had his own considerations. When he first ascended to the Great Treasure, it was at a time when people's hearts were unstable. If he married a noble woman with a powerful family behind him, it was very likely that his foreign relatives would be too powerful or even control the imperial power.

Song Lihui is a great Confucian scholar and has countless disciples under his name. The entire Song family has only three people, except for the subordinates. If he married Song Qingran, Zhou Jingsheng would not have to worry about the expansion of his foreign relatives, and he would also be able to gain the support of Song Lihui's disciples. Support can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Although Zhou Jingwen had already revealed his intentions to him, in Zhou Jingsheng's view, she was just a woman and would not affect the blood-connected brotherhood between the two. Moreover, he married Song Qingran for the good of the entire Zhou Dynasty. , Zhou Jingwen should understand him and agree with his decision.

Actually, Zhou Jingwen couldn't understand his brother's actions at all. After he entered the palace angrily and listened to his explanation, he didn't have the so-called sense of righteousness for the sake of the overall situation, he just felt absurd.

When, the country of the Great Zhou Dynasty actually had to rely on a woman to stabilize it.

After several resistances to no avail, he asked orders to guard the border in a rage, and Song Qingran also entered the palace in despair.

The last time Zhou Jingwen returned to the capital was when Song Qingran's father Song Lihui died three years ago. After expressing condolences to his teacher, he left in a hurry. He was afraid that he could not help but see the person he had always kept in his heart. , I came back this time because I heard that Zhou Jingsheng had occupied Song Qingran's younger brother Song Chen and put her into the cold palace. I was worried and rushed back day and night.

The two walked one after the other on the street, Zhou Jingwen silently followed behind her, wanting to ask why she appeared outside the palace alone, and how she was doing now, but her throat seemed to be blocked A stone that makes no sound.

……

In front of the Song Mansion's door, Qing Ran stopped.

She raised her head, the word Song Fu inscribed by the late emperor was rubbed brightly by the servants, some old mahogany gates have experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain, and the once prosperous Song family came in and out here , the thresholds were broken one after another, but the door was still the same, which witnessed the journey from the prosperity of the Song family to the loneliness.

Song Chen entered the palace. At this time, the Song family had no master at home, and the door was closed.

Suddenly the door creaked and was slowly pulled open from the inside, revealing an old face.

The person who came out was dressed in a patched sackcloth, with a somewhat worn basket in his hand.

The two people at the door caught his attention: "You two are the guests of the son? The son is not at home recently, please come back another day."

"Abo." Qing Ran took a step forward, restraining the emotions that surged up again in her body, and suppressed her voice and called out.

Abo of the Song family, the housekeeper who accompanied Song Qingran's sister and brother to grow up, Song Qingran's biggest regret before her death was that she had not been able to see her relatives at home for fifteen years.

Yes, it's a relative, Abo has no name, she remembered that he was an ordinary housekeeper in the Song family, taking care of the two siblings growing up, Song Qingran had long regarded him as her own relatives, not subordinates.

The basket in Abo's hand fell to the ground. He looked at Qingran in surprise, and even his curved back seemed to straighten a lot.

"Little, Miss!"