The empress is pregnant, and the emperor's incense continues

Meng Wen Yao ignored everyone's thoughts. Anyway, she had a trump card today. She didn't believe that a man who had been childless for many years could be indifferent to his own child.

She ate snacks leisurely, listening to the ladies from all walks of life nervously promoting their own daughters. The queen looked at them one by one and nodded with a smile on her face.

Soon, some people began to perform in an effort to get a chance to show their talents in front of the queen. The daughters of high-ranking officials were afraid of becoming Mingshi's concubines, and some concubines and daughters of officials below the third rank competed to become concubines.

Now she is a concubine, but when she enters the palace, she will be a consort. Some people are still tempted by this.

After playing the instruments and singing for a while, the queen slowly looked at Meng Wenyao and said with a smile, "I heard that Miss Meng was ill for some time. Is she better now?"

Before Meng Wenyao could answer, Mingyuan stood up first and said with a smile, "Sister Meng is not only well, she even prepared a dance many days in advance."

"Oh?"

The queen was puzzled. Meng Wen Yao had not been seen for many days. Was she preparing to make a splash at the banquet at home?

Unlike the Queen's doubts, the Emperor looked at Mingyuan with eyes full of disgust. Meng Wenyao had been with him every day for more than a month, so how could she have the energy to prepare for the dance.

If he hadn't asked the eunuchs to keep an eye on Meng Wen Yao's actions every day, and had only listened to Ming Yuan's words, he might have really thought that Meng Wen Yao had prepared a dance, just like everyone else in the hall.

He had been too lazy to investigate the fights between these women before, but now that he was involved in it, he realized how treacherous people’s hearts were and how vicious they could be.

He glanced at Mingyuan coldly, then looked at Meng Wenyao with concern. As long as Meng Wenyao had the slightest difficulty, he would immediately speak out to stop her.

Meng Wenyao slowly stood up and walked to the center of the hall to apologize: "Please forgive me, Queen. I have been ill for many days and I am struggling to hold on today. I really don't have the energy to dance. Besides, I don't know how to dance. I don't know where the county lady heard the rumor from, but it made the Queen misunderstand."

Mingyuan was slapped in the face in public and her expression was extremely ugly. She felt that Meng Wenyao was now just a fish on the display board, just jumping around aimlessly.

She deliberately said loudly and sarcastically, "I went to the Meng Mansion to visit Sister Meng a few days ago, and I saw Sister Meng dancing. Could it be that Sister Meng's dance can only be seen by her future husband, and the Queen cannot watch it?"

This is another case of Mingming's dazzling eyes. The emperor is already thinking about how Mingyuan will die, but unfortunately Mingyuan has no idea and is even provoking: "We don't care, but how can Sister Meng not even respect the queen?"

Knowing clearly that it was an attempt to sow discord, the Queen was still very unhappy when she saw Meng Wen Yao standing there stubbornly. No matter what, even if Mingyuan really said that on purpose, Meng Wen Yao should bite the bullet and dance to save the Queen's face.

She looked at Meng Wenyao indifferently and smiled contemptuously: "Miss Meng really can't dance?"

"That's a pity. Akashi loves watching dancing. If you keep being so stubborn, how can you ever win Akashi's favor in the future?"

This is clearly saying that Meng Wenyao is destined to Mingshi? But this is really hard to hear, and it sounds like she is not the legal wife.

Everyone lowered their heads and talked about it. Meng Wen Yao had offended both Ming Yuan and the Queen today. If she married Ming Shi in the future, it would be difficult for her to please him. She probably had no hope in this life.

Madam Meng was a little anxious and angry. She wanted to go out to rescue Meng Wen Yao, but she saw that the emperor was even angrier than her and put the wine glass heavily on the table.

"Noisy!"

Everyone was shocked and quickly knelt down to apologize. Who was making the noise, Mingyuan or the Queen?

It definitely wasn’t Meng Wen Yao. She only spoke once. The emperor couldn’t be scolding the queen, so it could only be Mingyuan.

Everyone secretly looked at Mingyuan, only to see her face turning blue and purple. It was so exciting that many people began to laugh.

After the emperor asked everyone to take their seats, the queen pretended that nothing had happened and asked the emperor, "Now that Prince Jing is not here, which daughter do you think is suitable for Mingshi?"

It would be best if the emperor could grant me the marriage.

However, the Emperor came here today just to see the ministers surrounding the Empress and Akashi, so as to identify the Empress Dowager's remnants.

Therefore, he said indifferently: "It's up to the Queen to decide."

It sounds like it shows complete respect for the queen, but in fact it is asking the queen to actively expose her strength.

The Queen didn't think that far. She just thought that the Emperor still gave her some respect, so she smiled and said, "Why not let Mingshi choose for himself?"

Hearing this, Mingshi walked down from his seat, bowed to the emperor and the queen, and then said shyly: "I like the daughters of Minister Li, Minister Liu, and Minister Meng."

As soon as these words were spoken, Mrs. Liu Shangshu fainted. It was obvious that the emperor did not want his daughter to marry Mingshi. The emperor had an idea in his mind that the Queen Mother's party was led by Shangshu Li.

The Queen ignored the fainted Madam Liu and said with a smile, "These three young ladies are all good, but in my opinion, the young lady from the family of Minister Li is more virtuous. How about letting her be the principal wife?"

Mingshi was about to nod when Madam Meng stood up and apologized: "My Queen, my daughter is already engaged. I'm afraid she cannot marry Prince Mingshi."

The unexpected incident suddenly occurred, and the queen immediately frowned. This Meng family was really shameless. She sneered: "Didn't the son of Zhenyuan Marquis cancel your family's engagement? How come there are still people willing to pick up someone that Chen Dingbei didn't want?"

At this moment, the emperor's face turned dark. He threw the wine glass away, said nothing, and looked at the queen coldly.

Now, everyone knew that the emperor was dissatisfied with the queen and refused to give her any respect.

The Queen was so shocked that she was speechless. The Emperor had kept her for so many years, which showed that he still loved her. Why was his attitude so cold today?

She didn't dare to upset the emperor again, and hurriedly pretended to be calm and said, "A forced melon is not sweet, so forget it."

The emperor curled his lips and smiled: "We can't let Mingshi down, the queen should choose a few more."

The Queen was frightened by the Emperor several times and had no time to think. She raised her hand and pointed out: "Minister Zhou's family, Song Hanlin..."

"What does the emperor think of these?"

The emperor looked at them coldly and found that they were all happy people. The empress dowager had quite a lot of supporters, and he hoped to catch them all in one fell swoop.

He nodded calmly, and finally the matter of choosing a concubine for Akashi came to an end.

The Queen really didn't understand whether the Emperor was impatient with her today or wanted to support Meng Wen Yao. When she saw that the atmosphere had eased, she deliberately had someone give Meng Wen Yao some wine.

"I didn't scare you just now, have a drink to calm your nerves."

Meng Wen Yao, who was thinking of finding an opportunity to get closer and let Ming Yuan trip her, was so happy when she saw the wine sent by the Queen that she didn't know what to do.

It was really God’s help. She drank it all in one gulp, walked to the center of the hall, and thanked him solemnly: “Thank you, my lady.”

Then he fainted gorgeously, with a pool of blood under his body.