Swap, the involutionary regent palace fight also forced me to rebel

Yun Ting called out "Empress Dowager" and successfully quieted the chattering Empress Dowager.

When she realized that Yun Ting addressed her as the emotionless "Empress Dowager" instead of the friendly "Mother Concubine", the Empress Dowager's eyes slowly widened, her face full of disbelief, as if she had seen something unclean.

"Xiao Ting," the Queen Mother stretched out her hand in a daze, as if to touch Yun Ting's face, her voice trembling, "You yelled at your mother, you actually yelled at your mother for a lowly woman who has passed away!"

Irritated by the words "lowly woman", Yun Ting was so angry that he had difficulty breathing and his chest heaved up and down.

He dodged the Queen Mother's armored hand, his eyes filled with fire, as if he wanted to burn the Queen Mother, his own mother, to death.

Having never been looked at in this way by Yun Ting, the Queen Mother took back her hand, covered her chest, and said in a sad tone: "Xiao Ting, this is all for your own good, why don't you understand?"

It would have been fine if the Queen Mother hadn't said anything, but when she mentioned "it's for your own good", Yun Ting remembered that he went to the Queen last night to please the Queen Mother and heard complaints all night.

Yun Ting now felt more and more that the Queen Mother's words, "I do this for your own good," and the things she asked him to do were so suffocating.

The anger that had been suppressed in his heart could not stop rising up. Yun Ting gritted his teeth and shouted out his long-buried words to the Queen Mother.

"Alian is not a lowly woman. She is my sweetheart. If you hadn't separated us, I wouldn't have lost her now. I can only miss her when I see her!"

Even though he was unwilling to expose the tension between himself and the Queen Mother in front of the Regent, Yun Ting couldn't control the volume of his voice, which grew louder and louder.

"I heard that you punished Lady Lian to copy scriptures. What does that mean? Are you going to continue to treat the newcomer A Lian in the same way as you punished A Lian back then?"

"You!" The Queen Mother opened her mouth to curse, but her eyes glanced at Nan Yingzhi beside her, and she swallowed it back, only uttering, "Rebellious son!"

The Queen Mother and Yun Ting were like two fighting bulls, in the top corner of the duel arena, you don't let me, and I don't let you.

But they seemed to have reached a consensus that they couldn't make things too awkward in front of Nan Yingzhi, an outsider. They didn't quarrel, but stared at each other.

The atmosphere was tense for a while, but not tense.

Nan Yingzhi, who was sitting nearby, not only did not try to stop the fight, but also watched the fun without thinking, stroking his chin, as if thinking about something.

"Alian"?

Why does this name sound so familiar?

Nan Yingzhi suddenly caught some clues with a flash of inspiration. Isn't this "Alian" the maiden name of the late queen?

Combined with the Queen Mother's remarks that "You shouldn't pamper Lady Lian in every way just because she looks like her", and Yun Ting's look of "I just love her to death", Nan Yingzhi immediately understood the whole story.

She finally figured out why the title Yun Ting gave to Yun Ji was a single word, "Lian".

Before this, Nan Yingzhi received news from a spy in the palace that Yun Ji was given the title "Lian", which she was puzzled about.

Because the word "莲", when used as a noun, refers to the ripples on the water surface caused by wind, and when used as an adjective, it means the appearance of tears flowing.

The ripples had nothing to do with Yunji, and the endless tears seemed to have nothing to do with Yunji either.

Nan Yingzhi was unwilling to believe that Yun Ji, who had always followed the principle of "shedding blood but not tears", would use tears to gain the emperor's favor in front of Yun Ting.

No matter how much she analyzed it over and over again, Nan Yingzhi didn't understand Yun Ting's intention. She couldn't figure it out, so she put her doubts aside and hid them in her mind like a file.

Only today did she suddenly realize it.

It turns out that the unclear meaning of "Lian" that Yun Ting gave to Yun Ji was just a homophonic word.

Moreover, Yun Ting's overwhelming favor to Yun Ji was just through Yun Ji, to give to Yun Ting's deceased white moonlight, A Lian!

Thinking back to the face of "Nan Yingzhi" that Yun Ji was wearing now, Nan Yingzhi understood it more and more clearly.

No wonder she felt familiar with "Nan Yingzhi"'s face when she first exchanged with Yun Ji.

It turns out that "Nan Yingzhi", the cannon fodder used in the opening sacrifice to heaven, has a face so similar to that of the former queen.

To ease the atmosphere, the Queen Mother took a deep breath and made a concession: "Yes, I'm sorry for you. If I had..."

As she spoke, the Queen Mother choked up with sobs, wiped her tears with her handkerchief, and said no more.

Seeing the Queen Mother crying, Yun Ting's little conscience was suddenly tortured.

Thinking that his mother had played an indispensable role in his ascension to the throne, Yun Ting's rigid attitude softened in the end, and he said in a gentle tone: "Mother, it was Xiao Ting who was wrong. Xiao Ting shouldn't have yelled at you."

Finally, she used her tears to gain peace with Yun Ting. The Queen Mother did not dare to mention "Alian" for the time being, and only said some indifferent words: "My dear, how could your mother blame you."

The Queen Mother and Yun Ting looked at each other, then hugged each other and smiled away their grudges.

Their complaints and roars just now seemed to have never existed and were merely Nan Yingzhi's hallucinations.

It was touching that the mother and son changed their expressions as quickly as turning the pages of a book. They became enemies within a few seconds, and then they performed a drama of deep mother-son love. Nan Yingzhi really wanted to applaud them and let herself watch a good show.

It’s a pity that she is not needed in this scene.

Nan Yingzhi had no habit of acting as a background figure, so after drinking the tea given by the empress dowager, she planned to just leave.

Anyway, she entered the palace just to see Yun Ji. The empress dowager wanted to reminisce with Yun Ting, so why should she accompany her?

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother," Nan Yingzhi said softly while Yun Ting and the Queen Mother were calming down, "I still have things to do. You two can chat. I will not disturb you any more."

Every second and sixteenth day of the lunar month, the Queen Mother summoned the Regent to the palace. It was just a trick she used to tie down this hardworking and taciturn old ox and make him continue to work hard for Yun Ting.

Seeing that she had failed to appease the Regent this time and the Regent was about to run away, the Queen Mother looked a little embarrassed.

Unable to think of any reason to keep "Yun Ji" here, she nodded dryly: "Even if you are busy with government affairs, you can't tire yourself out. I heard that you caught a cold a few days ago. It's better not to work hard after you recover from a serious illness."

Nan Yingzhi was so focused on Yun Ji that she had no time to deal with the Queen Mother. She said politely, "Thank you for your concern, Queen Mother. I'll take my leave."

"Hey," the Queen Mother called to the maid beside her, "Go, bring some sweet-scented osmanthus wine soft cakes over."

The name of this pastry was a bit long, and Nan Yingzhi had no special knowledge of palace pastries, so she didn't react for a moment to what the Queen Mother was talking about.

She only guessed from the word "crispy" that the Queen Mother was talking about a kind of pastry.

But hasn’t Yun Ji always disliked pastries?

The Queen Mother's attitude was so attentive and friendly that it didn't seem fake.

She told the maid to pack the sweet-scented osmanthus wine soft pastry in a wooden box, and then signaled the maid to hand the box to Nan Yingzhi.

"I remember," Even though she had taken good care of herself, the Queen Mother still had wrinkles at the corners of her eyes when she smiled, "You liked this the most. It just so happens that the palace is making some today. Take some back."

"Mother," Yun Ting opened his mouth to explain, thinking of Yun Ji's exaggerated reaction when he added sugar to her cup last time, "My brother..."