After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

"It's a blessing, not a curse, it's a curse that cannot be avoided!"

If the Queen Mother really wanted to do something to her, Wan Ning knew very well that she couldn't hide away. Moreover, she believed that the Queen Mother would not be so stupid as to do something to her when she was the most in the spotlight. She also really wanted to know what this old lady was up to!

Just as she was lost in thought, Wan Ning felt someone holding her arm. When she came to her senses, she saw that it was Wan Tao with a worried look on her face. She said with great concern that she wanted to go along too.

Wan Ning took out one of her hands and gently patted the back of Wan Tao's hand, comforting her not to worry, and said boldly: "What's the point of us hiding all the time! Wan Tao, don't worry. I have heard a saying before, and I will teach you again today - difficulties are like springs, the weaker you are, the stronger it is, and the stronger you are, the weaker it is!"

After saying that, he looked at Wan Tao with a determined look, trying to get a look of affirmation. Wan Tao widened her eyes, touched her neck embarrassedly, and asked in confusion: "Princess, what is a spring?"

"Uh..., a spring is... it doesn't matter what a spring is!" Wan Ning hurriedly changed the subject, and said as if to cheer herself up: "Anyway, remember that if you are weak, it will be strong, and if you are strong, it will be weak. The stronger the enemy is, the more we cannot escape. We should go to the tiger mountain even if we know there is a tiger there!"

"Then I'll listen to you, Princess!" Wan Tao nodded vigorously in agreement, and then added: "Princess always likes to talk about things we don't understand."

Without further explanation, Wan Ning quickly packed up and took Wan Tao to the Queen Mother's Palace again in a sedan chair. What was different from the last time was that the maids at the door were particularly enthusiastic. As soon as they saw the sedan chair appear at the door, they all went to greet her. Not only did they help open the curtains, they also took the initiative to help her get down. Seeing that they could not help, they carefully blocked the edge of the sedan chair with their hands, fearing that there was no place for service.

Wan Ning acted like a princess. As soon as she got off the sedan chair and stood still, the nanny explained with a smile on her face, "The Queen Mother has invited a senior monk to give a lecture in the Buddhist temple and pray for the safety of the victims of the Chu Kingdom. It will be over soon. Princess, please follow me to the hall and wait."

Wan Tao saw the opportunity and stepped forward, naturally pulling the princess's arm out of the nanny's hand and holding it herself. Then she instructed the nanny in a polite and distant tone: "Thank you for leading the way, nanny."

"Oh, look at my brain. Okay, okay, Princess, please come this way." The nanny led the way diligently, and did not forget to send the little palace maid beside her to inform the Queen Mother. With this posture and pomp, Wan Ning was sure that even if she was not invited sincerely this time, there would be no danger. So she straightened her back and took out the tone of the princess, announcing to others that it didn't matter if she was beaten, she was invited here now, and she was not so easy to bully.

After a while, she was led by the nanny to the hall. On the door of the hall hung a plaque with the word "Bodhi" inscribed on it. This time, she was not in the front hall where the empress dowager usually used to take drugs, but in another hall. Now Wan Ning immediately understood that the empress dowager was deliberately downplaying what happened before.

Even the Queen Mother would not mention the fact that she was drugged today. But she just couldn't understand why the Queen Mother asked her to come this time?

Forget it, since she is here, she might as well make the best of it. Although she didn't know what the gourd was up to, since she wanted to sell this medicine, she would definitely ask for it! So she sat in front of the hall and drank tea with peace of mind, and did not forget to comment on the tea with Wan Tao.

She had no habit of drinking tea. In her time, the elders around her always liked to put a handful of tea leaves in a transparent glass, then pour a small half cup of hot water into it and shake it slowly, then filter out the water, and then pour a full cup of hot water. After a while, the small handful of tea leaves spread out, tumbling up and down in the teacup, occupying half of the space in the cup, and even the water turned green and yellow.

When she was young, she thought it was a delicacy, so she took a sip while her uncle was adding hot water to the cup and going to the toilet. It was hot and bitter. The strong bitterness quickly occupied her taste buds and mouth, and directly launched a battle in her mouth and won the final victory. She surrendered and couldn't bear to let this feeling stay in her mouth for another second. She quickly ran to the door and wanted to spit it all out, but she ran into her uncle who came back. So in embarrassment and awkwardness, she swallowed it all. The hot and hot feeling not only did not disappear, but occupied the entire esophagus, and the bitterness did not dissipate for a long time.

Just like her life.

The bitterness lasted so long that even after so many years, when she saw the tea again, she would still remember the embarrassment of living under someone else's roof. Wan Ning shuddered and came to her senses. She dignifiedly picked up the tea prepared by the nanny and sniffed it, then took a sip without changing her expression. At this time, it was no longer as bitter as in childhood, but had a more mellow fragrance and a hint of sweetness.

Before she finished her cup of tea, footsteps were heard from outside the hall. Wan Ning looked outside subconsciously and saw the Queen Mother being surrounded by the palace maids. Compared to the numbness she showed the last time they met, her face was now more lively and friendly. Looking closely, she was holding someone with her left hand. Just as she was wondering who could be treated so well by the Queen Mother, they were already approaching. The person who came was none other than Princess Mengzhu. The two of them got along well and looked like a grandmother and granddaughter from an ordinary wealthy family.

"Prince Mu Xiu is really amazing. He can actually make a princess of an enemy country deeply loved by the Queen Mother. Now her safety and education are guaranteed." She knew that all this was planned by Mu Xiu behind the scenes, and she looked at him with even greater respect.

"Sister Le Yan, why are you here?" Meng Zhu saw Wan Ning sitting in the hall, his tone full of surprise.

Wan Ning smiled and waved at her, but before she could say anything, the Queen Mother took the lead and let go of her hand, motioning her to sit on a chair beside her. Meng Zhu immediately calmed down and sat down obediently, not daring to look around.

"I heard that Yan'er suffered outside the palace a few days ago, but she looks good today. Did the princess drink the tonic that the messenger sent?" The Queen Mother said this, but looked at Wan Tao beside Wan Ning.

"Tonic?" Wan Ning was confused. She had never heard of this before.

Wan Tao turned sideways and saluted, then slowly replied, "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, thanks to the tonic you sent, the princess' complexion has recovered so well." The Queen Mother did send some tonics in the past few days, but Wan Tao was still frightened by what happened last time. She was afraid that the Queen Mother would harm the princess, so she secretly poured out all the medicine. She didn't want the princess to be upset, so she didn't tell her about this at all. Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother asked about it in person.

"Haha, yes." Seeing Wan Tao like this, Wan Ning already understood and dealt with it casually.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother was not really concerned. She narrowed her eyes and smiled, then shifted her gaze to Wan Ning, looking at the new cloak on her body: "Yan'er, this bright red cloak you are wearing today is nice, and it makes you look energetic. You are different from your mother. When she was young, her favorite color was pink. Every time she put on a pink cloak, she looked more gentle and lovely."

As she was speaking, the nanny standing nearby held something in her hands. She walked to the empress dowager respectfully, bent down, raised her hands above her head and presented the thing in her hands to the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother ignored me and continued to talk to herself about the past: "When your mother was little, she loved to cling to me. When she cried, she would only let me hold her. When she heard that I was going to get married and leave home, she cried so hard that she almost fainted."

At this point, the empress dowager showed a trace of heartache on her face. The nanny took the opportunity to comfort her: "Take care of yourself, Empress Dowager. Miss Lan's spirit in heaven will also be sad."

Wan Ning rolled her eyes in her heart, lamenting how these people loved to act so much, saying they had a good relationship but being so cruel to other people's daughters. She really didn't want to see their hypocritical appearance, so she turned her gaze to the nanny, looking around, and then she saw clearly that what she was holding in her hand was the cloak she used on the day she was drugged in the Buddhist temple.