Queen Mother, she just wants to lie down

The Qiao siblings will probably need to stay in Beijing for quite some time when they accompany Ruan Qing back this time, so it would not be good for her house to be left empty.

After much consideration, Qiao Yun finally decided to pick a family from the Qiao family's side branch who had a good temperament and a simple family to help look after the ancestral home.

After choosing the people, he did not rush to tell them, but told Ruan Qing his idea first, wanting to hear her opinion before making the final decision.

"Aunt, I have observed this for Qiao Jun, and they are indeed good people." Zhao Ping, who came along, chimed in.

Qiao Yun was the one who had paid homage to her as her teacher. After observing her, Zhao Ping was very satisfied with her and treated her as his own.

When she heard that Qiao Yun was going to find a suitable person from the family to help look after the house, she followed him on purpose.

After observing for a few days, I found that the family was indeed nice.

Although he is somewhat distant from the main branch of the Qiao family in terms of blood relationship, he is a very upright person.

"Since it's a family that you all like, it must be really good. Qiao Jun, just do it according to your own wishes." Ruan Qing did not interfere in the matter. She gave complete autonomy to Qiao Jun.

On November 18th of the first year of Defeng, Ruan Qing and his entourage left Su Lin with light luggage and rode back to the capital.

The weather in November was cold and the roads were not easy to travel. In addition, Ruan Qing went to Qingsha County and Fuzhou to check on the situation of the Women's Association branch.

It took more than ten days to travel along the way, and we finally arrived in the capital on the sixth day of December.

When everyone was about 200 to 300 meters away from the gate of Yong'an City, the sharp-eyed Queqi saw the eye-catching luxurious carriage at the gate and the dark crowd around it, and couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Your Majesty, His Majesty has come to the city gate with his civil and military ministers to pick you up."

"How did he know I would be back today? Did you notify him?" Ruan Qing followed her gaze, surprise in his eyes.

If I remember correctly, she did not ask anyone to inform the emperor of the specific time of her return to Beijing.

Queqi and Zhaoping looked at each other, then lowered their eyes and remained silent.

During the more than half a year that the Empress Dowager had been away, she first helped the court to recover nearly 10 million taels of silver.

Then he broke up the long-planned conspiracy of Northern Liang, allowing the imperial court to win such a great victory.

If such a merit is not known to the world, how can we justify the hard work and efforts of the queen?

"Forget it, it's here, let's go over there quickly." Ruan Qing quickly guessed what she was thinking.

Well, if she wants to quickly open up the Women's Association, she, the Queen Mother, really needs to accumulate more beneficial reputation.

When Ruan Qing was still 40 to 50 meters away from the city gate, the young emperor stepped down from the carriage and bowed respectfully with everyone else: "I and all the officials respectfully welcome the Queen Mother back to the capital."

He bowed with all his heart, for his mother's incognito trip out of the capital had brought him so many surprises.

Ruan Qing rode forward, jumped down when he was about seven or eight meters away from the crowd, thrust the reins into Queqi's hand, and quickly came to the emperor, helping him up with his hand. "It's freezing cold, why did you come to meet him outside the city?"

Then he said to all the ministers, "Please stand up, my dear minister."

Xie Huaijin, who was helped up by Ruan Qing, smiled and said:

"As I should. My mother has been traveling around for half a year to bring this great victory to our Daxi. What's wrong with my son coming to greet her?

Please get in the car, mother. I will drive for you myself." After saying this, he made a gesture of invitation to Ruan Qing.

"What nonsense are you talking about? But since you've come to meet me outside the city and the weather is really cold, I'll take a ride on your car and we can go together as mother and son."

Ruan Qing patted him in annoyance and pulled him onto the emperor's special carriage.

Among the ministers who had just stood up, the expressions on the faces of several old-fashioned, stubborn and suspicious people became quite strange.

When the empress dowager returned from a long journey, her reputation had surpassed that of the emperor.

Now he is riding in the same chariot with Your Majesty in broad daylight. Does he want to attend the government in the future?

"Master Zhou, Master Zheng, you look so unhappy. Are you not happy that His Majesty went out of the city to welcome the Queen Mother?"

The sharp-eyed Lin Haoming saw the expressions of several people and couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

As soon as he said this, many ministers turned to look at them.

"Minister Lin, you're joking. The Queen Mother deserves at least half of the credit for the great victory in the North. It's only natural for us to come out to welcome her." The two people named by Lin Haoming looked a little embarrassed.

Duke Wu glanced at a few people and then looked away without looking away.

In his opinion, these people were simply crazy, as the Queen had just made such great contributions to the court.

Moreover, she is the emperor's biological mother and son. Not to mention riding in the same car with the emperor, even if she really lets the emperor drive for her, there is no problem at all. I really don't understand what these sour scholars are thinking about every day.

Ruan Qing ignored the arguments. After getting in the carriage, she asked the emperor, "Is the Queen not angry that I didn't come back for the Emperor's eldest grandson's full moon banquet?"

"What are you talking about, mother? Miao'er is not an unreasonable person. During the period when the prince is one month old, the war is raging outside. Even if mother rushes back at that time, we can't make a big fuss.

I didn't hold a full-month banquet for him, but only invited Duke Wu and his family to the palace to have a meal with Miao'er.

Now that we have won a great victory in the North and my mother has returned, let's hold the full moon and hundred-day banquets together." The emperor said with a smile.

"We haven't even held the full moon banquet yet, so the hundred-day banquet must be held properly, otherwise it would be really unfair to my eldest grandson.

This child is almost three months old, I haven't seen him yet, does he look like you or the queen?" Ruan Qing asked.

"A little bit of both, but in my son's opinion, he looks more like mother, especially his eyes and eyebrows. Everyone says he is good-looking." When the emperor mentioned his eldest son, his eyes and eyebrows softened unconsciously.

"Like me?" Ruan Qing was stunned.

"Yeah, the eyes are similar."

Because of the emperor's words, Ruan Qing returned to the Cining Palace, washed up, changed clothes, and went to the queen's Fengqi Palace to see the emperor's eldest grandson.

"Your son greets you, mother." The queen, who was teasing her son in the palace, heard that the queen mother had arrived and immediately welcomed her with a formal ceremony.

"Didn't we just greet each other not long ago? We are all family, there is no need to be so polite. Come on, get up." Ruan Qing reached out and pulled her up.

When the emperor's carriage entered the palace just now, the queen had already brought a group of concubines to pay her respects.

"Mother, you must have been exhausted from the long journey. Why didn't you take a rest after returning to the palace?" The Queen asked after she stood up.

"On the way, I heard the emperor say all kinds of beautiful and lovely things about my eldest grandson. I felt itchy in my heart, so I couldn't help but come over to take a look." Ruan Qing said.

"Puchi, Your Majesty is good at praising his own son, but the prince is indeed good-looking.

Everyone says that his eyebrows and eyes look like yours." The queen couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard this.

After becoming a mother, the queen's temperament became a little more lively than before.

"Yeah, then I have to take a closer look. Take me in quickly."

"The child is awake, please follow me." The queen took her into the inner hall.

The little prince was lying on the couch and playing with bubbles.

Ruan Qing leaned over to take a look and saw that the baby lying on the warm and comfortable couch was even more beautiful than the dolls in the New Year pictures.

His eyes are dark, bright and clear, and his skin is whiter and tenderer than a peeled egg.

"It's so cute. Luckily I made it back in time. If I hadn't even made it to the hundred-day banquet, I would have been so sorry for this little guy." Ruan Qing couldn't help but point at the baby's nose.