Immediately, the palace maids and eunuchs pulled up a curtain in front of Empress Xiao’s seat. The queen could meet the ministers, but she could not see them directly. There must be some barriers. There would even be a historian present. However, there were not today. This was not the palace, only Empress Xiao’s confidant palace maids and eunuchs. There were four shiguards with high martial arts skills standing at the door.

After searching through layers of body, Yang Yuanqing finally entered Queen Xiao’s room. He stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Yang Yuanqing, the general of Fengzhou Shang Town, kowtowed to the Queen Qiansheng!" [..com]

"General Yang is exempted from gifts."

On the other side of the curtain, Empress Xiao's tone was very plain. She had an identity and would not say anything that was lost like her son Yang Ming. Although she was extremely dissatisfied with Yang Yuanqing, she could not see it on the surface.

"Thank you, Empress!"

Yang Yuanqing stood up and stood with his hands down. Empress Xiao poured the curtain over the curtain and looked at Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing was in the bright place and she was in the dark. She could see Yang Yuanqing's appearance. Seeing that he was tall and handsome, he was just a little shabby in clothes. Empress Xiao had also experienced a poor life and didn't care about Yang Yuanqing's clothes. Fortunately, Yang Yuanqing was not the cunning person she imagined with a deer-headed and mouse-headed person.

"General Yang, where is the Emperor's Sword given to you by the Emperor? Is it in the hands of the guards outside?"

According to Empress Xiao's idea, she wanted to confiscate the sword and instead give him a good land and a beautiful house. She also hoped that her husband would reward him in this way, but her husband gave him a sword, and in the end the sword caused trouble.

Yang Yuanqing bowed and said, "Reporting to the Empress, I know that I cannot bring the sword to meet, so I did not bring the sword to me."

After a while, Empress Xiao said lightly: "That force represents the priest to a certain extent. It is no problem for General Yang to hold it, but I am very worried that the sword will damage the reputation of the priest when it comes to the hands of some people with ulterior motives. Let's do this! Return the sword to me, and I will give you another good land and beautiful house."

Yang Yuanqing knew very well what Queen Xiao said, it was nothing more than what happened at the door of the mansion today. He didn't know how King Qi said bad things about him... If he handed over the sword like this, it would be equivalent to admitting the slander of King Qi. He could not do it... But he must make it clear about this matter. The sword has reputation, and Yang Yuanqing also has reputation.

"Report to the Empress, the sword is given to the Emperor of the Empress, and commends the merits of me. If the Empress thinks it is inappropriate and wants to take back the sword, the Imperial Court has nothing to say... But one day if the Emperor asks me... how can I answer? Please give me a clear statement."

"If the Lord asks... I will explain that you are not in charge."

"I understand the meaning of the Empress, but I can't say that the sword was taken back by the Empress. I don't know the specific reason. This is disrespect to the Empress and disrespect to the Lord. I hope that the Empress can give me a... so that I can answer the Lord's questions based on facts."

Yang Yuanqing's tone was very respectful and his words were very tactful, but his attitude was very firm... Empress Xiao could take away his sword, but he had to give him an explanation. He did not accept the explanation that he was taken away by someone with ulterior motives. That explanation was simply untenable.

Any gift from the Lord will be taken away by people with ulterior motives. Why don’t others take back their swords? This obviously means that he uses the sword inappropriately.

At this moment, King Yang Hung of Qi suddenly rushed out of the side hall, pointed at Yang Yuanqing and scolded: "Bold thief minister, do you dare to threaten the Empress?"

Yang Qing was so brave that he sent someone to assassinate Yang Yuanqing. Seeing that he was not dead, he felt a timid in his heart. He didn't know what happened. The eunuch did not report to him, which made him feel something was wrong.

"When l, it's not your business, leave!"

Empress Xiao scolded her son unhappily. She originally wanted to ask Yang Yuanqing step by step, but Yang Hing interrupted her thinking.

Yang Yuanqing seized the opportunity, took off the military card from his waist, and placed it in front of him, saying, "This is my military card, please take it back together."

Hou Xiao was stunned, and she immediately said with great dissatisfaction: "General Yang, what do you mean? Do you threaten me?"

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I dare not threaten the Empress. I obeyed the Empress and thought about His Highness the King of Qi. I thought that the Empress would not want His Highness to be charged with assassinating the imperial official.

Yang Yuanqing said this very sharply and was very frank. Xiao Hou's face changed. She glared at her son fiercely. Yang Ming lowered his head, and he felt a sense of silence. According to his style, he must have refuted it immediately and refused to admit that there was such a thing. However, the eunuch did not come to reply to him. He suspected that he had fallen into Yang Yuanqing's hands and might have written some confession. At this time, he did not dare to expand the matter. This is also his cleverness.

Empress Xiao was an extremely smart woman. She suddenly heard something in Yang Yuanqing's words. She also knew that her son had always been misbehaving and was at the point of assassinating Yang Yuanqing. It was probably not as simple as he complained to him.

She also realized that she was being used by her son, but this was her most precious son.

On one side is the minister and on the other side is the son, which made her very embarrassed. Empress Xiao turned around and looked at her son. Yang Ming's eyes showed a gaze, which was the expression he often had when he was naughty when he was a child. Empress Xiao felt a throbbing in her heart. She seemed to see her son learning to speak when he was a child. When she saw her son smiling sweetly in the cradle, she sighed.

After pondering for a while, the balance of her feelings finally turned toward her son.

"General Yang, I don't want to ask about other things. I will just discuss the matter. Military cards are the affairs of the court and have nothing to do with me. If you take them back, you must hand over the sword immediately. Do you understand?"

When Yang Yuanqing saw that Empress Xiao would not even talk about the minimum right and wrong for her son, she would still protect her if she was killed by Yang Hing.

He could understand this and maternal love, and it was beyond reproach to ordinary women, but Empress Xiao was different. She was the queen of the mother's rituals in the world. Everyone in the world was her people. She could also choose to remain silent and not ask about the grudges between King Qi and him, Yang Yuanqing. But she did not do that. She still ordered herself to hand over the sword and protect her son. In the conflict between the minister and her son, she lost the minimum justice.

Yihe was insulted and shameful in Yang Yuanqing's heart. The courage in his bones was ripped off. He slowly shook his head and said, "Please take away the military card, and I will hand over the sword together. If the empress does not want to take away the military card, then the Wei minister is still a border general of the Great Sui Dynasty. I should hand over this sword to the emperor."

“Bold!”

Queen Xiao angrily scolded, "Yang Yuanqing, don't think I dare not kill you, someone comes!"

Several guards standing at the door agreed to pounce on Yang Yuanqing, and at this moment, an eunuch shouted from outside: "Princess Leping is here!"

The footsteps sounded, and Princess Leping Yang Lihua had already appeared at the door. She heard Xiao Hou's angrily scolding her from afar. She had heard Yang Zhao talk about the conflict between Yang Yuanqing and Yang Kan. In fact, this was the struggle between Yang Liang and Yang Zhao, but it was just a different way.

"Empress, what's the matter that makes you angry?"

Yang Lihua slowly walked to Yang Yuanqing, looked at Yang Yuanqing, and asked lightly: "q...qing, did you annoy the Queen?"

"I don't dare!" Yang Yuanqing walked in a city and said.

When Empress Xiao heard Yang Lihua call Yang Yuanqing "Yuanqing", she couldn't help but be stunned in her tone. It seemed that he had something to do with Yang Yuanqing.

Empress Xiao knew that this princess was strong and tough, and she was not a person who was easy to mess with. She was even more worried that her son would have any handle to Yang Yuanqing?

If there is really a handle and is caught by Yang Lihua again, once the handle is made public, it will be unfavorable to her son's reputation, and the matter will be a bit serious, especially during this period of time, the emperor is considering the matter of the prince, and she does not want her second son to lose points for these things.

Although she was very annoyed by Yang Yuanqing, she had to calm down at this moment. She restrained her anger and smiled as if nothing had happened: "It's nothing, this young general is not very polite, I'm teaching him a lesson."

"It's a mountain"

Yang Lihua looked at Yang Yuanqing and sighed, "This child is still young, and has been in the frontier for a long time. He doesn't understand the responses to the officialdom, and he doesn't understand the rules in the palace. It is inevitable that he will be rude. The Empress and the Mother of the World should not care about him too much."

"He is fifteen years old and no longer a child!" Empress Xiao stared at Yang Lihua with sharp eyes.

"But for us, he is still a child."

Yang Lihua's eyes were as deep as the sea, and Empress Xiao's sharp eyes did not appear in her eyes.

O Lan, she was so handsome and said, "Yuanqing, don't apologize to the Empress!"

Yang Yuanqing immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted: "I don't know how to be polite, so I contradicted the Empress. Please forgive me."

Yang Lihua's soft power and Yang Yuanqing cooperated in time. Even if Empress Xiao was angry, she couldn't tell her. She had to give Yang Lihua a face and nodded, "Forget it, just like the princess said, you are still the same as me... Child, I shouldn't care about you, you have the help of saving the Lord. Forget it today, go!"

"Thank you, Empress, for being a thousand years, for giving up her post!"

Yang Yuanqing bowed to Yang Lihua again, "Thank you, Your Highness, Princess."

He slowly stepped back, Yang Lihua kept looking at his back and walked away, then said to Queen Xiao sincerely: "This child values ​​love and friendship, and is kind to me. I like him very much. He offended the Empress. I hope the Empress will spare him once for my sake."

Yang Lihua did things without any loss, blocking the road that Empress Xiao might take revenge on Yang Yuanqing afterwards, forcing Empress Xiao to let go of this matter, "Where did the princess say? I am the dignified Empress of the Sui Dynasty. How could I have a child with me? This matter is over."

Yang Lihua bowed and smiled at her, "I am the master today and have a lot of things to do, so I will say goodbye first and give the queen a drink to apologize to the queen next day."

Empress Xiao held her hand intimately and smiled: "Are we going to say anything about apologizing for a small matter? I know that my elder sister is very busy, so I won't keep her."

Yang Lihua nodded and walked away lightly. From beginning to end, she didn't say a word to Yang Hing next to her, as if she didn't know him.

Yang Hsiao thought he could use his mother's power to deal with Yang Fangqing, but he didn't expect that he would get nothing in the end, which made him extremely unwilling to accept it. He said angrily: "Yang Yuanqing is so offending, mother, let's just let it go?"

"This matter has nothing to do with me, don't get me involved!"

Queen Xiao looked at him coldly, "The East Palace is not yet determined, Li'er, I advise you not to offend the emperor at this time."

Yang Qing was disgusted and suspensefully stepped back. Empress Xiao walked in the palace with her hands behind her back. Although she had promised Yang Lihua not to ask about this, what happened today still made her feel very unhappy, especially Yang Yuanqing used her husband to suppress her, which made her feel like she was stuck in her throat.

At this time, the old eunuch Zhao Jinxian next to him: "Empress, I feel that Yang Yuanqing seems to lack tutoring!"

A word reminded Xiao Hou, that's right! She can't make trouble for Yang Yuanqing, but Yang Xuangan and his wife Zheng's children are not strict, so they have the responsibility.

"You go to the main hall and invite Yang Yuanqing's mother, Mrs. Zheng, to me. I want to have a good talk with her about parenting."
Chapter completed!