Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 47 Palace Change
Duan Yanlin has a good relationship with the guards in the palace. When Li Ying followed him and sneaked into the palace easily, she was very glad that she brought Duan Yanlin back to Beijing together.

In order not to attract attention, she deliberately dressed up as a maid, so that no one noticed her until Li Ying stepped into the door of Renshou Palace.

Looking at the familiar scenes and objects in front of him, Li Ying was filled with emotion.I still remember that when she resolutely decided to go to Nanhe County to look for Xiao Lian a few months ago, the chrysanthemums planted by the Empress Dowager in the Renshou Palace were in full bloom, but now the palace is full of flowers, and it is a depressed scene.

Li Ying looked around, wondering why he didn't see the Queen Mother?Usually after dinner, she would take a walk in the yard to digest.

The entire Renshou Palace was surprisingly quiet, even the candles in the main hall were not lit. Could it be that the Empress Dowager is not in the palace?

Li Ying was holding back when he suddenly saw a familiar figure rushing out of the Queen Mother's bedroom, who could it be?

Li Ying hurriedly called out softly: "Nurse Xu!"

Madam Xu was taken aback, and for a moment she couldn't see who the woman standing at the gate of the palace was. When she approached, the soup in her hand almost spilled all over the floor.

"Princess!" Xu Momo looked up and down, and asked, "Why are you dressed like this?"

"It's a long story, where's the Queen Mother?"

The look of pleasant surprise on Madam Xu's face suddenly dimmed, and she said frowningly, "The Empress Dowager is ill, and she is in the bedroom. Wangfei, go and have a look, I have to decoct medicine for the Empress Dowager."

"I'll go right away!" Li Ying lifted her skirt and ran to the Queen Mother's bedroom.

As soon as he entered the bedroom, Li Ying was stunned by the smell of medicine, and the queen mother who was lying on the bed heard the movement and asked, "Who is there?"

"Queen, it's me."

The queen mother was taken aback for a moment, then struggled to get up from the bed in great surprise, and looked towards the door: "Ying'er, is that you Ying'er?"

Seeing Li Ying who was approaching her step by step, the queen mother burst into tears with excitement: "Ying'er, you are back..."

Li Ying hurriedly went forward to support the Queen Mother on the pillow: "Queen Mother, what disease are you suffering from?"

"Hey..." The queen mother let out a long sigh: "What else could be the disease? Aijia is about to go to hell."

"Queen, don't say such unlucky things!"

The queen mother took Li Ying's hand, smiled wryly and said, "Ying'er, do you always hear Aijia say these things, and you don't believe them anymore? But Aijia's body and Aijia know that this time it's true. It won't be long."

Looking at the thin and haggard old man in front of him, Li Ying tried her best not to let the tears in her eyes flow down.

"By the way, why are you alone, Lian'er?"

Li Ying hesitated and said, "He...he is still on the way."

The Queen Mother couldn't see through Li Ying's thoughts. She lifted Li Ying's drooping head, looked straight at Li Ying with those cloudy eyes, and said, "Ying'er, tell grandma the truth."

"He..." Li Ying's eyes dodged, and finally he mustered up the courage to reply: "He refuses to return to Beijing..."

When the queen mother heard the words, she collapsed in despair: "Sure enough... Lian'er, did he hear something?"

Li Ying didn't know how to answer.

"Ying'er, you don't have to look forward and backward. There is nothing wrong with a dying person in Ai's family. When I heard that the emperor received Lian'er's letter and vomited blood on the spot, Ai's family guessed that something must have happened."

"The Empress Dowager..." Li Ying spoke carefully, "How did the prince's mother die?"

After asking this sentence, Li Ying saw that the empress dowager's originally bad face completely turned gray.

The queen mother's hands were trembling uncontrollably, and her old eyes looked at the candlelight in the distance, as if she was recalling the long past.

"It turned out to be this matter, no wonder, no wonder..."

"Queen Mother." Li Ying choked up and said, "So you really know..."

The Empress Dowager's eyes refocused on her. Seeing the tears in Li Ying's eyes, the Empress Dowager laughed at herself: "Lian'er already guessed it, didn't she."

"Grandma..."

"Ying'er, do you also think that Aijia is an old monster who doesn't know right from wrong and is insensitive?"

Li Ying shook her head vigorously: "Grandma, don't talk about yourself like that."

"Failing to save Lian'er's mother back then was the biggest mistake I made in my life. The Ai family knew that the emperor had always had unreasonable thoughts about Lian'er's mother, but the Ai family thought it was just that, so they have always been Turn a blind eye and close one eye. But the Ai family never expected that he would do such a beastly act when Cheng'an's funeral was not over and Lian'er's mother was still pregnant!"

"Grandmother, didn't you stop him?"

"He has planned for this for a long time, how could he let the Ai family know in advance? By the time the Ai family received the news, Xiao Lian's mother had been..."

"What about afterward?"

"Afterwards, the emperor knelt in Renshou Palace for three days and three nights, begging his family to forgive him, and promised that he would never do it again."

"Did you forgive him?"

The Empress Dowager looked at Li Ying, and said with a wry smile: "I don't forgive you, did you abolish the emperor? Ying'er, standing in the position of Ai's family, what do you think I should do?"

Li Ying shook her head at a loss: "I don't know either."

"Yeah, the Ai family can't think of a way to achieve both, let alone at that time? After punishing the emperor, the Ai family kept the matter a secret. The Ai family went to the palace countless times to see Lian'er's mother. , apologized to her, comforted her, but failed to knock on the door of the palace once."

"She is disheartened."

"Yes." The queen mother smiled sadly: "But at that time, the Ai family never expected that she would be so decisive. They always thought that after the child was born, she would gradually figure it out. Who knows..."

"Grandmother, I can understand your situation, but I also sympathize with what happened to Princess Kang. I think it is her best effort to persevere until she gives birth to a child."

"Lian'er must hate me for being an old man."

"Grandma, what did you say, nothing!"

"Ying'er, don't coax me. Lian'er doesn't want to go back to Beijing. Apart from the emperor, it's also because of the mourning family, right?" The empress dowager coughed violently as soon as she finished saying this.

"Cough cough cough...cough cough cough..." Li Ying looked in horror at the dazzling redness on the Empress Dowager's handkerchief.

"Grandmother! Are you alright?" Li Ying hurriedly sent the imperial physician to see.

"No need." The Empress Dowager finally stopped coughing, she grabbed Li Ying, and persuaded: "There is no need to teach the imperial physician, the Ai family knows it well."

"Emperor Grandmother, I know an imperial physician. He has superb medical skills and even cured the plague in Nanhe County! Let him have a look, maybe there is a solution?" Li Ying said anxiously.

The queen mother patted the back of Li Ying's hand in relief: "Ying'er, if you have such a heart, the Ai family will be satisfied. As for this disease, there is really no need to mobilize people. The only thing the Ai family is worried about now is Lian'er... "

"Grandmother, you must get better. I will write a letter now and ask him to return to Beijing immediately!"

"Silly boy, Aijia deliberately didn't tell him, lest he worry, don't make trouble."

"Imperial Grandmother..." Thinking of the Empress Dowager lying on the hospital bed in panic all day long after Xiao Lian left, she wholeheartedly hoped that her grandson would return to her sooner, but she refused to tell him the truth. Is that so?
The Queen Mother wiped away the tears from Li Ying's face: "Silly boy, don't cry. The Ai family will leave sooner or later. Originally, the Ai family couldn't worry about Lian'er, but now that he has you, the Ai family can leave as well." not worried."

Li Ying let out a "wow", and burst into tears in front of the Queen Mother.

After Li Ying finally calmed down, the Queen Mother smiled and asked, "Are you done crying?"

Li Ying nodded with sobs: "Grandmother, you must be well, Xiao Lian is just stubborn, he will definitely come back."

"I hope... Ying'er, do you have anything else to ask Ai's family?"

After being reminded by the Empress Dowager, Li Ying remembered the most important purpose of her trip. She quickly wiped away her tears and asked, "Grandmother, my parents, brothers, and my aunt's family are all gone."

The Empress Dowager seemed to have already guessed what she was going to ask, and said with a smile: "Ying'er is really smart, she was the first to think of asking Ai's family."

"Grandmother, it really is you!"

The queen mother nodded: "Originally, Lian'er had nothing to worry about in this world except his family. Since he had you, he has lived more like an ordinary person, and your family has become his family. The two of you are not here anymore." , Aijia will of course take good care of them for you."

"Then where are they now?"

"Since the emperor fell ill, several forces in the court have faintly shown signs of taking the lead. A few days ago, the Ai family has arranged for your family to live in a private house on Nanmen Street. Mama bought it in the name of a distant relative, so don't worry, it won't be found out."

"It's still the emperor's grandmother who is thoughtful."

"The emperor fell ill, and Ai's family can't live for a few more days. The capital is about to change... After all, it's all the fault of the emperor himself."

The delay in establishing a crown prince caused the factions of the eldest prince and the fourth prince to consume each other and drag down the court.To trust Xiao Lian, but to commit such an unforgivable mistake to his biological mother, even Li Ying, a bystander, had to say: I really did it myself!

"Ying'er, go out of the palace while it's dark, now Ai's family can't guarantee that Renshou Palace can protect you."

Li Ying suddenly thought of something: "Grandmother, come with me!"

The Empress Dowager laughed and said: "You're talking nonsense again. Ai's family has lived in this palace for half of their life, and they don't want to go anywhere. Even if they die, they must die well and return to their roots. It's you, hurry up, don't delay."

The queen mother persuaded again and again, and Li Yingcai reluctantly stepped out of the door of Renshou Palace.

The huge and empty imperial palace in the night has a kind of extreme beauty, but at the same time, it also makes people feel the bone-chilling cold.

Li Ying walked on the palace road alone, accompanied by only the "huhu" night wind, and the "da da" echo of her footsteps falling on the stone bricks.

The more Li Ying walked, the more uncertain she felt, so she quickened her pace and ran towards Xuanwu Gate.

When Li Ying ran to the Xuanwu Gate panting, the gate was already closed. Fortunately, she had an order from the Queen Mother, so she could leave the palace.

But the question is, what about the palace guards?
Li Ying searched around, but found no one, only the shadow of her thin figure cast on the ground by the huge torches on both sides of the palace gate.

What to do, she can't get out through the crack of the door, can she?
By the way, Li Ying suddenly thought, if the guard inside the door is not there, the one outside the door should be there, right? I handed the handbook through the crack of the door so that the person outside the door can open it?

Li Ying immediately bent down and looked out from the crack in the vermilion gate.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ying was so frightened by what she saw through the crack of the door that she tightly covered her mouth!
At this moment, outside the Xuanwu Gate, hundreds of soldiers were neatly lined up. Li Ying couldn't see their faces, but he could see pairs of their feet wearing military boots, and everyone holding their arms. The shadow cast by the torch on the ground.

They didn't make a sound, apparently waiting for something.

Li Ying fell into extreme fear, trembling uncontrollably.

No, don't be afraid, calm down, calm down!

What the hell are they waiting for?
Li Ying suddenly opened her eyes wide in horror, they were waiting for someone to open the Xuanwu Gate!
It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, she must leave immediately, if the people who come to meet her find out, they will cut off her head with a knife!
Li Ying tiptoed and frantically ran towards the Renshou Palace. While running, she thought, once again, will she experience another palace change? !It's really bad luck for eight lifetimes!

Calm down, she couldn't help reminding herself that she didn't die in the palace change in her previous life, and she won't in this life, her family is far outside the palace, safe and sound, what she has to do is to protect herself and the queen mother.

Yes, tell the queen mother what is going to happen immediately, and deal with it in advance!
Li Ying ran all the way back to Renshou Palace, Madam Xu looked at Li Ying who was out of breath and her hair was messy, and asked in surprise: "Why did the concubine go and come back?"

"Quick, close the palace gate!"

Seeing that she looked extremely flustered, as if she had encountered some shocking event, Mother Xu didn't dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly followed her instructions.

After the gate of Renshou Palace was closely watched, Li Ying realized that her whole body was drenched in sweat, and she walked towards the empress dowager's bedroom as if she had collapsed.

The candles in the sleeping hall have been extinguished, but the continuous coughing of the Queen Mother can still be clearly heard.

"Queen Mother, Ying'er is back again." Li Ying said outside the door.

The candles were lit again soon, and the palace servants opened the door of the hall and invited Li Ying to enter.

"Ying'er, why didn't you leave? Why did you look so ugly? What happened?" The Queen Mother asked several questions in succession.

Li Ying took a sip of cold tea, put the teapot on the table with a "snap", took a deep breath, and said to the Queen Mother: "Grandmother, tonight, there may be a change in the palace."

The empress dowager struggled to get up and put on her coat: "What? So fast!"

"Yes, it seems that those people really can't wait for a day. There is not a single guard at the Xuanwu Gate, and the gate is full of heavily armed soldiers, waiting for someone to respond to open the palace gate and rush in."

"Nurse Xu, quickly send someone to notify the emperor!"

"Queen Mother, someone has been sent there."

The Empress Dowager sat back on the bed and murmured: "It's time, fate. It's not that the emperor is unprepared, I just hope Da Ling can get through this disaster safely."

"Ying'er." The queen mother waved at her again: "Come here, don't be afraid, with the emperor's grandmother here, no one can hurt you."

Li Ying was trembling all over, her disappointing tears broke the dike again.

(End of this chapter)