box of hearts

Chapter 236
With a smile on his face, Qing Tian distractedly took off the golden peony on his head, "I didn't know you had such filial piety today, and I didn't prepare anything. This originally belonged to your wife of the Zhao family. I borrowed it to wear it because I saw it looks pretty." , The things are still available, so it should only be a gift for your goddaughter. You also thank Mrs. Zhao, oh, she and I are sisters, you should also pay respects, and call it 'aunt'."

Mrs. Zuo was so angry that her hands and feet were cold, and she was about to have an attack in an instant. Then she thought about it, if she turned her face, those eight heads before would be for nothing!I had no choice but to reluctantly bow to Mu Yun a few more times, but I was really a little frustrated.

Qingtian asked Qinsu to hand over the peony to Mrs. Zuo, as if in a loving mother's tone: "It's the beginning of autumn today, not only is it a little cold, I see it's going to rain, you go back first, To save the inconvenience on the way, we will talk about it another day."

Mrs. Zuo couldn't wait to make a sound, and she took her servants and resigned as if flying.

The maids in the hall couldn't stop laughing, and Mu Yun laughed even more, "The girl is so happy, I haven't seen a girl use the fangs and sharp mouth of Huaihua Hutong to punish people in many years. It's time! Who told her to ridicule Is the girl from a courtesan? She is a daughter of an aristocratic family, but why should she kowtow to the courtesan at such an age, and even the maid of the courtesan should respect her as an aunt?"

Ying Zhi supported an ancient copper pot beside the table, laughing so that the bamboo arrows in the pot trembled, "God, I have been serving the empress for so long, I don't know that the empress will be mean like this. Look at the left lady. Crying out, I have to suffer from being dumb."

Qingtian also looked at the two of them and laughed a few times, "Which one of those who follow the trend does not follow the wind? When someone gains power, he speaks cleverly, and is willing to be a running dog. Before the dog, the most taboo thing is to show a poor face. As long as the outside is still beautiful, not only will it not bark at you, but it will come to lick your shoes. Who cares that you are actually poor and clinking? Just like me, it's just a bluff, how can there really be any way to make the prince change his mind?"

As soon as the words fell, the laughter stopped sparsely, but there was a fine rain, which began to fall from the eaves drop by drop.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, Qingtian kept urging Muyun to return early, and asked Yingzhi to see him off with an umbrella.When the two of them were about to reach the gate of Yi, Mu Yun suddenly took Ying Zhi's hand, pushed back four times, and asked each other in a low voice: "Ying Zhi, how are you doing these days, Madam? Tell me the truth."

Before speaking, Yingzhi let out a deep sigh, and the sigh flowed between the half-dark sky and the drizzle. "After returning to Beijing, the empress is still just practicing calligraphy and painting, chanting scriptures and reading, and she is still dressed neatly every day, combing her hair box, using a jewelry box, inserting hairpins, wearing rings, meticulously, and looking as if she is with the prince. It’s no different in the mansion, but in fact, the spirit is always in a trance, and I also like to have frightening dreams at night. Sister Muyun, you know it best. Your mother has a stomachache. One time a day. People don’t eat much, but this time, the food and drink are halved. They are so thin that their menstrual blood has stopped. It didn’t work. After washing my face at night, my face was so pale that there was no trace of blood. Besides, I suspected that my mother had contracted a problem with alcoholism. There were several bottles of Russian wine in the wine cabinet in the back compartment, but they disappeared all of a sudden. Now, Jiuqintong didn’t know, and I didn’t dare to ask my mother. And the parrot ‘Fei Qing’ raised by my mother is the most spiritual, because the prince and my wife have not been well these few months, and there is no one in the house. Laughter, no one dared to tease it to talk, now this fine-feathered poultry seems to have lost its soul. People cry at it. But once in front of people, the empress doesn’t reveal anything, she doesn’t complain a word, sometimes I dare to persuade her a few words, but she just smiles at me, as if nothing happened.”

"Your Majesty has always been like this, and you can't persuade her. It's just that the prince has always loved your Majesty very much. The two of them haven't even blushed for many years. How could they become like this all of a sudden?"

"We couldn't guess it at first, but today we overheard someone else's words, which seems to make sense. Sister Muyun, my profession is to sing operas. When I was young, I only saw the prince and empress in operas. But the prince doesn't want to be a god in the sky, he wants to be the underground emperor. If there is a beheading, he said that the prince wants to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, so he dislikes the mother's background and changes his heart. I am not afraid that my sister will laugh at me, I will stay for a long time I just thought about it, not marrying for the rest of my life, just being a little girl by my mother's side is my life's blessing. But now, I hate how I am just a girl and can't do anything. It used to be the same, and I couldn't even relieve my mother's worries." The tears in Yingzhi's eyes splashed like peeling crystals.

Mu Yun's eyes were also red, she was stunned for a while in silence, and suddenly put her hand on Yingzhi's shoulder, "Don't cry, you idiot, I'm just your mother's girl, but dragons have dragons, and shrimps have their own ways." Xialu, a girl has her own way. I'll come back in a few days, just wait."

The rain outside the umbrella has been falling, non-stop, crying.

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As soon as the rain falls, there will be cool pillow mats and dew-cold screens, and the summer heat will dissipate day by day, and it will be the season for autumn fans to be donated.

Mu Yun came to the door again seven days later, took out the silk tied on the button of the lotus under the side to cover her mouth, coughed, "Girl, I have something to say to you in private."

And when Mu Yun opened the small sandalwood carving box, Qingtian understood why she had to speak "in private".

There are two things in the box, one is a pair of small wooden figures tied together with silk thread, and the other is a yellow Taoist talisman.

Qing Tian looked at the box with half-surprise and doubt, while Mu Yun looked at her earnestly, "Miss, do you still remember the Taoist woman who made me conceive? I asked her for it. She has already married the man and woman carved in willow wood." I’ve done it, I’ve written your date of birth on the female puppet for the girl, and the girl only needs to fill in the horoscope of the prince’s birthday with cinnabar on the male puppet. The male puppet’s eyes are covered with red gauze, and its heart is covered with red gauze. Stuffed with moxa, nails nailed to the hands, and glue to the feet, it is to make the prince see you beautiful in his eyes, love you to the heart, guard you to death, and be unable to walk away. These seventy-seven and forty-nine moon-old red ropes will tie you up Together, we will never be separated for life. When the prince comes back, the girl will stuff the pair into the pillow, turn the talisman into ashes and mix it in the tea for the prince to drink, and go to bed to do things, so that you and the prince will be reunited, loving each other lifetime."

Mu Yun focused on every change of expression on Qingtian's face, and sighed softly: "I know the girl doesn't believe this, I didn't believe it at first, but girl, look, I haven't been able to conceive for ten years, I only ate this dish I was pregnant immediately with a talisman from my mother-in-law. And——, let me tell you the truth, where did the girl think my girl Zhuier went? Hehe, you can’t even think of it. She came to tell me that she wanted to make Zhui'er an aunt! Only then did I know that the two of them had been hiding their secrets for a long time. In recent years, Xiao Zhao has repeatedly said that I can't raise them, so I want to take in a few children, but they are all suppressed by me. I finally got pregnant and thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, but who knows that there is still this one waiting for me. When I was not pregnant, I would not allow my husband to take a concubine, but now I am pregnant? Humph, I love Xiao Zhao Said that I had to think about it, so I secretly found this Taoist woman to do it for me. Girl, are you surprised? The next day, Xiao Zhao felt as if he thought about that girl Zhui'er, either beating or scolding, no After half a month, I asked someone to sell her, and since then, I have never had any second thoughts about me, and I am as obedient as I was a poor boy when I was a child."

(End of this chapter)