Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 71 At the end of July, I got sick again

That day outside the palace seemed to be really just a dream of mine.

Since Ming Qi returned to the palace that day, although he still came to Changwu Hall to pay respects to me every now and then, but he didn't have the half intimacy of the day outside the palace, instead he returned to the unfamiliarity of the past.

Every time I look at Mingqi's appearance of calling me my mother in a strange way, I can't stop feeling depressed, but I never speak out.

After returning to the palace, Mingqi and I seemed to be just ordinary mother and son.

Time passed tepidly, and by the end of July, I fell ill again.

At the beginning, the imperial physician who diagnosed me said I had heat stroke.

It's just that I don't go out of the Changwu Hall every day, and ice cubes are placed in the hall on a daily basis, and sour plum soup and other summer-relief foods have never been stopped. It is really impossible to say that I have heat stroke.

So in the end, my cause of disease was attributed to the physical loss that Zhang Zaitang said.It is said that because my body is gradually depleting, I am less resistant to heat than ordinary people, and this will lead to heat stroke.

Also because of my illness this time, Zhang Zaitang, who had been imprisoned for more than two months, was finally released. Ming Qi ordered him to find out the cause of my physical loss within three months, or let Zhang Zaitang wait to bring his head up. meet him.

After Zhang Zaitang was imprisoned for more than two months, he was much more depressed than before, and after listening to Mingqi's order, he was even more frightened.

It's just a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor.Although Zhang Zaitang was terrified, after Mingqi gave the order, he led his two apprentices and devoted himself to investigating the cause of my body's unexplained loss.

After the end of July comes August.

The weather in August is still hot, and the cicadas outside the house are still annoying every day.

An Fulai took people to catch them every day, but they couldn't catch them all. Today they just drove away the old ones, and tomorrow there will be new cicadas chirping endlessly outside the house.

After another ten days passed, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the day of reunion. On this day, the imperial court will rest for a bath, and all civil and military officials do not have to go to court.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous years, the imperial court would entertain civil and military officials in the palace, and this year it should be the same.

It's just that since I recovered from the illness at the end of July, my body has become much weaker, and Ming Qi doesn't want to watch me work hard.

In addition, Chu Bufan had just passed away not long ago, and the court was grateful for Chu Bufan's hard work to the court, and couldn't bear to hold a grand palace banquet when he was in his filial piety, so this year's Mid-Autumn Festival did not entertain civil and military officials in the palace.

But even so, a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I still ordered the Imperial Dining Room to rush out a lot of mooncakes, and then on the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to the regulations, I gave them to the civil and military officials.

Although there are not many palace banquets on Mid-Autumn Festival, family banquets are indispensable.

So on the fifteenth day, I ordered people to set up a banquet in the Huxin Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, and I spent it with Mingqi, Zhang Ruo, Han Yuting, Qi Xiayun, Li Wan and the others.

"By the way, Zhang Liangyuan is still living in Chuxiu Palace?" Before going to the Royal Garden, I suddenly thought of Zhang Shuyue.

"Return to the Queen Mother, yes." Qihe nodded after my words.

"A word of mouth from Ai's family that Zhang Liangyuan is allowed to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet at the Huxin Pavilion." I heard the words and ordered.

Regarding the fact that Zhang Shuyue has been in the palace for more than half a year and hasn't been favored by Mingqi, although I was surprised, I didn't say anything.

But remembering that Zhang Shuyue is also the daughter of an official, she is afraid that she has been held in the palm of her parents since she was a child, and the lonely life in Chuxiu Palace for the past six months must have made her very sad.

And today is the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion day, if she is left alone in Chuxiu Palace as a little girl, I feel a little bit unbearable.

When I think about Zhang Shuyue's father is also Jingzhao's prefect, I am willing to sell her because of her father's official position.

As for whether today's family banquet can make her be favored by Mingqi, it depends on her own fortune.

"promise."

Since I decided to sell Jingzhao Fu Yin, I was not in a hurry to go to Huxin Pavilion first.

I thought that if Zhang Shuyue went to the family banquet by herself, I was afraid it would embarrass her, so I ordered Qihe to bring Zhang Shuyue to the Changwu Hall first, so that Zhang Shuyue and I went to the Huxin Pavilion together.

Not long after, Qihe brought Zhang Shuyue, who was wearing a pink skirt, into the Changwu Hall.

Zhang Shuyue's appearance is more like that of Xiaojiabiyu among women. She has slender brows and light rouge on her face.

"The concubine has seen the queen mother."

As soon as Zhang Shuyue came to see me in the Changwu Hall, she knelt down and saluted me. Her demeanor was gentle and graceful. Although she was from Kyoto, her accent carried the euphemistic Nong dialect of a Jiangnan daughter.

"Flat body."

"Thank you, Empress."

When Zhang Shuyue got up, I realized that her eye circles were a little red, presumably she was crying before coming to Changwu Hall.

"Is Zhang Liangyuan doing well in Chuxiu Palace?"

After Zhang Shuyue got up, I asked out of habit.It's just that as soon as I finished asking this question, I realized that I asked the wrong question.

Isn't Zhang Shuyue Chang Ruo and the others who have been favored by Ming Qi, she is the only one among the five people who entered the palace last year who has not been favored by Ming Qi for a long time, and then lived alone in Chuxiu Palace, such Zhang Shuyue How can I live well.

"Thank you Empress Dowager for your concern, my concubine lives well."

Sure enough, as soon as I finished speaking, Zhang Shuyue's eye circles turned red again, and then she forced a smile and replied.

I looked at Zhang Shuyue's flimsy face with a strong smile, shook my head and sighed, and stretched out my hand to call Fang Yan: "Fang Yan, take Zhang Liangyuan down to wash her face. In addition, take the long green lotus dress sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs a few days ago. And the set of jade white hairpins for Zhang Liangyuan."

"No." Fang Hao replied after my words.

And Zhang Shuyue was taken aback when she heard my words, and then thanked me with red eyes: "Thank you, Queen Mother, my concubine, my concubine,"

I looked at Zhang Shuyue's sobbing and speechless appearance, then shook my head again, and said: "It's getting late, hurry up and wash up, it's almost time to go to the Huxin Pavilion."

"promise."

Fang Hao quickly took Zhang Shuyue down.

"If the Empress Dowager likes Zhang Liangyuan, you can invite her to come to Changwu Hall to talk with you in the future." After Fang Hao took Zhang Shuyue down, there were only me and Qihe in the side hall, Qihe said to me.

I heard this and shook my head.

I can't say I like Zhang Shuyue, but when I think of her living alone in Chuxiu Palace, I can't help but think of the days when I lived alone in the courtyard with my aunt when I was a child, so I feel a little pity for Zhang Shuyue.

But it's just a little bit, my sympathy for Zhang Shuyue is not enough to allow me to personally protect her all the way to the top, helping her today is already the limit.

Although Fang Hao has a lively temper, she has always been quick to do things, so within a quarter of an hour, she came out with Zhang Shuyue who had been freshened.

Although Zhang Shuyue, who had changed into a new outfit, still gave people the feeling of being weak, but she didn't feel too thin like just now, but her figure was pretty, just right.

And after Fang Yan reapplied her makeup and changed her tidy up, Zhang Shuyue's face, which was caused by living alone in Chuxiu Palace for half a year, disappeared, and was replaced by a shy and pink complexion.

The Zhang Shuyue in front of her eyes brightened like when she first met Xiyuan Palace last year.

I looked at Zhang Shuyue who looked like a different person, and nodded towards Fang Hao in satisfaction.

"Let's go." After nodding, I was ready to get up and go to the Huxin Pavilion.

"promise."

(End of this chapter)