Destroyed outside, gold and jade inside

Chapter 247 Two Choices
However, Mrs. Li pushed away the maid beside her, stood up straight, and said with a sneer, "I have always been in good health. Although I am getting older now, it is not like when I was young, I was still in good spirits even after playing a few polo games. It's not to the point where I can't stand still and can't walk, since it's the duty of the courtiers to take care of the Empress Dowager, as long as I can stand, there is no reason to shirk."

When the ladies at the side heard this, they immediately stood up straighter.Shen Xinniang looked down at Fang Yan's small hollow hand stove with red copper sculptures of magpies and plum blossoms that Fang Yan asked the maids to send to her. The hand stove was very warm.But she is not afraid of the cold, she is a practitioner, even if she is pregnant, it will affect the development of Taoism, and her body is much better than that of ordinary women.

She approached Mrs. Li calmly, tightened the cloak around her shoulders, and handed the small stove in her hand to Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li's hands were slightly cold, although she had a cloak to keep out the cold, after all she didn't have lunch, and there was no hot soup and rice in her stomach, so she was cold from the inside.

The sudden warmth in her hand made Mrs. Li slightly taken aback, she raised her eyes to Shen Xinniang, "Princess, you use it, the concubine doesn't need it."

Shen Xinniang stubbornly stuffed the hand stove into her hand, "Among us, Madam Li is the oldest. With you standing in front, we can guard. Master Li is the most loyal to the court and the Holy Majesty. Madam Li Naturally, he is also someone we admire and look up to."

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it!" Mrs. Li's face was flushed with pride when she was complimented by these words. Although her mouth was polite, her eyes were full of pride.

It's fine if others praise her, but Princess Qi is praising her. Among this group of people, Princess Qi is naturally the one with the highest status. Even Princess Qi said that she admires and looks up to her, which means that she is among such a group of wives. The leading figure!This high hat cannot be worn in vain, and convincing actions must always be taken.

When she heard the words, she put down the stove handed by Princess Qi, nodded to Princess Qi, stood up straight and said: "It is often heard that offering sacrifices and worshiping ancestors is to show sincerity, up to the emperor and down to the people, and they are often done on an empty stomach. We can only eat and drink after paying homage to His Majesty. Today, I invited the Empress Dowager to see her, and I got up early and had breakfast, and it was my fault that she was not summoned. Now I just don’t have lunch, so I can show my sincerity.”

When all the wives heard the words, no matter whether they were willing or not, they couldn't show disapproval on their face, they nodded and said yes, "So, the empress dowager knows that we are sincere, so she will be able to summon me!"

When the maid at the gate of the palace heard this, her heart became more and more anxious, and she walked into the palace a few times, all listening to the maid outside the palace, the empress dowager hadn't woken up from her afternoon nap yet.

King Qi was not surprised to hear that the Yu family had been keeping everyone from seeing each other.Only to find out the reason, let the little emperor summon Uncle Yu to the palace to have an audience.

Uncle Yu is a general of the Longwu Army, a military officer, and today is not the day for him to enter the court.But the Holy Majesty's summons are of course not limited to any time. Whenever you are called, you have to show up non-stop.

The edict was issued for a long time, but there was no sign of Uncle Yu, only the entourage with official titles around Uncle Yu came to report, "Uncle Guo occasionally suffers from external evils and falls ill at home, so it is not suitable to face the saint."

"Huh? Uncle Yu is also sick? The Empress Dowager is sick, and Uncle Yu is also sick. Is this sick? Are they all rushing together?" Hearing this, the little emperor asked with raised eyebrows.

Fang Yan had a cold face, and said: "The Holy Majesty summoned him, how can he not come to see him under the pretext of being sick? And if you invite him here, even if you can't get out of bed, you can carry him here!"

"This..." The entourage was troubled when he heard the words, "The Dragon Body of the Holy One is noble, and Uncle Yu Guo was worried about giving the Holy One his sickness, so he didn't want to enter the palace! It's not an excuse to shirk."

"Since you are sick, it's not easy to procrastinate. There is no good doctor in Beijing, so let's invite the doctor from the Imperial Hospital to the mansion!" Qi Wang said again.

"I don't need to work for the imperial physician, but I feel cold occasionally." The follower reported.

"Oh, I feel the wind and cold..." Qi Wang smiled, and the smile was quite unpredictable.

The entourage was nervous, but seeing that King Qi didn't bother him any longer, he waved him off and left.

The members of the Yu family hadn't figured out what kind of trick King Qi and the little emperor were playing. The news that the Empress Dowager Yu and Uncle Yu had fallen ill one after another, and the news spread in Beijing.

"What kind of disease is it that prevents the wives from going to attend to the sickness, and does not let the imperial doctor go to see the disease?"

"I don't think it's a disease, it's a cover to call the Northwest General back!"

Such a voice of discussion, whether it was deliberately guided by someone, or an unintentional discussion, spread unknowingly among the upper class in the capital.

The empress dowager took a nap, and when she heard that the wives hadn't left, she almost lost her temper.The court ladies dare not persuade.

It wasn't until dusk that Shen Xiniang saw that someone really couldn't bear it anymore, so she greeted everyone and left in a sedan chair.Standing outside the palace gate for a day, it seems that nothing has been gained, but in fact it is not the case, these wives are all family members of the powerful and powerful in the court. After suffering such grievances outside the gate of the Queen Mother's palace, they must complain when they return home.

They may not know about the previous affairs, but there is nothing they don't know about their husbands.The hatchback's words further confirmed the Yu brothers and sisters' ulterior motives of pretending to be sick and wanting to recall the Northwest General.

"Young lady, I'm gone, and news has been sent from Uncle Guo's mansion, saying that it is rumored that my aunt and uncle Guo are pretending to be sick in order to call back the Northwest General to plot evil." The female official whispered in Yu's ear. Whispered.

"Fart!" Yu yelled angrily.

The female officer was so frightened that she immediately knelt down, "Your Majesty, calm down."

"My brother is already too sick to move, so I can't tell. What's wrong with letting my brother come back to visit? Is it a conspiracy? I think the people who spread such remarks have sinister intentions!" Yu said angrily, slapping the short legs.

"Those wives and ladies stood outside the palace gate for a whole day, but the lady didn't even show her face... Isn't that what people are talking about?" the maid said in a low voice.

"Are you teaching Aijia?" Shi Yu looked at the maid coldly.

The palace maid froze, and hurriedly kowtowed, "No, no, I dare not, your empress forgive me!"

"Empress Dowager," the female officer next to the Yu family said in a low voice, "it's not surprising if someone spreads these words with a heart. How can there be no response from the Empress Dowager to recall the Northwest General, King Qi and his party? They doubt the Empress Dowager Isn't the purpose of pretending to be sick and suspecting that Uncle Yu is pretending to be sick so that the general can't come back to the capital?"

The queen mother nodded slowly when she heard the words, "I am in the palace, and my brother fell ill, but I can't do anything for him. Only by calling him back can I help my brother and save him. I must let him Come back!"

"That's it." The female officer said, "The imperial edict has been issued, and it is now admitted that the empress is not as serious as the sickness, and it is not to the point where the general should return to Beijing to visit, but the uncle Guo is not seriously ill. , Guojiu is the general's elder brother, so it's not too much for the general to visit Beijing, right?"

When Mrs. Yu heard this, she shook her head again and again, "Yu Miao hasn't come back yet, the news of my brother's serious illness must be kept secret."

"But now, the Holy Majesty and King Qi have become suspicious, how can we hide this news?" the female officer reminded in a low voice.

"What else can they do? Are they going to break into elder brother's house to see?" Mrs. Yu patted the little girl angrily and asked, and she froze immediately as soon as the words came out.Brother's residence is just an official's residence, if the Holy Majesty insists on going, as a courtier, can he still block the Holy Majesty from the door?It's not her Longfu Palace, she won't see it if she says she won't see it.

She can stop people from the palace gate, but her elder brother can't stop the Holy One.

Rather than being passive, and when the time comes the Holy Majesty will issue another imperial decree not to allow Yu Miao to come back, it is better to make a plan now, to win the sympathy of others, and use a roundabout way to get Yu Miao to return to Beijing smoothly.

As long as Yu Miao comes back, there will be people around her brother to help her, and when her brother is well, the two brothers will join hands, and those who act recklessly will not be afraid.

"You let someone go to your elder brother's house and ask, if you want to conceal your illness or recall the general, you can only choose one of the two, ask him which one does he want?" Yu Shi whispered to the female officer beside her.

The female official bowed her hands to accept the order, stepped back quickly, and arranged for people to go to Yu Tai's mansion.

Hearing this, Yu Tai stared at the ceiling with his stiff eyeballs, and his lips did not move for a long time.

The steward and the attendants were a little anxious, but they didn't dare to rush.He only glanced at the bed from the corner of his eye.

Yu Tai who was lying on the bed suddenly widened his eyes and his lips twitched crazily, but the sound he made was not loud, he could only feel his urgency, but he couldn't understand what he said.

The butler quickly listened to him, "Don't worry, don't worry, Uncle Guo, please speak slowly, slowly! Let's listen, listen!"

The more he comforted him, the more anxious and irritable Uncle Guo became, and the squirming speed of his lips became faster.The housekeeper scratched his ears anxiously, but couldn't hear clearly.

Suddenly a bad smell permeated the air, the housekeeper's attendants and the people sent by the palace all looked at the bed looking for the smell.

Yu Tai's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

At this moment, everyone understood that Uncle Yu was so anxious, he must feel relieved, but now he can't move and say, even a three-year-old child can solve things at will, but he needs someone to help him , if there is no one to wait for you, you can only be embarrassed and ashamed, and there is nothing you can do.

"You wait outside." The butler immediately turned around and said to the person sent by the palace to ask for orders.

The housekeeper and his entourage invited him out with embarrassment, and a group of servants and maids were called in. They lifted Yu Tai off the bed, and the maids didn't dare to pinch their noses blatantly, so they could only hold their breath and endure the stench , wiped his body clean for him, put on a clean mattress, and smoked incense in the room, which slightly covered up the embarrassing smell.

The strong scent of incense, accompanied by the stench, seems to be even more unpleasant.

Both the steward and the entourage had some discomfort on their faces, but they didn't dare to show it too obviously. On the face of the man from the palace, his brows were tightly frowned and his eyes were displeased.

Yu Tai's face became more and more ugly.He naturally understood in his heart that if Yu Miao stayed in the Northwest Military Camp, he would fall down and die, and the status of the Yu family would never be shaken in a short time. The 40 troops under Yu Miao's command in the Northwest were the Holy Majesty And the place where King Qi was afraid of the Yu family.

But if Yu Miao is not allowed to come back, how long can he be intimidating at the house like this?I'm afraid it won't be long before the people around me will have a rebellious heart, right?The disease can only be concealed for a while, but it cannot be concealed for a long time.Now there is no absolutely trustworthy person around him, if someone intervenes, his life is just a matter of waving his hands, even if he is a child in his teens, he has no power to fight back if he wants to attack him now.

He is also a proud person, but now even the reincarnation of the five grains requires the help of others, and even the simple movement of turning over requires the servants to do it.The two choices before him now are not at all a question of whether to let Yu Miao come back, but a question of whether he wants to live or not!If Yu Miao didn't come back, the Yu family would not be threatened, but he would definitely die.When Yu Miao came back and caught Mrs. Shen, he would definitely recover again!
"Uh...uh..."

Yu Tai's lips twitched again.

(End of this chapter)