From the ashes: Return of the General

Chapter 727

Liangzhou is bitterly cold and windy, and almost everyone drinks alcohol, especially the soldiers on guard in this snowy season. Everyone wears a wine bag to keep warm by drinking at any time, let alone Mei Jinze.Moreover, when there is nothing to do in the army, occasional drinks are allowed, so that he has been drinking with his father since he was a child.

He has a good capacity for drinking and claims to be drunk after a thousand cups, but whether he likes to drink or not is another matter.Therefore, upon hearing Mei Xin's words, he immediately put down the wine cup, and after ordering someone to remove the wine, he said, "It's not much better now, do you want to go out and get some air?"

Before going out, An Qi was reminding him that his sister's belly is too big and her legs are prone to numbness after sitting for a long time, so she told him not to focus on himself and watch more.His own sister feels distressed, even if he doesn't tell him, he will watch carefully.

Before Mei Xin answered the song and dance, she stopped singing and dancing, shaking her head to indicate that she was fine, the emperor toasted and invited everyone to drink.She couldn't drink and replaced it with plain water, seeing that her brother had even put away the wine cups, she asked Yun Luo to give him the pear blossoms.

Mei Jinze didn't like to drink Lihualuo, but he couldn't just watch the emperor raise his glass, so he had to toast with Lihualuo.

The emperor sat in the hall and saw him and asked him. Knowing that Mei Xin couldn't smell the wine, he said with emotion: "In a blink of an eye, the eldest princess is pregnant for more than five months. Life is so fast. Listen to Zhou. The imperial doctor said that it is a pair of dragon and phoenix, I can't wait to see it."

Speaking of which, this is still his first emperor's grandson. If he came from the prince's mansion, he would be named the emperor's grandson as soon as he was born.It's impossible now, and I'm afraid there will be no hope in the future. The Mei and Cheng families have long agreed, not to mention that Mei Zhannan doesn't want his daughter to enter the East Palace, even Mei Linlang won't.

She probably regretted forcing her to die, but what if she regretted it?Time is gone forever, and they will never go back after all, never go back.

Those good times, the girl who loved him deeply, are still gone and lost after all.

Even though a thin layer of powder was applied on the emperor's face, it could not conceal the tiredness and sunken eye sockets in his eyes, and the dragon robe hanging loosely on his body let everyone present know that he had lost a lot of weight.Mei Xin knew that the spices that she specially asked people to find from outside the pass were very useful, and the empress felt a lot of disappointment and resentment towards him.Therefore, in less than two months, his body was hollowed out inside and out, and his life was not long.

Standing up and saluting, he felt that he was sick and confused, and what he said was inexplicable and inappropriate. Mei Zhannan stood up in front of his daughter and said, "Thank you, the emperor, for your concern. I am also looking forward to it."

After finishing speaking, Mei Xin also stood up, but she just saluted and didn't say anything.

Mei Jin Zeyuan also wanted to stand up, but who knew that the emperor waved his hand and stopped talking.Turning his head to look at the position below the queen, he found that the imperial concubine Mei Linlang had not arrived yet, and he said with a sickly look: "Where did the imperial concubine Qing go on the eve of the New Year's Eve? Are you feeling unwell?"

This question was for the queen, because he had not been to Zhanghua Palace for more than half a month because of the suppression of Prince Liang's Mansion, nor had he seen Mei Linlang.

The queen doesn't know, but everyone knows that Mei Linlang has been recuperating recently due to her unwell body.So, she replied lightly: "Snowy road slippery may be delayed, my concubine sent someone..."

"The imperial concubine is here!" The eunuch outside the door shouted and the queen laughed, and immediately said: "Look, my sister is here!"

Before she finished speaking, Mei Linlang came slowly, wearing the imperial concubine's formal attire.

Wearing a gold crown on the head and precious stones on the body, the brows are graceful and luxurious but still heroic.After so many years, even though she abandoned her military uniform and wore red makeup, she was still the female general who made the enemy fearful and astonished.

"The concubine pays her respects to the queen mother, the emperor, and the empress, because the concubine was late on the way and went back to get an umbrella when the snow fell heavily, and the concubine was late, so I asked the emperor to punish her."

Recalling that my heart was soft back then, and a few traces of love and affection arose in my cold heart. The emperor raised his hand to signal her to stand up and said, "It's not too late, the palace banquet has just begun. Sit down. Qian Zhong, exchange roses and almonds for the imperial concubine." Lu, she has been ill recently and can't drink, so she also withdrew the fruit wine."

Qian Zhong took the order to signal his apprentice De Shun'er to do it quickly. At this time, the Empress Dowager pretended to be casual and said: "It's been eight years. It's hard for the Emperor to still remember that Rong Huangguifei likes to drink rose almond dew, and Aijia remembers that the Empress Dowager also liked to drink it. , I just don’t know if the emperor still remembers.”

Every time I saw Mei Linlang, I couldn't help being angry, burning with anger, and knowing that she had been named the imperial concubine, I was even more angry and vomited blood.She only had two sons in her life. Originally, the relationship between mother and child was good, very good, but since the emperor fell in love with her, the relationship between her and the emperor has deteriorated day by day, until now they have turned against each other forever.

She wanted to kill her more than once, but she didn't do it out of concern for her son. She always stood behind the former queen.It's a pity that the former empress was useless, although she succeeded in making Mei Linlang give up her heart, she also lost her life, and also made her and the emperor form a knot that could never be unraveled.

For eight years, Mei Linlang suffered a lot in the Luomei Palace, which was like a cold palace, and she never felt better.I thought that without her mother-child relationship, I could slowly recover, but then I thought that she was the gap between her and her son that could never be bridged.

The hand touching the white jade string was startled, and the emperor said with a dull expression, "Naturally, I remember that the last bowl of rose almond milk that the empress drank before her death was given by the empress."

The implication is that the Queen's death was caused by you, you forced her to death.

Eyebrows were like knives, and the knives saw blood. The empress dowager gave the emperor a cold look with eyes full of disgust and said, "Yes, it was cooked by Ai's family. How many years have passed, why haven't the prince and princess arrived yet?" ?”

As soon as the topic changed, her voice became softer, and she said as if singing an opera: "One day, husband and wife, one hundred days of kindness, even if the prince is wrong, the emperor should forgive him for his mother's sake, forgive him, and love him. Today It's New Year's Eve, and even if the families of the common people are reunited, the royal family should be like this. De Shun'er, go, invite the crown prince."

De Shun'er, who was holding the rose almond dew, immediately knelt down, and when handing it to the maid beside Mei Linlang, she raised her head to look at the emperor, and then turned her head slightly to look at his master Qian Zhong.

Qian Zhong was a little anxious but he couldn't make a sound, especially since they were all slaves serving the imperial court, no one dared to move unless the emperor spoke.Furthermore, it wasn't the first day that his mother and son had fought, and they didn't dare to agree blindly.

The emperor's temper became more and more strange during his illness recently, and he would get angry at every turn, not to mention that he had killed someone with a stick not long ago.Although their slaves are cheap, they don't dare to touch bad luck, so it's better to see the situation clearly before talking, or else they will lose their heads today.

(End of this chapter)