wedding dress

Chapter 160
The white silk apron with light blue flowers and dark green leaves was draped over the bed, sliding down bit by bit.Later, the bed trembled a little more for some reason, the bellyband slid down silently, spread out lightly, and landed on the footrest beside the bed, the leaves and flowers on it looked extraordinarily shy, half in bud Half is spit.

I don't know if she was tired on the day of her birthday and ate some greasy food. The Empress Dowager Shengci endured for a few days, but she still fell ill.Xiaodong went to the palace to visit, and the Empress Dowager Shengci leaned against the bed with a yellow complexion.

Xiaodong saluted with a smile on her face, leaned against the bed, and called softly: "The Empress Dowager."

Empress Dowager Shengci touched her hand: "Well, you're here too. I'm not seriously ill, so I don't need to rush all over here."

"Well, I brought a pair of embroidered pictures, and I'll look at them when you feel better. If you have anything you want to eat, tell me to do it."

The Empress Dowager Shengci smiled slightly: "I don't have anything to eat. Well, our Xiaodong is getting married and has become more and more virtuous." She squeezed Xiaodong's palm: "Your palm is soft, you are a smooth and blessed child."

Xiaodong's eyebrows stretched out, her expression was calm, one could tell that life was very comfortable, the Empress Dowager Shengci let go of her worries, and felt a little emotional.

When a woman gets married, it is like reincarnating for the second time.It's good to have a strong mother's family, but you will spend most of your life in your in-law's family.If the husband is incompetent, and the in-law's family is not worried, this life will be suffering.Even if the natal family is poor, if the husband's family will be prosperous in the future, if the husband is upbeat and the mother-in-law is kind, then this fate is very good. In the future, raising children will lead to peaceful and smooth life.

The Empress Dowager Shengci is usually in good health, and she rarely even suffers from cold and cough, but the more she is like this, the more severe her illness will be when she gets sick.Before Xiaodong came in, he had already asked Caigu about it, and the imperial physician only said that rest is the main thing, the diet should be light, and the prescriptions he prescribed were also about recuperation.

Caigu said softly: "Princess, don't worry, the Empress Dowager is much better than the previous two days. On the second day of her birthday, she didn't eat anything. After drinking a few mouthfuls of soup, she still had abdominal pain for a long time. After taking medicine, yesterday Already eating and drinking."

Xiaodong stood up straight, and gave her a deep blessing: "Thank you, sister."

Caigu was frightened and quickly supported her: "What is the princess doing?"

"Although the empress dowager loves me dearly, I can't always guard her. Sister Cai will do her best to serve the empress dowager for me, and I deserve my thanks."

Cai Gu hurriedly said: "I can't make it, it's my duty to serve the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager knows all the Princess's wishes."

After seeing Xiaodong, the Empress Dowager Shengci was in better spirits. After drinking the medicine, Xiaodong served her tea and water. Empress Dowager Shengci said, "Don't be so busy, sit down and let's talk for a while."

Xiaodong responded, washed his hands and sat down.

The Empress Dowager Shengci said in a low voice: "Actually, I know it in my heart. This disease is the root cause of the disease in the early years. Now it is just brought up by cold wine..."

Xiaodong leaned against her and listened to her quietly.

"At that time, Ning Bing and I entered the palace together. She was assigned to Yichun Palace, and I served as a servant in Yeting. Yichun Palace is remote and desolate, no different from Leng Palace, but the maids assigned to serve here are all rare beauties One time when I was fetching water, my ladle fell into the well, and she picked it up for me, and that’s how we got to know each other. She has a straightforward temper and a clever mind, and took care of me like a sister. Later, the Queen chose People, pick me up with her."

Ah, Xiaodong has heard of it.The Empress Dowager Shengci was just a palace servant, and the Empress Dowager Shengde was a queen at that time. In order to share the favor of a concubine Cui, they were picked out as pawns.

Talking about the past, Empress Dowager Shengci looked at the leaves of the bonsai by the window in confusion, "Ning Bing was born better than me, and also better than Concubine Cui. The former emperor valued her more, and I am not good at these things. Only one of the two can stand out, it doesn’t matter if it’s her or me. But Ning Bing told me in private, let me eat carefully—she has been drugged by the queen, and she will never have children in her life. "

"I was taken aback. Although I don't expect to fight for favor, who knows what's in the food soup? Since then, I have paid more attention to what I eat, and only eat things that are absolutely sure that there is no problem." Go down, and get rid of everything else secretly. Sometimes I don’t have anything to eat for a day, and I’m just so hungry. The root cause of this disease is actually what happened at that time..."

Xiaodong held the hand of the Empress Dowager Shengci, and said softly, "Your Majesty."

Without the prudence and patience of the Empress Dowager Shengci at that time, there would be no emperor in this world, no King An...of course it would be impossible to have her.

The Empress Dowager Shengci smiled: "Later, the emperor also noticed that my life was much easier. At that time, I was young, hungry and full, and I didn't think about what would happen in the future. Now that I am old, these debts I owed in the early years Just came to the door."

Xiaodong talked with her for a while, and then recited a section of the Ksitigarbha Sutra for her.Her voice was soft and sweet. The Empress Dowager Shengci closed her eyes to rest her mind, and then she breathed steadily and evenly. Xiaodong stopped to look, and she was already asleep.

Xiaodong quietly retreated from the bedroom, turned around, but saw the emperor came at some time, sitting not far from the door.

Xiaodong went forward to pay respects, and the emperor asked, "Is the empress dowager asleep?"

"Yes, the empress dowager just fell asleep. When did the emperor come?"

"When I first came here, I listened to you reading scriptures inside, so I listened outside." The emperor had a gentle attitude: "The Queen Mother likes you, and you often come in to accompany her."

Xiaodong responded.

After a moment of silence, the emperor asked, "How are you... how are you doing?"

It's not suitable for him to say this, it sounds weird.This kind of question is suitable for female elders to ask, as the emperor-he should not be concerned about such trivial matters, right?
Xiaodong looked at the nose and the heart: "It's very good, thank you for the emperor's concern." Anyway, she can't chatter with the emperor, saying that her husband is very considerate, her mother-in-law is very kind, her life is well-off, she eats well and sleeps well, everything is fine, etc. trivia.But just saying this sentence seems blunt and perfunctory, Xiaodong thought for a while, and added another sentence: "There are few people in the family, and there are few things to do, so I don't feel tired."

The emperor smiled slightly: "Your father probably took a fancy to this, so he found this marriage for you."

Fortunately, the emperor didn't want to continue playing with her anymore, Xiaodong heaved a long sigh of relief as soon as he left.Caigu brought tea to her, and whispered: "I haven't seen the emperor be so kind to any junior, not even the princesses."

Xiaodong shook his head: "Every time I see the emperor, I don't dare to breathe loudly, I'm always afraid of saying the wrong thing."

Caigu sent her out from Changchun Palace, the sky was a bit gloomy, it looked like it was going to rain.Xiaodong quickened his pace, watching Feng Nian approaching from a distance, but it was too late to hide, so he hid aside and waited.Feng Nian walked up to her and stopped, Xiaodong greeted her, and heard the queen say: "You don't need to be polite, you just saw the queen mother?"

Xiaodong said: "Yes, the Empress Dowager took the medicine and fell asleep."

The queen was wearing a palace dress embroidered with red peonies, with a half-smile on her face: "The emperor is gone too?"

If she knows everything, why ask?
Xiaodong slandered inwardly, but her face was still very respectful: "When the emperor came, the empress dowager had already fallen asleep, so she didn't go into the palace, she sat outside and left."

The queen nodded and took a deep look at her.Xiaodong lowered his head and heaved a sigh of relief when Feng Nian passed by.

She always doesn't want to see the queen.

Probably... since Yao Jinfeng's accident?
No, earlier than that.

The queen is always a little bit weird towards her, so Xiaodong hides as much as she can, trying not to meet the queen so as not to make both of them feel uncomfortable.

When her car left the palace gate, Xiaodong thought whether to go back to Prince An's mansion first - but King An and Zhao Lu should not be in the mansion at this moment, and she would see no one even if she went there.

"Ma'am, do you want to go directly to the residence?"

Xiaodong thought for a while: "Go to collect treasures from all over the world."

Xiaodong pondered about the illness of the Empress Dowager Shengci, and thought about asking the doctor to ask if there is any good prescription for recuperation—although the doctor outside may not be better than the imperial doctor in the palace, but there are some shorts and some longs, maybe There is a good way.Besides, the doctors outside are more daring than the imperial doctors to speak and prescribe prescriptions, unlike the imperial doctors who are all hopeless and hopeless.

The hooves of the nailed horses stepped on the stone road, and the sound of the hooves was clear and regular.The voices of people on the street gradually became noisy, and the car turned a corner and stopped suddenly.

"what happened?"

Through the car curtain, someone said, "Sister Xiaodong, it's me."

Xiaodong frowned, and opened the curtain a crack.

The third prince rode on the horse and nodded to her through the car window.

No need to ask, apart from him, there are not many people who can stop Xiaodong's car.

"Hello, third prince. I don't know where the third prince is from?"

The third prince smiled wryly: "Sister, don't joke, I have something to ask you. If my sister is not busy, take a break here and have a cup of tea before leaving."

Xiaodong took a look back and saw that there was indeed a tea house beside the road.

She didn't want to talk to him 1 times, and she didn't want to get out of the car.

"I just came out of the palace, and I'm about to go back to the palace. If you're not in a hurry, let's talk about the third prince's affairs next time."

She was polite and cold.What the third prince wanted to ask her, and what he could ask her, Xiaodong could guess.But what's the point?He also got married and had a son. Yao Jinfeng also got married and is now pregnant.Isn't their youthful and frivolous past already talked about?Do you want to continue entanglement?This does no one any good.

Xiaodong's vigilance and distrust were clearly written on his face, and the third prince could see it clearly.He didn't force Xiaodong to get out of the car, just leaned over and said in a low voice: "If she is still in the capital, let her leave as soon as possible. The capital is a place of right and wrong and it is not suitable to stay for a long time."

These words were beyond Xiaodong's expectation, she felt a little bit in her heart: "What do you mean? What happened?"

The third prince only nodded to her: "Please sister, please remember."

He only brought two guards with him, and hurried in another direction without saying anything more.Xiaodong lifted the curtain of the car to look around, and the figure of the third prince riding on the horse had already turned around the street corner.

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Everyone, the weather changes a lot, so pay attention to your body.

(End of this chapter)