wedding dress

Chapter 245
If someone else said it, they would probably think that the Shengci Empress Dowager Wang is a lucky woman.

Yes, the happiest thing in a woman's life is to have a good father, marry a good man, and have a good son.

Although the Empress Dowager Shengci came from a low background, her father was not up to the standard.But she became Zhaoyi from a young maid, and gave birth to two vigorous and filial sons, but she enjoyed inexhaustible glory and wealth for the rest of her life.

This is the highest status and the greatest honor for a woman in the world.

I can't help being envious.

There are so many beauties and talents in the harem...but only one can achieve the right result in the end.

If you ask the Empress Dowager Shengci whether she is happy or not, does she feel that the Empress Dowager has fulfilled her life's wishes.

What would she say?

No one ever asked.

But one year, when I went out to escape the summer heat, I stopped to rest on the way.The emperor wanted to show benevolence and closeness to the people, and he didn't let people drive the villagers away.The Empress Dowager Shengci saw an old woman from a distance, with a cloth handkerchief wrapped around her head, carrying a two-year-old child on her back, picking up something in the fields.An old man came over with a firewood basket on his back, and the two stood there talking. The old woman put down the child on her back, and poured water for the old man from an earthen pot.The child was still walking unsteadily, spinning around at the feet of the two of them.After drinking the water, the old man carried the child on his back and went to carry the firewood basket with one hand. The old woman quickly took it, and the two of them took the child and walked towards the east slowly supporting each other.

Caigu came over with tea and said softly, "Your Majesty, have a taste. This is tea made from the nearby spring water, and it tastes different from the tea in the palace." She raised her head and looked out following the eyes of the Empress Dowager Shengci. I looked and saw nothing.

"What are you looking at, ma'am?"

Empress Dowager Shengci said: "The husband and wife are both quite old."

Only then did Caigu notice the figure in the distance: "That's not it. It's not far from the capital here, but it has always been peaceful. Look at the fields and the houses in the distance, don't they look like those painted on the 'Nongle Picture'?" the same?"

Although she is usually the most caring, but this time Empress Dowager Shengci didn't think about whether the scene looked like a painting or not.

The old couple must have lived together through ups and downs for decades, raising children, men farming and women weaving.Now I have a grandson, you support me, I rely on you...

She suddenly remembered a long, long time ago.

She was still young at that time, and once she lived in the countryside at her uncle's house, her cousin secretly took her out, gave her sweets, and promised her two good handkerchiefs to wait at the entrance of the village.But she herself made an appointment with someone, and the two of them whispered behind the tree behind their backs.

At that time, she was only ignorant and knew that what her cousin did should not be known by her family or seen by others.When my cousin came back, she hadn't eaten all the candies.The cousin blushed and took her hand back.

Later, someone came to propose marriage, and it was the person my cousin met that day.The aunt prepared the dowry and wept and wept to marry her daughter.The cousin was very happy, she couldn't cry when she went out, she just howled dryly.

Although that family is not rich, but the people are my cousin's favorite. I heard that life is very beautiful.

The village households have a simple population and a simple life.Even if the times are bad and you worry about food and clothing, the family will always be together...

"Your Majesty, are you tired?"

The Empress Dowager Shengci shook her head and asked her, "Do you have any sisters in your family?"

Caigu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I forgot. I told your Majesty that I have an older sister and a younger brother. My older sister is married long ago, and my younger brother is also married. There are already two or three children."

"Well, you've been by my side all these years, you've been delayed..."

Caigu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't talk like that. There are many people in the palace who are envious of me. Your Majesty has always been tolerant, and she has treated me so well all these years. No one is as blessed as me. Yes. Besides, I now have a rank, salary, and dignity. A while ago, when I sent a letter home, my sister was still envious of me, and complained why my parents didn’t send her to the palace to enjoy the blessings.”

This may not be true.

The Empress Dowager Shengci also came all the way to beat the maids, why didn't she know the sufferings of the maids?After all, few survived, and most of them struggled for half their lives in the palace, but they didn't find anything in the end.

If Caigu hadn't entered the palace, she would have married by now.

What if he didn't enter the palace at the beginning?
Perhaps just like the old couple just now, the days were ordinary, the husband and wife discussed and supported each other along the way, and decades passed in the blink of an eye.

She has been in the palace for several years, but she doesn't know what the emperor looks like.She thought she would be released from the palace after a few more years, but suddenly she was picked by the empress Chen at that time and sent to the emperor.

The palace people graciously waited for her to take a bath, but she was in a daze without saying a word.The female officer asked her to kneel there, and she just knelt obediently.After kneeling for a long time, her legs were sore and numb, she leaned to one side to rest, and suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, she hurriedly knelt properly, and then kowtowed.

The emperor stopped in front of her and asked, "What's your name?"

she whispered.

The emperor seemed a little careless and said, "Look up."

She hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised her head.

From the moment I entered the palace, I heard people say how the emperor is doing, how the emperor is doing.

But this was the first time I saw what the emperor was like.

It's not three-headed and six-armed, but what does it look like to protect the body with the aura of a real dragon.

It's not like he's very old with a beard.

He stood there with his arms outstretched.She stood up slowly and walked over to undress the emperor.

But she had never done this job before.

Untying the belts of others is completely different from dressing and undressing yourself.The fingers seemed to be completely uncontrollable, and they couldn't be untied even after untiing them for a long time.The emperor lowered his head slightly, breathing on her exposed neck.She panicked, not knowing what to do.

"How old are you?"

"Seventeen..."

"How many years have you been in the palace?"

She finally remembered how she should reply: "Go back to the emperor, the servant has been in the palace for four years."

The belt was finally untied, but the outer robe was easy to take off, but the one underneath made it hard for her to take it off.

The emperor smiled softly and pinched her wrist.

At that time, her heart was very confused. For some reason, she was lying on the beautiful incense couch, but she remembered the scene of her cousin and that man whispering behind the tree in the countryside...

Also, when my cousin got married, that bright red wedding dress, beaming smile...

She is now married, right?
It's just that, compared with her cousin, she doesn't have a red wedding dress.No one had ever whispered to her behind a tree.

The body aches and the mind feels empty.

Others can say that the emperor's favor is a great blessing and a happy event.But she felt that instead of gaining anything, she lost a lot.

When she gave birth to a child, she was trembling, fearing that she and her child would lose their lives.Later, although the mother and child were safe, they were forced to separate without even being able to speak a word.

Others said she was lucky.

But the Empress Dowager Shengci looked back and thought about it.

The favor of the late emperor, the honor of the empress dowager...

It's all so cold, you can see it, you can't touch it...

So many years have passed in a flash.

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Summer is here, and Big Chengzi is taking a nap, sleeping into the character "Pian" for a while, and the character "Tai" for a while. . .

(End of this chapter)