A Thousand Hills

Chapter 106

The two slept late at night, got up early the next day, washed up and had breakfast first, then changed into big clothes and went to pay their respects.Today's process is also quite a lot, first go to Zhaode Hall, followed by Mercy Palace.

Emperor Mu Yuan didn't summon his concubines last night, and was still having breakfast. Eunuch Yu came in to report, saying that the fifth prince and concubine had come.Emperor Mu Yuan ordered people to remove the dining table, and let the fifth prince and Xie Moru go in.

Emperor Mu Yuan was a little disappointed to see Xie Moru, Xie Moru's appearance made Emperor Mu Yuan feel a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he saw him.However, Xie Moru's eyebrows and eyes don't look like Fang's, and of course she doesn't look like Princess Ningping, but she doesn't look like Xie's family either. Xie Moru has another kind of appearance, her eyebrows are slender, really long eyebrows , the pair of big phoenix eyes under the long eyebrows are naturally awe-inspiring.She has never been shy and timid when looking at people, and has always looked at people openly.Xie Moru looked at Emperor Mu Yuan in the same way, together with the five princes, they greeted Emperor Mu Yuan, and after Emperor Mu Yuan bestowed him a seat, Xie Moru looked up at Emperor Mu Yuan generously.

Xie Moru was also a little disappointed, Emperor Mu Yuan had reached the age of forty, but he looked like he was in his early thirties, with long eyebrows and long eyes, but Emperor Mu Yuan's eyes were not like Xie Moru's big phoenix eyes, his eyes were slightly shaped Long, with single eyelids, a neat beard on his lips, a dragon robe and a golden crown, and a graceful demeanor, his appearance is better than Xie Moru imagined.Therefore, Xie Mo was really disappointed.

Emperor Mu Yuan said some words of harmony between husband and wife, and rewarded many things in pairs, the first one was a pair of suet jade Ruyi, and finally said, "The fifth child will take your wife to pay your respects to your imperial grandmother."

The two stood up and saluted again, then resigned from Emperor Mu Yuan and went to the Palace of Mercy.

On the way to the Mercy Palace, the fifth prince thought of something and whispered in Xie Moru's ear, "If the emperor's grandmother is not happy, don't worry about it."

Xie Moru didn't speak.

The fifth prince thought his daughter-in-law was afraid, so he quietly comforted her, "Don't worry, I'm here."

In the Palace of Mercy, most of the concubines had already arrived. Concubine Su was always sick, so it was rare for her to go to the Palace of Mercy.At this time, she was wearing a light-colored dress with crimson borders, which added a bit of joy to her usually pale complexion.

When the palace people reported that the fifth prince and the concubine came to pay their respects, Empress Dowager Hu couldn't help frowning, and sighed, "Please come in." She really didn't want to see Xie Moru, but it was just such a day that she couldn't see her.

Xie Moru had a rare tacit understanding with Empress Dowager Hu, and she was actually not very happy to see Empress Dowager Hu, it's just that on such a day, it's impossible to see her.However, Xie Moru didn't expect that she was fine. Instead, it was Empress Dowager Hu who stared at her as if she had seen a ghost. Empress Dowager Hu jumped up from the throne, her face changed drastically, and she pointed at Xie Moru and said, "You , you! You are!"

Xie Moru was wearing a vermilion dress and a gold crown with seven phoenixes on her head. Seeing Queen Mother Hu's reaction, the corners of her lips curled up, and she actually smiled.Empress Dowager Hu barely managed to hold back her anger, "You, you..."

The fifth prince is really unhappy, the emperor's grandmother doesn't have to do this, this is his daughter-in-law.The fifth prince introduced to Empress Dowager Hu, "Grandmother, this is the granddaughter-in-law, you don't know her. The grandson brought the granddaughter-in-law to greet you."

Empress Dowager Hu was trembling all over, gasping for breath and unable to speak, even Concubine Su looked at Empress Dowager Hu as if she was acting.Zhao Xie hurriedly stepped forward to comfort Empress Dowager Hu. It took a long time for Empress Dowager Hu to regain her senses. Concubine Su said in a soft voice, "I don't know what to say to see how happy I am."

Empress Dowager Hu turned her head away, as if she didn't want to see Xie Moru again, she bit her lips, her voice seemed to come out of her throat, with a trembling voice, she ordered, "Thank you."

The palace people read the rewards, but the rewards of the Empress Dowager Hu were not as generous as those of Emperor Mu Yuan, especially the many rewards, which were not satisfactory.Xie Moru didn't say anything, but the Fifth Prince said, "Grandmother, why are you so unhappy?"

If in the past, Empress Dowager Hu had a good reason, today, when she first came back to life, Empress Dowager Hu was still a little out of her wits, and said to the palace, "Come as you wish."

The fifth prince then added, "I want a pair."

Concubine Zhao felt that the atmosphere was not good, so she quickly smiled to ease the atmosphere, and teased the fifth prince, "Look at our fifth prince, we still know we need a couple."

The fifth prince smiled, "Yes, Father just rewarded it."

After Empress Dowager Hu had rewarded her, Concubine Su got up and said, "Madam, I will take the two children to my palace to talk."

Empress Dowager Hu waved her hand absently, and Concubine Su took her son and daughter-in-law to Shuren Palace.

The fifth prince and Xie Moru greeted Concubine Su again in Shuren Palace, Concubine Su smiled all over her face, "Get up." He ordered them to sit down.Concubine Su seemed to have a lot to say, Xie Moru could see Concubine Su's repression and excitement, but Concubine Su only said some things to make life easier, and left the two of them to eat at noon, so they went back to rest.

No one expected that Empress Dowager Hu met Xie Moru and fell ill the next day.

The fifth prince lived in the palace and got the news early in the morning.He really convinced his grandmother, this old man is used to making mistakes, for example, he is not very friendly when he sees his mother and concubine, the fifth prince is used to it since he was a child.However, the Empress Dowager Hu is ill, and people outside the palace have to enter the palace to greet her, not to mention the fifth prince, who is in the palace, even whispered to Xie Moru in private, "Yesterday, I didn't want to give us wishful thinking. , I'm sick again today."

Xie Moru didn't have any special reaction, but said calmly, "As people get old, illnesses and pains are also common. Since the empress is not well, let's go and have a look."

The Fifth Prince also had to go, he said, "I originally wanted to take you to our palace to see, but I can't go now. When I send you back tomorrow, let's take a look when we return to the palace."

"Success. I haven't seen the palace yet."

"The building is not bad. At first I wanted to ask you what you mean, but I thought, we were not married at that time, so it's not easy to ask." Then the fifth prince talked about his palace with Xie Moru.

After getting along with each other for two days, Xie Moru could also see that the Fifth Prince could bluff people with his stern face, he was a chatterbox in private, he liked to mutter, and his only target was Xie Moru.When the palace people came in to report something, the fifth prince immediately shut up, and when Xie Moru asked his opinion, he put on airs and said, "The princess will figure it out." Or "These internal affairs, the princess will look at them later Deal with it."

Alas, that appearance is simply the embodiment of majesty and solemnity in the mortal world.

Xie Moru was quite speechless every time, and he felt that the fifth prince was really a wonderful work of the royal family.

After talking for a while, the two packed their clothes and went to the Charity Palace.

Emperor Mu Yuan was a filial son, and he was already sitting in the palace of kindness, and the only concubines in the palace were Zhao Xie and his concubine.Seeing the Fifth Prince and Xie Moru, Emperor Mu Yuan felt comforted in his heart, and said, "Go inside and see your grandmother, take it easy, your imperial grandmother just took medicine."

The two went to the inner room together. The fifth prince thought that the old lady was pretending to be sick. When he didn't want to see him in person, he knew that the old lady had been wronged this time. She was really sick, and it was very sick. Weakness cannot be pretended.The fifth prince said softly, "Grandmother." Empress Dowager Hu was about to say a few words to the fifth grandson, but Xie Moru glanced at her and said, "Your Majesty is better."

Empress Dowager Hu was even more powerful this time, when she saw Xie Moru while she was ill, she passed away directly.

The fifth prince hurriedly called the imperial physician in, and said, "Show the imperial grandmother quickly."

The imperial doctor's skills were extraordinary, and he woke up Queen Mother Hu with a single injection, and said softly, "The queen mother became sick from worry, and was overly frightened. She passed out just after the high fever subsided, and she fainted for a while."

The fifth prince said with a cold face, "The emperor's grandmother lives in the Palace of Mercy, her children and grandchildren are filial on the top, and Li Shu is respectful on the bottom. Where is the fear, don't talk nonsense."

The imperial physician had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Empress Dowager Hu turned her face away and didn't look at Xie Moru, Xie Moru said empathetically, "Your Majesty, I'd better step back first."

Concubine Xie said softly, "That's fine, you've just got married, so you're not familiar with palace affairs. The Queen Mother is recovering from illness, and she's also afraid of making noise. Your Majesty, it's good for the children to have this filial piety."

Emperor Mu Yuan was very suspicious that the old lady was deliberately humiliating Xie Moru just now, but the old lady was ill, and Emperor Mu Yuan could only say, "What the noble concubine said is that the fifth child will take your wife back. If you two are in harmony, the queen mother will be happy." The words choked the old lady who had just recovered.

Fortunately, the departure of Xie Moru and the fifth prince made Empress Dowager Hu a lot easier.

Empress Dowager Hu's lingering illness this time, after the high fever subsided, she added a coughing symptom, which worried Emperor Mu Yuan and Princess Wenkang very much. Xie Moru didn't have the time to visit his own palace when he returned home, his brothers all took their wives to attend the sick in the palace, and he couldn't take his wives around to play around, so he had to go back to the palace in a proper manner.On the contrary, Mrs. Xie was quite relieved, at least seeing that the fifth prince treated Xie very well.

Because Empress Dowager Hu was ill, Zhu Gao ordered to go to the palace to pay her respects, especially the princes and concubines also visited the palace every day, Xie Moru lived in the palace with the fifth prince, so of course he couldn't be left behind.But every time Empress Dowager Hu saw Xie Moru, her illness would get worse.Empress Dowager Hu was impatient to see Xie Moru, Xie Moru still went with the fifth prince every day, and she and the fifth prince would go back to her courtyard to have a rest every day. They talked, read books, listened to the fifth prince's complaints, or went to Shuren The palace is going to visit Concubine Su and so on, and life is also going wrong.

Generally speaking, as long as both of them are determined to live a good life, such a life is good.

Because of Empress Dowager Hu's illness, the general concubines and concubines had to meet their female relatives in the Palace of Mercy when they came in, so they were cancelled.However, because Queen Mother Hu was ill, Xie Moru basically met everyone.Even Mrs. Shou'an and Princess Ning Rong have been here several times.The root cause of Empress Dowager Hu's illness was diagnosed by the imperial doctor and said that it was excessive fear, but everyone thought it was nonsense. With the status of Empress Dowager, why should anyone be frightened?Even if someone mentioned Xie Moru vaguely, anyone who knew a little would think it was a rumor. After all, Empress Dowager Hu didn't like Xie Moru, not to mention that everyone in the world knew it, but everyone who should know knew it.

The reason for Empress Dowager Hu's illness is that only Princess Ningrong believed in the diagnosis of the imperial physician. Princess Ningrong has rarely been near the palace in the past one or two years. However, after thinking about it, I still told Princess Wenkang in private, "I didn't say this against the fifth prince and concubine. You also know that the empress is really seriously ill, otherwise, I shouldn't have said this. Wenkang, you listened, and don't go here."

Princess Wenkang said, "Auntie, if you have something to say, just say it."

Princess Ningrong sighed, "Yuemo, the fifth concubine is too much like a person." She hadn't seen Xie Moru for several years, and when she saw Xie Moru suddenly in the palace, don't say that Empress Dowager Hu would directly scare her to death. Even the eldest princess Ningrong was also frightened.

"I don't think she looks like Aunt Ning Ping." Princess Wenkang thought that Princess Ningrong was talking about old things, for example, Xie Moru was like Princess Ningping or something.If it is these words, Princess Wenkang is not willing to listen to it anymore.

"I grew up with Sister Ning Ping, so I can see that naturally." Eldest Princess Ning Rong said, "You are younger, so it is not surprising that you don't remember your imperial grandmother. The appearance of the fifth prince concubine was not very obvious when she was young. , I was shocked when I saw her when I entered the palace that day. It is so similar."

"Auntie is saying that Xie Moru is like the late emperor's grandmother?"

Eldest Princess Ning Rong nodded, "Speaking of which, my mother gave birth to us four brothers and sisters, and we were not born much like her, but the appearance of the Fifth Prince's Concubine, it's as if my mother has lost her shadow."

For the rest, Princess Ning Rong didn't say anything, Princess Wenkang could understand.The person Empress Dowager Hu fears the most in her generation is none other than the serious mother-in-law and queen Cheng.

Empress Dowager Hu has been ill for more than a month on and off. The old empress dowager was ill, and Princess Wenkang often advised her, "What's the matter with you? With the emperor and me here, what are you afraid of?"

Empress Dowager Hu leaned on the bed and drank the soup and complained, "I said at the beginning that this marriage will not work out, but your brother insisted on going his own way and getting such a villain into the palace." She coughed again, "I still have a few years left Live? I don’t have a few years to live.”

"Where is this?" Princess Wenkang was curious. At first she thought that Princess Ningrong was exaggerating, but now she couldn't help asking, "Is it true that you are as similar as the former emperor's grandmother?" When she passed away, Princess Wenkang was still young, and she really didn't have a deep impression of her grandmother.

Empress Dowager Hu felt uncomfortable when she heard the three words "Grandmother". She curled her lips and frowned, "It's very good, what's the point of mentioning this!"

"You, the emperor's grandmother passed away all these years, there is nothing to let go of." Regarding her mother's fear of her grandmother, Princess Wenkang didn't know what to say.

"I can't let go of anything!" Empress Dowager Hu opened her mouth, and the pain became more, "It's fine if she doesn't like me, but your emperor brother, the first emperor is only this son. When the first emperor was ill, she said, Mr. Guo Lai, I want your father to pass on the throne to King Jingjiang."

Princess Wenkang persuaded, "Guo Lai is a loyal minister, and it will still be the emperor's brother who ascended the throne."

"What's more, the first emperor wanted to promote me as empress when he was alive, but she refused to agree to it, and the first emperor had no choice but to say that the imperial concubine would do it too. She still refused, saying that my background is low, and I am not even worthy of being an imperial concubine. It seems that she was born a long time ago. I have heard it for a long time. She is just from a poor and scholarly background, that is to say, she is lucky. She has a son like the late emperor, so she can become the queen mother. In those years, she always hated me. What's the matter with being low, what's the use of those high-born noble concubines she picked for the late emperor, none of them can lay eggs!" Empress Dowager Hu didn't pay attention when she said that, she brought out all the vulgar words, and replaced them I justified myself, "Is it for me? If it is for me, what does it matter to the queen, noble concubine and concubine? I am not for your brothers and sisters to have a famous reputation." Empress Dowager Hu recalled the old things, so she was full of pain. "It's Ning Ping, who said she was a great kindness to our mother and children when she kept your brother's throne. But think about it, if King Jingjiang won the throne, how could it be her turn to hold power for more than ten years? Then After a while, when your imperial brother is older, I said to find a marriage for your imperial brother, but she insisted that your imperial brother was young, and waited until your imperial brother was sixteen before deciding on the Chu family. That Chu family, I didn’t mean She's not good, but she's not much better than Yanze's mother. I know Ning Ping's heart, isn't she just afraid that the daughter of the Hu family will become a queen with me. Empress Dowager Cheng went, and survived until Ning Ping died, and survived until your brother-in-law was in charge. I have only had a few years of Ansheng. He just brought such a villain into the palace. I can tell by his face that he is not a law-abiding person. .From now on, our royal family will not be in peace again."

Empress Dowager Hu burst into tears as she spoke.

(End of this chapter)