Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 170
What Xia Zijin didn't expect was that after Xia Bin and Xia Shengqing returned to the Mercy Villa, Ming Shengdi hadn't had time to offer rewards for the successful negotiation with the trade mission, but something went wrong at Yong'an Palace. .

And it was the Empress Dowager who was in trouble.

Early in the morning, the Yongan Palace was full of commotion. The Empress Dowager suddenly became ill again and again, lying on the bed and complaining of chest pains, but the imperial doctor looked at it for three times and couldn't see anything wrong. The Empress Dowager was so angry that she said, "An dare to practice the art of Qihuang" sent the imperial doctor who was seeing her back to her hometown to farm.

Seeing the old queen mother who had already stepped into the coffin with one foot, she was very angry when she cried out that she was in pain, and the whole palace was restless.

Ming Shengdi was not very happy that after the queen mother recovered from a serious illness, she insisted on living in the Mercy Villa in order to cool off, so after the fourth imperial doctor sent by the queen mother was also demoted by the queen mother for being incompetent, he returned to his hometown. Finally lost patience.

With a bang, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground resounded in the silent palace. It was the Empress Dowager leaning on the soft pillow, stroking her chest with one hand and beating lightly with the other, hitting the medicine bowl held by the maid in front of her with her backhand to the ground.

"Get out! There's no use for anything, what are you doing with this bitter medicine for the Ai family? Don't you think the Ai family is not bad enough!"

The brown and black concoction was sprinkled all over the floor, and the bitter smell immediately spread. The maid held an empty tray in her hand, she softened in fear of the empress dowager's angry aura, and shrank her body to apologize again and again.

"The empress dowager, please calm down. It's not that the servants made their own decisions. It's just that the doctor Zhang told the empress dowager to use the medicine to make her recover faster. Good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease. Please be patient, empress dowager."

The maid's tone was very humble, but the queen mother was still very dissatisfied, she snorted coldly and pointed to the residue of the medicine juice on the ground: "Use these medicines that are useless at all to cure grief. The sickness of the family? Huh, I really have a heart, Ai's family is lucky to be blessed by the gods, otherwise the quack medicine prescribed by these quack doctors will really cure the problem."

The empress dowager's voice of scolding just passed into the ears of Ming Shengdi who walked to the door and was about to enter the door, only to see Ming Shengdi's face changed slightly, he raised his hand to stop the movement of the palace servants who were about to pass on the message, and turned his back Standing there with his hands in place, he listened silently to what the Empress Dowager said behind his back.

The Empress Dowager reprimanded the court ladies for being inattentive in serving her, and also reprimanded the imperial physicians who were treating her, she beat her chest and leaned on the soft pillow, and her mouth was broken: "The Empress Dowager of the Ai family has to suffer such a crime." , all of them, seeing that Aijia is getting old, he can deal with it hastily, right?"

As she spoke, she became annoyed again, rubbing her scalp and urging to take tranquilizing pills, and swallowed the dark brown balls with a slight medicinal smell with the water handed over by the maid.

"Empress Dowager, you can't help lying down like this all the time. The imperial physicians sent by the emperor are all top-notch. Even if the medicinal soup smells bitter, it must be very effective. You can try it. "

While serving the Empress Dowager with Anshen Pills, the palace maid couldn't help mentioning that it was difficult for them to do what the Empress Dowager struggled with every day.

The Empress Dowager swallowed and let out another snort, and cast an annoyed look at the maid.

"What do you know, the Ai family can see through everything at this age, if the emperor had brought the Ai family to the Mercy Villa earlier, the Ai family would not have suffered a lot in vain."

Ming Shengdi just stood outside the door and listened, his dragon eyes getting deeper and deeper.

The queen mother is not his biological mother, and he has been extremely benevolent and righteous in supporting her for so many years.But at this moment, it sounds like the queen mother is not grateful at all, instead she blames Ming Shengdi for not being considerate enough for her.

With a mocking smile on his lips, Ming Shengdi shook his sleeves and stepped in.

"Since my mother blames me for not thinking carefully, why didn't I say it earlier?"

A deep voice suddenly rang out in the hall, the Empress Dowager shook her hand holding the square handkerchief, looked up, and met the very indifferent expression of Emperor Ming.

"When did the emperor come?"

The Empress Dowager's face was not very good-looking, she laughed dryly and asked casually, wondering how much Shengdi Ming had listened to what she just said.

Ming Shengdi smiled coldly, taking into account the fleeting look of guilt in the Empress Dowager's eyes.

It was said that the Empress Dowager was extremely unwell, and the imperial doctors couldn't find a solution, and they all accused her of crimes. He came here to see what was wrong, but he didn't expect to hear unexpected words.

"Why should the queen mother care about when I came here, Zuo is just a son who didn't satisfy the queen mother. If I had known earlier in the morning, I would have let the queen mother stay in the capital, so as to save so much discomfort after moving during the dog days. "

The embarrassment on the empress dowager's face added a bit of slacking, and what Ming Shengdi said meant that she was mocking her for being too troublesome?

"The Ai family is old, not as energetic as the emperor, and often suffers from physical discomfort, and he can't decide to move to a seasonal place on his own, and just live every day."

The Empress Dowager's tone was a bit tricky, and she couldn't help but secretly mocked Ming Shengdi for not knowing filial piety, only caring about him and his son Yingyingyanyan coming to the Mercy Villa, but completely ignoring herself who was on the sick bed before, if she doesn't make trouble again After making a fuss, Ming Shengdi might think that she, the nominal queen mother, is easy to deal with in the future.

They are not biological mothers and sons, how could Shengdi Ming care about what the queen mother thinks, seeing her pretending like this, there is nothing but coldness in his heart.

"Since the queen mother thinks this way, then I have nothing to say. In the future, the queen mother can do whatever she wants. Just remember that I am the monarch of this big family. Even if you are my nominal mother, You can never go beyond that right."

After all, Ming Shengdi shook his sleeves, took a deep look at the queen mother, and strode away. Finally, he settled down again, turned his head and said to the pale queen mother, "the imperial doctor who the queen mother dismissed will be They are called back one by one, and it has been a law since ancient times that concubines are not allowed to intervene in affairs, promotion and relegation, if the queen dowager continues to be so self-indulgent, don't blame me for not mentioning it in advance."

The emperor's anger rolled over like a thick dark cloud, and the queen mother's self-directed and self-acted drama for a few days was empty.

The sixtieth-haired queen mother seemed to be trying her last struggle to change the status gap between herself and Ming Shengdi. Her old body trembled slightly, and she was deeply worried about her declining status.

On the second day, the news that Emperor Ming Sheng left in Yong'an Palace spread throughout the entire Mercy Villa. Everyone said that the Empress Dowager pretended to be unwell to impress Emperor Ming, and there was a limit to everything. The successive dismissal of four imperial physicians angered Ming Shengdi, and even lowered the respect that should be due to the titular empress.

It has always been the way in the palace that people's hearts will fall when the wind blows. With Ming Shengdi's attitude, the palace people who were already bored by the Queen Mother became a little more negligent.

At noon that day, when the court lady brought today's regular dishes to the table, the Empress Dowager only took one look, and then pushed down the bowl of dishes in front of her.

"These slaves who rely on people's power, Ai's family is the queen mother, the emperor's mother, how dare they be so negligent!"

The empress dowager's weak voice rang in the palace, pointing at the lunch with only sixteen dishes in front of her, she said angrily: "The emperor eats 36 dishes, and the imperial concubine eats 24 dishes. How come there are thirty dishes in Ai's house?" no more?"

The maids looked at each other in blank dismay, it was clear that the Empress Dowager herself had ordered a few days ago that she was in poor health and had a poor appetite, so everything should be kept simple, and it would be best to use porridge and side dishes, but how could it be neglected by others after only two or three days?

In this palace, even if the slaves complain in their hearts, they can't say it out of their mouths anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, you respond to the Queen Mother one sentence at a time, and only serve the Queen Mother carefully.

The Queen Mother was holding a pair of silver chopsticks to pick and choose among the exquisitely arranged dishes. Her eyes were full of delicacies from mountains and seas, but she couldn't bring up any desire to eat.

At this time, there were several light and crisp knocking sounds from the gate of Yong'an Palace, accompanied by a magnetic and deep voice.

"The empress dowager, this servant is ordered by the emperor to come and add food to the empress dowager."

Standing at the gate of the palace with double wooden doors, Xia Shengqing bowed her straight body slightly to pay respects to the Queen Mother, both respectful and not obsequious.

The Empress Dowager was in a fit of rage, she raised her wrinkled eyes and glanced at Xia Shengqing's face, and said in a strange tone: "The emperor has a lot of work going on every day, so how can he have time to add food to this old woman of Ai's family?"

"And there's no need to be so troublesome. The bad rules of the palace people below are just that, Ai's family is old, and if they become more confused in a few years, they will definitely not be entangled in these trivial matters."

The Empress Dowager has always been a difficult master, seeing the Empress Dowager contradicting the Director Xia sent by the Emperor, the palace people shook their heads secretly, but they dared not say anything to stop it.

I saw that Xia Shengqing did not show any signs of impatience, but bent over more respectfully and said: "The empress dowager's words are a misunderstanding of the emperor. There is no overnight feud between mother and child, even if the empress dowager and the emperor are not biological." Mother and child, how can the affection between mother and child in these decades be so light, the emperor respects you very much, Empress Dowager."

Such a gentle voice said good things, and it really made people unable to find fault. The Queen Mother rolled her eyes, sat up straight, and looked up and down more carefully at Xia Shengqing in front of her.

"Oh? That's another thing to say, the emperor really said so?"

"The emperor didn't personally tell the servant what he thought in his heart, but as the emperor's personal eunuch, observing his words and emotions is the most basic skill. As a slave, he must be able to feel what the emperor is thinking, and the emperor has always valued filial piety, so how can he do that?" Let the empress dowager get angry because the ignorant palace servants are not considerate."

(End of this chapter)