Rebirth after waste

Chapter 25

Although the emperor put down such words, manpower was difficult to reach after all. The queen mother's illness became more and more serious day by day, and in the end she could only use ginseng soup to hold her breath.

In a fit of rage, the emperor scolded two imperial physicians, and then issued an ultimatum to the imperial hospital, burying the empress dowager if they could not be saved.

Gu Yunxian cried once that day, but she calmed down afterwards.People in Changle Palace were panicked, she took the initiative to provoke all the burdens, and took care of all the big and small things. Under the fear and fatigue, she lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

In addition to the necessary court affairs, the emperor also stayed in Changle Palace all day.When Gu Yunxian decocted the medicine, he accompanied the decoction, and when Gu Yunxian read the scriptures to the sleeping queen mother, he listened to it. Once she fell asleep because she was too tired, and when she woke up, she found herself lying on the west side of the Changxin Hall. On the bed in the hall, Ah Ci told her: "Your Majesty brought you here."

She sat there for a while, then got up to see the Queen Mother again.

She didn't know how the concubines in the harem felt when they knew the Queen Mother was seriously ill. It is estimated that many people were secretly having fun.But at least on the surface, everyone was sad and worried. Shen Shuyi, Jiang Chongyi, Zhu Guiji, and Zhen Jieyu, the first palace lords, all took the lead in kneeling in the Ganlu Hall for a day and a night, chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, and then all the concubines went. , For a while, the Ganlu Hall was very lively.

The harem was gloomy and gloomy, but something new happened in the previous dynasty.

Because the Empress Dowager fell ill, the courtiers who were originally attached to the Empress Dowager were on the sidelines and no longer strongly supported Fuli, and the situation was immediately controlled by the opponent.

On March 29, three officials jointly signed a letter to the Shu, accusing the abolished Queen Gu of being inauspicious and offending the Queen Mother, and should be put in the cold palace and never pardoned.

The emperor ignored it.

On March [-]th, the situation continued to expand, and the number of officials in Shangshu became five, and His Majesty was still required to put them into limbo.

The emperor denounced it as nonsense.

On the first day of April, the Taishi Bureau reported to His Majesty, saying, "Looking at the sky in recent days and nights, there is a small star rising to the moon. Please Your Majesty clear away the threat from the Queen Mother in time."On the same day, ten officials went to Shushu to ask for the death and abolition of Gu's family.

The situation finally got out of hand.

Gu Yunxian didn't seem to know what was going on outside.She just boiled medicine for the Queen Mother as always, even though it was difficult to feed her another sip now.

The palace people of Changle Palace looked at her with pity and sympathy.She knew what they were thinking. Not long ago, she was the hottest candidate for empress, and even Shen Shuyi had to bother to please her.But in a blink of an eye, the queen dowager, the biggest relying person, became seriously ill. She was impeached by the courtiers, and she might lose her life.

It is true that the world is impermanent.

It coincided with Gu Yunxian's attitude, and the emperor never mentioned this matter in Changle Palace.Every time I come back, I talk to Gu Yunxian as usual and have dinner together.Gu Yunxian gradually discovered that although he was indifferent to the person he didn't like to a certain extent, but when he missed you, he was a very considerate and considerate man.

Even in the current situation, he took care of her feelings.Seeing that she didn't know how to eat, he ordered the imperial dining room to prepare more of her favorite dishes, so that she could eat more; worried that she would be unable to hold on by the queen mother's bed all day long, so he presented her with different dishes every day. Soup nourishes the body.

She knew that she should take advantage of his interest in her and find a way to escape from the current dangerous situation, but looking at the queen mother whose life was hanging by a thread, she didn't have any motivation.

If it wasn't for helping her become a queen, the queen mother would not be like this.

Now I know that I was wrong at the time, and my mood is desolate.

The queen mother woke up one night, when Gu Yunxian and the emperor were guarding her bed, relatively silent.

"A Xun..."

The weak voice made the emperor turn his head abruptly.

"Mother," he looked at her, his voice tensed, "are you awake?"

The Queen Mother smiled.

"Queen Mother, how are you?" Gu Yunxian asked repeatedly, his voice choked with sobs, "Are you feeling better?"

"I feel great. Haven't felt this good in a long time."

She and the emperor looked at each other, both a little stiff.

The imperial physician said that the Empress Dowager's illness has been cured by medicine and medicine, but now she suddenly improves, it can only be...

"I think this is probably a flashback." The queen mother said calmly, "It's great, I can still see you kneeling beside my bed soberly. There is nothing better than this."

She tried hard to control the panic in her tone: "Queen Mother, don't say that...you will be fine."

She smiled and shook her head: "What a silly child. I expected this day, but I didn't expect it to come so soon."

She could only hold back desperately, not to let herself cry.

"I have been falling asleep these days, dreaming about many things from the past. I entered the East Palace at the age of 16 and served the late emperor. Sometimes when I think about it, it seems like it was yesterday, but unexpectedly, it has been more than 20 years." She smiled wryly, with sadness in her eyes , "Most of the old people at that time are no longer there."

She stretched out her hand to the emperor: "Ah Xun, my son." A tear fell, "The happiest thing in my mother's life is that I gave birth to you."

The emperor was stiff all over, and holding his mother's hand, he said with difficulty after a long time: "The son is not filial, and he has made the queen worry about it for so many years."

"You child, since I was a child, I couldn't understand your thoughts." The queen mother said, "You always have your own thoughts. I couldn't control you before, and I won't be able to control you in the future."

"Mother..." He lowered his head, and finally there was a trace of weakness in his voice, "My son is reluctant to part with you."

The Empress Dowager looked at him for a while, then turned her eyes away, looked into the empty mid-air, and said in a calm and peaceful tone when she spoke again, "The Empress Dowager read the scriptures and read a story. In the story, the Buddha once traveled to the country of Juheluo. On the way, I met an old woman. The Buddha asked Ananda to ask her for some water. Unexpectedly, when the old woman heard that the Buddha asked for water, she personally carried the water pot to the place where the Buddha lived. Ananda was about to stop him, but the Buddha said: "Don't stop me, this old woman has been my mother in five hundred lives, and her love for her son has not been exhausted, so embrace me. If you are blocked , the blood will gushes from the face, and die immediately.' The old woman was then able to embrace the Buddha and kiss the hands and feet of the Buddha."

There was a smile on her lips, and there was a touch of comfort in her expression, "So, even if we are about to part, don't be sad. The Buddha was able to see his former mother again, which shows that the fate of all living beings is destined. Maybe in the next life, I can still As your mother, we can stay together for the rest of our lives."

The emperor held her hand tightly, unable to speak a word.

"I'm leaving, and the only thing I can't let go of now is you and Yunniang. You are the emperor, no one can hurt you, but Yunniang..." She paused, and she pleaded again, " Can you promise your mother? No matter what happens in the future, treat her well."

"Aunt..." The emperor didn't speak, but Gu Yunxian cried out, "It's Ah Yun's fault, it's all my fault..."

"Don't worry." The emperor put one hand on Gu Yunxian's shoulder, as if to comfort him, but looked at the queen mother, "I promise you, I will protect Yunniang." His voice was low, making people involuntarily convinced.

The queen mother was still worried, "You have to remember, you are not joking."

She turned her gaze and looked at Gu Yunxian, whose eyes were already full of tears.She said lightly: "Don't cry, I know my own body. It has nothing to do with you." She stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears, "I still remember that when you were 13 years old, you went to Changqiu Palace with your mother. At that time, I Sitting on the top seat, looking at you from a distance, I somehow remembered the first time I entered the East Palace. It was such a small person, kneeling in the crowd, kowtowing nervously to say hello. I like you, Because you are really like when I was young. I used to think that it is best for you to be with Ah Xun, but now I am thinking, am I wrong? This palace is deep and conspiratorial. , In fact, it is not the place for you to stay at all. You are so beautiful and sensible, if you don't enter the palace, you may be able to live a better life, but it is not necessarily true. "

The emperor only felt that his heart was like a feather floating on the sea, slowly sinking with the words of the empress.Some questions that he had never considered cleared the fog and appeared in front of him.

Most of his thoughts are spent on his own ambitions and plans, and he has never spent too much thought on women.In his subconscious mind, he has always taken it for granted that as long as he is willing to be nice to any woman, she will accept it with joy.But at this moment, he suddenly became uncertain.Yunniang, the Yunniang who was hired by him three times and six times, who was married to the family, and who was devoted to him, but was ignored by him, after so many things happened, will it be the same as before?

Will she have regretted it?
"Auntie, auntie, don't talk about it." Gu Yunxian broke down in tears, "Everything Ah Yun did was willing. I never told you, long before you arranged for me to meet my cousin, Ah Yun has always loved He. It’s just that at that time, Ayun was humble and didn’t dare to think about it. The moment you asked me if I would like to marry my cousin was the happiest moment in my life...”

"Really?" The Queen Mother said softly, "It's very good, I didn't harm you."

After the queen mother said those words, she fell asleep again, and Gu Yunxian and the emperor stayed in front of the bed, never leaving.The concubines of the six palaces got the news, and they knelt together outside the East Hall, but no one dared to make a sound.

At three o'clock in the night, the queen mother woke up again, this time she could not make a sound, she held the emperor's hand, looked at him for a long time, and finally closed her eyes slowly.

"The Empress Dowager..." There were cries in Changxin Hall, with deep grief.

The emperor knelt there silently, holding the queen mother's hand in both hands, motionless.After a long time, he slowly pressed his forehead against her hand, and tears flowed down the jade-colored quilt drop by drop.

The moment his cry came out, Gu Yunxian, who had been struggling for many days, was finally unable to support him, his vision blurred, and he passed away.

The queen mother has been ill for a long time, and she has already prepared for her death.The emperor held her hand and knelt for most of the night, and finally got up slowly.He knelt for too long, and his steps were a little staggered. Lu Chuan wanted to help him, but he waved him away.Looking at his mother on the bed one last time, he said hoarsely, "Let those people in."

He walked out of the Changxin Palace step by step, and at the same time, the palace servants entered one after another. He knew that those people were going to collect her body.

The sun was rising, and the soft sunlight shone on him, but it couldn't get rid of the coldness all over his body.

From now on, they are people from two worlds.

Outside the Changxin Hall, the concubines were all up all night, and everyone looked a little haggard.However, compared to the emperor, they are already radiant.

There was a palace concubine who planned to take advantage of His Majesty's grief to go up and comfort him, but after seeing his expression clearly, she didn't dare to go forward.Zhen Jieyu seemed to be thinking about it, but she hesitated for a while but held back.

He thinks this is very good, he doesn't want to talk to anyone now.

He stood outside the Changxin Hall for two hours, his mind was so chaotic that he didn't know what he was thinking.Changle Palace was crowded with people coming and going.He unconsciously searched through the crowd with his eyes, only to realize that he was actually looking for her when he reacted.The man who ran everything a few days ago.

Lowering his eyes, he said slowly, "How is Yunniang?"

Lu Chuan replied: "Ms. Gu has been overworked these days, and she has not fallen down because of her mental strength. Today, the queen mother... she was so sad that she fainted. The imperial doctor has just gone to see it. There is nothing serious. Rest well. It'll be fine in a while."

It is all supported by heart strength.She is really just as stubborn as her mother.

The emperor was silent for a moment: "I'm going to see her."

(End of this chapter)