Harem Empress

Chapter 23 Meeting the Empress Dowager for the First Time ([-])

After lunch, I lay on the bed and took a nap for a while. What happened this morning is still fresh in my memory. Every time I think of it, my heart beats wildly. My father said that practicing calligraphy can calm the mind, so I went to the desk to write After practicing calligraphy, I really should calm down now, this kind of thing will happen again in the future, this is just the first time I have seen it with my own eyes.

At this time, the green sleeve came in from the outside with a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "My lord, the eunuch Gao who is next to the emperor came just now, and said that he would come to Xiangyuan Pavilion for dinner tonight, so you should prepare it!" Originally The waving pen stopped instantly, and the rice paper was stained with black ink. Emperor Jingyang is coming for dinner, so should I tell him what happened today? No, I haven't found out about this matter yet. I couldn't tell him before that if there was something wrong with Li Guipin's stomach, how could the smart Emperor Jingyang not notice it? Let's put this matter aside for now, it's the day when the fox always shows his tail.

He picked up the cloth on the table, wiped his hands lightly, and said lightly: "Got it, tell the small kitchen that we are still preparing tomorrow's dishes."

Hearing me finish speaking, the green sleeve was startled and asked again: "My lord, I'm still preparing tomorrow's dishes. Do you want to change it up?" .”

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the study door without looking back, stood at the door of the main hall, looked at the yellow leaves on the ground, the feeling of autumn really became stronger and stronger, and the palace people had already changed into autumn clothes.

Taxue trotted all the way to me from the outside, looked at each other, turned and returned to the main hall, Taxue walked over and said softly: "Mother, the guard Zheng of the Royal Forest Army is missing." Looking at the distance with a suspicious face, he said calmly : "Did it happen this morning?"

Taxue nodded slightly, it seems that this guard Zheng has something to do with Li Guibi's stomach!He told Ta Xue again: "Be careful to watch this matter, don't let people see anything."

"The servant understands."

This time, Emperor Jingyang arrived as promised, still with that charming smile on his face, wearing a sky blue satin embroidered uniform, smiling to welcome Emperor Jingyang who was striding in, and hurriedly lowered his body and saluted : "The concubine greets Long Live, Long Live is auspicious!"

Emperor Jingyang walked up to me quickly and stretched out his hand to help me up, looked at me gently and joked: "Zhen, I'm not late today! I'm hungry, what should I prepare for today?" ?" Being gently pulled into the main hall by Emperor Jingyang, and offered today's newly brewed Longjing, Emperor Jingyang drank a few sips in satisfaction and said with a smile: "Let's pass on the meal, I'm really hungry."

Emperor Jingyang dismissed all the servants in the palace, and only Emperor Jingyang and I were left in the palace. We slowly began to prepare dishes for Emperor Jingyang. That's right, I didn't expect the dishes in your palace to taste like home-cooked dishes." A gentle smile appeared on his face, and he said softly, "Since Long Live likes it, I can cook it for you every day." Jing Jingyang Emperor smiled and nodded his head and said, "Okay, as long as you don't think 'trouble' is fine." When mentioning the word "trouble", Emperor Jingyang especially emphasized his tone, and saw some different meanings in his eyes.I know what Emperor Jingyang meant. If he really came to my palace every day, I would be the target of public criticism.

"The concubine is the emperor's concubine, and it is the concubine's duty to cook for the emperor." He gently picked up a piece of diced chicken in a bowl and put it in his mouth, "I have been vaguely hearing some whistles these days. Sound, have you heard it?" Emperor Jingyang looked at me questioningly and asked.

Hearing Emperor Jingyang mentioned the word flute sound, the chopsticks in his hand were clenched instantly, his mind turned quickly, and then he said with a smile: "Chen Qie usually goes to bed early, and I have never heard any flute sounds. Sound?" Emperor Jingyang seemed to see some clues, slowly put down the silver chopsticks in his hand, rested his chin on his hand, looked suspiciously at me who was eating with his head down, and said leisurely: "You, I really haven't heard of it. Is it? But I always feel that the sound of the flute seems to come from the direction of your Xiangyuan Pavilion?"

He stopped the silver chopsticks in his hand, and said euphemistically with a calm expression on his face: "Long live, you are joking. If it really came from my palace, how could the concubine not know." "Hahaha." Emperor Jingyang I laughed heartily again, scratched my nose lightly with my hand like last time and said, "Qin Shuang, Qin Shuang, you are so smart." At this time, Emperor Jingyang was already sitting on the window couch calmly.

Oh!I understand, Emperor Jingyang has something to say!The reason why he asked this question today is to let me tell myself that I actually played the flute, but I don't want to say it now, so I can only pretend to be stupid and get away with it.

Emperor Jingyang looked at the chessboard on the desk, smiled and said, "Qin Shuang, how about we play chess?" For some reason, every time I heard Emperor Jingyang call my name, my heart felt numb. Yes, I'm really not used to hearing him call my name.

Slowly sitting opposite Emperor Jingyang, after walking a few steps, Tu Dehai knocked on the door and came in, Fu lowered his body and saluted, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has a cough again, and the imperial physician is treating the Empress Dowager at the Palace of Compassion."

Hearing what Tu Dehai said, Emperor Jing's face changed immediately, and he immediately threw the black characters in his hand into the chess box heavily, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Show the Palace of Compassion." After finishing speaking, Emperor Jing stepped out He walked through the gate of the main hall and looked at the figure going away, walking very fast. It was a son's worry about his mother.

Called Taxue in, did a simple dressing, and ordered Taxue to get some tonics from the small storeroom, since the queen mother is not in the same body as a concubine, how can she not go.

At this moment, the Palace of Compassion and Peace was brightly lit with candles, which made the originally dark night extraordinarily bright. Holding the hand that stepped on the snow, they walked into the main hall of the Palace of Compassion and Peace. Busy walking in and out, it seems that the Queen Mother is ill!Can vaguely hear the coughing sound coming from the empress dowager's bedroom.

Cautiously walked into the empress dowager's dormitory, looked up and saw that the dormitory was full of concubines from the harem, among them Concubine De and Concubine Jin stood out the most conspicuously, while the Empress stood beside Emperor Jingyang anxiously, looking at the concubines with concern. Looking at the Empress Dowager lying on the bed, Emperor Jingyang was sitting beside the Empress Dowager with a serious face, holding the soft and soft hand of the Empress Dowager tightly with his big and powerful hands, peeking at the pale face on the window couch The Empress Dowager, her brows were tightly furrowed, twitching constantly, she seemed to be in pain, and coughed twice from time to time, while Emperor Jingyang gently slapped the Empress Dowager on the back with his long and slender hands, hoping It can alleviate the pain of the queen mother, although it is not very real from a distance, but from the black hair of the queen mother, it can be seen that the queen mother is not very old, about 40 years old.

The queen at the side realized that someone had come in, turned her head to look at me, and said in a low voice, "Danbi is here." She quickly walked over, and with the corner of her eye, she saw someone secretly stretched out a foot to think about it. If you want to trip me up and make me make a fool of myself in public, I stomped on it nonchalantly, and heard a "hiss" from behind, trying to make me make a fool of myself would be to underestimate me, Qin Shuang.

(End of this chapter)