Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

The door suddenly opened from the inside.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a somewhat familiar person standing at the door, and when I saw me, I was astonished: "Ah-!"

I was also shocked, and looked intently. It was the talented Yuan Yueming who stood in front of me!

"Yuan Cairen?"

She was also startled, looking at me with her hands holding the doorknob, only half a moment before she looked back: "Yue—Master Yue?"

I was a little stunned for a while. I didn't expect that she would be in the living room of the queen queen, but remembered that Gui Ye had told me once before. It is not surprising that she often came to see the queen queen, so she approached her properly A salute: "Xiaguan has seen talent."

Yuan Yueming made a smile and said, "It's been a long time since you're here. Are you here to visit the Queen Mother?"

"Yes."

"Master Yue is really filial to her queen mother. No wonder the queen mother always remembers her lord."

I heard her saying that was a bit nonsense. I could n’t say what it meant. When I looked up to see her expression, she came out and said, "The queen mother has just got a little fever and is resting. Go in. Come on. I'm going back, too. "

After speaking, I walked outside. I looked back at her figure and saw that she was walking out in a hurry. She didn't even care about Guiying saluting her. After opening the door, she hurried out and even went back. No return.

I stood at the door, watching this scene with a slight frown, Gui Gui closed the outside door, and then came back.

I lowered my voice and said, "Well, has she been here often?"

"Um." Gui Yan nodded. "Especially the day when the queen queen is ill, here comes every day. Slave was originally worried about what she was going to do, but she looked coldly for a few days and found nothing, but the queen mother--"

"What's wrong with the Queen Mother?"

"The queen queen sometimes gets hot, and people are a little confused. Looking at her, it's as if you are here."

"what……"

As soon as I heard it, the soreness in my heart surged up, and my eyes became a little hot, and I had no time to ask any more, then turned into the Queen Mother's room.

Here, it looks like a patient's room. The surrounding windows are hidden. The dim light makes the whole room feel dull. In addition to sandalwood in the air, there is a strong smell of medicine; and the curtain on the bed is half Hanging down, I could see the brocade was paved. A thin figure was lying on the bed with one hand still exposed outside the quilt.

When I saw it, I hurried forward and opened the curtain.

The queen queen lying on the bed was still asleep. She really lost a lot of weight, her cheeks were slightly sunken, her skin lost her old luster, and some bleak yellowness was revealed; even when she fell asleep, her brows frowned slightly. It was as if she had some inextricable pain in her dream, which made her unable to calm down.

Looking down at the hand outside the quilt, the joints were so thin that the posture seemed to be grasped. As soon as I saw it, some hot tears burst out, and I tried to suppress it She crouched carefully, holding her hand, and gently put it back into the quilt.

But at this moment, she seemed to feel something, and suddenly caught me backhand.

"Child-child-"

I was shocked and looked up in haste, but saw that she didn't wake up, but frowned with a muttering nightmare: "Child-my child, don't-don't take my child away!"

"The queen mother ..."

She was holding my hand harder and harder, and her nails almost got into my skin, as if she was really holding something important to her, if she let go, she would be snatched away. Looking at her painful face in my dreams, I was so distressed that I reached out to brush away the sweaty hair on her face, and she became more and more apprehensive and kept pinching my fingers: "Don't, don't grab Leave my child ... my child! "

Hearing her unconscious nightmares, my heart suddenly sank.

Her child ... the child who was robbed ...

Gui Gui, who had been standing behind her, heard her dreams, panicked, and hurried to the bed: "The queen queen, the queen queen, wake up soon, queen queen ..."

The queen queen opened her eyes suddenly: "Ah-!"

She had just woke up from a dream, and she was still a little helpless. Her face was full of cold sweat. Gui Yan quickly took out a handkerchief to gently wipe her, and said, "Mr. Queen, are you okay?"

"..." The queen mother was still a little dazed, and it took a while to return to God, look at her, and look at me again: "Green baby?"

I hurriedly said, "Mr. Queen."

"Is it really you?"

"It's me, queen mother." Then, my voice was a little choked, "It's not good for the young queen, the queen mother has been sick for so long, and the young babies have not come to see you."

"Oh ..." She didn't blame me, just smiled lovingly, as if she saw me, and the fear in her dreams receded, and said, "It's all right. You are fine, good."

This is just the simplest sentence, but it makes me cry.

She has always cared for me a lot. Many frictions between me and Pei Yuanzhang also depend on her turning in the middle. Even this time I can go out of the cold house and rely on her. She did so much for me, she did n’t ask for anything in return, but I did n’t stay by her side even when she was sick, I—I really should n’t!

Holding her hand, I choked and couldn't speak, but Gui Yan, who had been cautiously waiting by the side, still had an uncertain expression on her face, and said, "Is the queen mother just having a nightmare, say it A lot of weird words, but it's okay, just the dream words in a dream. "

The queen mother heard her say so, her face was slightly dignified.

I felt something in my heart, but didn't say anything, just smiled briefly at her, but the queen queen said: "Speaking, the sad family is a bit hungry. Have you used the meal, green baby? If not, stay with me Let ’s have a fast. "

I nodded, Gui Ye was still a little uneasy, and looked at us before turning around and going out to prepare for fasting. I saw the queen mother wanted to get up and hurriedly helped her to lean carefully on the bed.

The queen mother still held my hand, as if she was reluctant to let go, and looked up and down for a while, and said, "The family heard something."

"..." I looked at her carefully.

"I heard that Concubine's child is a fool?"

"Yes."

"Hey, why is this happening?"

"..."

"Emperor, must he be sad?"

"..." This is inevitable. No matter how jealous he is about the Shen family, after all, it is his own flesh and blood. No matter who will be sad when he encounters such a thing.

The queen mother sighed longly: "This child ... hey."

Regardless of any other person or thing, the matter is related to the child, the queen mother will always be exceptionally soft-hearted, it seems that she has always had a special feeling for the child's affairs, like a gap that cannot be filled in her heart, remembering just the dream Those words, I just feel that the gap is getting more and more obvious, it seems that the truth buried in it shows me little by little.

"Mrs. Queen, you—"

I wanted to ask her, but I stopped talking—this kind of thing, I ’m afraid I ca n’t ask, and I ’m afraid to ask, otherwise Gui Ye wo n’t be so careful about leaving the topic just now.

The queen mother didn't feel what I was thinking in her heart, just sitting there dreaming. I followed her gaze and found that she had been looking at the amulets hanging in the veil. It is these things that have been tormenting her, so that even if she escaped here, she could not fill the gap in her heart every day when she meditated on Scriptures.

After a while, she slowly turned her head to look at me and said, "What's going on in the palace now?"

I didn't know what she meant for a moment, just looked at her.

"Isn't it great?"

"..."

When I heard these words, I understood it, and after thinking for a while, I said gently, "The queen mother relaxes."

"..."

"No matter where else, the emperor will make the river pagoda peaceful."

She listened, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and shook her head: "Don't coax me, either."

"..."

"Ai's family has been in this palace for decades. What haven't you seen? Where can there be a peaceful place in this palace, a peaceful person?"

"The queen mother ..."

I said sadly, she only smiled at me tiredly, and slowly closed her eyes.

She was sitting on the bed, her face was getting yellower and yellower with white curtains, and her forehead was covered with a layer of cold sweat. It was just because of a nightmare. I took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped her. The queen mother only allowed me to act like this and didn't say anything, but I thought about it, and then said carefully: "Don't you ... have any bad dreams?"

"..." She opened her eyes and looked at me.

"I heard that Nightmare is a demon."

"The demon ...?" The queen mother slowly chewed these two words, as if don't have a bitter taste, and a bitter smile appeared on her face: "If you are entangled in the devil for a lifetime, you will soon become a demon. "

"Mr. Queen!"

I was taken aback, and hurriedly clenched her hand, but she just smiled lightly, saying, "Mourning family, maybe the time to go is not far away. These days I always think of many things before, good The bad think, the love and the hate never forget, and after so many years of sutras, it turned out to be nothing.

My tears burst out: "Don't say that, Queen Mother."

I also know that a person is getting older, and she goes down little by little. Although she is so rich and rich, she cannot stop such a step, but she still cannot accept it emotionally.

What's more, if she really has a gap in her heart, just leave like this, how painful will she be?

Seeing my tears rain, she smiled and stretched out another thin hand to wipe the tears on my face, and laughed: "In fact, everyone will have this day, if it really comes, you don't have to." You are still young, everything, and imaginable. "

"..."

"When I mourn my family, I often think of my youth."

"..."

"At that time, Ai's family was riding wild on the grassland, let alone the Iron Horse King, and the eagles he kept could not catch up with me."

"..."

"There are wolves on the prairie, and every spring we will fight with an iron bow. The more we fight, the better. Otherwise, it will be harmful in winter."

It seemed like she was remembering the past, so I didn't ask more, and just said gently, "Why?"

She said, "Wolves didn't eat anything in the winter, and they would take risks, slip into the city, or slap children in some tribes."

"..."

"Many people on the grassland have been harmed."

"..."

"Alternatively, it would be to drive a few cows and sheep to the grassland and shoot them, and leave them to the wolves. As long as they can abdomen, they will not come to the city to hurt people."

When I heard this, my heart froze, and I opened my eyes and looked at the queen mother.

The queen mother smiled calmly: "If you don't feed the wolves at this time, they will be put to death, I'm afraid something will happen."

...

She wasn't talking about wolves, but--

I looked at the queen mother with shock.

My shock was not just what she said, nor was it because the queen queen, who had always ignored the vulgar affairs of the world, actually cared about the politics of the DPRK. What struck me was that even her, when speaking of the current situation, used " "Something big" The Queen Mother has been floating in the palace for decades. She has seen more winds and waves than me. Even she said so, that is, the current situation is really dangerous. If you do n’t handle it properly, something really will happen!

At this time I thought about it, and it was a little bit open.

I did n’t pay much attention to the power of the Shen family in the past, but now I want to come. .

But he did not, because the price would be very high, but the odds of success are not large; and Shenrou's pregnancy and birth, if he can be righteous in the future, than the risky thing, a smooth transition of power is naturally a better choice .

But now, this child is an idiot, so they have broken their way.

At this time, what will the Shen family think?

Is waiting for the birth of a child, and then going to follow the mayor who is already mature, Fu Bashang's first court controversy about the Prince's registration? Fei Jiu Niu Er Hu force the child to the throne? Or use another direct method to gain more power?

When I think of it, my scalp is a little numb.

The queen sighed and said, "If you have a chance, tell the emperor that you must comfort Shen's family now."

"The queen mother ..."

"otherwise--"

"Don't say anything to the queen mother." I grabbed her by the hand, and my palms were all sweaty.

After all, the queen mother is the queen mother. She sees things more thoroughly than me, and thinks more deeply than the queen. Chang Qing and I haven't thought about things to the extreme yet, but she has understood everything and said : "Don't be afraid, and things are not impossible. If the emperor is intentional, he must be foolproof, otherwise a slight difference will cause a calamity."

I knelt down in front of the bed, holding her hand, and said, "Mrs. Why don't you tell this to the emperor yourself?"

She glanced at me, then shook her head a little tiredly, and closed her eyes with a smile.

I am reminded of Chang Qing, who is indifferent and cold, and always seems to look like this in front of Nianshen.

When I wanted to say something more, Gui Yan had brought the little maid with the meal, so I didn't ask again. The Empress Dowager ’s diet has always been light, and now she is not sick, and the people in the royal dining room can only work harder on the medicated diet. I heard Gui Ye said she did n’t eat much in the past, but she saw me today Here comes a better spirit and a better appetite.

Therefore, although I have no appetite, I still try to accompany her to eat more.

After eating the meal, her spirit is not so good. I and Gui Gui served her to sleep. I said goodbye to go out. I just walked to the door and remembered the scene when I opened the door. I stopped to ask Gui Gui. Road: "Well, that Yuan Cairen she--"

"Ok?"

I hesitated for a moment, and although it was difficult to speak, I said, "In the future, let her come less."

Gui Yan suddenly became a little nervous: "Did she--"

I hurriedly waved my hand: "I'm just worrying for nothing. Now that the situation is not good, and the queen mother is weak, don't let her be so exhausted every day. I'll worry about some in the future."

Gui Yan listened, and nodded cautiously: "Slave knows."

I smiled at her and turned and walked out.

Gui Yan sent me to the gate, and then closed the door lightly. I walked on the water corridor and looked back. The mist around me seemed to be flowing with the wind. The wind felt like a storm.

Even near the water stupa, there is no absolute peace ...

.

I walked back all the way with a dignified heart. I just turned over a palace wall and saw a sedan chair parked in front of Jingren Palace. It seemed that someone had already sat up. Before I had time to approach, I saw that Shenshen was also The man led the car, Shui Xiu followed, and after lowering the curtain, several eunuchs picked up the car and lifted it away steadily.

Whose sedan is that?

I was puzzled, and hurried over, but still had no time, but Xinger inside was about to go back, turned around and saw me at the gate, and hurried out: "Master Yue, you are back."

"Um." I nodded and asked, "Xinger, who was the sedan chair just now? What did you do?"

"Oh, it's Madame Li."

"Li Fei? Why does her sedan stop here?"

"Mrs. Li Fei came to talk to the queen for a while, and said that she had some fresh things from her house to pick up her Royal Highness for a while."

"what?"

I was shocked. I didn't expect that Nangong Lizhu would also go to Jingren Palace to talk to the queen, and the queen asked her to take it away.

I have not forgotten how the emperor left the palace ten days ago, how she treated Nianshen and me with horror, and suffered several times, although the situation is quite different from that when she was pregnant before. It ’s just doing no harm to herself; besides, her goal now is Shen Rou, and it is the best choice to be united with the side of Jing Ren Gong, but her sudden change of 180 degrees still made me feel a little bit But God came.

What did she say when she came to talk to the queen for a while?

Thinking of this, I quickly turned around and walked to Jingren Palace.

In Chang Qing's room, there was still refreshments after the hospitality. When the child was packing, Kou Er said something. He heard the sound of entering the door, looked back, and immediately said, "Master Yue is back."

Chang Qing was still sitting at the table, and people seemed to be fascinated. When I heard that I was back, I felt refreshed and looked up at me: "You are back."

"Mother Queen."

I walked over and saluted, she raised her hand gently, and said to Kou Er, "Okay, change two cups of tea."

"Yes."

Guerli made two cups of tea, and the pastries on the table didn't seem to move. Chang Qing said, "You have a bit?"

I shook my head: "Xiaguan just spent the fast with the Queen Mother in Linshui Stupa."

"Oh ..." Chang Qing heard and stared at him: "My palace, maybe I haven't been to the queen mother for a long time."

She and I were all along the way. Naturally I also understood that I did not want to be distracted by the queen mother, so I decided not to talk about the queen mother's illness for the time being. The sedan. "

"Well, she came over and talked to this palace for a while."

"She, what did you say?"

Chang Qing glanced at me: "It's just an old saying."

As soon as I heard it, my heart sank.

I naturally know what she is saying.

The situation is no longer clear. The court and the harem are staring at the Shen family. Nangong Lizhu may not have such a big vision. What she wants is just revenge for herself. For this, she can Do everything you can, even—I implore the emperor to accept me into the harem again as a concubine, only to increase the assistance of this side.

I hurriedly said, "Queen, don't you promise her?"

Chang Qing looked at me and smiled tiredly: "Don't worry."

"..."

"Your heart, this palace is known."

This sentence immediately made me feel relieved. I may not believe other people, but Chang Qing understands this kind of feeling best. As long as she understands, she will not force me to do what I don't want to do.

But now it seems that Nangong Lizhu is really shrewd. As soon as Pei Nianyun had an accident, she immediately came to express her goodness.

She is already infertile. In fact, there are many concubines with no children in the harem. The best way out for such concubines has always been to adopt a prince to pave the way for his future. Immediately the value of this great prince was different.

and--

I remembered that she had used Chang Qing several times, and now she may not give up this idea, waiting for the present thing, one day she will become a big thing, and she will have to take care of other concubines. If it is her, her status Already in the air.

She really took a step, watched ten steps, and even made such a plan.

Thinking of this, I could not help but sneer, Chang Qing looked at me and smiled.

There was an indescribable meaning in the smile.

I was drinking tea with Chang Qing, and the two of them tasted the pains and sorrows of the tea carefully. She was silent for a while and turned her head to me: "Yes, you just went to the queen, please. "

I thought about it, and avoided some things, just said, "The queen queen mother, the queen queen has something to say, and I annoyed the queen maid to bring it to the emperor."

Although it was the queen mother who told me to tell Pei Yuanzhang, I really didn't want to have any more contact with him. I simply told Chang Qing clearly, and it was a reminder to her.

"Oh? What?"

"Yeah, what's that?"

There was a sudden noise in the room, and Chang Qing's face changed a bit. My heart sank, and I slowly turned my head to see Pei Yuanzhang carrying his hand on his back and coming in from the outside.