The Queen Mother didn't seem to hear what I said, and she kept staring at the bowl of rice soup. After a while, she slowly said, "Do you like drinking this thing too?"

also?

When I heard this word, my heart moved, and when I raised my eyes, I saw the expression and gaze of the queen mother, and I immediately understood.?

She always looks indifferent on weekdays and has no extra warmth to treat anyone, but only when she mentions someone, she will break her peace and reveal an almost hatred atmosphere.

That person is Queen Zhaolie.

I don’t know what I had been between the Queen Mother and Queen Zhao Lie. I let her eat vegetarian food for so many years and recite the Buddha for so many years, but I can’t calm down the hatred in my heart. However, this may be the endless grudges in the harem. Every woman in the harem was originally a poor beauty, but she still had to be enemies with each other and compete for the man who never belonged only to her.

How sad and ridiculous.

The Queen Mother was silent for a while before she slowly came to her senses from the past. She looked at me and her indifferent gaze gradually softened.

She reached out and gently wiped away the tears from my face with her thumb, saying, "Don't be too sad."

“…”

"You have suffered more than you in the palace."

“…”

"At least you know that your children will reach the Pure Land early and do not have to suffer the sufferings of the world. But some people don't know where their children are, and don't know whether they are born or die. They hold a heart for the rest of their lives and cannot let go until they die."

Feeling her thin fingers gently caressing my cheeks, and the tears were wiped away, I gradually saw clearly that there was an indescribable sadness on her pale and silent face-

Who is she talking about?

Is it Empress Zhao Lie? The emperor once issued an order to pass the throne to the eldest son Pei Yuanchen. The eldest son is the child of Empress Zhao Lie, but he has never appeared in the palace. Is this the matter?

But why did she look so sad, as if every word is like a knife, cut from her heart?

I said softly: "The Queen Mother..."

Hearing my voice, the Queen Mother seemed to wake up suddenly, retracted her hand, and her expression became a little unnatural.

"Empress Dowager, what's wrong with you?"

"Ai family, it's okay."

She shook her head, looked at me again, and said, "You have a good rest, the Ai family will come to see you again. The Ai family will also recite the mantra of rebirth day and night in the Buddhist temple, praying that this child will join the poor family in the next life and live a happy life."

If you commit to poor families, live your life happily.

This sentence is really ironic!

After saying this, she got up and walked out. I leaned against the head of the bed, watching her thin and old back slowly disappear into the morning light at the door.

After a while, Madam Wu walked in again.

Her eyes were a little red, and she was holding a box of Anshen Xiang in her hand, saying that it was the Queen Mother's instructions, so that I could light it every day and sleep more peacefully at night.

With that Anshen Xiang, I really slept better at night. I often slept until dawn and couldn't even dream. But when I woke up in the morning, they would always see some residual blood on the corners of my lips, and I was afraid I would cough up blood again at night.

Shui Xiu and the others were all very nervous, just worried that I would leave some disease roots when coughing up blood every night, but I didn’t feel it was difficult. On the contrary, the cold symptoms in my body were much better.

Winter is slowly coming to an end.

Although my health has improved a little, the imperial physician still asked me to stay in the house to rest. It was still cold outside. Shuixiu and the others have been persuading me to lie on the bed and do everything for me.

Actually, I know that there is another reason why they don’t let me go out.

Although Shui Xiu and the others kept hiding it from me, every time she came back from the house, she could always hear her cursing with Xiaoyu in the yard. I didn't care. Until that evening, I just sat at the table and took a sip of the medicine, and saw a familiar figure walking in from outside.

When I looked up, it was Yuwen.

Yuwen walked in arrogantly and looked at me with a careless blessing: "I have met Yue Cairen."

I frowned slightly and didn't say anything. Shui Xiu didn't think of her the most, so she immediately came forward and said bluntly: "What are you doing?"

"I am here to deliver things." Yuwen glanced at me, put the box in her hand on the table, and said loudly: "This is what our concubine Jie rewarded to Yue Cairen."

Concubine Jie?

When I heard this, I immediately realized that Xu Youling had become a concubine.

Speaking of which, she was about to give birth, and it was too late to be promoted. I only responded lightly, and saw Yuwen snorting coldly, turning around and walking out.

As soon as she left the door, Shui Xiu had already run over and swung the thing on the table and smashed it hard on the ground: "What's the matter!"

It doesn't matter when she made it happen. Madam Wu immediately started to curse: "What are you doing! The talent is still here, it's your turn to be angry!"

Shui Xiu was so angry that her eyes turned red, and she turned to look at me: "Talented!"

I was not angry, but just now she scared me and waved my hand lightly: "I'm tired."

Madam Wu was standing next to her. At this time, she sighed and walked over and said softly: "Since the talented man is tired, please rest early." She packed up the bed for me to serve me to sleep, lit the Anshenxiang again, and then turned around and pulled Shui Xiu and the others out. Shui Xiu fought a few times, looking dissatisfied, but she was still pulled out by Madam Wu with a naked face.

The candles in the room were extinguished, leaving only a small candlelight beside the bed, swaying in the dark night.

The candlelight was so weak that it seemed to be about to go out at any time. I opened my empty eyes wide and looked at the candlelight, wanting to see when it would go out, but in a short while I felt my eyelids were heavy and I fell asleep unknowingly.

When I woke up the next morning, I heard a joke from Jingren Palace.

I heard that somehow a few mice rushed out of Yuwen's house. She was so scared that she ran out without wearing any clothes and knocked down the nanny who served the queen. She made a mess. She was scolded by Xu Jieyu and knelt in the yard. She had not gotten up until now.

This was passed by the eunuch who was doing odd jobs in the yard. Shui Xiu and Xiao Yu came in to serve me and stood up, and said it to me in the original form, so happy that they seemed to be having a festival.

I glanced at them and shook my head lightly.

After all, it is the child's nature.

When I was at my age, I didn’t have such a heart, so I would rather see them laughing happily and making trouble. Although sometimes Madam Wu always says that I spoiled them to the point of lawlessness.

When I got up and cleaned up the bed, Madam Wu went down to give medicinal food. Shuixiu was originally smiling, but when she saw the corner of my mouth, she pouted and wiped the corner of my mouth with a towel, and said, "Talented man, why are you still coughing up blood? Do those imperial physicians' medicines work? So is Xiaoyu. She doesn't know how you coughed like this. She is such a corpse."

I looked down and saw another pink on the snow-white towel.

She rubbed me carefully, and suddenly she seemed to remember something, and lowered her head and said to me, "Talented man, I'll tell you something."

"Um?"

"This morning, it was the time of Yin, and I seemed to see the emperor."

I looked up at her and frowned slightly.

At the time of Yin, when the palaces open the palace gate every morning, someone will come to collect toilets from each palace. Only the eunuchs who do odd jobs will get up. At that time, the main owners of each palace should still be sleeping. How could she see Pei Yuanhao?

Moreover, shouldn’t Pei Yuanhao be in Jingren Palace last night?

Shui Xiu said again: "But it was too dark, and I didn't see it clearly. Only the emperor was the only one, and he disappeared in a flash."

“…”

I didn't say anything, and subconsciously reached out and touched the corner of my lips.

"Talented man, you said, the emperor—"

I shook my head lightly, interrupted her, and asked, "Yin Shi, why did you get up?"

"Uh?" She was stunned, her eyes widened and hesitated: "I--I--I--I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I

I looked at her again, and she lowered her head with some guilt.

I looked at her, then the dazzling pink on the snow-white towel. I suddenly felt very tired, and felt like I didn't even want to continue breathing. I just waved my hand and said, "Forget it, let's go on."

"Oh." She nodded, and was about to turn around and leave, but she seemed a little unwilling to accept it. She turned around and said, "Talented man, the emperor--"

"You read it wrong."

She looked at my faint look and couldn't say anything, so she could only turn around and leave.

I kept sitting at the head of the bed, looking silently at the incense burner at the other end of the room. The incense of the peaceful spirit inside had burned out, and only a wisp of light smoke was left struggling to rise from it, and was immediately blown away by a gust of light breeze.

For the people in Fangcaotang, the day passes very quickly, and nothing happens, and another day is in a daze.

When night fell, Madam Wu still brought me rice soup and medicinal food made in the kitchen. I drank a little of each of them, but didn't eat much, so she said to her: "I want to rest earlier tonight, you all go down."

"Ah?" Madam Wu was stunned and immediately said, "Okay, I will clean up."

I waved my hand and said, "No, you all go down."

Madam Wu looked at me, looked at Shui Xiu and the others again, and finally said nothing. After cleaning up for a moment, they all went down and the door was closed.

After the candles in the room were extinguished, only a candlelight at the head of the bed was swaying in my eyes. Every night I was used to watching the candlelight and then slowly falling asleep. The same was true to watching the candlelight fluttering, as if I was struggling alone.

I don't know when it will be.

I don’t know how long it took, but the night was as dark as a dark curtain that could not be opened. Everything around was silent, and there was no sound of insects and birds. In the quiet night, only my breathing and heartbeat were left.

I lay on the bed, staring at the curtain above my head with wide eyes, quietly.
Chapter completed!