I looked at her side face, and her expression was still very indifferent, without any change. But under the smoke, I seemed to see the eyes that were originally as calm as a mirror lake, with broken ripples.??

She was silent for a moment and said, "Is that true?"

"Yes."

"That's a pity."

"yes."

While I was talking, I had already helped her into the house. This was the first time I had arrived at her room. The layout here was simple and clean, with a wooden bed, a half-old cabinet, a table and two stools. It was as clean as if the residence of an ascetic monk. No one could believe that the person living here was the Queen Mother of the current dynasty.

I helped her to the edge of the bed. When I looked up, I saw several peace talismans hanging inside the tent at the bedside, some of which seemed to have been hanging for a long time and were a little damaged.

Strangely, the Queen Mother chanted scriptures and chanted Buddha like this, so she no longer had to seek peace talismans.

But I didn't ask much, and carefully held her and sat on the head of the bed, gently rubbing her knees.

"Girl, no need to worry."

"It's okay, just sit down." I shook my head and rubbed her gently, but my fingering was very agile. Soon the empress dowager's face showed a relaxed and soothing expression, and she smiled and said, "You can even do this."

"..." I smiled.

Under my heavy and hard rubbing, the Queen Mother slowly leaned against the head of the bed and half-closed her eyes, but her face still had a tired expression, especially the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, which were much more than when I left here, and there were even a few deep marks between her eyebrows.

But by removing these traces of old age, she can still see her beautiful face in the past.

I just don’t know what kind of heroic figure her brother, the Iron-faced King who once galloped across the grassland and looked more dazzling than the sun.

Perhaps, when you see Huang Tianba, you can vaguely imagine it.

In the past, General Batu said that Huang Tianba looked very much like the Iron-Faced King, and I just listened to it, but now I think about it, I really shouldn't have just listened to it - the painting in Luoshi's studio surprised the Iron-Arrow King when he saw it. Chang Qing's painting made the empress dowager so disobeyed. Huang Tianba and the empress dowager were similar to the Iron-Faced King, which is definitely not a coincidence!

But, if that's the case, then-

Just as I thought about it, I suddenly felt that my back was numb. This would be a shocking event!

The Queen Mother’s indifferent attitude towards the Supreme Emperor, the phrase “evil ghost Yasha”; and Yao Lao, who was a member of the former queen and was commensurate with Huang Tianba’s disciple. What role did he play in this? When Empress Zhaolie died in the fire, how many people and how many things did she involve?

I just felt my heart beating, almost bursting out of my chest. I lowered my head and thought for a long time, and finally suppressed my emotions and said gently, "But fortunately, the person on the painting should not be angry."

The Empress Dowager trembled slightly and opened her eyes to look at me.

"You know the person in the painting?"

"Yes, Qingying and him are friends."

The queen mother's lips trembled slightly, and after a while, she slowly spoke, and her voice felt a kind of depressing calm: "He, who is he?"

"His name is Huang Tianba, he is from the south. I don't know whether the Queen Mother knows that the seventy-two waters in the three southern provinces are a very famous figure in Jiangnan. Even the emperor treats him very well."

"The emperor has seen him?"

"Well, I saw him when I went south a few years ago, and later, he also visited the capital."

The Queen Mother's eyes flashed, and her face showed a complicated expression of not knowing whether it was sad or happy. After a long time, she looked up at me and said slowly: "Then what is his character?"

I thought about it seriously and said, "I am as good as orchid, as strong as pine, not afraid of violence, and not bound by the world."

"..." The Empress Dowager was slightly shocked, and a hint of relief appeared in her eyes: "He is a good child..."

"Well. The people in Shengjing have seen him and praised him for his bravery and courage, not being superficial, and have the style of the Iron-Face King back then. However, Qingying knows thousands of people, and no one can talk to him."

But at the end of my speech, my voice was a little choked.

Indeed, Huang Tianba is the most outstanding of the people I have ever seen. Such a person should have enjoyed the glory of the world and avenged his grudges, but he could not work together with the person he loved the most. Now he is even more trapped in Shengjing, who is thousands of miles away, and lives in the most despised way of the world. Why does a person like him encounter such a fate?

I looked up at the Queen Mother, but a smile flashed across her face, as if a mother was relieved and relaxed when she heard her son's success, and grabbed my hand and said, "Then he is now-"

She didn't finish her words, but stopped by herself.

I looked up at her, and saw that the Empress Dowager's face slowly faded, slowly regained her former indifference, and leaned back to the bedside and closed her eyes.

I said softly, "Empress Dowager, don't you ask where he is?"

"…Ai family, don't want to ask."

Don't want to ask?

I was wondering when I heard Madam Gui hurried over outside, standing at the door and saying, "Empress Dowager, the emperor is here."

Both the Empress Dowager and I were shocked. She immediately opened her eyes, but after a moment of silence, she said, "Go and tell the emperor that the Ai family has rested, let him go back."

"yes."

Madam Gui nodded and turned around and went out, but after a while, she came back and said, "Empress Dowager, the emperor said - the emperor said that he would not disturb the empress dowager's rest, and waited outside, and saw him when the empress dowager wanted to see him."

This time, the Queen Mother frowned.

I also subconsciously glanced outside. Although it was early summer, the weather was slowly getting hotter, making the emperor stand outside, and no one could say anything. The Empress Dowager sighed lightly and reached out to me: "Get out of the Ai family."

I hurriedly helped her stand up. She was still staggering when she walked, so she barely walked outside. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Pei Yuanhao standing at the door and saluting respectfully: "Son greets the queen of mother."

"What is the emperor doing?"

Pei Yuanhao said: "My son has been away from the palace for several days and has not come to pay tribute to the Queen Mother, so I will take a look at the Queen Mother today."

"..." The Empress Dowager looked at him and said lightly: "The Ai family knows the emperor's filial piety."

"A lot of things happened in the court and in the harem these days, and my son could not take care of the pagoda at all times. This time he went to Taimiao and specially found the peace talisman from the Master of the Kingdom and presented it to the Queen Mother."

After saying that, he took out the peace talisman from his sleeve, but the queen mother looked at it silently. After a while, she reached out to take it.

Peaceful Talisman? When I heard this, I subconsciously looked at his hand. It was a very delicate Peaceful Talisman with red spikes and golden beads hanging. The Queen Mother put them in her hand and looked at it. She seemed to remember something and smiled faintly: "The Peaceful Talisman you sent is almost impossible to hang."

Pei Yuanhao said: "My son understands."

"You say you know every time." The Queen Mother looked at him, wanted to speak but stopped, and finally just sighed and said, "Forget it, you go back."

"Yes, my son has surrendered."

Pei Yuanhao did not leave immediately after saying that, but looked at me. The Empress Dowager also saw it and said, "I heard that the Emperor asked her to stay and accompany the eldest prince. This is fine. There is someone who knows around Nianshen, so the Ai family is relieved. However, the Ai family wants to keep her here for companion these days. There are so many things in the harem, and the emperor has finished dealing with it. Let's talk about it."

Pei Yuanhao's face darkened for a moment, and he said respectfully: "I understand, my son."

After saying that, I turned around and left. I also helped the Empress Dowager back to her room. As soon as I walked to the bedside, the Empress Dowager silently hung the peace talisman to the head of the bed. I stood aside, looking at the dozens of peace talismans, and said nothing.

At this time, I also understood a little why the Queen Mother said that she didn't want to ask.

It’s not that I don’t want to ask, but that I can’t ask and can’t bear to ask.

The Queen Mother hung up the peace talisman, looked silent for a while, turned around and saw my trance, and said, "Girl."

"What order does the Queen Mother have?"

"These days, you don't go out, especially the West Six Palace."

The area of ​​the Western Six Palace is where Concubine Li and Concubine live. I immediately understood that now Nangong Lizhu has a miscarriage, and all the eyes in the palace are staring at Shen Rou's belly. Of course, I want to get farther away from her, the better.

So I nodded: "Qingying understands."

The Queen Mother looked back at the talisman of peace that was still staggering, and said helplessly: "I don't know what's going to happen in this palace."

.

There will be no shortage of accidents in the palace.

I almost stayed in the Linshui Pagoda for the next time, but the Empress Dowager never asked about Huang Tianba again, but I knew she had not forgotten. She was so old that she knelt in front of the Buddha's shrine for seven or eight hours every day. The torture that others could not see was the most harsh thing.

Just like every night, I dream of my separation.

During this period, Yuan Yueming, a talented man, would come to the Linshui Pagoda from time to time. Seeing her pious and delicate appearance, even Madam Gui couldn't bear to lock her out the door.

Two months later, Zhaoyi and Liu Li were promoted to Hepian, and the daughter Ye Yunshuang was named a beauty.

The women in the harem were blocked by high walls. All they could see was the Nine-Level Three Halls. What they were looking forward to was the promotion of glory. However, no matter how they were promoted, they were not as popular as Shen Rou. She was six or seven months old. One day she saw it from afar. Her belly was amazingly big, and now she almost didn't leave the Chonghua Hall. She took care of her every day and waited for her child to be born.

In contrast, Concubine Li, who was favored before, seemed a little lonely these days.

These days, Shui Xiu comes back from time to time to deliver some things to me, and always pulls me to mutter. Sometimes he says that Concubine Li cries in Yuhua Palace every day, and even his eyes are broken. Sometimes he says that the emperor goes to see her being locked outside the door, and the supplements sent by the Concubine are thrown out. Every time Shui Xiu talks about it, he smiles secretly.
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