Do you think I will be really released by you to check and balance your harem for you, to be mighty with those two women, and to continue to be your woman?

Thinking of this, the sneer on the corner of my mouth became deeper.?

Kneeling on the ground, looking down, I saw my skinny hands, and I could imagine what my whole body looked like. Over the past two years, my body and spirit have been greatly hurt by confinement, medicine and hunger. Although it is not like the last time I was imprisoned in the cold palace, I also know that my body has been ruined.

I have no more strength and feelings left, so how can I bear to use it on you and your woman?

"Get up, it's cold on the ground."

I heard the Queen Mother's voice, but did not get up immediately, but kowtowed deeper.

At this time, Pei Yuanhao turned his head to greet the Empress Dowager, and the concubines around him suddenly realized and all knelt down. Pei Yuanhao leaned over and said, "I don't know why the Empress Dowager suddenly arrived at the cold palace and her son was frightened."

The Queen Mother said lightly: "I heard that this girl is here, and the Ai family comes to see her."

After saying that, she walked two steps towards me, walked up to me, looked down at my skinny look, and sighed softly: "Girl, why are you doing this?"

Pei Yuanhao's face became more ugly.

He said, "It's cold here, and my mother's health is not good at all. I'm afraid that something is going to happen, so I'd better go to Nuanxiang Pavilion to talk about it."

The Empress Dowager waved her hand: "No need, the Ai family just came over and said a few words and went back."

"If you have anything to say to your son."

The Queen Mother nodded, turned to him and said, "Let this girl go back to Linshui Pagoda with Ai's family."

“…”

Pei Yuanhao still leaned over and did not move, while Nangong Lizhu and Shen Rou, who were kneeling beside him, moved slightly, and looked at me with sharp eyes.

Pei Yuanhao was silent for a while and said, "Why did the mother take her back to Linshui Pagoda?"

The Empress Dowager said lightly: "The emperor and the concubines in the harem are all smart people. The Ai family is not worried, but only worried about this ungrateful girl. Let her follow the Ai family back to the Linshui Pagoda and listen to the Buddha's mind every day to cultivate her mind. This is also a good place for her. What about the emperor?"

“…”

"Besides, with so many people in this palace, only this girl has the appetite for the Ai family. With her accompanying the Ai family, the Ai family is not that lonely, and she doesn't want to think about ordaining."

“…”

Pei Yuanhao still didn't say anything, but the two women behind him seemed to be unable to kneel down. Shen Rou spoke first and said, "Empress Dowager, I hope the Empress Dowager will think twice."

"Um?"

"The Empress Dowager is kind-hearted and loves Yue Qingying very much, but she is not a kind person, at the beginning-"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Yuanhao turned around and looked at her coldly. Shen Rou was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xiao Nianshen beside the queen, and could not say anything else.

The Empress Dowager said lightly: "The Ai family also heard about the incident at that time."

As she said that, she looked down at me: "Girl, what are you talking about yourself?"

I still kneeled on the ground. Although my knees and hands were frozen, I didn't feel sad at all. My voice was calm without a trace of ripples: "The folk girl knew that she was very sinful, and only wanted to follow the Queen Mother to recite the Buddha's name and practice meditation every day to redeem her sins, and hope that the Queen Mother would be able to fulfill her sins."

"Yeah." She nodded, turned to look at Pei Yuanhao, looked at the concubines kneeling on the ground behind him, and said lightly: "God has a good life. This girl has suffered for so many years. Why must she kill her? Your Majesty, leave her with a life."

Pei Yuanhao leaned over and bowed, but he didn't move, but he seemed to have grinded his teeth. Finally, he said, "I respect the Queen Mother's decree."

.

It was not until I stepped into the gate of Linshui Pagoda that I completely felt relieved.

After this slackness, the man became limp. The Queen Mother hurriedly pointed at a few nanny and palace maids and helped me to bed. He also ordered the kitchen to make some fine and soft food for me. There had been no meat here in Linshui Pagoda for many years, but when the Queen Mother ordered, the imperial kitchen soon brought ginseng and chicken soup and other nourishing things.

I still didn't eat much, but I was lying on the head of the bed and even breathing. My hands and feet were completely out of control. Only cold sweat dripped from my forehead like broken beads.

Madam Gui kept helping me wipe my sweat, while the Queen Mother sat on the edge of the bed, holding her hands in her knees, looking at me calmly.

It was not until I drank a bowl of hot chicken soup and ate a little porridge that I felt a little more comfortable. The Queen Mother looked at my gray face and said, "Why did you make yourself like this?"

I smiled apologetically.

"Girl." Her voice was still calm, but there was a little heaviness and majesty in the calmness. She said word by word: "Although the Ai family likes you, it involves the emperor's reputation and the safety of the harem. If you are wrong, the Ai family will not indulge you. What happened over the years? You have to tell the truth to the Ai family!"

I looked up at her.

She looked into my eyes and said, "I heard from the Ai family that you have remarried outside the palace? "

"..." I was silent for a moment and nodded.

"You are so brave."

I lowered my head and said nothing. Although the queen mother has always been cold to Pei Yuanhao, she is her son after all. As a mother-in-law, I would not be happy no matter how generous I am.

However, the Queen Mother did not continue to scold me. After looking at me for a while, she suddenly said, "What kind of person is that?"

"I'm a fisherman."

“Fishing?”

I nodded and looked up at the Queen Mother. She was still looking at me calmly. Suddenly, she seemed to laugh, but she didn't know whether she was laughing at me or something. But there was an indescribable vastness in that gaze.

I thought about it and said softly: "At that time, I thought I would never have to go back to the palace, I just wanted to live a good life with him..."

"He, is he a good person?"

"Good... Very good." As he said, his eyes couldn't help but feel a little hot, and his voice choked up. He forced a smile: "Although he is poor, he is a very ambitious young man. If his fate is better, he should at least be a minister of the ruler and a minion of the country. Even when the emperor saw him, he said that his knowledge was different from that of ordinary people."

The Queen Mother frowned slightly: "The Emperor has seen him?"

"Um."

"Where is he now?"

I lowered my head and said softly, "After I leave, I don't know where he went."

Speaking of this, the tears in my eyes were almost thrusting out of my eyes, but I could only grit my teeth and endure it. When I recalled the day I broke with him, it seemed as if the whole world had collapsed. That kind of pain, even when I think about it now, was still tearing my heart.

The Queen Mother pondered for a long time and said slowly: "You want to leave the palace for him? Do you want to go to find him?"

I shook my head.

The days I spent with him were a dream that I never wanted to wake up in my life, but he—maybe he would never want to remember me again in his life.

I'm not worthy of looking for him anymore.

"Then why did you leave the palace?"

I slowly raised my head and looked at the Queen Mother and said solemnly: "Empress Dowager, I--when I left the Emperor, I was already pregnant with his child. Later, I gave birth to a daughter."

"What?!" The Empress Dowager was shocked when she heard this: "Did you give birth to a daughter for the emperor?"

"Yes."

"Then-what is the child?"

Speaking of this, I tightened the sheets under my body and said, "More than two years ago, Shengjing's army went south. The emperor took me to the north. The child stayed in Dezhou, and the emperor and I went to Dongzhou, but - when we go back -"

"What's wrong with the child?"

"Child, I've been attacked."

"What?" The Queen Mother suddenly turned pale and grabbed my hand: "Then, is the child dead?"

"I don't know." I shook my head: "The guardian said that the child was taken away by Pei Yuanxiu."

"Yuan-Xu?"

For a moment, the empress dowager's face changed a few times. After a long silence, she slowly said to herself: "No wonder the emperor has been sending people out of the palace over the years. Every year, there is only a lot of more and no result. She didn't tell the Ai family that it turned out - it turned out to be a child's business." She thought for a while, turned to look at me and said: "But, since the emperor has been searching for so many years but hasn't found it, you-"

I said, "It is because the emperor is looking for it that I can't find it."

The Empress Dowager was slightly stunned and looked at me: "Pei Yuanxiu... is he for you?"

I nodded silently.

"Is it Nangong Lizhu who attacked the child?"

I gritted my teeth and said, "It's her!"

The Queen Mother looked at me with some surprise, with an indescribable confusion on her face. After a while, she smiled faintly: "They are so evil brothers."

I recalled Pei Yuanxiu, who was seriously injured and bleeding all over the ground in Dongzhou at that time, and then when I thought about Nangong Lizhu, who was standing in front of me just now, was stooping and jewel-like, and I felt that all this was like God's trick.

The Queen Mother said slowly, "No wonder, you want Madam Qian to come to the beggar family."

I have always felt that the Queen Mother had a special feeling about her children, and she had a soft and compassionate heart than ordinary people. So the only thing I could ask for was her, and the only thing that could touch her was my child who was still outside the palace and had no idea of ​​life and death.

She said, "But-you know that the emperor can let you go to Ai's house, but he may not let you go out."

I bit my lower lip and didn't say anything.

Of course he wouldn't let me go, at least I haven't turned into a corpse yet - maybe, even if it really became a corpse, he wouldn't let me leave this imperial city.

But now, at least I don’t have to be locked in the cold palace. I endure hunger every day and rely on Qian Mama and Nian Shen’s Zhoufu to live. I have to go to a relatively relaxed environment before I can think about how to go next.

At this time, the Queen Mother suddenly said, "You just said that you went to Dongzhou more than two years ago."

"Yes."

"Is it fighting Roche?"

"Yeah, it's him."

The corners of the empress dowager's lips curled slightly: "This child has grown up and has made a fortune."

Then I remembered that the legend about the Iron-Faced King I heard in Yunling, according to General Ba, the Empress Dowager was the sister of the Iron-Faced King who was traversing the grassland, so Luo Shi was also her junior.

I thought about it and said, "I was captured by him and went to the grassland, and I also met the Eight Heavenly Kings, and there were many people."
Chapter completed!