"Zhu'er, have you ever thought about how you will live in the future?"
Zhu'er said without any hesitation: "The slave will naturally follow the master."
"What if...what if I'm no longer here." Wen Xi looked at her face that was getting older. She had also gotten older over the years. Yes, everyone will age.
Zhu'er was slightly stunned and said hurriedly: "Why did the Queen Mother say these depressing words?! Wherever you go, my servant will go! Even if that day comes, my servant will follow you and serve you!"
"Don't say stupid things!" Wen Xi could only darken her face, and then said nicely, "You still have a daughter, a son-in-law, and four grandchildren!"
Zhu'er shook his head, "Lvhen is no longer a child. My youngest grandson is ten years old. I don't need to worry about him anymore!"
She said in a gentle voice: "Have you never thought about leaving the palace to take care of yourself?"
Zhu'er continued to shake his head, "I just want to serve my master."
"But..." Wen Xi sighed longly, "I'm leaving. I'm going to a place you can't go to."
Zhu'er suddenly panicked, "Minion, minion..." Zhu'er, who had always been steady, was tongue-tied at this moment.
Wen Xi suddenly held her wrinkled hand and said full of hope: "If you want to leave the palace, I will give you a big house and a hundred hectares of fertile land so that you can rest in peace for the rest of your life."
Zhu'er shook his head vigorously and said firmly: "Even if I die, I will die in the palace!"
Zhu'er is a very docile person, but when she becomes stubborn, even her gentleness cannot change her! She sighed helplessly, with a sad look in her eyes: "Then what will you do after I leave?" Stay in the palace for a while.
Well, you have to serve others and be a slave. It is better to leave the palace to rest in peace and buy a few maids to serve you. You can become a rich and idle old lady and enjoy a few years of happiness.
"The slave obeys the master. The slave will go wherever the master tells the slave to serve him!" Zhu'er knew that she could not stay by Wen Xi's side anymore, so she had to settle for the next best thing.
Wen Xi sighed lowly and said, "Then I'll tell the emperor to let you go to Qianqing Palace to be the steward." In this Forbidden City, the most prestigious servant is the steward next to the emperor and the Queen Mother. Yuanlu has always been
She respects Zhu'er very much, and she will treat her well in the future. But Wenxi saw some hesitation in her eyes, and then asked: "Or, can you help me take care of Fu'er?" But Fu'er was going to get married after all.
, the nun who teaches the princess is not as prestigious as the nun who is the steward of Qing Palace.
Zhu'er nodded quickly, "I am willing to serve Princess Wen Hui!"
Princess Gulun Wenhui, this is the title that Yuanlu personally drew up for his own sister, and the sixth sister, Princess Gulun Wenhui, Yu Ludai was given the title of Princess Gulun Wenqi, making her the first among the princesses.
Wenxi arranged for the steward aunt who had served her all her life to become Hutuli Yiminbi's tutoring aunt, which surprised Yuanlu. When he came to pay his respects as usual that day, he couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong with the Queen?"
Don’t you want Aunt Shen to serve you anymore?”
Wen Xi only smiled but did not answer. She stared at her son and said, "Your sister Yu Ludai came into the palace yesterday."
Yuan Lu's eyes sank slightly, "Is Sixth Sister here because of the Cao family's affairs?"
Wen Xi nodded. "Cao Yong's business is her business. Of course she can't care less. You also know your sister's temperament. It's really rare for Cao Yong to love and respect her for so many years!" Even Yu Ludai
Even though he didn't have a son, Cao Yong would rather let his father adopt him than take a concubine, which Wen Xi admired very much. Cao Yong was indeed a unique good husband and a good man! He was also a good man. He couldn't look at it.
The family fell and turned a blind eye.
Yuan Lu said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Queen A, I won't think that Jiang Ning's weaving is at fault and implicate A Fu."
Wen Xi asked: "Is the Cao family really unforgivable?"
Yuanlu let out a long sigh and looked helpless: "The national treasury is in short supply, and Jiangning Weaving and Suzhou Weaving's accounting problems are too big! When his son came to the throne, he secretly told them to make up for the deficit as soon as possible, but they turned a deaf ear!"
Speaking of this, there was a faint look of anger in Yuanlu's eyes. The figure of the deficit was indeed beyond the scope of his tolerance.
Where did Zhizao Mansion's deficit come from, Wen Xi knew in her heart, but the Cao family must have enriched themselves a lot from it. The prosperity of the huge Cao family was supported by money, and Wen Xi had no reason to intercede for them.
, then said: "The shortfall... is not entirely their fault after all. Otherwise, spare their lives!" After getting married, Yu Ludai had not asked her for anything, but now that she came to ask for it, Wen Xi naturally had to do something.
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Yuan Lu was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "My son will obey the emperor's decree."
Wen Xi's smile gradually eased a little, and Yuan Lu immediately said: "However, except for the forehead attachment, the Cao family was cut off from the Manchu Army with a yellow flag. All officials were dismissed and demoted to common people, and all their family property was lost." Now he is in charge of this position.
Jiangning was weaving Cao Yin's heir, and Cao Yin had passed away for many years, otherwise Yuludai would not have come to just ask for one to save the lives of the whole family. Such a punishment can be regarded as merciless. If it were not for Yuludai's relationship, Cao Jia'an
Can he be saved like this? What comforts Wen Xi even more is that after all, everything about the Cao family has not implicated Cao Yong. He is still the Manchu army with the yellow flag, the emperor's consort, and even the minister in charge of the bodyguard.
Looking at Yuan Lu's face, which was much younger than his peers, Wen Xi felt a little lucky that she had given him the Yang-Returning Pill long before he ascended the throne.
"One more thing -" Yuan Lu frowned, "the previous court's call for the establishment of a crown prince has become louder and louder."
Wen Xi hummed softly and said, "If we don't establish a crown prince, it will be difficult to appease the courtiers."
Yuan Lu frowned even more deeply: "Does even the Emperor's mother think that a crown prince should be established?"
"It is inevitable to establish the throne, but -" Wen Xi showed a meaningful smile, "How about secretly establishing the crown prince?"
Yuan Lu was slightly stunned, then smiled and said: "The Queen is wise!"
When the edict to establish the crown prince was placed on the solemn and bright plaque of Yangxin Hall, the suggestions of the ministers were also stopped. However, only the Queen Mother and the emperor knew that the so-called edict to establish the crown prince was nothing more than a piece of paper. As for who to establish as the prince,
I'm afraid Yuanlu himself can't make up his mind. Although Hongdan is his legitimate son and has a good temperament, his qualifications are not perfect. With Yuanlu's harshness, he always feels that he is not good here or anywhere! The other sons, who are aged
The older one can also make a lot of mistakes, and the younger one is ignorant and ignorant, let alone mentioning it.
But these were no longer issues that Wen Xi had to worry about. On this day, Wen Xi alone called Yin Zhen to come to his palace and dismissed all the people serving in the palace.
"Huang'e Niang, what's wrong with you?" Subconsciously, Yinzhen felt that Huang'e Niang was different from before.
"Little crab, I haven't held you in my arms for a long time." Her gentle eyes were filled with sadness.
Yinxiang's face suddenly turned red, and he subconsciously wanted to retort. Such a narrow-minded nickname is really too... But when he met his mother's sad eyes, Yinxiang couldn't help but fell silent.
Holding her tall son in her arms, Wenxi could hardly hold her, "Little Crab, you have to take good care of yourself..."
After hugging her for a long time, Wen Xi let go of her hand and hung the mustard bag that had been filled with things for several days on Yinqi's waist. "Your sixth sister is already the mother-in-law. She has extra care, no matter what.
You need to worry about E Niang; your Sixteenth Brother has always been calm, and E Niang can rest assured; your Seventeenth Brother and Bi'er are in harmony, Fu'er has the love and care of your Sixteenth Brother... E Niang is the only one who is worried
That’s you.”
"My son is no longer a child!" Yinxiang emphasized hastily, but he immediately realized that something was wrong in E Niang's words. Why did E Niang's words seem to be saying goodbye!
Wenxi stroked her son's cheek and said softly: "You have to practice well... In the future, you and E Niang may be able to meet again."
"Mother, where are you going?!" Yinzhen asked in a panic.
A warm and reluctant smile appeared at the corner of her mouth: "Remember your mother's words carefully:..." Wen Xi leaned close to his ear and said something he couldn't understand now, "You must remember it, don't
Forgot to look for E Niang!" Yinzhen is also a golden elixir monk. If he can go one step further, he can live to three hundred years later, and then their mother and son can meet again, but by then they are not blood related mother and son.
Yinzhen looked at his mother-in-law with surprise and confusion in her eyes.
After explaining to Yinzhen and arranging everything, Wen Xi dismissed everyone waiting in the palace, closed her eyes, and said in her heart: "System, you said you could send me back."
"Didi! Hello user, warping time and traveling through it requires a lot of spiritual energy, so it is necessary to initialize the space and extract all the spiritual power that can be extracted from it! According to the system's calculations, it can only send the user's soul back."
"No problem." Wen Xi said with a relaxed face. She no longer wanted to stay in this world. As long as she stayed here, she would never be able to get over the grief of Kangxi's death. She needed a new life.
"Didi -" the system suddenly made a dull sound, "initialization starts, all intelligent animals in the space erase their memories and send them out of the space, all non-intelligent animals move out of the space, all plants extract aura, everything..."
And her gentle soul was gradually pulled away from her body and fell into a dark tunnel. And her body was no longer like the sleepy one last time, but her heartbeat and breathing had stopped forever.
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the first year of Qianyuan, the Empress Dowager Niu Hulu was mourned, and the emperor gave her posthumous title: Xiaowen, Chengrui, Duanxianmu and Kefengtianzuo Shengren, that is, Empress Xiaowenren.
In the dark corridor, Wen Xi gradually lost consciousness. He heard the vague voices of two unfamiliar women talking quietly in his ears, and the smell of disinfectant in his nostrils. There was a stiffness in his body that he had experienced before, as if he had gone to bed.
When I returned to my soul for the first time, it also took some time to adapt to this body that I had not used for a long time. Wen Xi slowly opened her eyelids, and what she saw was a piece of flawless white: white walls, white sheets, white floors - and wearing white clothes.
nurse...
Finally, I'm back. (To be continued...)
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