After sending off Concubine Jing in such a perfunctory way, I let go of the grievance and sadness I had been holding in, and said with dismay: "This child actually alienates me like this. Devouring Novel www."

Mei Zhuang fanned for me and said coldly: "You don't have to blame Concubine Jing, let alone Long Yue. It's just that the emperor never wanted to let Long Yue know that you are his biological mother. Do you think Pei'er really died of a sudden illness?

Is it just because she let it slip in front of Haoyue two years ago that her biological mother was in Ganlu Temple, and she was unhappy when she met our Ninth Five Supreme Being, so she got angry and had someone beat her to death."

I was sad at first, but my color changed suddenly when I heard it. The clear cloud in Rouyi Hall was cold, and at this time I only felt the cold wind, like falling into an ice cellar. I saw Xiao Lianzi and Pin'er hanging their heads with tears in their eyes, trembling

He asked loudly: "Is this really the case?"

Xiao Lianzi turned away with a sad look on his face, but Pin'er couldn't help but shed tears and was sobbing.

I was silent for a moment, recalling the words between Xuan Ling, Concubine Jing, and Long Yue when Xuan Qing fell ill, and I sneered and said, "I already knew...he is such a cold-hearted person."

Mei Zhuang snorted softly and thought deeply, "This is not the first time I have seen how cold-hearted he is." Mei Zhuang frowned deeply, like two curved willow leaves, "Even if Fu Ruyin dies.

Later, he no longer strictly ordered not to mention you, but the consequences were profound, and his biological daughter no longer recognized her mother."

I sadly broke off a gall agate inlaid on the armor and said, "Look at the way Longyue treats me. I am really sad, but also comforted."

Mei Zhuang raised his eyebrows in confusion, "Comfort?"

I nodded lightly, "She is so reluctant to let go of Concubine Jing, which shows that Concubine Jing has really treated her well over the years."

Mei Zhuang nodded slightly, "Jing Fei loves Wu Yue as much as her own life. It is precisely because she loves Wu Yue so much that others dare not act rashly and can protect Wu Yue well." Mei Zhuang looked at me and said, "What you said

I'm so sad, probably because I'm afraid that Concubine Jing loves Long Yue so much that she won't give the child back to you."

I looked at the translucent ice silk window screen in trance. My daughter, she never knew that I was a mother, and she didn’t want to be by my side. My daughter... After hearing what Mei Zhuang said, I only said: "Jing Fei may not necessarily

She refused to pay me back. She brought Haoyue here today because she wanted to test whether Haoyue is close to me." I sighed softly and said, "It's not easy for her either. It's hard for her to have a daughter and raise her to such a big age.

When she comes back, she has to return her to my birth mother, and no one would be willing to do it. Besides, I just saw how deeply in love she was with her. Even if I force her to come back, she and I will just have to return each other.

It will cause more trouble, and it will also hurt the long-standing relationship between me and Concubine Jing."

Meizhuang nodded repeatedly and said happily: "It's good that you understand. Just now I was really worried that you would be so angry that you couldn't help but have an attack. What you just said was right. You can use your pregnancy to temporarily slow down the matter of taking Longyue back. You

I have just returned to the palace, so don't make too many enemies."

I didn't understand the depth of her words, so I could only nod silently.

Meizhuang said softly: "Longyue is still young, and the child's temperament means that if you are good to her, she will be good to you. You can tell just by looking at Concubine Jing, not to mention that Longyue is your biological child."

I said "hmm" in a low voice and said, "I think this child Longyue also has a temper, so I can only take it slow."

Meizhuang took off the armor on his fingers, comforted my shoulders, and said with pity: "You are a healthy person, but your shoulders are still so thin. No wonder Wen Shichu said that your body is weak and your fetus is unstable. Don't be angry or hurt about what happened today.

It’s better to be healthy.”

I turned my head and forced a smile and said, "Fortunately, there is still someone in the palace who can sympathize with me."

Mei Zhuang looked at me with pity and said with a smile: "If you were carrying a male fetus, I think the emperor would be a hundred times more considerate of you. He holds you in his hands and cares about you now, but in the future I don't know how to treat you like a phoenix."

It's like holding it."

I spat and said, "People are serious about talking to you about their own affairs, but you are talking nonsense like this."

Meizhuang chuckled and said, "I was just joking to see how excited you were. Just now I heard you call her "Wanwan" with the word "Wanwan". You obviously gave her the little character "Wanwan" by yourself, but you didn't say a word.

Yell, it’s really life-giving.”

When I heard the word "Wanwan", my heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I felt very sad. Meizhuang naturally didn't know how much bitterness and shame the word "Wanwan" contained, and how I could express it. So I just said: "

I'm going to change my clothes. If I don't go and greet the Queen Mother, it will be too late."

Meizhuang looked at me and said, "You look very good in this outfit. Although the Queen Mother doesn't like too plain makeup, but you have just come back, so naturally the more humble and gentle the better."

After that, he and Meizhuang redressed and dressed, prepared the sedan and chariot and went to the Empress Dowager without mentioning it.

The flowers and trees in the Yining Palace are sparse, and everything is as before. But because the Queen Mother is lingering on the sickbed, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it seems to be covered with a layer of dull color, like the rain vapor in the yellow plum sky, which is dim and overcast.

Meizhuang is familiar with me. She held my hand and got out of the sedan together. She took the hand of the little palace maid and walked inside. Fangruo came up with a spring breeze on her face and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother just woke up and was just drinking."

Where’s the medicine?”

Meizhuang went in with a smile, blessed the Queen Mother, and then stepped forward and said affectionately: "The Queen Mother drank the medicine without waiting for me. It's up to my concubine to feed you." After saying this, he stretched out his hand and took it from Aunt Sun's hand.

He took the medicine bowl and said, "Auntie, I'd rather serve the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother smiled lovingly and said: "You came at the right time. Apart from your aunt Sun, you are the only person who serves me the most considerately and makes the Ai family feel comfortable."

Although she was ill, the Queen Mother was wearing a dazzling gold pine and crane pattern thin silk half-breasted jacket that was 70 to 80% new. Her hair was smooth and tied into a flat bun, with no mess at all. There was only one hairpin in the bun.

A round gold hairpin with no lines or decorations.

In fact, she has been bedridden for a long time, so she is not suitable for such a dazzling golden dress, and she looks even more thin and sickly. But for some reason, although the Queen Mother is ill, she has a kind of majesty, from the corners of her lowered eyes and thin cheeks

, revealed naturally in his cloudy eyes.

I thought of Concubine Shu Gui's description of the Queen Mother, and I felt even more horrified. I suddenly felt a sense of fear. I knelt down and said, "My concubine, Madam Zhen, pays homage to the Queen Mother. I wish the Queen Mother good health and good fortune for many years to come.

"

The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows slightly, raised her eyes and looked at me calmly, "You're back?" Such a common sentence, as if I didn't go to Ganlu Temple to practice for four years, but just went to Tongming Hall to worship Buddha.

I lowered my head and calmly replied, "Yes. My concubine is back."

"So," she looked me over, "are you still used to living in Weiyang Palace?"

My heart tightened, "Weiyang Palace is too luxurious, I am very uneasy."

The Queen Mother said "Hmm" and said: "Although it is luxurious, it has not gone beyond the previous example of Concubine Shu. It is nothing if the emperor wants to pamper you." She frowned and said to Zhuang Zhuang: "Drinking the medicine has made the Ai family's tongue numb.

It’s bitter, just throw it away.”

Meizhuang just smiled and said with a smile: "I said that the Queen Mother gets younger as she lives, but the Queen Mother doesn't believe it. She must be saying that I am coaxing you. Nowadays, she is afraid of hardship and refuses to take medicine to make children angry. The Queen Mother is not getting better and better.

The younger you get."

The wrinkles on the Queen Mother's face relaxed, and it seemed like a spreading chrysanthemum blossomed. She couldn't help but smile and said: "Ai Jia used to see how steady you are, but now you have learned to be smooth-tongued."

Meizhuang said with a smile: "The medicine is too bitter to drink, so I'll make the Queen Mother smile."

The Queen Mother raised her hand to scrape Meizhuang's cheek, and sighed with a smile: "I really didn't want to drink it at first, just because of your filial piety." She drank the concoction in one gulp. Meizhuang was very discerning and quick, and saw the Queen Mother finish drinking it.

After taking the medicine, I took the silk in my hands and wiped it for the Queen Mother. Seeing that I was still kneeling, the Queen Mother said: "I have neglected Concubine Wan. People who are pregnant are still called kneeling." After saying this, she waved to me, "Come and serve the Ai family.

gargle."

I hurriedly stood up and picked up the gold basin beside the Queen Mother's bed. The little palace maid had already prepared some water for mouthwash in a tea cup and handed it to me. I served the Queen Mother and rinsed her mouth, then turned to Aunt Sun and said, "Your Majesty, once upon a time

After taking medicine, I like to use some hawthorn pickled by Sister Mei. I wonder if you still have it?"

Aunt Sun smiled brightly and said, "Your Majesty has a very good memory. She has already prepared it."

Meizhuang also smiled and said: "Your Majesty, see how filial Sister Wan is to you." After saying this, he took a hawthorn and placed it nearby.

The Queen Mother abandoned the people who served her, leaving only Meizhuang and Aunt Sun. She said lazily: "I'm very good at serving people. No wonder the emperor can't forget the visit to Ganlu Temple for so long, and he's even pregnant with a dragon fetus."

The Ai family has taken you lightly." I heard the Queen Mother's unkind tone, and was about to argue. The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes slightly, and her cloudy eyes suddenly became sharp and clear, and said coldly: "After seeing each other for several years, you have learned to be charming.

That’s the way to confuse the Lord!”

When I saw the Queen Mother was angry, she hurriedly fell on the ground and kowtowed: "The Queen Mother has spoken seriously, and I am really frightened and uneasy."

"Uneasy?" The Queen Mother raised her hand and stroked her temple hair, and said slowly with a smile but not a smile: "Why is it that Concubine Wan is pregnant with Liujia, and the king's kindness is deep, will she feel uneasy when she returns to the palace in such a beautiful scenery?"

I was so shocked that I broke out in a cold sweat, and said with tears in my eyes: "I am here to be punished. Your Majesty came to Ganlu Temple to visit you because of your old love. I am so grateful that I burst into tears. If you don't want to get pregnant, I will never dare to return to the palace."

I just thought that the emperor sympathized with the child who would be lonely after giving birth, and he was of royal blood after all, so he couldn't bear to let the child live outside, so he showed special pity to the concubine and gave the concubine a status to return to the palace so that she could raise the child with peace of mind. As for the scenery of returning to the palace.

Once I said that, I am really ashamed."

The Queen Mother's gaze was like a sword, only focused on me, and her tone was subtle and cold, "So, the incident at Ganlu Temple was just an accidental encounter between you and the emperor, wasn't it a deliberate plan by you to re-establish your favor?"

I didn't dare to raise my head, and I didn't dare to lie. I just said obediently: "I don't dare to deceive the Queen Mother. Your Majesty and I didn't meet by chance. In fact, I left the palace before the moon came out that day. She has been in poor health and is living in Ganlu Temple.

Two years later, he moved to Lingyun Peak to live permanently due to illness. That day, the emperor went to Ganlu Temple and did not see my concubine. He thought that I was still ill, so he went to Lingyun Peak to visit me, and that's how I met her."

The Queen Mother's face brightened a little, and her tone softened, "As expected, the Ai family has wrongly blamed you."

I hurriedly lowered my head and said, "It's my concubine who didn't tell the Queen Mother about her reasons in time. It has nothing to do with the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother did not scream. For a moment, the corners of her lips slowly curved, and her expression became much gentler. Her eyes were cold like a veiled barrier, making it difficult for people to see the true meaning. But her voice was

Soft, as if with a smile and concern. "It was your own idea that you insisted on leaving the palace to practice. You and I both know the reasons why. For the sake of the family, and for the sake of the late queen, you even gave up your newborn daughter.

You can leave him alone, but now you are willing to rebuild your old relationship with the emperor and have a child?"

The Queen Mother spoke slowly and leisurely, as if she was chatting about everyday things. However, the coldness in her words was like an unsheathed blade, striking directly at people.

Meizhuang listened anxiously and whispered: "The Queen Mother..."

The Queen Mother looked at her sideways, without any emotion at all, "What did you say to the Ai family when they asked Mrs. Zhen?"

Meizhuang had no choice but to keep silent, and I panicked. I quickly restrained myself, kowtowed, straightened up and said, "I can't blame the emperor for what happened in my concubine's family that day. The emperor is the king of a country, not the king of just one concubine.

Although I am sad for my father and brother, I am not so stupid as to hate the emperor. Even if my father and brother are really wronged, I will only hate the person who framed me." There were hot tears in his eyes, "I insisted on that day.

When leaving the palace, the Empress Dowager knew clearly that it was because of the concubine's offense against the former queen. The concubine was so sad that she thought that the emperor had no affection for her, so she lost all hope. But when the emperor came to see the concubine, she knew that the emperor was not heartless. What's more, the emperor was not heartless.

Human beings are not like grass and trees. At that time, I was very energetic for a while, and my many years of practice also made me calm down. I have served the emperor for four years, and I am very beloved, and I have feelings for the emperor. Now I am lucky enough to return to the palace, and I just want to serve the emperor peacefully to make up for it.

I wish I could spend the rest of my life peacefully in the past time." There was great sadness in my words, and I sobbed: "Ganlu Temple is so miserable, I really miss Longyue... Longyue her..."
To be continued...