"You are always sick, and your daughter-in-law should take care of you. If your legs and feet feel uncomfortable, then Chang'an can help you beat your legs, empress." Luo Changan asked with a warm smile. She knew that the Queen Mother could not stand her being close to the emperor, so she
Be as gentle as possible.
"It's rare that you are so thoughtful. My calf is very sore and a little swollen. You mainly call here." The Queen Mother touched a section of her calf and signaled.
"Okay." Luo Changan sat on the couch, took off the armor on his fingers, and helped the Queen Mother hold her legs. She had always respected the emperor's mother from the bottom of her heart, and her own mother had passed away.
Sometimes I hope to get some maternal love from the Queen Mother. During the year when the emperor was away from home, they did depend on each other like mother and daughter.
Recently, she has been monopolizing the emperor, which seems to have angered the Queen Mother. She also feels that she is out of line and cannot hold her head high in front of the parents. The ethics do not allow her to do this.
In fact, she had figured it out and was willing to do what the Queen Mother wanted.
But the Queen Mother seemed unwilling to be kind.
Luo Changan was suddenly kept overnight, and she was a little caught off guard. She left the emperor's arms and fell into the hands of the Queen Mother. She felt uneasy. There were people killed in the small dark room in the harem, and the Queen Mother held countless lives in her hands. Her body was also suffering.
I kept fussing over it and got scared.
The Queen Mother didn't speak for an hour, and Luo Changan's fingers gradually became numb. She knelt for four hours in the evening and beat her legs like this for another hour. Her strength was very hard to bear, and her head felt dizzy.
"Tomorrow you will return to the emperor, and the war will be successful now. The whole world belongs to him alone. The idea that he has no interest in the harem because of state affairs is no longer true. He is thirty-one years and seven months old. He is now thirty-one years and seven months old.
Now that the world has come to an end, it’s time to put some effort into the heirs. Please bring back everyone in the palace. It’s almost New Year, and the New Year will be more lively when there are more people. The Ai family just feels very deserted."
The Queen Mother saw that Luo Changan's face was pale, and knew that she was delicate and frail and had been teaching Ao'er to take medicine to support her. Maybe she couldn't hold it any longer, so she closed her eyes to rest, spoke slowly, and rubbed her legs for an hour.
That’s it.
Luo Changan continued to rub her legs for a while, and then gently beat her legs, "Okay, I'll think about how to mention this to the emperor. If it's just you, the emperor, me, and the two children during the New Year, it will be really deserted.
A few. In previous years, there were hundreds of people at the palace banquet."
"Can the draft also start?" the Queen Mother asked seemingly unintentionally, "There is no precedent for ending the draft in previous years. This year it is already several months late. We need to pick it up quickly. The Ai family hates... exceptions."
Luo Changan almost turned red. This exception refers to himself. Luo Changan knew clearly, and the corner of his mouth was extremely astringent. He said softly: "Well, I will go back to the etiquette department and ask what major events have been scheduled recently. Let's see when the draft can be held at the earliest.
Let’s put it on the agenda.”
"Choose more good-looking ones. None of the people in the palace are as good-looking as the Queen. Why bother showing him the ones who don't look good every day?" The Queen Mother chuckled and said: "The Queen shouldn't choose crooked melons and cracked dates. You have to choose better ones.
The one who is better and more beautiful is truly magnanimous. Concubine Wu was personally selected by the Ai family for the late emperor. Our emperor’s eyesight has been lifted up by the empress, and she will not be able to come down."
Luo Changan smiled bitterly. The Queen Mother was training her according to her own model. She had basically seen what the Queen Mother did when she was young, but she actually didn't want to be another Queen Mother. No, forget it, she was willing, as long as everything was done.
Just stay calm and don't explode. "Yes, Chang'an knows about it and won't be selfish. He will choose the best one."
"Chang'an, you are the most at ease in dealing with the Ai family. You can do everything comprehensively, and you can think of everything that others can't think of. Don't let the Ai family down." The Queen Mother praised.
Luo Changan felt uncomfortable. Although he was complimenting him, he was not happy at all.
The Queen Mother suddenly turned her cheeks cold and said, "I just put up the glazed tiles on the Jinluan Palace, and then I leapt from the Jinluan Palace and landed in the king's arms. It is really not solemn. Go to the Buddhist shrine and kneel for another hour. The queen who is the most powerful in the harem!"
You are really going to end the harem."
Luo Changan felt tired and had a sinking pain in her lower abdomen. It was too suffocating. Just because she was the emperor's mother, she was really at her wits' end. She reminded softly: "My queen, I have been kneeling for four hours this evening...
"
I can't stand it anymore if I kneel down. I'm not being squeamish, but it's really unbearable.
"Since you have been kneeling for four hours, why don't you have a long memory and still follow the emperor to do nonsense? Shouldn't you persuade him to go back to the study to study? The Ai family gave in to let you join the royal family and let you be the queen, but you took the lead to mislead him
!" The Queen Mother was very puzzled, "This means that you are not sincerely convinced. It means that you are obedient to the Ai family, and you are not pious enough to the Buddha."
"No, my dear, I have not done anything to you, nor have I blasphemed the Buddha."
"How dissatisfied it seems? Why not teach the emperor to punish the mourning family?"
"Mother, Chang'an is so scared. How could I let the emperor despise you? The emperor is a wise and filial son. He would rather die than despise you..."
"It seems like yesterday that the emperor was unhappy with the Yi family because of you. The emperor vomited blood, fell into a coma, and almost died. Now you want to repeat your old tricks and sow discord between mother and son?"
Luo Changan couldn't argue, "I'm not dissatisfied, and I don't want to instigate discord between you and your mother. Madam, aren't we a family? You see, I do my best for you. I regard you as my biological mother. I wait on the hospital bed with my feces and urine. How can I
Will he provoke..."
"Shut up." The Queen Mother interrupted impatiently, "You are the most reasonable. How did everyone in the harem get to the palace? Didn't you ride on Ao'er's head and force them away with one hand? You are so scheming, I'm sorry
The family finally knows.”
"Daughter-in-law... is wrong. Madam, please calm down, my daughter-in-law is wrong."
Without saying anything else, Luo Changan walked to the Buddhist altar and knelt down. She felt an unbearable pain in her knees. She forced herself to kneel on the cold ground for another hour. She knew in her heart that she could not cause the emperor any more trouble because of her.
, that time when the Queen Mother forced her to marry Gongsun Ya, the Emperor almost lost his life. She didn't want to cause any more trouble because of herself. She wanted to put an end to the trouble.
After kneeling at the altar, the Queen Mother said she wanted to eat the lotus leaf cake made by Luo Changan. Luo Changan made another lotus leaf cake and brought it back. The Queen Mother only took one bite and put it down, saying that she had made a mistake and it should be lotus.
Crispy.
Luo Changan felt aggrieved. There was a reason why the Queen Mother had grown from a young girl to a Queen Mother. It was so easy to handle her without leaving any trace. She sighed faintly: "Then Chang'an can do it again."
"I've lost my appetite again. I'm getting older, so I don't know what I want to eat." The Queen Mother said calmly: "You are also tired today. You have gone down to the Jinluan Palace and renovated the glazed tiles. Go there and take a break. Ao'er.
I'll feel sorry for you when I see you tired. When I feel sad, I don't know what to do, maybe even kill my biological mother."
The Empress Dowager's sarcasm was so bitter and naked that Luo Changan felt ashamed. All the sweetness of being with the emperor was nothing but flirtatiousness in the Empress Dowager's eyes.
In fact, she is not a proactive person, nor does she know how to seduce. She is even very clumsy in matters between men and women. The only time she took the initiative was when the emperor broke up with Gongsun Ya and fell into coma at the Phoenix Tower. She went to visit him and was moved.
He took the initiative to kiss the emperor.
But the Queen Mother seemed to think that she was a scheming goblin. The Queen Mother seemed to think that things between husband and wife were extremely disgraceful. Alas.
Luo Changan lost the desire to defend himself. He went to the inner room, sat on the chair for a moment, and couldn't help crying. But he couldn't make any noise, so he just wiped his eyes quietly. There was a sound of the Queen Mother turning over and rubbing her clothes outside, and she got busy.
I wiped my eyes and lay on my side on the couch to sleep. As I lay down, I felt a severe pain in my lower abdomen. After a while, the pain disappeared.
Even though this is the case, I still remember the countless kindnesses of the emperor in my heart, and I have no intention of shrinking. For the sake of the emperor, I can't bear this little hardship.
I'm just afraid that I will cause trouble for him again.
Because of her every day, the emperor is not considered pure. She just wants to reduce his sense of existence and swallow his grievances alive, but she must not cause the emperor to feel internally internalized because of her.
Emperor Zhongye Qian Ao went down to the Imperial Study Room and stayed in the Dragon Sleeping Room for a long time. He still didn't see Luo Changan come back, so he asked Hai Yin, "Why hasn't he come back yet?"