Chapter 40: Doubts
I came back to my senses and smiled slightly, "Silly girl, I don't blame you." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" I rolled my eyes and asked in a positive voice: "Su'er, what do you think of the queen?"
I saw that Su'er thought for a while and said, "The queen's temperament has changed a lot compared to when she was a side concubine in the past!" I nodded, I know this. Su'er continued: "Since the queen's mother fell seriously ill two years ago, the whole person has changed, and her temperament has been restrained and easy-going a lot, and the other concubines in the team have always been tolerant and polite, and they are not too harsh on the palace people, compared with the current concubines, it is simply a world of difference." But Niangniang also rarely went out after a serious illness, and stayed in her bedroom all day, either painting or copying Buddhist scriptures. ”
I listened to Su'er say, thoughtfully stroking my chin with my hand, and thought: What did Concubine Zhen do to the queen two years ago, although the Gu poison caused the queen to suffer greatly, but it will not change even a person's long-term personality overnight, there must be another reason for this.
"What kind of illness does the queen have?" I asked.
"The slave maid works as an errand in the palace of Concubine Zhen, and she doesn't know much about the situation there of the queen. I heard that the people in the queen's palace and the imperial doctor said that it was infected with wind and cold. When Concubine Zhen went to serve the sick, the slave maid followed the mother twice, and always felt that the queen's mother looked like the wind cold but not like the wind cold, Su'er felt strange, but she didn't dare to think about it. ”
One of Su'er's words caught my attention, and I asked suspiciously: "Like the wind chill and not like the wind chill?"
She nodded and continued: "The slave maid looked at the queen's face from a distance and looked a little strange, it was winter, the weather was cold, but the queen was always sweating profusely, and she was wiping her sweat with a handkerchief at any time, the slave felt strange, the house was not hot, and she had never heard that she would sweat so much when she was infected with wind and cold." The sound of the mother's cough is also strange, as if something is stuck in her throat. ”
Hearing what Su'er said, the queen's condition is really a little strange. Remembering that the queen mentioned to me earlier that it was Concubine Zhen who used her hands and feet in her medicine to inflict Gu on her, could it be that it was related to that Gu poison to be so weird?
"Didn't the others notice the anomaly?"
"Well, yes, Concubine Yu also noticed something abnormal, and specially asked the imperial doctor. The imperial doctor's reply was that because the queen's wind and cold disease was extremely fierce and could not be cured for a long time, they could not say why the symptoms came. Su'er always felt that it wasn't a cold, but she couldn't figure out what it was. Su'er recalled.
I nodded thoughtfully, and asked Su'er again: "The queen mother is sick, which concubines are there who go to serve the sick?"
"The ladies in the palace all take turns to serve the sick, but Concubine Zhen goes the most diligently, almost every day. Even the slave maid felt strange, Concubine Zhen and the queen were rivals, how could the mother go to the queen's palace to serve so diligently. Su'er said, as if she had thought of something, "By the way, on the seventh day when Concubine Zhen Niangniang went to serve the sick, at night, Qifeng Palace was in a mess, I heard that the queen's condition was aggravated, and the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital were helpless, and the emperor ordered to announce that the old family Imperial Doctor Chen braved the wind and snow to enter the palace. Qifeng Palace was busy all night, and it was quiet when it was too bright. The palace people in the nearby palaces are spreading that the queen has been shouting heartbreakingly all night, and the voice is extremely miserable, and everyone says, the queen, you have hit the evil spirit. ”
After some inquiry, what Su'er said was basically consistent with what the queen said and what I said today, but I always felt in my heart that things were not so simple, but I couldn't think of a better explanation, so I had to give up. Finally, he asked: "When the queen is sick, what abnormal behavior did Concubine Zhen have when she went to serve the sick?"
Su'er scratched her head, "All the affairs of Concubine Zhen's close body are taken care of by Caibi, and the slaves and maids only do some rough work, and I don't know anything else." ”
I let out an "um", yawned, and said to Su'er, "That's all for today! I'm a little tired and want to take a break." Call me again at dinner time!"
I found that I had become a professional rice worm since I came back, and I wanted to sleep every day after eating.
Falling asleep, I suddenly felt a chill attack, my body trembled unconsciously, and the whole person subconsciously moved to the inside of the low couch, but there was still a cool breeze from the placket of the clothes and swishing in, so cold that I tightened the clothes on my body again, and heard the ticking sound of raindrops falling to the ground in a daze.
"Squeak!", the door of the room was pushed open and closed, and the visitor walked to the window and closed the window, and I felt less cold, and was about to fall asleep deeply, but I heard someone call softly: "Princess, wake up!"
I slowly opened my eyes, the sky was a little dark, I got up from the low couch, stretched lazily, and asked, "What time is it?"
"Princess, it's time to apply. Su'er found a more plain dress and said: "Gonggong Hu next to the Queen Mother is here, and he is waiting under the corridor at the moment, the princess should change her clothes quickly!"
I was a little emotional, I didn't know if the queen mother was okay after a few years? I immediately got up and asked Su'er to change my clothes, and I didn't know what Gonggong Hu was here for?
After Su'er finished changing my clothes and everything was cleaned up, an old eunuch with a beard and gray temples was led in by Hui'er, and the person who came was Juan and Hu's father-in-law, who had been by the queen mother's side for many years. I also watched him grow up, and my heart instantly felt a little more intimate.
Hu Gonggong was about to kneel down and salute when he saw me, but I stopped him, "Grandpa Hu doesn't need to be polite! I don't know ...... Gonggong is coming."
Hu Gonggong smiled when he heard this, "Our family is grateful to the princess." Today, it is to pass the message of the Queen Mother, and Xuan Changfeng Princess Fengci Palace will meet her. Princess, come with us!" said that, he made a gesture of invitation and led the way.
Out of the door, a cool breeze hit me, I couldn't help but shake my body, the rain was still dripping, foggy, the distant mountains, palaces, flowers and trees were like a light veil, seemingly unreal ethereal.
The rain fell down the eaves like transparent beads, making a crisp ticking sound, all saying that an autumn rain and a cold, I looked at the fallen leaves on the ground that were urged by the wind and rain, and my heart was stunned, and I suddenly wanted to write a very sad and poignant poem. sighed lightly, reached out and took a drop of rain from under the eaves, and lay it in the palm of his hand coolly, like a handful of beautiful tears in the deep palace.