CHAPTER XXXV

After that rainy night, the relationship between Emperor Shunzhi and the Empress Dowager suddenly fell to the freezing point, and it almost broke up.

Wu Liangfu said that the current master looks so dangerous, not to mention anything else, since the master returned to the Qianqing Palace in the rain that day, the atmosphere of the entire Qianqing Palace is not good. I don't know when, the master sent all the people from Cining Palace away, not to mention that the master was also obsessed with Buddhism. No, he didn't say that the master didn't like Buddhism before, but the current master doesn't seem to care about everything in the world, the four are empty, he is a slave who doesn't know what culture, this sentence 'the four are empty' is still on the master's lips, and he remembered such a smooth mouth. The current master really made him feel chills in his heart.

At the end of September of the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, the master asked Mao Xisen to clean his hair, determined to wear the mountains and forests and cultivate the Tao alone. After Tongxiu returned to Beijing, he was very annoyed when he learned of this, and immediately ordered someone to get firewood and burn Mao Xisen, which forced Emperor Shunzhi to dispel the idea of becoming a monk.

Soon, the master didn't know when, and the queen mother quarreled again, and at this time, the mother-son relationship between the master and the queen mother was in vain.

At the end of December of the nineteenth year of Shunzhi, Emperor Shunzhi had no intention of ruling the government, and sealed the pen early, on this day, Wu Liangfu saw that the master had been listening to the so-called 'Zen' all night in recent days, and wanted to let the master rest for a while, so he did not disturb the master, but the time had come, and the master had not yet woken up, Wu Liangfu had to go into the bedroom to check the current situation of the master.

"Master, master." Wu Liangfu shouted several times, but he didn't see a little response from the people on the dragon bed, and under worry, Wu Liangfu lifted the curtain for shading slightly, and then took a few steps forward to quietly master the master's situation.

I didn't know if I didn't come forward, and Wu Liangfu was taken aback as soon as he stepped forward. The master's face was flushed, cold sweat was repeated, and the master's brows were furrowed, I don't know whether he dreamed of something unpleasant or was tortured by the disease.

Wu Liangfu knew that it was hot as soon as he saw the master's condition, regardless of his identity, Wu Liangfu stepped forward and touched the master's forehead, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Wu Liangfu didn't hesitate, trotted outside the palace, Wu Liangfu recruited his apprentice Xiao Shunzi, asked him to hurry up and invite the imperial doctor to come over, and pointed out that Xiao Zhuzi, the most clever little eunuch in the Qianqing Palace, went to Cining Palace and Kunning Palace to report the master's illness, and asked the housekeeper of the palace, Mama He, to bring someone into a gilded copper basin to cool down the master with cold water. After this series, Wu Liangfu explained that after Yao Mama, another more decent grandmother in the Qianqing Palace, took care of the inside and outside of the Qianqing Palace, he also went in to take care of the master.

The emperor's illness was a big deal, and after a while, all the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital came, and the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang also came to the Qianqing Palace.

The face of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is not very good, since the Empress Dowager came to the Qianqing Palace, she has been with a straight face, gloomy and does not know what she is thinking. The queen mother next to her also looked anxious. Wu Liangfu saw that the first two were not easy to mess with, and he was even cautious when serving tea. Unexpectedly, as soon as Wu Liangfu put the freshly brewed top tea on the small table next to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother began to make trouble.

"It's not that there is no one in this Qianqing Palace, and now it's your turn to serve tea and water to you, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, no wonder the emperor can be served by you when he is sick, it must be you slaves who are careless!" The cup of freshly brewed tea was not wasted, and it was all poured on Wu Liangfu's body.

Wu Liangfu didn't dare to move on the ground, although it was not that they were careless when the master was sick, but the master said that he had to bear it. Letting the hot cup of tea all pour on himself, Wu Liangfu didn't say a word, and knelt there to receive the punishment.

The Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang saw Wu Liangfu kneeling there silently, she really didn't know what to say, but fortunately she still had a god to assist, and the queen on the side saw that Wu Liangfu would rather die than say anything, and persuaded the queen mother to retreat next to her, "Don't be angry, the emperor's illness this time is not necessarily that this slave is not careful." Since the filial piety sister went, the emperor is always very sad, the concubines can't be persuaded to persuade them, and the sadness hurts the body, presumably the emperor misses the filial piety sister too much, so he led the illness into the body! "As a woman, admitting that her husband is sick because he misses another woman is unbearable pain for anyone, but the queen said this sentence bluntly and all about the concern for Emperor Shunzhi, and she can't hear the slightest disobedience, which is probably the special thing about the queen.

With this step of the queen, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang also went down, and she turned to blame Wu Liangfu, "Wu Liangfu, you dog slave, what has the emperor done these days, why don't you stop him, ah!" ”

Wu Liangfu was also quite helpless when he heard the words of the Queen Mother, this, how could these slaves stop what this master was going to do. However, Wu Liangfu also knew how much weight the queen mother occupied in the Qing Dynasty, so he said that the Mongolian Eight Banners were something he could not offend. It's just that I want to hear some news, and it's not a betrayal of the master.

After thinking about it, Wu Liangfu honestly reported the whereabouts of his master these days to the queen mother and queen. After listening, the Empress Dowager seemed to be satisfied with Wu Liangfu's acquaintance, and waved her hand to let him go down to deal with the burns on his body.

Not to mention what the Empress Dowager and the Empress are thinking now, the imperial doctors who went into the room to see the emperor all withdrew, and they discussed with each other, and the highly respected Ma Imperial Doctor in the Imperial Hospital stepped forward to report the emperor's illness to the Empress Dowager and the Empress.

After learning that it was just a common cold, both the Queen Mother and the Queen were relieved, it was not a serious illness. After letting the imperial doctors prescribe the right medicine, the queen mother and the queen both breathed a sigh of relief.

But they sent this breath too early, and two days later, the emperor's condition did not relieve, and it became more and more intense. Everyone in the palace was in a hurry, not to mention the queen mother.

Today's queen mother is the emperor's biological Enie, it is said that the queen mother has been bullied by the harem before, this son is her only hope, although when she grows up, her son is gradually drifting away from her, these years, but also for a fox to do with her everywhere, but mother and son are connected, and the most worried about the emperor's condition is always the queen mother. If it weren't for the fact that people in the harem in the Qianqing Palace were not allowed to trespass, she would want to stay in the Qianqing Palace to accompany her son.

The Queen Mother is a sane person, even if there is a big thing, she will keep her sanity and make the most correct choice, but in the past two days, she still wanted to deal with these useless quacks several times. Although everyone in the palace was anxious, the emperor's illness still did not improve.

Two days later, a palace maid serving the emperor suddenly discovered that the emperor had acne on his body.

As soon as this news came out, it was like a drop of water dripping into boiling oil, and the whole thing exploded. The Qianqing Palace was urgently isolated, and all the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace were confined in the Qianqing Palace.

Five days passed at once, and everyone never felt that time passed so quickly, and the emperor's condition has not been relieved, but bad news has come one after another.

Five days later, the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang only took Su Ma to the side hall of the Qianqing Palace, outside the curtain, the trembling Ma Imperial Doctor told the Queen Mother the worst news, "The Empress Dowager, the micro-ministers are incompetent, the emperor's pox has not been broken, the micro-ministers have done all their efforts, but the emperor's body is still weakening day by day, and now, the emperor, the emperor is afraid that he will not be able to survive this level......" Before the words of the Ma imperial doctor were finished, they were suddenly shocked back by the sound behind the curtain.

The Queen Mother sat in her chair and looked at the table she had overturned without speaking.

Su Ma, who was next to the queen mother, had never seen her master look out of shape like this, but she couldn't even bear the news when she heard it, let alone regarded the emperor as the master of her life.

The queen mother kept looking at her hands like this, and did not speak, and the imperial doctor Ma knelt outside the curtain, not daring to speak.

I don't know how long it took, but finally a hoarse sentence came: "If the emperor has something that is long and short, the mourning family will ask you quacks to accompany the funeral." ”

Hearing this, Imperial Doctor Ma trembled even more, and he begged the Queen Mother loudly for mercy, wanting the Queen Mother to let him go. No one knows the emperor's current physical condition better than him, so to speak, unless a god comes, it is difficult to return to the sky, and now the emperor's body is raised with good medicine, once these nourishing heavenly treasures are stopped, the emperor's body will immediately fall apart.

But the Empress Dowager didn't listen to the words of Imperial Doctor Ma, and she left the Qianqing Palace as early as after saying that sentence.

That night, Emperor Shunzhi suddenly woke up somehow, although he still had a high fever, but Emperor Shunzhi was awake anyway.

After prying open the mouth of the imperial doctor on duty, Emperor Shunzhi called Wu Liangfu over, and asked the palace maids and eunuchs and the imperial doctor who were waiting in the dormitory to go out.

Emperor Shunzhi also knew that his disease was contagious, so he didn't call Wu Liangfu to come in to serve, he whispered a few words to Wu Liangfu, and then Wu Liangfu cried outside without a sound. Emperor Shunzhi reprimanded Wu Liangfu in a low voice, I don't know if Wu Liangfu listened to it, but he coughed several times. Wu Liangfu was in a hurry outside, but Emperor Shunzhi did not allow him to enter, and Wu Liangfu really didn't know what happened to his master.

After coughing, Emperor Shunzhi explained some things to Wu Liangfu, Wu Liangfu must have known something, he listened carefully to what the master said, after listening, Wu Liangfu wiped his tears and kowtowed to Emperor Shunzhi a few times outside, said goodbye to his master, and turned away.

In the dead of night, when it was supposed to be curfew, the porter of Guerjia Mansion heard a burst of footsteps mixed with the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer.

The porter looked forward and saw a carriage in Tsing Yi, surrounded by a large number of eunuchs, coming to the front of the Guerjia Mansion.

The porter saw that these eunuchs had a frightened aura around him, and he looked very different from the eunuchs who came to announce the decree in the past, this porter was also a person with vision, and hurriedly went out to meet him before the carriage outside stopped.

This Tsing Yi carriage looked ordinary, but the porter still saluted sincerely and asked the people in the carriage for clarification.

The man in the carriage stretched out a pair of white hands from the curtain, only a slight burn on the wrist, and the hands handed the porter a gold medal, on which the dragon was in the air, and there was a big 'Qian' in the middle.

When the porter saw this, he immediately knelt down.

"I want to see the lord of the house. Enter through the middle door, and you lead the way. ”

After hearing this, the porter hurriedly opened the middle door and let the group enter the Guerjia Mansion.

And this day is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth month of the seventeenth year of Shunzhi.