Early morning. Mist. Yong'an Palace.

Recently, the rain has been strong, and the palace maids who came to the main hall early for duty will notice that there is a slight dew on the steps of the blue stone plate dragon carved phoenix, and the humidity is heavy. The Queen Mother is getting older, and she needs less and less sleep, often waking up in less than three hours, and the stars in the sky are still shining at that time.

She will sit up quietly alone, dress neatly under the clothes of the palace maid, drink a cup of longevity medicinal tea, and then do the next thing, is to quietly turn the Buddha beads in her hand in a daze, or stare at the two leisurely koi fish in the big lotus jar - sent by Master Ming Xiu of Guangji Temple, it is said that he was offered in front of the Buddha, recited the scriptures for ten days and nights, solved a qiē injustice, and spent a qiē suffering.

Old people are afraid of loneliness and look forward to their children and grandchildren around their knees, but the Queen Mother is an exception, she seems to enjoy the taste of solitude, and she used to like to summon Concubine Li and Concubine Zhang and others to come over to talk, but recently she has not even been interested in this. After His Royal Highness the Second Prince was named the King of Qi and opened the mansion alone, he didn't come here. Therefore, the huge palace room was extremely quiet, and even the palace maid's movements were tiptoeing. Occasionally, there is the sound of percussion of wooden fish or the sound of the harp of the county lord of Wenhe, which will only make this palace room more and more vast.

The Queen Mother's face has no smile all the year round, and even has a slight green aura, and it will be a little scary to look at it at a glance, but today it is especially strict, which makes the subordinates serving in Yong'an Palace breathe a beat faster. This situation was not improved until Master Ming Xiu appeared together with the rising sun and the bright morning glow, and the Queen Mother's expression softened, and Yong'an Palace from the aunt to the palace maid were relieved, feeling that Ming Xiu was really a living Buddha in the world.

"Please." The Queen Mother respectfully invited the monk to take a seat, and a dragon panyun jade cup floated with a mellow tea fragrance and was handed over.

Ming Xiu folded his hands and bowed, smiled slightly and sat down on the Taishi chair next to him covered with a golden phoenix peony black gold elastic ink chair, not rigid, not arrogant, his demeanor was indifferent and distant, a series of actions were dashing and dusty, and the compassionate and sacred gesture could almost satisfy all the fantasies of the world about the monks.

"Good tea." Ming Xiu opened the lid of the cup, blew open the floating leaves, and sniffed the two products.

The Queen Mother smiled: "This tea is made with the rain from the back mountain, the white water dripping from the stone cracks, the essence of the stone, known as the tears of the stubborn stone." She picked up the teacup and took a sip of it, and looked at Ming Xiu with a smile: "Master, can there be tears in the stubborn stone?" ”

Ming Xiu said with a smile: "Bodhidharma has been facing the wall for ten years, and the wall has revealed its own icon, if the heart is sincere, the stubborn stone will also manifest." The tongue is bright and lotus, and the spirit is a little, and there is a stubborn stone nodding. ”

"Oh, is that serious?"

"It's a pity that people's hearts are not as good as stones, otherwise there would be no stubbornness."

The Queen Mother's fingers with long skein white crystal amber gold armor were slightly cocked, and she gently stroked her frost-colored sideburns. smiled: "In my opinion, people's hearts should not be like stones, although the stone is tough, it is still worn by water, and although the stone is stubborn, it is still broken by the wind." The human heart should be like the wind, self-reliant, unpredictable, and no one knows where it rises and falls. ”

"Hehehe, the Queen Mother is high."

The Queen Mother frowned slightly, and after going around for three cups of tea, she finally got to the point: "The daughter of the Yuan family was born with a vision, and everyone said that it was a lifetime of good luck. Since she was born, she has been more than thirteen years old, and she has never experienced the slightest pain and sorrow. How come according to what the Buddha said last time, this woman's life is still a little weird? ”

Ming Xiu closed his eyes and recited the Buddha's name first, and he communicated with heaven and earth for a moment before he replied seriously: "The queen mother's eyes are like a torch, and the old monk does not dare to hide anything." Everything in the world, born and grown, destroyed and destroyed, has its own fixed number, and contacts its own cause and effect in the dark. Yuan's Rong Yi fate is strange, not among the laity, but has another chance. And that period of opportunity is indescribable, let alone the detection of blessings and misfortunes. ”

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned, and only said after a while: "Could it be that this Yuan Rongyi will suffer a catastrophe?" She went to see Ming Xiu again, but Ming Xiu closed his eyes and said nothing. She gently turned the beads of the small leaf red sandalwood silver Buddha on her wrist, and said: "I heard that there is a spring in your temple, and the jade lotus gushes from the ground, known as the water mirror, and you can see the changes in the wind and clouds, the causes and consequences. ”

Ming Xiu said with a smile: "The water mirror has the spirit of heaven and earth, and the argument of the six qi is not obtainable to the spirit of the heavenly eye, but it cannot be seen by the naked eye." ”

The Queen Mother glanced at him lightly. This is not a surprise. If anyone can see it, then anyone can be a holy monk, so why bother to practice penance for years and make a Buddha? "The master has naturally seen it."

"The old man doesn't lie, the only thing that is certain is that Yuan Rongyi's fate is treacherous and unpredictable."

"——The implication is that this little girl, her life is not as precious as the eyes of the world, and she is not simply a blessed person who has been prosperous all the way to the end?"

Ming Xiu smiled and said nothing. The Queen Mother silently pinched the Buddha beads between her fingers.

Yuan Shuheng, the queen mother, still cares very much. One of the very important reasons is that this girl has a good life, and it is suitable for a room and IKEA. Xiang Huabofu, who has been unlucky for several years, needs such a mascot so much. What's more, according to Mrs. Yuan's handwriting and Dingguo Gong's preference, this little girl's dowry is only afraid that it can go up to twenty or thirty thousand taels. What's more, the Yuan family is a force that urgently needs to be united.

At the beginning of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the queen mother still supported the emperor to get closer to Yuan Muyun, after all, the emperor was too bearish at that time, the minister's advice was not listened to, and the historian's sword and pen were not afraid, and he was not interested in civil affairs at all. The Queen Mother was also afraid that she had lived in the palace for too long, and she was powerless to be an atheist. She was also afraid that the country would be defeated like this, and when she woke up in her dream in the middle of the night, several ancestors sat on the edge of her bed and drank tea.

But then I found out that something was wrong, my son was too good at loving and dedicated, so how could I brush my mother's sense of survival? It's a pity that it's late. Dividing favors, framing, and dividing all kinds of means have been exhausted, but they have not been able to divide Yuan Muyun's limelight, but the regent uncle she originally arranged quickly withered, and Xiang Huabo Mansion became more and more dim.

The connivance is very distressing and unwilling, but reality is reality after all, if the Queen Mother was so easy to accept her fate, she would not have lived to this day. There is such a thing as marriage, she has been tempted for a long time. When I really convinced myself and made up my mind, I found that it was even more difficult to implement than I imagined - the queen mother was in charge of the harem, and it was a bit surprising to suddenly meet a group of people with such strong resistance after so many years.

If you go down with a decree, will there be people who will not obey? Even the emperor didn't have the guts. When she was ready to use her wrist again, act hard, and succeed in her goal, she unexpectedly heard the saying of blessing and causality from Ming Xiu. When the moon is full, the water is full, and the water is overflowing, Yuan Rongyi has lived for thirteen years in a pile, how long can this good fortune last? Ming Xiu said that luck is generally fixed, and if one aspect is overdrawn, the subsequent backlash will be extremely strict. Could it be that this Yuan Rongyi is destined to be unlucky, just looking at the time of fulfillment? ——

If she is a lucky star when she is a girl, but she becomes a white tiger star when she becomes a daughter-in-law, then her mother-in-law's family really doesn't want to live.

Why did she want to do this for so long, but she still didn't do it? The Queen Mother was a little drumming in her heart, she intuitively felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't be sure what the problem was for a while.

She looked at Ming Xiu, and Ming Xiu was still as noble as ever - she had not found a trace of problem with this monk for so long, and she believed in her own vision. Ming Xiu, there is no need to lie to her.

The Queen Mother leaned on the scarlet gold-threaded colorful phoenix pillow, her eyelids half-open and half-closed, as if she was about to fall asleep.

Ming Xiu put his palms together, Amitabha, the poor monk never lies.

But sometimes, the half-baked truth is even more misleading.

Every word I say is true, but no one cares how many words I have left in my stomach.

When Concubine Yuan was born, the Dingguo Mansion entered the palace to celebrate her birthday, and Yuan Shuheng's figure was not seen. There won't be people in the world who have all the benefits of full happiness and longevity, right?

As for the so-called Samsung Daliang, the Queen Mother naturally thought of the big flicker. After all, this method is not uncommon at all. Even the Queen Mother herself was no exception, when she was pregnant with her eldest son, she told the Emperor that she dreamed of Venus in her arms. This joke can coax others, but it can't coax her. The Queen Mother is a little proud again, there have always been some visions when big people appear, or purple qi comes from the east or the sun and moon shine together, or the golden scales leap or the iron tree blooms - the Yuan family will build momentum, but unfortunately, it is not a boy, it is worth such a cost?

Why didn't she say that the golden phoenix is in the sky, the peony is in full bloom, and this girl should be the queen's life? The Queen Mother squinted her old eyes and looked at the group of grandsons in front of her. Well, sure enough, it's still my Li family's best child. Liu Yang put his arms around his subordinates' necks and poured wine, and put his legs on the table, raised his hand, and used chopsticks to penetrate the eyelet of the ear pot, which caused a group of lower-level warriors to shout. The Queen Mother subconsciously frowned: Strange shapes and strange shapes do not distinguish between dignity and inferiority, where is the dignity that the royal family should have? In the end, it was the shepherdess's belly that crawled out of the goods.

The fourth prince Liu Yun? That appearance at a glance reminds people of his lowly and humble biological mother, born as a dancing girl, it is difficult to bring out the style in her bones, Concubine Yuan has been raised for so long, and she has not seen him erect majesty. In the end, it is the second prince Liu Yun who is the most eye-catching, and he has the most princely appearance with every move, this is the real royal family!

The Queen Mother has been in the house for many years, and suddenly found that it seems that the shepherd girl has entered the harem and settled in the Kun position, and the image of the royal backyard is not very different. A little bit, a little bit, imperceptibly, cannibalizing ants have changed the dignity of the harem that they have worked hard to manage. She slowly leaned back on the autumn-colored gold-threaded python pillow, asked the palace maid to beat her legs, and looked at her niece Concubine Li.

Concubine Li is still dressed in a grand manner, and the whole person is full of jewelry, but is it not suitable for her age? The Queen Mother couldn't help frowning: This niece still has to be beaten, so that she doesn't always talk about Lichu in front of the emperor. Since ancient times, she has been ranked by grandson, long, virtuous, and love, and she has not been in the back seat until now, and she is afraid that she will die fast enough if she asks too much?