At that moment, Aunt Hongcao sent Concubine Lan back, and when she saw the Queen Mother wiping the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, she asked Fang Zhi the news that it was the fourth son of the emperor, and couldn't help but wipe her tears and said: "Shiro can be regarded as found." ”

The biological mother of the fourth son of the emperor was originally the concubine of the first emperor, and in the fifth and seventh years of Jianzhao, she gave birth to the eldest daughter of the emperor Qiyu and the fourth son of the emperor Jingyu. It's a pity that Concubine Jin has a thin face and died of illness shortly after giving birth to a dragon descendant. At that time, there were no children under the knees of the middle palace, so he begged the first emperor to raise Jingyu.

Compared with today's Zi Jingzhen, Jingyu was raised by the Queen Mother since he was a child, and his feelings are deeper. However, when Jingyu was thirteen years old, the crown prince and Emperor Jianzhao were angry with this son who was raised in the name of the middle palace, demoted him to a concubine, and expelled him from the palace. Later, after a long time, the prince of the dynasty did not even know his whereabouts.

Jing Zhen said: "The fourth brother was found in a juggling team on the outskirts of Beijing, and now he has sent someone to serve him to freshen up and change clothes." After a while, he will come to Changning Palace to visit his mother, but ......"

Seeing that he wanted to speak and stopped, the Queen Mother asked, "But what?" ”

Jing Zhen sighed: "It's just that the fourth brother is out alone, and after several tosses, now it seems that his mind is a little out of order, and I hope that the queen mother will not be too sad to see him." ”

It was a blazing afternoon sun outside, and when the Queen Mother heard the words "delirium", she suddenly became in a trance, and her heart seemed to be thrown into an ice cave, muttering: "It's all my fault......

Zhang has always been tough in front of people, and rarely feels so sad that he forgets his identity for a while. It is not so much because she has a deep relationship with Jingyu's mother and son, but because she always has a sense of regret for this adopted son. If she hadn't been eager for her son and forced him too much in the competition for the storage position, Jingyu would not have been unaware of the taboo after the death of the prince and was condemned to a concubine for gaffes......

Not long after, Zu Cheng brought in a man who looked to be over thirty years old, because the queen mother was anxious to see him, the chamberlain only changed his outfit slightly, and even the stubble was not cleaned up, and his eyebrows were full of vicissitudes.

"Yu'er ......" The Queen Mother walked down from the couch, stretched out her hand tremblingly, and stroked his sideburns, a call only made people feel that this was just the most ordinary mother in the world.

Jingyu didn't reply to her, but turned her head blankly, looked at the Queen Mother with empty eyes, looked at Jingzhen again, and asked word by word: "Who is this person?" ”

Jingzhen said: "Fourth brother, this is our queen mother. ”

Jingyu wrinkled her nose: "Queen Mother? What is a queen mother? Is it a female monkey for juggling? ”

Several people were stunned, and they didn't know how to stop his unintentional collision. The fourth son of the emperor is seventy-seven out of twenty this year, and now his appearance is weathered, but his mind is like that of a three-year-old child. But who can blame this? The Queen Mother's eyes were red, and she held his hand and said, "The queen mother is the meaning of the mother." Yu'er, do you remember your mother? ”

Jingyu shook her head, suddenly shook off her hand, shrank behind Jingzhen and said, "You lie!" They all said that I was a fool, so my father and mother didn't want me anymore. How can there be such a good-looking mother? Are you going to cheat me out of my money too! He tried to put his hand in the pocket around his waist, but the blue cloth coat with the sewn pockets had already been changed. He didn't touch it for a long time, and he was so anxious that he was about to cry: "Don't cheat me out of my money...... I don't have any money......"

Hongcao took out a handful of gold leaves and stuffed them into his hand, and said softly: "Shiro, don't worry, the money is here with my aunt, so I will collect it for you." ”

Jingyu stared at her suspiciously, muttering "aunt" and "aunt", and after thinking for a while, she didn't understand, so she simply trotted behind the screen and hid, squatting there and counting the gold leaves.

"One, two ......"

Listening to him count over and over again, the Queen Mother smiled more and more sadly: "Yu'er ......"

Hongcao helped her and said, "Don't be sad, Niangniang, fortunately, Shiro has also been recovered." Niangniang will look at him every day in the future, and the doctor will look at him, and he will definitely be fine one day. ”

Jing Zhen also said: "The imperial doctor has come to see it, and said that the fourth brother's head has been severely injured. However, there is no possibility of healing. ”

On this day, the Queen Mother decided to leave Jingyu in Changning Palace to take care of her for a while. First, he has been deposed as a concubine, and he is an adult man, so it is not good to arrange a palace for him to live alone, and secondly, the queen mother is really not at ease. After the emperor left, he called the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat Jingyu in detail, and he was busy until the evening, and then he rested a little.

said that Liu Fuquan led Ah Yuan to the next place, entrusted her to an elderly aunt, and left after a few words. The aunt called herself Yiqiu, her face was wide, and her clothes were quite neat. Aunt Yiqiu seemed to be in a good mood, and seeing that she looked smart, she explained the rules and taboos in Changning Palace in a few words, and arranged for her to live in the same room with another little palace maid, Yuxiang.

On this day, Makika was on the night shift, and he didn't return to the house until midnight. Ah Yuan didn't sleep very well, but when he heard a movement by the door, he woke up and reached out to light the lamp. I saw a little palace maid with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, looking at herself timidly, and couldn't help but greet her: "I'm the new Ah Yuan, you are the fragrance." ”

That Xiangxiang is a gentle person, and I heard the palace maids talk about Ah Yuan during the day, but I only knew that she was originally Concubine Lan's person, but she was left in Changning Palace after offending the Queen Mother. Thinking about it like this, I didn't dare to talk to her, so I smiled casually and freshened up.

It was already a little dark outside, and Ah Yuan couldn't sleep, tossing and turning on the bed, only to feel that the scar on his left arm that had been ripped out by himself was itchy and painful, as if he had been bitten back and forth by hundreds of ants. Maka had already fallen asleep, and when she heard her stumbling, she naturally couldn't sleep, so she had to get up and walk to her bed to take a look, and was suddenly startled: "Your arm ......."

Ah Yuan sneered: "It's okay, it'll be fine in a few days." ”

Makka went back to her bedside and took out a wooden box, took a porcelain box from it, and handed it to her: "You wipe this." ”

Ah Yuan opened the porcelain box, which contained a translucent plaster like white fat, which smelled a little mint. She smeared a little bit on the wound, and immediately felt that little piece of skin was extremely cool, and there was no pain.

Mu Xiang said: "The good things given by Aunt Yiqiu, I don't use them, you can use them." ”

Ah Yuan thanked her, applied ointment to the affected area again, and then fell asleep sweetly. When I woke up, it was already hour. Seeing that Makika was still sleeping deeply, she dressed lightly and went out of the door, and Yiqiu was waiting for her outside the house.

"Auntie, morning."

Yiqiu bowed his head with a "hmm", and instructed: "The Queen Mother is unwell today, you are serving in front of you, you should be more careful." ”

Ah Yuan's belly slandered, the Queen Mother had seen her yesterday, looking like she was going to eat people with her teeth and claws, how could she say that she was uncomfortable? Wasn't she provoked by her self-harm before, so it's convenient to find an excuse to kill her head now?

At that time, the Queen Mother had finished dressing up, and was sitting on the couch in the inner room, and when she saw her coming, she reached out and handed over a foot-long agate hookah stick.

Ah Yuan bent over, knelt in front of her knees, and according to the instructions of Aunt Yiqiu, the first child, held the lit paper coal in one hand, dragged the cigarette stick in the other, and blew it towards the tobacco with his mouth, and sparks spilled out in one click. The hookah was lit, but Ah Yuan knew that he had committed a taboo, and the cigarette should not be splashed with sparks. For a while, he only dared to lie on the ground, and he didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere.

The Queen Mother didn't scold her as if she didn't see it, and said to Hongcalyx with her head sideways: "Help the mourning family go out for a walk." ”

Ah Yuan didn't know whether to follow the side or not, and glanced at Yiqiu, Yiqiu nodded to her, she cleaned up the corners of her skirt, got up and followed behind the Queen Mother and the red calyx.

"Ah Yuan." The Queen Mother was strolling in her garden and called her coldly.

She hurriedly replied, "The slave is here." ”

The Queen Mother smiled: "I saw you a bold person yesterday, how can you cringe now." ”

How dare Ah Yuan say that he was afraid that the Queen Mother would pick the wrong one to kill her, so he thought about it and said: "As a slave, he should not be afraid of making a mistake and admonishing him." Today, when I saw the majesty of the Queen Mother, Fengyi, I couldn't help but be in awe. ”

The Queen Mother said: "Sure enough, I can speak well." She asked again: "But the mourning family wants to ask you, is your master now Concubine Lan or the mourning family?" ”

Ah Yuan's heart moved, and he replied: "The Queen Mother's mother is the master of the world, and she is naturally the master of the world." ”

The Queen Mother seemed to be smiling and no longer asked.

In May, when the peony flowers bloom, the sun is shining brightly, and the sky is as blue as a piece of clear jasper. The Queen Mother was interested, so she said that she would go to the Imperial Garden to see the newly cultivated varieties in the flower and herb room. A group of people walked to the Imperial Garden, only to see the pomegranate flowers just gone, the peony is thick, full of splendid prosperity, do not feel praise.

Everyone was enjoying the flowers and plants, and there was an exclamation not far away, and the red calyx shouted angrily: "The Queen Mother is here, who is making noise there!" ”

A small eunuch ran out from behind a big pomegranate tree in front of him, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave asks the Queen Mother for peace." ”

The Queen Mother asked, "Why are you so flustered?" ”

The man raised his head, and the Queen Mother felt familiar at first glance, and after mentioning it by the red calyx next to her, she thought that this little eunuch was Xiao Linzi in her palace. Xiao Linzi pointed to the pomegranate tree behind him and said, "Fourth...... The Four Emperors ...... On top of that! "Before Jingyu was abolished, he was named the king of Kejun, and now the title has not been restored, and the palace people only call him the fourth emperor.

The red calyx said angrily: "Didn't you let you take good care of the Fourth Emperor?" How did you do it! ”

Xiao Linzi cried: "The slave is just not paying attention, and the fourth emperor went up the tree......"

The Queen Mother didn't listen to their nonsense, and hurriedly walked under the tree, and for fear of scaring Jingyu, she said softly: "Yu'er, what are you doing on there, come down quickly." ”

Jingyu sat on the highest branch of the pomegranate tree and raised his hand at her: "I'm doing morning exercises!" Look at how high I climb! "It turned out that he had been in the folk juggling team for a long time, and he was used to getting up in the morning to climb high and play, at this time he was bored in the palace alone, Xiao Linzi had to take him out for a walk according to his words, and one was not careful, and the fourth emperor ran up the tree.

Hongcao thought for a moment and shouted at him, "Shiro, come down, the slave has made your favorite lotus root flour balls." ”

Jingyu clapped his hands happily when he heard this, and said yes in a loud voice. It's just that as soon as his palm left the branch, the strength of his legs and feet was not enough to wrap around the trunk, and his body instantly collapsed. He instinctively reached for the branch with his hand, but the strength of his foot was loosened, and when he struggled again, the weight of the whole person overwhelmed the branch—

only heard a click, the branch broke into a link, and Jingyu fell straight down!