In the Chengqian Palace, Zhao Qian and Zhao Shuo fell into contemplation at the same time, this midwinter day suddenly became a little colder, the snow was boundless, and between the waste and heaven and earth, all the truth was hidden.

The two of them pondered for a long time, and suddenly looked up at each other, and both saw some kind of fear in each other's eyes, which was fleeting, and both of them shook their heads at the same time, trying to shake the thought out of their minds.

In the end, Zhao Shuo narrowed his eyes and clenched his hands fiercely: "Third child, I know what you're thinking, you also know what I'm thinking, there are some things that there is no way to escape, so now we have to discuss it." ”

Zhao Gan showed a heavy look of embarrassment on his face, he felt embarrassed just by having this thought, and as for the discussion, it was even more difficult to speak, he sighed: "Second brother, we really want to discuss the queen mother in this matter...... The ...... played Does it work? ”

Zhao Shuo's face was cold, and he nodded very firmly, yes.

The relationship between His Majesty and the queen is talked about by people all over the world, since the opening of the world, there has never been such a couple in charge of the world, the two are close to each other, and they also respect each other like guests, unlike Xu Xiao and Bai Su, from vigorous to another vigorous, sometimes extreme enough to abandon the world.

The relationship between His Majesty and the Empress has always been very stable, like a pot of wine, sealed in the cellar, becoming more and more mellow as time passes, and the trust between the two is very strong. In the past, when he was competing for the world, Xu Xiao also had a relationship with a pair of sisters, and the years were quiet before the moon, but His Majesty has always been "clean and self-conscious". From the romance of not being nostalgic for a delicate flower.

It's not that there is no warbler Yanyan moving forward, but His Majesty has already smiled and politely refused before the signs appeared. There were also monarchs who had married only one queen before. But the monarch who loved the landscape and created the thin gold body is a "strict wife", with a thief's heart but not a thief's guts.

In addition, the queen deserves to be a model of motherhood in the world, and the relationship with the queen mother is even more talked, the early queen mother did not like a queen who was too tied to His Majesty's mind, and after a few years of marriage, there was no movement in the stomach. It made the Queen Mother very anxious, and she kept squinting at the queen, and she had a lot of complaints in private.

A couple of things happened later. The queen handled it just right with the sassy spirit of not losing a man, so that the queen mother had to be amazed and admired. I heard that the queen and the queen mother had a conversation in private, when the queen's eyes were level with the queen mother. Since then. The Queen Mother never interfered in the affairs between Her Majesty and the Empress again. The queen then gave birth to four princes and a princess.

Everyone in the world knows that the relationship between His Majesty and the Queen is more than the tip of a needle, and the palace can often see the scene of His Majesty and the Queen holding hands and playing, Rou Jia is even more envious, and once asked the Queen in private, Queen Mother, have you quarreled with your father? The queen smiled and nodded Roujia's nose, of course there were stumbles at the corners of the mouth between the husband and wife, and of course there were quarrels. Nowadays, there are still a lot of quarrels. Roujia was puzzled and threw the same question to His Majesty. His Majesty smiled and said, Of course not, I and your queen mother have never quarreled since they met, haha, not even bickering.

Rou Jia was even more puzzled, there was no tacit understanding, how could the relationship be so good, but she was sure that there was someone lying between her father and mother.

However, after the great changes in the capital, the queen's reaction was too strange......

"Although I haven't seen the letter sent to Xiliang, I can guess that the letter should be the violent death of the university scholar, the return of the queen mother, and the death of His Majesty, but there is a way out in the order of the great changes in the capital and the letters, first the queen mother returned to heaven, then the university scholar died violently, and finally the father died, but the beginning of the matter has to start with another thing." Zhao Shuo looked at the heavy snow outside and recalled what happened at that time: "The third child, the body and bones of the university scholar have not been very tough, and the Xue Yongguan incident has been hard work, and he was sick on the way to comfort the people, so he had to return to Shangjing to recuperate. And Chen Nuonuo went to the Left Tent Palace, not in the capital, and the empty mansion was even more empty. The Queen Mother has not been in good health, thinking of the old relationship between her and Mrs. Fan, accompanied by the Queen Mother, she went to the university scholar's mansion, rewarded some things, and told the university scholar to recuperate, and the court still relies on you. ”

Zhao Shuo paused and pondered: "During this period, the queen mother and the scholar had a conversation alone, and the queen mother chatted with Mrs. Fan, who was lying on the bed, and was not present, as for the content of the conversation, it was very secret, and no one knew. ”

Zhao Qian glanced at the second prince and sighed in his heart, the second brother can know the whereabouts of the queen mother and the queen mother so clearly, and as if he was on the spot, it seems that the queen mother and the queen mother should have the second brother's eyeliner by their side, but in this way, the relationship between the queen mother and what happened in the capital is even closer.

Zhao Shuo continued: "The day after the queen mother and the queen mother returned to the palace, the university scholar died at home, I heard that the little maid of the university scholar's mansion said that it was the university scholar who brought hot water to Mrs. Chen to wipe her body, accidentally fell, just in time for this winter is particularly cold, the old man's bones are crisp, he broke his legs and feet, knocked to the corner of his eyebrows, and did not wake up in the world, in fact, after the university scholar died violently, Mrs. Chen, who had been paralyzed in bed for many years and could not move, shed two lines of tears and followed. ”

"The Queen Mother in the palace heard about this, I don't feel a little sad and sad, the Queen Mother has been taking care of her, serving by her side, I, Zhao Ting, Rou Jia have also been to see the Queen Mother, said a few words, although the Queen Mother is seriously ill, but not yet about to die. At this time, the scholar passed away, and his father gave the scholar Wenda a good gift to deal with the related matters after the death of the scholar. Zhao Shuo's voice was very calm, but he paused here, he frowned, a little puzzled and puzzled: "Since my father's pro-government, the most important thing is to pay attention to the checks and balances of power, there are prime ministers and scholars above the court, and there are generals and Xu Xiao above the border defense, and they have been promoting newcomers in recent years, not to mention Lin Hanlin and Lin Qianyi of the Lin family, and Hong Xiuyu, the distant nephew of Hong Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, are all considered rising stars, and the purpose is to succeed the older generation. Both Lin Qianyi and Hong Xiuyu have shown the potential to become pillars of the imperial court. It stands to reason that at this time, the father should use a newcomer to restrain the prime minister. However, he gave the power of the court to the prime minister. ”

Zhao Qian frowned, and he was even more puzzled, far away when he was in Xiliang. He thought that the second brother and the prime minister should be "intimate", and when he saw that Lord Yuezhang was in charge of the government, he should be at ease, but now it seems that he was wrong, and there should be an unknown gap between the second brother and the prime minister, and there should be differences between the two in some places. At least the matter of going to the capital is not a collusion between the two.

Since then, my father has been busy with court affairs, and the queen mother returned to heaven at this time. The father was grief-stricken, and he didn't go to court early for three days, and locked himself in Cining Palace to guard the queen mother, and everything was taken care of by the prime minister. Five days later. Bad news came from Cining Palace. The death of his father came from the mouth of the queen mother, and no one doubted the life and death of his father. However, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and I, as well as Rou Jia and Zhao Ting, never saw the last face of my father. The two coffins have been transported to the palace, nailed the steel nails, and placed in the Chengqian Palace, which is too unreasonable, but the queen mother insists! "Speaking of which. Zhao Shuo's eyes suddenly widened, and he pressed one hand on the emperor's coffin. "Third child, I can also tell you clearly, this emperor's coffin, I have ordered someone to open it privately, and the inside is ...... Inside...... Indeed lying down...... Father! ”

Zhao Qian rubbed his throat and looked at the coffin with difficulty, the Queen Mother went to the University Scholar's Mansion, died violently on the second day, and the Queen Mother was bedridden three days later, ten days later, the Queen Mother returned to heaven, and the father and emperor did not go to court early on the third day, died on the fifth day, and the coffin entered the palace on the second day and was nailed...... All the spearheads are pointed at the queen who is in Kunning Palace at this moment.

At this time, in the Kunning Palace, not far from the Chengqian Palace, the queen was sitting on the splendid bed, reaching out and rolling the hot red coals with tongs a few times, and the firelight instantly reflected the queen's cheeks, with a joy that could not be concealed.

She lowered her head and continued to embroider the last cyan coat, not far from her, there were already six pieces of jade, namely the bright yellow of the five-clawed dragon, the dark green of the birds and clouds, and the embroidered phoenix peony lilac, and two pink, one embroidered peony, one embroidered with flowers and birds, and the last piece in the queen's hand was a natural cyan coat, not embroidered at all.

This winter is very cold, the queen has long been busy with winter clothes, thinking about it, it is still the most cold, and it is easy to wear, these six pieces are for Zhao Shuo, Zhao Gan, Zhao Ting, Roujia, Pan Meimei, in addition, the queen also specially prepared a gift to the Jing'an Palace's Yan'er, this girl is not in love, there is bitterness in her heart, and her temperament is closer to Chen Nuonuo, she can hold her words and calm down, even if the person she likes is far away in Xiangxi, she will not cry.

Thinking of Yan'er, the queen couldn't help but sigh, sometimes she hoped that this child had a bit of Lin Wan'er's flamboyant temperament, and it was better to cry if she wanted to cry than to hold it in her heart.

Thinking of Lin Wan'er, the queen thought of Zhao Gan again, something must have happened between these two children in Xiliang, but no matter what happened, there should never be the scene in front of the Chengqian Palace, if Qian'er deliberately did it, and didn't want Lin Wan'er to be involved in the chaotic whirlpool of the palace, it would be even more unreasonable.

The kind of bridge that bears the pain alone, and pretends to be cold and vicious to the beloved, is not suitable for this group of young people, they have new ideas, pay more attention to the unity and uniqueness of the emotional pace, they will let the beloved to taste the bits and pieces of life with themselves, even if it is suffering: "Sister Su, it seems that our concept of love at that time is becoming more and more unsuitable for this era." ”

The queen shook her head and abandoned the thoughts in her mind, but her thoughts were uncontrollable, she thought of Zhao Ting, and then thought of Rou Jia, Zhao Ting's studies, Rou Jia's emotions, and the complex relationship between Zhao Gan, Lin Wan'er, and Chen Nuonuo, there are still many things that have not been dealt with well, and there are still many things that need to be solved, but ...... There is no time left.

At this time, a small palace maid walked in, the footsteps are shallow, since entering the palace, the queen gives people a sense of majesty and warmth, not strict with the subordinates, but the majesty has always been there, some people are careful, in the harem to make some flies camp dog tricks, but have been punished by the queen's thunderous means, the palace is more and more quiet.

The queen's mind is easy to guess, and the queen sometimes deliberately reveals some of her preferences, instead of blindly shaping her image as the lord of the harem in the world with a cold face, sometimes the little eunuch and the little palace maid will also follow the queen's preferences to please her, and you can always get a lot of rewards.

Before the little palace maid entered the palace, she always felt that the palace was cold and conspiracy everywhere, and she should always be careful and cautious in her words and deeds, but after seeing the queen and serving by her side for many years, she knew that the queen would govern the harem more peacefully than the current world, which is probably the rule of inaction mentioned in the book.

But recently, her heart has been full of doubts, such a big thing has happened in the court, it stands to reason that the saddest should be the queen, but the queen in the eyes of the little palace maid is not sad at all...... On the contrary, she was a little happy, and the queen's happiness was from the bottom of her heart, not pretended. She didn't understand it again, and she couldn't understand it at all, the relationship between husband and wife in rural neighborhoods was stiff, there were conflicts in private, and no matter how vicious things could be done, but when her husband died, her daughter-in-law would always cry a few times on her face, and the queen was different, she was not so sad, and she was overflowing with joy.

The little palace maid knows this feeling, just like entering the palace from her hometown in the countryside, although she is reluctant, but she can always be fed and clothed, and she can get out of a poor life and run to a new life.

The little palace maid who had been serving the queen was puzzled, holding the boiled rice porridge closely, a blessing, and said softly: "Master, the rice porridge has been boiled, you can eat it while it's hot." ”

The queen put down the needle and thread in her hand, touched the gentle cyan daze, got up gently, took the simple rice porridge, stirred it slowly with a porcelain spoon, took a small sip, and couldn't help nodding: "The porridge you boiled is sticky and fragrant, and the entrance is soft, is there any secret?" ”

The little palace maid replied: "If you go back to the queen, before the rice is put into the pot, warm the pot with hot water first, and crush a little, and finally after the water is boiled, gently sprinkle it in, open the lid and boil again, and the rice porridge will be extraordinarily fragrant." ”

"Hmm." The queen nodded, and took another sip, "I see, how did you learn this method?" ”

The little palace maid replied again: "If you go back to your master, before you enter the palace, your mother taught me." She was very curious, she had served the queen for many years, and the queen had never asked about her life experience, nor how to cook this rice porridge, but she asked today.

Putting down the bowl of porridge, the queen stood up, put her hands in front of her, condescendingly, showing the royal majesty, and shouted: "Kneel! (To be continued.) )