The Seven Sages Pavilion of Shoukang Palace, is a place surrounded by bamboo, the tall bamboo forest covers the sky and the sun, the ethereal green screen, the best place to enjoy the cool in summer, at this time it is just in time for dinner, knowing that the emperor is coming, in the flower hall of the Seven Sages Pavilion, the Queen Mother specially ordered a few more dishes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the dinner time, the palace people set up the imperial meal outside, but they didn't dare to urge, because Cao Xiuyi knelt in front of the empress dowager and cried.

The Empress Dowager has been crooked on the Luohan bamboo couch with a jade pillow to enjoy the coolness, closed her eyes and listened to Cao Xiuyi crying and saying, in the past few days, her ears are full of crying, and she has become numb to crying.

Fortunately, there was a scathing and mean concubine to greet her, the empress dowager used to hate her very much, but not today, because there are too many annoying people, she can't stand in line.

And since Concubine Xian lost her power, she also took out the appearance of a filial daughter-in-law, led by example, took a bowl of hot soothing soup from the lacquer plate held by the palace people, blew two mouthfuls, put it on the high table next to the couch, and began to inquire about the ins and outs of the matter.

As if arguing, he said, "Oh my God, my God! Where did a filial piety queen mother come from! The woman isn't dead yet? At that time, the imperial doctors said that her illness was incurable. ”

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes and muttered: "Yes, the imperial doctor in the palace said that the madness of the mourning family is cured, and it will be done again." He also said that the first emperor would definitely wake up...... Hum! It's all a bunch of rubbish! ”

"The Empress Dowager, if Concubine Hua, who only gave birth to a princess, can live in the Palace of Mercy and Grace, and has to be crowned filial piety as the Empress Dowager, then the concubine gave birth to King Qi, and her position is above Concubine Hua, and now she is just a concubine, this is unbearable!"

"Concubine Xian really doesn't know what happened, if King Qi is really a princess, maybe there is still hope for you to be the queen mother." The Empress Dowager's cold truth made the indignant woman immediately shut up.

I heard the report from the palace outside: Your Majesty has arrived......

The Empress Dowager's eyes opened, and she said angrily: "Call him in, and the mourning family will beat him well with a cane!" ”

Cao Xiuyi: "The Empress Dowager! You can't beat Your Majesty! He has been tired and sick from the work of state affairs for the past two days. The concubine said that the Empress Dowager Hua and Princess Yingchen's mother and daughter were in cahoots, and they colluded with Yan Fei's daughter, lowered the concubine's grade, and also seized the concubine's right to govern the harem. A person who was beaten into the cold palace by the first emperor and waited for death, and now she runs out like a clown, who admits that she is the real queen mother? To say that her position is still below Concubine Xian, why is it her turn to become the queen mother of filial piety and live in the Palace of Mercy and Grace? Does she deserve it? ”

She chattered so much, and the car talked back and forth, and Zun and his party had already come in and heard it.

The palace people all knelt down to greet them, and they respected, because they said: "The Empress Dowager, are you feeling better today?" ”

The Empress Dowager saw Zun, heard his voice, and stretched out her hand to him: "Your Majesty, help the mourning family sit up." ”

Zun helped her sit on the couch and brought her a pillow to tuck behind her back.

Concubine Xian and Cao Xiuyi saluted and called Your Majesty.

Zun nodded and said flat.

Empress Dowager: "Your Majesty, I heard that you are also sick, but the mourning family looks at you as energetic as a tiger and a lion."

"What's wrong with my grandson? But every day when I open my eyes, everything in the front and harem is a mess, and I have a headache! ”

"Hehe, I used to be stupid and knew how to fight and kill, but now I also know how to think with my brain? Just like your father when he first became the emperor, he had a sad face, for fear of being called a faint monarch who misled the country......" The Empress Dowager smiled and twisted her head to the side as she spoke, wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

turned his face and scolded again: "But the mourning family sees that your kid is not as stable as your father back then!" How could Cao Xiuyi be demoted to Cao Chengrong in a good manner? Even if there is a big fault, she is pregnant, you can't be considerate and considerate of her? Look at this crying, how can it be good to hurt the fetus on a hot day? ”

"Hey! How many of you are carved from wood and clay? Seeing Cao Chengrong crying, I don't know how to help him up and clean his face? Really, sooner or later, the mourning family will change a few of you old guys! The Empress Dowager burned her anger on the old eunuch and the grandmother of Shoukang Palace.

So Cao Xiuyi was helped out to wash her face and makeup.

Zun said: "Empress Dowager, look, Empress Dowager Hua of Ci'en Palace has come to invite your old man." ”

Empress Dowager Hua took two steps, knelt on the ground, took a cup of tea handed over by the palace people, and raised her hands above her head, "Empress Dowager, Concubine Ci'en Palace Hua's Guizuo, has not performed the morning and dusk ceremony for many years, serving by your old man's side, the crime deserves death......"

"Get up."

The Empress Dowager said indifferently, she didn't even take the tea, Zun hurriedly took it for her, and picked up the Empress Dowager Hua again.

Compared with Cao Xiuyi, who has never been in the palace for a day, there is a fundamental difference between the virtuous concubines who have been in the palace for half her life, even if she is reluctant, because of her status, she has already succumbed to her, so she has to go over and salute: "Empress Dowager Hua is well." ”

"Don't dare to be, my sister has been in the cold palace for too long, and I almost don't know the old people, but my sister is a virtuous concubine?"

"Yes! The concubine is several years older than you, old! Not to mention the wrinkles on his face, he is still full of fat, the thin waist of the willow back then has now become a bucket, and the top and bottom are generally thick, no wonder the Queen Mother can't recognize it! ”

Empress Dowager Hua laughed: "Is this an insinuation of the mourning family?" It's not like the mourning family suffering in the cold palace, if you are pampered, it doesn't look like there is much change. ”

This was very popular, and Concubine Xian pursed her lips and said nothing.

Princess Yingchen said: "Queen Mother, my granddaughter is hungry!" After eating, he had to go to his father to wake the spirit, and the emperor's brother and mother were the same. ”

"Oh, isn't it? This dinner has been prepared early, and the mourning family is waiting for you brothers and sisters, and their stomachs are growling. ”

Zun and Ying Chen supported the Empress Dowager one by one, and went to the West Flower Hall to dine together, and the Empress Dowager Hua and Concubine Xian followed silently.

Wang Shanggong of the Shangshan Bureau had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw the Empress Dowager coming, he ordered someone to start serving hot dishes. The long dining table is full of vegetarian food with color and fragrance, the first emperor died, the harem is still thrifty, it is said that there are no 100 dishes in Baiwei Zhai, it has been halved, more than 50 dishes, after all, there are only five or six people to eat, and the rest is to reward the palace people to eat.

Although there is a royal rule, there is no food and no sleep, but how can the Queen Mother not speak when she sees Zun and Ying Chen.

Empress Dowager Hua Xian and Cao Xiuyi, who came in after finishing the face, could not sit and served standing up.

It's time for Ying Chen to relieve her anger, and she called Cao Chengrong to add soup to her.

At this time, Cao Xiuyi finally understood the words of the Empress Dowager, even if the princess is married and widowed, she is still the emperor's closest relative, and even if the Empress Dowager Hua is her biological mother, with the Empress Dowager present, she can only stand and serve, let alone herself.

She had no choice but to serve the soup to Ying Chen, not to mention the fire in her heart.

The Empress Dowager ate very little, and she took a bowl of three fresh mushroom and bamboo soup from the Empress Dowager Hua, "What?" You wear this thing when you eat, too? ”

She finally spoke to her, and the Empress Dowager Hua was busy clearing her throat and said: "As the Empress Dowager knows, although the concubine's illness in the past has been cured, she has scars on her face, and I am afraid that the Empress Dowager will see it indecent." ”

"It's okay, the mourning family has also lived for a long time, what haven't you seen? You just take it off and look at it. ”

"Yes." (To be continued)