Chapter 42: Pregnant

Zhao Juan and Wang Zang turned pale in an instant, and they wanted to cry. Wang Zang, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, became sad and indignant: "Your Majesty! It's the minister who mistook you! He regretted it too much, he shouldn't have made a statement to the emperor, and he took advantage of this great opportunity to isolate the shackles of the East Palace. Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.. Why did Wei Juan's experience forget it?

They all mistook the Empress Dowager's silence for letting go, but as everyone knows, the Empress Dowager has long been dissatisfied and can't bear it.

In the final analysis, underestimating the Empress Dowager.

The Queen Mother took a deep breath and leaned over to open the food box on the ground. Take out the wine jug and two white jade cups of mutton fat, fill them and put them on the ground. Turning around his body and mind, he couldn't bear to say: "The emperor has never been able to make up his mind to be a mistake for you, but now only the preservation of the emperor is the most important thing." You can drink this wine on behalf of the emperor. In the history books of the future, there will be two loyal servants. ”

She finished without pausing. Picked up the palace lamp on the ground, put on his cloak and hat, and walked out without looking back, with a firm step.

The two jade cups were filled with wine, sparkling.

The footsteps of the Queen Mother faded away, and Zhao Juan actually laughed: "If this life can play a little role for the emperor, it will be worth it." He turned his head to look at his fellow senior brother Wang Zang, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed, laughing sadly, but so unhappy.

Zhao Juan picked up the wine: "Senior brother, I haven't called you that for a long time since I left the school." Under the dim light, he looked calm: "Although the emperor is still a little immature, you and I both know that as long as we can get through the current hurdle." In time, with the emperor's ambition and talent, he will definitely be famous for eternity. "The emperor, how can he refuse to follow the actions of the previous emperor, so that he sighs in his heart that the monarch is in a major situation, how can he not give up? I can't help but feel the heat in my heart.

Wang Zang also raised his wine glass: "It's just a pity that you and I can't see it, and I hope that from now on, Your Majesty will swallow your anger and be less impulsive." The two of them looked at each other, full of expectations for the emperor, and they were filled with infinite pride. The two of them lightly touched the wine glass and drank it all, and after a while, the two jade cups that slammed to the ground were smashed and shattered, and then there was a deathly silence.

The next day, Tingwei reported to the East Palace: Zhao Juan and Wang Zang had committed suicide in fear of crime!

When the news came, Liu Che had just come out of the Empress Dowager's palace with a gloomy expression. Chun Tuo cautiously stepped forward to report the bad news and bowed down, and Liu Che's face darkened. He stood in the corridor for a long time speechless, thinking that his mother had told him to retreat again and again, until his grandmother was satisfied; Thinking of my father, thinking of Gillian, thinking of Wei Xiang, Wang Zang; Thinking of his ambitions, he is full of new policies that have not been shown.

Chuntuo didn't dare to urge him, let alone come forward to care about him.

A small yellow door hurried towards them from a distance, and Chuntuo frowned and was about to reprimand him. Xiao Huangmen knelt down a few steps away from them, and said loudly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, the queen is happy!" ”

"What?" Liu Che was stunned first, and seemed to be knocked unconscious. It took a long time to react from the rapid heartbeat and bursts of tinnitus, Gillian is pregnant? In ecstasy, he pointed to the little yellow door and shouted, "Reward him, reward him heavily!" ”

Jiaojiao is pregnant? Yes, pregnant.

The child he has been looking forward to for a long time, Gillian's child.

Liu Che almost ran all the way back to the Qingliang Palace, panting. Chun Tuo ran behind and ran out of breath, and it was easy to catch up with the gate of the palace, and he forgot that the queen was not in the Qingliang Palace, and Liu Che was not in the Qingliang Palace.

He calmed his breath and asked Liu Che with some gasp: "Your Majesty, you ran too fast, Niangniang is still over there in Changle Palace." ”

Liu Che Huoran turned around, and Chun Tuo hurriedly stepped forward to remind: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, hurry up." "Don't run anymore, it's going to take half a day to run from Qingliang Hall to Changle Palace.

Liu Che shouted as if he had just woken up from a dream: "Chariot! ”

When he arrived at Changle Palace, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother and Princess Guantao couldn't hide their joy to listen to the imperial doctor talk about Gillian's pulse, he stepped forward to meet his grandmother and queen mother, and the imperial grandmother gave Liu Che a good face for a long time because of this rare happy event: "Go in and see Gillian, she is very pregnant, and Gillian has fallen asleep." ”

The Queen Mother was also relieved to see the Empress Dowager's warm attitude, and turned her head to continue to ask the relevant precautions of the Imperial Doctor. She gave birth to three daughters and a son, and she is supposed to have a lot of experience. But Gillian's birth came too timely, too timely. I heard that before they came, the Empress Dowager had already put tears on the first emperor and said that Che'er had a queen, so that the Empress Dowager was happy and cautiously asked the imperial doctor.

Liu Che had no time to care, and went straight into the inner hall. Gillian scattered the fragrance of green silk sleeping on the couch, and the begonia magnolia standing on the side saluted gently. He was suddenly a little nervous, and he felt that he had no strength to move forward. He and Gillian face each other day and night, grinding their ears and temples. Her smile was familiar to no one better than her. But at this time, there was a nervous cowardice like the beginning of a teenager's spring heart, which was different from the excitement on the eve of marrying Gillian.

He looked at Gillian on the couch, her eyebrows and eyes were gentle in her sleep, and her black hair was as black as ink scattered all over the couch. He looked at her, thinking that she was now pregnant with the child he had hoped for so many times. He mustered up his courage and carefully sat on the couch to look at Gillian, his face ruddy.

After a moment of viewing, he came out of the temple satisfied. He also summoned Haitang to inquire about yesterday's situation in detail, and then turned to the outside of the palace and called Chuntuo: "Put all the selected ones in the Mingguang Palace into the court, and don't let anyone have a heart that shouldn't be." ”

Chuntuo comprehended the order, the queen mother is pregnant, and these people don't need it. If Your Majesty really wants to choose a concubine, you can choose a woman from a good family outside the palace. The maids in the palace chose concubines, but they were just for the sake of their biological mother's lowliness and for the queen's consideration.

After giving these instructions, when I returned to the hall, I wanted to ask the imperial doctor if Gillian knelt down and fainted last night if it would be detrimental to the fetus. The Empress Dowager stood up from her shackle with a gloomy wooden cane, with joy and majesty: "The emperor is also a father." Be calm, there is a doctor. The Han family is still counting on you, come in with the mourning family. After speaking, he groped and walked inside, the Empress Dowager had been unable to see for many years. However, after living in Changle Palace for a long time, the elderly can live almost without support, just like ordinary people.

The meaning of the Empress Dowager's words is obvious, whether she really or falsely wanted to change the emperor, and her intention to change the emperor has faded with Gillian becoming pregnant.

Sparks jumped in the Queen Mother's eyes, she glanced at Liu Che, and urged him with burning eyes.

After entering the inner room, after a short silence, the empress dowager opened her mouth first. She leaned on the pillow on the couch, and seemed to have forgotten the unhappiness of her grandparents and grandchildren a few days ago: "The mourning family has always been worried about Gillian, but now it can be regarded as relieved." ”

Her eyebrows were a little more stunned, but more of a smile. Liu Che was about to answer, but the Empress Dowager spoke again: "The mourning family heard that Zhao Juan and Wang Zang have died in prison, it's good." ”

Her tone was relaxed, stabbing Liu Che's heart with a slight pain, but her face did not show anything. He no longer dared to express his emotions as if his grandmother was a loving grandmother who loved her children and grandchildren.

Liu Che was speechless and didn't know what to say.

But the Empress Dowager didn't mind, she asked calmly and casually: "I heard that Your Majesty dismissed Dou Ying and Tian Wei this morning, and asked the two of them to stay at home." Has the emperor figured out who he wants to call to succeed him? ”

Liu Che's heart tightened, and he replied modestly: "The grandson is stupid, and he still wants the emperor's grandmother to advise." "The Empress Dowager's eyes are closed all the year round, but before she acts, she shines brightly, not like an old woman who is old and blind. She listened to Liu Che's answer, and chuckled with satisfaction: "Then, the mourning family has thought about it for Your Majesty." The old minister of the court, Xu Chang, can be the prime minister, Zhuang Qingzhai is the imperial history doctor, Shi Fen's son Shi Jian is the Lang Zhongling, and Shi Qing is the internal history. ”

Xuchang is a well-known minister of Huang Lao in the court, and has always looked forward to the empress dowager. Not to mention Zhuang Qingzhai, who is the queen mother's loyal minister. Shi Fen is a person who has no talent, and his caution is well known. Could his son not be a conformist, conformist?

Liu Che's hands clenched in his robe thought of the concessions repeatedly instructed by the queen mother and Gillian, and then looked at the old age of the queen mother, who was in good spirits but could not withstand the time, and stretched out one by one. He replied as usual, "My grandson obeys." ”

The Empress Dowager nodded with satisfaction, and she asked amiably, "Have you read the book of Huang Lao?" Liu Che replied yes, and her grandmother said with concern as if she was an ordinary person: "If you read it, you have to act, and Your Majesty must learn how to be this Your Majesty." ”

Liu Che looked at the Empress Dowager abruptly, and the Empress Dowager was still so calm and smiled kindly. She was thin, but there seemed to be endless strength and power hidden beneath her body.

The Empress Dowager seemed to feel Liu Che's unshy scrutiny, and she greeted him with a smile, almost making Liu Che suspect that the old grandmother was not blind. But when he looked at it, there was no doubt that under the shriveled eye sockets were dead eyes.

She gently beckoned to Liu Che and motioned for him to sit next to her. Like Liu Che's childhood memories every time she saw her grandmother, she also lovingly beckoned him to come to her side and gave him delicious snacks.

After Liu Che sat down beside her, the old grandmother gently waved her hand to signal him not to speak, and listened for a while. shook Liu Che's hand and motioned for him to come closer.

Liu Che hadn't been close to his grandmother for a long time like when he was a child, and it was almost at this moment that he realized that his grandmother, who was not angry and arrogant in his memory, was so old. Her hands were still as warm as they were when she was a child, but they had withered a lot. He suddenly felt a little sour for no reason, and he obediently approached his grandmother as she had requested.

Grandmother whispered in his ear, and gradually, Liu Che's face changed. He looked at his grandmother in amazement, trying to ask something. Grandmother frowned and shook her head, motioning for him to listen to her. She then whispered in Liu Che's ear, but Liu Che's face slowly relaxed, but there was a hint of surprise or shock between her eyebrows.

After two more moments, the Empress Dowager Dou finally finished speaking. She didn't seem to see Liu Che's inquiring look on his face, touched the crutches in her hand and groped her way up, and only said softly: "Go, there is still a lot to be done by Your Majesty." ”