When I came to the Zilan Palace, before I entered the main hall, I smelled a strong bitter and astringent medicinal smell. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wen Xin heard the palace people's reply, and personally greeted the palace: "Look, everything has been complicated recently, so I came to pick you up at this time." ”

"What did Mama say?" Fu Minghua shook his head, let Wen Xin help her into the hall, and asked, "The Queen Mother is in better health now?" ”

At the mention of this, the smile on Wen Xin's face showed a little reluctance:

"It's still like that, just hoping for the blessing of the Bodhisattva. The emperor has asked people to build a temple outside Luoyang City to pray for the queen mother. ”

At twelve o'clock a day in the palace, the kitchen did not dare to turn off the fire, boiling the decoction, but unfortunately the queen mother could not take it.

Sometimes I barely poured some in, and I spit it all out.

Now people are not awake, and the situation is sometimes good and sometimes bad, "I had a high fever last night, and even the emperor was alarmed." ”

Wen Xin turned his back and took a few deep breaths: "Just look at God bless." ”

At such a point, Wen Xin had no other way, and smiled bitterly: "You go in and take a look, the Queen Mother was sober for a while at noon, and she asked about you, saying that she thought you had entered the palace." At that time, I was still thinking about the queen mother, and I was thinking about letting people out of the palace later, so that you could come to the palace to take a look, but I didn't know that you were here. ”

Wen Xin didn't mention Cui Shilang's beating, as if he didn't know anything about Fu Minghua's reason for entering the palace.

The queen mother in the palace was lying on the bed, and she didn't see her hair for a few days, as if she had been deformed.

Fu Minghua was really surprised, the curtains on both sides were rolled up and hung on the exquisite and luxurious silver hook on the top of the bed, and the room was lit with faint sandalwood, but it couldn't suppress the bitter medicinal smell.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes, her breathing was very heavy, and the corners of her mouth were foaming and salivating from time to time.

Her face was swollen and shiny, Fu Minghua sat down, took the Jinpa in the hands of the palace people, and the palace people retreated.

When she came back to see the Queen Mother, she was in good spirits, but now she seems to have changed.

Fu Minghua remembered the scene when he saw the Queen Mother before.

Although Empress Dowager Zheng is old, her decency seems to be integrated into her bones, and before that, no matter which time they met, they were all dressed up elegantly and decently.

Now that she can't control herself, if she wakes up, I don't know how uncomfortable it will be.

Fu Minghua thought about it and instructed Wen Xin:

"Go get a basin of hot water."

Wen Xin didn't know what to do, but as soon as she gave the order, she still responded.

The palace people came in with hot water, handkerchiefs, incense powder and other things one by one, Fu Minghua twisted the hot handkerchief, gently cleaned the queen mother's face, washed it twice, and smeared it with balm.

I don't know if it's because of the steaming veil, Empress Dowager Zheng's originally pale face turned out to look much better.

She wiped her hands carefully for the Queen Mother, and even wiped her nails with a handkerchief.

The hall was very quiet, the Queen Mother's heavy breathing seemed to be a little lighter, Fu Minghua felt that something was not quite right, raised his head, but saw that the Queen Mother Zheng, who had closed her eyes and fell asleep before, woke up at some point, and was looking at her with a smile, as if it had been a while.

"Are you awake?"

Fu Minghua was a little surprised, the Queen Mother's fingertips moved, as if she wanted to hold her backhand, but she couldn't: "Are you here......" Her voice was hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Since yesterday...... Come, I also saw Yuan Niang enter the palace...... "The Queen Mother gasped, Fu Minghua heard her say this, but she felt her heart tighten, and her eyes were sour.

Before, Wen Xin clearly said that the Queen Mother woke up at noon, thinking that she had entered the palace, but the Queen Mother couldn't remember anything anymore, thinking that she was awake yesterday.

Fu Minghua pursed his lips and nodded meekly:

"When you think of me, you feel like I'm always by your side."

When the Queen Mother heard this, she laughed: "Yuan Niang, I had a dream, and I always felt that the first emperor was on my side. I dreamed of the large peony garden in Longxi, Zheng Mansion. She seemed to be in good spirits, and when she mentioned the past, she looked like a girl.

"The first emperor always said that I was as noble as a peony, and when we got married, he was still young, and he vowed to pamper me in the palm of his hand." The Queen Mother's eyes showed a sweet color, and her cheeks slowly crawled with redness.

Her appearance made Wen Xin's lips tremble, but she gritted her teeth and didn't dare to make a sound.

"Does Yuan Niang know that there are peonies in Longxi?" The Queen Mother turned her head and smiled leisurely.

Fu Minghua clenched her hand and felt a tightness in his throat: "I know, purple peony." ”

The Queen Mother's expression softened, and she glanced at her with some pity:

"That's true. Humane Luoyang and Heze peony are the best in the world, but they don't know that there are also peonies in Longxi, with purple spots in the petals...... "She turned sideways," a clump of flowers, and the flowers are even more beautiful when they bloom. People say that Heze peony is extraordinary, Luoyang peony is rich, but I prefer peony in Longxi. ”

"You're homesick."

Fu Minghua clenched her hand and said softly.

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, and her eyes were full of tears:

"Yes, I'm homesick, but where is my home?"

The Zheng family, as early as when Taizu started the incident, was affected, and his parents and relatives all went to Huangquan.

Even if he was favored by Taizu in all kinds of ways later, the Zheng Mansion when the Queen Mother was a child was always difficult to restore to its original state.

The Zheng clan was slaughtered so much that the later Empress Dowager Zheng couldn't even find a relative.

The world only saw the century-old foundation laid by Taizu back then, and praised Taizu's merits, but few people knew the bitterness in the heart of the Queen Mother.

"I often dreamed of my childhood, and my mother doted on me so much that she made a swing for me in the courtyard. Whenever I swinged, I flew high and could see the scene outside through the high courtyard wall. My mother was worried that I would fall, but she couldn't bear to go against my will, so she always tried to stare at me whenever I played. She can only rest assured when she sees it with her own eyes. ”

It's just that Empress Dowager Zheng's mother was the wife of the Zheng Mansion at the time, and she had a lot of things to do every day, so sometimes when she looked at her daughter, she was often busy with business while looking at her daughter distractedly.

"I dreamed of my mother, sitting on a swing in my dream, the soul seemed to fly, and when I turned around, I could still see my mother's helpless and spoiled look."

Fu Minghua listened to the Queen Mother quietly, just holding her palm tightly.

"As I grew up, I gradually stopped being playful, and the outside world was no longer curious." She was trapped in a boudoir, quietly learning the rules, playing with the ladies from time to time, and never touching the swing again.

But after marrying Taizu, he was very careful and noticed the swing in her courtyard, and still made a swing for her himself, but she didn't have much time to play. (To be continued.) )