Chapter 33: Disaster Descends on the Guo Family
Two days later, the cuttlefish went to the Yongshou Palace with a small gift to show her gratitude to the queen.
Since the cuttlefish was injured, the queen has been worried, and has sent people to send several rounds of tonics, the cuttlefish is in good health, and it has long been able to jump around, despite this, she is still grateful for the queen's care, and she wants to go and thank it in person.
Yongshou Palace is bigger than other palaces, it is exclusive to the palace of the queen mother, although there are many people in the palace, but they never see too much anger, the whole Yongshou Palace is slightly empty and quiet.
When the cuttlefish entered the main hall, she saw that the queen was instructing Aunt Hui Hibiscus to prepare good tea, and knew that it was prepared for her.
"The concubine visits the queen, and the queen is blessed with good luck." He saluted respectfully, and his tone was full of respect, facing the master of the harem, the cuttlefish did not dare to slack off.
The queen smiled with kindness on her face, and said softly, "Su promised not to be polite, sit down quickly, this palace is not in good health and can't always go out, it is really embarrassing to be bored in this Yongshou Palace, just when you came, accompany this palace to talk for a while to relieve boredom." β
The queen is sick and weak, and she has not improved for a long time, and she is weak when she says it.
After the cuttlefish sat down, he smiled and thanked sincerely, "The concubine is naturally willing to chat with you to relieve your boredom, you took special care of the concubine a few days ago, and the concubine has not had time to thank you, so you are worried." β
"This is what this palace should do, you don't have to say thank you." The queen replied decently, and was about to say something more, but suddenly she couldn't help coughing violently, and her face became even more ugly.
Seeing that the queen was dressed plainly, with simple makeup, only a string of Bodhi prayer beads on her body, and no other decorations, she could see that this was a thrifty queen who did not admire vanity.
The queen's coughing appearance couldn't help but remind the cuttlefish of the late Su promise, and when she thought of the unknown master who died, her eyes immediately flushed, and she had to try her best not to let the tears stay, so as not to be too out of shape.
After a while, the cuttlefish's face returned to normal, but there was still a faint pain in his heart, and the queen drank the medicinal juice handed by Aunt Hui Jin, and she felt a lot more comfortable.
"Look at this palace's body, it's really getting more and more useless." The queen shook her head with a wry smile and sighed, with a depression in her eyes, "The emperor was busy handling government affairs in the previous dynasty, but the palace failed to do his job in the back court, so the emperor had less to worry about, fortunately, with the assistance of Concubine Xi, otherwise the harem would not know what to do." β
The queen's only son died of illness many years ago, and she has not been able to produce anything for so many years, neither for the emperor to spread the leaves and extend the heirs, nor can she manage the harem with this stump body, what is the use of her as a queen?! Although the emperor attaches great importance to affection and respects her, and has never blamed her in the slightest, the queen is still uncomfortable in her heart, and blames herself all the time.
Seeing this, the cuttlefish couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to the queen, the taste of being in a high position but difficult to feel at ease must be uncomfortable, she hurriedly comforted, "The queen mother should not be arrogant, everyone in the palace knows your dignified kindness, even if you are sick, you still do not lack the bearing of the mother, besides, you have done your best, even if you can't do everything to the extreme, but you are definitely doing your duty as the queen." β
After hearing this, the queen smiled slightly, and a little approval appeared on her face, "No wonder the emperor told the palace before that Su promised to know how to do things in a certain way, and now I see that this is really the case, and it makes people feel comfortable when they speak." β
The emperor mentioned her extraordinarily, and still praised her? The cuttlefish was somewhat flattered.
"The queen mother, you have won the award, and the concubine is just telling the truth." The cuttlefish looked calm and agreed, and did not take out the fluctuations on the love xΓΉ.
"You don't have to be too modest, the war in the northwest has been tight these days, and the emperor has been anxious about it, and he hasn't asked the concubine to go to the Palace of Nourishing Heart to sleep for a few days, but when the emperor occasionally comes to see the palace, he often mentions you, and intends to let the palace take care of you more." The queen said softly, and her words conveyed a little of the emperor's heart.
Cuttlefish suddenly, no wonder the queen is very attentive to her, it turned out that she was ordered and instructed by the emperor, according to this, the person she should really thank is the emperor.
The queen set her eyes on the cuttlefish, looked at it carefully, and sighed in her heart, it was really a stunner, and her speech and demeanor were not bad, and the emperor's vision was good.
As if thinking of something, a trace of surprise flashed in the queen's expression, and then asked, "By the way, Su promised, you seem to be almost recovered, or the palace will send someone to notify the Jingshifang to rearrange your green head brand, so that you can sleep as usual." β
The cuttlefish hesitated for a moment, and looked at the queen in slight surprise, obviously this question was beyond her expectations, but soon, she put away her abrupt look, struggled in her heart, and declined with little confidence, "The concubine still feels that she has not fully recovered to normal, and she will be dizzy from time to time, otherwise, this matter of sleeping in the dormitory...... Let's not rush yet. β
When the queen heard this, she couldn't force it anymore, so she obeyed the cuttlefish's intention and nodded in response. She was not in good health, and she could not talk to people for a long time, and the cuttlefish could see it, so after the two of them said a few more polite words, the cuttlefish got up and prepared to go back.
This time I came just to express my gratitude, and when the etiquette arrived, there was no need to spend too much time and disturb for a long time.
After returning to Changchun Palace, before the cuttlefish could enter the Chengxi Hall to change clothes, she was stopped by Ruyi, who whispered in her ear and said a long string of words.
The cuttlefish's expression changed drastically, and he couldn't help but immediately ask, "Is there really such a thing?" β
"How can this kind of thing be fake, it is estimated that it will be spread all over the palace in a while, which is strange and scary." Ruyi whispered.
Just now, a great bad thing happened in the harem, and Guo Guiren's dragon seed was unfortunately gone.
Women in the palace often have slippery fetuses or difficult births, which is not a strange news, but what happened to Guo Guiren is unprecedented.
In order to show off the dragon species, Guo Guiren set up a table in the middle of the courtyard of Zhongcui Palace, and deliberately ate without scruples in front of everyone, to show that his dragon heir had also grown in his appetite.
But suddenly, she began to scream, and at the same time rolled her eyes, the palace maids around her were frightened, when she was evil, before she could invite the imperial doctor, Guo Guiren fainted to death.
And the dragon species she had always been proud of was completely lost with her horrific encounter.