Chapter 420: Shadows

In the shadow of the failure of the rebellion between the Duke of Xingguo and the King of Anjun, the King of Yijun was happy and lively, and with the momentum of thunder, he married the third girl Su on the mansion of General Yunlu.

As for why King Yijun chose Miss Su San, others don't know, so they are more and more curious.

Especially when he was in the cave room, King Yijun also shouted that he wanted to withdraw from his relatives, which was even more incredible.

However, he has already worshiped heaven and earth, and since he has become a husband and wife, even if he is unwilling, King Yijun will have to knock out his teeth and swallow blood.

At the banquet, many people heard the regretful and helpless shouts and shouts of King Yijun, and many ministers were secretly refreshed.

The tragic call of King Yijun was drunk, and at the banquet, the chips were staggered, and they were all full of red light.

On this day, Kyoto is lively.

But the next day, Kyoto began to cast a shadow.

The old prince drank the tea of his granddaughter-in-law, and left Beijing with his own guards.

Xingguo Gong conspired to flee to the border in front, and the old prince hurriedly married the king of Yijun, and left Beijing quickly, if it was not a particularly important matter, how could the palace act in such a hurry?

I'm afraid I'm going to go to war.

With the departure of the old prince, a person was panicked.

Moreover, such trepidation is evident.

The price of grain in Kyoto's major grain stores has risen.

On the day that the old prince left Beijing, in the evening, the price of grain rose by 10%.

The next day, less than an hour after the opening of the major grain stores, the price rose by two percent.

The higher the price of grain, the more people will buy it, lest it will continue to rise, and when the time comes, they will buy even less.

The more people who buy, the higher the price of food.

It's a vicious circle.

In addition, there are those who take the opportunity to make a fortune in the country, and if the war breaks out, the price of grain will double, and the more cruel the war, the longer the war is fought, the higher the price of grain, that is, it is possible to quadruple or triple, or even tenfold, at this time, the price of grain is still cheap, and there is silver in hand, so if you don't buy it quickly, you can sell it again, and you can make a lot of money.

On the bustling avenue, a luxurious carriage was parked there, and the curtain embroidered with dark lines was lifted by a slender and boneless hand.

Looking at the congested street in front of him, Lord Ruoyao looked around with a pair of eyes, showing some confusion and curiosity, and asked Wei Chi, "What's going on in front?" ”

Wei Chi sat on the wheel, and when he heard Ruoyao's question, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

is really a prince and county lord who doesn't listen to things outside the window, and the food grabs on the street are like this, she doesn't even know, so she explained two sentences.

Wei Chi drove the carriage, and Qingyun was naturally there.

Princess Ning hoped that the county lord Ruoyao would enter the palace to visit the queen mother, but the county lord Ruoyao struggled for several days before agreeing.

It's just unfortunate that the lord of Linlang County was unwell and couldn't accompany her, so she came to find Qingyun, and it happened that Qingyun didn't enter the palace for several days to greet the queen mother and queen, so she accompanied her.

Lord Ruoyao was cheering, and he was so happy that he couldn't wait to jump three feet high.

With Qingyun here, even if the Queen Mother is not her own grandmother, she is willing to enter the palace, especially when she is still pregnant, Princess Ning does not allow her to mention this matter to Qingyun at all, she is pregnant and only dares to stay in the house, even in bed, to live by herself, and she also feels that Qingyun is safer to stay in the palace, especially when she and the county lord Ruoyao go out, and there has been an accident with the carriage.

But if the lord of Ruoyao County is fast-talking, Princess Ning just gave the order, she turned her face and forgot about it.

Qingyun wanted to enter the palace, Chu Bei did not object, but sent eight secret guards, plus nine guards, to surround the carriage front and back, left and right, it was simply a big cage.

Although Qingyun felt that there was no such need, two or three secret guards were enough, but if she didn't agree, Chu Bei wouldn't allow her to enter the palace.

She had no choice but to compromise.

At this moment, she lifted the curtain, and saw two black-clothed guards riding on horseback in front of the carriage, their backs were straight, and they did not move at all, if it weren't for the horse's impatient tail flicking, she would have thought that the reason why the carriage stopped was because these two large sculptures were standing there.

After looking at it for a while, Qingyun's brows furrowed, "How long will it take to pass?" ”

Wei Chi stood aside and said, "I'm afraid there are still many shops in Kyoto like this, which are blocked by people, and there are not enough officers and soldiers patrolling the city. ”

Wei Chi looked at Qingyun and said, and seeing that she didn't object, he asked the dark guard to open the way.

Under normal circumstances, Qingyun did not approve of them using the privileges of the royal palace to force the people to give way.

But with the exception of buying food, she did not want to see people looting food and driving up the price of food.

The name of King Chen's Mansion is very effective, as soon as the dark guard comes out, the crowded street is stunned to squeeze out a lane.

However, this paragraph passed, and after a while, it was blocked again.

Food, clothing, shelter and transportation, this food is the most important.

On a street, there are four or five grain shops, so they stop and go, and the ordinary road of a quarter of an hour is twice as long as walking.

Lord Ruoyao lifted the curtain and looked out the window, she looked at Qingyun and said, "It's the first time I've encountered such a situation, it takes a long time to fight, will it be like this in Kyoto in the future?" ”

Qingyun shook her head lightly and said, "I don't know either." ”

Lord Ruoyao stuck out her tongue lightly, Qingyun was not much older than her, she hadn't seen it, Qingyun naturally hadn't seen it, how could she just ask a stupid thing.

Looking at the majestic palace gate, Ruoyao's mind turned away.

After a while, when she saw the Queen Mother, what did she want to say, should she mention her father, but after mentioning her father, what could she say to the Queen Mother?

In normal times, she just needs to ask for peace, but she is here to please the Queen Mother, and she has to take the initiative to speak.

But she is not familiar with the Queen Mother, and she doesn't know what the Queen Mother likes.

Before the county lord Ruoyao could think about what to talk about with the queen mother, the carriage stopped.

It's just that she was thinking about it, Qingyun called her to get out of the car, and she was stunned for a moment, "Arrived so soon?" ”

Qingyun knew that she was wandering, she didn't know, and asked with a smile, "What are you thinking just now, thinking so much?" ”

Lord Ruoyao looked at Qingyun and said a little embarrassed, "Sister Qingyun, if I say something I shouldn't say in a while, you have to stop me." ”

Qingyun smiled and said, "You don't have to be too nervous, there's nothing you can't say." ”

"Really, really?" Lord Ruoyao's eyes were shining, revealing a touch of joy.

The mother concubine was worried that she would say the wrong thing in front of the queen mother, she wanted to know what she couldn't say, and the mother shook her head and said she didn't know, so she looked at the queen mother's face and spoke.

Where does she know how to read people's faces?

It was precisely because she was afraid of saying the wrong thing that she didn't want to come, thinking that Qingyun said that she could talk casually, she was naturally happy.

Qingyun smiled and nodded.

Whatever she said, Lord Ruoyao believed it, and the worries and entanglements before this were swept away.

After the maid helped Qingyun get out of the carriage, she also came down.

With his father-in-law leading the way in front, the two walked towards Yongning Palace.

As soon as the two of them walked to Yongning Palace, they saw the maid leading a imperial doctor over.

The clothes worn by the imperial physician are still a little familiar, different from ordinary imperial doctors, like those worn by the envoys of the Zhao Academy.

Could it be that this is the royal envoy who has not been in office for two days?

Seeing Qingyun, the royal envoy hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully greeted her and the lord of Ruoyao.

He was able to take over the post of court envoy thanks to Princess Chen.

The envoy of the Zhao Yuan knew that Concubine Ning was pregnant before entering the palace, and concealed it and did not report it, which was to help the abuse.

Although in the end, he told everything he knew, and made a great contribution to the matter of Xingguo Gong forcing the emperor to take the throne, plus Qingyun promised him that he would spare his life.

After forcing the palace, the emperor summoned him again, asked about the affairs of the year, and then fined him 30 boards, demoted him by two levels, and fined him for three years.

This kind of punishment is no longer a punishment for Zhao Yuan's envoy.

After inviting An, the royal envoy looked at the father-in-law who led the way, although he was the envoy of the hospital, but when it came to medical skills, Princess Chen threw him several streets, with her, where do you need him to treat the queen mother, isn't this an axe?

Moreover, the treatment in the palace is different from that outside the uterus, everything does not seek merit, but seeks no fault, and sometimes the medication will be subconsciously lighter...... In Princess Chen's opinion, this is probably a quack.

That's going to affect your career.

He didn't want to see the Queen Mother in front of Qingyun, but he wanted to get aside and see how Qingyun treated the Queen Mother, so that he could steal the teacher from the side.

Qingyun didn't know what the royal envoy was thinking, and the county lord Ruoyao pulled her away.

Although Qingyun's medical skills are good, it doesn't take much to treat people, but it is not her obligation to see the head of the palace, it is all within the responsibility of the imperial doctor.

The royal envoy followed behind Qingyun.

From a distance, I heard Mama Ji urging, "Is the imperial doctor here, why are you so rubbing?" ”

A maid replied, "I've already gone to invite, and I'll be here soon." ”

And then it was, "Here, Mama Ji, the imperial doctor is already here!" ”

"Princess Chen is also here!"

Mama Ji was about to turn around and go back, but when she heard the maid say that Princess Chen was coming, she paused and turned around again.

She walked over quickly, and when she saw Lord Ruoyao, her eyes lit up by three points, and she hurried over to greet Qingyun and Lord Ruoyao.

Without waiting for her to be blessed, Qingyun helped her up and said with a smile, "Mama is very polite." ”

Mama Ji's eyes were red.

How can she be polite, saluting Princess Chen is what she should do, and she exposed Concubine Ning's conspiracy and resolved the enmity between the Queen Mother and the emperor, she just knelt down and kowtowed to her hundreds of times, and she was willing.

What's more, she has an old problem of knee pain, and the Queen Mother is kind, and she has also taken a lot of medicines prescribed by the imperial doctor, but they have no effect.

But some time ago, when Princess Chen entered the palace, she asked the maid to give her a few patches of medicine and prescriptions.

After she took it, although the problem of leg pain was not cured, it was much better, and she felt that she could live a few more years.

I didn't know how to thank Qingyun for being good, so I heard Qingyun ask, "Just now I heard that Mama was in a hurry to find the imperial doctor, is the queen mother's illness very strict?" ”

After Qingyun asked, she was puzzled when she saw Mama Ji's face happy, she asked the queen mother's illness, what was she happy about?

How did Qingyun know that Mama Ji had long wanted to find her to treat the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother didn't allow her to invite, and whoever dared to make decisions without permission, she would be punished heavily.

Mama Ji knew that the Queen Mother was stubborn and did not dare to disobey.

At this time, Qingyun took the initiative to ask, then she said that it was not considered disobedient to the Queen Mother, she hurriedly said, "Since the rebellion of the Emperor Xingguo, until now, the Queen Mother has not laughed, and she has eaten less, where can her body stand it, plus last night, the Queen Mother had a nightmare again, muddy nightmare, one night, the slave maid did not know if she fell asleep later, from the morning to the present, the rice has not entered, persuade her to eat, she only said that she is not hungry, the slave and maid have no rut, so she can only ask the imperial doctor to come to ......." ”

"Nightmares? The Queen Mother has a nightmare? What nightmare did she have? Does she have a fever? "Lord Ruoyao popped up several questions in a row.

Mama Ji was both relieved and sad when she heard it.

How good it would be if she asked in front of the Queen Mother, these days, the emperor and the eldest princess are cold to the Queen Mother, ignoring them, she can see that the Queen Mother is uncomfortable, and the Queen Mother hopes that someone will come to see her, even if it is just to blame her, but there is no concern, no blame, as if she has forgotten.

It is more cruel to be forgotten than to be hated.

Looking at the worry in the eyes of the county lord Ruoyao, Mama Ji was happy for the queen mother, even the county lord Ruoyao cared about her, how could the emperor and the eldest princess not care.

It's just that she can't answer Monarch Ruoyao's words.

The Queen Mother had a nightmare, and the dream was that King Ning was held hostage by the Northern Jin Dynasty, and when she said it, didn't she add another person to worry about?

She could only pick the answer that she could answer, "The Queen Mother had nightmares, but she didn't have a fever." ”

Lord Ruoyao was a little relieved, and said with a look of experience and experience, "It's good that you don't have a fever." ”

Qingyun smiled when she heard it.

Mama Ji led the two into the palace to greet the Queen Mother.

To be honest, when she saw the Queen Mother, Qingyun was taken aback.

The county lord of Ruoyao was almost frightened.

If they didn't know that this was the Queen Mother's dormitory, they couldn't believe that the person in front of them who was pale, had weak eyes, and most of the gray hair was the Queen Mother they knew.

The well-maintained, not at all like the skin of a person in his fifties, seems to have disappeared in a few days, and the skin of an ordinary old lady has changed, dull, saggy, and without any brilliance.

No matter how you look for it, you won't see a little majesty of the emperor and queen.

and the Queen Mother in the impression, it is like two people.

Qingyun sighed in her heart.

These days, the Queen Mother has tortured herself enough.

She didn't even torture herself, and Concubine Ning's fate can be imagined.

Looking at the surprise in the eyes of Qingyun and Ruoyao County, Mama Ji's nose was very sore, and her tears seemed to be uncontrollable, she didn't want the Queen Mother to become like this, but the Queen Mother didn't listen, she had nothing to do.

Endured the heartache and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, Mama Ji walked over and called softly, "Queen Mother, Princess Chen and Lord Ruoyao have come to see you." ”

The Queen Mother looked over.

Facing the sunlight, she saw several hazy figures, swaying, and then overlapping.

It took her a while before she could see clearly which was Qingyun and which was Ruoyao.

Seeing the Queen Mother close her eyes tightly, and then open them again, and repeat this three times, the corners of her mouth gradually opened a smile of relief with bitterness.

When Qingyun saw it, her heart skipped a beat.

Dowager...... You don't want to go blind, do you?

ps: Tomorrow will be restored...... (To be continued.) )