Ezakura has been living a fulfilling life lately.

A Jiang Chun opened a branch on Mingsi Street, the most popular street in the east of the city, and as the heir to the mantle of the Jiang family, she naturally had to participate in the preparatory work before that, from the location of the restaurant to the decoration style, to the statistics of the dishes, and the opening of the new store, there must always be some eye-catching highlights, so she ran to the kitchen a lot, just to produce more distinctive new dishes.

Although she was a little tired, Jiang Ying was very happy.

When people are idle, they will be sentimental, and when they are really busy, they will not have time to think about it.

Even the sense of steadiness brought by busyness is more reassuring.

I do what I like, and my life is as if it was the same as before.

Four days ago, the restaurant was officially opened, and it was handed over to Fang Da to take care of, and he has accumulated a lot of experience and is already in good order.

Jiang Ying went to see it a few times, and business was very good.

Seeing that Fang Da had been praised by everyone over and over again, Fang Er was a little unconvinced, so he took care of his old store more carefully.

This hard work to strive for the top made Jiang Ying, the upright shopkeeper, a little ashamed.

can hand over the restaurant to the two brothers, and they can't help but feel more at ease.

After all, restaurant management requires some talent, and what she is good at is actually just cooking.

Since Fang Dafang Er has this ambition, then let them show it, she just needs to think of a few new dishes and hand them over to the restaurant.

Jiang Ying, who is happy, has not been idle recently.

When Jiang Lang was free, she would pester him to take her around. Taste the food and see the scenery.

If life really has an expiration date, she doesn't want to be locked up within the courtyard wall in the last days, it will make people unconsciously become depressed.

Jiang Lang was very happy, so he took the opportunity to take her to a lot of places where he had been together when he was a child, and took her and Dongzhu City to play outside the city, yesterday it was bright and sunny to go to Jinding Mountain to ring the bell, today the weather is cold and freezing to go to the Hujin River ice fishing, tomorrow the rain is heavy, simply go to the most famous West Wing in the city to listen to the play and eat tea.

Jiang Lang didn't know that his sister's body was getting worse day by day, and he saw that she was pitiful and thin. When eating, I always pick up points with high nutritional value. The braised pork was sandwiched into her bowl piece by piece.

After more than ten days, Jiang Ying was really fattened by him.

Zhuang saw that he was somewhat relieved.

On this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful. Jiang Lang stayed in the restaurant to deal with some official business.

Because Jiang Ying and Dongzhu were in the palace last time. promised the queen mother to enter the palace today to enjoy the plum.

Finish breakfast early in the morning. After Jiang Ying packed up, she set off in a carriage.

When the carriage just left the elm alley, there were already distinguished guests in the Weiyang Palace.

Jin Qingyun, who has not been in court for a long time. I entered the palace early this day, summoned the ministers on behalf of the emperor in the imperial study, and roughly discussed the current situation.

There is obviously only one theme: the ambition of the Han family's wolf, and he will not cry when he sees the coffin, and the only way to get rid of it is to prevent future troubles.

So who's going to do this?

In the whole world, he is the only one who has this ability.

Entering the palace this time, to put it bluntly, is just a further self-whitewashing, so that the whole world knows that they are forced to send troops by the Jin family, they are different from the Han family, they only put the people of the world first.

Jin Qingyun, who had just dealt with the funeral in the house, was not easy to cheer up and go through such a journey.

But there is no way, except for him, no one in the Jin family will do these things.

Anyone in the world can fall, but he can't.

Before all this is really over-

Jin Qingyun, who was helped out of the imperial study by the personal servant, coughed again, and every time he coughed, his heart and lungs seemed to be shaken and hurt.

He knew very well that his body was really not going to get better this time.

How many days he will live, he is not sure.

After he barely stopped coughing, the servant slowly helped him to the front of the sedan chair.

The sedan curtain was raised, Jin Qingyun bent down, one foot was just about to step in, and after hesitating for a moment, he took it back.

"Jin Gong?" Seeing that he was not moving, the servant shouted tentatively.

Jin Qingyun barely straightened up.

"Go to the Queen Mother's Palace." He said.

……

The tea is fragrant and refreshing.

If you sniff it, you will know that it is the best Ming Qian tea.

And the two people sitting opposite each other didn't have the heart to savor it.

"I thought that Gong Jin would never come to see me."

"You and I would like to see you." Jin Qingyun's eyes turned cold inch by inch, and he sneered: "I just want to ask you face to face, why are you still alive?" ”

The queen had a calm face, and the thick eyelashes above her closed eyes fluttered slightly.

"After killing my two sons one after another, why are you still alive with peace of mind!" Jin Qingyun's voice sank suddenly, and he gritted his teeth, as if he hated the person in front of him.

"Why should Duke Jin deceive himself. Even without me, I'm afraid I won't be able to change anything. She smiled suddenly, and said, "Maybe the only thing that can change is the result of the palace change last month, but people are watching the sky, and I believe that God will never let go of that devil with blood on his hands." ”

"Sure enough, you lit the gunpowder!"

"What about me? Jin Gong came here today, did he want to seal something, or did he want my life? ”

"You should have died a long time ago! If you live one more day, it will be a shame for the Jin family-"

He changed his identity and hid in this filthy deep palace!

"But I survived, and avenged my husband with my own hands. I couldn't die before, but now, I don't want to die. ”

After this incident, she realized that there were many things in this world that were worthy of her nostalgia.

At the very least, she had to see her children in person.

Look at what he's grown up to be over the years, whether he's more like her or more like his father.

"Don't want to die? You're what you look like now. Do you dare to have delusions? Do you want to go back to the Jin family and let him recognize you as a mother! Jin Qingyun secretly clenched his fists in his sleeves and said, "I'll tell you, you don't want to think about it." ”

"It seems that my son is very competitive, and he actually impressed the Duke of Jin."

Jin Qingyun exuded coldness and stared at her tightly, "You have already destroyed my son, do you still want to destroy my only grandson?" ”

"Duke Jin still wants my life, just like he did many years ago." She didn't know what she thought, and a very shallow smile appeared on her face: "But there was Ah Chu protecting me at that time." Jin Gong cares about the relationship between father and son. endured it and let me enter the Jin family under her name. Therefore, when Jin Gong learned that I died in childbirth, he should be very relieved. But you certainly didn't expect that after I left. Ah Chu also did not live long. ”

Jin Qingyun's fists tightened more and more in his sleeves. The cheeks of the dead tree twitched slightly.

"Jin Gong never dreamed of it. Your beloved son has left you, but I, whom you hate the most, are still alive and well. ”

She reached out and fumbled for the teacup in front of her. Holding it lightly in his hand, he continued: "Did you come to ask me how Ah Chu went?" But I don't know. Over the years, I have been thinking about it day and night, but I can't think of anything but hate. I can't get out of this deep palace, so I have to wait. For the first few years, I couldn't even survive. ”

"Over the years, no one has had a hard time."

"But now I don't complain, Jin Gong is old, don't complain anymore."

She hadn't said so much in years.

Jin Qingyun's eyes were flushed, and his eyes were wide with emotions fluctuating violently.

Resentment, anger, powerlessness, and more often than not, self-blame.

How could he not complain!

But who can he blame?

But in the final analysis, all of this is caused by himself!

He hated the domineering and arrogant wife of his wife, and had true feelings for the maid in the house who grew up together, and after she conceived his child, he had no way to keep the child he should not have, otherwise he would not be able to inherit the position of the head of the family - but the child survived in the end, and under the means of the Gu family, who had no children for many years, he left the son to his mother and supported him as the eldest son.

But then, Gu became pregnant and had a son.

He was unaware of all this, and he was actually the eldest son of the maid who loved him wholeheartedly, and he couldn't wait to give him the whole world.

He didn't know that the second son, who had always been ignored by him and seemed cowardly and incompetent, had secretly bred such a terrible heart!

It was only at this time that he dared to admit that he had been kept in the dark all these years was the initiator of all this.

If it weren't for his partiality, if it weren't for his ignorance, one tragedy after another would not have happened at all.

He thinks he's smart and has everything in his hands, but in the end he's the stupidest and most self-righteous of all.

Looking back on most of my life now, I only feel that there is no one who is not heartbreaking, and there is no one who does not regret not being at the beginning.

And now it's too late......

In this life, life is like a nightmare.

The two sat opposite each other for a long time, evoking countless old things, and their hearts were not calm.

As she just said, no one has had a hard time over the years.

The daylight outside the hall is getting stronger, and through the hollow window, it is sprinkled on the tea case, and it is mottled and bright.

"I can not kill you, but today...... I want you to promise me one thing. ”

"Jin Gong, please rest assured, I am his biological mother, and I look forward to him better than you."

“……”

……

When Jiang Ying and Dongzhu came to the Empress Dowager's palace, she was sitting under the window, bathing in the sunlight leaking in from the wide open window.

Hearing the footsteps, she turned her head, smiled slightly, and said, "It's early today, can you have breakfast?" ”

As he spoke, before Jiang Ying and Dongzhu could answer, they asked Xin'er to serve tea with snacks.

"It's okay to eat, my stomach should be empty all the way, there are a few new snacks in the imperial meal, you can taste it to your appetite - after tasting the pastries, it's not too late to go to the imperial garden to enjoy the plum blossoms."

Dongzhu didn't see it at all, and smiled and said yes.

Jiang Ying sensed the difference between the Queen Mother today.

I seem to be happier than ever.

This happiness seems to be a relief from the bones.

Jiang Ying, who has been secretly observing people recently, feels that she should not be wrong.

Although this doesn't prove anything, it still doesn't prevent her from working hard for her own investigation cause silently......

"Where's Sakura? Why don't you speak? The Queen Mother, who had been chatting with Dongzhu for a while, couldn't hear Jiang Ying's voice, and said loudly: "Come and sit here with me." ”

Jiang Ying walked over as she said, and then she gathered her thoughts of wandering outside the world, and asked without a trace: "The Queen Mother seems to be particularly happy today, is there any happy event in the palace?" ”

"What other happy events can there be in this palace." The Queen Mother said with a smile: "It's just some things that were pressed on my heart many years ago, and I suddenly figured it out and let it go, and I felt that my life was easier than before." ”

Jiang Ying thought about the meaning of these words, quietly listened to the Queen Mother talk about her feelings about life, and looked at the extraordinarily calm face in front of her, only to feel that she seemed to be getting closer and closer to the truth.

In the past, before I had that idea, I didn't think there was anything, but since I had it, I have gradually felt that there is indeed a slight similarity between the eyebrows of the two.

"It's too late to prepare today, and I'll pick a warm day in the coming day, I want to go out of the palace for a walk, would you like to accompany me?"

"The Queen Mother wants to go out of the palace to relax?" Dongzhu looked a little excited, and said: "These days, I have been running outside the city with Ah Ying, we have been to all interesting places, where is Niangniang going, just tell us, let us lead the way?" ”

Her affection for this gentle and considerate Queen Mother, who looked like her late aunt, grew stronger day by day.

"That's great." After listening to Dongzhu's words, the Queen Mother nodded lightly.

"That being the case, that's it!" Dongzhu grinned, extremely happy.

Jiang Ying also smiled slightly, but what she and Dongzhu thought in their hearts were completely different.

After going to the imperial garden to enjoy the plums, staying in the palace for lunch, and sitting for a while, Jiang Ying said goodbye to Dongzhu and left the palace.

"I see you've been in a daze for most of the day, what are you thinking?" In the carriage, Dongzhu said.

Confused?

She's obviously thinking about it, okay?

These two meanings are very far apart.

Jiang Ying twitched the corners of her mouth, and did not make an excuse, only pretending to ask casually: "Are you women in Xiling Kingdom all blue-eyed and deep-eyed and high-nosed bridges?" ”

Such a thick exotic silhouette is far from the Central Plains people.

But she looked at the Queen Mother, although her facial features were much more three-dimensional than ordinary women, they were not as obvious as Dongzhu.

Dongzhu didn't know why she suddenly asked about this, but she still replied: "It's not all, I heard my father say that before your Central Plains was not the Yin family as the emperor, the contacts with Xiling were very close, and intermarriage between the two countries was also very common - so among our Xiling people, there are also Central Plains appearances, such as my cousin, isn't it?" ”

Jiang Ying frowned: "Your cousin should be from the Central Plains who looks more Western, right?" ”

"Is there a distinction?" Dongzhu rolled her eyes, "Anyway, after the bloodline is confused, the characteristics will not be so obvious." ”

Jiang Ying felt as if her center of gravity would be crooked as soon as it involved her eldest brother Jin.

Ahem. (To be continued.) )