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Cixi woke up in shock.

In the bedroom, it was extremely quiet, and it seemed that a needle could be heard if it had fallen on the thick carpet.

She listened closely, and there was no movement next door—the junior officer and the nurse next door—but there was no movement.

The entire Guangang Palace is sleeping.

Well...... I'm being struck again.

Cixi smiled slightly bitterly: Is it too much of a concern? Still is...... Is it true that as Kusumoto said, I have a little ...... "nervous breakdown"?

The "pounding" heartbeat finally calmed down slowly.

However, he was already sleepy.

Cixi closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep again, and after a long while, she finally determined: she couldn't sleep.

She lifted the covers, sat up, took a nap, got up, got out of bed, and put on her nightgown.

Barefoot, he walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass window, pulled the curtain rope, and opened the long curtain.

The moon shines like water, flowing down from head to toe through the spotless glass windows.

Cixi removed the door buckle and pushed the door open.

A burst of extremely clear air rolled in, and she couldn't help but shiver slightly, and a layer of fine tremors rose up and down her body.

Cixi wrapped her velvet nightgown tightly while taking a deep breath greedily.

After a while, I felt clear-headed, stretched out a snow-white bare foot, stepped on the ground outside the door, and stepped on it carefully, and couldn't help but gasp.

The marble floor of the terrace, it was so cold.

It's autumn, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is not small.

Cixi put on her slippers, buttoned the nightgown, and tied her belt, and then walked out of the bed and onto the terrace.

The terrace is extremely large, with three desks, one large and two small, and three "sofa chairs", one long and two short, but only occupy one of the corners.

Cixi did not sit down, she walked to the edge of the terrace, held the white marble railing, and raised her head.

A round of jade plates, hanging in the air, a huge garden, grass and tree pavilions, "water law" statues, vivid, clear as day.

Beyond the wall, the lake is hazy and sparkling.

Looking farther away, the heavy night curtain hangs down to the ground, and all the scenery is not very discerning.

Cixi had an illusion: where she was located, it was like an isolated island, surrounded by the ocean, and although it was calm at the moment, she didn't know if there would be waves after dawn.

The moonlight sprinkled on her smooth and fair face, floating with an inexplicable faint brilliance, and her plump face after giving birth was still gorgeous and incomprehensible.

It's just that the eyebrows are slightly frowned, and between the mountains, dark clouds loom.

She stretched out her hand, and under the moonlight, the soft palm seemed to be swaying.

Gently shake the palm of your hand, and on the ground, the shadow moves with the person.

Flowing water, unpredictable, unpredictable.

She withdrew her hand and let out a long, silent breath.

*

Yesterday afternoon, Hu came to say goodbye, and when he entered the door, he was full of smiles, and Cixi knew at a glance that this woman must be "something".

Hu Shi saluted, and after getting up, Lang Lang said: "The Queen Mother of Qi, the slave maid just got an excellent news, and hurried over to give it back to the Queen Mother - Prince Xuan Ming'er is coming to Tianjin!" ”

Cixi's phoenix eyes suddenly let out a light: "Oh? ”

Nan Bendao, who was sitting on the side, stood up, was deeply blessed, and said happily: "The concubine congratulates the Queen Mother!" ”

Yu'er, who was standing, also asked Xia An with a smile on her face: "The slave and maid give the master a blessing!" ”

Nan Bendao's current identity is no longer a "people's daughter", Cixi named her a "court doctor Gongren", which is from the wife of the four-rank official, although Nan Bendao does not have a husband, it is also true. It's just that this grace can only be verbal for the time being, and it can't just pass the clear path - during the "silent prayer" of the Queen Mother, there is really no reason to canonize a Japanese woman who has not yet been naturalized.

Cixi promised that as soon as she returned to Beijing after the one-year period of "silent meditation" was over, she would instruct the Ministry of Rites to officially handle the relevant formalities for her.

For this "court doctor Gongren", Nan Bendao was very confused, resigned a few times, did not know the essentials, had to ask Xuan Wang Ye for instructions, Xuan Wang Ye's reply was: This is a good thing, it deserves to be shared, why resign?

As a result, Nanmoto Dao became a "courtly doctor".

Although Cixi tried her best to suppress her excitement, the joy on her face was difficult to hide, she smiled at Nan Bendao and Yu'er, raised her hand falsely, signaled them to get up, and then, turned her head and said to Hu: "Ming'er? Well, what time will you come to us? ”

The tone was calm, but the tone was a little trembling.

"Back to the Queen Mother, it's about noon."

Cixi's eyebrows raised slightly: "He wants to ...... Overnight? ”

I thought, in such a hurry, is there something urgent here in Tianjin? Or are you rushing back to Beijing? - If so, he will not stay long in the Guangang Palace.

"Back to the Queen Mother," Hu said, "the steamer from Tianjin to Beijing has been opened, and the prince Xuan came to Tianjin, taking the steamer car, if it is fast, it can arrive in one and a half hours, and if it is slow, it will not exceed two hours, and it will leave early in the morning, and it will be able to arrive in Tianjin at noon, without having to rush overnight." ”

Cixi showed a surprised look: "The 'Beijing-Tianjin Line' is open to traffic?" ”

"Yes."

"It's so fast—I don't know!"

After that, she turned to Nan Bendao and Yu'er, and said self-deprecatingly: "You see, I have really become a person in the Peach Blossom Garden, 'I don't know if there is a Han, no matter Wei and Jin'!" ”

Nan Bendao said with a smile: "The concubine thinks that this 'Beijing-Tianjin line' has just been opened, and it is too late to return to the Queen Mother to know." ”

"Yes," Hu said, "what Mr. Kusumoto said is not bad at all, the 'Beijing-Tianjin Line' has indeed just been opened, and it has not yet been officially opened to the public...... This, 'Operation'! It was Prince Xuan's visit to Tianjin this time, and it was also the first time that the 'Beijing-Tianjin Line' had been sent on an envoy outside of military affairs! ”

"You say-" Cixi's eyebrows raised slightly, "This is the first time that the 'Beijing-Tianjin Line' has been sent on an errand outside of military affairs?" ”

"yes."

"That is to say," said Cixi, "although the 'Beijing-Tianjin Line' has not yet been officially 'operated', but, before that, it had also been a serious envoy - all of them were military affairs, right?" ”

"Uh...... Be. ”

"Military affairs - it's just transporting troops, right?"

"Uh...... It's ......"

"Transporting troops - from where and where? Shipping from Beijing to Tianjin, or from Tianjin to Beijing? ”

Hu Shi didn't expect that a small loophole in his words would be firmly caught by the Queen Mother as soon as she showed up, but the Queen Mother's acuity, she was not the first time she had learned it, and she had already had a way to deal with it.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words," Hu said calmly, "this, where do the slaves and maids know?" I know that at the railway station in Tianjin, there are teams of soldiers, coming and going -- this, uh, if it's not transporting troops, what are these soldiers going to do in the train station? ”

"These soldiers," Cixi said, "are naturally all Xuan troops?" ”

"Well, back to the Queen Mother, the slave doesn't know, but it should be ...... Right? ”

"This is strange," Cixi said in a deep voice, "what will happen to the two places of Beijing and Tianjin?" ”

"This matter," Hu said with a smile, "why bother the Queen Mother? Anyway, Prince Xuan will arrive tomorrow, and the Queen Mother will ask him in person, won't everything be clear? ”

That said, it makes sense.

Cixi nodded and said, "However, when he came this time, what is the name of a 'mission outside the military'?" Didn't he come to Tianjin in the name of 'checking military affairs'? ”

"Uh...... No. ”

"Then—" Cixi wondered slightly, "under what name?"

"Back to the Empress Dowager," Hu said cautiously, "The telegram said that Prince Xuan went out to visit Tianjin with his mother and Empress Dowager......

"What?!"

Before Hu's words were finished, Cixi's face had changed.

Nan Bendao and Yu'er were also stunned.

"The Queen Mother?" Cixi's voice was obviously lowered, "What are you talking about...... The Queen Mother? Did I hear me right? ”

"Back to the Queen Mother," Hu Shi became more and more careful, "That's what the telegram said. ”

After a pause, "Well, the telegram also said...... 'Seven Blessings Jin Attendant'." ”

Seven Blessings?

"King Fujin of the Alcohol Monarch?"

"Uh, back to the Queen Mother, what the telegram said was ...... 'Seven Blessings'."

*(To be continued.) )