After touching a stick of incense, Zeng Rong entered the gate of Cining Palace.

At that time, Cining Palace was also passing the meal, and four or five palace maids were shuttling endlessly, but the entire Cining Palace was silent, and everyone held their breath, seeing Zeng Rong, the eunuch at the door did not wait for Zeng Rong to speak, and hurriedly turned around and went in to pass the word.

Soon, Zeng Rong knew the reason.

The Queen Mother is angry, and she is angry.

When Zeng Rong entered, Amei was kneeling on the ground, with red eyes and pursed her lips, not daring to make a sound, let alone arguing, only glancing at Zeng Rong with watery eyes.

Although Zeng Rong knew that the wisest thing to do at this time was to retreat, but it was about Amei, and she couldn't see death without help.

"The lower official saw the queen mother, back to the queen mother, the emperor ordered the lower official to pass the word, the emperor swallowed today has returned to normal, saying that the two dishes given by the queen mother yesterday are very suitable for his heart, and today he specially sent the lower official to send two dishes back to the queen mother to show filial piety." Zeng Rong first expressed his intentions, hoping that the emperor's move would slowly ease the anger of the queen mother.

Sure enough, the Queen Mother's face softened slightly when she heard this, "It's hard for him to have a heart, send it up." ”

Zeng Rong brought the food box to the edge of the kang, handed it to Xu Minhui, who was setting the meal, took two steps back, and watched Xu Minhui bring out the dishes, one was steamed anchovies, the other was matsutake mountain chicken soup, the queen mother looked at these two dishes, and said: "This matsutake mountain chicken soup is left, and the steamed anchovy is sent to Zhu Heng." ”

Xu Minhui listened to the steamed anchovy and put it back in the food box, and the Queen Mother looked at the dozen or so dishes on the kang table again, and ordered her to put a lion's mane mushroom roast skirt in it.

After the palace maid covered the food box, the queen mother suddenly said to Zeng Rong: "Ah Rong, Zhu Heng, this child knows that the emperor is the imperial doctor, and he is very worried, he originally wanted to visit in person, but he has not been in good health for the past two days, and the imperial doctor said that he was too worried and depressed, just when you came, go and help him solve the problem, and say that the emperor is fine." ”

"I" Zeng Rong was stunned.

She instinctively didn't believe it, Zhu Heng had always been not close to the emperor, how could he be depressed for the emperor, not to mention, the emperor was just stuck by a fish bone, and he couldn't be sick at all.

Therefore, I am afraid that what really makes Zhu Heng worry too much is that there is another person, and it is not even her, so the Queen Mother will find a high-sounding statement for her in front of so many palace maids and eunuchs.

Thinking of Amei's punishment of kneeling, Zeng Rong guessed that most of the time she was punished for kneeling in Yaohua Palace yesterday was known to Zhu Heng, but the problem is that she really didn't mean that to Zhu Heng.

But the queen mother's will, she can't help but listen, not to mention, there is also a Mei involved.

"Back to the Queen Mother, Xia Guan and His Royal Highness are not very familiar with each other, and I am afraid that I will say the wrong thing and bump into him if I go over so rashly. The lower official dared to beg the queen mother to be gracious, and allowed Sister Amei to accompany the lower official to go over, and Sister Amei took care of it, and even if the lower official made a mistake, someone would help him mention a point or two. Zeng Rong knelt down and prayed.

When the Queen Mother heard Zeng Rong's first two words, she thought she wanted to refuse, but when she was about to get angry, Zeng Rong turned around, and turned around quite skillfully, not only pleading for Yu Mei, but also avoiding suspicion for herself.

It's just that it's so easy to let go of Mei, the Queen Mother is a little unwilling, worried that the punishment effect will not be achieved The other party will do it again next time, and when she was hesitating, she saw Zeng Rong and said: "The Empress Dowager, the lower officials don't know what mistakes Sister Amei made, and she shouldn't have interceded for her, so it's better to be like this, the lower officials are bold, ask the Queen Mother to be gracious, borrow Sister Amei for an hour, and after an hour, the lower officials will return Sister Amei, and how to deal with it when the time comes." ”

"Well, let her take you." The Queen Mother was moved by Zeng Rong's words.

This kid is really smart, he can always leave room for others when he talks and does things, not only does not hurt the other party's face, but also can easily resolve the conflict.

"Thank you Queen Mother for your kindness." Zeng Rong got up to help Amei, Amei glanced at the Queen Mother timidly, and saw that the other party did not object, so she followed Zeng Rong to stand up.

Zeng Rong took the food box from Xu Minhui's hand, pushed Amei out, because the eunuchs and palace maids in the house continued, the two didn't say anything, Amei led Zeng Rong through the back door of Cining Palace into the apse, the apse was quiet, out of the apse door, is a two-zhang long road, at the end of the road, is a small and small five upper rooms, two eunuchs are standing under the corridor waiting.

Before Zeng Rong and Amei approached, one of the eunuchs greeted him, "Your Royal Highness has an order, don't see anyone, Miss Amei, don't embarrass us." ”

Zeng Rong recognized this person as Xiao Haizi, who had sent her back to the Shanggong Bureau when she got lost last time, and said: "Brother Haizi, it's me, I just came from the emperor's side, and the queen mother said that His Royal Highness was worried about the emperor, and specially ordered me to solve it." ”

"You, you are, you are Miss Zeng" Xiao Haizi recognized Zeng Rong.

"It's me, I bother you to report to His Royal Highness, and the Queen Mother also ordered me to send two dishes to His Royal Highness." Zeng Rong deliberately amplified his voice slightly.

Unfortunately, the door on the other side of the corridor didn't move.

Xiao Haizi glanced back, hesitated, ran over, stood at the door and replied, Zeng Rong only heard Xiao Haizi communicating for her, but did not hear Zhu Heng's movement, but he saw Xiao Haizi pushing the door in.

After waiting for almost a stick of incense, Xiao Haizi ran out and said that His Royal Highness had an invitation.

Zeng Rong took a few steps forward with the food box before finding that Amei stopped in place, and gestured with his eyes, Amei shook his head.

Zeng Rong hesitated for a moment and continued to walk forward, it was all here, and she had no way out.

Lifting the curtain, Zeng Rong stood in the hall for a while to adjust to the light in the room, only to find that Zhu Heng was not staying in the hall, and was thinking about whether to go to the east room or the west room first, when he saw a voice coming from the west room, "Come in." ”

Immediately afterwards, the curtain of the west room was lifted, revealing Zhu Heng's figure, naturally sitting in a wheelchair.

Zeng Rong carried the food box into the west room, the west room was obviously much brighter than the hall house, because there were large windows on the north and south walls, so Zeng Rong could see at a glance that this room was specially prepared for Zhu Heng.

Whether it is the large desk in the middle of the room, the built-in bookshelf that can be reached on the wall, the piano stand and chessboard under the north windowsill, and even the Luohan Collapse and Gaoji under the south wall, they are all built according to the height of a wheelchair.

Seeing Zeng Rong standing at the door looking at the things in the house, Zhu Hengwen smiled and said, "This is specially ordered by the Queen Mother to be built for me, I am used to it, and I can take care of myself without being served." ”

"Is it really used to it" Zeng Rong looked at the books on the desk and the half-written text panel, and it was easy to think of the lonely times he spent alone guarding a room, not a day or two, not a year or two, but ten years, and even twenty Chinese New Year's Eve or even longer.

A faint sourness crawled through Zeng Rong's heart and slowly rose.