"Alas", Xiaoyi let out a long sigh, rubbed his cheeks with his hands and slowly raised his head, covering his palms over his face.

"Let's not say anything about each other. It's not like a cold wind and cold that you have half your life, and you can't get out of bed for half a year. Coming back from the North, we're both dead—"

Xiaoyi let go of his palm, his eyes were still red in the dim candlelight, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken on his cheeks, like moving skeletons in the shadows.

"I couldn't sleep all night, and when I closed my eyes, I saw them! The young marshal was covered in blood, and Ah Duan's body was full of twenty-seven arrows, and they were flesh and blood, why wasn't I there when they were killed! I'm supposed to be a dead man, I don't want to live......"

The more Xiaoyi spoke, the more excited he became, and with the chaotic alcohol remaining in his brain, he became short of breath and began to bang his head against the corner of the table, one by one......

Fei Minghe raised his eyes to look at him, and felt that the strength in his body was flowing from his body little by little with the sound of impact.

Even if you are wearing cotton clothes, you can still feel the coolness of the early autumn night gradually soaking into your skin and gradually hitting your heart.

He laboriously braced himself on his elbows, and his voice was surprisingly calm:

"After that, I am afraid that the palace will be more dangerous, and the safety of the emperor and His Majesty needs to be more troubled by the general. For a long time to come, the little emperor will always meet Zhang Ping, on the one hand, he will let his guard down in order to find loopholes, and on the other hand, Yanling County will be suspicious, and he will break the idea of joining forces with Zhang Ping - I also think of a person who may be the emperor's help. It is time for Concubine Xi, who lives in Yan'an Palace, to take her back to the palace, after all, she is a holy grandmother, and it is a due gift to support Tiannian. ”

He said everything he was going to say tonight in one go, and Guo Xiaoyi didn't know when he had quieted down and listened carefully, and both of them were stunned as soon as he finished speaking.

Fei Minghe's mouth opened and closed a few times, but in the end he didn't say anything, just tightened the clothes on his body, stood up and walked out the door.

Xiaoyi was also wooden, stood up and looked at him, until he called the little guy who was waiting for the lantern in the courtyard, and the moment the two were about to leave, Xiaoyi turned around and walked inside, and Fei Minghe's voice came from his ears:

"After fighting this old bone, I also have to watch the second young master settle down before I can close my eyes."

When he turned his head again, Fei Minghe had already helped the little maid down the front steps and walked out of the courtyard.

Yuan Zheng is actually very strange to his grandmother, and the only grandmother in his heart is the old lady of Weifu.

He thought that all the grandmothers in the world were like Mrs. Wei, plump and long-lived and blessed, and when they were old, they liked gadgets and soft and sweet food.

It wasn't until the Empress Dowager's phoenix chariot and honor guard arrived at the Huangji Gate that he helped out a beautiful woman with a gorgeous face of about 40 people from the car, and he remembered that his father and eldest companion had mentioned that his grandmother was beautiful, so he was able to win the favor of Emperor Mingzong as a maid in the beautiful harem, and gave birth to the eldest son of Mingzong in one fell swoop.

Later, for some reason, he saw that he was guilty of Mingzong, and was sent to live in Yan'an Palace, and he was not allowed to return to the palace without a recall.

Living alone from the palace all the year round, and in recent years, provoked by the Li family, the king was jealous, and the expenses of the Yan'an Palace were worse than when Mingzong was there, and only the team of palace guards went to the palace every month to send some daily food.

Yuan Zheng felt quite guilty in his heart, and silently thought about what he needed to compensate for to comfort his grandmother for many years.

Seeing that the number of attendants following behind him was small, his heart was even more sour, "The imperial grandmother has suffered, so my grandson will pick a few capable ones to send to my grandmother to serve your old man." ”

Concubine Xi's beautiful eyes flashed slightly, and she took the emperor's hand and patted it a few times, looking at his face with pity, "Your eyebrows and mouth are very similar to your father—you are more blessed than him." ”

The two sentences without a beginning and an end caused the two grandparents to cry for a while.

Concubine Xi took out a handkerchief and wiped Yuan Zheng's tears, pressed the corner of her eyes again, looked around the palace she was in, and said with a strong smile:

"This Funing Palace is really too big, and the layout is too rich, I am used to being idle, the emperor, you are new to the treasure, you should be thrifty."

"It is the grandson's duty to serve the grandmother, and if the father has not done it, let the grandson do it."

Yuan Zheng is not used to this grandmother who has never appeared in his previous life, and the only connection between them is his dead father.

Seeing that his grandmother's face was slightly tired, he explained a few words of attention to maintenance, and instructed the attendants to serve with all their hearts before leaving Funing Palace.

Li Shanggong, who had been following Concubine Xi, had been promoted to the palace order, and was leading the maids to light up the dimly lit corners of the hall.

Although the sky was still sunny outside, the concubine had always been afraid of the dark, and for decades, she was not allowed to reduce the light even when she slept at night.

Concubine Xi was served by the palace people to bathe for a while, changed into a homely lake-blue embroidered passion flower flower four-fold moire narrow sleeve gown, and only pulled a crescent moon bun obliquely on her head, taking advantage of the beauty and grace of her complexion, looking forward to brilliance.

She watched the palace people busy inside and out, and her face showed a slight look of apprehension.

Li Gongling gently walked to the concubine's side and whispered a few words, the concubine's eyes flashed, and she gently moved the lotus step and sat on the main seat of the Ming Hall. Seeing that Zhang Ping led a team of small inner eunuchs into the hall with various boxes and trays in their hands, Zhang Ping watched the inner eunuchs stand still behind him, and then led everyone to kneel down and salute, introducing with a happy face.

"Your Majesty said that the Funing Palace is too big, so in order to prevent the Empress Dowager from living in the desert, I specially picked out some small objects for you, and the Empress Dowager you can put them in the house to watch, play with them or reward others."

After speaking, the cover and the lid of the box were opened one by one to show Mrs. Xi, who saw that the gold, stone, jewelry, kiln porcelain, and Qing toys reflected the candles in the room with a lustrous color, sighed softly, and Li Gongling took the little inner supervisor to put the things into the second room and rewarded them one by one, and turned back to Zhang Ping and said:

"Go back and tell the emperor that these items should be stored here at the mourning family. The emperor has just come to the court, and he needs money inside and out. Although I am a woman and have been immersed in this inner palace for decades, I still understand the principle of thrift and prosperity. ”

The little inner eunuchs came out of the second room with the reward money in their hands, and under the leadership of Li Gongling, their feet silently came out from the front of the hall, and the door of the palace was gently closed by Li Gongling.

Concubine Xi narrowed her eyes slightly and squinted at Zhang Ping, and the corners of her mouth provoked a touch of sarcasm, "Old thing, I have become more and more energetic in the past few years, I heard that everyone in the palace has to respect you as a grandfather, and some people in the foreign ministers call you the prime minister!" ”

"Don't say that after so many years, you are still a celestial man, but the villain is a bad old man!"

Zhang Ping knelt on the ground and kowtowed in a panicked manner, but he did not accept the words of the concubine.

The enemies of the past are dead, and only these two old pieces of waste remain.

After Zhang Ping left, Concubine Xi leaned on the couch near the window in the east, thinking worriedly.

Her old acquaintance Zhang Ping is the most powerful old internal eunuch under the first emperor, and in recent years, he has only known how to blindly use power to accumulate wealth, and he has turned himself into an old man with a faint and turbid atmosphere.

"There is an old saying that there is more than enough to withdraw your hand behind you, and there is no way to turn back. Weigh it for yourself! ”

When Zhang Ping retired, she warned him like this.

However, as for herself, she remembered with resentment the body in the bronze mirror after the bath, this body had always been very young, but her best years as a woman had passed in solitude.