Empress Dowager Guo looked at Li Heng's pale and sick face, and her heart was like a knife. But in the end, she is the queen mother of Daming Palace, and after thousands of sails, she has long been accustomed to parting from life and death again and again, and no matter how big a blow is, it will not completely defeat her.

She slowly raised her head and asked Imperial Doctor Liang, "Imperial Doctor, you tell the truth, Heng'er...... Is there still a disease of this disease...... How long? ”

Imperial Doctor Liang groaned slightly, "Half a year." ”

Is there only half a year left? Half!

At this time, Chonglou was coming in from outside, she had been staying in Penglai Hall and was busy, and she didn't know what was happening in Zichen Palace, and she didn't hear the words of the Queen Mother and Imperial Doctor Liang, and she was about to report to the Queen Mother about the Qixi Festival family banquet.

As soon as she said a word, the pothos next to her winked at her and motioned her to stop talking. Chonglou didn't understand what was going on, and felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

At this time, Luluo had no choice but to stand up and play a round and asked the Empress Dowager Guo: "Niangniang, can you still hold the family banquet on Qixi Festival?" ”

Can it be done? Empress Dowager Guo was in a hurry, and she had almost completely forgotten that she was still telling Chonglou to organize the Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet a few days later this morning. Now that Heng'er is sick, the imperial doctor Liang, who has the highest art in the palace, said that there is only half a year left......

"Yes, naturally, it has to be done." Empress Dowager Guo said slowly. She can't let Heng'er have so many regrets in her life, although the regrets between him and Luoluo can't be made up for in her life. so

Empress Dowager Guo pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "Since it is a family banquet, this time, let's make it a little more lively, and ask Wanwan and the concubine to come back, and ...... There is also the grandson of Emperor Shunzong, who can come to call, and there are many people, so it is lively. ”

Luluo felt a little sad, but still agreed, but here Imperial Doctor Liang looked at the Empress Dowager Guo, and after a while, he suddenly said: "The old man heard that the first emperor also has a son, who has been raised in the Buddhist hall of Taiji Palace all these years, and that child is also more than ten years old, right?" ”

It took a little time for Empress Dowager Guo to remember that he was talking about the child born to Zheng Qiaoqiao. Since the birth of the child that year, Zheng Qiaoqiao promised her that she would never go out in the Buddhist hall from now on, and Zheng Qiaoqiao also did it, she has never tried to do anything wrong over the years, and has been honestly staying in the Buddhist hall and raising the child.

When the child was five or six years old, Zheng Qiaoqiao once asked the palace maid to propose to her that she wanted to find a teacher for the child to learn to read and write. Since the child was not allowed to show up, it was naturally difficult for the gentleman outside to enter the palace, so she picked four eunuchs who knew poetry and literacy, and Zheng Qiaoqiao also accepted it and didn't say anything.

Now, another six or seven years have passed, and the boy doesn't know what happened.

Empress Dowager Guo looked at Imperial Doctor Liang, his eyes were plain, but with a kind of wisdom and transparency unique to his old age. Her heart trembled slightly, and she said with some difficulty: "So, then...... Let him come. However, it is enough for the child to come, and the people of Zheng Gong do not have to attend. ”

On the day of the Qixi family banquet, many royal relatives who did not come and go much on weekdays gathered in the Hanyuan Palace. Empress Dowager Guo talked to Wanwan's mother and daughter for a long time, and then let go of her hand and went to the main hall to greet the relatives next to her.

At this time, she noticed that there was a child sitting in the corner, about twelve or thirteen years old, with a Chinese face, looking a little stupid, as if he was staring at the people in the main hall in a daze, and he was not laughing and making noise in the main hall at will like other princes and grandchildren.

He was very quiet, so quiet that Empress Dowager Guo had an illusion, as if it was not a teenager at all, but a quiet middle-aged man, looking at everything in the hall.

He was wearing a new royal blue round-necked robe, although the style was similar to that of other emperors and grandsons, but the clothes looked too new, and there were some folds on it that could be smoothed out in the future, and at a glance he knew that it was a new dress that had been pressed at the bottom of the box for a long time, and he had just changed into it.

And the hosta used to tie his hair on his head turned out to be an inferior topaz.

Empress Dowager Guo was a little surprised, and asked the fennel beside her: "Whose child is that, it seems that I haven't seen it before?" ”

Fennel glanced over there, "Did you forget the Queen Mother, that's the one in the Buddha Hall......"

Oh, the one in the temple...... Li Yi.

Empress Dowager Guo suddenly realized that this child, all year round, her nominal mother-in-law gave him very little care, although the Liushang Bureau regularly arranged to send things over, but she almost never bothered to ask, so it was inevitable that the people below would have some deductions.

However, Nian Zai is the only flesh and blood of the third brother in the end, and she has never really treated him harshly. It's just that in the royal family, it looks a little shabby.

Empress Dowager Guo nodded, and looked at him twice, this kid's face didn't look very smart, but he was stubborn. The appearance does not look very similar to the third brother, and I always feel that there is a little less charm, and it is not as handsome as the third brother was born.

So Empress Dowager Guo stopped looking at him, and turned her head to see other emperors and grandsons chasing and frolicking in the hall.

At this time, I only heard a "ahhh ”

His voice was very loud, and he didn't know how to shy away from it at all, so the people in the entire hall heard it, and even the few emperors and grandsons who were chasing in the hall stopped and looked in that direction.

The kid was about ** years old, and when he saw that he had successfully attracted everyone's attention, he didn't think he was in, but he was proud, as if he was very proud, and grabbed Li Yi, who was sitting in the corner in royal blue clothes, and forced him to stand up.

Standing up, Empress Dowager Guo saw that Li Yi's robe seemed to be smaller, and the hem was shorter, revealing a yellowed middle coat inside, and there seemed to be a faint patch on the middle shirt.

Empress Dowager Guo faintly understood the reason why he had been sitting motionless in the corner, and she felt a little emotional. The other princes and grandsons in the hall didn't think so, and when they saw his embarrassment, they all laughed.

Li Yi stood up, although he was more than half a head taller than the red-clothed child, he kept his head down, as if he had really done something wrong. Seeing that he didn't resist, the red-clothed child became more and more proud, and said loudly, "Why did you knock over the soup on my clothes?" Can you afford it? ”

Li Yi raised his head at this time, and when Empress Dowager Guo saw his eyes at that moment, she was not cowering, nor was she afraid, she was very calm, so calm that Empress Dowager Guo's heart was inexplicably abrupt. Is this the look a child should have?

He didn't answer for a while, and when the boy in red saw that he didn't speak, he pulled at his clothes even harder, and reached out and hit him several times, so hard that after a few blows, the boy in red threw his hand in the air several times, as if his hand hurt.

But Li Yi just accepted it motionlessly, did not resist, and did not even dodge.

After the red-clothed child finished fighting, he slowly raised his head, his voice was not loud, but it was extremely clear, "Yi didn't splash the soup on you." It was you who accidentally bumped into Yi's table just now and knocked over Yi's soup. ”

The moment he spoke, the entire hall fell silent inexplicably, so his voice was exceptionally clear.

The red-clothed child was stunned for a moment, then suddenly sat down on the ground and cried loudly: "It's you who soiled my new clothes, the new clothes I just put on this morning, ah......"

For a time, the high and low appeared.

At this time, the father of the red-clothed child hurriedly came up, pulled the embarrassed son up from the ground, and reprimanded: "If you don't look at what kind of place this is, you will know how to cry and you will know that you are looking for trouble!" ”

Empress Dowager Guo couldn't help but glance at him more, looked at the two children in the hall with an unpredictable expression, and said, "Li Yi, come here, let the mourning family see you." ”

Li Yi walked over unhurriedly from his seat, stood in front of the Empress Dowager Guo, and saluted respectfully, "Yi has seen the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager Chitose Chitose Chitose. ”

His tone was detached and indifferent, so that everyone who was doing it could hear a sense of distance from his flat tone, out of place with everyone around him, and even a little disgusted.

Empress Dowager Guo's gaze lingered on him for a moment, and saw that there was a faint trace of blood on his face, fortunately, the **-year-old child did not have a lot of strength, and he was only scratched and his skin was broken, so it should be fine.

"Yi'er, since you said that you were not wrong, why didn't you fight back when he beat you?"

Li Yi bent down slightly, and made a gesture like an adult, "Back to the Queen Mother, Yi thought that although Yi didn't think he was wrong, he beat Yi, if Yi fought back at this time, he was angry, which would inevitably lead to a big fight and affect today's family banquet." Yi didn't want to make a big deal out of it. ”

His tone was still calm and detached, but Empress Dowager Guo heard something unusual from his words. This child, who is only twelve or thirteen years old, can do this, I am afraid it is not easy.

Empress Dowager Guo was silent for a moment, and deliberately asked a somewhat embarrassing question: "Yi'er, the mourning family hasn't seen you for many years, and in the past few years, have you and your mother been doing well?" ”

Of course it's not good, Empress Dowager Guo doesn't have to think about it to know this answer, and many people here probably know it very well in their hearts, but she just wants to hear what this kid will say,

Let's see what kind of words he will say.

I saw that Li Yi maintained a posture of being pretentious, and said unhurriedly: "It's okay, but sometimes, the food and vegetables sent are not fresh, and sometimes the cloth sent is a little stained and relatively old." Yi felt that the people below were a little deceitful, and hoped that the Queen Mother would be able to punish her a little when she was free one day. ”

Anyone could tell that he was complaining that their mother and son were not having a good time, that the food they ate was not fresh, and that the clothes they wore were old and stained old fabrics. But he couldn't find his flaws in these words. It is a little unusual for a twelve or thirteen-year-old child to be able to talk about this.