Chapter 19: The Queen Mother is born
Wanshou Palace
"It's not too early, the queen and Concubine Ling, please go back."
Sang Huai'an and Mai Jiu, who were standing outside the house and had not yet entered, heard the voice of the Queen Mother, and the two did not go in immediately. The three people in the house exchanged a few words, and saw Concubine Ling holding the queen towards the door.
Mai Jiu hid behind Sang Huai'an, she didn't dare to meet the queen and Concubine Ling. Mai Jiu raised his eyes and glanced at Sang Huai'an, who also lowered his head and waited for the queen and Concubine Ling to walk in front of him.
After the queen and Concubine Ling walked away, Mai Jiu looked up, just now she raised her eyes and saw the queen's bulging belly, and she looked at Concubine Ling beside the queen.
Looking at the two people who walked away, Mai Jiu fell into deep thought. Why are these ancient people so beautiful, tall and thin, white and beautiful, they all say that heroes are sad to pass the beauty pass, no wonder, I can't get through it if I want to.
"Look at the queen's belly as if it's already May, you can go in and talk carefully in a while." Sang Huai'an, like Mai Jiu, looked in the direction where Empress Ling and the others had left.
Be careful? What do you mean?
As soon as Mai Jiu opened his mouth to ask, he saw Mama Ji walking out of the house: "Lord, please come inside the princess, the queen mother has been waiting for you for a long time." ”
Mama Ji quietly walked to Sang Huai'an's side and whispered, "Today's incident made the Queen Mother not feel very good, just now I called the queen and Concubine Ling to preach, and now I am still angry, you should be careful when you go in." ”
On the arhat bed, the queen mother's elbow is propped up on the couch, and her palm is open, pressing her temple with her middle finger and thumb. Mama Ji stepped forward and whispered, "Queen Mother, the prince and the princess are here." ”
"Well, go and bring the herbal tea of the mourning family, the mourning family feels very stuffy in their chests now." After the queen mother finished speaking, she put down her palm, sighed deeply, and then started to smooth her hair backwards.
Sang Huai'an took a few steps forward and sat on the Luohan bed to get the peaches on the couch, but Mai Jiu could only move to the chair next to him when he saw this.
The queen mother glanced over, Sang Huai'an's hand was hanging above the fruit plate, he withdrew his hand, stood up, took a few steps forward, pulled Mai Jiu and said, "You sit here, this king goes to sit on the chair." ”
Mai Jiu was at a loss for what to do, allowing Sang Huai'an to pull him over, and then sat on the Luohan bed. The Empress Dowager smiled contentedly, then picked up a peach and handed it to Sang Huai'an.
The Empress Dowager looked at Mai Jiu with a smile and said, "I don't know who left the mourning family on the mountain silently, and went back to the capital first." ”
Mai Jiu looked at Sang Huai'an, who was sitting on a chair and eating peaches one bite at a time, as if this had nothing to do with him.
"The mourning family is used to being lonely, it's okay to mourn the family with Zi Yuan, you say yes, Zi Yuan." The Empress Dowager patted Mai Jiu's hand and continued: "But the mourning family still wants a little grandson to accompany them. ”
Mama Ji brought herbal tea and put it on the couch, Sang Huai'an stepped forward and picked up the cup and poured a cup.
The queen mother's hand was still on the back of Mai Jiu's hand, and Mai Jiu's eyes widened like copper bells after hearing the three words of the little grandson.
Oh my God, how do you answer this, who will save me?
She smiled embarrassedly at the Empress Dowager, and then looked up at Sang Huai'an, Sang Huai'an shrugged helplessly, raised the corners of her mouth, gave Mai Jiu an embarrassed smile, and then returned to her seat.
Mai Jiu's eyes kept looking at Sang Huai'an, Sang Huai'an didn't speak until he sat down, and Mai Jiu looked back at the Queen Mother with a smile.
At this time, Mai Jiu remembered the box behind her, and she hurriedly put aside the topic: "Queen Mother, this is the gift I found for you, named Hongyan Yushuang." ”
She turned around, picked up the wooden box, put it on the couch, and after opening it, continued: "The prince is seriously injured, this gift has been delayed again and again, and this time it is just for you." He took out the small jar and opened it, and Mai Jiu continued: "It is said that after ten days of using this cream, the skin will be as red as red and the skin as jade. ”
Mai Jiu brought the small jar close to the tip of the Queen Mother's nose. The Queen Mother stepped forward and sniffed the white paste in the small jar: "Hmm! This taste mourners like. ”
"yes." Mai Jiu put down the small jar and dipped it in some paste, picked up the hand of the Queen Mother, and gently smeared it.
The paste was pushed away, and the queen mother looked at her shiny hands, and she glanced to the side: "Some people, it's uncomfortable for him to come and leave without looting something."
At this time, Sang Huai'an was carefully looking at a landscape painting hanging on the wall.
"If you dare to touch the painting found by the mourning family, the mourning family will definitely be with you this time."
Sang Huai'an walked to the Bogu shelf again, reaching out to touch the amphora on the shelf. When the queen mother saw it, she immediately shouted: "Don't move, that's the favorite of the mourning family, and I will follow the mourning family to accompany the funeral in the future." ”
Sang Huai'an withdrew his hand, raised his eyebrows, and returned to his seat. Mai Jiu applied the cream for the Queen Mother and capped the vial.
The Queen Mother turned her head and carefully looked at the back of her hand and said, "The mourning family likes it very much, and I have a heart, and when I come to Ji, Mama Ji will reward the things prepared by the mourning family to Ziyuan." ”
Mama Ji walked in with two palace maids, each holding a tray in their hands.
Sang Huai'an knew what the word "reward" was, he propped his elbows on the armrests and held his face to watch the reaction of the person in front of him.
Mai Jiu thought it was some kind of jade gem and stretched his neck to look, but it turned out to be just a few Chinese medicine bags and a small porcelain bottle. Mai Jiu frowned, she had a sense of foreboding.
Mama Ji introduced them one by one: "Princess, this is a total of ten servings of Zhuzi soup, which includes Chuanxiong, Tianjing Mountain, Dry Lotus Grass, Ligustrum, Cuscuta Seed, Rehman, Huai Yam, Shou Wu, Red Peony, you, you can drink one before each intercourse, and you can make sure that you can hit it once." ”
"This is Zuogui Pill, which belongs to the prince. It is not enough for true yin..."Mama Ji was interrupted by Sang Huai'an before she finished speaking.
"Okay, okay, Queen Mother, you can't force us like that."
When he heard Zuogui Pill, Sang Huai'an's face was not very good, this pill has the effect of the Lord of Water and the Yuan Yin of the left kidney. The main treatment is the lack of true yin and kidney water, and the heat comes and goes at night; Night sweats, or God does not keep it, and blood does not return. The use of this medicine shows that the man's essence is lost, and the withering needs this medicine to make up.
Mai Jiu looked left and right to see that he couldn't understand what Mama Ji said at all.
The queen mother turned her head and glared at Sang Huai'an angrily: "As long as the mourning family still has a breath, you have to hug your grandson, if you want the mourning family to stop talking about you, then you can give the mourning family some strength." ”
Sang Huai'an glanced at Mai Jiu and said anxiously: "You can't always urge it, this kind of thing is not something that Erchen can do alone." ”
The Queen Mother was a little angry, and her voice was raised: "Then why has Ziyuan been in the house for two years, and there is no movement in the stomach, it is not that you are busy with official business every day, and the mourning family let you cultivate in the mansion this time just to let you get a little grandson for the mourning family." ”
Mai Jiu looked at Sang Huai'an and then at the Queen Mother, she picked up the teacup and drank it all in embarrassment, she now finally knew what Sang Huai'an meant before entering the door, the Queen Mother could always talk and turn to the topic of giving birth.
Sang Huai'an continued to theorize: "Queen Mother, then you can't use Zuogui Pill for Erchen, Erchen is in good health, there is no need to use this." ”
The Queen Mother said angrily at a row of tables, "You are in good health, why don't you have a son and a half daughter if you are in good health, do you mean that Ziyuan is not in good health?" After speaking, the Queen Mother turned her head to look at the person beside her.
Mai Jiu was stunned for a moment, and then quickly shook his head: "I'm in good health, very good." ”
The Queen Mother looked out of the window, she crossed her hands and hugged her chest, and said angrily, "The mourning family doesn't care, the mourning family must hold their grandson next year." ”
Sang Huai'an was convinced, his tone lowered and he said softly, "Okay, Queen Mother, Erchen knows." Gu Ziyuan, you go to the backyard flower pond to play, the new lotus flowers in the backyard can be seen. ”
Mai Jiu knew that this was an intention to break her away, she nodded and walked out of the door with Mama Ji, and the two palace maids also followed.
After Mai Jiu walked out, Sang Huai'an asked, "Queen Mother, this matter of building a courtyard..."
The queen mother put down her arms, sighed deeply, and said: "This time the emperor is a little excessive, since he was a child, he has been humble everywhere, and he does not dare to compete with you to rob you, he has been on the throne for some years, but this profligate temperament does not know when it was revealed." In the first few years, the mourning family felt that he was young enough to be calm enough and let him play for a few years, but now he has repeatedly changed his mind, and the ministers and the people have talked about him. ”
"Now that the queen is pregnant, she has selected another show girl in the spring, and this time she has also been selected for many female dependents. It wasn't a day or two that the emperor had formed a gang in the court. ”
Sang Huai'an said: "Queen Mother, Erchen thinks that the assassination is not trivial, and the people who come must have taken a fancy to Da'an." Fortunately, Erchen still holds military power, and the frontier has been peaceful in recent years. Queen Mother, you should remind the emperor more to take precautions. ”
The Queen Mother scoffed: "Hmph, he has long stopped taking me, the Queen Mother, in his eyes." ”
Sang Huai'an continued: "Queen Mother, the idea of holding your grandson may not be realized in the near future, and the sons and daughters have no way to continue to recuperate in the mansion for the current situation in Da'an. ”
After the queen mother heard that she couldn't hold her grandson, she turned her head and replied categorically, "Don't think about it, these are all afterwords, your task now is to give birth to a little grandson for the mourning family." ”
Sang Huaian had no choice but to support his forehead, and sure enough, he couldn't get around the queen mother.
"Today's Dragon Boat Festival, Erchen has to go back to the house and make zongzi with Gu Ziyuan, Erchen will leave first." After speaking, Sang Huaian walked out of the house without looking back, and the queen mother behind him couldn't stop screaming.
Mai Jiu was very annoying, she followed Mama Ji behind her, she took a step and Mama Ji took a step, and she stopped Mama Ji too. Mai Jiu turned his head sideways and looked back, and the two palace maids were actually following closely behind with their things.
Mai Jiu looked up at the sky and sighed, his heart collapsed. Fortunately, the sun is not very poisonous today, otherwise she would have been more irritable.
Sang Huai'an, who was standing not far away, looked at Mai Jiu with a smile on his lips. Mai Jiu turned around and saw Sang Huai'an, she sensed that the savior had come and trotted over.
Her mama and the two palace maids also trotted up this season. Mai Jiu hid behind Sang Huai'an, and Mama Ji saluted, "Lord, this thing that the Queen Mother rewarded, look at you... Do you want to take it back? ”
Sang Huai'an was speechless, and after a long time, he said: "Take it, take it, you go back to the same mother, and tell me that this king and Gu Ziyuan are very grateful to her." ”
When Mama Ji heard this, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Okay, okay, then Mama will send someone to send you to the palace." ”
On the way home, Mai Jiu lifted the curtain on the carriage and looked out at the scenery on the street, while Sang Huaian smiled and looked at the people in front of him.
"Do you understand what the Queen Mother means today?"
Mai Jiu was still looking out the window and was turned back: "It's hard to figure it out, the medicine bag of the Zi Zi Tang is almost in front of me." ”
Sang Huai'an raised his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth raised to one side, and he laughed.
Mai Jiu knew what the person was thinking when she saw that the person was not talking, and she replied, "Don't think about it, no way, it's impossible." ”