In the palace, the palace people walked in a hurry, and the imperial doctors went in and out.

At noon, a mourning bell sounded over the palace, twenty-seven times.

The Queen Mother died.

King Gong, who was originally in the south for disaster relief, had to rush day and night to wear the stars and the moon and rush back to the capital to guard the filial piety of the queen mother.

For a while, the capital was plain and white, and they also changed into plain dresses. The queen mother died, and the people were not allowed to feast, open the market, or feast for three days, and wine, meat, meat and other things could not be touched.

Now that Diancui's body is getting bigger and bigger, Aunt Xing is worried that she can't stand being a vegetarian at first, so she made some soft snacks with milk, red dates, white fungus and other things, and told her to eat some at three o'clock a day.

Yuan Zhiheng, as an important minister of the imperial court, naturally had to kneel outside the Cining Palace with other colleagues for a long time, it was winter at this time, the sky was overcast, and it snowed heavily on the last day.

Some ministers were old, and some of them fainted from the cold, Dian Cui and the two sisters-in-law sewed bear skins on the legs, feet and waist for Yuan Zhiheng and several brothers-in-law.

After the queen mother's filial piety, the ministers were able to return home to rest, but King Gong was plain and white, and he returned to the disaster area in the south without stopping.

This time, when he saw his hard work, many of the ministers admired him and looked at him differently, but it was a different taste in the eyes of the emperor.

King Gong became so capable, but it was beyond his expectations, so it seems that his son Xu has always been a capable person, and he is just hiding it deeply. Originally, he felt that he and the queen were weak, but he didn't want that now in addition to the Xu Luo family, some courtiers began to move closer to him, saying that they would praise King Gong's merits. This made the old and suspicious emperor a little more suspicious.

The court is like this, but outside the court, he is still full of praise for King Gong. Even the medicinal herb business with a little cui suddenly has a lot of people to talk about and join in.

Regarding these people who want to join the gang, Dian Cui basically politely refused, after all, she is still at the stage of making money in this business. In the future, although the boss promised to exempt the tax for three years, the world has changed a lot, and who can handle the future for sure.

What's more, most of those who come to the door are probably not because they really want to make a little and a half of silver, and it is true that they want to befriend her, Mrs. Yuan.

For example, Mrs. Cui's family was originally an old acquaintance in Hangzhou, but now she is more and more diligent in moving around Yuan's mansion. The fact that Lord Cui was grounded in Fengyang Mansion City spread some rumors to the capital.

"Mrs. Cui doesn't have to worry too much, Master Cui will definitely be fine, and you can't trust the matter of chasing the wind and shadows." Diancui had no choice but to comfort her.

In the past few days, she and Miss Cui often handed over prayer posts, although Diancui knew that her father-in-law and Master Cui had a political disagreement, but her mother and daughter were coming, and she couldn't stop it.

"Hey, although it's a rumor, our mother's mind is always uncertain," Mrs. Cui sighed: "My family and Lord Yuan are both the General Administration Counselor, but the adult of my family never tells me about the outside affairs, where is the Yuan Lord considerate." ”

"Mrs. Cui laughed, I and other women don't understand anything about the affairs of the court, and my father-in-law never talks to me much." Dian Cui quickly explained.

"How did I hear that Lord Yuan doesn't hide anything from you, and I will discuss everything with you......" Mrs. Cui wanted to talk about it from Diancui, but when she heard the rumors in the past few days, she was indeed a little uneasy. But this Guishi is not as pure and straightforward as her daughter said.

It's been a few days, and I haven't come up with anything useful.

"Where did Madame hear it, it was all rumors, and if a man was doing something outside, he would be willing to discuss with the lady in the inner house, wouldn't it be laughing off his big teeth when he spread it." Diancui chuckled, and this acting skill became more and more pure.

"This ......" Mrs. Cui was speechless for a while, could it be that the news she heard was inaccurate?

Miss Cui looked up at the smiling Dian Cui, if the fake model was according to the past, she would definitely be sarcastic, but she looked at her own mother, and she couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart.

Miss Cui has now married a son of the Xu family, and she seems to have grown up a lot when she speaks and acts, and she is no longer as lively and cheerful as before.

She actually doesn't really want to see Diancui, this is the capital, and she can never go back to the carefree when she was in Hangzhou. Xin'er brought ghee snails and mint milk soufflé, Miss Cui's eyes moved, when these foods were in Hangzhou, she, Diancui, Qin Xiaolan, and Miss Mu often made them in one place.

She remembered the past, and Diancui naturally remembered it too. Looking at her again, she couldn't help but be a little softer and sincerer:

"I heard that Miss Cui and the little son of the Xu family's third room have set a family affair, presumably they will be able to do a happy event in the spring next year."

Diancui asked casually.

"Hmm." Miss Cui lowered her eyes and replied in a low voice. She has seen the son of the Xu family twice, his appearance is mediocre, but his temper is quite big, although he doesn't like it in his heart, but her father and mother think that this is a good family affair, and they show off when they meet people.

Mrs. Cui smiled slightly and said, "Mrs. Yuan has been in the capital for more than half a year, and some families should also move ......around more"16

The words seemed to be matching her with the Xu family.

Dian Cui smiled bitterly: "People also need a fate, because of Miss Yingzhen's matter, the Xu family is afraid that they have a grudge against the Yuan Mansion in their hearts......"

"Where is Mrs. Yuan, that Miss Yingzhen is just a concubine from another branch, the Xu family has a big business, and she can't be ranked."

She was such a matchmaker, Diancui only smiled, and had a snack with her mother and daughter, and exchanged pleasantries for a long time. Mrs. Cui didn't probe anything out of her mouth, and the smile on her face gradually faded, so she got up to say goodbye.

While Dian Cui breathed a sigh of relief, he sternly instructed Dong Xue to instruct the subordinates below, this mouth must be strict, the affairs in the Yuan Mansion are not only the two aunts in the courtyard, but even there are too many people outside who want to inquire.

Looking at the gloomy sky outside, Diancui only felt that the mountain rain was about to come, and the wind was full of buildings.

Sure enough, after the end of the day, Diancui saw that Yuan Zhiheng was worried, and when he asked, he realized that something big had happened in the court.

Some time ago, the temple of Xiangguo Temple recommended a Taoist warlock to enter the palace, and everything he said was true, which made the emperor very trusted.

He said that the recent floods in the south, the plague, and the death of the Queen Mother have all been caused by the different phases of the stars. Now Taibai collides with crape myrtle and points directly at the earth star, which is a great omen. And this Taibai Star comes from the southwest, which refers to the place where King Gong is!

"Can you believe that?" Dian Cui only felt indignant: "King Gong can be said to be conscientious and conscientious for this disaster relief, and he does not dare to slack off, and now the words of a warlock in the rivers and lakes, Your Majesty will believe it?" ”

"It's not an ordinary warlock, I heard that this person has been taught by a monk, and he has traveled all over the world in the past day, and he is known as a living Bodhisattva, and now he is shocked to appear in the imperial city, and even Emperor Xu's concubine has enshrined him as a guest......" Yuan Zhiheng's words were not without irony.

"Such a living immortal, I'm curious, people say that they are born from the heart, what is the appearance of this person?" Diancui asked curiously.

"At the age of thirty or forty, he wears a square scarf on his bald head and a blue long-sleeved robe, not a monk or a Confucian. The cheekbones are high and the eyes are not showy. Seeing people pretending to be profound, strong support the wind bones; When he spoke, he couldn't hide his expectation, and his face was full of power. ”

Yuan Zhiheng only said a few words into the obscene image of this person, and Dian Cui snickered in his heart, everyone in the world said that Xianggong spoke extremely mean to people he didn't like. The world is right.

"Why is such a deceitful person so trusted by the saints?" Diancui is really puzzled, today's saints must not be fearless and heroic when they are young, and they are unfathomable when they are old, so why......

Yuan Zhiheng didn't speak, no matter how wise a person is, he has selfish intentions, plus what this warlock said is to cater to what His Majesty thinks, and those who didn't believe it now believe it.

"Someone in the court made a statement to let King Gong return to Beijing, and also impeached King Gong for grounding Lord Cui without authorization, which caused His Majesty to be angry on the spot, and it seems that he has loosened up."

Dian Cui was shocked, it turned out that he really forbade Master Cui's feet. It was only a rumor before, but I didn't expect it to be true, no wonder Mrs. Cui scratched her heart and liver, but King Gong's move undoubtedly left a handle for many people.

Yuan Zhiheng sighed, he didn't say it, but he knew in his heart that when King Gong left, he had a talk with him, and the matter of disaster relief was important in being resolute and decisive, and if he looked ahead, he might be dragged back by the villain.

King Gong thought so, coupled with the fact that the disaster in Fengyang Mansion was tricky, and Lord Cui kept making small moves, which annoyed him before he made this decision, if the disaster relief was successful, the matter of grounding would not be significant. But he didn't expect that those people would choose to deal with him at this time, regardless of the lives of the people, and the matter of the sorcerer would become a big deal.

Yuan Zhiheng was angry in his heart, but also a little guilty, after all, he was too eager to achieve results and did not think it through.

Sure enough, that night, the emperor sent a decree in Wan'an Palace, ordering King Gong to return to Beijing immediately, because the queen mother dreamed of asking her grandson to keep a watch. Master Cui, who was originally an assistant, was qualified as a chief envoy and took over from King Gong.

In Yuan's mansion, Dian Cui looked at the heavy snow outside the window, and his heart was in turmoil. "Send a letter to the Hangzhou Mansion, ask the shopkeeper of Miaozhu Liu, and let them temporarily close the silk Zhuangzi, and take people to Huangzhou Mansion and Anqing Mansion, and make sure that our medicinal materials do not go wrong." Fengyang Mansion has sealed the city, and ordinary people can't enter, so they have to take care of the medicinal materials in the other two places first.

The epidemic situation in Fengyang Mansion is getting more and more serious, and Dr. Langzhong, who was invited by King Gong from all over the country, gathered in one place, seeing that the prescription was about to be developed, and he actually got three urgent holy decrees from the capital, so that he could return to Beijing immediately without delay.

King Gong was only a weak crown, but now he felt exhausted, and the three holy decrees were issued urgently and tightly. He had no choice but to let go of the devastated scene in front of him with hatred, and weakly embarked on the journey back to Beijing.

He will leave Fengyang Mansion, and Cui Youliang will lift the grounding, become a righteous envoy, and expel Qingyun, who originally assisted King Gong. Fortunately, Xue Dachuan is now in Huangzhou, and Cui Youliang can't do anything to him.

With King Gong's entry into Beijing, Cui Youliang was anxious to make meritorious contributions. He ordered those Lang Zhong to develop prescriptions overnight, and if they couldn't develop them in a day, they would secretly dispose of one person.

For a while, people were panicked, and on this day, Cui Youliang came to urge again, and Zhu Langzhong trembled and took out a prescription that was not very safe, but Cui Youliang couldn't take care of it anymore, so he asked people to dispense medicine and boil medicine.

After a pair of medicines were taken down, there were a few people who had the plague but had mild symptoms, and even though they had improved. Cui Youliang was overjoyed, and he drew up a recital that night, saying that there was a good prescription for treating the plague, and he also inherited the prescription.

The people of the post station got a twist and turn, and left Fengyang Mansion overnight.