Bikong held the hand of the Empress Dowager Lin and led the people to slowly walk down the stairs step by step. Empress Dowager Lin was seriously ill, she was much thinner, and some silver threads were added to her sideburns, which actually showed her old state.

Qiu Anren stood at the bottom of the stairs, his eyes fixed on Bikong for a while, he didn't dare to show any excessive expression, and quickly raised his face and smiled.

His smile was directed at the Empress Dowager Lin, and when the Empress Dowager Lin saw his smiling face, her face was really a little better.

Bikong was quite peaceful, helped Empress Dowager Lin down the steps, withdrew his hand without a trace, and saluted Qiu Anren: "Yin Gong." ”

Qiu Anren raised his eyebrows in response to his salute, and then took the hand of the Empress Dowager Lin and held it in his palm: "Niangniang has suffered these days, Anren misses Niangniang, and he doesn't think about tea and dinner." ”

Empress Dowager Lin was holding her hand by Qiu Anren: "Recuperate, illness comes like a mountain, illness goes like a thread, staying in the house for a long time, it is aggrieved." But isn't this coming out, as the saying goes, old don't die, old don't die, and now I'm also old and immortal. ”

Empress Dowager Lin is only in her early forties, except for the gray sideburns, where can she see that she is an "old immortal", so Qiu Anren hurriedly said something nice: "Where is Niangniang talking about this, now eighty or ninety-year-old birthday stars are also common, Niangniang is still young now." ”

Bikong stood in front of the steps, watching Empress Dowager Lin and Qiu Anren slowly walk forward, their heads lowered, their eyelashes drooping, and their eyelashes blocking the look in their eyes.

Empress Dowager Lin continued: "Today's good daughter-in-law of the mourning family, but what about the banquet waiting for the mourning family?" ”

"Exactly." Qiu Anren half-bowed his body and replied in a low voice, "But if the mother doesn't want to go, she won't go." The mother's body is very good, so she really doesn't have to join in the fun. ”

Empress Dowager Lin: "Nonsense. ”

When Qiu Anren heard this, he immediately slapped himself mercilessly: "The slave is stupid, she said the wrong thing, and she asked the mother to punish her." ”

Empress Dowager Lin didn't care about Qiu Anren, who was in charge of her own mouth, squinted her eyes and smiled: "It's because it's so good, so I should go to the banquet of the good daughter-in-law of the mourning family." How long has the mourning family been stuffy in Cining Palace, and how much bitter medicine soup they have eaten, it is easy to come out to breathe and be lively. If she doesn't go this time, it won't sweep away her Yu Zhiwei's happiness, it will sweep away the happiness of the mourning family! ”

Qiu Anren laughed: "What Niangniang said is that we want to go to where she is!" ”

Now it is winter, the snow is falling outside the house, and there is no set of eating outside the house, and the banquet is placed in the house, only saying that it is a "family banquet".

Yu Zhiwei specially asked Wenyuan Pavilion to stumble He Xiao today, and he instructed Leng Changqiu to stay in Wenyuan Pavilion, and he slipped back to the harem by himself, just to set up this scene of mother's love and filial piety.

Xia Jinfan continued to be grounded in Yanxi Palace, and there were only two people present, Tian Shuangyu's Yu Zhiwei. Although the two of them knew each other as teenagers, if they said it, it could be regarded as a handkerchief sex. But although I have known each other for a long time, I have never met a few times, so I am not very familiar with each other, and I am just a "friend of peace" on weekdays. This kind of half-baked relationship is the most awkward to get together.

Fortunately, Tian Shuangyu is knowledgeable, and he will not chat with Yu Zhiwei without a topic, so he sits down obediently and eats tea with his head down. She lowered her head to eat tea at every turn, and after sitting for a while, she asked the palace person next to her to refill several cups.

Yu Zhiwei glanced at her with her afterglow, and suddenly gave birth to a kind of "Should she not wait for Mrs. Lin to say that it would be convenient, and then run away." Feelings. But she's just a foil here today, it doesn't matter if she's not there, Yu Zhiwei still wishes she would have left earlier.

Thinking like this, Yu Zhiwei took a piece of snack from the table, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it. Now that the Empress Dowager Lin hasn't come yet, she will eat a piece, and it's not time to make a show. She was probably thinking about something in her heart, and she didn't taste anything when she ate this snack, it was like chewing wax.

When Yu Zhiwei swallowed this piece of dim sum thoroughly, Empress Dowager Lin finally arrived.

Yu Zhiwei calmly stood up from the circle chair, with a just right smile on his face: "Mother is coming back." Yu Zhiwei greeted him, as if he wanted to personally lead the Empress Dowager Lin to her seat.

Empress Dowager Lin helped Nanzhu on her sideburns, and avoided Yu Zhiwei's hand without a trace: "The queen has been waiting for a long time." Yu Zhiwei didn't plan to help her, it was just right, but she showed some embarrassment as if she was acting, and changed the topic: "The queen mother has been sick for a long time, and the sons and daughters don't dare to let the cook cook some spicy dishes, they all choose light and delicious ones, I don't know if the queen mother likes it or not." ”

Empress Dowager Lin smiled: "Your arrangement has always been proper, how can the mourning family say that you don't like it." "These words are like words, just to poke Yu Zhiwei's heart. However, Yu Zhiwei is thick-skinned, and this word can't poke his heart

Tian Shuangyu pestle was behind Yu Zhiwei, followed Yu Zhiwei to the Empress Dowager Lin and saluted, this time he was waiting for Yu Zhiwei to speak and sit down, sure enough, Yu Zhiwei turned his head and said to her: "Concubine Xian, sit down." ”

Tian Shuangyu bowed down again and sat down on his own seat.

The pair of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law of the heavenly family, who each had a ghost in their hearts, sat down separately and began to eat a tasteless meal. Yu Zhiwei has a very good intention of eating this meal into a Hongmen banquet, although it is not to take the life of the Empress Dowager Lin, but it is also to make her compromise.

While eating, Yu Zhiwei glanced down and saw that Tian Shuangyu really made an excuse to leave the table. Yu Zhiwei estimated that this virtuous concubine should be aware of current affairs, so she put aside her chopsticks and said with a smile: "During the days when the queen mother was sick, the emperor was still diligent and lived up to the expectations of the queen mother. ”

Empress Dowager Lin put down the cup, raised her eyes and looked at Yu Zhiwei, and the meaning of her words was unclear: "It's all the queen's good help." ”

Yu Zhiwei hurriedly took the opportunity to be modest: "Don't dare to be, the emperor is the husband of the son, and helping his husband is what the son should do." She said this, showing an almost innocent smile at the Empress Dowager Lin.

She looks small, and she is a delicate look, if she is frivolous, then she looks delicate and playful: "Now that the Sichuan army is about to go to the southeast front, the queen mother must not work too hard, otherwise if she is tired and sick, it will affect the hearts of the front-line soldiers." ”

Yu Zhiwei asked her not to worry about it, just to warn her not to stretch her hand forward: "Didn't there be a problem with military pay before, but now it is difficult to investigate this matter, and I don't know who is standing behind it." Although she said that she took a step back, she would never take a second step back, if she was allowed to get the evidence that Qiu Anren was tossing around, then she would definitely not show mercy.

Therefore, the Queen Mother, let's be a little more restrained.