Chapter 243: The Queen Mother's Wisteria
Bai Ling didn't dare to hold it up.
And the strange things are far more than this, in addition to the confusion in memory, the time of the Queen Mother is also very strange.
She always remembered that her birthday was half a month later, but she could remember that Bai Ling would come to her once a month, and she could even remember what Bai Ling brought her when she came.
The Queen Mother's time seems to have two sets, one is used to wait for Bai Ling, and the other is prepared for her life alone, which is static.
The constant flow of time and the eternal stagnation have reached a certain self-consistency in her, without any contradictions.
The palace people here all followed the orders of Emperor Jianxi and guarded the Queen Mother to prevent her from stepping out of Cining Palace for half a step. But the Queen Mother doesn't seem to have much desire to go out and have a look. Most of the time she was napping alone like just now, and on the coffee table, Bai Ling could see the nicks cut out with the handle of the spoon, and every day the Queen Mother would draw a line on it, and she calculated when Bai Ling would come by herself in this way.
This deep attachment and trust made Bai Ling sigh several times.
The two drank tea together, and the palace people pushed open the window from the outside. The light spilled in from the outside, the queen mother was a little unaccustomed, squinted her eyes slightly, and after a while, through the transparent veil, the two saw the green branches outside the window, most of the spring flowers had been thanked at this time, in addition to the flower stands carefully taken care of by the palace people, there were also blooming wisteria and begonias, and there was a piece of green everywhere.
The hot summer days are coming.
In the past, the windows of Cining Palace were not often opened, and the interior was always a dim and mild dusk light. But in the past two days, the palace was in the process of removing insects, and specially prepared medicinal incense was lit on all sides, and the palace people not only opened the curtains in order to ventilate, but also opened all the windows on both sides.
The Queen Mother looked out the window, and suddenly there were more words.
Bai Ling has heard some things from her many times, such as the Wei family, the maiden home of the Empress Dowager of Shangshufu, where the girls gather in the small garden in the spring, kill crabs and enjoy chrysanthemums in the autumn, and the family takes a boat to see the center of Anhu Lake in the winter, the adults drink and chat, and the children go to the lake to play in the snow
These memories and stories were very draining, but she still kept talking and laughing, Bai Ling looked at her gradually tired expression, and interrupted her from time to time to interject a few sentences, so that she could drink tea and rest, but the Queen Mother was still happy to pick up all kinds of words and continue to tell her own story.
"The back garden of our Wei Mansion has always been very beautiful." The Queen Mother looked at the courtyard outside gently, "When I get well, Ah Ling will accompany me to the swing?" ”
"Okay." Bai Ling said, "The Queen Mother swings alone, if there is no one to help her, how high can she swing?" ”
The old queen mother immediately giggled, as if she remembered something funny, "I'm very powerful, very powerful, I can stand and swing the swing to the height of the swing." ”
Bai Ling laughed and exclaimed.
The smile on the Queen Mother's face was almost rippling, but the sleepiness that couldn't be concealed also climbed up her face.
She lowered her eyebrows slightly, which was an expression that many old people and children have, and her brain was still excited, but her body was already tired, so she couldn't help but feel sleepy and dozed off.
The Queen Mother poured herself another cup of tea, "We should go to the swing together in the spring, in the evening of spring."
Bai Ling glanced at the soft pillow that the palace people had prepared on the side, she got up and sat down next to the Queen Mother, and put the soft pillow behind her back.
The Queen Mother smiled and said to herself, "I must take Ah Ling to see the swing frame in our Wei Mansion blooming in spring, which was planted by my father and my mother, very beautiful"
"Swing stand," Bai Ling replied with a smile, "I can imagine something, it must be beautiful." ”
"You have to go and see it in the evening." The Queen Mother whispered, "You just sit on the swing and watch the wisteria flowers and vines hanging down, and see them in the sunset, gently fluttering with the wind as if they were gilded with a layer of gold, and I have never seen such a beautiful wisteria in any place since."
Almost instantly, Bai Ling's whole body trembled slightly.
Wisteria must be in the dusk of a sunny day, facing the sunset, otherwise it will not show her beauty.
That's what the white-bearded old man in the book division said.
No matter how much Bai Ling turned her head, didn't listen, didn't look, at this moment she knew that she had probably lifted some kind of curtain.
The elderly Queen Mother fell asleep by herself this time, and she said so much that when she said the last paragraph, her voice was already slightly hoarse. Bai Ling sat next to the Queen Mother and said nothing.
After an hour, the palace maid who had been out came back and saw that Bai Ling had not left.
Bai Ling was still sitting opposite the Queen Mother's coffee table, drinking the tea that had been brewed to the point of tastelessness, while the Queen Mother sat opposite her, breathing evenly and napping against the wooden cabinet behind her.
Everyone did not step forward to urge, but just returned to their positions and quietly waited for the Queen Mother to wake up.
"Xuanji," Bai Ling looked at the palace maid on the side, and beckoned to her softly, and the palace maid who was staring at Bai Ling quickly walked up, and Bai Ling said softly, "You go outside and pick a few wisteria roses and vines, they will grow longer." ”
The palace maid who was called Xuanji went out and came back quickly, and Bai Ling took the flower vine and used it to weave a small wreath, her craftsmanship was not exquisite, and it was only the level that the girls knitted casually when they were playing. When she was done, she left the wreath on the Queen Mother's table and got up to stand.
With some hesitation, the Xuanji blocked Bai Ling's way.
Sometime a long time ago, the Queen Mother suddenly fell asleep in the process of chatting with her, Bai Ling waited for a while, and saw that the Queen Mother had not woken up, so she asked her to add a blanket pillow, and then left.
Who knows that the time for the Queen Mother to cry and fall asleep when she wakes up doesn't count, in the perspective of the Queen Mother, everything that is born is like blinking her eyes, and her Ah Ling is still here in front of her eyes, and her Ah Ling is no longer there after the blink of an eye.
After that, every time Bai Ling left, he would say goodbye to the Queen Mother seriously, and the two seriously made an agreement to meet next time, and the Queen Mother watched Bai Ling leave.
Bai Ling shook his head slightly, "I guess not this time, try it." ”
The Xuanji looked at each other, and finally got out of the way.
After leaving the palace gate, Fourteen didn't follow, and Bai Ling guessed that he might have taken advantage of this time to do a few other things. This is somewhat regrettable, she did not continue to wait in the Cining Palace, just because there are some words that she can't wait to ask Fourteen, and those words, she can only ask Fourteen......