Cining Palace was already crowded with people, the queen, the virtuous concubine, and the lady concubine all came, and there were many low-ranking concubines, all of whom looked anxious, looking at the inner room from time to time, as if they were very worried about the condition of the master inside.

Waiting for the singing of "Your Majesty has arrived", most people's faces flashed a trace of joy and shyness, looking at Concubine Shu's eyes, they couldn't help but secretly spit a few words, and remembered a few strokes in their hearts, which ones dare to use this occasion to seduce Your Majesty.

Huo Yanzhifeng came in in a hurry, and before he even had time to say the words of being exempt from courtesy, he swept into the inner hall of the Queen Mother.

The queen, who was completely ignored, turned pale, and only barely regained some composure when she swept past the concubines who showed disappointment on their faces.

"Let's all get up, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty have a deep love for mother and son, and they must not be able to make noise at this time. Let's all go back first, and come back early tomorrow morning. ”

Although the queen said so, no one dared to leave, even if they couldn't enter the inside and couldn't see the queen mother's face, they could only wait quietly in the side hall.

He Zhaorong's palace was in the east, and he arrived late, just a few steps earlier than the emperor, and he didn't have time to gossip. At this time, seeing that the queen did not take the initiative to enter the inner room, she was a little amused in her heart, and exchanged glances with the concubine and said: "Queen Mother, you came early, can you tell the concubines how sick the Queen Mother is?" We're worried too~"

The queen said coldly: "The queen mother's mother is blessed with the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, but it is just a little sick." If you have a heart, it is better to go back and copy the Medicine Master Sutra for the Queen Mother a few times! ”

He Zhaorong was about to speak, but saw Zhao Jiufu come out with a solemn face.

"Your Majesty's dictation, let all the ladies go back."

These words were in the queen's arms, her face softened, and she was about to give the order to drive everyone away, but the concubine suddenly met her eyes with a smile.

"Today, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the concubine is still a little scared, just to be able to walk with the queen. With the queen mother here, even if there are any demons and monsters, there is nothing to be afraid of~"

The queen was about to reprimand "Zi is silent, strange and confused", Zhao Jiufu added another sentence.

"The queen mother, please come back too. The Queen Mother said, let you come over tomorrow morning to see her old man. ”

The queen's face slowly turned red, she never thought that the phrase "all the mothers" in His Majesty's mouth actually included her!

After all, she is also the queen of the main palace, how can she be confused with these things that are used for pastime in her spare time?

She looked coldly at the more or less mockery on the faces of Concubine Shu, He Zhaorong and others, and she could already imagine how they would laugh at her behind her back tonight, but she was powerless to stop it.

The queen reluctantly smiled at Zhao Jiufu, and left with a bunch of concubines, leaving a quiet room.

Zhao Jiufu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of what His Majesty said in the inner room, "What kind of system is the noisy shouting", and he was even more glad that he didn't relay all the words.

When he went back to wait outside to listen to the instructions, he heard His Majesty's anxious voice.

“…… You bunch of wine bags and rice bags! I don't care so much ......"

Huo Yanzhi was scolding the imperial doctor, because the latter spoke in a fog at the beginning, but then he was pressed by the emperor who didn't understand pharmacology, and the youngest one accidentally slipped out.

The hospital is feeling bitter in his heart, so he can only come to play a round: "Heart disease also needs heart medicine, Niangniang's mood has not been smooth in recent years, plus a serious illness the year before last, the foundation is a little short, and I can only recuperate...... Weichen first prescribes a recipe to recuperate and calm the nerves, eat it, and see how it goes......"

The middle-aged woman who woke up in the brocade quilt on the bed coughed lightly, and also said: "There is nothing to do with the mourning family, the emperor does not need to worry......

The imperial doctor went to the next door to prescribe a prescription, and Huo Yanzhi came to the bed: "The queen mother must have been tired these days, or is the service in the Temple of Mercy and Grace not careful enough?" The queen mother is lenient, but I can't allow them to be so slack! ”

The Queen Mother waved her hand: "Okay, the body of the mourning family knows by itself, and I'm afraid I won't have a few years to live." This is also an old problem, they have to come once or twice a year, the emperor don't blame them......"

Thinking of today's day, Huo Yanzhi fell silent.

"I have copied two volumes of scriptures today, and I will send them to the Temple of Mercy and Grace tomorrow."

The Queen Mother nodded: "The emperor is busy with court affairs, so if you have a heart, you can do it." In the end, it's not a harem woman, so let's focus more on the front court, and there is no need to be rigid about such trivial matters in the future. ”

Huo Yanzhi said stubbornly: "It's not a trivial matter, and it won't delay much effort. The queen mother doesn't need to persuade me, I know it in my heart. ”

The mother and son said a few more gossips, Huo Yanzhi asked the queen and others to take turns to serve the sick, but the queen mother refused, and revealed that she wanted to see Princess An and King Xiao An, Huo Yanzhi responded without thinking.

The Queen Mother took advantage of her illness to say that she had such a grandson as King Xiao'an when she was old, and asked Huo Yanzhi to step up the development of the royal family.

Huo Yanzhi's face turned red, and he hurriedly said that the imperial doctor and Wen Po both said that Concubine Shu's baby was like a boy, so that the Queen Mother could rest assured and wait for the end of the year to hold her grandson. The queen mother said that the eldest son of the emperor was not from the main palace, and she was only afraid of a lot of trouble in the future.

Huo Yanyi remembered his experience in the queen's palace half a month ago, and he only felt extremely sad, but he didn't have the face to tell the queen mother, so he could only respond.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was tired, he withdrew from the inner room.

Zhao Jiufu hurriedly followed, but as soon as Huo Yanzhi raised his feet to leave, his movements stopped, and he turned his head and stared at the corner of the room for a long time.

Zhao Jiufu also turned his head to look over, but there was nothing there except for the delicately shaped podocarpus.

He couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Could it be that Your Majesty has changed his taste recently?" It seems that Ming'er has to replace the wilted golden pine, and those girls don't have the eyesight to see, if it weren't for the fact that His Majesty has ordered too many things these days......"

Huo Yanzhi stayed in that posture for a while, if it weren't for Zhao Jiufu behind him, the disbelievable distorted expression on his face would definitely fall into her eyes.

He turned around and glanced at the inner chamber several times with a complicated expression before stepping away.

He came in a hurry, and he left quickly, but his hurried steps didn't feel like a rush to somewhere, but more like a hasty escape from here.

At the end of March, the night in the capital was still very cool, the wind was very strong, and the young man who was dazed finally came to his senses.

Gradually, the confusion turned into a miserable, gloomy, and forbearant pain.

Huo Yanzhi couldn't believe his ears, he couldn't believe the meaning of Fang Cai's words, and he couldn't believe that his queen mother was ......

The voice of the podocarpus is very different from that of the golden pine, and it sounds like an old-fashioned old woman, but the tone is full of mockery and compassion.

"Tsk, this emperor can still be called a filial son, but it's a pity that the falling flowers are intentionally ruthless~"

"Human beings always say that there are parents in the world, but how can there be such an eccentric mother? We treat every seed of ourselves equally, and this old woman has been hating her youngest son for so many years because of the difficult childbirth back then! It's ridiculous~"

"The emperor wants to send King An to the palace to serve the sick, and he doesn't know that his wife wants to make King An the heir, right? Tsk, these strange humans~"

Huo Yanzhi stood in the wind for a long time, looking at the lights of the Qiande Palace not far away, and suddenly had a sense of distance at the end of the world.

That place didn't belong to him originally, it should belong to his amazing eldest brother.

The father and queen mother were also the eldest brother at the beginning, and they were just a substitute.

The queen mother has valued her eldest brother since she was a child, and she is completely laissez-faire towards herself.

When he was a child, he was still complacent, feeling that he didn't have to study as hard as his eldest brother, but he never thought that no matter how much a mother attaches importance to one of their children, she will never ignore the other and throw it directly to the nurse for discipline, right?

Huo Yanzhi also heard about dystocia, and when she was a child, she took it to ask her mother, how did she answer at that time?

seemed to reprimand him, punished the two little eunuchs beside him, and ordered the palace people not to chew the root of their tongues in private, but there was no specific explanation for him.

At that time, he was a little panicked, feeling that he had done something wrong, and he didn't have too many grievances. Now that he thinks about it, those unreasonable details are like a little man who is good at hiding, one after another jumping out of his mind.

Huo Yanzhi's head ached suddenly, and he couldn't help but gasp.

Zhao Jiufu stepped forward: "Your Majesty, it's cold at night, let's go back and rest." ”

Huo Yanzhi returned to Qiande Palace in a good manner, but the expression on his face was extremely unfamiliar to Zhao Jiufu.

Zhao Jiufu was a little strange: "Could it be that the Queen Mother is not in good health?" But I've listened to most of what the doctor said, and although it's a little short, it's not that far. Your Majesty, what is this melancholy? ”

Early the next morning, Huo Yanzhi got up with two black circles under his eyes and went to the court.

When the courtiers saw it, they all had some speculations in their hearts, for example, whether there was a new lady in the harem who had been favored recently, and so on.

Guo Shoufu is very calm, Cifu and the others are thoughtful, but the Yushitai is rubbing their hands in their hearts, if there is really such a demon concubine who "sucks people's essence and blood", they must fight the emperor to the end, and by the way, they will go down in history!

What disappointed them was that the emperor did not roar today to "start playing something and retreat from the court", but listened to them very patiently, and from time to time he could ask a few questions to the point.

Then it was like this for three days in a row, and the officials inquired for a long time before they found out, it turned out that the Queen Mother was sick, and His Majesty was worried.

As a result, most of the officials outside the Imperial History Observatory had something to do, and the emperor himself was even more depressed when he praised the emperor's filial piety and touched heaven and earth.

In the past few days, Huo Yanyi has uncharacteristically run to Cining Palace every day, met with King Xiao'an and Princess An a few times, and even "encountered" countless concubines who came to serve the sick and were rejected and left in a hurry.

But Zhao Jiufu saw it in his eyes, and always felt that His Majesty was not quite right for a while, at least, it seemed that he had lost his previous affection for King Xiao'an.

Moreover, every time before leaving, His Majesty must eat a cup of tea outside before leaving, and his eyes can't help but drift to the podocarpus, so that Zhao Jiufu, who is used to thinking a lot, can't help but start speculating, could it be that there is something wrong with this pot of podocarpus, which caused the Queen Mother's illness?

The more Zhao Jiufu thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was reasonable, so he found an opportunity to ask Huo Yanzhi secretly, and gave a proposal.

"If Your Majesty is worried that there is something wrong with this bonsai, why don't you find someone to replace it secretly? Or do you want to take some soil and let the doctor check it first? Moreover, this style of bonsai is not difficult to prune......"

Huo Yanzhi glanced at him faintly: "Very good, that's what I think." You go to someone to get an exact one to change into, don't startle the snake. ”