Emperor Qingyuan went to Cining Palace with a calm face.

Since the beginning of the development, it has been a long time since the queen mother, when the moment he stepped into the inner hall, the angry Emperor Qingyuan couldn't help but move.

The Queen Mother was dressed in formal clothes for the banquet, with a dignified appearance, and was sitting on the phoenix chair full of energy.

In front of her stood a carefully framed calligraphy and painting, on which were written the ninety-nine characters for 'longevity'.

"Your Majesty, you're here."

The Queen Mother smiled gently, and beckoned to Emperor Qingyuan, "Come and take a look, the mourning family remembers that this is the birthday gift you prepared for the mourning family when you were eight years old. ”

Emperor Qingyuan strode over, sat down next to the Queen Mother, and looked at the calligraphy and painting.

"The mourning family has been quiet these days," the Queen Mother saw Emperor Qingyuan sit down, and the gentle smile on the corner of her mouth was even worse, "so she asked Ati and the others to find a lot of previous objects to come over and admire them, reminiscing about the previous time." ”

"Today, Ati and the others found this calligraphy and painting, and the mourning family was happy to see it, so they asked people to pass a message to the emperor and wanted to invite the emperor to come over and talk about it."

Emperor Qingyuan was angry when he came, but when he encountered such a soft attitude of the Queen Mother, the anger in his chest and abdomen dissipated a lot for a while.

"Shouldn't the emperor think that the mourning family is not happy to go to the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet and want to block the emperor?"

Seeing that Emperor Qingyuan's face was slightly dark, the Empress Dowager smiled and patted Emperor Qingyuan's hand, "The Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet is important to the royal family, how can the mourning family not attend?" Even if the emperor is really annoyed by the mourning family, the mourning family will not abandon the emperor. ”

Emperor Qingyuan let out a 'hmm', and his gaze towards calligraphy and painting was long and far-reaching.

This is what he wrote on his mother's birthday when he was eight years old.

Although he was still young at the time, the font was still a little clumsy, but this calligraphy and painting took a lot of thought to write.

Since he was a child, his mother has been strict with him and doted on Ning Huang's brother.

Brother Ning Huang is the younger brother of his mother, three years younger than him.

He still clearly remembers the birthday of the queen mother that year, and the calligraphy and painting he wrote in half a month, the first emperor saw it and praised it again and again, but the queen mother found a lot of faults at that time.

And that year, the birthday gift given by the five-year-old Ning Huangdi was also calligraphy and painting, and Ning Huangdi wrote a 'longevity' word, crooked and unsightly, but the queen mother regarded it as a treasure.

Emperor Ning's younger brother was only five years old at the time, and Emperor Qingyuan, as an elder brother, naturally did not bother with him, but he inevitably felt aggrieved by his mother's partiality.

When he was five years old, his handwriting was much better than that of Emperor Ning's, but the queen mother never seemed to be able to see it.

The memories of the queen mother when I was young are not warm memories, and Emperor Qingyuan rarely thinks about them.

Now looking at this calligraphy and painting, he remembered a person.

That's Xu Cairen in the mother's harem.

He was the only one who made him feel like a mother when he was a child.

When he was a child, he was naughty and broke his mother's beloved vase, and was angrily reprimanded by his mother and punished for kneeling for a long time.

At night, his kneeling red and swollen knees hurt so much that he couldn't sleep, so Xu Cairen helped him compress and compress with hot water, and softly coaxed him to sleep.

He was only four years old.

On another occasion, Emperor Qingyuan remembered that he was six years old and Emperor Ning's younger brother was three years old.

The two were running and playing in the yard, seeing that Ning Huangdi, who was running happily, was almost planted in the flower bed, and Emperor Qingyuan, who was worried about his injury, went up to hug him with an arrow step, saving Ning Huangdi from the danger of being injured, but his hand was pierced by gravel and bled out.

Brother Ning Huang was not injured, but he was so frightened that he cried.

The queen mother, who rushed over, saw it, and asked him to kneel again without asking the reason.

It was Xu Cairen who personally helped him deal with the gravel in the palm of his hand, and carefully and gently helped him bandage it.

also comforted and praised him for being a good brother.

At that time, he was so aggrieved that he almost cried.

Later, when he was seven years old, he no longer lived in the same palace with his mother, and gradually, there was no news of Xu Cairen.

I only vaguely heard that she had a cold one winter, and she didn't have time to survive until the New Year.

"Your Majesty? Emperor? ”

Emperor Qingyuan was immersed in memories, and when he came back to his senses, he saw the puzzled face of the Queen Mother.

"How?" He coughed lightly.

The Queen Mother hurriedly smiled, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea: "Your Majesty, don't dislike the long-winded mourning family." When this man is old, he thinks all about the past. Since the emperor is here, he will accompany the mourning family to have a cup of hot tea, and after a while, our mother and son will go to Qiwen Hall to participate in the palace banquet, okay? ”

Emperor Qingyuan took the teacup handed by the Queen Mother, and suddenly put it back on the table: "Over the years, Emperor Ning's younger brother has been guarding the imperial tomb on the orders of the first emperor, can the Queen Mother blame me for not letting him return to Beijing?" ”

The Queen Mother wanted to let Emperor Qingyuan drink the tea she poured as soon as possible, and when she heard this, her heart was surging.

How can you not blame it?

She's even dreamed and blamed countless times!

But so what?

Over the years, how many times has she knocked on the side to make Emperor Qingyuan worry about Brother Ning'er's goodness and brotherly affection, but Emperor Qingyuan has never let go of that mouth.

She smiled and her face stiffened: "That is the will of the first emperor, how can the mourning family blame you?" ”

Since it was your father's will, why did you let people hunt down and kill your father back then?

Didn't you think that you could save Emperor Ning's brother after his father died?

Emperor Qingyuan's face gradually turned cold.

Seeing this, how could the Queen Mother not understand his thoughts, and she was so anxious that she was about to go crazy.

She gritted her teeth and knelt down in front of Emperor Qingyuan.

"Your Majesty! Back then, it was a stupid thing that the mourning family did when they were dizzy, and remorse gnawed at the heart of the mourning family all the time, so you can spare the mourning family! ”

After that, she picked up the cup of tea with tears in her eyes and handed it over, "From now on, the queen mother will listen to you." If you let the queen mother be grounded in Cining Palace, the queen mother will never step out! ”

Emperor Qingyuan looked at the Queen Mother in silence.

The first emperor left, and Emperor Ning's younger brother was grounded in the imperial mausoleum, and the only person closest to him in this palace was the queen mother.

Although the Queen Mother has been strict with him since he was a child, in the end it was his biological mother.

His biological mother made a big mistake, and no matter how ruthless he was as a son, it was not easy for him to make a decision to punish him severely.

Since the Queen Mother has really repented, let her die in Cining Palace in the future, and then go to Huangquan to apologize to her father in person after a hundred years.

Thinking of this, Emperor Qingyuan took the tea in the queen mother's hand, took a sip and put it down.

He stood up and was about to let Gonggong Liang take charge of the Qiwen Palace, when he heard the Queen Mother laugh sneeringly.

Emperor Qingyuan was stunned, and saw the Queen Mother standing up dignifiedly, patting the invisible dust at her knees, and a strange smile on the corner of her mouth: "Your Majesty, do you know that the tea you drank just now was poisoned by the mourning family?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Liang Gonggong quickly leaped to Emperor Qingyuan to block it, took out a silver needle from his arms and put it into the tea that Emperor Qingyuan had drunk.

Seeing that the silver needle turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, Liang's father-in-law was so frightened that his legs trembled: "Your Majesty, there is poison in the tea!" ”