137. Offering incense
Xu Shu entered the palace to present the new Buddha incense, the Empress Dowager liked it as always, and remembered the grievances Xu Shu suffered in the palace last time, so she took this opportunity to reward her with a lot of things, Xu Shu just thanked the grace, and the little eunuch under the door screamed in his throat, "The prince has arrived!" ”
Xu Shu's face showed panic, grabbed the corner of her clothes and said, "Last time, the queen saved the courtiers, and the courtiers should go and thank the queen!" "The fear of the Great Prince is clear at a glance.
"Go ahead! I'll have someone send you closer through the back door! The Empress Dowager nodded, just in time for Xu Shu to avoid the eldest prince.
Immediately, a palace maid stepped forward to lead the way, mixed with Xu Shu to the back door, the eldest prince rushed into the palace, Xu Shu had disappeared, the eldest prince looked around and didn't see Xu Shu, and was immediately unhappy, and hastily gave the queen mother a salute and sat crookedly.
The Empress Dowager knew the mind of the eldest prince, but she didn't see it, and only asked some homework as usual, and the eldest prince replied absentmindedly, but did not catch Xu Shu, and the eldest prince had no intention of staying, so she found a reason and ran away, and the Empress Dowager looked straight and sighed.
Recently, the eldest prince has become more and more absurd and moody, and there are more and more twists and turns in impeaching the eldest prince, and the empress dowager has gradually realized that there are many bad things about the eldest prince, but the emperor is the only prince who is the only prince, and he can only inherit the throne in the future, so he doesn't want to get used to him anymore, and he doesn't want to see the big Yin country ruined in his hands.
Out of the back door, the palace maid led it to Kunning Palace, the panic on Xu Shu's face dissipated, the palace maid looked very distressed, the temperament of the eldest prince is known to everyone in the palace, they saw that the eldest prince was walking around, lest they avoid it, for fear of falling into the hands of the eldest prince, but there are still people who can't escape the clutches of the eldest prince, and none of the people who are worried about the eldest prince can escape, and this Miss Xu Jiu doesn't know when to hide......
Xu Shu entered the Kunning Palace, and the queen was already waiting, "I heard yesterday that you handed over the post to the palace, and the palace guessed that you should come today!" ”
"The courtiers have seen the queen mother Chitose Chitose Chitose!"
"Get up! Throne! The queen looked at Xu Shu with a smile, her eyes flashing with a different light, expectation, excitement.
Xu Shu sat down obediently and took out a thing, "Last time, the queen saved the life of the courtier, and the courtier couldn't repay it, and thought that the mother was the mother of a country, what kind of good things didn't have it, and taking some ordinary things would tarnish the identity of the mother, so I made some incense and offered it to the mother, and I hope the mother will not dislike it!" ”
The box with incense is engraved with a few flower branches, not the commonly used passion flower pattern, the queen mother fixed her eyes to recognize that it is a pomegranate flower, pomegranate means many children, this incense is famous! The queen's heart moved, and she took it with her own hands, "She likes the incense mother you made, how can the palace dislike it, it's too late to like it!" ”
A palace maid stepped forward to take the incense box, but the queen mother stopped her and held the incense box tightly in her hand, as if grasping a life-saving straw.
Xu Shu said again, "The Empress Dowager uses Buddha incense, and your courtiers call it 'night incense', which is used before going to bed at night, light one and insert it in the incense burner, and get up the next morning refreshed and energetic!" ”
"How effective is it? The palace can't help but want to borrow flowers to offer the Buddha to the emperor, and I've been talking about fatigue lately! The queen smiled, but grabbed the incense box tighter in her hand.
Xu Shu smiled and didn't say anything, but the curvature of the corners of her mouth was deeper, and the queen understood what Xu Shu meant, this incense was not for her, but for the emperor!
"But this incense has to be burned in a stone furnace to have this effect, and you can't use the silver incense burner in the Niangniang Palace!"
"The main palace will be changed when I turn around!" The smile on the queen's face couldn't help but hang on her face, and the mood was a lightness that she hadn't had for many years!
"It's still early, you can accompany the palace to the imperial garden for a walk!" The queen still has something to say to Xu Shu, but because there are many people in Kunning Palace, she can only change places.
The queen took Xu Shu to the imperial garden, and took advantage of the tea and snacks to take the incense to open all the people around her, and then she couldn't wait to ask, "Can this incense really make me pregnant with a dragon fetus?" ”
Xu Shu nodded, "If what I expected is not bad, this incense will definitely work!" ”
The queen glanced at Xu Shu and said with a smile, "You and Bengong are now on the same boat, and you are still hiding from Bengong when you speak, if you don't talk about Bengong, you can just say it!" ”
"The emperor is in the prime of life, and there are countless concubines in the palace, but only the concubine has the sole seedling of the eldest prince, and the people in the palace have long been talking about it in private, saying that the concubine did something to the emperor, so that the other concubines could not conceive the dragon fetus, and even the emperor privately asked the imperial doctor to diagnose the pulse, but did not find out what happened, and now it seems that the gossip in this palace is not completely unreasonable!"
Xu Shu lowered her head and neither agreed nor denied the queen's guess, but the queen privately thought that her guesses were all right, touched the incense box in her sleeve, and asked, "How did you guess this?" ”
Xu Shu replied, "After many investigations, the courtiers found out that the Marquis of Yongle had purchased a large number of rare and exotic herbs more than ten years ago, and the eldest prince was born the next year!" Based on those medicinal herbs, the courtiers developed this box of nightshade! ”
"You can find out more than ten years ago?" The queen couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Shu smiled lightly, "Courtiers make incense, there are always some long-term dealers, Yongle Houfu is generous, and the ones they buy are uncommon medicinal materials, and the medicine merchants will naturally not easily forget, even if it is more than ten years later, they still remember that it is because the courtiers inquired about it!" ”
"This lady is really exhausted!" The queen sneered, "Wait until the palace gives birth to the prince safely, and then settle accounts with her!" ”
Xu Shu was entangled for a moment and couldn't help but say, "If the emperor is in charge of Kunning Palace, Niangniang might as well make some venison and deer marrow soup to make up for the emperor!" ”
Venison deer marrow soup? That's an aphrodisiac thing, what does Xu Shu mean by this? The queen looked at Xu Shu in surprise.
Xu Shu explained, "After all, the emperor is not young anymore, not as much as he was more than ten years ago, and he has been impregnated with drugs for many years......"
The queen smiled knowingly, "This palace understands, just do what you say, nothing is more important than the prince!" ”
"The courtiers wish Niangniang to achieve her wish as soon as possible!"
"I'm looking forward to that day!" The queen stroked her lower abdomen, and the tenderness in her eyes at that moment was gentler than the moonlight, which was a woman's desire to be a mother.
"When that day comes, this palace will definitely thank you again!" The queen promised, "Say, what do you want?" ”
Xu Shu shook her head, "Niangniang saved the life of the courtier, this is the courtier's reward to the mother, don't dare to ask for credit again!" ”
"Although this palace saved you, but it also made a lot of profits, and now you help me give birth to the emperor, and you should also be rewarded for your merits!" The queen was full of confidence, and it seemed that she had really given birth to a prince.
"As long as the mother gets what she wants, the courtiers will be satisfied!"
Xu Shu is telling the truth, as long as the queen gives birth to a prince, the eldest prince will have no status at all, and her goal will be achieved!