Chapter 61: Su Lian's Punishment (II)
Su Curtain had already moved to the corner of the wall farthest away from the ice basin, but the cold white mist seemed to be everywhere, and it penetrated into her internal organs along her nostrils, and her whole body was cold for a while.
Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and there is today's suffering, and it is not without a source.
The status of the queen mother, as usual, is already a noble one. However, the Queen Mother is not Xuan Ye's biological mother, so naturally many courtesies and honors have been discounted. Especially in many cases, Xuan Ye always favors her, making her Queen Mother lose face.
Now that she has finally "fallen out of favor", how could the Queen Mother not take the opportunity to vent her past grievances? !
Coupled with last year's incident, it was even more embarrassing for the Queen Mother-
Zalafen's two bridesmaids, the old men personally selected by the Queen Mother, were found out of the princess's mansion by Fen'er at the end of last year for stealing. This move was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother lost face for this, and I heard that she also had the opportunity to reprimand Zalafen, but unfortunately Xuan Ye protected Fen'er very much, claiming that Fen'er was reprimanding Diao Nu for the Queen Mother, and this move should be rewarded - if it was such a joke, it made the Queen Mother lose all face.
With such a "deep hatred", as the queen mother, how can she endure it? Naturally, there must be resentment and revenge.
When the ice cubes in the eight vats melted seventy or eighty percent, Mama Bai came out of the second room and invited Su Curtain to enter with a smile.
The East Warm Pavilion is the place where the Queen Mother rests during the day, two years ago just rebuilt the entire Shouxuan Chunyong Palace, the East Warm Pavilion and the ζ’’ were merged, and the east side of the ear hall was opened, so now the East Warm Pavilion is very spacious, not only can take a nap and rest, but also have enough space to worship incense candles in front of the Buddha.
The innermost part is a shrine covered with bright yellow silk silk, four feet high and six feet wide. The three red gold Buddha statues of the Buddha, the Buddha of the Future, and the Buddha of the Past are enshrined, and the golden light is shining and the spirit is vibrant. A gilded Xuande furnace burns sandalwood day and night. The smell was a little pungent.
The Queen Mother was sitting upright on the day couch under the long window on the west side, with an ivory mat on her body. Holding a string of one hundred and eight agarwood Buddha beads in her hand, she is closing her eyes, twisting the Buddha beads with a calm face, and her mouth seems to be "Great Compassion Mantra", and the expression of the Queen Mother is a face of kindness and compassion, as if she is a Bodhisattva and a Buddha!!
Su Lian couldn't help but sneer in her heart: What a queen mother!!
But he can only move forward step by step. Kneeling and bowing, Su Lian deliberately raised his voice and said: "Say hello to the Queen Mother!" β
The Queen Mother didn't hear it, only her eyelids moved slightly, her eyes opened a little gap, and she glanced at the Su curtain kneeling on the ground, and then she looked like an old monk. The mouth continued to chant from the "Great Compassion Mantra" just now: "Boyamana, Suvaha, Siddha, Suvaha, Maha Siddhar......"
Sanskrit sounds. It's still buzzing.
Mama Bai said in a low voice: "The Queen Mother has to recite the Great Compassion Mantra ten times a day, please don't disturb the Mother." β
Su Lian took a deep breath and suppressed the sneer in his abdomen and the anger in his chest. knelt quietly a foot away from the Queen Mother, and his face became more and more gloomy.
There are a total of seventy-eight sentences of the Great Compassion Mantra, which is not long, but the Queen Mother recited it very much, and it was ten times, and it would take at least half an hour to calculate it roughly! The old and indistinct humming sound kept echoing in Su Curtain's ears, touching his knees on the hard brick curtain, and gradually hurting. And not only. Su Lian's head gradually ached, and his temples were even more faintly swollen. Her body was getting more and more sore, and only the tingling pain in her knees kept her clear.
Finally. After the queen mother finished talking, she slowly raised her eyelids, indifferently swept the abnormally pale Su Curtain, and reprimanded: "The mourning family originally asked you to listen to the Buddhist scriptures and sharpen your character, but I didn't expect you to be a fool!" It's really rude to be so untidy in front of the Buddha!! β
The Queen Mother snorted, and reprimanded Su Curtain with a look of disgust: "It's the mourning family that shouldn't lift you up!" Leng snorted again, and continued: "That's it, the mourning family has always been merciful, and they won't punish you for anything!" Let's go! Don't come to the mourning palace in the future!! β
The sneer in Su Lian's heart never dissipated, don't come to her palace? Then who invited her? Isn't it fun to slap yourself in the mouth? Or if the human face is thick enough to do so.
Su Lian didn't say a word, endured the tingling pain in her knees and the discomfort all over her body and stood up, in the eyes of the Queen Mother, she didn't want to show the slightest cowardice, so she straightened up, and made an impeccable farewell to Wanfu at a glance, and walked out of her Shouxuanchun Yongdian step by step.
Outside the hall, Sixi, whose face was already red, saw Su Lian come out, and couldn't help but greet him happily: "Niangniang, you can figure it out, but you are really a bad slave!" β
When Sixi stretched out his hand to help her, Su Lian caught the driftwood overboard, and ninety percent of the weight of his body was pressed on her.
Sixi was startled, and hurriedly held it steadily, and then said: "Niangniang, why are your hands so cold!" β
There was a sneer on the corner of Su Lai's mouth: "There are eight huge ice tanks in the main hall, the Queen Mother really looks up to me!" These words should have been vicious, but Su Lian couldn't say such a loud tone, and Sixi felt that it was a weak complaint.
Sixi couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, turned his head and glared at the palace fiercely, and then carefully supported Su Curtain and sat on his shoulder.
As soon as he returned to the Taning Palace, Su Lian couldn't hold it anymore, and fell to the bed with a sour body.
"! Empress!! Sixi's face was all over the place, she hurriedly touched Su Lian's forehead, where it was already hot, and immediately shouted: "Imperial Doctor! Go and pass on the Imperial Doctorβ"
"Embroider clothes, prepare a set of dry clothes!!"
Su Lian's consciousness is quite clear, but his hands and feet are weak, and his cheeks and forehead are hot again...... This feeling should be due to the wind chill, right? Hehe, in the hottest summer day of the year, there is a wind chill - if you change others, I'm afraid you won't believe it, right?
A few close-fitting palace maids quickly changed her clothes with their hands and feet, and someone moved the ice basin in the hall out, sent her into the quilt, and poured a hot milk tea, Su Lian felt a little better.
Sixi walked out of the hall quickly, saw the old eunuch Jin Si standing under the corridor, and hurriedly ordered: "Go and boil a bowl of thick ginger soup, the mother has a fever, I'm afraid it's cold!" "ββNiangniang's favorite thing to drink is ginger soup, such an order, Sixi can only avoid the Su curtain and order in private.
Jin Si was puzzled: "It's a hot day now, it's still possible to attract summer heat, how can it be a wind chill?" β
Sixi confided angrily, and said hatefully: "Niangniang was blocked outside the Shouxuanchun Yong Hall for half an hour, and she sweated profusely, but there were eight ice jars in the main hall of the Empress Dowager. After such a heavy sweat, who can stand the cold?! The Queen Mother is also a person who believes in Buddhism, how can she make such a ......" After the big disrespectful words, Sixi Sheng swallowed back into his throat, but he was so angry that his face was flushed.
At this time, Xiushang walked out of it quickly, and hurriedly said to Sixi: "Auntie, where is the white jade scar removal cream?" I remember you've been keeping it for your mother-"
Sixi was stunned: "What's wrong?" What are you looking for white jade scar cream for? β
Xiushang had tears in her eyes: "When the slave and Xiuqi were changing the mother's clothes, they saw that the mother's knees were so red and swollen that they couldn't look like they!" β
Sixi suddenly felt a lot of anger in his heart, no wonder, no wonder...... When the mother went on the shoulder, it all relied on her strength to help up, she thought it was the mother who was weak and cold, but she didn't expect her knees to be broken!! Sixi is now angry and regretful, and can't help but blame himself: "If I go in with my mother, I will ......"
But put the matter aside for the time being, and quickly took the embroidered clothes to rummage through the white jade scar removal cream that I didn't know where to put it.
Su Lian only felt that his head was getting heavier and heavier, and as soon as he lay down, it gradually became hazy, and suddenly, Xiuqi hurriedly came in to report: "Niangniang, the emperor is here!" β
Su Lian suddenly sobered up, and when he was about to get up in a hurry, he saw Xuan Ye with a surging anger on his face, and strode in with a meteor.
People with fever are all red-faced, and at first glance, they think they are ruddy and good-looking.
Xuan Ye looked at Su Lian's "lazy" appearance, and suddenly became angry, so he angrily reprimanded: "The emperor's mother asked you to listen to the Buddhist scriptures, but you were not respectful, who gave you the courage?!! β
The voice was very deafening, and Su Lian's ruddy face hung a detached and cold smile, and he looked at him with a slightly sideways face.
"I'm too indulgent of you! Connived so much that you have become less and less like this over the years!! β
"You're not an ignorant little woman! You should know how to be inferior to the young!! In front of the Queen Mother, there is no courtesy, no humility, how can you ask me to continue to indulge you?!! β
Xuan Ye's questioning and reprimand were higher than the other, but Su Lian only felt that his ears were buzzing, as if the sound of the Queen Mother's great compassion spell was echoing in his eardrums. His eyes gradually blurred, and even his angry face gradually blurred...... Gradually, I couldn't hear what he was yelling, but it was all rebuke.
Then a moment before he fell unconscious, he seemed to hear Jin Si's voice: "Niangniang, the ginger soup is ready......
"I know...... I don't drink ginger soup...... Who, who ordered it......" Su Lian really felt very tired, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, it was obviously a whole sentence, how could he spit it out intermittently?
Jin Si replied: "It was ordered by the Miss Sixi!" β
As soon as his words fell, Su Lian faintly heard Sixi's eager footsteps and eager tone: "Niangniang, the white jade scar removal cream has been found!" Embroidery, quickly paint the mother! β
"White Jade Scar Removal Cream?!" This repetition was Xuan Ye's surprised and stunned voice. Then, Su Lian didn't know anything, and what embraced her was darkness...... (To be continued)...