On the same day, after Mrs. Shen left Wenjiayuan, she went straight to the imperial palace, the imperial city where the Wen family courtyard was already located.

When Mrs. Shen arrived at the queen's Fengxu Palace, the queen Shen Ying was leaning on the phoenix couch with a haggard face, a pink-clothed palace maid was drinking medicine for him, and there was an elderly woman with silver hair standing next to her.

Everyone knows that since the second prince died of illness, the queen fainted, and after waking up, she couldn't afford to be sick, and she lingered on the sickbed for a long time.

Although Mrs. Shen is the queen's mother-in-law, in front of the imperial power, her parents often have to stand on the side. Mrs. Shen glanced at the old lady and stepped forward to greet the queen respectfully.

The queen sat up straight and wanted to reach out to help, but let the old grandmother take the first step to support Mrs. Shen, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Shen didn't come over yesterday, and Niangniang was still thinking about you just now." ”

Mrs. Shen said with a smile: "There were some things in the house yesterday, I wanted to come later, but when I was done, I was afraid that the palace gate would be under the spoon." The queen mother is here, and Mama Lao Chun takes care of it. ”

Nachun Mama hurriedly said: "Madame is tormenting the old slave, the queen mother is worried about the queen's body, and she orders the old slave to serve the queen mother every day to drink medicine, which is the old slave's business." ”

The queen had already drunk the medicine, waved her hand to let the pink-clothed palace maid retreat, and Mama Chun hurriedly stepped forward to take the tea bowl in the hands of another palace maid who came up with a tea bowl, and waited for the queen to rinse her mouth.

The queen raised her sleeves to cover her mouth, and gently spit the mouthwash into a cloisonné dragon and phoenix with auspicious patterns and a wide round body spittoon held by the little palace maid, and took the brocade and wiped her mouth: "Let the queen mother worry, it's the son's unfilial piety." After Mama Lao Fuchun went back, she helped the palace to say in front of the queen mother, and the palace was already well. ”

Mama Chun helped the queen to lie down again. Lightly helped her cover the quilt: "The slave looks at the queen's complexion much better, but the queen mother has always valued you, I'm afraid I can't rest assured that you won't wait for you to recover." ”

The queen sighed, a melancholy in her eyes.

Mama Chun smiled: "Niangniang has already drunk the medicine. The slave and maid will go back to Ci'an Palace to inform the queen mother of the situation of the mother, Mrs. Shen, you accompany the mother to talk, and the slave and the maid retreated first. ”

The queen nodded.

Mama Chun saluted the queen and Ke's family, and retreated with the palace maids who had just served.

"You all stand down!".

The palace maids who had originally stood in two columns retreated in an instant. Not a sound came out. In the huge dormitory, only the queen and Mrs. Shen's mother and daughter were left.

"Mother, sit down, there are no outsiders." Shen Ying unveiled the thin brocade quilt. Fu sat up again. Ke Shi hurriedly stepped forward to hold the queen well. He took out a light yellow four-fold Ruyi group dragon pattern cushion from the inside of the phoenix couch and placed it behind Shen Ying.

Shen Ying waved her hand and got out of bed.

"I'm not so useless, mother, don't be busy, I'm fine."

Shen Ying's face was no longer haggard and melancholy in front of outsiders, she walked back and forth in the dormitory for a few steps, and said to Ke Shi with a light smile: "After lying down for so many days, even if you are not sick, you will become sick." Thanks to your mother, who came to see me every day, I was able to breathe. ”

Ke's heart was sour when he heard this, and he couldn't hold back his tears: "Ying'er." I'm sorry for you. His Royal Highness the Second Prince has just passed away, but you still have to brace yourself and plan for your family. ”

Shen Ying was silent for a moment when she heard this. Cai said lightly: "In this world, what do you want to get, where does you not need to pay a price?" The Shen family is my roots, I don't just want to help my father, I'm also helping myself. ”

Shen Ying walked back to the phoenix couch and sat down, stretched out her hand and gently stroked the gilded dragon and phoenix patterns on the edge of the couch, and the obsession in her eyes was not concealed at all.

Sitting in this position, she can look down on all the people in the world. Has she been lucky all these years? Nature is hard! But she thought it was worth it.

From the moment she received the holy decree of the emperor to enter the palace, she knew what kind of life she wanted to live, what kind of price she had to pay, and what kind of glory she had that was difficult for mortals to achieve.

"Ying'er, the mother doesn't feel sorry for her child? Mother knows that you are bitter in your heart...... "Ke Shi has always been her daughter, or the little girl who loved to laugh and was tired of being coquettish in her arms.

The queen pursed her lips when she heard this, but there was a touch of hardness in her eyes: "I should be sad, I was sad enough when the child was born, and I have already accepted it for more than a year since I was bitter in my heart." I know he won't survive, so why should I wait until today to be sad? ”

"Ying'er......" Ke Shi shouted in surprise.

The queen's face was expressionless: "Mother wants to ask, why do I know that he can't raise the child, but I still want to keep him for a year, so that he can stay in the world and suffer from more than a year of medicine and stone acupuncture?" ”

Ke Shi looked at Shen Ying in a daze.

The second prince has never stopped drinking medicine since he was born, and she has also seen those imperial doctors prick needles in that small body every day, and she cried bitterly several times when she saw it, she felt that her daughter felt as sorry for the little person as she did, but she really couldn't bear to see him die, so she had to force the doctors of the hospital to save the life of the second prince.

The queen tugged at the corners of her mouth: "Imperial Doctor Jiang said at the beginning that my child can't be saved, and he refuses to heal." It was I who asked the current doctor of Tai Hospital to try some secret methods to keep him for an extra year. ”

"Why is that?" Ke Shi felt that his daughter was becoming more and more similar to her husband, and she was more and more incomprehensible.

Because in the eyes of the world, including the hearts of the two people above her, a prince who died at birth and didn't even have a name is far inferior to a grandmother who can speak and call the emperor's grandmother, the emperor's grandson. The son is more expensive than the mother, and the mother is more expensive than the son, although his child is destined to be unable to be saved when he is born, but she and the Shen family need an emperor who can leave an impression in the hearts of the empress dowager and the emperor.

When she made that decision, she also kicked out all the palace people and locked herself in the dormitory and cried for a day and a night. But after crying, what should be done is still to be done, especially when the doctor told her that it was difficult for her body to have children.

Glory and wealth, status and glory, so you don't have to pay a price to get it? This is something she has long understood.

But these are not suitable for Keshi, because her mother does not understand her, just as she has not understood her husband and her own father in her life.

"Mother, I want you to enter the palace today because I have something to discuss." The queen changed the subject.

Ke Shi nodded hurriedly and said, "You have something to say." ”

The queen crossed her hands and put them on her right knee: "When will that daughter of the fourth room of the Shen family enter Beijing?"

Ke Shi thought for a while: "I received a letter from them the day before yesterday, and after calculating the itinerary, it should be these two days." Niangniang, why do you want me to write a letter to take Feng Jiao over? ”

The queen tapped her fingers on her knees and closed her eyes slightly: "Father sent someone to tell me that now the court persuades the emperor to choose embroidery girls to enrich the pleats of the harem, which are more than snowflakes in the capital in winter." ”

Ke Shi glanced at the queen worriedly when he heard this.

The queen seemed to feel Ke's gaze, raised her eyes and smiled: "The emperor is not an ordinary man, so naturally he should be the three palaces and six courts." Coupled with the fact that the emperor's knees are thin now, some people naturally feel that their opportunity has come. The queen has no children, and whoever can give birth to a prince in the future will be able to rise the boat. If he can be made the crown prince, then even the palace will have to avoid his edge. A cold glint flashed in the queen's eyes, and it quickly subsided.

The worry in Ke's eyes was even worse: "I'll go back and discuss with the master, and the master will help you." ”

The queen shook her head: "No one can do anything about this matter. The emperor's concubine is settled. The gold armor on the queen's ring finger made a subtle sound of "stabbing and stabbing la" on her carved silk squirrels. The queen loved the sound, and her fingers kept tugging.

"So not only can I not stop it, but before the queen mother and the emperor make a decision, I will ask for guilty pleats and persuade the emperor to draft a concubine."

The queen's voice was still unhurried, this was the tone she had learned from her father, and she had to be unhurried and unhurried at all times, so that she could free up her mind to think about problems.

Although Shen Huaizhong is not from a family, his demeanor and bearing are indeed impossible to find fault with the meaning.

"Mother, after Shen Fengjiao comes, you can ask a grandmother to teach her etiquette, and I will arrange for her to enter the palace at that time."

Ke Shi was already a little stunned by the queen's series of words: "Although Feng Jiao is also a descendant, she grew up in her hometown since she was a child, where have you seen anything in the market?" Although I heard that her appearance is also beautiful, after all, she can't compare with the nobles in the capital, why does the queen ......"

The queen shook her head: "How to let her be favored, mother, you don't have to worry, the emperor still has some affection for me, a wife, and I have my own way." Moreover, she only needs to help me give birth to the imperial heir, and she doesn't want her to favor the sixth palace. As for why I chose her, I naturally thought about it for a while, and she was the most suitable. ”

The most appropriate control.

The Shen family is not a famous family, although after Shen became a prominent family and she became the queen, the Shen family is also considered a prestigious family in the local area, but there is no way to compare the family heritage with those century-old families. The people of the Shen family know that they can get rid of the life of the loess facing the sky, and they are the light of the current queen.

Shen Fengjiao is the eldest daughter of Shen's younger brother, her father died early, and she only has younger brothers and younger sisters, and she has nothing to rely on except them.

The queen simply explained a few words to Ke's family, Ke's background is extraordinary, although his personality is generous, but he is not ignorant of the world, so he also understands the queen's thoughts.

"By the way, my mother went to Wang's house today for my brother's family affairs?" The queen asked. (To be continued)