After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day. In the Changle Palace on the west side of the Forbidden City, Empress Dowager Liu slept for a while in the afternoon, sat up and leaned on the soft collapse of the hall to enjoy the shade. The palace maid Peony stood beside the Queen Mother with a fan and gently shook the fan for her, and the peony brought plums, apricots and peaches from the well.

Empress Dowager Liu is a peasant girl in the suburbs of Beijing, with a straightforward and refreshing temperament, and likes to be bright and lively. Her palace maids are all named after fragrant and beautiful flowers such as peonies, peonies, fragrant jade, and narcissus.

When Empress Dowager Liu saw the fruit, she didn't have much appetite, so she only twisted a plum to eat.

She is now fifty-five, and although she is a little older, she has always been in good spirits and has a good appetite. It's just that she has encountered some tricky things in recent days, which has given her a headache and her appetite has been ruined.

Empress Dowager Liu is a person who has gone through wind and rain. When he was imprisoned in the South Palace with the first emperor, there was a shortage of food and clothing, and the shadow of death could come at any time. No matter how depressed others were, Liu still showed extraordinary tenacity, in addition to being a female celebrity with other concubines and palace people, she secretly asked the little eunuch who was guarding the door to take out the palace ban to change food and cloth, she also opened a small piece of land in a corner of the side hall, and planted eggplants, radishes and green onions with the vegetables in exchange for Chen Huaishen and the children.

In such a hard time in Nangong, she not only protected her daughter Princess Fengqing, raised her to be gentle and sensible, but also gave birth to the little prince Chen Jianze.

Nangong's suffering destroyed the health of many people, including Chen Huaishen and Empress Qian, but Liu was still alive and vigorous like weeds, vigilantly guarding her cubs like a mother animal.

Fortunately, her children survived.

Empress Dowager Sun passed away, Chen Huaishen died, and Empress Qian died. And she and her children are alive and well. Her eldest son became the emperor of Great Yan. Her youngest son, Chen Jianze, was named King Chong and became a vassal of Runing Mansion. Her daughter Fengqing is married to the concubine Qin Se Harmony.

At a time when more than half of her children did not survive to adulthood, her children not only survived, but also survived well. This is enough to make a mother proud for a lifetime.

Now, she is raising the next king of the empire, the crown prince Chen Youcong. She believed that she would also be able to raise this child to adulthood, and see him marry and have children, and grow into a great man.

Many courtiers suggested that when the prince was older, he should move into the East Palace, and should not live in the Queen Mother's Changle Palace for a long time.

Empress Dowager Liu ignored these words. The crown prince is not yet fourteen years old, and now that she has moved out of the palace, she is not at ease.

No, before the prince had moved out of her, someone began to play tricks on her nose. And there are more than one or two ghosts.

Empress Dowager Liu sighed, life is like this, in fact, there are not many peaceful birthdays to live. Let's see the move.

Before Empress Dowager Liu could sort out her thoughts, she saw her palace maid Xiangyu hurriedly walking into the hall, and after saluting, she came up to report:

"The prince has returned to the palace. It's just that the prince kept holding his left wrist with his right hand, as if he was injured. ”

"What's going on? Invite the prince over. The Queen Mother said and was about to get up from the soft couch. The peony next to him was busy coming over to help.

The Queen Mother got up very neatly and didn't need support.

The prince and his entourage walked from outside the palace to the main hall where the queen mother was, and saluted the queen mother: "Grandson, please say hello to the imperial grandmother!" ”

Empress Dowager Liu hurriedly grabbed him: "I heard that your wrist is injured, show me quickly." "Empress Dowager Liu doesn't like the self-claim of the mourning family in private, and no one dares to find fault with her in this palace.

"It's not in the way." The prince hid his wrists in his sleeves, not wanting to show them to his grandmother. But he was still pulled over by Empress Dowager Liu and lifted her sleeves, and the blood marks scratched by the three sharp claws were impressively exposed on the delicately textured skin.

"What's going on?" Empress Dowager Liu raised her eyebrows and asked.

Feng Hao, the little eunuch beside Chen Youcong, hurriedly came over and knelt down: "Back to the Queen Mother, the prince listened to Mrs. Liu's lecture in the Wenhua Hall this morning, and was recruited by the emperor to go to the Qianqing Palace for dinner. The prince came out of the meal, and on the way he met the lady surnamed Ye in the house of Jin Guifei, who brought a basket, and the two hawksbill cats she raised were placed in the basket. The prince teased the cat, but was scratched hard. The prince didn't allow the servants to make a noise, saying that it would be good to go back to the palace to find the jasper paste given by the imperial doctor earlier and wipe it. ”

"The injury is so serious, how can you rub some wound medicine casually?" The Queen Mother frowned.

Peony hurriedly said beside him: "The slave will send someone to call the imperial doctor." ”

The Queen Mother suddenly remembered something and said, "Don't use it yet." The Taoist doctor surnamed Zhang who was summoned a few days ago has already taught the rules? Tell her to come and show the prince. ”

Peony took the order and left.

The Queen Mother complained to the prince here: "You have always been a steady child, what are you doing to provoke that cat for no reason?" If you like cats, ask someone to send them to you, why do you want to see that girl's cat? ”

The prince smiled and said, "I don't want to have a cat, I'm just teasing it today." However, if the imperial grandmother wants to raise a cat, the grandson will find a good one for you. ”

The Queen Mother shook her head: "Okay, what do I do with a cat?" Raising you is enough for me to worry about. ”

Chen Youcong smiled: "My honest grandson, you still feel worried." What should I do if I really meet a naughty one? ”

This is good in the Queen Mother's Palace, the Queen Mother is not a person who likes to put on a show, and she is very close to the prince.

The Queen Mother sighed and brushed his sideburns: "It's just that I know that you are an honest child, so my grandmother is so worried." ”

In fact, the Queen Mother was a little surprised, in the Queen Mother's opinion, the prince didn't care about Ye Tongying, why did he provoke Ye Tongying's cat, she didn't understand.

The cousin of the Jin Guifei family, Ye Tongying, and the Empress Dowager Liu are naturally familiar.

Ye Tongying is the daughter of Jin Ling'er's two aunts and cousins, although she is only twelve years old this year, she has been born charming, with snow-white skin, cherry red lips, eyes like paint, and a smile. It's just that it's said that he has a rather perverse temper in private, and he punishes the maids around him at every turn, without mercy. It's so good to have two cats for yourself, and you have to take them with you wherever you go. The two cats were also pampered by her.

Empress Dowager Liu didn't like Ye Tongying. But Ye Tongying is very favored by Jin Guifei. Concubine Jin has no children and no daughters under her knees, and often takes Ye Tongying to the palace to accompany her. The emperor looked at Jin Guifei's face, and he was also very tolerant of Ye Tongying.

On this year's Shangyuan Festival, Ye Tongying met the prince at the royal family banquet. From then on, when the prince was walking in the palace, he could always meet Ye Tongying from time to time.

Sometimes when the emperor went to Jin Guifei's Anxi Palace, he would also pass on the prince to go over for dinner, and he often saw Ye Tongying as an accompaniment during the banquet.

Empress Dowager Liu knew what Jin Guifei had in mind. But she won't let Kim succeed. And she also knows that the prince is gentle and peaceful on the surface, but in fact, he knows very well in his heart that he will not be fascinated by Ye Tongying. Alas, sometimes the child is just too clear to suffer so much.

In fact, compared to the injury on the prince's hand, what made her look more worried was the blue and black under the prince's eyes and sunken cheeks. She knew that the prince had never slept well during this time. also knows the reason why the prince can't sleep all night, but this knot in his heart is not easy to untie.

I hope that the Taoist doctor recommended by Fengqing is really Taoist.

While the grandparents and grandchildren were talking, Zhang Weizhao, a new Taoist doctor in the palace of the Empress Dowager Liu, walked into the palace to salute the Empress Dowager and the Prince.

This is the first time Zhang Weizhao met Chen Youcong. At this time, Zhang Weizhao didn't know that Chen Youcong was her real target customer.

The prince is quite tall, but his muscles are not yet fully developed, and there is a sense of emaciation unique to young people. Wearing a red round-necked shirt with a black gauze folded scarf, this is the prince's regular clothes. Because the prince went to school in the Wenhua Hall in the morning and had dinner with the emperor at noon, he went out in his regular clothes, and he didn't have time to change at this time.

The reason why Zhang Weizhao can see that the prince is wearing regular clothes is because she was given a cramming crash education before officially starting her job, and how to distinguish the identity of everyone in the palace through clothing is the most important lesson, which is a major matter related to life, so Zhang Weizhao studied very carefully.

The prince didn't know that a Taoist doctor had recently been recruited in the Changle Palace. This Taoist doctor was wearing a blue ramie robe, his hair was combed in a Taoist bun on the top of his head, and there was no decoration on his head and ears. This dress is quite peculiar, Chen Youcong couldn't help but look at it twice, and after seeing it, he felt that it was not her clothes and ornaments that were special, but that the whole smell of this person was very different from the people he had seen before, but he couldn't say why.

The qualification to wear a robe was won by Zhang Weizhao and the Queen Mother. When she met the Queen Mother for the first time, she said that she was a Taoist doctor, and it was best to still dress up as a Taoist doctor, so as to retain her respect for the Taoist ancestors, and secondly, it would be convenient for her to practice medicine.

Empress Dowager Liu believed in Taoism, and when she heard her pious, she nodded.

"Does it matter?" The Queen Mother asked Zhang Weizhao.

"It's okay. It's good to raise it for three or five days. Zhang Weizhao replied.

Zhang Weizhao opened the medicine box and first took out a pair of white mulberry paper gloves. The young prince watched curiously as she put on her gloves, and even the Queen Mother couldn't help asking, "What is this?" ”

At this time, only when the generals of the army rode horses in winter, they would wear gloves made of animal skins. No one wears gloves on a daily basis, and doctors don't have the concept of wearing gloves.

Zhang Weizhao smiled: "This is a medical glove." Prevent evil qi from entering the body through the wound. Naturally, she can't talk about preventing bacteria and viruses, only about evil spirits.

With her smile, Chen Youcong felt that she knew why she looked different from ordinary people, because she did not have the tightness and fear that ordinary palace maids or even imperial doctors consciously or unconsciously showed when facing superiors, on the contrary, she seemed to be very proud of her medical skills, and she looked full of spirit that only successful scholars would have.