I sat in the Taihua Palace, the doctors were busy, and I just calmly sipped the tea.

After Feng Zhaoyi glanced at me when she came, she directly stood by the Empress Dowager's bed to watch her condition.

Imperial Physician Jia came to me, saluted, and asked me if I should inform the emperor and let the emperor know.

I solemnly say that after the emperor is on the front line, can he come back at this time!

Snowflakes were falling in the sky outside, and the palace was unusually silent and cold. However, the Taihua Hall was full of people, and some ministers knelt in the main hall when they heard the news of the Queen Mother's illness, waiting.

Gao Xian was waiting on the side in military uniform, vigilant from time to time, afraid of someone shouting and cheering.

How can the Empress Dowager be so seriously ill and not notify the emperor?

Some of the ministers were talking, and I just laughed. Maybe it's okay if the emperor comes back.

I finally stood up and said aloud to the ministers in the Taihua Palace, "Then inform the emperor." ”

Seeing that I said this, the courtiers below did not talk about it again.

A few days later, the emperor returned to the court, but returned to the court after winning the battle.

Tuoba Hong didn't come to see me when he returned to the palace, but went directly to the Taihua Palace to meet the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager has woken up these days, but she can't move her whole body, her lower limbs are paralyzed, her speech is knotted, and she can't speak clearly.

When the emperor called her "imperial grandmother", the empress dowager just wanted to say something but couldn't say anything.

I took the initiative to go to the Taihua Palace, greeted Tuoba Hong, and said hello to the Empress Dowager on the hospital bed.

Princess Yingyu of Pengcheng sobbed on the side and called in a voice, "Imperial grandmother." The voice was bleak.

Feng Zhaoyi also cried silently on the side, while I didn't have any expression on my face, not even a trace of sadness.

At this time, a slave maid came to report, saying that the former queen Feng Yueyan wanted to enter the palace to visit the queen mother.

Tuoba Hongdang didn't hear it, so he didn't answer.

The slave retreated in a trance.

This was when the Empress Dowager woke up and became conscious this time, and I came to see her.

She stared at me, not knowing what to say to me, but she twitched her mouth but couldn't speak.

She struggled to raise her hand and gestured to the cabinet at her bedside. The people waiting by the bed all saw what the Queen Mother meant, there must be something in the cupboard.

The eunuch Liu Asu seemed to know what the Empress Dowager was talking about, and took out a box from the cabinet.

Everyone looked at the box in Liu Asu's hand, including Tuoba Hong, who was also suspicious.

This is a rosewood box, exactly the same as the one with the pills that Master Cui gave me.

The Empress Dowager pointed at me at this time. Everyone didn't understand what the Empress Dowager meant, but I seemed to understand what the Empress Dowager meant in surprise.

She wanted to ask me where Cui Boyuan was.

She didn't want to die, she wanted to live, she wanted Cui Boyuan to save her. What she thought about in the last life was me, whether I could find Cui Boyuan to save her.

Tuoba Hong stretched out his hand and took the rosewood box from Liu Asu's hand, opened it and looked at it, everyone thought that there would be something inside, but after opening it, it was only empty.

Tuoba Hong was curious.

The faces of the crowd were even more curious. And only I know in my heart that what medicine Cui Boyuan gave to the Empress Dowager back then was what she needed, but now that medicine is gone, and she still wants it at this time, or hopes that I can have it.

It's ridiculous.

Tuoba Hong looked at me, not understanding, and he said, "What does Imperial Grandmother mean by this?" ”

I smiled lightly and shook my head, with a very puzzled expression, "How does the concubine know." ”

Liu Asu said respectfully at this time, "The Empress Dowager wants to ask the concubine Niangniang to find medicine for the Empress Dowager." ”

I sneered, "This palace knows what kind of medicine." ”

Tuoba Hong also frowned, "How does the concubine know what medicine, the eunuch has misunderstood." ”

Feng Zhaoyi suddenly said, "Guifei, what medicine do you have to take out, doesn't the concubine want the Empress Dowager to get better?" ”

Ho, the Empress Dowager is putting me along.

Let everyone think that I have medicine, but I don't want to take it out for treatment.

I sneered in my heart, even if I had, I wouldn't take it out, not to mention that I didn't have it at all.

Tuoba Hong said to everyone lightly, "The concubine is in the deep palace, what medicine can there be, if there is, the concubine must have taken it out a long time ago, and she will not save the empress dowager." ”

But he still looked at me with a strange expression after saying this.

I looked at the sad expression of the Empress Dowager, she made people feel pity at this time, but I really couldn't save her.

The news of the Empress Dowager's drive was in the middle of the night, when I was already asleep, and it was Zhu Yan who woke me up and said that the Empress Dowager had returned.

The government and the opposition were shocked for a moment, and I sat on the bed blankly, without any emotion for a while.

She's dead.

I actually smiled nonchalantly.

I stayed for a long time before I got up and stood under the porch in the middle of the night, looking up at the night sky, which was very dark tonight, as dark as if there were no stars.

But I think my father may have watched all this from the sky, but he didn't know that he was safe under the spring.

I laughed, in a trance, and shiveringly laughed.

Is there still an intention for me to stay in this palace now?

I can't find the reason anymore.

But suddenly, I wondered myself, is there really no reason?

"Niangniang, do you want to go to Taihua Palace?" The bamboo inkstone disrupted my thoughts.

I pulled back my emotions and quietly glanced at the bamboo inkstone, if I didn't go, would it make people discuss. Of course, that's for sure.

When I came to the Taihua Palace, Tuoba Hong was a lot haggard, and it seemed that he had been worried about the Empress Dowager's illness since he returned to the palace.

said that he was not filial, that is a barren liao.

Feng Zhaoyi was like losing a backer, and the sobbing look was really sad.

I thought it was over, but I didn't expect Tuoba Hong to promise the Empress Dowager before her death to make Feng Zhaoyi the empress.

I didn't want to be the queen, but Tuoba Hong promised the empress dowager this time but didn't let me know.

When I heard the news, I didn't want to talk to Takubahiro because I had a vague feeling in my heart that he was giving up on me.

He probably doesn't love me anymore.

When I realized this, I felt an indescribable feeling of discomfort.

After the Empress Dowager's drive to the coffin in Fangshan Guling, for such a long time, Tuoba Hong was just silent to me, and I didn't say a few words to him.

To say that he was busy with the funeral of the Empress Dowager might as well that he might not really want to talk to me.

But why might he give up on me and let me go out of the palace to be myself.

During this time, although he was not often in front of me, he always let Gongyi follow me.

said that he wanted Gongyi to be by my side as a guard, but in fact, he just wanted to watch me.

Is he worried about me or something, afraid that I will run away?

I haven't seen Xiao Jingqi for a long time, or maybe I just haven't seen him, but he doesn't necessarily haven't seen me.

When the ministers and the imperial brigade sent the coffin of the Empress Dowager to Fangshan Guling, I received a letter from Xiao Jingqi.

Yi'er sent it to me. At that time, I was heading to Fangshan with the team.

Yi'er was able to receive Xiao Jingqi's letter at that time, and it seemed that he should be not far from the send-off team, even watching us.

He didn't show up and won't show up. As I can imagine, he even disguised himself.

He must have been watching me all the time and knew what I was doing. Be sure to be watching me from a hidden place, too.

This invasion of the north was his handiwork, but it was my intention.

I asked Yi'er to send a letter to Xiao Jingqi at that time, but I just wanted to ask him to think of a way to let the emperor leave the palace for a while. I didn't expect him to provoke the Rouran Khanate to invade Great Wei.

The emperor really left the palace, but I didn't expect such a big battle to leave the palace.

Xiao Jingqi made me look at it differently, he must have installed eyes, ears and eyeliner in various countries, and even people with power.

He has huge ambitions and this is the first time I've ever known him.

In the past, he was just a teenager living in seclusion in the Flowing Frost Water Pavilion, how could he have such a scheming. Over the years, he seems to have used a lot of heart, and he has used his heart in various countries, no wonder he often travels in the rivers and lakes to cover up his identity.

I dare not look down on him.

After receiving his letter that day, I quietly opened it to the side, and the content of the letter was that he wanted to help me leave Fangshan.

After reading the contents of the letter, I hurriedly burned the stationery.

I thought to myself that I couldn't just be robbed or disappear all of a sudden. Leaving the palace like this will only make Tuoba Hong search wantonly, and I will not be at peace when I go out.

I don't want that.

I immediately wrote a letter for Yi'er to reply to him, telling him to stay quiet and wait for me to think about it.

In Fangshan, during the burial of the Empress Dowager, I was really afraid that he would appear, so he would appear like this without listening to my opinion.

Although I was at the funeral, I was very flustered.

With the burial of the Empress Dowager, there were courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, all the guards, if he really appeared, he would not be caught alive.

Of course, I can't just disappear like that.

Although he didn't talk to me much, he was always in front of me, and sometimes he even grabbed my hand, as if he was afraid that I would disappear.

I always feel that Tuoba Hong has some doubts, and even guesses through it, but he just doesn't know what to say.

When the Empress Dowager was buried in Fangshan, I met the King of Beihai, who was wounded and had lost a lot of weight.

One of his arms had fallen off with a strip of cloth, and it looked like it was not badly injured. I didn't say a word to him, and I didn't say a word to him from the beginning to the end of the funeral.

It's just that when the emperor took me by the hand and walked in front of him, his gaze was always on me, and I could feel it.

But I didn't look at him, I didn't look at him.

Until this time, a few days after the Empress Dowager had been buried, and after he returned from the northern border this time, there was not a word between me and the King of the North Sea.

I don't blame him in my heart, even if he told the emperor my secret, I didn't blame him.

Presumably he must have struggled, as a courtier, he must be very wandering if he doesn't tell such a secret in his heart.

When he said it, it was nothing more than the courtier's loyalty to the Lord.

The King of the North Sea was a loyal courtier, and in my eyes, he should be loyal to Tuoba Hong.

The Empress Dowager's driving has passed like this, and no one has too much to find out what the reason is.

On the surface, it's just a sudden illness.

The symptoms of the disease have not yet been detected.

Tai Hospital, although it was said that the Empress Dowager could not be rescued this time, everyone's situation was not punished too much.

The emperor said to the world that the Empress Dowager has always been ill, and she can't afford to be sick, and I can't do anything about it.

It's just that the heavens don't have mercy.