Even so, as a senior professional who has been fighting on the front line of the harem for a long time, and has personally participated in, planned, and guided many large, medium and small palace fights, Guixi can still feel the changes in the palace.

Yonggong is still the same magnificent, but this place has become extremely unfamiliar to Wang Jibao. When he arrived at Yongci Palace and saw the old man in the past, Wang Jibao could be regarded as having regained some familiar feelings. She came to the dormitory of the Empress Dowager Jiang of Yongci Palace.

After the palace maid greeted her, she didn't report it inside, and pushed open the palace door of the dormitory.

Empress Dowager Jiang is already seventy years old, and she is already considered to have a long life here. But even if she is the queen mother, she can't stop the approach of aging and the fate of being riddled with diseases.

Looking at the Empress Dowager Jiang, who was lying on the bed with her eyes closed and her body was emaciated, Wang Jibao's heart was like a knife.

Is this still the aunt and grandmother who is graceful, rich and dignified, and spoils herself to the limit?

How did it come to this?

Why had no one ever written to her to tell her that her aunt and grandmother were sick like this? It's only been two years!

Wang Jibao burst into tears like rain, and cried silently: "Auntie grandmother." ”

Empress Dowager Jiang slowly opened her eyes when she heard a title that she hadn't heard for more than two years. For most of the past six months, she has always been sleepy, and she has to stay in bed and sleep most of the day.

After she turned her head and looked at Wang Jibao, she stretched out her shriveled hands like dry branches, and called to Wang Jibao: "Sister Bao, you are back." Quick, come to my aunt and grandmother. ”

Before she could get close to the Empress Dowager Jiang, Xiao Shan, who was holding in Wang Jibao's arms, jumped out suddenly.

"Little Flash." Wang Jibao snorted lightly.

I saw Xiao Shan jumping to the corner of the Empress Dowager Jiang's bedroom, where the fragrance was rising. It sniffed with its little nose, no, desperately inhaling the smoke from it, to be exact.

This is......

Wang Jibao turned her head to look at Empress Dowager Jiang, how she looked like the drug addict she had seen on modern TV in the later period.

Don't......

Empress Dowager Jiang already understood what Wang Jibao meant when she turned her head to look at her. Besides, the little mink raised by Wang Jibao is not known to others to its ability, but the Empress Dowager Jiang knows.

Her eyes lit slightly, and she knew that she had been calculated.

At the same time, she also knew that the man's purpose in calculating her was not to want her life, but it seemed that he wanted to alleviate her pain through this method, and even wanted to delay her life. But she is the queen mother of a country, and she will never allow anyone to give her indiscriminate medication without her permission.

Empress Dowager Jiang has been coughing from time to time since this summer, and at first the imperial doctors said that it was because of the wind cold. But it has been cured for a long time, but it has not been effective. In the end, the son of the deceased old lady Xue was called over for diagnosis and treatment, and it was concluded that it should be tuberculosis.

Emperor Yongsheng ordered that the best medicinal materials must be used to heal with all his might. But no one was allowed to tell the final result of Empress Dowager Chiang's diagnosis. told Empress Dowager Jiang that it was because she was old, so there were some minor problems. It's just that the small problems are not as fast as the young people.

Empress Dowager Jiang coughed intermittently for half a year, but she did not get better. She already had doubts about her illness in her own heart. But since using this new tranquilizer, her symptoms have begun to lessen. At the very least, she doesn't have to sleep well anymore because she coughs all the time.

I thought it was my illness that had improved, but I didn't expect it to be all due to this special soothing incense.

It seems that I still have to thank that person.

But what is he doing it for? If this kind of thing is also used in the incense he gave to Qian'er (Emperor Yongsheng), will even the king of a country be at the mercy of this person in the future?

It's scary to think about!

Empress Dowager Jiang hurriedly beckoned the palace maid who was waiting next to her to help her sit up. Wang Jibao wiped her face indiscriminately, quickly stepped forward, and placed a few pillows for Empress Dowager Jiang to lean on.

After Empress Dowager Jiang felt that it was quite comfortable to sit, she said to all the palace maids: "You all go down, you don't need to serve here first." ”

"Yes." After the palace maids gave the salute, Yuguan withdrew.

Empress Dowager Jiang instructed Guixi again: "Go outside and watch, don't let anyone come near here." ”

Guixi said with a serious expression: "The old slave understands. ”

After Guixi left, Empress Dowager Jiang motioned for Wang Jibao to sit on the edge of the bed by her.

After Wang Jibao sat down, he habitually wanted to snuggle in the arms of the Empress Dowager Jiang like when he was a child, but suddenly he thought that he had grown up now, and doing this posture was seriously outdated.

So he instead hugged one of Empress Dowager Jiang's arms.

Empress Dowager Jiang touched Wang Xibao's head dotingly, and couldn't help but sigh: Time flies so fast, the small lump in the past has become a slim girl in a blink of an eye.

This Xi'er's life is really good, and she decided on her family's treasure sister early. Otherwise, I don't know whose kid is going to be cheaper?

After Wang Jibao and Empress Dowager Jiang were tired for a while, they asked with a serious expression: "Grandmother, what happened?" You know that someone else has been put in the incense, right? ”

Empress Dowager Jiang nodded and said, "Yes." It was only a suspicion before, but it wasn't until Xiao Shan's performance just now that the mourning family dared to confirm it. ”

Wang Xibao squinted his eyes and said coldly: "Then who has such the audacity to dare to calculate you?" ”

Wang Jibao already had the answer in her heart, but she still wanted to get confirmation from the mouth of the Empress Dowager Jiang.

"The person you think of in your heart." Empress Dowager Jiang paused and said, "Maybe he is helping the mourning family." ”

Seeing Wang Jibao's puzzled expression at her, Empress Dowager Jiang explained again: "Since this summer, this body has been failing. Later, I coughed all day and night, and I couldn't even sleep. Since Brother Yu sent this kind of soothing incense that he specially developed for the mourning family, the symptoms of the mourning family were quickly alleviated. Until now, the mourning family has not been able to leave this incense at all. As soon as you leave, the condition will worsen. Therefore, the mourning family can only rely on this incense to live now. Since using this incense, the mourning family feels sleepy every day, and now spends most of the day sleeping. ”

"I see." Wang Jibao had almost determined that Xia Chenyu had given Empress Dowager Jiang an addictive drug containing poppies and the like. But listening to what Empress Dowager Jiang said, his purpose was not to make Empress Dowager Jiang addicted to this kind of thing, but it seemed to be more to alleviate Empress Dowager Jiang's illness.

But what his ultimate goal was is unknown.

From Empress Dowager Jiang's narrative, Wang Jibao probably thought that Empress Dowager Jiang's illness should be tuberculosis, but it may be more like what is called lung cancer in modern times.

Thinking that the survival rate of people with lung cancer seems to be extremely low, Wang Jibao's heart is even more sad.

Empress Dowager Jiang glanced at Wang Jibao, whose eyes were red, and felt very sad.

Although she is already seventy years old, who doesn't want to live longer? It's just that sometimes the coughing strength comes up, and she feels like her lungs are going to cough out. That feeling is really worse than death, just thinking about dying early and living early.

If there is a next life, she really doesn't want to be born in a famous family.

If God treats her well, let her be born in an ordinary and wealthy family. Then find an ordinary man to marry. It is best that there is no other woman mixed between them and the husband and wife, just the two of them, and live a good life. When the time comes, there will be a bunch of cute dolls, among which there is a cute female doll like Bao Mei is the best. Maybe that's the perfect life.

Sometimes, people, it's so contradictory. But if there is hope for life, who wants to die?

has experienced ups and downs, and is used to seeing life and death in the harem, for Empress Dowager Jiang, to be able to become the queen mother in the end, and then become the queen mother, her life should be regarded as another kind of perfection, right?

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Jiang reached out and patted the back of Wang Jibao's hand a few times.

And comforted: "In fact, compared to most women in the harem, my aunt and grandmother are content to live to this age." Seeing that Wang Jibao was sad and shed tears, the Empress Dowager Jiang wiped Wang Jibao's face with a handkerchief, and changed the topic and complained: "Why did you forget your grandmother when you went far away?" It's been a few days since I came back to see the mourning family? Is it that the mourning family doesn't ask someone to pick you up, and you still don't come, do you? ”

Wang Jibao wiped her tears indiscriminately, and retorted: "No." I didn't know that my aunt and grandmother were so sick, otherwise they would have rushed back from Fengbei County a long time ago. Wang Jibao continued to explain: "The changes in the palace in the past two years are too great. I want to enter the palace and hand over the post. Even if the post was handed over, it was detained. ”

This is to explain why he has not entered the palace to see Empress Dowager Jiang until now.

"The mourning family didn't know that the people below were so bold." Although Empress Dowager Jiang is very sick now, the majesty on her body is still there, and her words are quite imposing. It would be even more perfect if you didn't cough so badly afterwards.

Wang Jibao hurriedly stroked Empress Dowager Jiang's chest and gave her relief in an attempt to relieve Empress Dowager Jiang's discomfort.

After the Empress Dowager Jiang's coughing stopped, Wang Jibao got up and went to the table to pour a cup of warm water for the Empress Dowager Jiang, served her to rinse her mouth, and picked up the phlegm urn placed on the ground and let the Empress Dowager Jiang spit in it.

After the Empress Dowager Jiang stabilized, Wang Jibao called someone to bring a basin of warm water, washed her hands, and continued to sit beside the Empress Dowager Jiang.

Empress Dowager Jiang knew that Wang Jibao had done a lot of things in Fengbei County, after all, she had also sent a hundred royal guards to Wang Jibao. Therefore, I also know that this little girl can't be treated like a little girl from an ordinary family.

So he explained to Wang Jibao very solemnly: "By the way, Sister Bao, my grandmother has something very important to explain to you, and you must remember it." Although some things may not be usable, judging from the current situation of the mourning family, it is better to make more preparations. ”