Although it is spring, the floor of the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace is still covered with a thick scarlet felt blanket, and shoes seem to be deeply immersed in it, so it is not too difficult to kneel on it. It's just that at this time, looking at the pair of boots not far in front of him, Imperial Doctor Lin was thinking nonsense in his heart, until there was another question from above, and he was alert.

"You have been in the hospital for many years, although you are not in charge of hospital affairs, but you still have the title of hospital judge. You should know what the outcome would have been if it had been a misjudgment. ”

"The emperor Mingjian, the minister has been specially asked for the pulse of Kunning Palace for many years, the queen's illness is the clearest, if there is really a glimmer of hope, the minister does not dare to say such things, it is really ......" Imperial Doctor Lin turned his heart sideways, and touched his head lightly, and finally did not stand up straight, but knelt on the ground and said, "The queen mother was better a few days ago, but she was already tired after sitting upright on the Qianqiu Festival, and then she was even more connected with all kinds of things, and the mother was weak and couldn't stand it." This time I was frightened again, the pulse was already extremely disordered, and the minister knew that the emperor and queen were deeply affectionate, otherwise they would not dare to say this. ”

Looking at Imperial Doctor Lin who was motionless on the ground, the emperor suddenly had an impulse to be angry, but as soon as his hand pressed on the kang table, he finally fell down, only looking up at the roof and making no sound. He should know that when her body was a little better before the Qianqiu Festival, he should never let her come out to receive any courtesy and meet someone, but he let her come out. Once she showed up, the things behind her couldn't be stopped, and those concubines couldn't enter Kunning Palace casually, but they couldn't stand the news pouring in like a stream outside, and there were continuous accidents inside and outside the court...... Knowing this, he should have slowed down and not been in such a hurry

After a long time, he asked in a calm tone that he was also surprised by, "How long can it be delayed?" ”

"Half a month at a time, ...... at most January-March. Imperial Doctor Lin took a deep breath, and finally relaxed the time a little, but he still didn't dare to raise his body, until the breathing sound in front of him became heavy again, and finally turned into a few faint instructions, and he was relieved, knowing that the Son of Heaven should not blame all this on his head.

The West Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace is the queen's bedroom, and compared with the fragrance of books in the East Warm Pavilion, the medicinal fragrance here is much stronger. According to the traditional practice, it is natural to cover it with incense, but the queen never loved those herbs, so those incense burners with different shapes are useless. The furniture is not graceful and elegant in the middle palace at all, but looks simple and unpretentious.

At this moment, there is a brocade pestle in front of the big bed with a half-old ink silk tent on the east wall, and Chen Lan, who is a little unnatural, sits. The pale queen leaned on a thick cushion, looked at the Yixing county lord sitting on the edge of the bed, and looked at Chen Lan in front of her. After a while, she said softly: "Ninth sister, if you hadn't always brought Huixin into the palace in the past, others would really regard Chen Lan as your daughter, and her eyes are really similar to you." ”

Seeing that the queen's complexion was not good, her spirit was fine, so he hurriedly took a cup of medicinal tea sent by Wang Shanggong next to him, and personally served the queen with most of the cup, and then moved back and sat down: "If it was really my daughter, I wouldn't have developed this way, didn't I suffer enough back then, with Huixin is pampered, I don't want her to mix with the slightest pickle." Only my sister-in-law was right, and I looked at her and remembered that I had no father and no mother at that time. Only I have the royal brother and sister-in-law who take care of me from time to time, but I don't have to take care of other people, which is much better than her. ”

Chen Lan was teased by this extremely noble two, but the usually extremely shrewd person was a little overwhelmed, so he simply kept silent. Unexpectedly, a hand suddenly stretched out from under the quilt. She was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly reached out and gently pulled the brocade quilt to cover it. Just as she was about to let go, she felt the hand suddenly grip her hand tightly.

"Queen...... Empress. ”

"That day in Yiyuan, you put forward the idea of Qu Shui Liuzhen, but you pulled Huixin to hide aside, and did not join them in chanting poems, is it because the matter has become unwanted, or is there any other reason?"

Chen Lan glanced at the county lord of Yixing unnaturally, and saw that he had an outsider's posture, leaned there and did not make a sound, and simply said truthfully: "Returning to the queen's mother, the courtiers are not good at writing, and the poetry is even weaker. ”

"Is it a retreat?" Hearing that Chen Lan was not good at writing and only liked to read miscellaneous books, the smile on the queen's face deepened, and suddenly changed the topic and said, "You were exempted from tenant land rent in the name of the emperor in Anyuan, and then hired a lot of Zhuang Ding servants in the garden, but you let them raise fish, trees and flowers, and when the books were stretched, it happened that you had done such a thing, and the palace would definitely not be indifferent, so Eunuch Xia sent you silver, which happened to revitalize your whole game of chess, isn't it?" ”

Although he asked this peacefully, Chen Lan really didn't expect that this was not the emperor who asked, but the queen who was very weak in bed, and couldn't help but be a little frightened, and it took a long time to grit his teeth and admit it, and he got up to apologize, but he was pressed down by the county lord of Yixing before he stood up. Sure enough, the next moment the queen's soft laughter came to his ears.

"I said just now that you are like the ninth sister, and now it seems that you are also like me. I don't like to read those poems and songs and the like, and not everyone has the same skills as Li Taibai and Du Zimei, and they are worried about the new words, but they are just some pale and weak words, what is the meaning. On the contrary, it is the right thing to read some useful books and understand some practical things, and to be able to make the life of those who are attached to you better with your own ability. The pragmatic policy of Grandpa Tai has been almost corrupted by Confucianism."

Speaking of this, the queen was quite excited, choked for a while, coughed again and again, Chen Lan saw that there were no palace maids left around, and hurriedly stepped forward to help calm down, and it took a while for the queen to calm down. At this time, she found that she was already sitting on the edge of the bed, and when she wanted to return to her original position, she saw that the county lord of Yixing had already sat down on her brocade pestle.

"Just sit here." The queen moved into the bed again, signaling Chen Lan not to sit diagonally, seeing that she hesitated for a moment and complied, she suddenly became even happier, "When I rewarded you with that jade tiger, one is to reward you for saving the baby, no matter what the truth of the matter is, after all, it was you who pulled him at a critical moment, and the other is the one in Anyuan, Lu Yiyun can take it, and most of the credit has to be counted on your head." At that time, I only knew that you belonged to the tiger, but later I learned that you and my Qingcheng were in the same year and month, and their birthdays were only three days apart, which was really a coincidence. ”

The county lord of Yixing had already mentioned this stubble before, and Chen Lan almost understood the origin of this thing alone, but now seeing that the queen's eyes were full of love, she vaguely felt that the queen was probably a little loveful and Wu. Despite this, thinking that the queen was recuperating in Kunning Palace all the year round, and her only daughter died like that, she unconsciously gave birth to a little sympathy in her heart. It is said that it is the middle palace of the mother's world, but in fact, it is not the same, and everything does not go well?

"I just didn't expect that this is not just fate, you are really a little like me"

Speaking of this, the queen's face showed a little childishness, and she pulled Chen Lan to ask questions about the east and west, until Ye Shangyi outside tiptoed in, saying that the time mentioned by Imperial Doctor Lin was almost the time, and she had to rest as soon as possible, so she sighed gloomily, and then said to the county lord of Yixing: "Ninth sister, bring Chen Lan over tomorrow and talk to me." ”

"Sister-in-law, rest assured, the emperor has already opened his mouth, and people will live in Xiyuan with me, and Zhun Bao will let you see enough" The county lord of Yixing pulled Chen Lan up with a smile, and after saluting, he stepped forward and helped the queen to lie down with Ye Shangyi, and then whispered in his ear, "As long as sister-in-law you are well, let her accompany you for as long as you can." The emperor has always wanted to take you around the world after his success, and you must take care of your body. Everything is behind"

The queen noticed that the county lord of Yixing squeezed her hand heavily, and saw that her eyes were slightly red, and she immediately showed a smile, but in the end she only spit out three words: "Don't worry." ”

Despite the queen's consent, taking Chen Lan out of Kunning Palace, the county lord of Yixing still felt extremely bad. After hurriedly walking along the Heavenly Street, she suddenly stopped, and saw that several maids with swords were far away, only Chen Lan was also absent-minded, and almost bumped into her when she turned around. After looking at Chen Lan for a while, she finally didn't say anything.

It's not something you can say to outsiders. When the emperor was in the domain, the ranking was not the first, and the status was not the most noble, so only the princess was appointed, and the wife was not placed, until later, the queen because she had no heirs, and personally asked the emperor to make it clear, so she registered Concubine Wuxian as his wife. However, after all, the battle for the heir involved the backyard of the domain, Concubine Wu Xian was pregnant for ten months, but the child she gave birth to was plotted, so she was born stupid. Since then, because the queen's mother's family has a lot of wealth but no power, she was framed and exiled, and in the end only one younger brother escaped, and the queen's health became worse and worse.

It was easy to survive that difficult period, but as soon as the emperor ascended the throne, the civil and military officials were asked to enrich the harem, and little by little to make up for the people, if it weren't for the emperor's vigilance against the daughters of the former dynasty in the harem, almost none of the high-ranking concubines in the harem were from families, and I was afraid that the queen who had no mother's family to rely on would be even more difficult. Over the years, there have been no newcomers in the harem, and the queen is already nearly fifty years old, but the emperor is afraid that the secret arrow will hurt people, so he didn't dare to stay in Kunning Palace for too long after all, but he didn't expect it to come to this point in the end.

Thinking of this, the county lord of Yixing couldn't help but put his hands together on his chest and prayed silently. At this moment, she never believed in gods and Buddhas, and she almost recited all the gods and Buddhas of the heavens.