Chapter 47: The First Taste of Sorrow (1)

It is about to be winter, everything is depressed, and it should be Yinzhen's favorite season to see the first snow, but this year, he can't be happy, because the Queen Mother fell ill again. Reading//

The year before, the Empress Dowager had a stroke, which really made Kangxi nervous for a while, but fortunately, the Empress Dowager took medicine in time to get better, but the Empress Dowager's spirit was declining day by day, which has always made Kangxi feel troubled. In addition, because the Empress Dowager once said that she was quite close to Yinzhen, Kangxi often asked Yinzhen to go to the Empress Dowager to ask for peace for more than a year.

Yinzhen is well-behaved, very favored by the Queen Mother, and Yinzhen himself thinks that this old man is amiable and cute, so he often jokes with his ancestors, and gradually, both of them began to have no rules, at first Yinzhen was still a little worried, but his existing jokes can make the Queen Mother more happy. This kind of life without rules and constraints made the Queen Mother's mind seem to fly to her long-lost hometown Horqin Grassland, allowing her to return to her young age. It is this old and young, complementing each other. As for Yinzhen, he also has a rare opportunity to relax in the palace life where he is on guard everywhere and must be careful at all times. The Empress Dowager's palace, in this era, has invisibly become a pure land for his soul.

In the past few days, the Empress Dowager has occasionally suffered from wind and cold, and she didn't care about it at first, and she didn't want to be speechless until the illness unfolded, and she fell into fainting from time to time. Reading the book // Kangxi was very sad, first issued an edict, ordered the Ministry of Punishment to amnesty the world to increase the blessing of the Empress Dowager, and then summoned all the concubines and all the imperial brothers over the age of 6 to wait in the Empress Dowager's palace, daily precepts, reverent chanting in order to pray that God would bless the Empress Dowager to overcome this difficulty.

Yinzhen was even more anxious, getting up every morning, after greeting Kangxi for peace, he waited aside, silently reciting the Great Compassion Dharani Sutra, because he was nervous about the Empress Dowager's condition, so he couldn't help but worry about his eyebrows. Kangxi saw it in his eyes, and secretly said in his heart: "This son is affectionate and intentional, and his filial piety is commendable." "Seeing that the other emperors are mostly perfunctory, I feel more and more that Yinzhen is outstanding.

However, the situation of the Empress Dowager did not improve, so Kangxi ordered all the Beizi and above in the Beijing clan and the officials above the third rank to go to the Temple of Heaven with him to pray for the Empress Dowager, and even the infant Emperor Brother must also accompany him, but he was held by his grandmother, which was also the first time Yinzhen saw the thirteenth son of the emperor Yinxiang, when Yinxiang was two years old.

On this day, the wind and snow were pervasive, and the entire city of Beijing was full of murderous atmosphere, Kangxi ignored the dissuasion of everyone, and walked more than ten miles from the Forbidden City to the Temple of Heaven in the heavy snow. Wearing a full-hanging dress, holding three fragrant sticks in his hand, with a solemn expression, Kangxi slowly knelt down, and everyone hurriedly knelt down, the scene was so heavy that the rest of the people present were sad.

Kangxi seemed to be unable to suppress the churning in his heart, and paused for a while before he spoke again, his voice was extremely hoarse: "Prime Minister Heshan Chen Aixinjueluo Xuanye played Hao Tianshang, remembering his weak age, early loss of sluggishness (referring to Kangxi's early years when both parents passed away), tending to inherit his grandmother's knees for more than 30 years, bowing and teaching, and even succeeding. Without a grandmother, the Empress Dowager, it would never have been established today. Now my grandmother, the Empress Dowager, is infected with a deep scab, and the ministers are all burned, but they cry blood, praying that heaven will thank the ministers for their filial piety, and bless the Empress Dowager's health and well-being. Speaking of this, Kangxi's voice was choked and speechless.

All the ministers kowtowed and bleed when they heard the words, among them, Prince Kang Jieshu, Prince An Yue Le, and Prince Yu Fuquan were even more tearful, but they felt that it was quite unlucky to release a sad voice, so they had to endure it and persuaded in a trembling voice: "Please cherish the dragon body, the queen mother will be blessed by heaven." After a while, Kangxi barely regained his composure, and when he drove back to Luan, Kangxi seemed to feel that the green smoke that was still unburned was pinning on the safety of the Empress Dowager, and turned back three times in one step.

However, although the personnel are exhausted, the destiny is difficult to violate. About ten days later, the Empress Dowager fell into a dying, Kangxi and the crown prince, the eldest brother, the third elder brother, and Yinzhen all stayed by her side. Kangxi was haggard at this time, his chin was full of stubble, and his forehead was also a little messy, and there was still a little helplessness in his eyes. Yinzhen just knelt quietly on the edge of the queen mother's couch, holding the rosary in her hand, and her heart ached. He has never been so close to the farewell of his 'loved ones' in modern times, and he only feels that his heart is empty, as if he has lost a corner, and he wants to fill it, but he can't start. He looked at the Empress Dowager's face, which was once full of kind and kind smiles, but now it had become sallow and lifeless, only snorting slightly, and he couldn't help but feel like a knife. Although everyone didn't know what to say, they all realized that this was the last moment of this old woman who had been in power for half her life.

After a while, I saw the Empress Dowager's eyelids move slightly, Kangxi hurriedly walked up, held her hand tightly, and whispered: "Imperial grandmother, grandson is here, grandson is guarding you." Her voice was full of tremors, and the Empress Dowager opened her eyes when she heard this, and sighed softly. The Imperial Physician immediately knelt forward, probed his pulse, and shook his head again. Kangxi understood that this was a return to the light, so he leaned his head close to the empress dowager and said, "Grandmother Huang, if you have anything, just say it, and listen to it." ”

The Empress Dowager smiled effortlessly and said, "I know, I'm going to see Emperor Taizong soon, the emperor is so promising now, I don't have anything to worry about, it's just that there is one thing, please ask the emperor to bother more." ”

Kangxi couldn't help but shed tears and said, "Where the emperor's grandmother commands, I will never obey them." ”

The Empress Dowager said slowly: "Emperor Taizong Zigong has been buried for a long time, I can't bear to be alarmed, and I am worried about the emperor and your emperor Ama in my heart, how can I be willing to stay away from you? ”

Kangxi was even more painful when he heard this, tears slowly rolled down his cheeks, and the Empress Dowager saw this, smiled reluctantly, and said, "The emperor is an adult, don't cry, don't cry." "The sound droops lower and lower, and it is inaudible. This sentence brought Kangxi back to twenty-six years ago, when Emperor Shunzhi died suddenly, just eight years old Kangxi succeeded to the emperor's throne, before trying on court clothes, Kangxi was also crying, the Empress Dowager held his hand like this, and said: "The third elder brother is now the emperor, the emperor is an adult, don't cry or cry, let the courtiers who worship below see the emperor crying, and they will laugh at the emperor." This situation and this scene seem to be repeated, but the human situation is completely different, and he wants to return to that time, so that the Empress Dowager will always hold his hand warmly. However, the hand he was holding now was getting colder and colder, just like Kangxi's current mood.

On that day, the Empress Dowager was nicknamed "Filial Piety Zhuang Ren Xuan Cheng Xian Gong Yi Tianqi Shengwen Empress".