1067, Northern Song Dynasty, Bianliang, Baoci Palace (1)

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Renzong died, and Yingzong ascended the throne. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info It's a pity that he has been on the throne for less than four years, and Yingzong died on the eighth day of the first month of the fourth year of Zhiping. The world is unfortunate, two major funerals in four years, the construction of mausoleums, the cost is incalculable, and the country's financial resources are unbearable.

The new emperor ascended the throne and issued an edict to pardon those who were not often pardoned, and to reduce the tribute paid by the world. He also sent grace to the forbidden and let one hundred and eighty palace maids out of the palace. Although it is favorable, one is to send some palace people, which can reduce the expenditure of the treasury, and the other is the change of imperial power, and the people used in the palace must also be replaced.

After sending out the palace maid, there were many vacancies, and Xing Yun was sent to the palace by her father when she was old this year.

She was born in the Xing family of Jiyin, Caozhou, and the great-ancestor of the Xing family is the old Shandong department of Gao Qiong, the great-ancestor of the current Empress Dowager. With this relationship, Xing Yun became the imperial attendant of Baoci Palace. Xing Yun knows the truth that "as soon as Houmen enters the sea, Xiao Lang is a passer-by from now on", even if there is no "Xiao Lang" as her sweetheart, she doesn't want to enter the palace, she only sighs that her fate is ill-fated and her father's fate is difficult to disobey.

The palace at night was a different scene entirely, a dimly stuporous palace, smelling of damp wood, and suffocating silence. In the forbidden palace, although there is popularity, people's hearts are even more terrifying, so you can't warm up.

Xing Yun has never liked this palace.

She misses her hometown, and she misses the days when she was free and easy in her hometown. Cao County is the first stop of the Yellow River into Shandong, she misses the ten-mile lotus pond in her hometown, and in summer, the clear water and green lotus and lotus flowers bloom. The lotus leaves of the pond are stacked on top of each other, side by side, in the green of the eyes, dotted with white lotus, the breeze blows slowly, the lotus flowers flutter with the wind, curling Nana. It's true: the Limbo fairy is just out of the water, and the green dress looks like pink makeup. Out of the mud is not stained, the heart is noble, and the face is ashamed for the king.

There is also a lotus pond in the back garden of the palace, and the flourishing lotus flowers are carefully cared for, but they will eventually be picked, inserted into vases, and given to the palace masters to enjoy and play. Even flowers are such fateful, let alone people. Xing Yun knew that he was in the imperial city, so he could only be alone.

Xing Yun slowly retracted her thoughts, sighed secretly, looked at the food box in her hand, and walked towards Baoci Palace.

Coming to the front of the Baoci Palace, Xing Yun saw Liang Weijian, the regular attendant outside the side door, and several eunuchs and palace maids were also waiting carefully outside the palace.

Liang Weijian raised his hand, and the eunuch under his command took the food box, opened the lid and checked the drugs, and then sent it back to Xing Yun.

"Hurry up and bring dinner in, this is the second time to enter the palace. ”

The Queen Mother was very sad because of Yingzong's death, her health was ill, she couldn't afford to get sick, and she couldn't wake up.

Today, the Queen Mother finally woke up. After asking the imperial doctor to pass the pulse, he said that the queen mother is auspicious, and her condition will definitely improve, presumably because she misses the emperor and worries too much, so she must slowly recuperate and rest. As soon as she heard this, the Queen Mother suddenly became angry, drove out the imperial doctor and the people who served her closely, and ordered the palace gate to be closed.

Except for Xing Yun, the Queen Mother did not let anyone enter the inner hall.

Just now, Liang Weijian asked Mama or other palace maids to bring dinner inside, but he was kicked out again.

"Alright, let's get inside. Liang Weijian let Xing Yun enter the inner hall through the side door.

When the door was slowly closed, an older palace maid muttered in a low voice: "How many years have we all served the Queen Mother, she is a newcomer, how do you know the Queen Mother's thoughts and preferences." ”

"It's just that the big guy has done his best for so many years, and he is not as good as a little girl. ”

"That's enough! What kind of tongue do you chew, can you go in and make the master happy?" Liang Weijian lowered his voice and stopped the two. looked at Xing Yun's back and thought: This little girl is so loved by the Queen Mother, it seems that the day of being a concubine is not far away.

Liang Weijian, the permanent attendant, is the new queen mother.

Liang Weijian has been in the palace for eight years. If it is in the past, at the age of twenty-four, he can be the inner attendant of the eighth grade, and listen to the queen mother, this should be a matter of honor, but no one will envy him now.

On the eighth day of the first month of this year, the emperor died, and the queen mother fell ill immediately after. In the chaos, the crown prince hurriedly ascended the throne, and when the affairs of the court were a little safer, the new emperor turned his head and belittled many medical officials on the grounds that the diagnosis was unfavorable, and said that he did not serve the queen mother well, and disposed of a large number of palace people. To be honest, Liang Weijian took over this position at this time, and he was also trembling in his heart.

After the death of Yingzong, the empress dowager became the empress dowager, and the empress became the empress dowager. According to the rules, the Empress Dowager stayed in Baoci Palace, while the Empress Dowager moved to Qingshou Palace.

If something happens to the queen mother, the eunuch in charge will have a responsibility that cannot be shirked, and once he is reprimanded, it will be difficult to turn over, so no one wants to take this risk. Although Liang Weijian was a person who was cultivated by Lan Yuanzhen in the imperial city in the palace, he was young and had limited qualifications, how could he be promoted if he didn't make great contributions. At the time of the first month, Lord Lan privately asked him if he wanted to get ahead, the deep meaning implied, Liang Weijian knew it, he felt that this might be an opportunity, and it was a fool's dream to want to live and be prosperous and rich.

He took the initiative to answer this errand and was promoted three levels in a row to become the chief eunuch of Baoci Palace.

Some time ago, the queen mother's condition was getting worse day by day and she fell into a coma, so anxious that the emperor was furious and scolded the imperial doctors to the point of blood. The palace maids and eunuchs of Baoci Palace are all sincerely afraid, and they are full of spirit. Some people also talk about Liang Weijian in private, saying that in order to climb up, a person will eventually suffer in order to climb up and be eager for quick success. Liang Weijian could only grit his teeth and insist, he had to do what he had to do, he knew that he had no way out. In order to be the queen mother's palace only waiting for this position, he made a lot of effort, first went to the grandmother who was serving the queen mother to ask for advice, from the palace furnishings to the food and clothing on weekdays, they were carefully arranged according to the queen mother's preferences, and Lord Lan also appropriately mentioned the important matters that should be paid attention to.

Early this morning, when the palace maid shouted that the Queen Mother was awake, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and felt that the hanging sword on his head had been removed.

He happily went to greet the Queen Mother and personally served on the side. But he found that the Queen Mother's complexion was not very good, and he looked at everyone busy around him a little blankly. Maybe it's because he's been sick and bedridden for a long time, Liang Weijian told himself that he wanted to report it, but he swallowed it back when it came to his mouth. Just when he was uneasy, Doctor Liao from the Tai Hospital came and checked the pulse, but before he could say a few words, the Queen Mother suddenly became angry for some reason and drove everyone out of the palace, leaving only a little maid who had just entered the palace to wait.

Looking at the tightly locked palace gate, Liang Weijian was silent on the surface, but sighed secretly in his heart.

He kept asking himself: I must have overlooked something, missed something extremely important that should not have been missed.

Why did you only keep Xing Yun? She was new to the palace, so it seems that the relationship between Xing Yun and the Queen Mother is definitely not ordinary, and we should take more care of her in the future.

Could it be that the Queen Mother doesn't trust the people around her?

What did Imperial Doctor Liao say that made the Queen Mother so angry?

Although Liang Weijian doesn't know how to medicine, if he says that the Queen Mother is caused by grief and has been in a coma for nearly four months, he doesn't feel like it, but like he has some strange disease.

Could it be related to the Queen Mother's illness?

Liang Weijian's nerves tensed again, and he gasped.

As soon as he took over Baoci Palace, he encountered such a major event, and it seems that he can't be happy too soon, maybe the real difficulties have just begun. He knew he had gotten this far by chance, or by luck. At the beginning, Lord Lan was able to pick himself from hundreds of eunuchs, he knew in his heart, he knew what he had, and the most favored by Lord Lan was his extreme carefulness. To tell the truth, he is also a person from the Imperial City Division, and he naturally has his own news channels in the palace, as soon as the Queen Mother woke up today, he immediately got the news, and the people who were installed by the official family, the Queen Mother, and the prince in Baoci Palace also got the news later, and he was clear about what those people were doing, but he hadn't figured out the connection yet.

Liang Weijian likes to write down everything he thinks through and can't think through, which is his habit.

After a while, the contemplation was over, and he was ready to go back to his room, write down all the things he couldn't think through today, and forward them to Lord Lan tomorrow.

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Xing Yun, who entered the door, found the Queen Mother under the old tree on the side of the inner hall.

The night sky is full of stars, under the bright starlight, a curling figure reclining on the old tree, smoky eyebrows, shallow eyes, misty eyes, like the first glow after the rain, like the beginning of the rainbow. Dressed in a red light shirt, there is no trace of gorgeousness, which shows that Tsinghua is out of the dust.

She sat quietly on the stone chair, the cloak on her shoulders sliding to the ground, unaware of it. She looked at the night sky intently, her pale eyebrows and starry eyes like a pool of autumn water, dyed with the loneliness of the night.

Xing Yun thought in her heart: The Queen Mother is really a jade bone and ice muscle, like a fairy descending to earth. As a woman, I almost lost my mind, let alone a man. Xing Yun felt that he was also beautiful, but compared with the beauty of the Queen Mother, it was really a lot of discoloration. Before serving the Queen Mother, I heard the palace grandmother say that the Queen Mother must strictly put on makeup according to the regulations every day, but now she does not apply powder, plain face to the sky, "women are pleasing to themselves", the first emperor died, you can know how sad the Queen Mother is in her heart.

Xing Yun knew that Yingzong and the Queen Mother were childhood sweethearts and grew up together in the palace since childhood. At that time, one of them was the adopted son of Emperor Renzong, and the other was the adopted daughter of Empress Cao, and the emperor and the empress personally set up a marriage for them. He only loved her, and she was really pampered by thousands of people, and she was very affectionate to him, and her feelings were always like being married for the first time. It is said that it is the most ruthless emperor's family, but the most precious love in the world is staged in the palace.

Xing Yun didn't dare to expect men in the world to be so single-minded, if someone could be so affectionate to herself, she wouldn't live in vain.

"Queen Mother. Xing Yun called softly.

Although the Queen Mother woke up today, she became silent, sometimes in a trance, sometimes talking to herself, saying things that Xing Yun couldn't understand.

Xing Yun saw that the Queen Mother did not react, so he called again.

The Queen Mother slowly withdrew her eyes, her expression was solemn and distant, as if she had slowly walked out of her own world, and she said, "Xing Yun, you are here." ”

Xing Yun felt that the Queen Mother's sad eyes seemed to have a kind of resentment, as if she was questioning her, why did she see you, not her beloved.

Putting the food box on the stone table, Xing Yun picked up the cloak that had fallen on the ground, dusted off the fresh moss that stuck to it, and draped it over the Queen Mother.

"It's still cold at night, the Queen Mother is sick, but you have to take care of yourself. ”

"Call me the Queen Mother again, don't you say that when there are no outsiders, don't call me the Queen Mother?"

Xing Yun didn't dare. She resignedly admitted.

"Then you will stay outside the door like them, and you will not be allowed to come in again. ”

Xing Yun didn't dare to respond for a while, and became worried helplessly: "But then no one will send food to the Queen Mother." ”

The Queen Mother frowned: "Are you worried about this? Then I will starve to death." ”

Xing Yun fell to his knees after hearing this: "It's not a pity for us to die, but the Queen Mother's holy body is healthy, which is a blessing for the country." Emperor Yingzong has a sense of knowledge, and he doesn't want to see you practice yourself like this. Seeing you so sad and sad, Xing Yun was also very sad in her heart. After boldly saying these transgressions, Xing Yun felt shuddered, waiting for punishment.

"You don't call me 'you' anymore?"

Xing Yun was in a hurry, so she asked the Queen Mother to punish her. Xing Yun regretted it very much, and her eyes were filled with tears.

"How could I punish you? I said, when it's only the two of us, just call each other 'you and me', get up, I won't force you!" The Queen Mother said as she helped Xing Yun up with one hand, "Look at your pitiful appearance, I was teasing you just now." ”

Xing Yun secretly said in his heart: Queen Mother, you are teasing, half of my life is almost scared.

She heard the Queen Mother sigh heavily.

"Yingzong is...... The ...... of the dead"

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, this month Gengxu (the third day of the first month), has invited the Daxing Emperor to visit the southern suburbs, and said that Xianwen Suwu Xuanxiao, the temple name Yingzong. ”

With another sigh, Xing Yun saw that the Queen Mother frowned, and her face was full of sorrow.

The Queen Mother shook her head and said to her, "Okay, I'm hungry, I have to eat enough to continue to worry." ”