"Ah sneeze!"
Li Wei sneezed and turned over again, but couldn't sleep peacefully. She opened her eyelids and saw a white gauze tent with faint ink paintings like clouds and mist.
Soon she closed her eyes again and planned to sleep for a while, but unfortunately she couldn't sleep anymore. She turned over and lay face inward. When she opened her eyes again, she saw the black rosewood bed board with inlays in the middle. There is a piece of jade with a landscape pattern, but on both sides are rows of carvings with auspicious patterns. She was so excited that she immediately sat up and pushed away the bright yellow floral quilt covering her body.
The maid standing guard asked in a low voice: "Queen Mother, are you going to get up?"
Li Wei was panicking, what happened, why did she come back to this ghost place again.
The maid then asked in a low voice: "The Queen Mother..."
Li Wei had thousands of thoughts in his mind, and gradually a trace of panic arose. This is a dream, it must be a dream. She dreamed about what happened in Daqi again. Li Wei stretched out his hand, slender and as white as jade. On the ring finger of her right hand was a ring she had never seen before. Li Wei was just wondering. Before she could figure out the situation in front of her, the maid had already carefully raised her curtain. But seeing that the Queen Mother was fine, she knelt on the couch and asked: "Queen Mother, you want someone to come in and serve you." ?"
Li Wei turned his head and took a look. The woman kneeling on the couch was Lan Hui, a palace maid in Chongqing Palace.
She was confused, but she couldn't reveal it too much, looking at Lan Hui's dark head. She tried her best to sound calmer, so she asked slowly: "When is it now?"
"It's already Shenchu when I return to the Queen Mother."
When she was the Queen Mother, she always had the habit of sleeping from the beginning of the day to the beginning of the night. At the beginning of Shen Dynasty, he got up and went to the Buddhist hall to worship Buddha and chant sutras to pray for the late emperor. She looked at the room full of people and the scene was exactly the same as that time. But what is going on now? Is she really back in Daqi, or is it just a dream
Li Wei didn't say anything, Lan Hui retreated to the door, gave a gentle high five, and then several palace maids filed in. Some are holding kerchiefs, some are holding copper basins, and some are holding scented pancreas.
Li Wei saw a carved dressing table standing against the wall over there, with a mercury mirror inlaid on the dressing table. She walked over and clearly saw the figure reflected in the mirror. Li Wei had been stunned there for a long time, with his old appearance. Could it be that she is really back
The maids carefully helped Li Wei wash up. At this time, the curtains creaked slightly, and another eldest maid came in holding a sweet white porcelain cup.
"Mother, the imperial kitchen has boiled donkey-hide gelatin and brought it over."
Listening to this voice, Li Wei knew it was Wan Su without turning around, and finally handed her the bowl of poison Wan Su. The corners of her lips twitched slightly, and in order to prevent the people waiting in front of her from noticing anything, she suppressed her anger.
She is still in Rexiao, and all the jewelry cannot be used. Qiao Xin gave her a bun, a white velvet flower on her temples, and a white round-neck robe.
There were no decorations on the robe. Looking at myself in the mirror, I saw a face that was once familiar and yet unfamiliar. Why is she back again. She once looked forward to coming back to take charge of the situation, but now that everything is stable and the future is bright, she has completely given up thinking about it, so why let her come back.
How could Li Wei be reconciled
After washing up, the sedan chair outside is ready. Wan Su came forward and helped Li Wei slowly out of the dormitory. Li Wei saw the tall lilac tree in the yard at a glance, but it had not reached the flowering period yet, and it still had only bare branches.
She remembered that the lilac had bloomed white flowers on the day she was poisoned to death. Does that mean she was back before the palace change? Li Wei was full of doubts, so she finally asked Wan Su: "What day is today?"
"Back to you, Madam, today is February 12th."
Is it February 12th of the first year of Chunping? Could it be that she went back to the month before she was poisoned in her previous life? Li Wei's steps were a little slow. She didn't think about anything else. Then she got on the sedan chair and went to the Buddhist hall. Li Wei knelt down devoutly before the Buddha statue, and at the same time asked in a low voice in his heart: "Bodhisattva, what is going on? Is this just a dream of mine, or is it really coming back?"
The Bodhisattva is solemn and silent, unable to answer Li Wei's words at all.
She bowed in front of the Bodhisattva and lit incense, but did not chant sutras in front of him as usual. She wanted to find out what was going on.
After offering incense, Li Wei stayed in the Buddhist hall for a while. It was obvious that she didn't understand what happened and why she came back all at once. Was this a dream she had, or was she really coming back
By the time Li Weili finished paying attention to the Buddha, the shoulder cart outside had already been prepared. After he came out, he still took the shoulder cart back to Chongqing Palace.
Li Wei sat on the shoulder carriage and looked at the familiar palace as if it was an old dream. Everything is so unreal. She saw the ring on her finger again. This ring was very strange. She never remembered having such a ring, and she didn't know who found it and put it on her.
Not long after returning to the palace, someone came to report: "The Queen Mother, Your Honorable Concubine and Princess Ping have come to greet you."
Prince Ping hasn’t returned to his fief yet? If you think about it carefully, it is only the twelfth month of February, and the late emperor's hundred days have not yet passed. The emperor's coffin will not enter the underground palace until the hundred days. After these feudal kings were buried, they returned to their respective fiefdoms.
After thinking for a moment, she nodded and said, "Invite them in."
I always feel extremely uncomfortable, and my head feels dizzy. The soul returned to his body, but he felt uncomfortable. It seemed that she was used to being Li Wei, an ordinary urban woman of that era, and not used to being the Queen Mother Li Wei.
Concubine Jinggui and Princess Heping received permission, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came in one after another.
Li Wei glanced over, and if she remembered correctly, the Imperial Concubine was thirty-two this year. It was said that she gave birth to the emperor's second son, Prince Ping, before she was fifteen. She went to see Princess Ping again, a tall and plump young woman, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a white plain round-neck robe. Her eyes were attracted by the bulging belly. Yes, Princess Ping was pregnant.
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw Li Wei, they kowtowed to Li Wei.
Before the two of them knelt down, Li Wei frowned and said, "No courtesy, I'll give you a seat."
After living there for more than ten years, her mentality has changed a long time ago. She is no longer used to people kneeling down in front of her, and she always feels unbearable.
"I heard that the Queen Mother is not well. The Princess wants to come in to see you. How is the Queen Mother today?"
Is she sick? No wonder I feel so uncomfortable. Her head was still groggy, and she said, "I'm thinking of you two, I'm fine."
Concubine Jinggui said with a smile: "I hope you will get well soon, Queen Mother. We are still waiting for you to come out and take charge of the overall situation."
She came out to take charge of the overall situation? Yes, she fell ill shortly after the late emperor's death, and it was inconvenient to work while she was sick. The affairs of the Sixth Palace were left to the two assistants, Concubine Jinggui and Concubine Qi. Naturally, she began to recover.
Back to Daqi, everything is back to where it started.
(End of chapter)