"Auntie, what's the matter with you? But you don't feel well?" Back at the inn, he gently helped the old woman with a different expression to sit back on the bed, and asked with concern.
"Ah..." The old woman sighed again.
"Ma'am, Sister Rou'er and I have been taking care of you these days. We are good people, so you don't need to be afraid!" Nangongxue comforted her from the side. Seeing that the old woman's mood had calmed down a little, she said, "By the way, Ma'am , these days we don’t know how to address you, so we can’t keep calling you like this, can we?”
"Miss Lao Nangong and Miss Wen, I know you are both good children, my surname is Xia." After a while, the old woman sitting by the bed sighed softly.
"Ms. Xia, your physical illness can be cured after taking a few decoctions and taking more care; but if you don't tell me about your inner illness, I will try my best in medicine and I will be helpless!" Nangongxue said alone at the moment. Gently grasping Aunt Xia's wrist with her hand, it can be seen that she is subconsciously feeling her pulse.
"Alas... what should come can't be avoided, can't be avoided... can't be avoided... committing crimes..." Aunt Xia didn't answer, but murmured to herself.
"Sister Xue'er, look at this..." Ruan felt at a loss for a moment.
"It's okay, let me do it." Nangongxue signaled with her eyes.
In the Wulipo Tavern on the outskirts of Beijing, Sheng Biji and Empress Li Fei are still having an interview.
"Bi Ji, are you saying that you overwhelmed Madam Xia at the market in the capital today?!" Empress Li Fei asked.
"Mei, back then you were soft-hearted and said that you wanted to give Nanny Xia a way out, which led to her reappearance today!" Sheng Biji's words were full of reproach.
"Bi Ji, forgive me! I really can't make up my mind. Mother Xia is my wet nurse. She brought me up since I was a child. Although she is a wet nurse, she is better than my own mother. Anyone who knew about it back then was killed by you. Apart from Gen, the only one left is Madam Xia, why don't you let her stay in Bailong Temple and let her fend for herself?" Empress Li Fei's voice was full of earnestness and pleading.
Just like that night that year, the shocking scene reverberated in front of my eyes again.
That winter twenty years ago. A pair of childhood sweethearts cry in a plum forest.
"Mei, have you really been selected into the palace?" The young Sheng Biji cried and refused to believe it.
"Bi Ji, forgive me, as the daughter of Duke Rong, I can't help myself, otherwise resisting the decree will be the disaster of destroying the family!" The youthful and beautiful Rong Wanmei also burst into tears.
"Mei, are you really willing to marry Liu Heng? Are you really willing to spend your whole life in the palace?!" The young Sheng Biji held Rong Wanmei's arm tightly.
"Bi Ji, he is the emperor. Holy fate is hard to do!" Rong Wanmei was still crying, and the surrounding plum garden was desolate.
"If you want, I can take you far away! Find a place where no one knows us, and live a life just for the two of us." The young Sheng Biji's voice choked.
"Bi Ji! Forgive me, I can't, I can't be so selfish, the Rong family needs me! Daddy needs me! Besides, now that you are the censor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, according to the friendship between Liu Heng and you, didn't he promise to seal you?" Are you the prime minister? Such a bright future. Don't waste your life because of me!" Rong Wanmei cried.
"Without you, I wouldn't mind making me emperor! Mei! Don't enter the palace, stay with me!" The young Sheng Biji pleaded bitterly!
"Bi Ji. Forget about me! I can't be your wife in this life, let me pay you back in the next life!" Rong Wanmei burst into tears.
"Mei!" Sheng Biji hugged Wanmei tightly in his arms, unwilling to let go for a long time.
"Believe me, even though I am in the palace, even if my body belongs to him, Liu Heng, my heart will always be on your body!" Rong Wanmei said, looking at Sheng Biji with tears in her eyes for a long time.
"Mei! Without you, I would never marry for life!" Sheng Bi was extremely emotional.
"Don't be silly, didn't Liu Heng promise Qi Guogong to give you his family's daughter? The emperor's finger marriage. There is no reason for you to resist the order! If you don't obey, the Sheng family will be destroyed if you want to come! Alas ... You and I are both miserable people. I think there will be no destiny in this life, but I hope that in the next life we can join hands as husband and wife!" Rong Wanmei leaned tightly in Sheng Biji's arms!
"Mei! No matter who I marry, I only have you in my heart, not her!" Sheng Biji vowed.
"Bi Ji, whether I am Xiaomei or a future concubine, I am your plum, your only plum!" Rong Wanmei said, and the two figures hugged each other tightly.
Behind him, a piece of white plum fluttered like falling snow under the cold north wind.
The garden is full of fragrance, and the heart is full of desolation!
Thus, the grandest wedding ceremony of Emperor Liu Heng of the Great Zhou Dynasty was held after he ascended the throne.
Sheng Biji was first canonized as the prime minister, and then he accepted the holy will and married the beautiful and dignified Qi family, the daughter of the Duke of Qi.
At the same time, Rong Wanmei, the glamorous and charming young lady of the Rong family back then, was naturally overjoyed by Liu Heng and named Concubine Li because of her natural beauty and astonishing beauty. Enjoy the most unique pampering!
Sheng Biji had been married for three months, which was also the third month for Empress Li to enter the palace.
The Rong family was impatient because they enjoyed the emperor's favor all by themselves, but they couldn't help the emperor immediately, so they ordered Nanny Xia, who had been nurturing Concubine Li since childhood, to take her to the Bailong Temple in the capital, where she could beg for a child. .
Unexpectedly, the erroneous marriage caused Wanmei, who has been canonized as Concubine Li, to meet Sheng Biji who came alone to offer incense in Bailong Temple!
The old love meets, the feelings, thoughts, thoughts, and thoughts in the heart are hard to express for a while!
Although it is a holy place of Buddhism, the two of them have long been unable to control the throbbing in their hearts, and they did *things* in a remote meditation room...
So, not long after Concubine Li returned to the palace, she found out that she was pregnant!
Naturally, she knew in her heart that this was the flesh and blood of the Sheng family, the biological son of Sheng Biji!
Bailong Temple asks for a son, and the son will come naturally!
In the eyes of outsiders, Concubine Li is a sincere heart, but in Concubine Li's heart, she clearly understands that this child is not the emperor's dragon vein, but a flesh and blood!
Helpless, the secret cannot be leaked, otherwise it will be a tragedy for several families to be wiped out!
When she came out of the palace next time, the concubine Li went to great lengths to tell Sheng Biji the truth about her pregnancy!
Sheng Bi is very happy!
Immediately, he fell into deep anxiety!
That's his and May's child!
He wants this kid to live!
Let him live a good life!
Let him live in style!
Therefore, the only way to make this secret is to grit your teeth and swallow it into your stomach.
That's why Sheng Biji wiped out all the people involved in this matter!
Only Mother Xia was left as the stable woman who delivered the baby, and under the begging of Empress Li, she survived!
"Bi Ji, please, don't hurt Madam Xia, let her live!" Empress Li Fei pleaded bitterly back then!
"Prime Minister Sheng! I beg you to spare the life of this servant, and spare this servant to live. This servant is willing to deliver the baby for your mother. This servant promises to carry this secret into the coffin for this lifetime!" Nurse Xia begged on her knees.
"Alas..." Sheng Biji slowly put down the long sword in his hand.
Silently turned around and walked outside the temple.
"Abbot, I'm sorry, this woman will be in your temple from now on, you are not allowed to take care of her, just let her fend for herself!" Sheng Biji said coldly.