At the same time, Concubine Zhuang also asked in front of Empress Dowager Zhuang of Renshou Palace.
She said brightly, "Auntie, you did this, right? I knew that my aunt had the ability and would definitely be able to deceive Your Majesty! Auntie's trick is called a surprise victory! Concubine Jing thought that she would be able to give it to her aunt if she moved back to the palace. Timing, but unexpectedly, my aunt is superior, and with a little bit of means, I will settle my quarrel with Your Majesty! By the way, why didn't my aunt do it earlier?"
Mrs. Zhuang looked at her blankly from behind.
Concubine Zhuang shuddered at the sight, she shrank her neck, and said embarrassingly: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? Now there are rumors in the palace that the murderer who poisoned Xiao Heng has been found, it's Zhang Xiu. How did my aunt think of letting Zhang Xiu take the blame? Zhang Xiu is His Majesty’s person, so naturally my aunt can’t instruct her, this suspicion is so clean!”
"Are you finished?" Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently, "Ai's family needs to see the book."
Concubine Zhuang pursed her lips, bowed and retired.
The matter of Zhang Xiu poisoning Xiao Heng spread like wildfire. Soon Liu Gongquan knew the truth of Xiao Heng's murder. The emperor had misunderstood Empress Dowager Zhuang for many years.
It is true that some people think that this is the emperor's blindfold. On the surface, he expresses his guilt and filial piety to Empress Dowager Zhuang through Zhang Xiu's incident. In fact, it is to paralyze Empress Dowager Zhuang and approach Empress Dowager Zhuang to gain Empress Dowager Zhuang's trust, so as to kill Empress Dowager Zhuang by surprise in the future.
Queen Xiao sat in Huaqing Palace for a while and then returned to Kunning Palace to take care of Qin Chuyu.
The emperor looked at Concubine Jing: "How is Concubine's injury?"
Concubine Jing smiled and said warmly, "It's not a big problem."
The emperor's expression did not relax in the slightest. He said sternly: "The imperial doctor said that the mother-in-law needs to be carefully nursed back to health, and the medicine should be taken every day, which should not be neglected. Mama Cai, you must take good care of the mother-in-law."
"Yes." Grandma Cai responded respectfully.
The emperor snorted and said to Concubine Jing: "The son will go to the imperial study first. If the concubine feels that the Huaqing Palace is boring, she will take a sedan chair and go to the imperial garden for a walk. The imperial doctor said that it is not good to always be bored in the room. heal."
"Your Majesty doesn't have to miss me, with His Majesty's dragon spirit protecting me, I am in good health, but Your Majesty..." Concubine Jing said, her eyes falling on his slightly haggard brows, "Your Majesty looks tired, but has he reviewed the memorials overnight? "
The emperor smiled indifferently and said, "There have been heavy rains in many areas recently, and the disaster has been serious, and there are inevitably more books."
Concubine Jing took his hand and warned seriously, "Then you have to take care of the dragon body."
The emperor patted the back of Concubine Jing's hand and said with a smile, "My son will pay attention."
Concubine Jing's expression became slightly stunned, she thought of something, and asked again, "Is the soothing incense that Grandma Cai brought to you useful?"
"Yes." The emperor said.
"Is it still good?" Princess Jing asked.
The emperor smiled and said: "The spices prepared by the mother and concubine are easy to use."
The emperor comforted Concubine Jing a few more words, and then got up and went to the imperial study.
He didn't come to eat with Princess Jing at noon, and ate in the imperial study.
Eunuch Wei went to the imperial kitchen and instructed the cook to cook a few delicious dishes, but there were not many styles.
The emperor used to talk about ostentation when he ate, and since he lived in Bishui Hutong, he simplified the three meals a day a lot.
Eunuch Wei came out of the imperial study and went back to the Huaqing Palace to pick up a few books that were left in the small study last night.
When he came out of the small study, he met Concubine Jing and Mama Cai who were walking towards him.
"Empress Concubine." Eunuch Wei bowed while holding the book.
Mama Cai bowed slightly at him.
He is also in debt.
In terms of rank, he is above Mammy Cai, but the palace has never been a place for purely grading. The emperor respects Concubine Jing, and if she is alone, even chickens and dogs will rise to the sky.
Concubine Jing looked at him gently: "Eunuch Wei, how many years have you served by His Majesty's side?"
Eunuch Wei didn't think for too long, and answered almost quickly, "The servant has been with His Majesty since he was fourteen years old, and it has been thirty years now."
Concubine Jing nodded: "Do you still remember who chose you to be next to His Majesty?"
Eunuch Wei was slightly stunned, not understanding why Concubine Jing suddenly asked this, he truthfully said, "It's the concubine."
Concubine Jing looked at him fixedly: "Can this palace trust you?"
She used this palace.
Eunuch Wei's expression became solemn, and he held the book tightly in one hand, freeing up the other hand to lift the hem and kneel down: "What is the order of the concubine, the servant will never give up!"
Concubine Jing raised her hand to help him: "Get up and talk, why not die? You are the old man next to Your Majesty, and His Majesty can't leave you. I am just too worried about Your Majesty. ."
Eunuch Wei pinched his cold sweat, and did not dare to let Concubine Jing support his humble body, so he stood up and bowed his head: "What do you want to ask, but it's okay to say it."
Concubine Jing asked, "How is your Majesty's body?"
Eunuch Wei thought that Concubine Jing would ask her Majesty whether it was true that the reconciliation between Her Majesty and Empress Dowager Zhuang was true.
Eunuch Wei felt ashamed that he had misunderstood Concubine Jing, and he said, "Returning to Empress Dowager, Your Majesty has been having trouble sleeping and eating recently."
Concubine Jing's eyes moved: "But in a trance, do you have nightmares at night?"
"Exactly..." Eunuch Wei was taken aback, "Huh? How did the concubine know?"
Concubine Jing sighed: "I guessed it all, just when I talked to him, he was a little out of spirit, and asked him if he reviewed the memorials overnight, he said that there were too many papers, I guess he couldn't sleep, and It's the same as when I was a kid. This kid, when he is stressed, he will have nightmares, and then ask me to hold him to sleep... I thought that after so many years, when he grows up, he will never be the same as when he was a child. "
Wei Gonggong said: "The niangniang is worried about your majesty."
Concubine Jing smiled bitterly: "He's my son, and I made it big with shit and urine. How can I not worry about him? By the way, the soothing incense I gave to Your Majesty, is it useful to His Majesty? A recipe asked by a master monk can cure your majesty's insomnia and dreams."
Eunuch Wei: "I used it."
Concubine Jing: "Is it really useful?"
Eunuch Wei smiled embarrassedly: "It is indeed used. If the concubine doesn't believe it, the servant can find you the incense ashes."
Concubine Jing smiled: "No, I believe in you. Except for me in the entire Huaqing Palace, you are the only one who is most sincere to His Majesty."
Eunuch Wei bowed and said, "This servant is frightened."
Concubine Jing handed him a box: "This is a new soothing incense, the effect is better than the last one, you can use it for Your Majesty, I hope His Majesty will no longer be troubled by nightmares. If it works well, you Come to me again, I have many more."
Eunuch Wei took the box and said, "Yes."
Concubine Jing said, "Then I'll go first."
Eunuch Wei bowed and said, "Congratulations to send off the concubine."
After Concubine Jing left, Eunuch Wei took the memorial along with An Shenxiang to the imperial study, and told the emperor about the encounter with Concubine Jing.
The emperor laughed: "I don't remember what happened when I was a child, and so do you. Who asked you to talk about my situation to the mother-in-law? It made her worry."
Eunuch Wei explained: "Your Majesty, the concubine can see that you are not feeling well, wouldn't it make her more cranky if you hide it?"
The emperor shook his head: "That's it."
Eunuch Wei smiled: "Then this soothing fragrance..."
The emperor said: "Since it is a piece of the concubine's heart, then leave it alone and watch it at night."
At night, Eunuch Wei ordered the emperor's new soothing incense from Concubine Jing. This incense didn't seem to be any different from the previous soothing incense, but it was more intense.
The emperor really quickly fell asleep.
Eunuch Wei thought that if he could really sleep well this time, he could also go to rest.
But no one expected that the emperor had a nightmare again not long after falling asleep.
This time, he didn't dream that he was lying on the bed, stiff and unable to move, and had to be slaughtered by others. He dreamed that he stumbled and fell off a cliff, and caught a vine on the edge of the cliff at a critical moment.
The bottom of his feet is an abyss, and if the vine breaks, he will fall to pieces.
He shouted desperately: "Escort—escort—"
Finally, someone came.
It's Concubine Jing!
Concubine Jing fell down.
He was so moved that he almost cried, his mother was really the one who loved him the most in the world.
However, Concubine Jing did not want to pull him up, but took out a dagger and cut off his vines.
"what-"
The weightlessness of falling into the abyss made the emperor suddenly wake up from his sleep. He sat up and gasped for breath!
When Eunuch Wei heard the movement, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He walked over with an oil lamp and asked, "Your Majesty!"
When he saw the emperor's pale face and cold sweat, he couldn't help but be startled: "Your Majesty has another nightmare?"
"Zhen... Zhen..." The emperor covered his heart, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
Fang Cai's dream was too terrifying, the feeling of falling into an abyss was worse than stabbing him 10,000 times with a knife.
It's just a nightmare. He is the honor of Ninety-five, and he is not a coward. How could he be frightened like this
He despised himself.
"Your Majesty, have a drink of tea." Eunuch Wei put down the oil lamp and poured a cup of herbal tea over to suppress his shock.
The emperor gulped and drank, but did not settle down much.
"I can't sleep, I'll go and see the book for a while."
Eunuch Wei refused to persuade him, so he had to carry Zhezi from the imperial study.
But the emperor couldn't calm down at all, the fear in the nightmare was like maggots in the tarsus, lingering in his body.
The emperor put down the book in dismay: "I go out for a walk, don't let them follow."
"Yes."
Eunuch Wei held a lantern and left the Huaqing Palace with the emperor.
The emperor walked aimlessly.
Unconsciously, I came to Kunning Palace.
Eunuch Wei asked softly, "Your Majesty, do you want to go to the Queen's place? The servant will go and pass the message."
The emperor looked at the closed palace gate and said lightly, "No need, it's late at night, don't wake up the queen mother."
Eunuch Wei was startled.
mother
Isn't Empress Xiao living here
Empress Dowager Zhuang moved to Renshou Palace long after the death of the late emperor.
Eunuch Wei looked at the emperor with a bewildered expression, and the emperor suddenly returned to his senses and glanced at him suspiciously: "What did I just say?"
Eunuch Wei was stunned for a while, and said, "Ah, no, it's nothing, Your Majesty said that it's late at night, so I won't wake the queen."
Maybe you heard it wrong.
Your Majesty is talking about the Queen, not the Queen Mother.
"Empress..." The emperor's expression was in a trance for a moment, and then he suddenly frowned, "Why did I come here? You didn't remind me? In the middle of the night, the harem was disturbed, and there was a flurry of jumps in the harem!"
"… Uh, yes, it's the slave's fault."
Eunuch Wei was extremely wronged.
From the moment you left Huaqing Palace, you rushed here as if you were looking for it, who could stop you
"Go back." The emperor said angrily.
The emperor hadn't slept much all night, so he changed his clothes and went to court on time after Yin Shi.
He was out of energy and almost fell asleep on the dragon chair.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said in a mighty and domineering manner: "If there is something to do, I will go back to the court!"
This irritable tone means that whoever dares to do something will wait to be done.
Civil and military officials said that they had nothing to do.
Eunuch Wei announced in a loud voice, "Retreat from the dynasty—"
After leaving the Golden Palace, Empress Dowager Zhuang sat on her phoenix chariot. She glanced at the emperor who was doing the show and watching her leave, and sarcastically said, "Don't let the murderer catch you, you will die first. It's gone!"
The emperor said in a cold voice, "I don't have to worry about my mother, I'm doing very well!"
"Someone is here!" Eunuch Wei reminded.
The emperor and the empress dowager Zhuang opened for business in a second, raising their smiling faces!
After returning to the Huaqing Palace, Eunuch Wei was invited to the Qiuhua Pavilion by Concubine Jing by Madam Cai.
Concubine Jing was copying the Buddhist scriptures. When she saw him coming over, she smiled and asked in a warm voice, "How well did your Majesty sleep last night? No more nightmares, right?"
Eunuch Wei looked hesitant.
Concubine Jing's smile gradually disappeared: "What's wrong? Is your majesty still unable to sleep?"
"Sleep is sleep, that is..." Eunuch Wei sighed helplessly, "I have nightmares again, and I'm still scared."
The brush in Princess Jing's hand fell on the table, and the tip of the pen rolled around and rolled from the table to the ground, and the page of scriptures that had just been copied was soiled like this.
"How could this be?" she murmured incredulously.
Eunuch Wei gave the concubine a strange look.
Madam Cai hurriedly knelt down and sat down, picked up the brush and put it away, wiped the ink on the floor with a handkerchief, and said, "Parents in the world, His Majesty's dragon body violates the harmony, the maiden worries that His Majesty is inevitable, maiden understands the feelings of the maiden. But madam, you have to take good care of yourself! The imperial doctor said that your injury is not healed, so you can't worry about it!"
Eunuch Wei looked at Concubine Jing.
Concubine Jing's face was full of disbelief. She squeezed the Buddhist scriptures on the table with such force that she actually kneaded them into a ball.
Eunuch Wei was shocked.
Madam Cai grabbed the wrist of Concubine Jing, fixedly looking at her and said, "Miss Concubine, you must hold on! Your Majesty has already worked hard for the affairs of the state, you can't be in a hurry any longer!"
Was it because you were too worried about Your Majesty? Eunuch Wei secretly sighed and said, "I'll ask the imperial doctor to come over to the concubine too."
Grandma Cai said gratefully, "It's time to help Eunuch Wei!"
Eunuch Wei said politely, "It's the right thing to do."
Mama Cai smiled and said, "I'll send Eunuch Wei out."
Eunuch Wei declined: "No need, Mama Cai should take good care of the concubine."
Mammy Cai insisted on sending the person to the door, smiled and watched Eunuch Wei disappear at the end of the corridor, only then withdrew the smile and returned to Qiuhua Pavilion.
She looked at Concubine Jing worriedly: "Niangniang!"
Concubine Jing gently folded her wide sleeves: "Okay, I'm fine."
The imperial doctor went to the imperial study to check the emperor's pulse, saying that the emperor was too worried, overworked, and angered, and prescribed a prescription for nourishing qi, strengthening vitality, and calming the mind.
The emperor disdainfully said: "This recipe is again, how many times have I taken it, and which one has it worked?"
Eunuch Wei rolled his eyes: "Why don't you... go to the little genius doctor?"
The emperor hummed, "Didn't you hear her say that she never came to Huaqing Palace for treatment?"
Eunuch Wei smiled and said, "If she doesn't come to us, we can go to her! It's not the way for you to keep going like this. The concubine is terrified of you!"
The emperor frowned, and finally was persuaded. He and Eunuch Wei changed their clothes when they went out, and took a carriage to the Miaoshoutang.
As a result, he was told that Gu Jiao was not there.
Dr. Song had met Eunuch Wei and knew that his master was Qin Chuyu's father and an official of the imperial court. He cupped his hands and said politely, "Miss Gu has gone to the doctor."
"How long will it take to be back?" Eunuch Wei asked.
Dr. Song said: "She didn't say, but I guess she won't go back to the medical center today. She has to pick up the empty space for school in a while. Don't you know where her home is? Why don't you go directly to her home to find her!"
The master and servant then went to Bishui Hutong.
Before Gu Jiao came back, Yao shi invited them into the room.
Today, Grandma Zhou's two daughters-in-law, Aunt Liu and her sister came here to ask Yao Shi for advice. A room full of women filled the main room, and Aunt Liu's eyes were always on the emperor.
The emperor's scalp is numb!
Yao Shi pursed her lips and smiled, and invited the emperor to her aunt's house: "Your Majesty... Master will sit in the house for a while, Jiaojiao will be back soon."
"Thank you Madam Gu." The emperor thanked politely.
Aunt Liu sneaked over.
The emperor was so frightened that he put the bolt on the door!
The emperor was sitting in a small and cramped room, the doors and windows were closed, and the light was a little dim, but the more it was, the more it magnified other senses.
He smelled a faint warm breath.
There was in distant memory.
When Gu Jiao came back after picking up Xiao Jingkong, she heard Eunuch Wei talking about the emperor's inability to sleep at night. She went to knock on her aunt's door and knocked for a long time without moving.
Eunuch Wei was terrified: "Your Majesty, there is no accident!"
Gu Jiao pulled out the dagger and pried open the door bolt.
Eunuch Wei hurriedly pushed open the door and ran in: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."
He was dumbfounded.
It was agreed that the emperor who couldn't sleep was lying on the bed at the moment, drooling, snoring, and snoring was snoring and fart!
(End of this chapter)