"Who is this silly boy?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang asked casually.
Only then did Gu Chengfeng realize that the Empress Dowager Zhuang was also here, standing behind Gu Jiao.
Gu Chengfeng and Empress Dowager Zhuang had a relationship on two sides, one was in Bishui Hutong, and the other was when he and Gu Jiao were chased by Tang Yueshan to the vicinity of the palace.
Empress Dowager Zhuang "slashed" them both as assassins, which made Tang Ming feel at ease.
To say that the inspiration for being killed by pretending to be an assassin came from Empress Dowager Zhuang.
That time Gu Chengfeng wore a mask, so Empress Dowager Zhuang did not recognize him as Gu Jiao's "friend" that night.
At this time, Gu Chengfeng's face was full of dirt, and Empress Dowager Zhuang did not recognize him as Gu Chengfeng.
But in the next second, Empress Dowager Zhuang guessed something: "Oh, the one who went to the Marshal's Mansion."
Are the eyes so poisonous
Can you guess this
It is obvious that he has changed his voice when he speaks!
If Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't even have any skills, she would have spent so many years in the harem of the court. She glanced at Gu Chengfeng lightly: "What's your relationship with Jiaojiao?"
Why do you think this is a sending proposition
Gu Chengfeng looked at Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao clasped her hands together, and stood idly by.
what! This girl, throw it away when you're done! So unscrupulous!
"Qi to the Empress Dowager." He stood up and bowed his hands in a salute, "Caomin Gu Chengfeng, I have seen the Empress Dowager."
"Oh."
Brother Jiaojiao, it's not wild flowers and weeds.
Don't disturb her to hold her little great-grandson.
Afterwards, Empress Dowager Zhuang left without asking why Gu Chengfeng knew martial arts or entered Gong Yunyun.
Gu Chengfeng was a little stunned: "...The Queen Mother's temperament is still, quite unique."
Eunuch Qin's bastard really made them stunned. The bastard's shell was hard and nothing serious, but he was a little frightened and huddled in the shell all afternoon.
Gu Jiao took care of Gu Chengfeng's shoulder injury, and asked him for a thousand taels of silver, euphemistically called consultation money.
Gu Chengfeng, who was still not hot with a thousand taels of silver notes: "..."
Gu Chengfeng looked at her with a headache: "Speaking of which, you would rather give up the imperial edict and save me from Long Yingwei, wouldn't you just be greedy for these thousand taels of silver?"
After all, if he dies, the body will definitely be disposed of, and she won't be able to get the silver ticket.
Gu Jiao's expression is impossible!
Gu Chengfeng understood, and he was suddenly moved in his heart. This girl had a conscience, so she only knew how to squeeze him.
Gu Jiao analyzed it carefully: "If you die, I will lose a thousand taels, but if you are alive, you can earn more than a thousand taels for me! As for the imperial edict, aren't you the number one thief? Go to steal it next time. Come back!"
Gu Chengfeng: "..."
So why is he moved
The two had lunch at Empress Dowager Zhuang's Renshou Palace.
Gu Chengfeng couldn't think of Empress Dowager Zhuang as an ordinary aunt. She ate a meal very cautiously, but Gu Jiao kept babbling and her cheeks were bulging, which reminded people of a small dog he once caught in the back mountain. Fat squirrel.
In the nunnery, Princess Jing waited quietly while knocking on the wooden fish and chanting sutras.
However, instead of waiting for the news that Mama Cai had captured the assassin, she waited for the bad news that Mama Cai was being detained by the emperor for interrogation.
"Empress Concubine." The little nun who reported her letter knelt behind her and looked at her uneasily, "What should I do? Madam Cai was taken away... Why did Your Majesty arrest Madam Cai? Madam Cai is not our nunnery. The person? Your Majesty is not... "
The little nun said a series of grievances in one breath, and at the end she burst into tears.
The palace has never been able to hide things, and one thing can tell a very eighth point.
There is no need for Renshou Palace to spread anything at all. The arrest of Mama Cai is enough to make people guess whether the relationship between Concubine Jing and the emperor is really tense.
"Princess Concubine, let's go and intercede with Your Majesty, please let Mammy Cai go... Mama Cai is getting old... I can't bear those hardships..."
The little nun has not been in the palace for a long time, but she has heard a lot about those tortures in the palace where life is worse than death. She was arrested for interrogation.
She worries.
She is also afraid.
She was afraid that the big hug would collapse and crush her who was in the building.
As night fell, the nunnery was silent, and the little nun's sobbing gradually melted into the night.
Concubine Jing didn't do anything, she didn't even send anyone to inquire about the news about Mama Cai, she just sat quietly in the Buddhist hall with her hands folded, as if she was worshipping the Buddha devoutly, as if she was just sitting dry.
The little nun finally couldn't stand it anymore. She had only heard of the cruelty of the palace, but had not experienced it personally.
She choked up and ran to Huaqing Palace.
"Let me see Your Majesty! The concubine has not eaten or drunk for a whole day... If this goes on... if it goes on like this... she will get sick... "
She cried loudly.
This is taboo in the palace.
She didn't know how lucky she was that she was not dragged down and punished by palace rules.
"What's going on outside?" The emperor put down the booklet in his hand and asked while pinching his eyebrows.
Eunuch Wei said in a low voice, "It's the little teacher next to the concubine's concubine, who said it was... the empress of the concubine didn't eat for a whole day."
The emperor's brows furrowed.
Eunuch Wei observed his words and said, "Your Majesty, do you want a servant to take a look?"
The emperor opened his mouth.
He hesitated, and for a moment he wanted to nod.
Then he was frightened by his own thoughts. In the past, when he heard the news of Concubine Jing, he would immediately put down his official duties to visit her, but now that she hasn't gotten a drop of water all day, he is not so anxious.
He shouldn't be like this.
He closed his eyes and said, "I will go to the nunnery."
Eunuch Wei: "Yes."
The emperor did not sit in the sedan chair, but walked over with Eunuch Wei himself.
Concubine Jing liked to be quiet, so the site was very remote at that time, and because of rushing to work overnight, the nunnery itself was not built very much.
At this moment, it was swallowed up by the night, and it became more and more insignificant.
When the little nun saw the emperor coming, she was pleasantly surprised: "Your Majesty—"
The emperor didn't look at her, only raised his hand lightly.
The little nun was instantly shocked by the power of the real dragon.
The lights of the Buddhist hall were on, a lonely figure danced on the window paper, and the emperor walked over.
In the deserted Buddhist hall, Concubine Jing sat alone on the ground. She tried her best to straighten her back, but it seemed that she could not resist the passing of time and the wasting of time, and her body had a hint of depression.
The emperor's heart suddenly felt a little sour: "Mother concubine..."
Concubine Jing did not look back, she said coldly and plainly, "Please come back if you have nothing to do with your majesty."
The emperor listened to her emotionless voice, and the sourness in his heart became more and more intense: "Mother concubine is blaming me..."
Concubine Jing laughed at herself and said, "What's your fault? It's your fault for taking away Grandma Cai, or the nightmare you end up thinking I'm a beast of a flood, and the queen mother is your close mother, or maybe you clearly took me out of the palace. I was picked up, but hurriedly sent me out of the Huaqing Palace? Your Majesty, what am I? How many mothers in the world are called mothers by their sons?"
She said and turned around.
There were no tears in her eyes, only endless sadness.
When the emperor looked at her like this, his heart ached.
How could he doubt his mother-in-law
How could she have her own secret
How could she have sent an assassin to assassinate the Queen Mother
Ning An was married far away, she was forced to go to the nunnery again, and her only son couldn't take care of her. How did she spend all these years alone
Has he forgotten!
He stepped forward, sat down in front of her, and held his hand: "Hong'er will never be the same again. In Hong'er's heart, concubine will always be Hong'er's only mother."
Concubine Jing's fingertips trembled, and her eyes were red.
The emperor clenched her hand guiltily: "Mother hasn't eaten yet, Hong'er will accompany you to eat."
Concubine Jing asked firmly: "Then Your Majesty... will you no longer doubt me from now on?"
"I..." The emperor hesitated for a short while, "I won't."
Concubine Jing lowered her eyes.
…
"It turns out that Concubine Jing hid so deeply." On the carriage back, Gu Chengfeng couldn't help but sighed at Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao wouldn't tell him this. Gu Jiao didn't talk much. It was the revolutionary friendship that Gu Chengfeng helped Eunuch Qin to feed Wang Ba. Eunuch Qin told him all about it.
What surprised Gu Chengfeng the most was that Concubine Jing was even able to deal with the emperor, but she was her adopted son, how could she be willing to feed him so many strange medicines? Don't be afraid to feed people stupid.
"The most poisonous woman's heart!"
His words were originally a pun, and he wanted to take the opportunity to tease Gu Jiao.
But Gu Jiao didn't respond at all.
Gu Chengfeng only felt that a punch had hit the cotton.
The carriage walked swayingly, thinking of something, Gu Chengfeng suddenly smiled narrowly: "You just replaced the black medicine and the white medicine, right? Then next time she gives the emperor medicine, will it be counterproductive?"
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the nunnery was secluded, except for the sound of frying from the small kitchen.
The emperor went to another meditation room to wait.
Concubine Jing pushed open the door of her meditation room and walked in slowly. Then she waved her sleeves with her backhand and closed the door with her inner strength.
She opened the wardrobe and took out the black medicine and white medicine from the small box.
She uncorked the white medicine bottle, poured out a dark brown pill, and wrapped it in a white handkerchief.
After doing this, she planned to leave, but she suddenly stopped.
Her eyes fell on the small box, looked at the place where the imperial decree had been left, and then looked at the two bottles—
Suddenly, she put the medicine back in the white bottle and poured a medicine out of the black bottle.
She took the medicine in the black bottle and went to the meditation room next door.
The vegetarian dishes are ready.
The emperor sat on the mat with her, and the emperor personally prepared dishes for her.
"Your Majesty eats himself," she said.
"There is no His Majesty here, there is no concubine, only Hong'er and Niang." The emperor put a piece of tender bamboo shoots for Concubine Jing, "I remember that Niang likes to eat bamboo shoots, but now is not the season to eat bamboo shoots, only pickled bamboo shoots, waiting for winter bamboo shoots Come out, I'll let someone dig a big basket back."
Concubine Jing said, "Where can I eat so much?"
"Your Majesty, this is the mountain mushroom soup made by the mother-in-law!" The little nun happily brought a bowl of soup and presented it to her.
The emperor said: "Mother, don't work so hard."
Concubine Jing said, "It's rare for you to come here."
The emperor solemnly said: "I will come every day from now on, every day."
I don't know if this sentence touched the heart of Concubine Jing, and her expression was finally not so cold.
She sighed, picked up the spoon, and gave the emperor a bowl of mushroom soup.
"You all get back," she said.
"Yes." The little nun and the palace servants who were serving gradually withdrew.
"You also retire." The emperor said to Eunuch Wei.
Eunuch Wei: "...Yes."
There were only two people left in the meditation room with the curling sandalwood incense.
The so-called white medicine and black medicine are not insisting on who feeds him, but only when the medicine is effective, the person he sees is himself, and he deeply remembers himself, then that is enough.
"Drink it while it's hot." She handed the soup bowl to the emperor.
The emperor took a sip and said with a smile, "Mother's cooking skills are as good as ever."
"As long as you like it."
"Your Majesty! The Queen Mother called you to discuss matters!"
The sound of Eunuch Wei's report suddenly came from outside the door.
Concubine Jing looked at him slightly, and the emperor was heartbroken by her uneasy eyes. He said, "I'm having a meal, I'll discuss it another day!"
"...Yes." Eunuch Wei reluctantly responded.
The emperor picked up the spoon and drank the mountain mushroom soup that the mother concubine had prepared for him one by one.
After eating a bowl of mushroom soup, the emperor put down the bowl and held his forehead: "Mother, I'm a little dizzy."
Concubine Jing looked at him tenderly: "It's okay, just sleep for a while if you feel dizzy, and you'll be fine when you wake up."
The emperor was lying on the table and looked at Concubine Jing dizzily. In front of him was Concubine Jing's smile, in his ear was Concubine Jing's voice, and the tip of his nose was Concubine Jing's breath.
All of this was deeply ingrained in his mind.
He wants to remember this person, why remember he doesn't know.
He just remembered it deeply.
On the carriage, Gu Jiao leaned against the wall lazily: "I changed the black medicine and the white medicine, but I changed it back."
Gu Chengfeng was stunned: "What did you say? You, you changed it back? So... the white bottle is still white medicine, and the black bottle is still black medicine?"
Gu Jiao nodded: "That's right."
Gu Chengfeng was stunned: "Why did you do this?"
Gu Jiao said lightly, "Because the godfather said that in this world, there are always some people who like to be smart but are mistaken by it."
(End of this chapter)