Chapter 159 Returning to the Palace

It was the first time for Yun Fenghuang to enter the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

The furnishing of the room was much simpler than she had imagined, the floor was covered with azure-colored 氍毹, without any ornamentation. The four walls are bare, only a pot of green buzzing flowers and plants is placed under the west window, and because of the light, it is not clear what it is for a while.

On the babu bed carved with patterns of huanghuali carved cranes and deer, magpies holding mushrooms in spring, etc., the moon-white plain pattern curtain hangs down, covering the head and face of the empress dowager, only a bony wrist resting on the couch Along the side, a suet jade-covered gold animal head bracelet is loosely wrapped. The bracelet can be withdrawn anytime and anywhere, making the owner more haggard.

Opposite the bed was a Changchun round table inlaid with huanghuali marble and pine and cypress, and a few embroidered stools were placed beside the table. At the moment, the empress and empress dowager Ji were sitting around, relatively silent.

Seeing Yun Fenghuang coming in and looking at her together, the queen's lips moved and she said in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

"Ji Baolin fell on the way here and said it was a stomachache." Yun Fenghuang said in a deep voice, "The imperial concubine does not dare to do her own thing, so she ordered someone to come and ask for instructions."

"She still has the time to ask for instructions on such a big matter?!" Empress Dowager Ji and Empress Ji changed their expressions at the same time, and Empress Dowager Ji shouted, "When she herself had a miscarriage, it is possible that she was lying on the ground and asked Aijia first. With the queen, did you call the imperial physician?!"

Chunjia took a sip of tea and said calmly: "The imperial concubine did not do this right."

But he never mentioned that Ji Muzi should be treated quickly.

"Your Majesty, the most important thing now is the emperor's heir, why don't I go and have a look." Empress Ji thought for a while, and stood up, "After all, the emperor's grandmother... can't let her old man hear bad things. news."

If the accident happened to other pregnant concubines, the queen would be too lazy to do it herself, and would like to leave it to Yun Fenghuang to handle it, and if something happened, there must be someone between Zheng Guifei and Yun Fenghuang. It's not even surprising that the two are tearing up to shirk responsibility.

The problem is that it is Ji Muzi who has gone wrong now. Based on the emperor's perception of Ji's family, if he misses the child in Ji Muzi's belly, he is afraid that there will be no more heirs with Ji's blood in the palace in the future. Although neither the Empress Dowager Yuan nor Chunjia had any expectations for Ji Muzi's pregnancy, and even deliberately arranged for her to be trained by Concubine Zheng, she made it clear that she did not want the child to fall to the ground, but for the Ji family, having such an imperial heir , it may be a guarantee in the future.

Empress Ji naturally did not dare to neglect.

In order to prevent the emperor from deliberately delaying time, she even brought up the empress dowager as a shield. No matter how much the emperor doesn't care about the empress dowager's life, it's hard for him to show it now that there are people in this room.

Sure enough, Chunjia glanced at her when she heard the words, and said lightly: "The queen is sick these days, so why worry about it?"

"It's been much better in the past two days." Empress Ji forced a smile, "And it's just under the care of the past, and it doesn't take much effort."

"Then you go." Chun Jia turned her eyes away and waved her hands, as if she didn't care much.

Empress Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly stood up and left, walking in a hurry, as if she was afraid of being stopped by him.

Seeing the situation, the Empress Dowager Ji said: "The emperor should go outside and wait. Sister Yuan has also been ill for the past two days. You can go and see her. The Empress Dowager may not wake up for a while. The Ai family is watching here. that is."

After all, once the empress left, if the emperor and Empress Dowager Ji stayed in the inner room, they were not the biological mother and child, and they hated each other, so everyone felt uncomfortable.

Chunjia didn't refuse either, and said, "It's hard work for Mother Ji", then got up, and walked out with Yun Fenghuang.

When I came out, all the concubines except the imperial concubine had already arrived, but the concubines basically didn't come. This is not surprising. The empress dowager just fainted, and it's not that she is really dying, so she brought the concubines here right now ,What does it mean? Can't wait to attend the funeral for the Empress Dowager?

As for the empress and concubines coming over, that is of course a show of filial piety.

After all, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager lay on the couch. According to the rules, the concubines must serve the sick, and only concubines and above are eligible to serve the sick.

For the concubines below, if they showed up rashly before confirming the bad news, they must have no good fruit to eat - except for Ji Muzi, she is the grandniece of the Empress Dowager, so it is natural to worry about her elders.

When the concubines saw the emperor, they came up to pay respects, because the noble concubine stayed by Ji Muzi's side and hadn't arrived yet, except Concubine Ying and Yuan Lianniang, they were also blessed by Yun Fenghuang.

Yunfeng Huangquan pretended not to see Concubine Ying and Yuan Niang's indifference, and told them about the situation with a pleasant face: "The Empress Dowager is still awake, and the Empress Dowager is guarding inside herself."

The concubines also said a few words tacitly, such as "the empress dowager is auspicious, and there will be no danger because of her own auspiciousness".

This night, as Yun Fenghuang said, most of the nobles in the palace didn't sleep, so they just stayed in Zhuxue Garden all night. Fortunately, Yun Fenghuang asked someone to prepare tea soup and cakes in advance, and took them out for everyone to use. It was too much to see the two queen mothers in the middle of the night, so he asked someone to tidy up the flower hall temporarily, and invited the two queen mothers to go to have a rest.

After staying in this way until dawn, news finally came from the inner room, saying that the Empress Dowager woke up faintly and wanted Chunjia to come in and talk.

Hearing this, everyone didn't dare to show it on their faces, and their hearts became serious.

The empress dowager was considered relatively old at this time, and she had been ill several times since the beginning of the year. Before, when Chunjia was still in Wannian County, it was rumored that she was about to die once—later because of Chunjia’s death Ya disappeared and the Empress Dowager recovered quickly. It was once suspected that the Ji family was trying to trap and kill Chunjia, and it will be another day-but after all, people of this age have repeatedly tossed and tossed. At this moment, I don’t know if it is true... ?

After hearing the news, Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Dowager Qu who rushed over from the Flower Hall looked at each other with worries in their eyes. Empress Dowager Yuan said in a low voice, "The Ai family will go in with the emperor."

"Since the imperial grandmother wants to see the child, it is fine for the child to go in by himself." Chunjia shook his head slightly when he heard the words, and said indifferently, "Don't worry, the empress mother, the imperial grandmother will be fine."

He was talking about the Empress Dowager, but he actually meant that he would be fine.

After all, this is not a few months ago.

It took Chunjia an hour to come out, during which time the imperial physician came in and out repeatedly, until at the end sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face became panicked.

Yun Fenghuang suspected that the Empress Dowager was not in a good condition, and was afraid that she would not have enough time to talk to Chunjia, so she forced the imperial doctor to use some method—waiting outside in complete silence, but it was a pity that the door and wall of Zhuxue Garden were soundproofed. That's great, if that's the case, I can't hear the voices inside at all.

After a while, Chunjia came out alone, her expression was normal, she couldn't see anything, she just said: "The Empress Dowager fell asleep again, Empress Ji took care of her and asked everyone to disperse, so as not to disturb the Empress Dowager by staying here. "

Empress Dowager Yuan looked around, nodded and said, "It should be so."

Seeing that Yun Fenghuang took the lead to resign, and after leaving the house, he ordered someone to inquire about Ji Muzi's situation. Chen Zhu, who was waiting at the door, hurriedly said: "Your servant asked people to watch from a distance last night. Ji Baolin was captured by the queen." The empress sent it to Xianzhi Pavilion, saying that she was afraid of going to Zhuxue Garden to disturb the Empress Dowager, and if she sent it back to Luqin Terrace, it would be too far away."

"Too far?" Yun Fenghuang asked, "Where did she fall?"

Chen Zhu talked about a place with a smile, looked around, and said in a low voice: "There was no news about that person after he entered the Luqin Terrace. Yesterday, a servant was watching from a distance, and by the palace lantern, he said it was his face." I can't see clearly, but the whole person has lost a lot of weight, and I almost didn't recognize it. Madam, think about it, that woman is pregnant, and now she has lost weight. I haven't heard that Luqintai called the imperial doctor to see the discomfort during pregnancy. Yes, it is conceivable how bad life is... Such a rare opportunity, can you not seize it?"

The place where Ji Muzi fell was just a few steps away from the Xianzhi Pavilion, and it is conceivable that she worked hard to cooperate with the Queen's actions.

Chen Zhu said again, "However, the servant guessed that the imperial concubine would not let go so easily. When he returned to the palace city, Ji Baolin would not be able to live in other palaces."

"After all, there are so many blood relatives in the palace, so maybe I can really escape this time?" Yun Fenghuang smiled faintly and said, "Leave her alone, if the palace guessed correctly, the return journey I'm afraid I don't need to worry about it anymore, since that's the case, you should keep an eye on Shun Jieyu and Yigui, you know what to do with these two people!"

Chen Zhu quickly responded, but was puzzled and said: "The matter of the return journey... Could it be that the empress is getting better now?"

But Queen Ji didn't mean to get better yesterday?

"The Ji family needs her, so she has to get better." Yun Fenghuang smiled, flicked his sleeves, and put his shoulders on his shoulders, "Go back."

Because the children of the Ji family were mostly observing the filial piety of the wife of Ye Guogong, this time the empress dowager was ill, so there was no female family member to send a post asking for greetings. Two days later, news came out from Zhuxueyuan that the empress dowager's current condition required a long period of recuperation, and she couldn't bear the turbulence of returning to the palace. Therefore, she decided to stay in the palace temporarily and not leave with the large army.

With her status, it is of course impossible to stay alone. The Empress Dowager Ji asked her to take care of her illness—as for the others, the Empress Dowager ordered that the emperor should put state affairs first and not slack off, so he had to return to the Imperial Capital to preside over the overall situation after the summer vacation. .

The two empress dowagers also have to accompany them to make some suggestions. As for the concubines, of course they also have to accompany them to serve them.

However, among the concubines, the empress dowager still retained someone, and naturally this person was Ji Muzi.

The reason was that Ji Muzi's fall had aroused her fetal gas, and she also needed to lie on the couch for a long time to protect her fetus.

In this case, Empress Ji has to stand up no matter whether she is good or not. After all, among the four members of the Ji family in the palace, three stayed in the palace, and she was the only one who came back with her. If she still claimed to be sick, would the foundation established by the three generations of the Ji family in Miyagi still be lost?

Of course, Chunjia would like to see her stand up at this time. After all, compared with the time, now there are two pregnant women in the team. With Yun Fenghuang's experience, I am afraid that she may not be able to take care of them.

"The Ji family really values ​​Ji Baolin's birth." Xie Hengyu said privately to Yun Fenghuang, "The empress dowager has come out to complain about her illness—it's just that the maid feels that the more they are like this, the more His Majesty will dislike it in the future. That emperor's heir."

Yun Fenghuang smiled and said: "It's not all because of the heir that Ji Muzi is conceived, it's also because His Majesty has become more and more impatient with the Ji family these days, and has clearly supported my palace to act as the empress, the empress dowager There is nothing I can do with my mother, the empress dowager, so I can only voluntarily back down in order to ask His Majesty to show mercy... You think, in the palace before, these people in this palace were all paying respects to the empress and mother, the empress dowager, and did not go to the loving mother, the empress dowager and the empress dowager at all. From the Empress Dowager."

"But at this moment, the empress dowager and the empress dowager will not go back, so who will be the empress dowager who accepts the greeting?"

"Besides, if these two are not in the palace, Empress Ji will have a lot of inconvenience in her actions. She has to restrain herself, and her majesty, the loving empress dowager, and the holy empress dowager will also be much more relaxed... isn't it?"

Xie Hengyu muttered: "Your Majesty is really powerful. The servant girl has always heard that the Ji family has power in the court, but in His Majesty's hands, it didn't last for a few days. It's just like that."

Yun Fenghuang heard her tactful point, and chuckled lightly: "Anyway, if they put all their efforts into it, they wouldn't come to target Bengong."

Although she didn't cheat Ji's a lot, she was very self-aware, she was not qualified to let Ji's deliberate targeting - Chunjia should be the first one Ji wanted to calculate.

The next day Yun Fenghuang went to Baoser Xiaozhu to pay his respects, this time Empress Ji met her immediately.

The empress and concubine had a cordial and affectionate conversation in public. Yun Fenghuang said that a few days ago, the empress was sick to help relieve her worries. Now that the empress is much better, the empress should take care of everything——Empress Ji said that she was not fully recovered yet. , still needs the assistance of the real concubine Yunyun, in short, you pushed me to let me down, Yun Fenghuang very "reluctantly" accepted the queen's request to trouble her to assist Liugong.

Of course, the queen's "request" was not sincere, but this was what Chunjia meant, and it was also the condition that the empress dowager negotiated with Chunjia in person, so what could empress Ji do?

Afterwards, the palace was generally calm, and soon came the day of the return journey. The mighty royal guard of honor meandered out from the wide-open main gate of the palace, winding down, but among the dense vegetation, colorful flags were waving, and the armor was bright.

Yun Fenghuang was fine, I saw it when I came here, but it was the first time for Xie Hengyu and the others to see such a scene, and they were a little lost for a while.

It was already like this when they set off, and when the team entered the imperial palace in a hurry, the majestic and majestic majesty rushed over. Xie Hengyu couldn't help but said: "There are poems in the past. Don't deceive me."

More than half a year ago, she never thought that she would be able to walk into such a place in her life, but now she has become the servant of one of the nobles in this palace——Xie Hengyu couldn't help stealing glances at the master beside her, feeling Dao: It is not uncommon for the middle palace to have a humble background in the history of history. If it is my young lady, that seat may not be Xiao Xiang... right?