Chapter 293: Empress Dowager fell ill

In the Qingfeng Palace.

"The Empress--" When the maid Shuanghuan saw that Shangguan Wan couldn't persuade her, she complained in a long voice and sighed, "The Empress knows that the emperor is going to ask questions every day, but she just wants to hear what the Empress has to say to the emperor. Why did you send a slave alone for such a job? I'm not as stable as Sister Bi Terri, and I'm not as smart and clumsy as Sister Xiangyun. It's better to serve the Empress.

"You, young people, don't learn to be angry."

Shangguan Wanyan was drinking tea. Hearing the words, she couldn't help shaking her head and smiling, "Naturally, the double ring can't go away, and Xiangyun is in trouble all day long. Who else can there be besides you? If you send someone else, I can't worry about it. Don't be lazy.

She gently pushed the tea lid in her hand and said slowly, "Besides, I'm relieved to know that you are stupid and won't say nonsense when you go there."

"All right." Ziyun was relieved and nodded, "I don't talk much. From now on, I'm going to make a stuffy gourd for my mother. I just hope that my mother won't forget me."

"The stuffy gourd?" Shangguan Wanyan seemed to be recalling something. Hearing this, she put down the tea cup and smiled and said, "You are all used to it. You dare to complain about a little bitter errands. You should really beat you."

"Oh, I just don't understand." Ziyun stared at Xiang Tao, who made a grimace and sighed, "The Empress knows that the emperor has feelings for you, even if it's the matter of the eldest son, she can't listen to all the words. Let's talk about it----"

Shangguan Wanyan looked at her and stopped talking and said, "Needless to say, I know it. As long as I see my father come back, I will apologize to the emperor."

"Since you understand, why do you still want to be angry with the emperor these days? It's not that the maidservant doesn't look at her master. It's really too painful to look at you.

"Ha ha, if I don't suffer from myself, I'm afraid that those people won't let go of me."

Shangguan Wan said and stood up, walked to the window, looked at the snow outside, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"I know my current identity, which is not only pregnant, but also pleases the emperor. It also provokes a group of concubines to stare at me. If I have been as happy as before, I am afraid that I will be calculated in the future and still be in the dark."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Wan couldn't help shaking her head and smiled faintly, "But now it seems that the master behind this is too calm and remembering a little thing until now. Who doesn't have many annoying things in this harem? If you want to be like her, you can't live that day. Baba sent such a letter to my palace, in order to be afraid that he wanted to watch my palace get angry and have a misforest, followed by a dead body and two lives, right? Ha ha, I let her down.

The maid lowered her head and thought about it and asked, "What does the Empress mean is to make a look first and perfunctory the eyes of these people?"

"No, she is not something we can watch." Shangguan Wanxuan seemed to be a little tired. She waved her hand for the double ring to come over and beat her shoulder. She leaned against the soft pillow of the aster flower and said with a restrained color, "You must be careful that the people in our palace should not look for trouble these days. It's not worry about staring at Fengyi Palace for me."

Zi Yun sighed and nodded, "Yes, the maidservant wrote it down."

Shangguan Wan took care of the loose hair of Li Yun's temples and ordered Shuanghen to say, "You go back and tell Liu Tuo, and say that this palace will choose a few people to send to Shen Guiren as a job. When the Japanese palace bumped into her talking to the emperor in the plum garden, coupled with these causes and consequences, she remembered that she had already regret. This noble Shen also has to be guarded.

Her tone was light, but everyone couldn't help hearing a cold sweat and were relatively speechless.

"My wife, someone from Zizhuyuan has come."

Shangguan Wan was slightly surprised when she heard the words. She tightened her hand holding the purple silk silk hand and frowned slightly: "Why, is the Empress Dowager's illness serious again? Go quickly and let the man come in and reply."

The palace people of Zizhuyuan were brought in and kowtowed: "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager is in good spirits today and wants the Empress to go and talk. The Empress Dowager also said that she would prepare something for the little prince and let the imperial concubine come and have a look together.

"Okay, I'm going to go there."

Hearing that the Empress Dowager did not forget to send someone to pass on herself during her illness, Shangguan Wan was slightly relieved, as if she was a little tired, and waved her hand and said, "You all go down to do things separately. Don't pestle here."

The Purple Bamboo Courtyard is located behind the six palaces in the east and west. The side hall is inhabited by imperial concubines. The plaque of the main hall - Yihe Zhengfang, is the handwritten by Emperor Gaozu.

Shangguan Wanqi was wearing a purple fox coat and led everyone across three gates to the inner hall. On the corridor were two people holding crimson old lacquer pillars, and a group of maids in clear clothes stood on the side, hiding a little obscurity.

The leading palace man's eyes were sharp, and he hurriedly asked the little maid to report it. She greeted herself and smiled, "Empress Princess Jin'an, you're here. The Empress Dowager has asked in it several times."

Shangguan Wanyan took the hand of the fourteenth princess and looked up at the navy blue bat-patterned longevity window. She suddenly remembered some old things many years ago and said for half a day before she said, "Well, I thought that the Empress Dowager had not seen the fourteenth princess these days, so I also brought her here."

After she finished speaking, she seemed to see the maid beside the empress dowager and said in surprise, "It turns out that the empress dowager also came, but it's really a coincidence."

"Yes, the imperial concubine, the empress dowager came early in the morning, and now she is still talking to the empress dowager!"

The palace man looked back with a smile and saw the fourteenth princess hiding behind Shangguan Wanxuan. He nodded slightly and led everyone into the hall.

Entering the hall, the Empress Dowager was dressed in a stone-blue embroidered satin suit, with a few plain golden hairpins on her bun. Her face was sickly pale with incessily tanning. She looked up and smiled faintly and said, "It's all here. Sit down."

With that, he waved to the fourteenth princess, hugged her in his arms, stroked her lovingly for a while, and then ordered the palace people to take her down to play first.

There was a silence in the hall, and the three of them did not speak. Shangguan Wan looked at the empress dowager, and her eyes were worried about her eagerness to deal with things. She got up and smiled and said, "The mother is filial and sincere. She has always been thinking about coming to visit the empress dowager. I think there are many well-be words to say, but my son-son will leave first and come back to greet the empress dowager another day."

"No, the empress dowager invited to come with you. Now that the empress dowager has finished, you can stay first."

The Empress Dowager seemed to have purged her spirit. She turned her head to look at the Empress Dowager, who had never been silent, and said, "Now that the Empress Dowager is not in good health, your mother-in-law is more tired. When she is better, I will honor you. You are in charge of everything in the harem, and you don't have so much leisure time. Let me tell you a few words first.

Shangguan Wan filled the empress dowager with tea and filled the empress dowager. After that, she asked softly, "Empress dowager, do you feel better recently?"

"What's good or not? Those are all words used by the imperial doctors to ftake people."

The Empress Dowager took a sip of tea and said slowly, "The mourning family is aware of the illness of the family, but it's just dragging the days and thinking about it..."

As he spoke, there was a sudden violent cough, a little blood on his choked face, gasped for a while, and suddenly sighed, "This child is too stubborn."

Shangguan Wanxuan was a little confused, so she had to laugh and say, "The emperor is diligent and loves the people now. The empress dowager doesn't have to worry."

"With just his little thought, you won't be able to see it, just don't say it in the way."

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes slightly and shook her head slowly and said, "You don't have to cover it up for her, and you don't have to cover it up in front of your family. He is young and ignorant. At least you should stay with him. Don't care about him.

"I dare not."

Shangguan Wanqi owed herself forward, but her eyes fell on a pile of Buddhist scriptures brought by the Empress Dowager Nalan, with thin bamboo paper with dense and neat regular script on it.

"I know that the emperor is in trouble, so I dare not complain at all"

"Oh..." The Empress Dowager suddenly sighed and smiled faintly, "You only think that the mourning family is protecting your grandson, that's why you talk like this, but you don't know that theai family is just worried about him."

Shangguan Wanyan was inconvenient to explain more, but only said, "Yes, I listened to my mother's teachings."

"Don't worry, I will naturally tell him when I come back." The Empress Dowager took out a box from her sleeve and handed it to Shangguan Wan with a solemn face. She slowly leaned on the soft pillow of Tuan Fu and said flatly, "This was left by the Empress Dowager Yuanyi at the beginning, but unfortunately the family failed to use it, which failed to live up to her old man's high expectations. Your nature is not as cowardly as your family. I think it will be useful to you in the future. Open it and you will understand.

Shangguan Wan opened the box with doubt, unfolded the slender rolls of silk inside, and couldn't help taking a breath of cold air. It was full of names with official ranks, including Beijing officials and provincial officials, and there was no other superfluous words.

At that time, the empress dowager Yuan Yi was deeply thoughtful and far-thoughtful, so she left this magic weapon to the Empress Dowager's orphans and widowed mother as a support. Unfortunately, it did not play any use, and the deceased passed away.

"In those years, Emperor Gaozu died, and his family was so sad that he couldn't wait to follow him." About a long time, the empress dowager's expression was not particularly sad. She said slowly, "But at that time, the emperor of the mourning family was just a child. There were so many people in the world who could not be left behind and could not let go..."

"Mother..." It seemed that an invisible heavy object pressed her chest. Empress Dowager Nalan was a little breathless. She slowly knelt in front of the Empress Dowager and choked, "My minister, I know that over the years, if it hadn't been for the protection of my mother, I would be afraid..."

She burst into tears, but she couldn't say a complete word. She just slowly squeezed her lips and let herself sob softly.

The Empress Dowager reached out and grabbed her and sighed, "Well, it's all over. Don't cry."

After the Empress Dowager finished speaking, she turned her head and said to Shangguan Wanyan, "My family knows that these things can't be hidden from you. Although you don't say anything these days, your family can see it and know that you don't resent the emperor's ruthlessness in your heart, but that he shouldn't hide it from you. The family is about to die. Just tell me the truth. Don't panic too much after listening to it. Your father has been arrested by the people of Xiangluo, and the emperor is now trying to rescue him.