Ah Zhao did not comply, and raised his head and asked Lin Rong: "Can I go see Dad? His illness is not cured yet?"
Lin Rong hugged her and walked slowly inside: "Isn't it better yet?"
Azhao tilted his head and asked, "What exactly is the disease?"
Lin Rong replied: "Headache!"
Lin Rong just answered casually, but Ah Zhao nodded clearly: "Oh, is this a disease? I know, I know. Dad often has headaches and can't sleep."
As she spoke, she struggled to get off the ground and took Lin Rong's hand to Lu Shen's study: "Dad often takes a kind of medicine. Let's give it to him and he won't feel any pain."
Listening to such childlike words, Lin Rong didn't know what to say. She stood there in a daze, and the thought gradually came to her mind: It would be great if nothing happened to him! If only he were still alive! if……
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It would be nice if he was still alive. The thought popped up involuntarily, making her feel slightly surprised and confused.
Ah Zhao ran inside and found a small porcelain vase somewhere. He pulled Lin Rong and headed to the side hall where Lu Shen Ling lived. As he walked, he said, "Mom, give this to Dad to eat. I'm sure it will be better." It’ll be fine.”
Lin Rong had no choice but to hug her, pour a few pills of the medicine into the palm of his hand, pretend to examine it carefully, and asked the palace lady beside her: "When was this medicine made? It looks a little damp?"
The palace lady understood and said: "My dear, the Tai'an Hospital prepared a total of thirty pills in March. Take one pill a day. It can only take care of one month, and the rest will have no effect."
Ah Zhao frowned: "Is that so?"
Lin Rong carried her to the side hall on the other side, ordered the palace servants to prepare a meal, and said comfortingly: "It doesn't matter, let's finish the meal. Mingtai Hospital has sent medicinal materials to my mother to teach you how to make medicine."
After hearing this, Ah Zhao stopped chasing Lu Shen to the side hall. After finishing his meal, he sat on the couch and quietly learned how to make medicine from Lin Rong. However, it was not easy for her to do things at such a young age. Although he was very patient, he was very forgetful. After half a day's work, his fingers were covered with dark medicinal materials, but he still couldn't make a single pill. Lying on Lin Rong's body, he fell asleep peacefully.
Lin Rong carried her into the inner room. As soon as he wiped her face, he heard a palace maid coming in from the outer hall and announcing: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is here."
Lin Rong hummed, not too anxious, and still sat there, wiped Azhao's hands, applied moisturizing ointment on his hands, tucked in the quilt, and then came out of the outer hall.
The Queen Mother was sitting at the head of the outer hall. She had already had two cups of tea. According to her past temper, she would have been angry a long time ago. However, three years ago, the Yu family was implicated and ate a big melon, so that even today Not being treated well by Lu Shen, she learned a lesson and restrained herself a lot.
When it comes to restraining one's temper, it is also true for Lu Shen and Lin Rong, a daughter-in-law who always dislikes her. Naturally, there is no such thing as restraining one's temper.
Seeing that Lin Rong still didn't come out to greet him, he immediately put down the tea cup and asked, "Where is your master?"
After finishing speaking, he saw Lin Rong coming slowly from the inner hall and standing three steps away. He lightly blessed himself, made a half salute, and sat aside. He still used the old title: "Madam, you are looking for me. What's the matter?"
The Queen Mother looked at her coldly, frowned and snorted, and whispered: "I don't know what is called, I don't know etiquette. Is this the kind of upbringing that Cui's girl has?"
Lin Rong sat there, his face unchanged, he took a sip of hot tea, and then said: "I originally thought that with my wife, we could not see each other without seeing each other. Even if we meet, it is best to turn a blind eye. The word etiquette Son, I really don’t need it. I wonder, what’s the matter with Madam?”
Talking about these exchanges of words, the Queen Mother felt that she had lost her identity and could not take advantage. She raised her head slightly and said with great disdain: "I never thought that I would see you again in this life. At that time, news came that You're not dead. I still don't believe it. I guess you were born in the year of the fox and have nine lives. But this funeral was also announced, and the water and land ashram was also established. Well, there was also one time when I was in Yongzhou in the past. I guess you think about this matter. If you have a habit, you have to enjoy the incense and incense of the underworld while you are alive? You are lucky to come back with your life. You have been living in the market for three years, and I don’t know if you are still innocent or not. However, you have always been charming and very good at provoking men. .”
There were many maids in the hall, but they all bowed their heads and turned a deaf ear when they heard such outrageous remarks.
Lin Rong lowered her head to blow the floating leaves in the tea cup. She smiled when she heard this and was not too angry: "Madam is very right. Your Majesty doesn't care about innocence." After saying this, she raised her head slightly and said for the first time Taking another look, I saw that the Queen Mother's hair had grown on her temples. She slowly put down the tea cup and said, "Madam, you have aged very much in the past few years. How is your health?"
This response was not like the tit-for-tat response in Yongzhou in the past. It was just a sentence and a half, and the money was spent in two or two, which seemed to make the Queen Mother even more upset. She had been raised in honor for many years and was usually treated carefully by others. How could she have ever been so angry? He stood up holding the table and scolded: "Okay, I'm too lazy to tell you. Where is your majesty? Where is he? What disease do you have? Have you called the imperial doctor to see you? What medicine did you take? Who prescribed the medicine?" Who is waiting on you?"
Even though Lin Rong didn't deal with her, the series of questions and the earnestness of a loving mother made Lin Ronghe soften his tone and said in silence, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, your majesty is just sick and has already taken medicine. Much better, I’ve fallen asleep now.”
The Queen Mother kept walking and walked straight to the side hall. The court guard guarding the door immediately stopped her: "The Queen Mother sees the crime. No one is allowed to enter without Your Majesty's order."
The Queen Mother scolded angrily with a cold face: "Presumptuous!"
The imperial guards were like a mountain, blocking the way and not letting anyone in. They only apologized every word: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I am a humble official and I am just following orders."
The Queen Mother choked her breath and couldn't get up. She suddenly turned around and saw Lin Rong, dressed in a green shirt, still sitting there, sipping tea leisurely. She pointed at her and asked, her fingers shaking with anger: "Ms. Cui , who are you to prevent our mother and son from meeting? Are you so brave?"
At the same time, he ordered outside: "Go, call Shen Yan and ask him who is his master? If he doesn't come, call the ministers from outside, the ministers from the three provinces and six ministries, and the royal family members. Ask them, which dynasty and generation had this rule that prevented their mother from seeing her son?"
Lin Rong was sitting there, and Ah Zhao was coaxed to sleep easily. He was afraid that she would wake up Ah Zhao by making noise outside. He said calmly: "Your Majesty took the medicine and finally fell asleep. These few words of the Queen Mother, I'm afraid that It has woken him up. Your Majesty wants to rest and is impatient to see people. This is his personal order. It is not that I am stopping the mother from seeing her son."
The Queen Mother snorted, feeling more confused than before, and scolded coldly: "Shut up!"
Not long after, Shen Yan came over and knelt on the floor tiles to plead guilty: "The Queen Mother."
If you are still polite to Lin Rong, then you are treating Shen Yan like a slave. The Queen Mother asked: "This slave, who is supposed to be in charge of the house, now asks you to be the master. Who can His Majesty see and who can't see?" , is it you who has the final say?"
Shen Yan only said: "It is indeed your Majesty's order."
The Queen Mother looked at Lin Rong, then turned to look at Shen Yan, and nodded: "Okay, okay, how dare you two have such courage? I'm afraid, Shen'er is not sick, but she asked you two to control her. Who's here? , go and invite the clan’s important officials.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the call from the small yellow door outside the palace: "The eldest princess has arrived, the eldest princess has arrived."
The old lady came into the palace on crutches. Without waiting for the Queen Mother to speak, she reprimanded: "I just came back from patrolling the river in the south. The emperor is getting angry these days because of the Huns. The arrow wound on his shoulder in the past years has returned again." It's an attack. It's very uncomfortable. It hurts so much that I can't sleep day after day. It's a good thing for a mother like you. You don't know how much you feel for your son, so you came here to make a fuss."
The old lady Gu has a lot of prestige. Even though she is now the Queen Mother, she does not dare to say anything. She only said: "I just heard that Shen'er was ill, so I came to see him. Who knew that Shen Yan was such a slave? , I don’t know who I conspired with to prevent him from letting me in. I don’t know how sick Shen’er is.”
The old lady glanced at her lightly: "Okay, I just looked at him in the morning, don't worry." On the other hand, she said: "Okay, you are old, go back and rest, and tell him when the emperor wakes up. You've been here before, that's all. When he feels better, he will naturally go and say hello to you."
After that, without waiting for the Queen Mother to say anything else, he ordered Shen Yan: "Send the Queen Mother back to the palace to rest. Use more ice. It's hot, so don't suffer from heatstroke."
When the old aunt said this, the Queen Mother could only nod her head and left angrily. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, so she called all the ministers of the palace and asked them carefully.
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One person said: "Xuanzheng Palace uses a lot of ice these days, more than ten times that of other palaces."
After hearing this, the Queen Mother pondered and ordered: "Just say that I am sick and invite Princess Anfeng into the palace to take care of my illness."
The old aunt here sat and sighed: "The edict has been sent out clearly. After seven or eight days, even in the countryside, there will be an announcement of the queen's restoration. After three or five days, the news that the emperor is seriously ill will be revealed. Go out, and then take out his edict when the time comes. When the time comes, who will be chosen as the new king in the clan, first ask the ministers to write a note and submit it, and then you can make a decision."
After saying that, he waved his hand again, and Xiao Huangmen came forward with a tray of folds: "Queen, Princess, these are the folds that have accumulated in the past few days. As usual, these are all for His Majesty's approval."
The old lady nodded and said: "Sooner or later, you will have to read it. You must first be familiar with it and have a rule in mind. I won't ask you to review it, just take a look at it."
Lin Rong said yes and stayed with the old lady Gu until late at night, then sent the old lady Gu out of the palace. Seeing that her expression was not good, the old lady lost a lot of weight in a day or two. She patted her hand and said, "You should also take care of yourself."
Lin Rong didn't think it was anything. When he was washing and bathing, he saw himself in the mirror. Guo's face looked very haggard. Kingfisher said at the side: "Master has not had a good rest in the past five or six days. He has not even had a good rest every day for two hours." I haven’t slept enough, what will happen if I continue like this?”
Lin Rong lazily put down his comb: "How can I sleep well when I have something on my mind? It will be fine after this period of time."
Having said that, a low-grade fever broke out that night, which made the palace maids in the palace noisy. They hurriedly called the imperial doctor to come over, prescribed a prescription, and took the medicine.
Ah Zhao stood aside, holding Lin Rong's hand with tears in his eyes, saying nothing and not leaving. Lin Rong was only afraid that the illness would be passed on to her. At this critical moment, if Ah Zhao got sick again, he really didn't know what to do, so he forced himself to sit up and coaxed her to say many nice words, so he called her nanny. Grandma hugged her and went to sleep.
Kingfisher stayed by his side, wiping tears from time to time: "How can it be okay?"
Lin Rong just felt dizzy and had no strength all over his body. He nestled in the bed and waved his hands: "It's okay. I'm probably too tired. I didn't get a good rest. My immunity has declined. It's not a serious illness. The fever will subside in the morning. Occasionally. Fever is good for people, it doesn’t matter.”
After that, she no longer had energy. She tilted her head and closed her eyes to rest, and fell asleep in a daze. I don't know how long it took, but she seemed to hear a man's deep voice outside the tent asking: "What's wrong?"
A palace lady on the side replied: "It's not good. The fever hasn't gone away, so I'm a little confused."
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After hearing this, the male voice was filled with a bit of impatient impatience, and asked again: "What did the imperial doctor say?"
Gong E had no choice but to kneel down and plead guilty, and whispered: "The imperial doctor said that the empress was worried and worried, and coupled with the lack of sleep for days, the five internal disorders were out of balance, and then wind and heat entered the body..."
The sound became softer and softer from behind, and Lin Rong could barely hear it. Suddenly, the answering voice stopped, and the heavy footsteps seemed to go out of the hall.
Who is asking questions outside? This is the palace where Lu Shen lives on a daily basis, and it is tightly guarded in times of emergency. How can any outsider come in and out? The palace maid also looked very respectful. When she was half asleep and half awake, she felt that her voice sounded a bit like Lu Shen.
With this thought, a lot of anger arose in her heart, and she seemed to have some strength. She forced herself to sit up and suddenly opened the snow-green soft curtain. It was empty outside, the window was half open, and two glazed lamps and colorful spikes were swinging in the wind. The Kingfisher and the two palace maidens were left half-kneeling on the footrest to watch the night. It was quiet and there was no one else around.
Kingfisher was still awake, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand and muttering something silently. The other two palace ladies were drowsy, still fanning themselves unconsciously, but their heads kept nodding.
Seeing Lin Rong suddenly lift the curtain and sit up, Jing Qin hurriedly put the Buddhist beads in his sleeves, went up to put a brocade pillow behind her waist, then touched her forehead, and sighed: "It's still burning, Master, but I'm hungry." , the servant ordered someone to bring the meal in?"
Lin Rong shook his head, not feeling hungry at all, and asked, "Did Shen Yan come just now? Where is the imperial doctor?"
Gong'e served the tea to the bedside. Kingfisher took it and held it in Lin Rong's hand. He shook his head and said, "Commander Lu didn't come. The eldest princess called him out of the palace to ask questions at nightfall, but he hasn't come back yet. . The imperial doctors are all waiting in the pavilion of the side hall, but do you want to call them over?"
Lin Rong held the tea cup in his hands. His head was still a little groggy and he had given up hope. He leaned for a while and asked, "Who was here just now? I seem to hear someone talking?"
The palace maids looked at each other with doubtful expressions on their faces, and Jade Bird said: "I have been staying here all this time, and no one else has come. Maybe I gave instructions to the little girl and disturbed the master."
Kingfisher would not lie to her, at most he would hide something. If someone really came just now, she would not reply like this. Lin Rong looked a little depressed. At this time, a woman with a woman's hair in a bun came slowly from outside. She was holding a tray with a medicine bowl and handkerchief.
She knelt down in front of Lin Rong. Although she had a smile on her face, she burst into tears as soon as she spoke: "Master, the imperial doctor said that this medicine burns the stomach. Please eat something to cushion your stomach."
Lin Rong looked at her, rubbed his forehead, and asked, "Feng Xiao, why are you here?"
Feng Xiao just knelt down and cried: "Master is sick, how could I not come?"
Lin Rong's face darkened when she heard this. She didn't declare an edict, so she entered the palace without an edict. At such an emergency, her heart strings were extremely tight, and she was quite a bit nervous. Today, Fengxiao can enter the palace without an edict, but will others do the same in the future? Can I enter the palace without an edict? Why did Shen Yan let people into the palace without reporting it?
Jing Qin said hurriedly: "It was the eldest princess who ordered Mrs. Lu to come into the palace to attend to her illness. Because her only son was young and could not be separated from his mother, she also brought her with her. The servants cleaned up the couplet room behind the side hall and called it "for the time being". Mrs. Lu and her son live there. I just wanted her to have a good rest, but I don’t know when she came to the front hall."
Lin Rong's face brightened a little, and she suddenly understood that the old aunt was worried about Shen Yan, so she ordered his daughter and son to come into the palace. Thinking about this, she couldn't help but feel even more depressed. If Lu Shen was not dead, she would definitely not hide it. Grandma's. If he hadn't died, the old aunt wouldn't have had to deal with Shen Yan like this. Perhaps, Lu Shen was already convinced that he was dead.
Thinking of this, Lin Rong stopped talking, silently ate half a cup of bird's nest porridge, drank the bowl of medicine in one gulp, his head became more and more dizzy, wiped his hands, lay lazily on the bed, reluctantly expressed relief, and said : "It's just a minor illness. It will be cured tomorrow. Why bother to mobilize people like this?"
Feng Xiao still knelt on the footrest, with tears on her face: "I also want to come, but I'm afraid that the master won't want to see me."
Lin Rong hummed and said: "It's not that I don't want to see you, I just think that there is no need to meet you. Furthermore, if I meet you, I don't know what to say. You are a foreigner now, so don't call yourself a slave. Now." He asked her again: "How old is the child?"
Feng Xiao replied: "On the ninth day of the third lunar month, I will be two years old." He wiped his tears again and said, "If it weren't for the master's grace, I wouldn't be able to come back to Luoyang."
Lin Rong said: "More than two years old, only a little younger than Azhao."
Feng Xiao knelt there and said truthfully: "That year when I returned to Jiangzhou, Miss Six returned my slave deed, rewarded me with twenty taels of silver, and ordered me to go home and live. The next year, I heard that the master's ship was in Something happened in Jiangzhou, and then Shen Yan was ordered to go south on errands. I went to Jiangzhou to look for him, and then I settled down."
Lin Rong reached out to touch her face and asked, "How does he treat you?"
Feng Xiao nodded, shook his head again, and wiped his tears: "Whether it's a yes or a no, that's all it is to live a married life. For the sake of the master, it's always better. "
Lin Rong stopped talking and lay there for a while. He seemed to hear the faint cry of a baby coming from nowhere. He waved his hands feebly: "The child is still young and can't be separated from others. Go quickly."
Feng Xiao didn't want to leave, but when she saw Lin Rong said this, she had to kowtow: "Thank you for your grace, master. I will come back to serve you later."
Lin Rong turned his head and closed his eyes and told Kingfisher: "She is a foreigner. My aunt ordered her to come into the palace, but she didn't really ask her to serve. She sent two people to wait on her and ordered her to stay in the house. Just rest, don't move around at will, let alone ask her to come into the palace to serve you. I'm a little dizzy after taking this medicine. I'll sleep for a while. At dawn, whether I'm awake or not, you have to wake me up. When Shen Yan comes back, Ming He is waiting outside and I have something to ask."
Kingfisher lowered his head, put down the curtain, and blew out the candle: "My slaves all know, you can go to sleep."
The medicine was filled with soothing herbs, and Lin Rong soon fell into a dark and sweet world. The intermittent dreams made her exhausted, as if she was in a fog. She sat up, and there seemed to be a person sitting in the hazy tent, with light and shadow. Hazy, her face was blurry, and she couldn't see clearly. She stretched out her hand to touch it and felt something cold. She thought she was vaguely dreaming: "Why is it so cold?"
As soon as the words came out, it was already clear that the body of a dead person is naturally cold, even in a dream, it will not be warm.
Lin Rong retracted his hand in frustration and hung it to the side feebly. He murmured in a low voice: "Oh, I almost forgot, today is your first day, so come back and take a look, right?"
The dim figure didn't speak, but looked at Lin Rong silently. After a long while, he said, "Are you sick?"
