It was a sunny autumn day, because it was close to early winter, so looking out from the window of the tea house, the trees on the street were desolate and desolate.
Shen Dingzhu stood in front of the window, and Wei Wan's voice came from behind: "Empress, have you really thought about it?"
Shen Dingzhu tilted his head, his eyes as cold as ice: "Do you guarantee that there will be enough dandelion grass to treat the emperor's illness?"
When Wei Wan received the news from Shen Dingzhu, she guessed that the queen would agree to her request.
So, she came with full sincerity.
"Jing Yi, show me to your Majesty."
Wei Wan gave an order, and the tall guards behind her took off the baggage on their backs.
When I opened it again, I saw a large amount of dandelion grass.
Shen Dingzhu took a look and found that these herbs were enough for Xiao Langyan to use for another half month.
Wei Wan pursed his lips: "Empress, I, Wei Wan, do what I say, because it is of no benefit to me to lie to you. As soon as you leave and leave the capital, I will immediately assign someone to donate the medicine, and the remaining tassels will be Grass is also on its way from Changliu Country."
Today, in order to keep a low profile, Shen Dingzhu wore sapphire-colored clothes. She looked like a gentle jade beauty, with a simple headdress and a faint cloud of sadness on her beautiful eyebrows.
She sat under the window, half covered by the late autumn sun, like fragile glass.
Wei Wan actually felt pity for her because of her beauty.
"Queen, don't blame me for being cruel. I had no choice but to do it. We each have our own agenda and we all have our own difficulties."
Shen Dingzhu looked at the package of herbs quietly for a long time before she spoke: "I will find a chance to leave. There are only two things you can promise me. First, take good care of my servants and don't embarrass them; second, Two, don’t embarrass my child.”
Wei Wan's mind suddenly moved: "Of course, my target is not you, and I won't embarrass your people. Besides, the child is innocent."
Shen Dingzhu said no more, stood up and left.
Wei Wan looked at her back and couldn't help but frown.
Jing Yi's dull voice sounded: "Princess, do you also think that this Shen Dingzhu is unreliable? How could she give up her current glory, wealth and favor and really leave Emperor Jin?"
"She knows it, precisely because she loves Emperor Jin," Wei Wan said, raising his head, looking a little dazed, "You didn't see the look in her eyes just now, and maybe you won't understand that I once looked at my late mother-in-law's face. , I’ve seen such a look.”
At the beginning, there was a rebellion in Chang Liu's country. In the name of Qing Junzi, they kidnapped her and her mother and concubine, hoping to blackmail the regent into letting go of his military power.
However, when the regent did not come or step into the trap, she saw with her own eyes that her mother-in-law died with a smile on her face, an arrow inserted in her body, but she closed her eyes with a smile.
She doesn't care about her own life or death, she only cares about whether her husband is in danger.
Wei Wan felt that for a moment, Shen Dingzhu's choice was very similar to what her mother-in-law did back then.
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In the next few days, Shen Dingzhu stayed in the mansion, spending time with her daughter or parents every day.
The stone in Mother Shen's heart finally fell, and she held her hand with emotion.
"Okay, okay, it must be the Emperor's good. You have met him once and it's like he has come to life. In a few days, I will go to burn incense and pray to the Bodhisattva to bless the Emperor's health."
Shen Dingzhu nodded: "I will go with my mother."
She went out a few more times, followed by Xuan Jiajun, and saw that Shen Dingzhu had just personally bought some candles and sesame oil for offering incense to the Buddha.
The night before going to worship Buddha.
Shen Dingzhu hugged her daughter and slept together on the large bed.
Xiao Xincheng blinked his big eyes and looked at his beautiful mother, feeling extremely at ease.
There was a luminous pearl placed in the room, and its warm light cast a faint warm light on Shen Dingzhu's body.
"Mom, when will my father recover from his illness? I miss him so much, and I also miss my brother."
Shen Dingzhu touched her daughter's little face: "It will be fine soon. Last time I went to see your father, he was still asking Chengcheng if he was reading well and if he listened to his grandfather."
"Yes!" The little guy said eagerly about his progress, "Master also taught me a lot of poems. I can recite a lot of poems now. I can carry them for my father three days and three nights."
She smiled sweetly, revealing her cute dimples.
Shen Dingzhu felt pleased and patted her daughter's little body gently: "Chengcheng will study like this in the future and listen to your father."
"Well!" Xiao Xincheng was a little sleepy. He was about to close his eyes, but he was reluctant to sleep and wanted to talk. "Mom, tomorrow you and your grandmother will go to worship Buddha. Can I go too?"
"No, didn't Chengcheng promise to mother that she would finish reading the "Nv's Diary"?"
"But that book is too thick!"
"When you finish reading, mother will be back."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xincheng agreed decisively: "It's a deal!"
She shrank her little body, hid directly under the quilt, and slept peacefully.
Shen Dingzhu waited for her daughter to fall asleep, then put on her clothes and got up. She left a letter for her parents and put it under her makeup box.
Early the next morning, she accompanied Mrs. Shen to the national temple to offer incense.
The weather was gloomy, there were only a few pilgrims, and the distant and dull sound of the bells in the ancient temple seemed to wash away the hustle and bustle in people's hearts, making everything return to the tranquility of a distant mountain.
Mrs. Shen was going to the Buddhist hall to attend classes, and Shen Dingzhu stayed outside intentionally.
She was sitting outside the Main Hall, tapping her legs and feet, her face as pale as the clouds in the sky.
Shen Dingzhu remembered that the last time she came to the Guo Temple, her hands were burned by incense in front of the gods. Was it because she made an inappropriate wish?
Which one will it be? Together we grow old? Or live a long life?
At this time, Shen Bi asked: "Are you tired, Madam? You didn't seem to sleep well last night. I'll go over there and ask the novice monk if there is an empty meditation room. Madam will have to listen to Buddhist lectures for at least half an hour. You can still get some sleep.”
Shen Bi left, and after a while, Shen Dingzhu called the guard beside him: "Shen Bi has been gone for a long time and has not come back. I'm afraid there is no meditation room. You go and call her back. I am not tired anymore."
After a while, Konoe and Shen Bi came back together, but did not see Shen Dingzhu in the corridor.
Shen Bi thought she had gone to another temple to worship the Bodhisattva, but after looking around, she couldn't find Shen Dingzhu.
And the few guards who were originally accompanying her came from different directions.
Shen Bi was stunned: "You didn't follow my wife?"
Several of them were stunned: "Your Majesty sent us to help."
After Shen Bi left, Shen Dingzhu found excuses for these guards and sent them away one by one.
No one was found in the entire temple, and Shen Bi's heart thumped: "It's broken! Go and tell Madam, you should mount your horses now and follow the road down the mountain to look for him!"
at dusk.
The sky full of rays of light entered the valley to the west, and the entire night sky was ablaze with black and blue color. On the lonely mountain road, a coachman drove the carriage, making a crisp sound when it ran over the gravel road.
The driver was an old man, talkative and optimistic. He couldn't help but ask: "Girl, are you rushing out of the city alone to find relatives? I can only send you out of Gyeonggi, and you have to walk the rest of the way." Looking for a carriage."
Shen Dingzhu had already negotiated with him when buying incense and candles, so she nodded: "It's just out of the capital, you don't have to go too far."
At this moment, the clatter of horse hooves came from behind them, shaking the entire valley.
The bright moonlight illuminated a patch of blue frost. Shen Dingzhu lifted the curtain and looked back, only to see that the man riding the horse was her eldest brother Shen Lan, followed by a group of elite soldiers.
Shen Lan whipped his whip and shouted hurriedly: "Stop, stop!"
The old man driving the carriage was afraid: "Who are they? Girl, do you have enemies?"
As he said this, the car slowed down. The old man didn't want to cause trouble.
Shen Dingzhu urged: "No, they want to take me home. I can't go back. I'll give you another ingot of gold. Hurry up!"
Hearing this, the old man whipped his whip and sped up again.
However, not long after walking, a two-horse carriage suddenly rushed out from the fork in the road, causing a commotion of publicity.
Shen Dingzhu's carriage was stopped directly.
She looked at Chen Heng who was driving opposite and her beautiful eyes were startled.
Sure enough, the next second, Chen Heng lifted the curtain, and a tall figure, covered in cold moonlight, slowly walked out.
Xiao Langyan's thin eyes were as deep as the sea, his ice-white face was handsome, but his eyes were extremely complicated.
"Where do you want to go, Queen?"
