Chapter 19 Queen Ma is in coma
The small courtyard beside Xuanwu Lake has a farmhouse style.
Queen Ma has not worn the queen's clothes for a long time, but rather ordinary peasant clothes, but the material of the clothes is quite good. It just looks very simple, just like an ordinary farmer.
In the past few years, Empress Ma put aside her foreign affairs and lived a very comfortable life by studying and farming by the Xuanwu Lake. Even Zhu Yuanzhang came here a few times and felt a bit reluctant to leave.
yes. If we turn back the time fifty years, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Chongba would have thought about the pastoral life of Queen Ma.
As a result, Queen Ma looked much better.
However, as she got older, Queen Ma's health became even worse. Proper labor can maintain Queen Ma's body. However, now Queen Ma has less and less time to do it herself. She only directs the maids and eunuchs to farm.
Common people have a kind of farming plot. Even if Queen Ma goes to farm herself and watches the people below her farming, she still feels happy.
In this regard, Empress Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang have the same aesthetics.
Queen Ma suddenly noticed that the prince was coming.
Empress Ma said happily: "My son, I remember your father asked you to go to Beijing. Why did you come back suddenly? Has everything been done in Beijing?"
When the prince saw Queen Ma like this, he hesitated to speak. He really didn't know what to say.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked the prince to handle this matter. In fact, it was partly because Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know how to tell Empress Ma. To be honest, Zhu Yuanzhang was a bit cold-blooded in nature. Although he was kind to the prince, that was because the prince was not only his son, but also Zhu Yuanzhang's political heir and the heir to his career. So pay attention.
This is not the case with his other sons. Zhu Yuanzhang even wrote down the crimes of his sons in the book, making them known to the world and making them infamy for thousands of years. This shows Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude.
But Queen Ma is different.
To a certain extent, the prince's character was inherited more from Queen Ma than from Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although Queen Ma is a heroic woman, she is much softer than Zhu Yuanzhang. She has much more affection for her own child than Zhu Yuanzhang, and King Qin happens to be her biological child.
When Queen Ma saw the prince like this, she suddenly felt an ominous premonition in her heart. Queen Ma said, "What happened?"
The prince knew that he would have to say this sooner or later, so he gritted his teeth and said, "My second brother is no longer here."
Queen Ma didn't react for a moment. Said: "What did you say?"
The prince said: "The second brother is no longer here."
After Empress Ma heard this, it seemed that it took her a while to really consume this matter. She felt dizzy and sat heavily on the chair. The prince immediately stepped forward and said, "Mother."
After all, Queen Ma has experienced strong winds and waves, and she still has the ability to control her emotions. She said, "What's going on?"
The prince knelt in front of Queen Ma and told everything that happened before King Qin's death.
Queen Ma was silent for a long time and said, "I should have killed him long ago to prevent him from being so embarrassed." Although she said this, two lines of tears still fell from her face. To be honest, Queen Ma was kind-hearted and could not bear to see the dirty things done by those high-ranking officials. If she knew that King Qin was doing this in private, she would destroy such a good girl. The king of Qin must be whipped hard.
But it's just hitting the board and cracking the whip.
He is his son after all.
The prince said: "Thousands of mistakes, all the mistakes are the son's fault. The son did not take good care of his second brother. Please ask the queen to punish him."
Queen Ma looked at the prince and suddenly thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's words in her heart. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the prince was too thoughtful and might not be able to bear many things.
Empress Ma sighed secretly in her heart and said, "You are not to blame for this matter. It is the second son who is to blame." At this point, Empress Ma couldn't help but burst into tears. How could she not have any thoughts about the prince? Not being angry and not being wrong is the realm of a saint. Although Queen Ma is good, but she has not reached this realm, it is not that she does not blame the prince. Queen Ma actually knew that King Qin was dishonest and that the prince had other ideas.
But I never expected that things would develop to this point.
But Queen Ma also understood that the prince did not do this. It’s not a political analysis, but she believes in her children.
But it doesn't mean that Queen Ma is satisfied with everything the prince did in this matter.
But Empress Ma could tell that the prince was already blaming himself. There is already a lot of pressure in my heart. What's the use of Queen Ma speaking out and scolding the prince severely? What has happened is irreversible.
Queen Ma's actions could not make the prince more uncomfortable, and the political situation of the Ming Dynasty was also shaken.
After all, the prince's real backstage and real trump card is her, Queen Ma. If she shows dissatisfaction with the prince, the pressure on the prince will only increase.
Zhu Yuanzhang may have had the idea of easy storage, but Empress Ma never did.
Living people are always more important than dead people.
Empress Ma said with tears in her eyes: "Prince, you have to promise me something."
The prince said: "Mother, please speak."
Queen Ma said: "Not a single word about the cause of the second child's death can be spread. I can't let the second child die and be stigmatized."
The prince was also affected by Queen Ma's cries, and said with tears, "My son understands."
Queen Ma struggled to get up, and the prince immediately supported Queen Ma. Queen Ma originally wanted to turn around and return to her palace, but when she came together, she suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and her vision went dark. She could only hear the prince's urgent shouting, and there was nothing. I no longer know.
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A lamp is like a bean, dancing the dance of flames.
Queen Ma slowly opened her eyes, and the first thing she smelled was the familiar smell of medicine. Then I saw Zhu Yuanzhang, fully clothed, sitting on a chair to one side, resting his forehead on his hands, as if he was asleep.
Queen Ma coughed, and a palace maid came over immediately.
Empress Ma whispered: "Help Your Majesty to rest."
Before the palace maid could do anything, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly woke up as if he had received some signal.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately sat next to Queen Ma and said, "How is it?"
Queen Ma said: "How am I doing? You should know that Doctor Dai is outside?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Rest in the side room, but Doctor Dai said that you were stimulated by great sorrow and joy. If you take good care of yourself, you will be fine."
In fact, what Dai Shenyi said was more than just that.
He told Zhu Yuanzhang clearly that after Empress Ma's last serious illness, the root cause of the disease had not been eliminated. Over the years, she had been lingering on the bed intermittently, and her body's vitality was becoming more and more depleted. Although I used various methods to nourish it. But in reality, it's of little use.
It's because Queen Ma didn't take good care of her body when she was young and had a lot of overdraft. In addition, she had several children in a row and didn't take good care of them, so she suffered from confinement syndrome. These accumulated together and invaded Queen Ma's body. The current treatment method is actually to make up for the situation and scoop out the leaky boat.
It is difficult for the human body to bear the great sorrow and joy, but if the vitality is full, nothing will happen. The queen's vitality has been depleted to a certain extent, so she cannot bear such great sorrow and joy.
If you cultivate yourself well in the future, you will experience less great sorrows and great joys, and you will still have the enjoyment of life. However, the seven emotions consume your mind, anger hurts the liver, happiness hurts the heart, sadness hurts the lungs, thinking hurts the spleen, and fear hurts the kidneys. If this happens a few times, I'm afraid it won't be easy.
Zhu Yuanzhang also understood that Queen Ma's life experience was not much better than that of Zhu Yuanzhang. Although she was the adopted daughter of the Guo family, in troubled times, both adopted daughters and adopted sons were useful. The adopted daughter marries a heroic man to win over people's hearts, while the adopted son exerts himself to the best of his ability. Queen Ma's parents and relatives died because of the Tatars, and they lived in the Guo family.
Of course, it is hard to imagine what would have happened to Queen Ma without the Guo family, but how good Queen Ma is in the Guo family is too much to think about.
The adopted daughter is just one level above the maidservant.
There is a reason why Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma have such a good relationship. Because they both understand each other. They have the same experience of being devastated by this world.
Moreover, Queen Ma is the same age as Zhu Yuanzhang, over sixty. In this era, dying at the age of sixty is already considered a long life. It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that Queen Ma could create more miracles. To live longer than oneself and more. There are some things I won’t tell Queen Ma.
