sunset fever

Qu Yao lowered her eyes and raised her eyebrows, and called aunt to the elderly waitress who came.

The solar terms have only just come to heavy snow, but the sky has become stingy, and I don’t want to be cold and snowy for many days, so everyone is dry, so I brought a copper pot early in the morning, sat on the low stove, and added some warm and humid steam to the house .

The maid saluted and said: "Your Highness, Her Highness the Empress Dowager is sitting idle in Yuekuo Palace today, and Princess Jinglan went to see her husband again, so she sent her servants here, please come down and talk."

"I haven't recovered from the cold, so I'm afraid it will be inconvenient." Qu Yao tried to shirk immediately, she sat on a chair and put on a light-colored jacket.

The maid said: "It's okay, if there is any inconvenience, Her Highness the Empress Dowager will not invite His Highness to go."

One room poured water into Qu Yao's tea bowl, several dark medicinal herbs floated on the surface, exuding bursts of bitterness, Qu Yao replied: "Okay, I understand, auntie, please go first, I will go there after I finish dressing .”

After the maid left, the room asked, "Your Highness, do you want to warm up the sedan chair?"

"Let's go over there, I can't move a few times in a day, it's going to rust," Qu Yao sighed while speaking, and immediately got up, her illness came and went from time to time, not serious, but it seemed like it would never get better, She walked quickly to the dormitory and said, "Of course I don't want to accompany her, how could she like me to accompany you? Just look at it, it's some bullshit things to force."

"Your Highness, calm down, no matter how you are, you are also a queen, she dare not offend you."

Qu Yao said: "If others help me to this position, they can still comfort me like this, but it is all planned by her and Qu Fangli that I have come to this day. If you want to offend me, it is as easy as drinking water with her."

The first room was busy helping Qu Yao choose clothes, dressed neatly and warmly, and dressed up, and then put on the tiara, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, bead chains and so on.Qu Yao coughed non-stop in front of the mirror, so she drank half a bowl of loquat stewed with honey. She half-covered her mouth, frowned, and said, "Pass it on, let the kitchen prepare some soup and porridge, and I will eat it when I come back."

"Yes, the servant girl will speak immediately."

"Pack a few of the Tangguas that came yesterday and bring them to Princess Jinglan." Qu Yao got up from the dressing table, she shuffled, and walked in a hurry and inelegantly, she dragged her short skirt, behind her Yishi held a furry cloak and walked out with her.

After lunch, the alleyways in Chongcheng are always desolate and deserted, and it is also true at this time, Qu Yao said: "If there were more concubines, it would not be so empty and boring. The harem is empty now."

Yishi said: "Your Highness, the draft will begin in spring."

"There's going to be some more poor people."

"The servant feels that His Highness is not a pitiful person."

Qu Yao chuckled and said: "Do you remember the concubine De who was hanged in Shaoshan? She was only fourteen, she committed suicide, but it was rumored that she died of illness, and even in the dark, there were people who argued that I killed her. Where did it come from?"

Passing a water pavilion, I noticed that there was ice on the lake. When the wind blew, the white hair on the cloak swept around my cheeks.

"It seems like no one remembers her." Yishi said softly.

"It's only been three days since the canonization, so of course I have to be a wronged soul. I don't know if she's gone now, or she's still floating here," Qu Yao walked faster, and said, "It's even more sad, the king never takes these things to heart. What does fate count? Ten lives are nothing.”

"Your Highness, be careful where you step." Yishi stretched out his hand to help, and walked quickly with Qu Yao.

Yuekuo Palace was as usual, the maids and maids all had serious faces, cautious and respectful, Qu Yao felt bored and went straight in, she saw Zhong Huashu in the hall, she knelt down to say hello.

Zhong Huashu was sitting in the hall, dressed in elegant and lazy clothes, she said, "Excuse me."

Afterwards, Qu Yao took off her cloak, and retreated into the room, leaving only the empress dowager and queen in the hall, plus Yan Xiu who stood by for a long time.

"You are so caring, and you brought something for Princess Jinglan. She has a toothache today and her mouth is dry. It will take a few days before she can eat candy." Qu Yaote called the waitress, took the candied melon, and put it in a cold place keep it.

Qu Yao said: "Then don't eat it, keep it for now, and I'll bring a new one when she recovers completely."

"Master Yan stayed for a long time today, and told me some knowledge that I don't usually know. I know that you are not in good health, so I asked you to come and listen."

Yan Xiu didn't want to sit down at first, but Zhong Huashu invited him several times, so he also sat down. He said little and didn't smile, and when he looked up, he could see Qu Yao's dull face not far away.

"Master Yan," Zhong Huashu turned his face to this place, looked at Yan Xiu on the high chair, and said, "Just now I discussed with you the treatment of bone pain. Now that the queen is here, she has some private matters to ask you. Please give me a prescription."

Qu Yao obviously didn't know what Zhong Hua said, so she said: "I don't have any private matters to ask, Your Highness may have misremembered."

"The empress has not yet conceived a prince. When the spring of the new year begins and beautiful women enter the palace, there will be even fewer chances. You are feeling weak and distracted, and you are worried that your boudoir will not be harmonious. Therefore, you have to ask Lord Yan to prescribe a prescription."

When Zhong Hua spoke slowly, Yan Xiu lowered his head. He thought about it a few times, but there was no big change on his face, and he was still sitting like that.

Qu Yao coughed eagerly, and said: "I have already said that there is really no need for any prescription. Now is not a good time to give birth to a prince. I can't protect myself, and I will live on medicine."

"Master Yan, please tell me how to solve this difficulty?"

Yan Xiu raised his head and met Zhong Huashu's eyes. The two had different emotions, but it was like a strange confrontation; the room was neither bright nor dark, and Zhong Huashu's beautiful young face showed a sharp and ruthless smile. .

Yan Xiu also chuckled, not giving anyone the slightest sense of intimacy. He said: "His Royal Highness is still young and does not need to take medicine to nourish her. As for what Her Highness the Empress Dowager said about 'disharmony in the boudoir', I have no way of knowing it, and I cannot judge it arbitrarily."

"Yan Ziluo, then write a prescription for His Majesty."

Zhonghua spoke slowly on the tip of her tongue, she looked at Yan Xiu, her engravings were mixed with warmth and persecution, and it hit like snow, making everyone nervous; she looked at Yan Xiu, as if guessing and spying .

Yan Xiu asked freely: "What's wrong with Your Majesty?"

"No matter how young a person is, he still needs nourishment to strengthen his foundation. In the husband and wife's room, he needs good medicine to cheer him up." Zhong Huashu spoke without hesitation, and her face darkened, a little scary.

The portraits are covered with gorgeous masks, as if they are always talking about important matters related to life and death.

Yan Xiu stood up, he bowed, and said: "I do have a lot of prescriptions for nourishing medicinal wine, but any medicine is poisonous. You have to consider the physical condition of Your Majesty and His Royal Highness before—"

"Lord Yan, needless to say," Qu Yao's low voice came, and when Yan Xiu looked at her, she was also looking at Yan Xiu, and she said again, "I don't need those, Your Royal Highness, I have already talked with Your Majesty. After discussion, I am not in good health, and my health cannot be guaranteed after giving birth to a prince, for the sake of Dayan's future, please trust me and let me go."

When Zhong Huashu was stunned, Qu Yao knelt down, bent over, and kowtowed.

"Empress." Zhong Huashu sighed, and when it was over, he sent Yan Xiu away temporarily, and told him some things before leaving.

Qu Yao was still kneeling, straightened her back in the hall, Zhong Huashu called Yaxun to come in.

"The queen kneels if she wants to. Go to the courtyard to have a look at the scenery. Today is the sun." After Zhonghua finished speaking, she left. After a while, two elderly maids came in and knelt down in front of Qu Yao. .

Said: "Her Majesty's order, Her Majesty, please go and kneel in the courtyard, and the slaves and servants will serve you."

Qu Yao just stood there in a daze, kept her expression calm for a while, and didn't answer them.

The maid said again: "Slaves and servants, please help Her Highness the Queen to go out."

In front of her eyes, the two wrinkled faces seemed to have been tortured smoothly, so she also felt sad when persecuting others. Qu Yao gritted her teeth, and after thinking about it, she said: "I don't need you, I can walk on my own."

It was a sunny day outside, but it was not warm at all. When the sun slanted, a part of the courtyard was dry, but there was still ice in the dark that had not disappeared for many days. Qu Yao was kneeling, and in front of him were two standing upright Standing maidservant, and beside her, there is a room kneeling and holding a cloak.

"Your Highness, you wear this, and I will take off my coat for you." Yishi was about to cry, but he knew he couldn't lose Qu Yao's face, so he restrained his emotions and said slowly.

"No need." Qu Yao said with her back straight.

She was not a weak person, she had learned some archery and equestrian skills in the Wuchen Mansion when she was young, and she had a healthy body; but at this time, the white light of the sun shone on Qu Yao's face, like a godless statue. porcelain.

His legs and toes were numb from the cold.

Yishi leaned over, kowtowed to the maid guarding in front of him, and begged: "Aunts, His Highness is still ill, please let me go back, and bring His Highness a padded jacket and a hand stove, otherwise I will freeze my stomach. It's even worse to conceive a prince."

After speaking, Yishi kowtowed three more times.

The two maids had no power at all, and they were all assigned by Zhong Huashu. They couldn't make a decision, so they wanted to ask Zhong Huashu for instructions. The whole room was agile. go.

She put on a cloak for Qu Yao, and while there was only one maid left, she suddenly turned around and walked through the path in the backyard into a forest in Xiaoyuanzi.

Although the day is sunny but short, the sun goes behind the ridge of the roof after a while.

The sky dimmed.

At dusk, Qin Jiang boiled tea on the stove outside the hall, she poured the dark red liquid with Yan Xiu and Bi Chongfeng to drink, and then called Zhao Yu to go, not long after, Nie Wei also came from the Pharmacy up.

"I think Master Yan is having a headache today." Qin Jiang said slowly, sipping tea with her eyes downcast.

Yan Xiu smiled lightly: "There are always strange things happening to me."

"What's weird?" Nie Wei hurriedly came to ask.

Zhao Yu was also standing aside, reaching out to pat Nie Wei on the shoulder and saying, "Don't ask too many questions."

Bi Chongfeng is usually a serious and dull person, it's not that he is too strict, but he is used to being among the senior ministers, so he seldom talks with the juniors, and he can't get in the way.

He just said sullenly: "You guys drink up and leave, it's time to go home."

Zhao Yu shook his head and said, "Master Bi, I'm on duty tonight, they've all left, and now I'm the only deputy left."

"My elder sister-in-law gave birth to a baby. Recently, there are many congratulators. I like to be quiet, so I slept in the room of Shangyao Bureau at night." Nie Wei stretched out his hand and poured some tea.

Yan Xiu put the cup away, and he instructed Zhao Zhu and Nie Wei to sit down with stools, and said, "I'm not going back either, I have to write a prescription for Her Royal Highness the Empress Dowager."

"What's a good recipe, Lord Yan?" Qin Jiang said with shrewd eyes, "Dangshen, leeks, curculigo, sea dog kidney...you don't have to tell me that the Queen Mother wants to eat these."

Before Yan Xiu could react, and when Zhao Yu was still holding his breath and marveling, Nie Wei had already winked and covered his stomach with a smile, Bi Chongfeng was still drinking tea, he sighed, frowned, and said in a low voice: "Be careful, don't be overheard go."

Bi Chongfeng seemed to have really come to drink tea. After drinking a cup, he got up and went back to the house. Seeing the shadow disappearing outside the door, Nie Wei said in a low voice, "Master Bi is really old-fashioned, just like my father."

"Nie Wei, if you destroy yourself, you will destroy yourself. Don't take us along and be reprimanded after you." Qin Jiang joked with him sharply, but she was serious.

Nie Wei gritted his teeth and stopped talking. After a while, he said calmly and timidly, "I'm not provoking him."

"You're not wrong," Zhao Beak pursed his lips, and added, "He's just old-fashioned."

The young people are together, and there is no deliberate order of superiority and inferiority, so they laugh at the right time, Zhao Yu always looks calm and serious, even if he teases the imperial physician's order of his superiors, it seems to be theoretically serious.

Qin Jiang nodded and said, "Those who are capable dare to speak up."

Nie Wei immediately refused, and asked: "Master Qin, why is he a capable person, and I am self-destructing?"

"Zhao Yu is quiet and meticulous, and knows the truth. Of course, everyone will like him." Qin Jiang and Nie were joking, watching his sharp eyebrows frowned.

Nie Wei pursed his lips, feeling a little displeased.

Qin Jiang said again: "You are older, dare to speak and act, and you are not inferior to him."

"Both of you, please thank Lord Qin, she never praises others." Yan Xiu said casually, still thinking about today's unresolved troubles.

Nie Wei knew that Qin Jiang had joked with him a bit, and because of his good temper, he didn't feel uncomfortable. There are few female officials in these two places.

She opened her mouth to choke Yan Xiu again, and said, "Master Yan, don't hurt me, think about your prescription quickly."

Nie Wei suffered from talkativeness and curiosity again, so he leaned over to ask, "Lord Yan, that prescription...isn't it for His Majesty?"

"Of course not." Zhao Yu argued.

"I just said, logically, it wouldn't be so. He's only 17 years old, not as old as me. He doesn't need medicine at all at this age."

Nie Wei felt that the analysis was done properly, he pursed his lips and nodded his chin.

Yan Xiu took a sip of the half-warm tea in his cup, sat still, smiled lightly and then sighed, and said: "People always have exceptions, don't talk about it, this kind of secret matter, if you blame it, you will know who passed it on. "

After the tea was finished, Yan Xiu bid farewell to the crowd, went back to the room alone, and lit the candle lamp. After a while, Zhao Zhu brought another lamp and added fire in the charcoal basin. He asked, "My lord, would you like to eat What supper?"

"I've had tea, so I can't eat anything. You go to the duty office and watch over. Be careful of anyone who is suddenly ill. I can't find anyone." Yan Xiu held the pen, dipped the ink on the inkstone, and said softly.

Zhao Yu said: "I was outside the courtyard just now, and I heard that today the queen was punished by the queen mother to kneel in Yuekuo Palace. At that time, His Majesty was playing chess with King Beiming in Suihua Palace. A room of girls went to ask him to save someone, but he left I left after half a game of chess, and I don't know what happened to the queen, and now no one has come to tell the imperial doctor."

"Sometimes I feel that they are like ordinary couples." Yan Xiu held up his pen for a while, but did not write the name of the next medicine.

Zhao Yu said: "People are sentient, even if they were not harmonious in the early days, it has been so long now, maybe it is really different."

"They are also people with a heart, the same youth, the same growth in wealth and honor, and the same honor."

"Are you feeling emotional?" Zhao Beak asked.

Yan Xiu quietly took a deep breath, put down his pen, raised his hand to find the medicine book on the table, and said: "I remembered what Lord Qin said just now, what can be used on you can also be used by Your Majesty. Before I got acquainted with him, I was puzzled and unconvinced, but now I can say that he is young and romantic, and naturally everyone will like him."

"I also think His Majesty is very good, even though many people are concerned about his youth and fabricate some rumors," Zhao Yu said softly after a pause, "in the folk.",

The light of the candle lamp in front of the table flickered, Yan Xiu opened the medicine book, he took advantage of the light, and found that the paper was full of jumping words, his fingertips were about to make a shallow hole in the page of the book.

After Zhao Beak left, Yan Xiu stood up and opened the door. He saw a silver crescent moon in the night, reflecting the dim lanterns under the eaves.

Lanterns are more like the moon.

Human beings are strange, and they only remember to escape when they are lonely and helpless. Yan Xiu suddenly thinks of Fushan, of the warm seasons, of Qingbo of Shanshui, and also of the cover that was handed over by Jianfang in Nanpu Hall that day. A letter signed by Chen Bijie with the red seal.

Chen Zhangqin was still dressed in red, he didn't seem to know the cold, so he didn't wear a cloak and jacket, his narrow waist was tied by a vermilion belt.

He still had a pretty face, with a pink birthmark remaining on his neck.

In the Dingzhen Hall at dusk, it was quiet and solemn, and it was winter, so it was extremely cold. Outside the door and around the hall, there were always elite soldiers patrolling and guarding.A few hours ago, Chen Zhangqin took advantage of the sweeper to come in, and hid in the room deep in the hall without telling the truth from the servants who were walking back and forth at that time, until now.

He has experienced thinking, so there is no fuss at all. Paper money for sacrifices, lamps and incense, everything is simply prepared. He uses the light from the window to see everything in the hall, the empty dragon chair, and the noble patterns all over the place. Luxurious relief.

"Mother." Chen Zhangqin knelt down in the center of the hall, his kneecaps hurt from the impact, he ignored the fierce dragon-shaped carvings on the ceiling.

Below the knee is the place where all the ministers kneel.

When Chen Zhangqin smiled lightly, his eyebrows and eyes were still beautiful, but the original gentleness was lost, but now it was completely resentful and painful. He lit the paper money and put it in a silver plate he found from the temple. under the comb.

He didn't shed tears, his eyes were reddened by the incense, and he said: "I don't miss you at all, it's your relief to go away, if we are really foxes, that's the best, and we won't be reduced to this."

The flames danced on the silver plate, which was a bright spot that could be completely ignored in the huge hall, like a heavy star coming from the distant sky.

"The imperial power and dragon chairs are all dedicated to you. At this time, the Dingzhen Hall has no dignity, only the viciousness of power, and you who are still slandered by rumors after death."

Chen Zhangqin bent over and kowtowed, kneeling without solemnity. He was wearing a red dress to pay homage. When he looked at it from a distance, he could see the fly ash of burnt paper money, like a puddle of blood, mixed into the scalding fire.

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