The Forbidden City under the setting sun was like a blood-colored light, everything was so red. 23 Under the wall of the vermilion red palace, eunuchs and palace maids passed by. In front of the Meridian Gate, the guards stood upright as before. Everything was so quiet, only the occasionally flying group of pigeons made a buzzing sound over the palace city.

Chengqian Palace, not far from Kunning Palace, is the bedroom of the imperial concubine Dong E. Compared with Kunning Palace, Yongchengqian Palace is quieter because the mistress of this palace is in a coma.

"Is it going to be dark?"

I don’t know how long it took, but Dong Efei on the sickbed suddenly opened her eyes. Her voice was very weak, but the palace maids who served could hear it very clearly.

"The Empress wakes up, the Empress wakes up!"

The palace maid shouted happily, and they surrounded the concubine and talked angrily, as if the master of the New Year was rewarded with money today.

"Empress, are you getting better?"

"Empress, what do you want to eat? I will go to the imperial kitchen to spread the word."

"The newly prescribed prescription from the Imperial Hospital really works!"

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The palace maids chattered, and they actually forgot about the empress. But when they woke up, would the noisy sound make the empress uncomfortable?

"Stop quarreling. The Empress just woke up, how could she withstand the quarrels like you."

Dong E's personal maid Baozhu whispered the palace maids, and the palace maids were so scared that no one dared to speak.

"It's okay." Dong E smiled at the corner of her mouth and signaled Baozhu to help her up.

"Is it dark? So fast."

Seeing that the sky was already dark outside, Dong E was a little low for no reason. When Baozhu saw it, he hurried forward and helped the master put on his clothes while signaling other palace maids to light the lights in advance. After lit a few bright candles, the light suddenly lit up in the room.

After sitting there for a while, Dong E ordered Baozhu: "Go and bring my piano."

"Empress?"

Baozhu didn't want to get the piano because the Empress woke up just now and was very weak, so she could not have the energy to play the piano. The imperial physician had given every advice and must not let the Empress be sad anymore.

"Go."

Dong E said lightly, but his expression was very resolute. Baozhu didn't dare to disobey, so he had to take the guqin, the queen's beloved one. After taking the zither, he placed it on the quilt in front of Dong E. The body of the zither was polished sharply, and the strings were even more untainted.

Dong E stretched out his exposed pair of blue veins and gently stroked the strings. Suddenly, she plucked the strings, and a sad sound suddenly rang out.

The sound of the piano was very sad, and the empress looked even more haggard. Baozhu's eyes were red, and the palace maids couldn't help crying.

"Bao!"

Suddenly, the sound of the piano stopped, but Dong E, who had woken up from a serious illness, could not control his strength and plucked a piece of piano thread. As soon as the strings were broken, the palace maids saw blood flowing out of the corners of the mouth of the imperial concubine.

"Empress!"

Baozhu cried and stepped forward to put the guqin aside, asking the empress to lie down quickly and stop trying like this.

"I'm fine."

Dong E held the white parcel in his hand, and there was a ball of blood in the middle of the white parcel.

"The Emperor"

Dong E looked at Baozhu and wanted to speak but stopped. Baozhu choked and wanted to say that the emperor was still in the west and had not come back, but heard the voice of the palace maid Zhen'er outside the house.

"Empress, Empress, the Emperor has returned to the palace!"

Zhen'er ran in like a child, shouting and bringing good news to Chengqian Palace and the Imperial Concubine, and the long-awaited good news the Emperor returned to the palace.

"Have the emperor returned to the palace?"

Dong E's eyes lit up, his body trembled slightly, and two red glows appeared on his pale face.

"Empress, the emperor is really back!"

Before Zhen'er could finish her voice, Dong E heard a familiar voice, "My beloved concubine, I'm here to see you." Then, she saw a familiar figure appearing in front of her.

"Love concubine!"

Shunzhi felt very uncomfortable. He didn't expect that Dong E's condition would be so severe in a few months after he left Beijing. For a moment, as the emperor, he had red eyes.

"emperor!"

Dong E cried with joy, tears slid down her cheeks like beads with broken threads.

"Don't cry, don't cry! I will cry even if I cry!"

Shunzhi stepped forward and hugged Dong E. At this moment, he felt extremely guilty. After crying in her husband's arms for a while, Dong E suddenly struggled and said, "Your Majesty, I haven't paid you a favor for many days. Please sit down and receive my worship!"

"I don't want you to worship!"

Shunzhi hugged her beloved woman tightly, and she was reluctant to let go. Dong E bit her lip, and a dimples that appeared from time to time appeared on her thin cheeks. At this moment, she felt that she was the happiest woman in the world, and even if she wanted her to die soon, she was willing to do so.

The news of the emperor returning to the palace soon spread throughout the palace. The Queen's Kunning Palace knew, and the Queen Mother's Cining Palace also knew. Kunning Palace had no complaints about the Emperor's return to the palace and running to Chengqian Palace, but Cining Palace was a little depressed.

"I've reported the Queen Mother's reputation for the meal!"

The eunuch on duty in the imperial kitchen bent down and said in a soft voice: "Two big bowls of vegetables: bird's nest 'Fu' three-fresh fat chicken..."

But before the report was over, the empress dowager waved impatiently: "Okay, it's not the same thing. This is just a late one. I have to set up this table. I have seen enough. How can I have any appetite? Let's take it away."

"Empress Dowager, the slave deserves to die. I am not useful to me. I would like to ask the queen mother to be kind to you." The old eunuch was so scared that he lay on the ground and shivered.

"I didn't say any punishment, why are you going to get it? Go back!" The empress dowager leaned against the couch, squinted her eyes, looking tired and tired.

"Empress Dowager, you have to eat something at least. I will give you a small bowl of Bird's Nest Eight Immortal Soup to try?"

Su Malagu reached out to get the spoon, but the empress dowager shook her head to stop her. Seeing this, Su Ma thought for a while and said, "Why do I go and make some snacks for you to taste?"

The empress dowager looked at Su Ma and couldn't bear to take away her feelings, so she nodded slightly. Su Ma hurriedly got up to prepare. After a while, she brought a large tray from the next door, put on a few side dishes, as well as two large bowls with lids and two plates of snacks.

"Empress Dowager, this bowl contains bird's nest, winter bamboo shoots, black chicken and ginseng soup, which is very nutritious, so you have to drink more."

Su Ma opened a large covered bowl, gently swept off the oil on it with a spoon, spooned half a bowl of clear soup, and carefully held it in front of the Queen Mother.

"Yeah, very light."

The queen mother nodded while blowing and drinking. Only Su Ma in the palace knew her taste best and her best. If Su Ma hadn't insisted on being with her forever, she would have married Su Ma's handsome belle long ago.

After drinking a bowl of ginseng soup, the empress dowager put down the bowl. When she thought of her son, she still said a little unhappy: "As soon as the emperor returned to the palace, he went to Dong E, and he didn't care about my mother at all."

Su Ma smiled and said, "Empress Dowager, there is no mother in this world who fights for her son with her daughter-in-law. ( . )"

After hearing what she said, the empress dowager laughed. Yes, why did her mother care about her son running to his wife?

"As soon as Dunbai entered Beijing, those people were honest, and there was no decent person to lead. What could they do? But this time we underestimate the emperor. He is very independent." The empress dowager said leisurely.

Su Ma said: "The six flags can be suppressed, but some things are undelayed."

"It's a big delay."

The Empress Dowager sighed and took out the note that Fan Wencheng had sent to the palace a few days ago, and told Su Ma, "Please give this note to the emperor, and then tell him, I, the Empress Dowager, have no objection. Now we must be more flexible. If we can keep the past things, it will be accurate. If the Han people can reform and strengthen their skills, we can do the same as those of us."

"The First Scholar of the Ming Dynasty", an interesting story about the revival of Hongzhi.
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