Big businessman and little fisherman

The small Buddhist hall of Renshou Palace is full of incense.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Empress Dowager would put the scriptures copied by herself into the incense burner and burn them to her relatives in another world.

When Lu Yange came, the queen mother was still in the small Buddhist hall.

The nanny who served the queen mother wanted to go in and ask the queen mother to come out, but was stopped by Lu Yange: "You don't need to disturb the queen mother, I just wait."

The emperor wanted to wait, and the nanny didn't dare to go in to invite the queen mother, so she could only retreat with the maids serving tea.

Renshou Palace is the place where the empress dowagers of all dynasties lived.Only the small Buddhist hall where the Empress Dowager lives has only a few memorial tablets and a cushion for kneeling.

The Empress Dowager knelt on the soft cushion and recited scriptures silently. Today's scriptures are still half-volume.

Lu Yangge stood at the door of the Small Buddha Hall, looking at the queen mother who was kneeling on the cushion.

The queen mother is only less than fifty years old, but her hair is already gray, she is wearing a long plain dress, her hair is loosely tied in a bun, and only a lotus hairpin is inserted.

Lu Yange had seen such a silver hairpin on his mother's head.On the night when Lujiazhuang was burned, he was sent to Qingfengzhai, and fell into the hands of Song Yunfei's mother, who is now wearing it on the Queen Mother's head.

Seeing the empress dowager's silver hairpin, Lu Yange realized that the plain dress and long skirt worn by the empress dowager seemed to be the same style as ten years ago.

These are the clothes she wore when she was a girl when she was young, and she wears them every time she enters the small Buddha hall, as if this is the only time she has become a member of the Shen family.

Sniffing, Lu Yange walked up to the queen mother, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed.

The voice of the queen mother chanting the scriptures paused, and she glanced sideways at Lu Yange who was kneeling beside her, then turned back and continued to read her own scriptures.

When half of the scriptures were read, the Queen Mother looked at Lu Yange who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Does your knee hurt?"

How can it not hurt without a cushion.

But Lu Yange only knelt for half a volume of scriptures, and my aunt, who wrote a volume of scriptures every morning and evening, would still hurt her knees even if she knelt on the soft cushion.

Lu Yangge raised his hand to help the queen mother up, and said: "It doesn't hurt."

"laugh."

The queen mother chuckled lightly, helped Lu Yange's hand to stand up, "If it doesn't hurt, you can kneel for a while, and see if it hurts."

Lu Yange hurriedly supported the Queen Mother's arm and walked back: "Then I won't kneel, I'm afraid that my aunt will feel bad when the time comes."

"You."

The Queen Mother patted Lu Yange's hand, "Are you going to leave? Are you not coming back?"

"It's ready to go."

Lu Yange's eyes moved slightly, and he sat down beside the queen mother and said, "As for whether I will come back or not, to be honest, I don't know."

"I'm old too, and I don't have many years to live, so I won't let you miss it." The queen mother raised her hand and brushed up the broken hair beside Lu Yange's temples, "It's just that you can give up the two children Xing'er and Ming'er?"

"I can't even bear my aunt, how can I be reluctant to bear two children."

Lu Yange put one hand on the armrest of the chair, approached the queen mother and asked softly, "Auntie, would you like to come with me, and I will take you to see the great rivers and mountains. Then find a quiet and rich place to live in seclusion, okay?"

"not good."

The queen mother shook her head, "It's not good for me to be the queen mother, why bother to follow you to be an old lady with no power or influence. No matter how rich and quiet the place you choose, can you still have the peace and quiet of this palace?"

This palace is a truly peaceful and peaceful place.

Lu Yange still wanted to persuade her, but the queen mother raised her hand to signal her not to speak, and called the nanny who had been serving her all the time to come in.

"Bring me my rosewood dressing box."

The red sandalwood dressing box was carved by Lu Yange with the prince when he was free in the palace. The carving is a little rough, but fortunately, it was polished carefully, and it feels warm and smooth in the hand.

The queen mother pushed the rosewood dressing box towards Lu Yange: "This is for you, take it away."

Lu Yange didn't know what was in the box, she subconsciously wanted to open it to have a look.

The queen mother raised her hand and held it down: "Don't look at it, just watch it slowly when you leave the palace."

Don't show it?
Lu Yange picked up the box and hugged it in his arms: "Then I will really take it away, don't you subsidize all the pension money to me, and leave nothing good for your grandchildren."

The queen mother waved her hand wearily: "Let's go, the Ai family won't keep you."

There is no exhortation, nor retention.

Lu Yangge held the jewelry box and turned her head step by step. When she was about to leave the palace gate, she turned her head and looked back.

The queen mother was sitting alone on a chair, and the splendor and prosperity around her made her even more lonely and lonely.

Lu Yangge felt pain in his heart, and ran back a few steps with the box in his arms, knelt down in front of the queen mother, and knocked his head three times.

After she left, there was only her aunt in the palace, and no one cared whether her clothes were warm or not, and no one asked her if she could sleep peacefully at night.Xing'er and Ming'er have their own mothers, as well as their own children.Who would care about how an old lady in the deep palace is doing well, is there anyone to talk to, is there anyone who misses her?
Lu Yange took a few steps on his knees, hugged the queen mother's leg and cried, "Auntie, can you go with Yange? I'll take you to the south to enjoy the flowers, to the north to see the snow, and to the countryside to buy two pieces of land to grow vegetables and raise chickens. Etc. Yange finds Mr. Ruyi, and my aunt will help Yange look after the child, okay?"

"Song!"

The queen mother touched Lu Yange's head with tears in her eyes, "Let's go, don't come back. My aunt knows you are right. Go now, you are their good father, king and aunt. If you don't go, the queen will suspect that you are relying on I want to repay the love of these years. If she is any worse, maybe your aunts and nephews will eventually turn relatives into enemies. Sing song, you are worthy of anyone, but you have not treated yourself well. After leaving, treat yourself better."

"Didn't she suspect it a long time ago?"

Lu Yange knelt up straight and leaned his head lightly on the queen mother's knee, "Auntie, I didn't leave because the queen doubted me. It was because the business was getting bigger, and the country should be handed over to him. One day, He knows that the father who has been with him for ten years is his aunt, maybe he will be grateful and miss him. But if I stay in the capital, it will only make him afraid."

Yes!

If Yange wasn't so good, and didn't manage this big merchant country so well, she wouldn't be feared by others because of her talent, and she would be able to stay in this capital.If you want to enter the palace, you can enter the palace, if you don't want to enter the palace, you can be her eldest princess, that's great.

It's a pity that Yan Ge is so outstanding that even if she taught the prince by herself, it would be difficult to imitate her skills.

"Let's go."

The Queen Mother sighed softly, "Auntie must be alive and well. When you want to come back, come back and have a look."

"it is good."

Lu Yange got up and strode out with the jewelry box in her arms. This time, she didn't look back.

After a long time, the nanny walked in lightly: "Empress Dowager, my servant saw the emperor kowtow to you outside the palace gate, and her forehead was red and swollen."

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager couldn't hold back after all and raised her sleeves to cover her face to hide the rolling tears.

Her song, once she leaves, she may never come back again!