Song Yi

Chapter 239
Concubine De invited Du Wenhao to sit down and ordered someone to pour fine wine. Seeing Du Wenhao's reserved look, she smiled and waved to let the others leave, leaving only an old eunuch to serve.

After pouring the wine, Concubine De smiled and asked, "Lord Du, are you married?"

Du Wenhao murmured in his heart: Why are all women such dicks?They all like to inquire about other people's private affairs and ask some boring questions.But he didn't dare to show the slightest bit on his face, and said respectfully: "If you go back to your mother, the minister is already married."

"How many concubines are there?"

"The humble minister does not take concubines."

"Oh?" Concubine De's soft words were full of longing, she turned her head to look out of the hall, and sighed quietly: "It's better to be born in an ordinary family, there is a man who only loves himself, men farm and women weave , melon fields and plums, with a bunch of children, in the fields during the day, and the family sitting around and playing together at night, it’s really nice..."

Concubine De raised her glass and took a big sip, her brows were full of melancholy.

Du Wenhao saw De Fei's red face, like a fresh and tender peach, pink and pink is very beautiful, but there are tears in her red and phoenix eyes, although the corner of her mouth is smiling, but the smile is so bitter.Then he used words to draw her attention: "Madam, I heard from Imperial Doctor Li that you suffer from cough, and you need to go out for a walk more, which is also good for your health."

"Didn't your doctor say that pollen is not good for my cough when the flowers are blooming?"

Du Wenhao smiled, and said: "Actually, it's mainly about spring, and there's nothing serious about it now."

Concubine De smiled sadly, and sighed: "What do you need such a good body for?"

"If you have a body, don't you have everything?"

"Will there be?"

"Of course! The emperor hasn't come to Shengrui Palace for so many years. It must be because the empress is in poor health. The emperor cherishes the empress's body, so that the empress is dying."

"Don't you blush when you tell this lie?"

"This..., my humble minister's words are true. If the emperor doesn't come, it should be because the emperor cherishes his empress's noble body."

"What do you know!" Concubine De stopped smiling, raised the cup on the table, looked at Du Wenhao, and said, "Master Du, come on, don't talk about those annoying things, let's drink."

After several cups of fine wine, Du Wenhao found himself a little tipsy. It seems that the wine in this palace is good, but Concubine De has no intention of getting drunk at all.

Concubine De asked absent-mindedly: "This pavilion was changed by the palace, so it was not called this. Lord Du, do you know why this pavilion is called 'Wanjun Pavilion'?"

Du Wenhao thought to himself, even a fool would know the meaning, isn't he just hoping to keep the Long Live Lord?But in the end, isn't he guarding such a huge Shengrui Palace alone?Of course, Du Wenhao wouldn't say that. "It's rare to be confused" is the highest state of being an official. He shook his head blankly and said, "I don't know."

"Who doesn't know that 'wanjunting' is to keep the emperor, don't you know? Hehe, Mrs. Du, you are very cunning, are you afraid of making me sad? You are thoughtful, and you are an official! Good, good! "

Du Wenhao was a little embarrassed to ask others to say it out of his mind, and hurriedly said: "How could it be? Madam, I really don't know. Your Majesty... have you been to this Wanjun Pavilion?"

"That's right, that was the last time the emperor came to our Shengrui Palace." Concubine De said quietly, looking at the scenery outside the hall, as if caught in the memories of the past.

Du Wenhao didn't dare to disturb her train of thought, until she looked away, took a sip from the wine glass, and then said in the spirit of wine: "Madam, in fact, women are like the peonies in this yard."

Concubine De slowly raised her head and looked at him: "What do you mean?"

"Madam, women are like peonies. After this season, no matter how delicate the peonies are, they will wither, and no matter how beautiful they are, they will be left out in the cold."

"Are you mocking me?"

"No, no, I don't dare, empress, have you ever heard the legend of Mudan and the queen mother?"

Concubine De Liu frowned slightly, and said: "What legend?"

"It is said that the Queen Mother in the sky was drunk and happy after the Peach Blossom Festival, and ordered all the flowers in the garden to bloom within one night. All the flowers bloomed, but only the peony did not listen to the Queen Mother's order. The Queen Mother was furious. He ordered to burn all the peonies in the garden. When he was not paying attention, a peony seed fell into the mortal world and landed in Luoyang City. As a result, Luoyang was full of peonies. After that, the people in Luoyang liked this flower very much, and every household had it.”

"This story is also interesting. You tell this story to Ben Gong, don't you want to persuade Ben Gong?"

"Your Majesty, 'Don't be surprised by favor or disgrace, have no intention of going or staying', this is the highest state of life!"

Concubine De was shocked and stared at him for a while, then said slowly: "Others will only help me think of ways to please the emperor and regain the grace, but you are the only one who use this story to persuade me to accept the coldness!"

Du Wenhao thought to himself, I can't help you regain the grace, so I have no choice but to persuade you to accept your fate. The harem woman has fallen out of favor, and I can't do everything I can, so what if I don't accept my fate?She cupped her hands and said: "My lady, things are often like this. The more you seek deliberately, the more you will get nothing. Inadvertently, it will happen unexpectedly. As the saying goes, everything has its own destiny. If you don't love yourself, if you don't love yourself, no one will love you." .”

Concubine De's body trembled again, and said quietly: "Yes..., what's the use of thinking too much? It's better to pamper yourself!"

Concubine De got up, walked slowly to the side of the pavilion, and looked at the peonies in the garden.Du Wenhao didn't bother, he knew that at this time, she needed to be alone to think about it.

After a while, Concubine De turned around and said calmly: "Master Du, it seems that it is right for you to come to see a doctor for me today."

Du Wenhao discovered that she inadvertently used the self-proclaimed "I", instead of calling herself "Bengong" in a domineering manner.What I said just now touched her cold heartstrings, and she regarded herself as someone close to her.I didn't have to be so cautious when I spoke, so I also stood up, bowed and said: "Your Majesty's illness, in fact, you know it yourself, it's a heart knot. According to me, if you can't let go of your heart knot, you will feel sorry for yourself; Let it go, and the sea and the sky will be brighter."

Concubine De sighed: "Let it go? If you can just say let go and let it go, then it's not called a knot."

Walked back and sat down, picked up the cup and drank it all: "Ten years ago, when I entered the palace, I was an insignificant master attendant by the emperor's side. Once, we accompanied the emperor to watch the memorial in the imperial study. On that day, there was The memorial made him very happy, so the emperor ordered wine and food, poured himself a drink in the study, and soon became a little drunk."

Du Wenhao knew that something was going to happen, and it seemed that this was how Concubine De was favored.

Concubine De continued: "I was waiting in the corner beside me. Lord Long Live held a glass of wine and looked at us next to each other. When he saw me, he suddenly smiled." Concubine De had a happy smile when she spoke up to this point. It's very exciting.

"The emperor beckoned me over and asked me what I could do to cheer him up. At that time, I was young, and I wasn't too scared, so I dared to say that I could kick the shuttlecock. Do you know that I am best at kicking the shuttlecock?" Yes, you can kick six or seven tricks at a time, and you don’t need to hit the ground. Long live God was happy, so he asked the little eunuch to bring me a shuttlecock, and let me kick it. On that day, the emperor was very happy, and kept drinking and laughing. Said that I played well, I remember the way Long Live looked at me and said that my eyes were beautiful, that night, I stayed in the upper study of Long Live..."

Du Wenhao knew that after that day, the sparrow flew up the branch and turned into a phoenix.

"After that, Lord Long Live often asked me to watch memorials with her. When I was tired, he would drink and watch me kick the shuttlecock. Sometimes he also played when he was in the mood. In the end, he let me sleep. A year later, I added a prince to Lord Long Live. , Lord Long Live canonized me as a talented person, and later canonized me as Jieyu and Concubine De. Everything is so beautiful! If that coquettish fox surnamed Chen hadn’t appeared, the emperor would never have forgotten me!”

Du Wenhao knew that Concubine De was referring to Chen Meiren.Hearing her words was a bit out of tune, so he deliberately changed the topic, pointed to the white clouds floating in the sky, and said: "Madam, people will inevitably have things that don't go their way, if people can be as free as the white clouds, that would be great." .”

Concubine De looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, and couldn't help sighing: "What's so good about white clouds, they don't have roots, they float with the wind, and when they are gone, there is no home."

"Is your lady homesick? Who is your lady?" After asking this question, Du Wenhao also felt that he was a bit of a slut.

Fortunately, the empress didn't care: "I'm from the suburbs of Kaifeng."

"That's very close. How long has it been since your mother went home to visit her relatives?"

Concubine De held her fragrant cheek in one hand, played with the wine glass in the other, and said after a long while: "It's been a few years, I even forgot when I went back."

"Why don't you go back and have a look?"

Concubine De's eyes lit up, then dimmed in an instant, and said: "I want to go back, but..., the emperor will not agree."

"What if the emperor can agree?" Du Wenhao looked at her pitifully, and said while drinking.

Concubine De heard that there was something in his words, and looked at him sideways: "Can you let the emperor let me go out of the palace and go home to visit my relatives?"

"Of course I don't have this ability. I haven't seen the emperor so far. However, I can find a way through the empress dowager."

"The Empress Dowager will listen to you?"

"Of course not. May I suggest that the empress misses her parents and becomes ill..."

"My father passed away in his early years."

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

"It's nothing.—If you put it that way, the Empress Dowager might not care."

"Should care about it. I was ordered to serve the doctor in the harem, which is the order of the empress dowager. I just said that the cough and asthma disease of the empress comes from missing relatives. To be cured, you must first resolve the pain of homesickness. Maybe too As soon as the empress dowager softened, she agreed. As long as the empress dowager told the emperor, the emperor would definitely agree."

"That's true!" Concubine De turned her worries into joy: "You want to do this for me, how can I thank you?"

"Your Majesty is serious, your happiness is our happiness!"

After saying this, Du Wenhao felt weird, but Concubine De already smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry! If you can really help me with this matter, I won't forget your kindness!"

Leaving Shengrui Palace, Du Wenhao took advantage of the wine to meet the Empress Dowager directly.The report said that Concubine De's illness was caused by depression because she had not seen her relatives for many years, and it was said that Concubine De was indispensable for finding out Chen's actions.

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager naturally gave her permission and went to talk to the emperor in person.

The emperor absolutely complied with the empress dowager's meaning, and immediately allowed Concubine De to go home to visit her relatives for half a month, and according to the empress dowager's wishes, because Concubine De had always suffered from cough and asthma, the imperial decree ordered Du Wenhao to accompany her as a doctor.

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The most important thing is the one-year spring benefits.

In fact, outside the imperial city, you can still see the green weeping willows fluttering in the wind on both sides of the post road.

"Lord Du, have you smelled it?" Concubine De raised the curtain of the car and said to Du Wenhao who was following on horseback outside.

Du Wenhao rode a white horse and followed Concubine De's carriage. Hearing this, he leaned over and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you smell?"

"The smell of weeping willow!"

"Weeping willows?" Du Wenhao sniffed hard and looked around suspiciously. There was a row of weeping willows under the roadbed, but there was no fresh smell.

Concubine De gave him a blank look: "Is your nose just for display? ... Oh, look! There is a waterwheel!"

Her novel gaze looked into the distance, everything seemed so kind to her, even a tree, a farmer, a frisky puppy, and a squeaky waterwheel could all amaze her .

Du Wenhao looked at Concubine De with pity.Concubine De didn't pay attention to him, and hummed an unknown song.

The sound of horseshoes was crisp, Du Wenhao looked at De Concubine's excited pretty face, and thought that this Concubine De had a pretty good personality, and he really didn't know how much better than the queen who seemed gentle but was actually extremely ferocious.

Concubine De suddenly asked: "Lord Du, it looks like you are younger than me?"

How to appreciate the scenery, suddenly asked about this, Du Wenhao bowed respectfully and replied: "If you want to answer your mother, I'm afraid I'm older than your mother, I'm already over 20 years old, look at your mother's age, hehe , it won’t exceed twenty-eight, right?”

Concubine De giggled, covering her mouth and laughing: "Twenty-eight? I was twenty-eight a few years ago!"

"Your Majesty can really tell a joke."

"Who is joking with you? It seems that you are younger than me anyway. You can call me sister from now on."

Du Wenhao was walking on the reins just now, and almost fell off the horse without paying attention, so he quickly grabbed the horse's mane to stabilize his figure.

Seeing this, Concubine De couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing loudly: "Look, it scares you, that's what we call you in private, I see that you and I are destined, so I'm willing to recognize you as a younger brother, I didn't want to scare you If you become like this, if you are afraid, forget it.”

Du Wenhao was eager to argue, he stuttered a little, and said: "No... no, I just don't... dare not climb up on my mother." He thought, if the emperor knows that he and his woman recognize siblings, I'm afraid You won't be very happy, just forget it and don't make this trouble.

Concubine De sighed, and said: "What's so high, I'm just a poor wretch who neglects the palace, how many powerful people in the palace look at me? But you are willing to drink with me, how big is it?" I had the courage to beg the Empress Dowager to let me go home to visit my relatives. In fact, I am grateful. If you want, you can call me sister in private. If you don’t want to, I won’t force it.

(End of this chapter)