Song Yi

Chapter 262
Chen Meiren nodded slightly, but in her heart she cursed the empress dowager, the dead old woman, who is disgusting. The empress dowager likes flowers and plants the most. No one in this palace does not know that some princes and ministers often donate some of their own to the empress dowager. The exotic flowers and plants brought back from the place to please the Empress Dowager.

But in Chen Meiren's opinion, this place is the dirtiest and smelliest place in the palace, especially when the eunuchs are weeding and fertilizing every month, there is a stench in this flower garden, which makes people feel disgusted. However, the Empress Dowager liked to summon people in this place very much, so no one dared to show any displeasure after entering this door.

Walking to the entrance of the moon-shaped arch in the flower garden, Eunuch Jiao took a look, then smiled and whispered to Beauty Chen, "Your Majesty, go in, the Empress Dowager is inside. The old slave is waiting at the door."

"It's Mr. Laojiao." Chen Meiren bowed symbolically, grabbed her skirt with one hand, covered her nose with a handkerchief with the other, and walked cautiously into a place she didn't like to come to.

Passing through clusters of blooming flowers, I saw the empress dowager standing beside a wintersweet tree, looking at the green leaves on the tree with interest. The wintersweet on it had withered eight years ago, but she I looked at it with great interest, as if I could see plum blossoms among the green leaves.

Chen Meiren hurriedly put down the hem of her dress, removed the juan handkerchief covering her nose, straightened her dress, walked over gracefully, and bowed her blessing: "Meet the Empress Dowager."

The Empress Dowager hummed without looking back, left the wintersweet plant, walked to a cluster of flowers, bent down to look at it, and then slowly squatted down again.The little eunuch who followed hurriedly handed over a small shovel specially for weeding flowers. The Empress Dowager took it, carefully shoveled away the green weeds emerging around the flowers, and then shoveled some flower soil with the small shovel. Cultivate it at the root of the flower, and pat it with your hands, as if humming a little song to lull the child to sleep.

Chen Meiren on the side laughed and said: "Your empress dowager is really careful about flowers and plants. No wonder it's this season, but many out-of-season flowers are blooming in the flower garden."

"That's right, flowers that are not in season bloom, which makes people happy, but the appearance of people who are not in season makes people disgusted!" The Empress Dowager dragged her voice pointingly.

Chen Meiren was a little embarrassed, and didn't know what to say with her smiling face.

The Empress Dowager handed over the small shovel in her hand to the eunuch at the side, and Chen Meiren quickly reached out to help the Empress Dowager get up.The empress dowager looked back at her and frowned: "Hey, why are you looking so bad recently? What are you up to?"

Chen Meiren's heart skipped a beat again. Eunuch Jiao said that about himself just now, and now the Empress Dowager also said that. Could it be that she is really haggard without knowing it?Tian Nian said: "Oh, my ancestors have good eyesight. I've been a little tired recently, and I just told Mr. Jiao. I'm tired of serving the emperor, but as long as the emperor is happy, no matter how tired or hard it is, it's worth it. "

The Empress Dowager smiled and said: "You are still young, and you always feel that your body can afford it, but once you pass forty, you will know how powerful it is. Besides, don't toss around day and night in the future, you toss Let’s start, the emperor can’t afford it! Remember, the emperor is not your emperor alone, but the emperor of our Great Song Dynasty!”

Chen Meiren was smiling before, but she felt something was wrong when she heard it later. The empress dowager's words seemed to be blaming herself for hollowing out the emperor's body.It was a little embarrassing, and I kept cursing this old and immortal guy in my stomach.But smiling and blushing humbly even claimed yes.

The two came to a field of chrysanthemums that were in full bloom, and the empress dowager said, "Do you know why this chrysanthemum is blooming now?"

"Yeah, I'm just wondering. It stands to reason that golden chrysanthemums don't bloom until the beginning of winter. How come they bloom in early summer and are still so delicate? My ancestor must be the god of flowers in the sky. When she is asked to bloom, it will be so beautiful." Time to open. Hee hee hee"

"If you want to talk about the God of Flowers, the Aijia really invited a God of Flowers, and that is Du Wenhao, the judge of the Supreme Hospital!" The Empress Dowager bent down and gently stroked the delicate golden chrysanthemum, as if she was touching a child's little face, " Wen Hao, this little doll, besides seeing a doctor, is also good at growing flowers, the chrysanthemums, and other flowers that are not in season, can all bloom at this moment, that's how he taught Aijia."

"Oh? He is so powerful? How can the ancestor reveal it? After I learn it, I can show it off to others. Hee hee"

The rest of Chen Meiren didn't like flowers and plants at all, she pretended to be very curious, she just wanted to please the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager was really happy, nodded and said: "Okay, the secret is actually very simple, just think of some way to change the heat and cold and the light time in the flower garden, let's take this golden chrysanthemum as an example, he said this The light time of chrysanthemums should not be too long, and it should not exceed five hours a day. If it grows long, it will not bloom, and the temperature should not be too high. If you want it to bloom, you must control the light and temperature. The cover covers the whole flower. During the day, I put some ice cubes around the flower to cool down. At first I couldn’t believe it, so I told them to do the same. Hey, it’s amazing, the flower bloomed soon! Hehehe "

Chen Meiren also accompanied her with a dry laugh, and she kept saying that it was amazing, but she thought to herself that Du Wenhao really had a lot of ideas, and she couldn't figure out what the empress dowager's purpose for coming here was, it couldn't really be just Call yourself to show off how to get chrysanthemums to bloom in spring?
The Empress Dowager was in high spirits, and she led Chen Meiren away, talking endlessly about how to make other out-of-season flowers bloom now, saying that Du Wenhao taught him these things, and she was very fond of Du Wenhao in her words. appreciation.Chen Meiren, however, was uninterested in listening, and just wanted to doze off, but she pretended to be enjoying listening, and kept admiring and nodding.

Finally, the Empress Dowager said: "Okay, Ai's family is also tired, let's find a place to sit and talk." Just now, the Empress Dowager seemed to suddenly think of something, and slapped her head: "By the way, look at Ai The memory of the family, I called you here to give you a good thing, seeing you looking so tired today, it seems that the Ai family gave you such a thing to the right person."

When Chen Meiren heard this, her brows were filled with joy. It turned out that the Empress Dowager called her to give her a reward, and her depressed mood immediately disappeared.

The things that the Empress Dowager rewards are naturally not bad. Last month, the married Princess Zhou returned to the palace to visit her relatives. I heard that she spent two hours with the Empress Dowager in the flower garden, and the Empress Dowager rewarded her with one. The night pearl the size of an egg made everyone in the palace envious. Thinking of this, Chen Mei's mouth was about to drop, and she quickly bowed to thank her: "It's still the ancestors who know how to love others."

The Empress Dowager smiled faintly, and said: "The Ai family doesn't care about who you care about, and I expect you to serve the emperor well." He waved to Eunuch Jiao, who was standing outside the round arched door in the distance, and told him to come in, and said, "Go Bring the things Aijia prepared for Madam Chen."

Eunuch Jiao agreed and withdrew.

The Empress Dowager took Chen Meiren and walked forward, and came to a pavilion full of flowers, and stepped into the pavilion.The little eunuch who was following hurried forward, first dusted the stone bench with his sleeve, then put a brocade embroidered futon in his arms on the stone bench, and then bowed and retreated.

The Empress Dowager sat down on the futon with her dress up, looked up at the blooming flowers outside the gazebo, and couldn't help sighing: "Oh! Ai's old arms and legs are going to rust and fall apart, what a beautiful scene , I can’t watch it for a few days.”

Chen Meiren leaned forward and smiled with her: "What did the ancestors say? Your old age is happy and healthy, and you will live a thousand years and a thousand years ago. The days are still long."

The Empress Dowager sneered: "What do you do with such a long life? There are so many annoying things, so many disgusting people, looking annoying, too lazy to care, dead clean!"

Chen Meiren's heart skipped a beat, and she salivated and said: "The old ancestor saw who was upset, and asked him to change it. If he couldn't change it, he would be sent out of the palace. , naturally this trouble will be gone.”

The Empress Dowager nodded frequently: "Well, what you said makes sense, Aijia will listen to you, and let's talk about how many times he is treated! Aijia is old and can't live for a few days, so we have to clean up this harem quickly. In case Aijia is gone, some people will be turned upside down!"

Chen Meiren's delicate body trembled slightly, the Empress Dowager seemed to be referring to something, could it be that the old woman had already noticed something?

Just when she was extremely anxious, she saw Eunuch Jiao approaching from a distance holding something in his hand.After going up the steps and entering the gazebo, he put his hands on his hands, bowed and said, "Old Ancestor, here are the things."

The Empress Dowager pointed to the brocade box and said to Chen Meiren: "Open it and have a look, I believe you will like it."

Chen Meiren happily took the brocade box from Eunuch Jiao, glanced at the Empress Dowager, and carefully opened the brocade box, only to see that there were half a box of black pills in the brocade box.

When Chen Meiren saw the pill, her face paled immediately, her hands shook, and with a clang, the box fell into the gazebo.Pills rolled around, all over the floor.

The eunuch who was serving at the side hurried forward, picked up the pills, carefully dusted off the dust with his sleeves, put them in the box, collected them all, and then sent them back to Chen Meiren.

Chen Meiren's face was pale and her lips trembled: "Empress Dowager, this is...?"

"This medicine is precious. It's extraordinary! I heard from your empress that this medicine is called Zhuanxiang Wan. She has been taking it all the time, and the effect is good. After taking it for a long time, the body will emit a natural flower fragrance. It's a pity. She refused to say where the medicine came from."

Chen Meiren's eyes widened, carefully looking at the pills in the medicine box.This pill is very similar to the beauty pill she asked Fu He to prepare for the Empress Dowager. It has the same name, and even the box is exactly the same. She couldn't understand why this medicine got into the hands of the Empress Dowager?

Chen Meiren raised her eyes to look at the empress dowager, saw that she was looking at her with a smile, she didn't look like she was teasing her, she couldn't help crying to herself, could it be that she was playing the wrong trick, the empress dowager believed the nonsense she made up for the empress, and brought it to the empress. Do you keep your face on your own?
Dipping Fragrance Pills, the name was thought up by myself at the beginning. The natural fragrance of flowers is just a seductive cover. In order to let Fu He eat this thing for the queen, Beauty Chen did not spare much effort to let Fu He brag about it. Why, why is it that Du Wenhao has been treating the queen for her stubborn illnesses, but she has never doubted that this pill can make her exude a natural fragrance one day?

Eunuch Jiao on the side also laughed and said: "Ms. Beauty, Mrs. Du Wenhao heard about this fragrance pill from the Empress Empress. The Queen's beauty is all due to this fragrance pill! Mrs. Du thinks it is a good thing. So he told the empress dowager about it. The ancestors were very curious, so they called the queen empress and asked about it. The empress empress said everything. After hearing this, the empress dowager said, "beauty empress You all need this medicine very much, so don’t hide it by yourself, so the queen empress dedicated this medicine to the empress dowager. The empress dowager said, the emperor loves you the most, this pill, you have to take it first Let you take it. It’s good to be energetic and serve the emperor!”

It's Du Wenhao playing tricks again!Chen Meiren greeted the eight generations of Du Wenhao's ancestors in her belly, but she still smiled sweetly on her face, holding the medicine box, and said respectfully: "Master Du really has a heart, this is because the ancestors love us, then I will accept it and take it slowly when I go back. Every time I take it, I will feel more grateful to my ancestor. Hee hee, ancestor! If there is nothing else, I will leave..."

"What's the rush! The Ai family hasn't told you how to take this medicine yet. Your queen mother said that you have to pay attention to the time of taking this medicine. It will be most effective when you take it at the right time." The Empress Dowager turned her head and asked Manager Jiao: "Little Jiaozi, what time is it?"

Eunuch Jiao bowed and said, "Old Ancestor, it's Shen Shi!"

"Oh? What a coincidence? Then don't wait until you get back to take it, just take it now, so that it won't be too late. Xiaojiaozi, ask someone to bring warm water to take the medicine for the beauty, you don't have any eyesight."

"Yes! Old ancestor." When the Empress Dowager was playing in the flower garden, the maids and eunuchs who followed brought all the daily necessities for the Empress Dowager to enjoy at any time.Eunuch Jiao beckoned to the eunuch holding water to bring warm water.

Chen Meiren's face was pale, she let go of her hand, and with a bang, the brocade box fell to the ground again.Seeing the Empress Dowager staring down at herself, she quickly squatted down and picked it up slowly.

The Empress Dowager said coldly: "What? Is this how you treat the things Aijia gave you? You drop them again and again, don't you like them?"

Chen Meiren's face had turned pale, but Nuo Nuo didn't know what to say.

Eunuch Jiao said in a strange way: "The Empress Dowager, calm down, the beauty just lost her hand because she was overjoyed, don't you think so, Your Majesty?"

"That's right... Mr. Jiao said..." Chen Meiren forced a smile, and carefully picked up the scattered pills one by one. Although she said so, she wanted to crush them in her heart, but she Knowing she couldn't because she didn't dare.

Only then did the Empress Dowager ease her face: "Well, water is also brought for you, you can take it quickly, the Ai family sees that your complexion is really bad."

Chen Meiren tried her best to put on a smiling face: "Old Ancestor, how about I take it back and eat it again. I am most afraid of taking such a pill. Every time I swallow it, I must have the sweet-scented osmanthus dew brewed by the palace itself." ..."

The Empress Dowager smiled and waved. The little eunuch who was serving at the side came over with a plate. Chen Meiren looked at it and couldn't help but secretly complained. There was a small bowl on the plate. There was nothing else in the bowl, it was exactly what she said Osmanthus dew.

The Empress Dowager said: "The Ai family also likes to drink sweet-scented osmanthus dew, and they always have it prepared. This osmanthus dew is carefully prepared by the imperial chef. Just use it."

Chen Meiren was even more surprised, wondering what the old witch, the Empress Dowager, was doing with the sweet-scented osmanthus dew?Is it just to keep your mouth shut?This pill is absolutely inadmissible, it must be avoided in some way.

Chen Meiren rolled her eyes, and said with a sweet smile: "Old Ancestor, I didn't know that you were going to reward me with this...good thing before I came, so I have already eaten honey refining pills, and I heard from the imperial doctor that this honey refining pill is the most delicate , can not be taken together with other medicines, otherwise it will be mutually restraining, so tomorrow I will stop taking this honey refining pill, and then take this medicine rewarded by my ancestors..."

The Empress Dowager sneered and said: "You are really strange today. You didn't have so many problems in the past. Are you afraid that I will give you poison? Why haven't you heard of the honey refining pill? Why haven't the Ai family heard of it? Hurry up and take it." !"

Chen Meiren's knees softened, she fell to the ground, and then hurriedly turned over and fell to her knees: "Old Ancestor, I didn't... I didn't mean that, I really don't know, this honey refining pill is really going to be restrained, I... Take it home and eat..."

The Empress Dowager raised her hand and slapped the stone table heavily, and said sharply: "No one dares not to listen to the words of Aijia! Here comes someone, to serve the beauty to take the medicine!"

As soon as the words were finished, several strong eunuchs from the thugs team walked up to Chen Meiren, and without any explanation, they put her arms on the ground and pressed her on the ground, pressing her hands, and grabbing her feet.Seeing Chen Meiren's teeth clenched tightly, Eunuch Jiao stretched out his hand to pry her mouth, but was afraid that Chen Meiren would bite someone impatiently, so he stepped forward and pulled out the upside-down whisk behind him, and carefully pried her mouth open. Chen Meiren struggled, turned her head and begged He said, yelling for mercy vaguely in his mouth.

Eunuch Jiao sneered: "Ms. Beauty, you should take the medicine honestly. Be careful not to knock your teeth off. That would be ugly! You told the Empress that this infused incense pill can emit fragrance, the old ancestor Just waiting to see if it smells naturally. Eat it!"

Eunuch Jiao threw a pill into Chen Meiren's mouth, pinched her nose, and poured water into it.Then let people let go of Chen Meiren.

Unexpectedly, Chen Meiren stretched her hand into her throat and scratched it, then spit out the pill together with the dirt in her stomach with a wow.

The empress dowager was not annoyed at this time, she thought to herself that this medicine is really powerful, you let the empress take it every day, but you dare not take a single one, I want to see what you will do if you take it today .Focusing coldly on the main pipe: "Little Jiaozi, it seems that the beauty is too little, so I gave her the whole box!"

"Old slave leads the order! What are you still doing here, hold it down for me." Eunuch Jiao gave an order, and everyone rushed forward again. Chen Meiren shouted to the emperor for help, but now she is in the flower garden of the empress dowager's bedroom Here, how could the emperor come to rescue her?

This time, Eunuch Jiao had experience. He pinched Chen Meiren's mouth and poured the box of pills into it. He pinched her nose and poured half a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus dew into it. He closed her mouth and kept her on her back. head, but won't let go.

"It's about the same." The Empress Dowager stood up slowly, and the manager Jiao and others said: "Use snacks, don't let her vomit again, it will ruin the kindness of the Ai family. Otherwise, you will give the Ai family to eat what you spit out! "After that, walk away.

Director Jiao and the eunuchs and maids were startled, and quickly agreed, grabbing Empress Chen Meiren's arm and closing her mouth to keep her from moving.After waiting for almost half an hour, it is estimated that those medicines have melted in her stomach, and then let her go.

Eunuch Jiao bowed and apologized pretendingly, and then left with the thugs team.

Chen Meiren was completely powerless and lay alone on the gazebo floor, staring viciously at the backs of Eunuch Jiao and the others as they went away, cursing in a low voice, but she didn't dare to yell loudly, for fear of attracting more powerful methods, so she could only bear it first and then take revenge later.

After resting on the gazebo floor for a while, Chen Meiren stood up with difficulty, and staggered out of the empress dowager's bedroom.

She knew why she had to take this medicine, because after two hours, it would be effective. She didn't want to suffer from the disease that the emperor couldn't treat like the queen. Once she fell out of favor, what kind of life would she have? ?

So as soon as Chen Meiren returned to her palace, she immediately called someone to take the vomiting medicine, took it, and soon vomited violently, vomited out a small amount of stomach saliva, but could not vomit the medicine.

Chen Meiren wanted to cry, the eunuchs held her up and waited for half an hour, the medicine in her stomach had already been digested, so there was no way she could vomit it out.She could only see if she could pull it out, and she asked someone to find a laxative to take it.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?" Xiaoxin, the personal maid, looked anxiously at Chen Meiren in the room like ants on a hot pot, and asked anxiously.

"Go! Bring me Eunuch Lai!" Chen Meiren panted.

"Yes!" Xiaoxin withdrew.

Chen Meiren didn't know what the empress dowager meant. Could it be that there was something wrong on Fu He's side?Where is the problem?
The more Chen Meiren thought about it, the more confused she became. Suddenly, her stomach started rumbling, and she was overjoyed, so she hurriedly ran into the toilet clutching her stomach.

It's a pity that Chen Meiren miscalculated, most of the medicines had already been digested, and the contents of the stomach did not enter the large intestine so quickly, and the medicines in the stomach could not be flushed out by purging the medicines.

Chen Meiren was completely desperate. She clutched her stomach and walked around the room restlessly. At this time, she dared not go to the imperial doctor to prescribe medicine to dissolve the medicine. If the Empress Dowager knew about it, she would reveal herself I can only hope that God will open his eyes.

However, God did not open his eyes to her.

The next day, Chen Meiren's menstruation came early, the amount was as large as a mountain spring, the toilet paper she changed was soaked in a short while, and she had to change it again, what made her heart palpitate was that there were purple-black blood clots in the menstrual water!
Chen Meiren was about to go crazy, and Xiao Xin, who had been sent out to find Eunuch Lai, came back and reported that Eunuch Lai had not been found.Send someone to inquire about Du Wenhao's situation. This kid is busy with serving the doctor in the harem as usual. The fourteenth little prince has recovered from his illness and is able to walk on the ground.She also sent someone to secretly investigate around Fu He's mansion, and reported that most of Fu He's mansion had been burned down by a fire, and there was no sign of Fu He, and she didn't know whether he was burned to death or ran away.

(End of this chapter)