Chapter 60

Ning Yuezhao closed her eyes and followed the bumps of the carriage, feeling very uncomfortable, but she couldn't do anything now.

When she returned to Rising Dragon Hall, it was half past nine hours, and there were still a lot of unfinished business waiting for her.

Bitao brought ginseng tea up, smelled the alcohol on her body, and couldn't help but lower her eyes, "Did your majesty drink alcohol?"

"Hmm." Ning Yuezhao was a little confused at the moment.

After ordering someone to fetch hangover soup, Bitao thoughtfully said: "Your Majesty is tired?"

Ning Yuezhao sat on the chair a little tiredly, and said lightly: "Perhaps I drank too much, and I blew some wind just now, and now I have a headache."

At this time, the palace servants had already brought the hangover soup, and Bitao persuaded: "Then drink this hangover soup and go to rest, and read the booklet tomorrow."

"No." Ning Yuezhao shook his head, "I want to read the scriptures."

"But……"

Bi Tao wanted to persuade her again, but Ning Yuezhao had already taken the hangover soup in her hand, drank it all in one gulp, and returned the empty bowl to her.

"Don't worry about it, I'm fine now." Ning Yuezhao said energetically.

Bitao sighed, and silently stood aside.At this moment, she missed Jiang Nian who was far away in Linzhao. If he was here, His Majesty would not have to work so hard.

For some reason, Tang Ning Yuezhao still felt a dull pain in his head after drinking the hangover.

In the end, Ning Yuezhao struggled to read all the scriptures, she threw away the pen, and said to the Hanlin wearily: "I will leave this to you."

After finishing speaking, she couldn't wait to go to the bedroom to rest.

The next day, Ning Yuezhao endured a headache and went to court, but there were so many things to do today.

The ministers were arguing endlessly about this, and Ning Yuezhao pressed her temple with one hand, only feeling the ringing in her ears.

"Your Majesty, I think what Master Xu said is extremely inappropriate!"

"Your Majesty knows that everything I said is true!"

"Don't all of you..." Before Ning Yuezhao could say the word "noisy", she felt her world spinning for a while, her eyes darkened, and she lost consciousness.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty watched the empress fall to the ground, and they panicked.

The palace people hurriedly helped him up and passed on to the imperial physician...

Ning Yuezhao felt that she had slept for a long time before waking up slowly, and what came into view was the bright yellow woven gold embroidered dragon tent.

She remembered that she was in court at first, but then she was about to explode with a headache. Now she is in the Hall of Ascension Dragon?

"Your Majesty is awake!" Bi Tao said in surprise.

Fu Yuan hurried forward, grabbed her wrist, and felt her pulse carefully.

"What's wrong with me?" Ning Yuezhao felt that there was still a slight pain in his temple, and his whole body felt as if it had been a lifetime away.

"Your Majesty was too exhausted, and the evil wind entered his body, so he passed out." Fu Yuan said after taking his pulse.

"Your Majesty had a drink outside the palace yesterday, and when he came back, he read the book until midnight." Bi Tao was very nervous. Ning Yuezhao's current situation is very similar to that of the empress back then. She also fainted due to overwork. At first, she thought it was just a small problem and didn't care , and then the body became worse and worse.

Fu Yuan also looked solemn, he was almost in charge of the late emperor's illness at the beginning, and he didn't dare to be careless immediately, he said: "Your Majesty, don't work hard these days, the most important thing is to take care of the dragon's body!"

Ning Yuezhao smiled nonchalantly, "It's just a small problem, don't be so close to the enemy."

At this time, Fu Liao suddenly said, "Your Majesty was outside the palace yesterday, did you test the poison before eating?"

"You suspect that someone poisoned you?" Fu Yuan looked at his son in surprise.

Ning Yuezhao shook her head and said: "I have never tested the poison. I left the palace in a low-clothes yesterday. If someone tried the poison, it would not be suspicious. Besides, yesterday I was with Xu Ge's daughter, and she would definitely not harm me. "

Fu Liao only said: "It may not be poisoning. Your Majesty's dragon body is precious. After all, the food outside the palace cannot be compared with that in the palace. If you can use it outside, then don't use it outside."

Ning Yuezhao sighed softly, "I know." As the emperor, she shoulders the responsibility of the country and the country, and her responsibilities do not allow her to be too willful.

Fu Yuan wrote the prescription, packed the medicine box, and was about to say goodbye, but Ning Yuezhao changed him.

"Physician Fu, I met An Chen when I returned to the palace yesterday. Does he stay in the imperial hospital so late every day before leaving?" She finally couldn't help asking about An Chen's recent situation. His haggard face was always in her eyes. I can't get it out of my mind.

Fu Yuan knew that Jiang Nian's recommendation was the reason for his reinstatement. Out of selfishness, although he couldn't punish An Chen, a former apprentice, he didn't pay much attention to this matter.It's just that he will study with several senior imperial physicians on the dictation manuscripts handed in every day, and just confirm that they are correct.

"Weichen didn't force Yuyan An to write down how much every day. Haste makes waste. It's just that Yuyi An is too strict with himself." Fu Yuan thought for a moment and said.

Ning Yuezhao nodded, "He's just like this, he admits to death, and Imperial Physician Fu should pay more attention."

"Yes."

Ning Yuezhao thought for a while, and then ordered: "Don't spread the matter of my fainting to Lin Zhao."

Bitao knew that the Empress was afraid that Jiang Nian, who was busy repairing the embankment, would find out and would come back regardless, so she said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will save it for my servant."

After Fu Yuan stepped down, Fu Liao temporarily went to the side hall to be on duty to prevent further accidents.

The cabinet ministers who had been guarding the front hall of Shenglong Hall heard that the empress had woken up, and they all went to the back hall to visit.

Jiang Qixi and Xu Zhi, who had the most intense dispute just now, knelt in front of the dragon couch with guilt on their faces.

"Your Majesty forgive me."

Ning Yuezhao raised her hand to help: "I'm not just paper, it has nothing to do with you, you are also worried about state affairs, how can I blame you."

Bitao announced the empress's illness to everyone, "Your Majesty needs to rest, and I will leave the court affairs to the ministers in the past few days."

Ning Yuezhao ordered: "The papers of the past few days will be reviewed by the cabinet first, and you will report to me after you have a preliminary conclusion on major and important matters, and you will decide on small matters by yourself."

Seeing that the empress was indeed pale and sickly, the cabinet ministers did not dare to slack off immediately, and they all promised that they would do their best to relieve His Majesty's worries.

In Linzhao, which is more than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, Jiang Nian is busy repairing the embankment.

Things here are going more smoothly than he imagined, except that it takes more energy to deal with local officials.

At this time, this is where they camped, and Jiang Nian was standing on the high ground in front of the camp, overlooking the river embankment.

People come and go on the embankment, busy for the reinforcement of the embankment.

Jiang Nian carefully checked the files of the personnel transferred from the prison to make sure that they were not treacherous and evil, but were repentant.Although special personnel should be assigned to supervise the supervision, these people worked very hard in order to obtain a commutation of sentence.

For those families with surplus labor who can serve corvee, the corvee and taxes for the next year can be reduced.There is no limit to the time of work, and the amount of work done is recorded by a special person.Therefore, there were quite a few peasant children who came to apply for the recruitment.

In this way, the progress of the project was shortened by a quarter than expected.

The officials from the Ministry of Industry who followed Jiang Nian were all young and middle-aged, and they were full of enthusiasm. This fortification gave them a chance to show off.

Moreover, Jiang Nian didn't have the extravagant habits of the rich family's children, nor did he put on airs like the emperor's wife. He ate and lived with everyone in the camp, and personally supervised the repair work.

He also ate those slightly crude meals with relish.Someone once proposed to give him a small stove, but Jiang Nian declined.

Now is an extraordinary period, money should be spent on the key points, what to eat is not to eat, as long as you can fill your stomach.

The majestic husband has spoken like this, which makes others dare not complain about the difficult conditions.

Since then, no matter whether it is the officials of the Linzhao Office or the Ministry of Industry, they have all been convinced by Jiang Nian, the young No. [-] man and the new emperor's husband.

The sky was getting dark little by little, but the fortification of the river embankment was still in full swing.

Some farmers who have finished their farming work have joined the labor team one after another.

A long string of torches was lit beside the embankment, illuminating the entire construction site as bright as day.

Seeing everyone working in full swing, Jiang Nian was very pleased.

"Your Highness, dinner is ready." Jing Ming walked behind Jiang Nian and reminded.

"Yeah." Jiang Nian nodded, turned around and followed Jing Ming back to his big tent.

On the table are four steamed buns with white noodles, a bowl of millet porridge, four simple side dishes, and a cup of chicken soup.

The tent was filled with the fragrance of chicken soup, Jiang Nian frowned, "Didn't I say, don't you need to add food to Gu?"

Jing Ming hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, how dare you disobey your will, this is from the family you saved the old man yesterday, saying that it is to thank you for saving your life. Small farmers can't do anything good." Things, I can only kill a chicken raised by myself to make up for you."

From Jing Ming's point of view, what Jiang Nian ate these past few days was what the low-level servants of the Jiang family ate, and he didn't know how his master could eat it.

Yesterday Jiang Nian, accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Industry, was inspecting the progress of the embankment project. At that time, they were standing under the dam when an older servant slipped and fell off the dam.The embankment was about seven or eight meters high from the ground. Seeing that the old man was about to splatter blood on the spot, Jiang Nian, who had excellent lightness skills, flew over and caught him, thus avoiding a disaster.

Jiang Nian found it very strange that the old man came to serve in the army at such an advanced age.After questioning, I found out that the only son of the old man broke his leg while doing farm work some time ago. He came here under his son's name, and wanted to save his son from next year's corvee.It was not easy for Jiang Nian to miss him, but he punished the official in charge of registration and sent someone to send the old man back.

The old man didn't know who this unusually dressed young man was at first, but after hearing the guards who sent him back praise him for his good luck, he realized that the status of his savior was so honorable.He wanted to express his gratitude, but his family was struggling, and the only thing he could afford was the chickens he raised.

When the guards at the original camp saw that he wanted to bring chicken soup to the imperial husband, they advised him to go back.It happened that Jing Ming passed by and ran into it, thinking that his master hadn't eaten decent food for a long time, so he accepted it on his own initiative.

Hearing this, Jiang Nian's face became more solemn, and he said, "The fortifications here will be finished tonight, and tomorrow we will break camp and go to the next place. After we leave, you can send some money to the old man's house."

"Why?" Jing Ming didn't understand. With his master's temper, he must have paid for the money himself.Although the Jiang family did not lack this little money, in Jing Ming's view, Jiang Nian saved the old man's life by drinking a bowl of soup from him?As for paying back money?
Jiang Nian shook his head, "Do you know that for farmers, animals are their lifeblood. Saving him alone is just a matter of effort, and if it burdens his family, it is a crime."

After speaking, Jiang Nian started to eat dinner.Jing Ming couldn't stand it anymore, so she turned her head and went out.

Looking at his leaving back, Jiang Nian couldn't help sighing.

When he was in the cold palace in his previous life, those people pushed high and trampled low, and he had never eaten any sour food.

Although the food in front of me is a bit crude, it is clean and delicious, isn't it?
When he went to bed that night, Jiang Nian didn't sleep well because of the memories of his previous life before going to bed.

When he opened his eyes, his heart couldn't help but shrink, why did he return to the cold palace!
(End of this chapter)

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