Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 248
"Queen, I still feel heartbroken. The child in Concubine Yu's belly, the imperial doctor told me, is a prince." The emperor's old face showed deep sadness.

Huo Mingzhu lowered her head, and said after the emperor sighed: "The concubine is also very sad, but the fact has become a fact, no matter how sad it is, it will not help, I can only try to make up for it, this child has gone through the world now, although he has not yet Look at this world, look at your father. Now that you are gone, you still have to give it away, so this concubine thought, I will do a ritual ceremony for this child tonight, to save him, and let him go with peace of mind."

After he finished speaking, he paused and said: "Your Majesty, there is only these concubines can do."

"It's hard for the queen to think of these things." The emperor glanced at Huo Mingzhu gratefully.

Huo Mingzhu said again: "The emperor forgot that my concubine was once a national teacher? Hey, this concubine only knows how to do this, and can't do anything else."

"Queen, you don't need to sigh, you know enough, you don't need to belittle yourself." The emperor stretched out his hand and took Huo Mingzhu's hand to comfort him.

Huo Mingzhu resisted the urge to throw it away, and said to the emperor: "It's not that the concubine is belittling herself, but that she really feels distressed. If the concubine is capable, she won't even be able to talk about her cousin's marriage."

Huo Mingzhu brought up Lin Yunxi's marriage at this time. Naturally, seeing that the emperor had not issued an order to ration the princess to Lin Yunxi, Huo Mingzhu was worried that things would change, so she reminded the emperor.

The emperor has always put Huo Mingzhu's wishes as the most important position, and the more pills he ate and refined, the worse it will become. Therefore, when Huo Mingzhu talked about Lin Yunxi's marriage, the emperor seemed a little astonished After thinking about it, he did not disclose the news that he intends to promise the princess to Lin Yunxi.

"Queen, could it be that someone broke his mouth in your ear?"

Huo Mingzhu pursed her lips and smiled at the emperor: "Your Majesty, no one has ever whispered to my concubine about this matter. It was the concubine who heard my grandmother's worries before entering the palace. Grandmother has always been worried about my cousin's marriage and wanted to I want to find a young lady who is well-matched, but I have waited for such a long time, but no news has come out, so this concubine is worried."

"So that's it." The emperor smiled, then let go of Huo Mingzhu's hand, put it on the thermos in his hand, and walked slowly forward, but felt a little tired, and regretted that he didn't get on the dragon chariot just now, and again Glancing at Huo Mingzhu next to her, she saw a healthy blush on her gorgeous face, and her youthful and delicate appearance, walking on the snow with so much effort, she looked back at herself.

With this comparison, the emperor really doubted whether he was old, and at the moment, he was not convinced. He is the emperor, and with the queen's elixir, he will surely live a long life. What is there to stump him in this little snow? Yes, thinking about it this way, he put aside the idea of ​​getting on the dragon chariot.

Huo Mingzhu had already seen that the emperor was tired, she just pretended not to know, when the emperor had just finished speaking, she said: "That's it."

After saying this, Huo Mingzhu knelt down towards the emperor: "Your Majesty, would this concubine want to ask for grace?"

"Queen, don't kneel in the snow here. What will happen if you catch the cold? You are all stupid, help the queen up." When the emperor saw Huo Mingzhu kneeling in the snow, he became anxious, and pointed at Su Rui. and others shouted.

Su Yu was also taken aback. When she heard the emperor's roar, she went forward to help Huo Mingzhu up. Huo Mingzhu didn't want to kneel because it was so cold, so she took advantage of the situation to get up. When she got up, she looked at the emperor and said, "My concubine thanks the emperor." .”

"If you have any request, just say it, you don't need to kneel down." Seeing her get up, the emperor eased his anxious expression.

Huo Mingzhu said: "The concubine wants to ask for grace, so I beg the emperor to arrange a marriage for my cousin."

"That's it?"

"Yes."

"The queen doesn't ask me much. I have already made arrangements for General Zhengbei's marriage, and the decree has been drawn up. It's just that I have been delaying the matter of conferring the queen due to sacrifices to heaven." The emperor looked at it with a smile. Huo Mingzhu.

Huo Mingzhu looked at the emperor pretending to be surprised.

The emperor continued: "Princess Wuyou's age just happens to be with him. Therefore, I promised him Princess Wuyou. Lin Yunxi is a talented person and a hero of my Dayong. It is just right for Wuyou to marry him."

Huo Mingzhu looked at the emperor's look of being good for Princess Wuyou, but secretly laughed in his heart that the old emperor regarded her as an ignorant woman and married the princess to the Pingyang Hou's mansion. High-sounding.

However, Huo Mingzhu would not have much opinion on this matter, she raised this matter to urge the emperor to deal with it earlier so as not to cause complications.

At the end of the year, if the Tartars come to attack, Lin Yunxi will definitely go to the expedition. She has changed the situation. If Lin Yunxi goes to the expedition at this time, Huo Mingzhu is worried that it will be the same as the matter between Baili Zonglu and Huo Huaiyu. What happened in the last life will happen in this life.

And Lin Yunxi lost his life in the last life, if he will lose his life in this life, then he has no choice but to go to war.

If he becomes a son-in-law, his life will be saved. Newly married and with the status of a son-in-law, no matter how many rounds he has, it will not be his turn to go to war.

Huo Mingzhu suddenly broke into a smile, and said to the emperor: "So, that's great, my concubine has been worrying about this matter, I didn't expect the emperor to be ready, and my concubine thanked the emperor on behalf of my cousin."

"Seeing your smile, I feel very relieved, but, this world of ice and snow, I'm afraid it will be bad for your health if you stay outside for a long time, follow me back to the palace, and the queen will have a good talk with me again." Outside It's been too long, the emperor felt that he had reached his limit, and the bursts of cold made him unable to hold on.

"The concubine obeys the order." Then, he said: "Your Majesty, the road is too slippery, so I invite you to get on the dragon chariot."

Huo Mingzhu was afraid that the emperor had stayed for too long, and it would be terrible if he really fell down. Now is not the time for him to fall down. She still has a lot of things to do through him.

"The queen is very worried." The emperor liked Huo Mingzhu's thoughtfulness very much.

After Huo Mingzhu accompanied the emperor back to the palace, she personally served him with the elixir, and then returned to her Yongning Palace. Sure enough, as Huo Mingzhu expected, Lin Congyue had been waiting at the gate of the palace for a long time. The official uniform on his body was wet in many places, especially on the shoulder blades and hair, it was already soaked.

Huo Mingzhu looked at Lin Congyue apologetically and said, "Uncle, why don't you enter the palace and wait?"

Hearing Huo Mingzhu's voice, Lin Congyue turned around, and said to Huo Mingzhu: "My minister sees the empress, the empress is a thousand years old."

Huo Mingzhu didn't forget how hard-nosed her uncle was, so she didn't mention what she said just now, but said: "Uncle, please get up and talk in the hall."

"Thank you madam."

Looking at the water stains on Lin Congyue's body, Huo Mingzhu couldn't help feeling distressed. This uncle was the only elder who really loved her, but he let her words suffer for so long, so he felt guilty.

"Your Majesty, my servant is fine."

"Uncle, originally Mingzhu came to you and only asked about her cousin's marriage. This is a matter for our own family, but I never thought that now that you and I have different identities, Uncle has suffered so much. I will blame Mingzhu." Huo Mingzhu's guilt at this time was sincere.

But Lin Congyue would not be grateful, he said with a stern face: "Empress, the emperor is the emperor and the minister is the minister, the empress must remember it."

Huo Mingzhu didn't speak.

Lin Congyue said again: "It's okay for me to suffer a little bit of cold, but if because of me, the empress is criticized, I will die."

As soon as Huo Mingzhu heard it, she knew that the more Lin Cong was hinting to her, she had to remember the etiquette in everything, otherwise, those who stared at her in the dark would not let it go, it was the name she called herself and the way she treated him. The name is also wrong, but Lin Congyue had to say it in a dark way because he didn't like Mingzhu.

Huo Mingzhu knew that Lin Congyue was doing it for her own good, she suppressed the emotion in her heart, and said to Lin Congyue: "What Marquis Pingyang said is very true, I never thought so much about it."

"The empress is different now, you have to think more about it."

"This palace knows."

"Your Majesty just mentioned the dog's marriage, please give me some advice." Lin Congyue said.

"If the emperor's order comes down, please Pingyang Hou look at my cousin, don't let him refuse." Huo Mingzhu will never forget how drunk Lin Yunxi was in her State Teacher's Mansion that day.Huo Mingzhu was not sure if Lin Yunxi would resist the decree.

Because Lin Yunxi has always been in the border town and has a free and easy temper, if he is really dissatisfied with the marriage and said something outrageous, it is not impossible, so Huo Mingzhu instructed Lin Congyue.

Originally calling Lin Cong Yue was just to ask about Lin Yunxi's marriage, but now things are progressing unexpectedly fast, and the princess was successfully allocated to her cousin without her help, so she doesn't plan to get involved .

Lin Congyue knew about the marriage a long time ago, but seeing Huo Mingzhu specially ordering him, and thinking of Lin Yunxi's character, Lin Congyue didn't feel that Huo Mingzhu's order was strange, and only left after thanking Huo Mingzhu.

Sure enough, as Huo Mingzhu expected, Lin Yunxi was indeed opposed to the marriage when she found out about it.

"Father, I don't want to marry a princess." After marrying a princess, she became a son-in-law. Many things are out of her control, so Lin Yunxi didn't want to.

Lin Congyue directly stepped forward and slapped him: "Bastard, the old man also said that the empress's worries are ridiculous, but I didn't expect that her worries are because of her understanding of you, knowing that you will refuse, do you know that if you resist the order , what followed?"

Lin Yunxi didn't care if he resisted the decree or not, he only heard the words "Queen Empress".

"Father, you mean, Ah Jin knew about this and asked you to convince me?"

"Why do I have to persuade you, the emperor's grace is mighty, do you still have the right to say no to betrothing the princess to you? You only have the right to thank you." Lin Congyue said.

"If that's what the queen means, then I'll marry." Lin Yunxi just felt very uncomfortable in her heart, as if something was suppressing her heart, making her breathless, and she really wanted to drink some wine to suppress that feeling uncomfortable meaning.

Seeing Lin Yunxi's unwilling face, Lin Congyue thought that his son was confused, but since Lin Yunxi had already agreed, Lin Congyue didn't say anything more.

"On this matter, go and talk to your grandmother about your decision, so that she can rest assured." Lin Congyue said, this Pingyang Marquis Mansion, if Mrs. Lin is not in control, I am afraid it will not last long. After a long time, there is naturally nothing that can be done, it is better to marry the princess, so as to find a way out.

(End of this chapter)