Pihanjin

In front of a palace gate in the north of the palace, the lamp shadow swayed. A cat sent Mu Fulan out of the palace gate. "Empress, go back, the queen mother is here, I will take good care of it."

Mu Fulan instructed the **** to arrange for people on shifts to be on duty at night, and call her anytime if she had something to do. She gently shook Ah Mao's hand and told her to go to rest as well.

The palace servants were holding lanterns in front, and the dark red lights illuminated Mu Fulan's way back to Ziwei Palace. But further forward, at the end of her line of sight, is the darkness of night. The night has engulfed all the Zhuzhuang Biwa and the Jade Building Golden Palace under the daylight of the palace. Walking in this palace, which is as sparse as a ghostly realm, near the head, the ridged beast squatting in the shadow of the roof is like a ridged beast. Dark eyes, looking down coldly at the sentient beings passing under their feet.

Mu Fulan stepped up and walked over, and as soon as she entered the Ziwei Palace, she closed the door tightly, as if she did so, she shut everything behind her behind her.

The moon gradually rose, and the plain white moonlight quietly poured into the room where she lived when she was a child, like something far away in a dream, looming, hooking her to find it, waiting for her to go on the road, but Once again, the tower is lost in fog, and the moon is lost in Jindu. It will always be so out of reach.

She woke up from the dream, sweating profusely, only to feel that her throat was on fire the next moment she was so thirsty.

She lifted the tent, got off the bed, stepped barefoot on the cool and clean ground, walked over to pick up the teapot, and took a few sips of water from the mouth of the pot without using a cup.

Cool water ran down her mouth and throat into her body. Like a piece of dry and almost cracked soil moistened with nectar, she exhaled a long breath, stood for a moment in the dark, and came to the living room.

She sat in front of the south window where she used to do things, with no lights on. In the gentle wrapping of the night, she was like a silent ghost, quietly facing the moon shadow that penetrated through the window.

Xie Changgeng had left Shangjing three days ago, and went to Hexi Yujia to go on a personal expedition.

She also read the logs and records sent by the Taiyuan Hospital about his injury treatment and medication three days ago. His internal injury has not healed yet, and he is about to leave Beijing. In order to ensure the best effect of treatment and medication, She had also come here from the entire record of the medical treatment of his marching wounds, recorded by the military doctor in the years before that.

This time, when he went to Hexi, he was accompanied by an imperial physician. On the eve of his departure, Mu Fulan had given the new prescription to the imperial physician.

Three days have passed, and he should have left Gyeonggi by now. But for some unknown reason, during these three days, Mu Fulan always felt as if she had missed something.

Intuition told her that this thing was very important and she had to think about it, but no matter how she thought about it, she just couldn't think of what she was missing.

She sat still, and her ears seemed to be echoing the sound of gasping that was similar to a sigh when she lay there with her eyes closed when she went to see Mother Xie tonight.

She has become more and more confused, and she has no idea that Xie Changgeng is out of Beijing. Mu Fulan naturally had no feelings for this old woman, but she didn't hate her either. A person whose life is lost every day he lives in this world, an ordinary person who is neither good nor evil, just like her and the many others she knows. It is enough to do the double duty of being a healer and filial piety in place of her titular husband, Xie Changgeng.

In front of her eyes, three days ago, Xie Changgeng left the night, and after returning from the Queen Mother's Palace, he spent the night dealing with the last batch of political affairs in the imperial study.

Silent and solemn. Compared with the gorgeous back that came out of Beijing in the glory and worship of the crowd after dawn, it seemed so lonely and lonely.

Mu Fulan raised her eyes, and her eyes fell on the medical records stacked on the desk again. The moonlight outlines a haloed silhouette. She watched, fascinated, and suddenly, in the depths of her memory, a flash of light seemed to pass through, the light was blurry, if it was far or near, she slowly closed her eyes, motionless, as if afraid of fear. As soon as she moved, this sudden feeling would leave her without a trace.

At a certain moment of lightning, she finally remembered!

She opened her eyes suddenly, lit the lamp on the table, grabbed the medical journals, found one of them, and quickly turned it over.

She kept turning page by page, from the title page to the last page, turning it over and over again, pausing for a moment, suddenly got up and hurried out.

It was quiet all around. A palace servant leaned on the palace pillar, lowered his head and was dozing secretly, when he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps, he shuddered, raised his head, and saw the queen hurried out of the living room, with a strange look, as if something had happened, and he ate a meal. Startled, the drowsiness disappeared immediately.

"Immediately go and invite the head of the Imperial Hospital into the palace!" Mu Fulan ordered.

The palace servant responded, turned to go, and was stopped again. She entered the dormitory, changed her clothes, and hurried out of the palace.

The head of the hospital was awakened from his sleep. Hearing that the queen had arrived overnight, he hurried out to greet him.

Mu Fulan pointed to the Chinese Medicine Chronicle and asked: "In the past three years, all the records of your Majesty's injuries and treatment outside the home are sure to be on the top, and nothing was missed?"

The head of the hospital hurriedly knelt down: "This matter is handled by your Majesty, and it is related to His Majesty's dragon body. How dare you neglect to deal with it. Your Majesty can assure you that you have asked the military doctor. In the past three years, all the records of His Majesty's injuries are in Columns, no one is missing!"

Mu Fulan stopped.

She remembered clearly, that day Xie Changgeng came to Fuzhou to let her over, and the two met at Jiangkou. She asked him why he suddenly passed the throne to Xier. At that time, his answer was that he was injured and could no longer have children. , and he needs a prince.

However, in this medical chronicle, there is no record of injuries related to it. Even if the military doctor had received Xie Changgeng's order not to record it at that time, the matter of the offspring was so important that Xie Changgeng could never have not sought medical treatment.

Yao Weng Xianyun Yehe has not been seen for a long time. She was worried before, and she had sent people to ask around, but there was no news. In addition to finding the inconvenient medicine man, in terms of medical skills, who in the world can be more trustworthy than the head of the Taiyuan Hospital in front of her?

"Head of the hospital, Your Majesty really didn't tell you to see other injuries before? For example, hidden diseases?"

Mu Fulan stared at the head of the hospital with a serious tone.

"It's a big deal. If there is, you must tell me truthfully, and you must not hide anything!"

The head of the hospital immediately shook his head: "No!"

He hesitated, and then asked carefully, "But what happened over there, Your Majesty?"

Mu Fulan pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "Nothing."

On the way back to the palace, she fell into meditation.

Looking at the reply of the head of the hospital, he never concealed it. Then, the most likely thing he said to himself that day was a lie.

Why did he lie to himself like this, after the two were separated for three years? What's even more incredible is that he lied to himself in order to put Xi'er on the throne.

This is totally unreasonable. Xi'er in this life has no blood relationship with him, he clearly knows that. If it weren't for other reasons, even if he liked this child again in the past, how could a person who ascended the throne do such absurd things?

From the day they met in the state, to the time she entered the capital and became his queen, all his anomalies came to her mind one by one.

He told her that he would not force her to do anything she did not want.

On the eve of the crown prince's coronation, he summoned important officials and said such a remark.

On that day, he was clearly seriously injured, but he still insisted on completing the etiquette, in order to show the prince's destiny to the world.

Even, not long ago, he even made a ridiculous thing to arrange a private meeting between himself and Yuan Handing.

It was as if he had changed.

Xie Changgeng, this man, even in the past, when he was begging her for reconciliation, he couldn't hide his arrogance and arrogance.

However, now, in front of her, he seems to have stripped off his scales and smoothed his edges and corners. He has been trying to please her, using what he thinks is the best effort to please her carefully.

She is not a stone, how can she be unconscious?

Before they met again, what happened to him that she didn't know about?

A thought suddenly popped into Mu Fulan's heart.

She was startled by this terrifying thought of her own, her palms were sweating, her heart was beating non-stop, and when she returned to the palace, she couldn't even wait for dawn, and ordered someone to summon Liang Tuan immediately.

Liang Tuan is now the official residence of the capital, commanding the five armies in Beijing, and the emperor in charge of guarding, and has a heavy responsibility. Xie Changgeng did not let him go with him on this personal expedition.

He hurried into the palace to meet the queen.

"Liang Duwei, before His Majesty entered the capital, you followed closely. Let me ask you, before His Majesty went to see me in Fuzhou last year, did he ever do anything unusual besides his daily affairs? Or where did he go?"

Liang Tuan was summoned into the palace overnight, and it was a little inexplicable to hear the queen ask himself such a question. But seeing her sitting in her seat with a dignified expression, she didn't dare to care for her. After thinking hard for a while, she remembered the thing that had left a deep impression on him back then.

He said: "There is one thing that I have never forgotten. It was the Qiongge Incident. After Empress Liu was removed, the ministers and others were all ecstatic that night, but His Majesty stayed up late at night and went out of the city to Huguo Temple. Outside the mountain gate, I entered the temple by myself, but I didn’t see it the next day. The minister was worried, went in to look for him, and saw His Majesty in the Tallinn behind the temple. I remember when His Majesty came out, I didn’t know what happened last night, and I was very weak, like a serious illness , fortunately it will recover soon."

"Except for that one time, I don't remember His Majesty's unusual actions."

After Liang Tuan finished speaking, he held his breath and waited for a long time, and finally heard a low voice from the opposite side: "Go ahead."

The elder of the Huguo Temple passed away at the beginning of the year.

But at this moment, there is no need to see anyone or ask anything.

She still sat like that, closed her eyes, and in her mind, the scene when he came to Ziwei Palace to say goodbye to her that afternoon came to mind again.

The man standing at the entrance of the hall with sweat on his forehead and staring at her sadly, who is he?

In the distance, in the direction of the Bell and Drum Tower, there was a faint sound of more leakage.

She dragged her heavy steps and came to the window, looking at the boundless night sky to the north. , I'm going a long way."