Chapter 104 Spoil Her Forever
Thinking back to the past, Nanny Zhu felt filled with regret and was heartbroken.
At the beginning, when the Queen Mother was pregnant with Prince Rui, a sorcerer came to the palace who was said to be very good at fortune-telling.
On a whim, she suggested asking a wizard to calculate whether the empress dowager was carrying a boy or a girl.
As a result, the sorcerer calculated with his fingers and said that the child in the empress dowager's belly had a very noble destiny, but was incompatible with his brother and was very likely to die young.
Of course they refused to believe it, and they were terrified until the day of delivery.
Everyone was relieved to see Prince Rui born safely, but who would have thought that just one month after he was born, Prince Rui would contract smallpox. His high fever wouldn't go away, and he eventually died.
But what no one expected was that the day Prince Rui died was the emperor's birthday - the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
From then on, the Queen Mother believed that it was the Emperor who killed Prince Rui.
Especially on that day when the funeral hall of Prince Rui caught fire, the Empress Dowager believed that it was because of the Emperor being there, so she did not allow the Emperor to get close to the funeral hall. She was so sad that she did not want to see the Emperor again.
Because as soon as she saw the emperor, she felt guilty towards Prince Rui.
But by the time she got over the pain of losing her son, the emperor had already been raised by Empress Wen Yi.
Empress Wen Yi loved the emperor very much and told the empress dowager that if she wanted to take the emperor back, she had to promise not to blame the emperor for Prince Rui's death and not let the emperor suffer any harm.
The usually gentle Empress Wen Yi's words were very sharp. Because of this, the Empress Dowager hated Empress Wen Yi and refused to take the Emperor back out of spite.
She believed that the Emperor and Empress Wen Yi were the ones with the deepest love for mother and son, and completely forgot that she was his biological mother.
In this way, it was not until Empress Wen Yi passed away that the Emperor returned to the Empress Dowager's care.
However, after six years, the affection between mother and son has almost disappeared.
On the other side, the two of them walked through the long red wall. After about a cup of tea, Xiao Heng finally stopped and looked up at the magnificent palace in front of him.
Liu Yuetang raised her eyes and saw the three words "Fengyi Palace" engraved on the golden nanmu plaque on top of the bright red lacquered gate.
That was Empress Wenyi's palace.
Liu Yuetang heard that after Empress Wen Yi passed away, the late emperor was heartbroken and never appointed another empress. He also retained all the furnishings in Fengyi Palace.
The more cold and ruthless the Queen Mother was to Xiao Heng, the more Xiao Heng missed his adoptive mother, Queen Wen Yi.
So at this moment he must be recalling the happy times he spent with Queen Wen Yi.
As Xiao Heng stepped into Fengyi Palace, Liu Yuetang smelled a faint scent of ink.
Following Xiao Heng, I walked straight to the end and saw a portrait of Queen Wen Yi hanging on one wall.
Even though Liu Yuetang had heard from others that Empress Wen Yi was stunningly beautiful, she was still filled with admiration when she saw her with her own eyes.
The portrait depicts Empress Wen Yi with an elegant demeanor and graceful manners, her temperament and demeanor seeming as if she was born to be an empress.
Liu Yuetang followed Xiao Heng in lighting three incense sticks, held them high in front of their foreheads, bowed three times, and then inserted them into the incense sticks.
At this moment, his cold and serious face suddenly became extremely gentle, like a child returning home, feeling at peace.
He looked at the painting of Empress Wen Yi with a stern gaze and said in a gentle voice, "Mother, I am here to see you."
Watching Xiao Heng speaking softly to Empress Wen Yi, Liu Yuetang realized that even the emperor, who was the supreme ruler, was so small and fragile in front of his mother.
I think he would only show his most vulnerable side in front of the people he loves most.
After leaving the inner hall, Liu Yuetang looked at the main hall.
Fengyi Palace is not very luxurious, but it exudes comfort and elegance everywhere.
Especially the ink paintings hanging on the wall, and the ancient books and rare jade slips on the bookshelves, all of them exude elegance and scholarly atmosphere.
Liu Yuetang could imagine how quiet and gentle Queen Wen Yi must be standing in front of the bookshelf.
"When my mother was alive, she loved painting and reading the most."
"All those paintings on the wall were done by her."
As Xiao Heng's voice fell, Liu Yuetang stood under a painting of peonies.
Even after years of silence, the peony's colors are still brilliant, sometimes shy and dewy, sometimes blooming wantonly, and each petal outlines its warmth and beauty.
Liu Yuetang was fascinated by it: "This is not just a painting, it also reflects Empress Wen Yi's love for life and her beautiful expectations."
Xiao Heng paused, a little confused.
Liu Yuetang pulled him under the peony painting and looked up at the colors in the painting.
"Your Majesty, look! As long as you stop before this painting, the peony will bloom forever. Whether Empress Wen Yi was alive or dead, she has always blossomed for you."
"The passion will not fade away, and the love will not fade away."
"Love will not fade away..." Xiao Heng muttered softly with a dazed look on his face.
Looking at the delicate and bright peonies in the painting, Xiao Heng's lips curled up slightly.
“Nature will not dissipate.”
And the Queen Mother will not disappear either.
She will always be in his heart.
Another world must be as prosperous as our human world.
Just as she was thinking, Liu Yuetang's gentle voice rang in her ears: "The teacher who taught me calligraphy once said to me, 'If you lose something in one place, you will gain something in another. Don't cling to things you can't grasp, because there will be better things that will quietly come to you.'"
As she spoke, Liu Yuetang spread out her hands: "When I think about it, I feel that what he said makes sense. My hands are so small, how can I hold so many things?"
She raised her clear eyes and looked at Xiao Heng tenderly: "Your Majesty, what do you think?"
Xiao Heng was slightly startled, his gaze fell on Liu Yuetang's outstretched hands, and the haze in his eyes gradually dissipated a little.
He knew what she meant.
It is difficult to have both in this world, gains and losses always go hand in hand.
If he had stayed with his mother, he would not have been raised by Empress Wen Yi and received the love he had never had.
After a moment, Xiao Heng smiled faintly: "Tang'er is absolutely right."
He raised his hand and gently held Liu Yuetang's hand, and an indescribable tenderness surged in his heart.
"I should be happy for my mother. She finally got what she wanted all her life."
What I have been seeking all my life? Liu Yuetang thought silently in her heart.
Xiao Heng continued, "My mother entered the Eastern Palace at the age of fifteen and became the Crown Princess. She has been with my father for over twenty years, treating him as an equal and sharing a deep, old friendship."
"She was a virtuous queen, but she never had a single moment of complete possession of my father. My mother said that he was the emperor, and that possessing my father's heart completely was already a rare achievement."
"However, I know full well that my mother has secretly shed tears in her bed countless nights. She loves my father so much, how could she not hope that he would belong to her completely?"
It was also because of this that after Concubine Zhao entered the palace, she resented him for five years, but he never disliked her in the slightest.
One is out of guilt for the promise, and the other is that Concubine Zhao loves him deeply, so she wants to possess him completely.
Xiao Heng paused for a moment, then continued, "Later, my mother still couldn't escape the harem's conspiracy and was poisoned. She passed away at the age of thirty-seven."
At this point, his voice was already a little hoarse: "Father was overly worried and depressed, and became ill. He followed Mother in after only five years."
Liu Yuetang was shocked when she heard this. When she was outside the palace, she only heard that Empress Wen Yi died of illness, but she never thought that she was poisoned by a Gu.
She thought that if the late emperor and Empress Wen Yi had not been born into the royal family and were just an ordinary couple, they would have lived a very happy life.
With this thought in mind, Xiao Heng looked at Liu Yuetang.
"A lifetime together, mother finally has father completely. I think they should be happy now."
"You will definitely be happy!" Liu Yuetang's eyes were as firm as a rock.
There was a calm and peaceful look in Xiao Heng's eyes as he took Liu Yuetang into his arms.
He still remembers that his father had a smile on his face when he left.
He said that he was finally going to see his mother.
I don’t know if the Queen Mother is still waiting for him, and whether she will blame him after seeing him.
As emperors, they have too many frustrations. Even if they own the country, they cannot have a partner for life.
A pair for a lifetime, Xiao Heng found it difficult to pronounce the sentence.
Has the woman in your arms ever thought about being together for the rest of your life?
Xiao Heng placed his palm on her shoulder and rubbed it for a while.
He certainly didn't want her to have such thoughts.
If a woman asks for too much, she will lose interest.
I wish Liu Yuetang could always be so sensible and pure.
He doesn't mind pampering her for the rest of her life.
Of course, it’s just pampering.
Nothing else matters.
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