Of course, the Queen Mother did not miss it. She became more and more excited. She reached out her trembling hand and grabbed the dragon robe of Emperor Jianxi, her eyes bloodshot.
Prince Shou advised, "Mother, my brother has already punished you. Don't be angry anymore. The most urgent thing is to take care of yourself!"
“Ahh…”
Upon seeing this, Emperor Jianxi grasped the Queen Mother's hand that was clutching his dragon robe and said sorrowfully, "Don't worry, Mother. Even if I have to find every famous doctor in the world, I will cure your illness!"
The Queen Mother closed her eyes and lay down with a thud, she was extremely angry.
Emperor Jianxi sighed, and said some random things to the people in the room. Finally, he said to the Queen Mother, "Mother, from now on, I will come to see you every day and take care of you. You must get better!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, wondering if Emperor Jianxi was just pretending or was he truly filial. According to everyone's previous guess, the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, so Emperor Jianxi would just go through the motions. They never expected that he would actually attend to her personally...
Prince Shou couldn't figure out Emperor Jianxi's temper. What was he going to do? Was he putting on a show or...
Prince Shou was worried that Emperor Jianxi would personally take care of him during his illness, and he might be looking for an opportunity to anger the empress dowager to death. After all, the empress dowager was his mother, so how could he watch others kill her?
Prince Shou bowed and said, "Your Majesty is very busy with affairs of state. It is better for me to take care of such a small matter as attending to the sick!"
Emperor Jianxi waved his hand at him, "Don't even think about sitting idle. My mother's illness is also due to your inadequate care. You and I will take care of her together until she recovers!"
Prince Shou was startled when he heard this. Wasn't he afraid that he was looking at him?
Having made the decision, Emperor Jianxi stayed in the Cining Palace that night. He personally fed the empress dowager medicine, wiped her clothes, and stayed by her bedside until late at night when the empress dowager fell asleep. Only then did Emperor Jianxi return to the Yangxin Palace exhausted.
Everyone in the Cining Palace saw this and was confused.
That night, Zhao Ying, Shangguan Shu, and the old Duke returned to Guangming Palace together. After the three of them comforted the child, they sat down and began to analyze the intention of Emperor Jianxi in taking care of him.
If it was just a show for the court officials and the empress dowager, it would be a thankless task and unnecessary. After all, the superficial mother-son relationship between Emperor Jianxi and the empress dowager has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
If you continue to act, it will be even more hypocritical.
And there's a Shou Wang watching...
After all, the old Duke had grown up with Emperor Jianxi and knew more. He explained, "In fact, the relationship between Your Majesty and the Queen Mother is not that bad. When Your Majesty was young, the Queen Mother once gave Your Majesty a meal!"
"What?" Zhao Ying was surprised. Ever since she was old enough to understand, the Queen Mother and her father had been at loggerheads with each other. She really couldn't imagine that they had any real friendship.
The old Duke shook his head. "Your Highness, you don't know. Back then, your Majesty's adoptive mother, Concubine Jin, was banished to the cold palace because of the misfortune her family suffered. Your Majesty's situation has become even worse. The people in the palace are snobbish. In the past, you only lacked food and clothing, but since Concubine Jin's incident, your Majesty can't even get enough to eat."
"Your Majesty said that when he was extremely hungry, he would snatch food from the dogs in the Queen's palace. Once, he was discovered, and the Crown Prince and the young eunuchs surrounded him and beat him. It was the Queen at the time, the Empress Dowager, who stopped the Crown Prince and had the steamed buns in the dog's bowl given to Your Majesty."
The past sounds so sad, let alone those who experienced it firsthand?
Zhao Ying's eyes turned red with heartache.
"But... although the Queen Mother's move helped Father, her purpose was to humiliate him..."
Who would give dog's things as a gift to someone else, let alone a prince?
The old Duke sighed, "The late emperor had many sons, over thirty of them. His Majesty once said that a prince who falls out of favor in the palace is worse than a dog, so His Majesty is grateful for the Queen Mother's action. Only with this steamed bun can he have a chance of survival."
Shangguan Shu remained silent until now, but now he asked, "What happened next?"
"Later..." The old Duke recalled carefully, "Later, Concubine Jin died and was hastily buried. The Queen Mother found another adoptive mother for Your Majesty. Everyone thought Your Majesty had killed his mother and was unlucky. They were wary of him, and fewer people bullied Your Majesty."
Shangguan Shu frowned, narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
Zhao Ying also sensed something was amiss. "Father took the steamed buns back, and Concubine Jin later died. Could it be that the buns were poisonous, and Concubine Jin died from eating them?"
The old Duke was stunned when he heard this, and shook his head for a long while, "That can't be the case. Your Majesty and Concubine Jin have a deep relationship. If that steamed bun really poisoned Concubine Jin, then Your Majesty will not tolerate the Queen Mother after he ascends the throne! He won't even be willing to do it for the sake of face!"
Zhao Ying thought about it and felt that what the old Duke said made sense. "Indeed, who could calmly face the enemy who killed their mother and do nothing? How could they endure it? Even an ordinary person couldn't do that, let alone the emperor who holds such great power."
If someone could really hold it back, it would be... horrible.
Zhao Ying selfishly didn't want to think of his father as that kind of person.
Shangguan Shu took a sip of tea, the cup covering the faint smile on his lips. He glanced at Zhao Ying calmly, thinking that if his daughter could endure this, how much more so her own father...
Emperor Jianxi's actions tonight were beyond everyone's expectations, and what happened afterwards left all the civil and military officials in the court dumbfounded.
Emperor Jianxi really did serve the Empress Dowager personally, day and night without asking anyone else for help!
One or two days, then half a month...
Everyone saw all this and began to reflect on themselves, wondering if they had been too narrow-minded in the past. His Majesty was indeed truly filial to the Queen Mother, but they always thought it was all a show!
Especially when he learned that Princess Side died at the hands of her husband and had nothing to do with the suspect, Emperor Jianxi, Emperor Jianxi did not turn evil after enduring so many days of misunderstanding and abuse from the empress dowager. Instead, he repaid the empress dowager with kindness.
Your Majesty is truly filial!
They are judging others by their own mean standards.
All the officials beat their chests and stamped their feet, feeling that they had wronged their Majesty over the past few decades.
This does not include Prince Shou. Prince Shou is still observing and observing, but he can't bear it anymore.
Taking care of the sick is a tiring job, not to mention that they are old?
The Jianxi Emperor was no exception. He had been eating poorly since he was trying to lose weight, and he was still working all day. His face was sallow, and all the officials were frightened. They quickly petitioned His Majesty to rest. The Empress Dowager had her own imperial physician to take care of him.
However, the voices of remonstration were rejected by Emperor Jianxi one by one. Emperor Jianxi said, "I know what you think and say behind my back, and I have never refuted it. I just feel that it is true to my conscience. Although the Queen Mother is not my biological mother, she is my legal mother. I have been unlucky since I was a child and have never experienced the joy of family. My biological mother died early, and my adoptive mothers also died early one by one. Only the Queen Mother is left. I don't want to lose my last mother..."
These heartfelt words moved all the civil and military officials to tears. Some even wanted to write a book about the story of Emperor Jianxi and the Empress Dowager and spread it throughout the world.
Perhaps Emperor Jianxi's filial piety moved God, and the empress dowager recovered on the eighteenth day after suffering a stroke.
Emperor Jianxi could move God, but couldn’t he move the Empress Dowager?
It is said that after the empress dowager regained consciousness and was able to speak, she felt deep remorse and burst into tears. The hatred for killing her son completely disappeared. Not only did she put aside her past grudges with Emperor Jianxi, she also asked Prince Shou to learn from Emperor Jianxi's filial piety.
Prince Shou knelt on the ground and expressed his sincere admiration for his brother's filial piety.
Emperor Jianxi looked at Prince Shou at his feet and slowly extended his hand towards him.
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