Chapter 214: Heaven Will Give Great Responsibilities to This Person
After leaving the main hall of Cining Palace, Wen Li'er instructed Nanny Qin to take Nangong Mu and Nangong Ziyun back to Bixi Palace first.
According to Sister Ziyun, the aunt and niece haven't seen each other for a long time.
When Aunt Nangong took Nangong Ziyun to work as a traveling doctor, she fell in love with a drug dealer.
The drug dealer was from Beijing, but he was traveling around the pharmaceutical valleys all year round and spent very little time in Beijing.
After Nangong Mu entrusted Nangong Ziyun to the Su family, an old friend of Nangong Lingxiao, she traveled around the country with her husband in recent years.
This time, I received a letter from my niece, saying that not only had my savior been found, but my savior and the emperor had also helped track down the murderer who had wiped out the entire Nangong family.
She immediately rode back to Beijing at full speed and arrived in the capital today.
While she was waiting at the palace gate, Yan Shixu sent Su Muyang to tell her what would happen in the palace today and asked her to cooperate.
Now, the aunt and niece really have a lot to say and urgently need a space where they can talk alone.
Wen Lier reminded Nanny Qin that after arranging accommodation for Nangong Mu, she should send someone to deliver some food, but not to disturb the aunt and niece from expressing their longing for each other.
Nanny Qin smiled and nodded, saying, "Master, don't worry. I will make all the arrangements. But Master, won't you come back to Bixi Palace with us?"
Wen Li'er looked up at the hunched back of the man being supported by a palace servant as he walked towards the bedroom, and sighed softly.
"I'll stay with the Grand Empress Dowager for a while. Mammy, wait until you send Aunt Nangong and Sister Ziyun back to Bixi Palace, then bring Xiaoxiao over."
Nanny Qin immediately understood what she meant.
The Empress Dowager is feeling miserable now.
His biological son was right in front of him, but he had not recognized him for decades.
He raised his son for someone else for decades and suffered betrayal from the people closest to him.
The Empress Dowager was old, and she was afraid that she could not withstand this heavy blow.
Inside the bedroom.
The Grand Empress Dowager drove the Queen Mother away and waved her hand to stop the medicine brought by the palace maid.
"I don't want to drink, take it away."
Xiuping was a little anxious, because this was the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician to relieve liver and depression.
But the Empress Dowager refused to drink, so she naturally couldn't force her to drink.
She could only wave her hand and let the little palace maid take the medicine away.
The Empress Dowager sat there in a daze for a long time, then suddenly said, "Help me sit by the window."
Xiuping and Xiuzhu hurriedly supported her on both sides and sat her down in front of the window.
Outside the window, there is a pomegranate tree with lush branches and leaves.
The gray-brown trunk is covered with warty protrusions, and the bark is as rough as an old man's chapped palm.
The main trunk twists naturally to the left, and branches as thick as bowls stretch out in all directions.
The crown of the tree is in a bushy, round-headed shape, with papery leaves growing opposite each other on the new branches. The obovate leaves are only the size of a copper coin, with the edges still having a nascent crimson color, and they tremble gently in the wind like countless small palms.
This pomegranate tree was planted by King Wu when he was a child.
Back then, Prince Yu had angered the Grand Empress Dowager, and in order to cheer her up, he came up with the idea of planting peach trees in her yard.
She loves peach blossoms and also likes to eat peaches.
When King Wu came to eat that day, he learned that they wanted to plant trees. He got a pomegranate sapling from somewhere and insisted on planting it among the peach blossoms in the yard.
Prince Yu refused to do so, so Prince Wu looked at her pitifully and said that he liked to eat pomegranates.
She couldn't bear it, so she agreed.
She still remembered that the moment she agreed, King Wu jumped for joy and jumped onto the roof.
She was so scared that she asked him to climb down the ladder quickly, but he refused and jumped off the roof.
The Empress Dowager admitted that she was so frightened that her heart almost stopped beating.
Fortunately, the child was really good at martial arts. Despite his young age, he was not hurt at all even after jumping from such a high place.
She was so angry that she wanted to beat him up, but he pitifully lifted his sleeves to show her the marks on his arm, saying that he had already been punished and asked her not to punish him again.
She was annoyed that Concubine Duan was so harsh on a child and told her several times, but Concubine Duan still punished her every time behind her back.
It is said that jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved.
Such a passionate child, his laughter, crying and noise are so lively and unforgettable.
She didn't understand. It was obvious that Prince Wu had always bullied Prince Yu and beat him half to death every time he used force, but she had never punished him severely.
One reason was that Concubine Duan had already punished her, and the other was that she just couldn't bear it.
Only now did she realize that the child she couldn't bear to punish was her child.
But God, why did she only know it now?
When she thought of all the harsh treatment and punishment her children had suffered over the years, her heart ached so much that she wished she could die immediately.
At this time, a palace maid came to report.
"Grand Empress Dowager, the Imperial Noble Consort requests an audience."
The Empress Dowager came to her senses and asked someone to invite her in.
Wen Li'er followed the palace maid into the Empress Dowager's bedroom. When passing the outer room, she saw the cold medicinal soup on the table.
She stepped forward and saluted.
"I pay my respects to the Grand Empress Dowager. May she be in good health."
The Grand Empress Dowager forced a smile and asked, "Why hasn't Li'er returned to Bixi Palace yet?"
Wen Li'er sat beside her with a smile and gently massaged her legs.
"Replying to the Grand Empress Dowager, I have nothing to do back home, so I thought of coming here to chat with you."
The Empress Dowager knew that she was worried that she couldn't bear the blow she had suffered today, so she wanted to talk to her to cheer her up.
He is really a lovely person, and his personality is really suitable for Xu'er.
Gentle, kind and considerate.
The Grand Empress Dowager patted the back of her hand, her eyes filled with the kindness she would show towards a younger generation.
"You're so thoughtful to come and chat with an old woman like me."
Wen Li'er smiled and said, "Before I entered the palace, I often chatted with my grandmother."
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but think that when she was unconscious, Wen Li'er kept chatting in her ear every day, talking a lot about her grandmother.
At this moment, she felt absurdly envious.
"Your grandmother is so lucky. Her son and daughter-in-law are filial, her daughter and son-in-law are filial, and her granddaughter is also filial."
Wen Li'er smiled and said, "Grand Empress Dowager is also very lucky. You also have many filial grandchildren."
As she spoke, she counted on her fingers: "Emperor, Prince Lin, Prince Cheng, Prince Liang, Princess Taiping, Prince Qian, Prince Lang, Princess Wei... Oh, I can't count them all."
The Empress Dowager was amused by her, but tears welled up in her eyes as she laughed.
"They are very filial, but I am not a qualified mother or grandmother."
Wen Li'er shook her head: "How could that be? The Grand Empress Dowager has a kind nature. Even though some of the younger generations didn't grow up with you, they still love and respect you."
The Empress Dowager had a bitter taste in her mouth and shook her head.
"I haven't even given them the most basic love and affection, so how can they respect and love me? I don't dare to have such extravagant hopes. I only hope that they won't resent me."
Wen Li'er shook the Empress Dowager's hand and shook her head seriously.
"Mencius said: 'When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a man, it will first test his mind and will, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body, and deprive him of all want. It will do so by making his actions unbalanced, so that his heart will be moved and his nature will be hardened, and he will be able to achieve what he was not capable of before.'"
"King Wu was a hero who stood tall and proud. He shouldered the heavy responsibility of his country and family, so he naturally endured more hardships and experienced more than others. The experiences he had in the first half of his life were the hardships he endured before taking on such a great responsibility."
"He honed his courage and martial prowess, and even through hardships, he retained a pure and straightforward character, a quality not possessed by the late Emperor Shunlong and Prince Yu."
"If King Wu had grown up under the wings of the Empress Dowager, he might not have been able to grow his own wings to fly freely."
"Everything has two sides, Grand Empress Dowager. I believe that we cannot change what has already happened. But we can change the future. As long as the Grand Empress Dowager takes good care of herself, she will have more time and energy to make amends and make up for the past."
The Empress Dowager's eyes became redder and redder.
She held Wen Li'er's hand tightly and nodded continuously.
"Li'er is right. I must take care of myself and live longer so that I can make more for my children and grandchildren."
Wen Li'er breathed a sigh of relief: "Well, that's it. So, Empress Dowager, why don't we drink the medicine..."
The Empress Dowager was stunned for a moment, then chuckled.
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to Li'er. Bring the medicine here. I want to drink it."
Xiuping, who was serving on the side, looked at Wen Lier with gratitude.
It seems that this imperial concubine is still very powerful.
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