There weren't many incense candles lit in Empress Dowager Sun's palace tonight, and it was dim, so when Queen Qian walked in, she felt that her sour eyes from crying for a long time were even more uncomfortable.
Empress Dowager Sun saw that Queen Qian was carried in, and hurriedly got up to greet her, "What's the matter?"
Did you knock your leg on?
” "No, thank you for your concern."
Empress Qian shook her head, but as soon as she saw Empress Dowager Sun, her tears couldn't stop flowing, "Today I have been kneeling in front of the Buddha statue in the west wing for a long time, and my legs are a little numb. ” "Oh, don't cry, the mourning family is also distressed when they look at it......"
Empress Dowager Sun said, and sat on the seat with Queen Qian supporting each other, "Look at these eyes crying, they are all swollen into peaches......"
"Come on, bring two hot towels over, and then boil an egg and peel the skin......"
Empress Dowager Sun wiped the tears on Queen Qian's face with a handkerchief, and then sighed and said, "You have to pay attention to yourself, turn around and break your body, the emperor is distressed when he looks at it, isn't it?"
” When Queen Qian heard Empress Dowager Sun say this, she quickly sniffed, tried to stop her tears, and then sobbed and said, "It's the concubine who is wrong, which makes the queen mother worried." ” "Don't think about mourning your family, feel sorry for yourself first!"
Empress Dowager Sun said, she took the hot towel handed by the palace maid, and personally took it and put it on Queen Qian's eyes, in fact, for her daughter-in-law, Empress Dowager Sun still loves her daughter-in-law, after all, she has a very close relationship with her son Zhu Qizhen, and she has always been respectful and filial to herself.
"Thank you, Queen Mother."
Queen Qian didn't dare to really let the Empress Dowager Sun serve, so she hurriedly took the hot towel herself, and then put her hand on her eyes, "The concubine just raised some jewels from the harem, is it enough for the queen mother?"
” After Queen Qian finished speaking, the maidservant behind her carried several wooden boxes inlaid with gold and silver and placed them on the table, and after opening them, they were all scattered jewelry.
It turned out that after Queen Qian learned the news that Warat had sent an envoy to ask for money, she immediately gathered all the valuable things she had saved in the past few years.
However, Queen Qian was simple by nature, and she refused to ask for more rewards from Zhu Qizhen on weekdays, so she didn't have much valuable, so she mobilized other concubines in the harem to raise money for Zhu Qizhen to redeem herself.
Although the other concubines were sad about Zhu Qizhen's accident, firstly, they did not have so much money, and secondly, their relationship with Zhu Qizhen was not so deep.
As a result, almost everyone seems to be very aggressive.
Queen Qian has a good temper, and it is rare to even talk loudly to others on weekdays, so when she saw other concubines like this, she had no choice but to keep crying, and at the same time tell them some ethereal truths, and even knelt down in the end.
How can the other concubines not understand the importance of Zhu Qizhen to themselves, if Zhu Qizhen can't come back, won't his concubine become an ornament?
But they knew better in their hearts that Zhu Qizhen could not be their eternal reliance, but the money saved under their hands was real, so in the end, they really couldn't see the pitiful appearance of Queen Qian, so they took out a little something, but they still kept the most valuable ones privately.
Queen Qian didn't expect them to be like herself, so when she saw that they were willing to help, she couldn't help but be grateful, and finally filled the harem with chaos, so she finally got together a few boxes of jewelry.
Empress Dowager Sun looked at the golden and bright boxes of things in front of her, and then glanced at Queen Qian, who almost didn't have any jewelry on her body, and understood that she had done her best, so she couldn't help but caress her face and said, "The good daughter-in-law of the mourning family, but I have suffered you!"
” "Queen Mother!"
At this time, Queen Qian looked at the Empress Dowager Sun, who had already given birth to gray hair, and then thought of Zhu Qizhen, who was in deep danger, she couldn't help but feel emotional, and directly cried bitterly.
"My son!"
When Empress Dowager Sun saw Queen Qian like this, how could she bear the sadness in her heart?
So he directly hugged Queen Qian, and then cried together.
The two cried for a while, and then remembered that there was still something important to do, so they wiped their tears from each other, and then said to an old eunuch next to them, "Jin Ying, did that Xining call over?"
” This old eunuch named Jin Ying is over fifty years old this year, and he has been serving in the palace since the Yongle period, and he is already the fourth dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and the most trusted eunuch of Ming Xuanzong during his lifetime is him, and he has also been promoted to the eunuch of the celebrant and the seal of the seal.
However, later Ming Xuanzong died, Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, and favored Wang Zhen instead, so the power of the celebrant was taken away by him.
Fortunately, Wang Zhen is now dead, and he can become the number one eunuch in the court again, thinking of this, Jin Ying couldn't help but feel excited, "Back to the Queen Mother, someone has come over, and now you should be waiting outside." ” "Then let him in!"
As she spoke, Empress Dowager Sun turned around and asked people to take out the money and jewelry she had raised and put them on the table.
Xining waited outside for a while, so after coming in, she couldn't help but yawn comfortably, and then knelt on the ground and saluted, "Slave Xining knocks on the Queen Mother, Queen Mother Chitose Chitose Chitose." ” Xining didn't give Queen Qian a salute, and her attitude was not very respectful, but Empress Dowager Sun didn't have time to find fault with him at this time, so she just pushed the wooden boxes on the table forward and said, "Hurry up, see if these things are enough?"
It may be a little short of 100,000 taels of silver, but as long as the Warat people are willing to send the emperor back, then the silver will not be short of them. ” Xi Ning sighed in her heart that the old lady was really easy to deceive, and at the same time got up and saluted, "Queen Mother, the servants will collect the things and send them to the Wara camp, after all, they can't let them wronged the emperor." ” When Empress Dowager Sun heard Xining say this, she also relieved herself, so she waved her hand at him and said, "Then you go back quickly, and let them send the emperor back quickly!"
” "Eh, yes!"
Xi Ning watched a few little eunuchs put all the jewelry boxes into a small box, and then pushed them in front of her, and couldn't help but feel excited, "The slave will go back and report to the emperor." ” "Father-in-law ......Xi" Queen Qian may still be a little uneasy, so she took off the jade bracelet that Zhu Qizhen gave her at the wedding on her wrist, and then got up and handed it to Xining, "You put this away, this is for you, it must be ......
You must take care of the emperor!
” Seeing Queen Qian like this, Xi Ning couldn't help but be moved, but it was just a matter of a moment, he hurriedly took the bracelet, and then stuffed it into his arms and said, "Thank you for the reward!"
” When Empress Dowager Sun saw that Queen Qian had taken out this bracelet and gave it away, she couldn't help but feel sad in her heart, so she waved her hand at Xining and said, "You go quickly, and when it dawns tomorrow, let those ministers see it, but it won't be easy!"
” "Eh, yes!"
Xi Ning nodded, and then pulled the box full of jewelry, trying to hold back a smile and go to the layman......