Chronicles of the Modern Empress Dowager

Since that day when Li Wei returned to the Shouhuang Palace to worship, Li Wei has rarely spoken to people around him.

The original Princess Ning had become the empress dowager, and Li Wei would no longer care about the affairs of the palace, staying in the room every day, sometimes sitting sullenly all day.

Caizhi felt that it was not good for Li Wei to continue like this. She had talked to her many times to relieve her boredom, but Li Wei's response was always lukewarm, as if she had lost interest in everything.

Obviously she is only 21 years old, but she feels that her life is already in her twilight years.

"Mother, I heard that the peony is in bloom, so shall we go to enjoy the flowers and boat?"

Seeing Shujia's innocent face, Li Wei lowered his head and gently stroked Shujia's face, and said softly: "The queen mother doesn't want to go, you take someone else."

"But I heard them say that the queen mother hasn't been out for a long time. You always stay in this room, isn't it boring?"

Li Wei smiled and said, "Don't be bored, don't worry about your mother's queen." Li Wei talked to Shu Jia gently, and later found that Shu Jia had grown a lot, and in a few years, Shu Jia would become slim and tall. The big girl. If she still has nostalgia for this world, then it is Shu Jia, who has been raised by her side since childhood, and she has not seen Shu Jia harvest happiness with her own eyes.

Seeing Li Wei insisting on not going out with her, Shujia couldn't hide her disappointment.

Li Wei asked Shujia to be taken away, and she still closed herself up, using books as a companion every day.

The doctor Lu came to give Li Wei a safe pulse. Li Wei asked him to wait in the room to the east. The doctor Lu had a pulse with her, and then shook his head and sighed, "Did you sleep very lightly, Queen Mother?"

"Yes, I can almost only sleep one more time per night, but although there is only one more time, I have so many dreams. Once I wake up, I can hardly fall asleep again."

The doctor Lu said: "You empress dowager is suffering from qi deficiency and blood weakness. The minister will prescribe some medicine to replenish qi and blood. You can take it for a period of time and cooperate with your diet, and you will gradually get better."

"Doctor Lao has bothered."

Doctor Lu said that this was his duty.

The doctor Lu prescribed the medicine, and Li Wei also actively cooperated in taking the medicine. If she felt uncomfortable, she would immediately call Caizhi to diagnose with her, but her physical condition still did not improve significantly.

Just after she drank the medicine that day, the Queen Mother Rongci came to see her.

"I heard that the queen mother is sick, I'll see you."

Li Wei was still polite to her: "Thank you sister for your concern."

Rong Ci smiled and said: "Now we are left in the palace with orphans and widows, and it is right for us to care about each other. The former noble concubine is gone, and Qi concubine is gone, and only a few of us are left. I need to walk around well. Yesterday I made an appointment for a card game and asked someone to invite you. The person sent said that you are sick, but are you very sick? If you take the medicine of the doctor Lu's bad, or change to the doctor. ?"

Li Wei expressed his gratitude to the Queen Mother Rongci for her concern, and said: "Emperor Lu has shown me that he has been ill for several years. I can still trust him. The medicine prescribed is quite symptomatic, but the healing process is a bit longer. That’s it. Let’s take Lu’s medicine for the time being.”

The Queen Mother Rongci heard that she did not persuade her. She sat there for a while and then left.

After the Queen Mother Rongci, Li Wei said to the people around him: "I want to move the palace."

Lan Hui said in surprise: "I live well here, where does the Queen Mother want to live?"

Chongqing Palace is the queen dowager’s bedroom, and its status is the most respected in the North Street area.

Li Wei said: "I want to move back to Zhaoyang Hall."

When Lan Hui heard about it, he persuaded: "Why bother? No one raised any objections. You can live here with peace of mind, the queen mother."

Li Wei said, "You can't be at ease. Moving over was necessary for the situation before, but now it's a bit unreasonable to rely on here. You can tell Director Wei what I mean, and let him talk to the emperor and Empress Rongci. Just the emperor. I nodded and moved on a date."

Li Wei has been very depressed these days, this is something no one can see. Lan Hui had to tell Wei Tai what Li Wei meant. Wei Tai heard that he was naturally unwilling to slacken off, so he hurriedly passed it to the emperor and Changxin Palace to know.

When the Queen Mother Rongci heard that she came to Chongqing Palace again, she persuaded her hardly: "Queen Mother, what do you mean. Could it be that we disturbed you?"

"No, I don't mean anything else, I want to move back to Zhaoyang Hall. After all, after staying in Zhaoyang Hall for several years, I still feel comfortable there. The Chongqing Palace is too big and I feel deserted."

"Queen dowager, you can live here with peace of mind. If you feel that no one is talking to you, a few of us will come to visit you every day, talk with you, have tea together, play a few laps, and one day will pass."

But Li Wei's heart was determined, and no one could change her. Later Emperor Fushen also came to persuade him himself.

Li Wei looked at Fushen and nodded with satisfaction: "The emperor's filial piety is the blessing of Da Qi. But my heart is determined. If the emperor is really filial, let me do what I want. The years I have lived in Zhaoyang Palace are When I was the happiest time in the palace, let me go back to Zhaoyang Hall and spend my last time there."

Li Wei said it sincerely, and Fushen was not willing to go against Li Wei's meaning too much, so he had to reluctantly agree.

Chongqing Palace has the widest area and the largest scale in a group of palaces on North Street. It is the representative of the harem palace and the palace where the queen mothers lived in the past is also a symbol of status.

At the beginning, she was moved here by the Queen Mother in the name of the emperor's adoptive mother. Now that the country has changed hands, she is always unable to justify her stay here. Li Wei wanted to go back to Zhaoyang Hall, she wanted the small garden behind Zhaoyang Hall.

There is no need for Li Wei to move the palace, and the Zhaoyang Palace has been carefully maintained since Li Wei moved out for more than a year, still maintaining the appearance of Li Wei. Move back this time, just bring some things with you.

There is a small garden attached to Zhaoyang Hall. In the small garden, there are grape racks and trees such as pomegranates and dates. It is like a small orchard. Li Wei used to like to sit under the grape racks and read and embroider, and spent those long years.

Stepping into the door of the small garden again, looking at the verdant yard, the time that once passed seems to be back at this moment. The vines seemed to be thicker again, and the shelves were no longer able to support them, and bunches of emerald green leaves were hanging down. She saw a mass of white things disappear quickly. That is the kitten that often comes to the Zhaoyang Temple kitchen to steal food. That snow-white cat is said to be raised in the Shangqing Palace. The little white cat likes to come here to stop by. In the past, as soon as she stretched out her hand, the little white cat could come over and make a few calls. She squatted down and could touch its body. .

"Queen!"

Li Wei heard the call and hurriedly turned around, but saw Shu Jia running towards her. Li Wei opened his arms to Shu Jia, just like years ago.