Greetings, Ninth Uncle

"Doctor Liu has done a lot and will be rewarded. After that, you must keep an eye on Dr. Zhao, and report to this princess as soon as there is news. As long as you do well, this princess will never treat you badly."

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In the Cining Palace, Empress Dowager Yang sat up with the help of her mother, and slowly drank the medicine. After the rain this year, many people in the capital fell ill. After all, Empress Dowager Yang is old, and even if she is the empress dowager, she will not be spared.

She has been ill for a long time, the imperial doctor comes to check the pulse every day, and the precious medicinal materials are spent like water, but the Empress Dowager Yang's illness is still not getting better.

When the palace staff reported that "Princess Shou is here", the Empress Dowager Yang frowned subconsciously and said with disgust, "Why is she here?"

Since the Lantern Festival incident, the Empress Dowager Yang and Yang Fucheng have been in a quarrel, and they don't even want to look at Yang Yan's mother and daughter. Empress Dowager Yang thought to herself that she was ruthless and ruthless in her whole life, and that she was sorry for many people, but she was absolutely righteous to the Yang family. She gave Dou Xiyin 15 years of honor, and Dou Xiyin repaid her like this. Yang Yan's white-eyed láng dared to swear that she blamed the Empress Dowager Yang for being partial. Among their sisters, she was partial to Queen Yang, regardless of Yang Yan's life or death.

Empress Dowager Yang was so angry that she no longer cared about the Second Prince's affairs. Why did she come here, she worked hard to select political forces for the second prince, but no one appreciated it, and when she turned around, she even scolded Empress Dowager Yang for being overreaching and stretching her hand too long. The second prince will marry whomever he likes. Empress Yang will never take care of their Yang family affairs.

Although she was ruthless and didn't care about the Yang family's affairs, the Empress Dowager Yang's feelings were still hurt. Because she had been depressed all the time, when it started to rain in June, Empress Dowager Yang was weak and fell ill.

The disease is like a mountain down. The patient was already emotionally fragile. Although Empress Dowager Yang had delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, she looked around the hall and saw only the old palace maid and the old maid, who were also twilight. Affection.

Although some people have come to greet her in the past few days, such as Cheng Yujin, she is unstoppable every day. But the juniors all left after a good face. Cheng Yujin was her grandson-in-law, and it should not have been her duty to serve her great mother-in-law, let alone that she was still pregnant. As for the son and daughter-in-law who should support the Empress Dowager Yang, one is the emperor, who is in charge of every day, and the other is the empress, who is in charge of the six palaces. They are all busy people. They are extremely filial when they come to ask a question every day. Waiting sick. As for the other concubines, Empress Dowager Yang disliked them for being noisy and calculated too much, so they all kept them out of sight. Empress Dowager Yang's current physical condition does not allow her to fight with young people all day long.

The eyes are empty, only Empress Dowager Yang is lying on the bed to recuperate, and she can't see the sun and bright lights all day, just like waiting to die. The situation was desolate, and Empress Dowager Yang couldn't help thinking of her son who died young. Empress Dowager Yang became more and more depressed, and her illness was not getting better.

Today, I heard from the palace servants that Dou Xiyin was here, and Empress Dowager Yang was really surprised. Although Dou Xiyin is the second prince concubine, her kind of princess is different from the crown prince. The prince and the prince live in the palace, but the other princes have separate mansions and live outside the palace. This looks like freedom, but it is naturally far from the power center of the palace.

It is inconvenient for outsiders to enter the palace. It is okay for the second prince to go to court. Dou Xiyin lives outside the palace. It is not realistic to want to greet the queen mother every day. Dou Xiyin always followed the crowd on the 15th day of the first lunar month. At other times, she did not go to the Empress Dowager Yang's place.

So Dou Xiyin came to Cining Palace today, which is really a rare visitor.

When Dou Xiyin entered the Cining Palace, she was choked by the strong smell of medicine in the palace as soon as she entered. It has been raining for half a month outside. Empress Dowager Yang is an elderly person who lives alone and is still ill. The air in the hall will definitely not smell good. The medicinal smell was mixed with the wet cháo smell, and just smelling it made people feel heavy, as if the whole hall revealed a heavy aura of decay.

Dou Xiyin held back the unpleasant look, tried her best to walk into the floor covering with a smile, and said to Empress Yang, "Empress Dowager, are you feeling better today?"

Empress Dowager Yang glanced at Dou Xiyin with a sneer, and said, "I've disappointed you, you're not dead yet."

Dou Xiyin was immediately embarrassed, she laughed to herself, and said, "You'll be fine, and my son can rest assured outside the palace."

Empress Dowager Yang sneered, obviously disapproving. Dou Xiyin thought of her intention to come today, so she resisted the embarrassment, leaned forward with a warm face, and beat the Queen Mother Yang's leg: "The Queen Mother, Erchen recently learned about something by accident, and I am deeply embarrassed. I don't know if I should say it or not. ."

Empress Dowager Yang reluctantly raised some interest, and finally gave Dou Xiyin a straight look: "What?"

Dou Xiyin laughed in her heart, deliberately looked around mysteriously, leaned closer and said in a low voice, "Erchen accidentally learned from the Imperial Hospital that the Crown Princess is pregnant with twins."

When Empress Dowager Yang heard this, her always rigid face finally showed some fluctuations: "Twins?"

"That's right." Dou Xiyin was very proud and said, "The Crown Princess's Ping An pulse has always been in charge of Imperial Doctor Zhao, and even the pregnancy was diagnosed by Imperial Doctor Zhao. Today Imperial Doctor Liu accidentally saw the prescription that Imperial Doctor Zhao had dropped on the ground, and found one of the A few medicines, like those given to pregnant women who are pregnant with twins to recuperate their bodies. The prince cares so much about the princess, and he will never let people take medicine for the princess indiscriminately. Empress Dowager, look, don’t you…”