Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 505 Met the Empress Dowager

  Fang Jifan and others have rushed to Renshou Palace.

  In the bedroom, Emperor Hongzhi was still guarding in his clothes.

The Empress Dowager woke up again, but her complexion was very good. Emperor Hongzhi held the hand of the Empress Dowager, sighing constantly, but in the past few days, he had already made the worst plan. Looking at the face of the Empress Dowager, she managed to squeeze out some smiles.

  Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Xiurong and others knelt down. The Empress Dowager glanced at Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Xiurong, trembling slightly: "It's cold on the ground, get up, get up."

  Zhu Houzhao didn't dare to get up, Zhu Xiurong just wiped his tears with a handkerchief.

The Empress Dowager felt that her heart was in a panic, and she said quietly: "Aijia, it has reached the age of seventy, and I have lived for too long, too long. In this life, I have encountered many things, and I have enjoyed the glory and wealth. At the beginning, after many days of collapse, Emperor Yingzong was captured and taken to the desert. At that time, the Ai family thought that the Ai family might not be able to hold on, but in the end, they survived. Later, Your royal father, he made the palace smoky, Aijia was in a mess again, thinking in his heart, it would be better to die clean, out of sight and out of mind. But Aijia, he was alive again after all. Come down, the Ai family spent the first half of their life in glory and wealth, but their hearts were bitter. Until I had you, the Ai family remembered that when you entered the Renshou Palace, you were only born as high as your knees, like a frightened bird. The first time I saw you, I knew that the Ai family had to live and live well, the grandson of the Ai family...cough cough..."

The Empress Dowager was so angry that she continued to say with difficulty: "Aijia has to watch his grandson grow up. He has no one to rely on in his life. Only when Aijia is alive can he be his backer. Your grandfather, your father Emperor, the Ai family is not a good emperor, nor a good husband, nor a good son, but you... the emperor, you are a caring person of the Ai family. Only with you can the Ai family consciously be content , in this life, it's worth it."

Emperor Hongzhi remained silent, and the Empress Dowager coughed slightly again: "The Ai family has a good grandson and a great-grandson. In this life, I have no regrets. At this age, even if you close your eyes, you can still smile. Jiuquan."

"The maiden name of Ai's family is Zhou. To tell the truth, they have nothing to do. They are a bunch of fools. When Ai's family was around, they still had some kindness. One day, Ai's family was gone. The emperor Don't dislike them, but you can't reuse them!"

   Speaking of this, the Empress Dowager stared deeply at Emperor Hongzhi, with reluctance: "They are people who can't accomplish anything. If Your Majesty reuses them, it will harm them instead."

   "Yes, yes, I understand." Emperor Hongzhi opened his eyes wide, not daring to close them, for fear that the eyes would not close, and the moisture in the eye sockets would condense into tears and flow down.

The Empress Dowager looked deeply tired: "As for Zhou La, Zhou La is the only grandson of the Zhou family, and the blood of the Zhou family is all tied to him. , how can it feel good, but there is no way, the Ai family understands better than anything, when the Emperor Yingzong was captured by the Oirats, why didn’t Daming help Emperor Daizong ascend the throne and fight against him?”

The Empress Dowager sighed: "What the Ai family is looking forward to the most is that it would be better to die earlier and be clean. If you die a few days earlier and don't hear about such a terrible thing, and something happened to Zhou La, the Ai family will at least always be happy." I can't hear you, now where..."

The empress dowager just shook her head, she let out a sigh of relief: "What should be explained, just explain these, the Ai family is actually not worried about the life after death, the Ai family has you, have you prepared for the burial? Hey, the Ai family has lived for decades, but I don’t know if he will be buried with the former Emperor Yingzong in the same place, these decades have been separated by yin and yang, when we meet again, I don’t know if he still recognizes the Ai family.”

  Emperor Hongzhi clenched the empress dowager's hand tightly, and the hand became colder and colder. Emperor Hongzhi suddenly burst into tears, like a child, lying on the empress dowager's body: "Grandmother... Zhen... Zhen..."

  The Empress Dowager stretched out her hand from the brocade quilt, and gently patted Emperor Hongzhi on the back, her face becoming paler and more terrifying.

  She was depressed.

  Xiao Jing hurriedly stepped forward: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty..."

  Emperor Hongzhi lost his composure and got out of hand.

  Zhu Houzhao also burst into tears, his voice was so loud that it shook the rubble.

  Zhu Xiurong supported her forehead, the continuous blows made her physically and mentally exhausted, and she almost passed out.

  But at this time, a **** hurried in: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty..."

  Xiao Jing was furious. Looking at the eunuch, he almost gritted his teeth and gave him a wink, which meant...to tell him to get out of here. At this time, you dare to come?

  But the **** was like a pile: "Your Majesty, Zhou La... Zhou La is back, and came to pay respects to the Empress Dowager."

  In the dormitory, there were still cries like thunder.

   Even if someone hears something, they just think that they are too emotional, so they have auditory hallucinations.

  The little **** was in a hurry, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Zhou La is back and has come to pay respects to the Empress Dowager."

   This bluff.

   Suddenly, there was no sound in the bedroom.

  Everyone's voices stopped abruptly.

  Emperor Hongzhi looked a little funny, and his eyes had swept over the little eunuch.

  The Empress Dowager seemed to feel that she was half asleep and half awake again, so she didn't believe it.

  Zhu Houzhao turned around, a little confused.

  Zhu Xiurong is still crying, I feel pitiful.

  Queen Zhang heard it most clearly, and looked at the little **** strangely.

   All of this... too weird.

  In Zhou La, people were outside the pass, and the Ming army never went out to rescue them. Daming never sent any envoys to go to peace talks.

  In this case, this guy is almost certain to die.

   Even if I want to live, I can’t live.

  Even at the Zhou family’s place, even the clothes tomb was prepared, and as soon as the bad news came from outside the customs, his clothes and hats would be buried in the Zhou family’s cemetery.

  Zhou La...is back...

   Feels like cheating.

  Emperor Hongzhi's face was very cold, and his eyes were sharp. At this time, he didn't have time to make jokes.

   But at this time, someone outside burst into tears.

   This voice...is very familiar...

   Zhu Houzhao felt very familiar anyway.

  At this moment, there was a figure rushing in, and no one could stop him, crying loudly: "My lady, my lady, the minister is back, the minister is back..."

   This man fell to his knees all of a sudden, his face was already ugly, but he still looked distraught.

  His tears fell down, and his heart ached so badly, because his nonsense made the empress dowager like this, he felt...uneasy.

   Then he kowtowed and said: "The crime of the minister's ten thousand deaths makes the empress worry, and it deserves a thousand cuts."

  Boom boom boom...

  He began to kowtow one by one, and his head was bloody, but...the only thing not to worry about was...disfigurement.

   Everyone hasn't reacted yet.

   So far, many people are still dumbfounded.

   Zhu Houzhao looked at the person exaggeratedly, and thought hard for a while, it seems... this person is really familiar.

  Zhu Xiurong's eyes were wide open, and there were still tears in his eyes.

  The Empress Dowager finally came to her senses, she looked at the fallen man with difficulty, Zhou La... like Zhou La... Could it be that she has returned to the underworld and reunited with Zhou La?

  She already felt that there was chaos in her mind, and said with difficulty: "You...you are a human or a ghost."

   "It's a man, it's a man." Zhou La yelled, his excited eyes cleft, as if he was afraid that the Empress Dowager would not believe him, he grabbed Xiao Jing, Xiao Jing said: "What are you doing?"

   ouch...

   Xiao Jing let out a dry howl and went straight into the sky.

   It turned out that Zhou La was kneeling, and pinched the softest part of Xiao Jing's thigh fiercely. Xiao Jing grinned in pain, and couldn't care less, just howled.

   "Look, look, my lord, in the underworld, people are not afraid of pain, this is the world, it is in the world, I am still alive, and I am living well."

  Zhou La cried bitterly and said: "If I had known it would make the empress so worried, I would have beaten him to death, and I would not go out to mess around..."

   "Yes..." The Empress Dowager was so excited that she slowly sat up on the couch.

  Emperor Hongzhi's face was full of shock, but he was still cautious, took the cushion, and wanted to lean on the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager said: "Help...help Ai's family get up."

  Emperor Hongzhi was very hesitant. He was afraid that the Empress Dowager would not be able to bear it. After all, even now, seeing Zhou La alive and kicking here, his heart...is still in a mess.

  How...how is this possible?

  Decision is impossible.

  Emperor Hongzhi subconsciously helped the Empress Dowager up. The Empress Dowager was very weak, with disbelief on her face: "Bring the flower mirror, get the flower mirror."

  Xiao Jing hurriedly put the reading glasses on for the Empress Dowager.

  The world is clear.

   Sure enough, Zhou La really appeared at her feet, and the Empress Dowager trembled slightly: "It's really La'er, is it you?"

   "Yes." Without hesitation, Zhou La looked up, with tears in his eyes, and said to the Empress Dowager with a smile, "Look quickly, look quickly, it's my minister Zhou La, empress..."

Snapped…

  The Empress Dowager slapped Zhou La directly on the face with the strength she didn't know where it came from.

  The main reason is that Zhou La's face was turned upside down, which was equivalent to sending his face directly in front of the Empress Dowager.

  Zhou La didn't expect the Empress Dowager to be so powerful, her face... hurts.

  He covered his face, looking pitiful.

  The Empress Dowager's face miraculously regained some rosiness, but her eyes suddenly sharpened like knives.

   After all, she is an old lady who has seen the world. She has never seen what kind of scum, she sneered: "Bastard, you dare to come back. Fortunately, you dare to come back?"

   Zhou La didn't say anything, and quickly bowed down: "I will die, please punish me severely."

   "Come on, drag it down, first the court staff is twenty, and then drag it back to speak!"

The Empress Dowager was not polite at all. At this time, the court stick, not to mention twenty, was ten, which was enough. It is not known how many of the ten court rods were actually hit.

  (end of this chapter)