The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

In terms of closeness, Shang Duo and the Queen Mother of Shang naturally want to be close to the emperor.

So he chose to tell the Queen Mother Shang about the emperor's plan instead of telling the emperor: Your mother is going to poison your father to death.

Shang Duo's confrontation with the Empress Dowager Shang actually resembled Shang Chanchan's confrontation with Shang Chi.

The eldest sister is like a mother, and the eldest brother is like a father, which is probably the case.

So he was more cautious in his words and attitude than in front of the emperor.

"The tiger is old and majestic, and Wang Ziteng is the tiger's sharp claw. The emperor means that it is safer to break this claw first."

There was no expression of joy or anger on the back of Mrs. Shang, as pale as a bodhisattva enshrined in a temple.

"I know it's the emperor's idea."

"This child has been awkward since he was a child. He obviously holds grudges, but he is not cruel enough."

"Facing the deposed prince back then, he could understand that it would be useful to bypass those trivial people such as the advisers of the Eastern Palace and directly attack the prince, but now he has softened his heart."

"Is it not decisive enough? What's the use of killing Wang Ziteng. If he can support one Wang Ziteng, he can support the second."

"The Taishanghuang's body is in a state of uncertainty. Take good care of it. The imperial doctor also said that there are still several years to live. Wang Ziteng died for no reason. Can he let you go?"

Shang Duo laughed awkwardly, he was also responsible for this matter.

"When the emperor made this decision, the minister was still being beaten and scolded every day. Look at the way the emperor is about to faint every time he gets angry—his hands are shaking and his face is pale. It doesn't look like he can live for two or three years."

"Who knew that the old sage suddenly realized now that nothing is as important as life, so he took good care of it."

At that time, Shang Duo really thought that the old sage would not live long, and he rushed to arrange the marriages of his children, for fear of catching up with the national funeral.

"Besides, sister." When Shang Duo called the Queen Mother like this, he said that he had no choice: "You also have to understand my difficulties. Relatives, relatives, after all, I am also an outsider. The emperor has made up his mind, what can I do? "

Did he dare to run up to the emperor and say: Don't hesitate, don't worry about the prince's departure, hurry up and kill your own father!That is really not enough to chop off eight heads.

The Empress Dowager Shang smiled: "You have been short-tempered since you were a child. People say that you just go and see for three times, but you only want to have fun in front of you. Poor your wife and you don't know how much you have worried."

"These years have been smooth, because of your good luck."

"Now that you and the emperor are in the same place, I have to worry about this harem woman and clean up the mess."

"Forget it, fortunately there is Chi'er, I think that child is better than you."

Shang Duo dared to refute a few words in front of the emperor, but in front of the Empress Dowager Shang, he was like avoiding cats and mice, he only dared to bow his head and say yes.

Suddenly, the Empress Dowager Shang reached out to pick up the silver chopsticks, and put a piece of Yong Tau Foo with crab meat into her mouth.

The dishes in the palace are small and delicate, and for the sake of eating well, they are all made in bite size.

This tofu box is only as big as a dice, unlike the ones outside, it is as big as half a palm.

So at this time, the Empress Dowager Shang ate the tofu box in one gulp.

Shang Duo was dumbfounded before he became anxious: "Even if my sister is angry with me, she can't take poison."

The Empress Dowager Shang was both angry and funny, she swallowed the food in her mouth and then slapped the chopsticks on the table: "Look at your unsteady appearance."

Then he explained to Shang Duo: "Since the Supreme Emperor wants to work hard to add extra meals, all the palaces will naturally flatter him, so he hastily sent away his special dishes."

"However, he only used the ones from the palace of the virtuous concubine and the noble concubine, and rewarded everyone else."

"This is of course the Rongguo Mansion and Dongping County Prince's Mansion behind them.

He didn't use the tofu dish sent from Fengjing Palace in Bengong, but he didn't use it at all, which naturally meant that he no longer trusted our merchant. "

"I also said that he has never loved tofu. Others in the palace can't wait to offer dragon liver and phoenix marrow. Only this palace, as the empress dowager, is careless and only sends some vegetables and tofu."

Shang Duo was stunned: "That poisonous crab, in fact, the Supreme Emperor didn't use it?"

The Empress Dowager Shang smiled, pointed to the tofu box on the plate and said: "The crabs used here and the ones I sent to the Supreme Emperor are all high-quality crabs. No matter who inspects them, they are the same.

Now he is doubting me, how could I be so reckless, leaving such a handle for him to catch.

As for the poisonous crab, it will be used in the future.

The crab roe that day was just transported into the palace in advance to try it out, to see if it was different from the crab roe served in the Imperial Dining Room.It was such a coincidence that a few stupid servants were sent to Chanchan and Yu'er. "

"In the palace, food poisoning is the most dangerous but also the most straightforward method."

"This kind of method, if you want to see the poor, how can you show the knife in the first place." The Empress Dowager Shang still taught Shang Duo when she was young.

"The imperial doctor's prescription and the spices sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are more concealed than eating and drinking."

"Why do you think the Supreme Emperor suddenly started to take care of himself and eat more food?"

Shang Duo was stunned: "Is it the method offered by the imperial doctor of the empress to tell the Supreme Emperor to eat more?"

The Empress Dowager Shang said indifferently: "The imperial doctors in the palace are not real doctors, they are just a tongue that knows what to say."

At this point, Shang Duo understood.

Empress Dowager Shang said: "You don't need to tell the emperor about this matter. Tell him to do it according to his own method. I'm just a mother, I just make up for him."

Only now did the Empress Dowager Shang show a trace of fatigue and sadness in front of Shang Duo: In this day's family, father does not have father, son does not have son, husband does not have husband, wife does not have wife.

Shang Duo couldn't help but stepped forward to persuade: "Mistress Wanwang, take care of your phoenix body."

The Empress Dowager Shang's sad expression flashed like a shooting star in the sky, and then she returned to her calm and peaceful expression: "Don't worry, this palace must be a long-lived one."

Only then did Shang Duo salute and leave.

Sure enough, at the beginning of May, another thunderbolt came from the palace: the Supreme Emperor had another stroke.

This time the old sage couldn't move his legs, only one arm could move.

The Supreme Emperor was furious and wanted to punish the imperial doctor immediately.

The imperial doctor of the imperial hospital knelt down on the ground and said: "The one who eats the grains mentioned by the minister refers to the whole grains.

Moreover, although Su Richen's medicated diet used some ginseng and other supplements, the amount was precisely controlled.It is precisely because the old sage's disease is caused by his body gaining weight and congestion of phlegm. "

To put it bluntly, it is a stroke caused by eating too much and not exercising.

The imperial doctor ordered kowtow like pounding garlic: "I said that it is better to supplement meals with food, and that medicine is not as good as food supplements. I also ask the Supreme Emperor to use it according to the menu prepared by the ministers."

"The emperor's imperial food list was drafted by the entire imperial hospital together, without any mistakes or omissions. Please check the other dishes used by the emperor on weekdays."

So all the delicacies offered by the palaces were served one by one.

The Imperial Physician Order tasted them one by one, shaking his mouth, and said: "These dishes are all delicious in color, fragrance, and precious materials, such as this bowl of clear soup with cabbage, which is very refreshing to eat and look at, and the base soup is made of dozens of ingredients such as purple ginseng and black-bone chicken. A kind of tonic hanging out.

The Taishang Emperor is now unable to take supplements, so he looks rosy on the surface with these diets, but in fact it is adding weight to his body, which is useless. "

The Supreme Emperor smashed the medicine bowl on the head of the imperial physician with the remaining hand: "In hindsight! What did you do that day! Don't you all know what I eat? Why don't you come to persuade me!"

The imperial doctor was so wronged that he knelt down and dared not speak.

It was the old eunuch who was close to the emperor who said: "The imperial medical order has never seen the food offered in the palaces, and they all reported the menu here."

The implication is that the imperial physician thought the emperor was eating boiled vegetables, but the emperor was drinking ginseng broth.

The Imperial Physician Ling quickly said: "Exactly. I'm afraid that the masters of the palace knew that the old sage had a bad appetite during his illness, so they used all the precious ingredients and made them extra delicious. Who would have thought that it would be harmful instead."

"Only this tofu box is good for the Taishang Emperor's sick body."

"Although tofu is not precious, it is in harmony with the current physique of the Supreme Emperor.

What's more, this dish is rare and thoughtful. The meat stuffed tofu box, the pork used in it is not suitable for Taishang Huang's body, so I replaced it with fish meat ingeniously, white meat does not produce phlegm, so you can use more in Taishang Huangfu. "

The Supreme Emperor was silent for a while, his voice was hoarse, and he asked, "Isn't this from Fengjing Palace?"

The old eunuch also knelt down: "Yes, the Holy Mother and Empress Dowager send people to deliver it every day, and the empress made it herself."

"But I have never used it once." The Taishang Emperor's cloudy eyes were a little teary.

He shook his fingers and pointed at all kinds of delicacies below: "They are all trying to flatter me, and they made these to please me, and they don't care about my sickness at all!"

"Only she has been taking my body as the most important thing for so many years."

The Taishanghuang sighed even more when he remembered the old things when he was young.

"In the past, she advised me to drink less alcohol and eat less big fish and meat. In the past, whenever I went to any palace, the table would be full of meat, but she would serve some light dishes."

"Although I don't like to eat vegetable leaves, seeing her work so hard, I can't help but eat some."

"It's only now that I realize that after all these years, she is the only one who is really doing it for my own good."

The Supreme Emperor couldn't help but recall that in April, he scolded Bizhu who brought food from Fengjing Palace.

Disliked that tofu was cheap and dull, and blamed the Empress Dowager Shang for not being respectful enough to serve the emperor by name.

Although there are many dishes that he does not take every day, the dishes that he does not use in the other palace are only rewarded to his servants.

Only the empress dowager's dish of tofu is always sent back in its original form, which hurts her face.

The Supreme Emperor couldn't help feeling guilty.

Repeatedly said: "Quickly order someone to invite the Holy Mother and Empress Dowager."

The old eunuch kowtowed and said: "As soon as I heard that your dragon body was in trouble, the empress dowagers of the two palaces had already brought their concubines and waited outside. The Holy Mother, the empress dowager, was the first to arrive with the empress empress, but she didn't dare to disturb you talking to the imperial doctor. Son."

The Supreme Emperor asked him to welcome the Empress Dowager Shang in person, and the Empress and Empress hadn't seen each other for two or three months, so there was a big gap.

Seeing each other again now, we wept for each other, and the previous suspicions were completely resolved.

From then on, the Supreme Emperor was only willing to see the Empress Dowager Shang, and he was only willing to use Fengjing Palace to send food and drink.

The Empress Dowager of Shang's servant was respectful and careful, and she must discuss everything with the imperial physician, and ordered the imperial physician to accompany her at every meal, ordering people to always pick out things that were not suitable for the emperor's sick body.

The virtuous name not only spread in the harem, but also spread throughout the government and the public.

Because May is the birthday of the Empress Dowager Shang, she felt that the Emperor was sick and uneasy and refused to live longer.

The Supreme Emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites to add the word "Youkang" as her honorary title.

So in the five years since the emperor ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager Shang has won a total of eight-character titles, overwhelming the Empress Dowager Chu in number.

Shang Duo watched the Empress Dowager Shang's actions from the beginning to the end, and couldn't help crying for the Supreme Emperor in his heart, then turned around and went to his son's wedding.

Now let's turn the time back to April [-]th, the day when the Baoning Marquis Mansion offered an appointment to the Pingyang Marquis Mansion.

The author has something to say: The Empress Dowager Shang smiled: Come, Dalang, get up and drink the medicine.