These years of being the queen mother!

"My mother went to Texas (Texas) for a while, and also sent a letter back to say that everything is well, don't worry about it, why Saburo, you still look worried."

In the flickering candlelight of Kunning Palace, the second Empress of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Xi, who came from a wealthy family after Ming Chengzu Zhu Di and Empress Xu, looked puzzled at Zhu Cilin, who seemed to be a little anxious.

"You don't understand." Zhu Cilin pulled Shi Xi to sit down together, "I'm afraid that my mother will find me a foreigner as a stepfather!"

"What?" Shi Xi's beautiful eyes opened slightly, and after a moment of wanton looking at Zhu Cilin with incredulous eyes, she suddenly raised her jaded hand and placed it on her forehead. "Your Majesty, you don't have a fever, why are you talking nonsense?"

According to her understanding of Empress Dowager Yang, Empress Dowager Yang, who has been widowed for many years, doesn't even look up to the heroes of the Ming Dynasty. How could she fall in love with Western barbarians? many.

Shi Xi tried to convince Zhu Cilin that he was overcompensating himself, but it was a pity that Zhu Cilin still said very melancholy. "Ah Xi, I had a nightmare."

"..." Shi Xi: "So..."

Zhu Cilin then said melancholy: "I dreamed that my father's soul was attached to a very ugly red-haired son. In order to renew my relationship with my father, my mother married a red-haired man."

Shi Xi was silent for a moment, then suddenly got up and picked up the teapot on the table, poured a glass of water into the teacup, and handed it to Zhu Cilin.Zhu Cixi didn't understand what he meant, and when he looked back at Shi Xi, he saw Shi Xi smiling like a flower.

"Your Majesty, you should take your medicine."

Zhu Cilin froze for a moment, trying to understand the meaning of what Shi Xi said, he glared at Shi Xi angrily: "A Xi, you actually turned the corner and said that I am stupid, I really love you for nothing."

Shi Xi straightened her sleeves indifferently, and said calmly with a smile on her face. "That's why the concubine reminded His Majesty not to forget to take medicine!"

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Not to mention the Empress Dowager who often took pleasure in quarreling, Empress Dowager Yang seemed to have let go of the heavy responsibilities since Zhu Cilin got married and took charge of the government. The rest of the time is spent visiting the splendid mountains and rivers of Daming.And after having been to most of the famous places in the country, Empress Dowager Yang suddenly got an idea and led a group of twenty people on a round-the-world trip.The first stop was Texas, which had become a colony of the Ming Dynasty.

When Empress Dowager Yang arrived in Texas, it was the time when everything was recovering and spring plowing began. Seeing that the people of Ming Dynasty who had immigrated to Texas were busy farming, Empress Dowager Yang became temperamental for a while, so she led Chunlai and Qiuqu who came out with her to Zhu Cilin. The royal farm under his name has experienced the hard work of a peasant woman.

After all, Empress Dowager Yang was used to being pampered and pampered. She was so tired that her fingertips and soles of her feet blistered after just picking up the hoe.Chunlai, who was dressed as a peasant woman with her, saw her and jumped immediately. He helped Queen Mother Yang to sit on the side of the field, and carefully took off Queen Mother Yang's shoes and socks, and used embroidery needles to grind out the soles of her feet. The blisters popped one by one.

Seeing the pain in his heart, Qiu went to find the best golden sore medicine to apply to Empress Dowager Yang, and complained: "My wife, not to mention that the young masters and ladies will feel distressed when they find out, even the servants and Chunlai feel distressed. So if you are old, just stay by the side in peace and contentment!"

"Look, your mouth is almost hanging on the oil pot." Empress Dowager Yang teased Qiu Qu, saying that she lived younger and younger, and immediately changed her words: "Okay, Madam Ben is sitting on the ridge of the field and watching people work."

Empress Dowager Yang also understood that participating in labor like her was purely a trouble for others, so she didn't insist on her own opinion, and followed Chunlai and Qiuqu's suggestions, sat on the ridge of the field, and looked at Lailai leisurely. Farm workers who often dig pits to plant seeds, fertilize and water.

Texas is located in the southern part of North America, most of which are plains, cold in winter and hot in summer, belonging to a place with distinct seasons and large temperature differences throughout the year.This also led to the development of animal husbandry and agriculture in Dezhou, making it the largest granary outside Daming.

Because of the large temperature difference between morning and evening in this place, as the sun slowly set in the west, Empress Dowager Yang, who was sitting on the ridge of the field, seemed to be doing nothing, felt a bit of coolness.So I called Chun to fetch the cloak, and I went with Qiu to walk slowly along the criss-crossing field ridges, just like a walk.At this moment, a tall, tough-looking man with brown hair and gray eyes actually stopped the two of them and asked in unproficient Chinese.

"Beautiful lady, could I ask you to do me a favor!"

Qiu went to ask, "I don't know what this gentleman wants me to do?"

The man with the tall hooked nose seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and continued to speak with extremely exaggerated body movements combined with his inexperienced Chinese. "The carriage I was riding in got stuck in the mud not far ahead. I entered this farm to ask if I could find someone to help me get the carriage out of the mud."

Qiu Qu turned his head and asked Empress Dowager Yang cryptically, and after receiving a nod from Empress Dowager Yang, Qiu Qu said with a smile. "You wait, I'll call someone to help you."

Qiu Qu ran away in a hurry, leaving Empress Dowager Yang and the tall man with a straight hooked nose looking at each other.

Empress Dowager Yang sighed, and then broke the silence: "Sir, my girl is rude."

"Ma'am, your maid is very lively, and she is not rude."

Although Empress Dowager Yang was dressed as a peasant woman, she was dressed in fine cotton clothes.Although her black hair is casually held by sandalwood hairpins, the noble temperament and fair and delicate skin cultivated by decades of court life still make her as eye-catching as the crane that stands out from the crowd.Thinking about it, it was precisely because of this that this foreign man asked Empress Dowager Yang for help instead of other people from the farm.

After a while, when the two were chatting for a while, Qiu, who ran to call someone, led a few strong young men with a lot of strength at a glance, and helped the foreign men to sink into the mud. The carriage was brought out.

After the foreign man thanked him, he drove away in a carriage, and Empress Dowager Yang didn't take such trivial matters to heart.Unexpectedly, a few days later, when Empress Dowager Yang was about to set off for a walk in the Gulf of Mexico to see the scenery of the Mediterranean Sea, an invitation letter was sent to the Royal Farm, saying that she invited Empress Dowager Yang and her lively maids to participate in the festival together. A birthday party for a foreign man.

Empress Dowager Yang was a little baffled at first, not understanding that the invitation letter would specifically invite her and Qiu to go.But Empress Dowager Yang is smart after all. This feeling of ignorance is instantly realized when I think of the anecdote that a woman who is not very beautiful in the eyes of some Chinese people in later generations was regarded as stunning by foreigners.This foreigner must have taken a fancy to her family and went away.

Speaking of which, the three court ladies beside Empress Dowager Yang, except for Dongguo, are not considered beauties in the true sense, whether it is spring or autumn.Of course, the eyes of Daming people and foreigners at this time are very different. Perhaps in the eyes of the Chinese people, the plain-looking Chunlai and Qiuqu are as beautiful as angels in the eyes of foreigners. , the foreign gentleman who has been staring at Qiu Qu with fiery eyes is the irrefutable proof.

So she hid in a corner, holding a cocktail to enjoy the piano performance, and Empress Dowager Yang began to wander into space. Until the banquet was over, Qiu Qu seemed a little embarrassed to decline the foreign gentleman's proposal to send them back to the farm. At this time, Empress Dowager Yang reacted a little slower asked. "How do you feel about that... Tom or Tang De's guy!"

"Ma'am, Qiu Qu thinks about it. I'm afraid that Qiu Qu won't accept foreign barbarians as husbands very much!"

Qiu Qu said to Empress Dowager Yang very directly, so Empress Dowager Yang understood that they would not be able to stay in Texas (Texas) for a few days.It's just that fate is unpredictable. When Empress Dowager Yang participated in the ten-nation talks jointly held by Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and other countries as Empress Dowager Cixi of the Ming Dynasty, Qiu Qu, who helped Empress Dowager Yang read the documents, met again. That foreign gentleman named Tang De, and this time Mr. Tang De no longer just stared at Qiu Qu with fiery eyes, but with the encouragement of his friends, he launched a passionate pursuit of Qiu Qu...

In this regard, Empress Dowager Yang sent a letter to Zhu Cilin who was far away in Daming, but was always thinking about digging money from foreigners' pockets, describing her sadness about "losing" her loyal servant.

After receiving the letter, Zhu Cilin first breathed a sigh of relief, thanking that it was not his mother who was in love. It was just like the nightmare he had, and found him a barbarian stepfather. Then, at the suggestion of Queen Shi Xi, he replied very immorally. Said——"What is it called Tom or Tang De? If you want to marry Qiu, you can go to your aunt, but you have to be married. We Daming girls are not happy to marry outsiders."