EBE Chapter 652 The Queen Mother is worried
Chapter 652 The Queen Mother is worried
"Your Majesty, the time has come. We should return to the palace."
Liang Chongyue was sleeping soundly when he heard Yun Ling calling him. He opened his eyes in a daze and his headache was relieved a lot. After he stood up, there were no more flying insects in front of his eyes.
"Your Majesty, please put on a cloak."
Yun Ling was holding a black cloak in her hand. Liang Chongyue was unable to change out of the blood-stained dragon robe at the Daxiangguo Temple, so she had to put on the cloak to cover it.
After coming out of Daxiangguo Temple, Liang Chongyue got on the carriage with the help of Yun Ling. The carriage was covered with soft cushions and ginseng soup was prepared to replenish qi and blood.
After Yun Ling helped His Majesty to his seat and waited for the carriage to start moving, she opened the lid of the ginseng soup and smelled it.
"Your Majesty, would you like to drink this ginseng soup?"
Yun Ling smelled the scent and it didn't seem to come from the palace, so she thought it must have been prepared by Chi Rong.
"Let it go first."
Liang Chongyue is not hungry now. She is full after drinking the two bowls of chicken soup and can't drink anything else.
Liang Chongyue leaned his head against the inner wall of the carriage. Feeling weak, he soon fell asleep.
After waking up from a sleep, the carriage entered the capital.
"What time is it now?"
"Your Majesty, it is already three quarters past noon. Your Majesty is resting, so the carriage dare not go fast."
Listening to the sounds coming from outside the carriage, Liang Chongyue slowly lifted a corner of the curtain, saw the scenery inside the capital, closed his eyes, and fell asleep again.
Although Xiang Huayue had never witnessed the scene of the emperor performing a sacrifice, when the previous emperor was alive, he would have wounds on his palms after every sacrifice and would be weak for a long time. She was worried about Chongyue, so she brought people to wait behind the Meridian Gate early.
"Have you prepared the nourishing soup I asked you to prepare?"
Xiang Huayue waved the fan in her hand faster and faster, and her anxiety became more and more obvious.
"Your Majesty, we have instructed the imperial kitchen to prepare everything this morning."
"I don't know when the emperor will return, and I'm getting anxious waiting."
Chun Chan stood beside the Empress' sedan chair, feeling worried for His Majesty. It was His Majesty's first time performing a sacrifice, and there was no one to teach him. He didn't know what the result would be.
Just as he was thinking about it, the Meridian Gate opened. Xiang Huayue looked straight towards the Meridian Gate. After seeing that it was the carriage that His Majesty was sitting in when he left, he immediately stood up from the sedan chair and went to greet him.
The carriage stopped, Liang Chongyue slowly opened his eyes, and with the help of Yun Ling, he got off the carriage. As soon as he got off, he met his mother's concerned gaze.
Xiang Huayue looked at Chongyue's blood-red skin faintly exposed under the black cloak. She didn't even notice that the fan in her hand fell to the ground. Tears suddenly filled her eyes, but she couldn't let them fall in front of others.
"Quick, get on the sedan chair and return to the Yangxin Palace."
Xiang Huayue immediately ordered the palace servants who were carrying the sedan chair behind him. When they arrived at the palace, Liang Chongyue endured the discomfort and sat on the sedan chair. When he closed his eyes to relieve the dizziness, he felt something on his legs.
When she recovered, the sedan chair had already started moving towards the Yangxin Palace. Her legs were covered with the cloak that her mother had just put on.
Two sedan chairs were parked at the Meridian Gate. The Queen Mother walked in front of her, looking back at her from time to time, her slightly red eyes full of concern.
Liang Chongyue smiled back, hoping to stop her mother from worrying, but she didn't know that the smile she forced when her face was pale was three times weaker than not smiling at all.
Xiang Huayue turned her head away with sadness in her heart, unable to bear to look at Chongyue's expression at this moment. Her heart felt like it was being pulled by someone.
The sedan chair stopped at the entrance of the Yangxin Palace. Xiang Huayue got off first. When she turned around to look at Chongyue again, Yunling had already walked over with her support.
"The sacrifice was very successful. I am fine. Mother, don't worry. I still have some government affairs to attend to. Mother, why don't you go back first? I will come to pay my respects to you in a few days."
While Chongyue was speaking, Xiang Huayue stared straight at her pale lips. Chongyue was born after she carried her baby for ten months, and she always reported good news but not bad news. How could she not know that Chongyue just didn't want her to worry, so she deliberately wanted to send her away.
"Okay, I'll wait for you to go in and then I'll send someone to bring you dinner. Enjoy it. Chongyue, you've worked hard today. I'll go back first."
As Xiang Huayue was speaking, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye, and just looking at it made people feel heartbroken.
Xiang Huayue wiped away the tears from her face, forced a smile, took the best hemostatic and healing medicine from Chunchan behind her and handed it to Ping'an, then stood there waiting for Yunling to come in.
Knowing that his mother would not leave without seeing him return to the palace, Liang Chongyue straightened his back, turned around and walked into the Yangxin Palace.
Until they walked into the Yangxin Palace, Liang Chongyue was like a deflated ball. He supported his arm on Yun Ling's hand, walked to the chair, sat down directly, took a deep breath, and stabilized his heart rate.
"Prepare some water. I need to bathe and change clothes."
If Liang Chongyue took a bath now, she would be in danger of fainting in the bathroom, but she felt too uncomfortable. She covered the bloody smell on her body with perfumed powder, but the fishy blood had been stuck to her for most of the day, and a short cover-up was not of much use.
"Yes, slave, go right away."
Yunling was serving His Majesty. When Ping'an heard His Majesty's order, he immediately responded and left.
As soon as he went out, he ran into the Empress Dowager who had not left yet.
"Your servant pays homage to Her Majesty the Queen Mother. May Her Majesty live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."
"Get up and talk."
Chongyue was not here, Xiang Huayue held back the tears in her eyes. Looking at Ping'an's simple and submissive face, knowing that he was sincere to Chongyue and would not say anything, Xiang Huayue still asked without giving up:
"Your Majesty, how serious is the wound on her hand?"
Xiang Huayue had seen the wound on the palm of the late emperor's hand before. It was a place where countless blood vessels and meridians converged, and even the slightest deviation would cause serious damage. She was really worried.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is extremely powerful, so there's nothing serious going on."
Ping An himself couldn't bear to look at the wound on the palm of His Majesty's hand. If he told the truth to the Empress Dowager and made her sad, His Majesty would skin him alive and pull out his tendons.
Xiang Huayue glanced at Ping'an's face with an inquiring gaze. Seeing Ping'an's clear and firm eyes, she believed it a little more.
"You must take good care of His Majesty. If anything happens to His Majesty, I will never forgive you."
"Yes, I will follow your Majesty's instructions and serve you well."
Ping'an's upper body, which was already bent, bent even more while he spoke. After the Empress Dowager stared at the direction of the Yangxin Palace for a while and reluctantly led her people away, Ping'an did not straighten his bent upper body much. He just saluted the Empress Dowager's departing procession and said:
"Your servant respectfully bids farewell to the Empress Dowager."