Bai Yuanze was very tired after two days. Looking at the elixir that the little boy took out of the elixir furnace, he finally had a smile on his face.
"Refining the Guiyuan Pill is quite troublesome and requires a lot of energy. Master is not young anymore, so you should take it easy. The wrinkles on your old face are more obvious than before!" Meng Shu said softly.
After two days without sleep, even a young and strong man would be exhausted, let alone Bai Yuanze, who was over fifty years old.
"Where?" When Bai Yuanze heard what his disciple said, he quickly reached out and touched his face. Little did he know that he had touched the alchemy furnace not long ago, and there was black ash on his hands. He could not feel the wrinkles on his face now, but wiped them clean. Face black and gray.
Meng Shu handed over the small mirror he carried with him calmly.
Bai Yuanze took it over and looked at it, and his whole body froze.
"Shu'er, tell me, did you do something bad recently that made Shu'er angry?" Bai Yuanze returned the mirror and asked while wiping his face with the handkerchief handed over by the little boy.
Otherwise, how could this girl tease him?
Meng Shu started studying medicine with him at the age of eight. Although she was a well-behaved and sensible little girl, she sometimes liked to tease people like her bastard senior brothers.
But she was just a little girl, and she was as cute as Yuxue. Bai Yuanze couldn't bear to scold her harshly, so he turned a blind eye.
But she is no longer an eight-year-old girl.
She must be dissatisfied with him as her master by doing this.
"Master thinks too much. I'm not angry. I just see that Master has been very angry these past two days. I'm afraid it will be bad for your health, so I want to make Master happy. Does Master feel much better now?" Meng Shu asked with a smile.
Bai Yuanze: "..."
"The Queen Mother went to court today, and the Emperor personally went to pick her up. He knelt at the door of Taikang Palace for an hour. The Queen Mother had the door opened and went up with the Emperor." Meng Shu said this and turned to He looked over his shoulder at the alchemy room of Xizhou.
"You come with Master!" Bai Yuanze knew that his disciple had something to say, but was afraid that others would hear it, so he took her into the room where he kept the elixirs.
This house was specially built after he entered the palace. It was made of stone and had no windows. After closing the door, the sound of conversations in the house could not be heard outside.
"There is one thing that I am very confused about. Logically speaking, the Queen Mother is the emperor's mother. Even if she is partial to King Wei, she should not treat the emperor like this. A tiger's poison cannot eat its own child, but she is so cruel. Master doesn't think so. Is it weird?" Meng Shu had wanted to ask about this for a long time, but she knew that the master was tight-lipped, so she held back.
Today I learned that the emperor had knelt for an hour to beg the Queen Mother to come to court, so I couldn't help but ask.
"Shu'er, once a person is blinded by power, how can he still have family ties? When the emperor was still the prince, he was praised by the civil and military officials of the court. After he ascended the throne, he would definitely have great power. If the queen mother wanted to control the government, she would naturally have to find another way. , As for King Wei? He is so stupid, of course it is easy to handle, who do you think the Queen Mother will choose? "
Meng Shu was silent after hearing this, and after a while she said: "As a member of the royal family, even though you enjoy the wealth and honor, there are always gains and losses. Even his biological mother is so ruthless. The emperor is really unlucky."
Bai Yuanze smiled when he heard this, and suddenly asked: "Has Shu'er seen the emperor these days?"
Meng Shu didn't know why he asked, but still shook his head: "I haven't seen it before!"
Bai Yuanze's smile froze on his face after hearing his disciple's words.
Could it be that he is overthinking?
It seems that the emperor's boy has no particular thoughts about his Shu'er.
Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be!
Shu'er is as beautiful as a fairy and has great abilities. She is also the emperor's savior!
Even the king of Wei coveted his Shu'er. When the emperor asked Shu'er to detoxify him, he spent two months with her day and night.
Although there is only less than an hour every day.
"Master!" Meng Shu saw Bai Yuanze in a daze and shouted quickly.
"Well!" Bai Yuanze nodded: "It's getting late, Shu'er, let's go back to Yaohua Palace first. Master will go to Taikang Palace to wait for the Empress Dowager to go to court. The Empress Dowager is in a very good mood today. If she gets this pill again, she will definitely I'm very happy. Master, I've finished my work and come back to rest. I'm really tired after two days."
Meng Shu nodded with a smile, opened the door and went out.
……
In the past few days, the Queen Mother and the Emperor had been unhappy and disgusted with each other over the marriage issue, which caused civil and military officials throughout the court to discuss it privately.
The emperor used to be the most filial, and since he was unwell and had no time to take care of him, all major matters were left to the Queen Mother. As long as it was something decided by the Queen Mother, even if the Emperor felt it was inappropriate, he would not stop it.
Although the emperor blocked the empress dowager this time under Lu Guangren's remonstrance, he did not go to Taikang Palace to admit his mistake afterwards. Instead, he went there several days later out of desperation. It can be seen that the emperor did not indulge the empress dowager like in the past.
From now on, any matter that the emperor feels is inappropriate may be refuted by the queen mother.
There will be many more times when mother and son will fight each other in the future.
As for the Queen Mother, she doted on her youngest son, King Wei, which was known throughout the capital.
Even though the eldest son of the emperor was the biological son of the Queen Mother, he was far less favored than King Wei.
In the past, everyone only thought that the Queen Mother was partial.
As for now?
The emperor just disagreed with her about the marriage, so the queen mother lost her temper and quarreled with the emperor for several days. She did not give the eldest son any face, and she could not find her head in the right direction.
After all, if this kind of thing happened to the King of Wei, the Queen Mother would give in after the King of Wei made a little fuss. How could she be serious with her son?
But if she were the emperor, the Queen Mother would not give in. She forced her son to drag his frail body and kneel at the gate of Taikang Palace for an hour before she went to court.
After this incident spread, rumors began to spread in the capital that the Queen Mother was too fond of the King of Wei and hated the Emperor very much.
What's more, they even said that the emperor was not the Queen Mother's biological child.
Meng Shu naturally heard such rumors.
She made some arrangements in Beijing and was very well informed.
She used to feel that the Queen Mother was too partial to the King of Wei, and that the Emperor was seriously poisoned because he shielded the Queen Mother from an arrow. As a mother, she not only did not feel sorry for her son, but instead fought for power with him, which was really inappropriate.
Meng Shu didn't know yet that the Queen Mother sent her master Bai Yuanze into the palace to poison the emperor and send him back to the west as soon as possible.
If she had known about this, I am afraid she would have had the same suspicion as the people in the capital, that the emperor was not the Queen Mother's biological child.
There were some things that she couldn't ask too much about. After all, the master promised the emperor to keep them secret for him.
But everyone’s eyes are sharp!
The Queen Mother's behavior towards the Emperor was completely unlike the behavior a biological mother should have.
Of course, there were rumors inside and outside the palace that the Queen Mother loved the emperor very much. Because the emperor was seriously ill and had trouble sleeping and eating, she invited many Taoist priests to refine elixirs for the emperor to take, hoping to extend his life. .
The wind has changed in the past few days.
