Chapter 1: Palace change

In the first year of Chunkang, the spring of that year came very early. It was only in early February that the swallows had already flown back to make nests.
A swallow nest has just been built on the purlin in the back hall of the Chongqing Palace, and I can often hear the tender cry of the swallows these days. An attendant climbed up with a ladder to see that there were three swallows in the nest.
The owner of the Chongqing Palace is the new queen dowager Li, and the waiter dared not take off the nest at will, and hurriedly reported the matter to the queen mother.
Queen Mother Li heard that there was a pity in her heart, and said: "It is a happy event that the swallows come to build a nest. Let it go. Don't make the old swallow feel sad that he can't find his children."
At the moment, no one dared to move the nest again.
Li was only twenty years old, and she became a new widow when the emperor died at the end of last year. The prince succeeded to the throne and respected her stepmother as the queen mother, and moved into the Chongqing Palace. She watched the Xifu Begonia in the courtyard opened, and the spring was full of the courtyard. She was only twenty years old, and she had already reached the pinnacle of prosperity and wealth, and became the most noble woman in the world.
Empress Dowager Li stared from the carved window and looked at the trees in full bloom. She suddenly remembered the year when she entered the palace at the age of fourteen. At that time, she was just an unskilled little girl walking in the crowd nervously. It's been six years in this deep palace. Time flies so fast.
"Manny! Are you awake?"
The bead curtain made a soft sound, and the shadow of the curtain floated slightly. The maid beside the Queen Mother, Wan Su, took a lacquer-filled sunflower tray and walked in. On the tray was a tea bowl with five blessings and longevity.
Queen Mother Li shifted her gaze, and slowly walked to the red sandalwood bed that Su Rili often sat on.
Wan Su stood in front of him, looking obediently.
"How about the emperor in Nanshufang today?"
Xinjun has just turned seven and is still studying with Taifu in the South Study Room. Nowadays, government affairs are controlled by the regent and several heads of the cabinet.
Wan Su hesitated and said, "Don't be angry after listening to you..."
"Let's say, is the emperor being reprimanded by the regent again?"
Wan Su hesitated and said: "The regent tried his majesty's book, and his majesty did not answer two sentences. The regent was anxious, so he hit his majesty's palm with a ruler. An inch wide ruler hurts even after thinking about it. The regent is not allowed to cry."
"Bastard! He is supposed to discipline his own son, that is the emperor, let him play around like this." In the end, Li felt sorry for the stepson. There was some excitement in the words.
But the regent did not have a son, let alone a son, because the regent had a deficiency, was born weak, and he was twenty-four years old, and he didn't even get married.
"The lady just got up, please use tea." Wan Su said, holding the tea cup in the tea tray, kneeling down in front of the couch, raising her hands above her head, and presenting it respectfully.
She had always been safe, but her hands were shaking a little at this moment.
Empress Dowager Li didn't notice this slight abnormality either, she reached out and took the tea cup. She opened the tea lid and saw that the brown tea soup was not as usual. She frowned and said, "Why do you change ginseng tea?"
Wan Su shivered slightly and said: "The regent, the regent said that the empress needs to calm the nerves and replenish qi, and now it is the most suitable to take ginseng tea."
Queen Mother Li chuckled: "This regent is so generous, now it's in Chongqing Palace, and it's on Ai's family." Queen Mother frowned, and after a while she finally reached her lips and drank lightly. Take a bite.
When Wan Su saw that the Queen Mother finally drank this tea, she was already panicked and said: "Mother, this tea was delivered by the Regent himself."
"Regent……"
Queen Mother Li felt a faint pain in her chest, her head swelled, but her eyes became more and more blurred, and there was some fishy hot liquid overflowing from the corners of her mouth.
"Wan Su, you..."
The Empress Dowager Li hadn't finished saying this, she rolled her eyes and fell, and she didn't feel anymore.
Seeing that the Queen Mother was dead, Wan Su burst into tears, and repeatedly kowtowed: "Manny, there are debts and debts, but the regent, servants and servants have nothing to do with you..."
The regent wanted to poison her to usurp the throne! Why hate that she didn't discover the regent's wolf ambition sooner?
Li Wei scratched his hands and yelled, sweating profusely.
"Wei Wei, Wei Wei."
Li Wei opened his eyes and saw the face of an ordinary woman. The woman looked plain, she looked forty, maybe just thirty? But the outfit is so strange. But she saw her ears with short hair, a jujube-colored checkered shirt, and black pants. This is mom, a little girl's voice flashed through her mind.
Li Wei looked up and saw a thread hanging from the black beams, and a small glass ball hung on the thread. There was a shiny filament in the ball, illuminated by the orange light from that filament. The whole house.
What is this?
"Weiwei, you are too stupid to speak." The woman was anxious.
Li Wei entered the palace at the age of fourteen, was named the imperial concubine at the age of nineteen, and became a widow and queen mother at twenty. This name has not been called for many years.
The woman stretched out her hand to touch Li Wei's forehead to try her daughter's burning or not. However, Li Wei instinctively hid her body and did not make her wish.
"You finally woke up and almost scared me to death. You won't be allowed to go to the riverside to mess around in the future. You said that you are a girl and a boy who learns to fish. You almost killed me by touching it. You know?"
Li Wei felt his head buzzing as if hundreds of flies were calling around her. She closed her eyes again, and the person's shadow appeared in her mind. The man was slender and wore a moon-white embroidered python robe, with a green-gold palace tape hanging from his waist, and a piece of beautiful jade tied to the tape. Because of the insufficiency, his face is so pale and weak.
Li Wei cried loudly in his heart, the first emperor, what you entrusted to is not human, this man is wolfish ambition, he is planning to usurp the throne, such a rebellious thing, even his own sister-in-law dare to kill.
Her blood was surging with hatred, and she gritted her teeth and shouted: "The Aijia will kill you, kill you!"
She yelled and finally woke up again.
There was a teenager sitting in front of the bed. His makeup was strange, his short hair was not as long as his ears, and he was staring at her with a pair of bright eyes.
"This is the big brother." A little girl's weak voice flashed in Li Wei's mind again.
Seeing that his sister was awake, Li Jianping said concerned: "Thank God, you finally woke up. Don't do stupid things anymore."
Li Wei wanted to say something, but his throat was blocked, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
Where is this? She looked at the shiny glass ball in the room again.
"By the way, what did you call in your dream just now? I heard a killing character. Did you have a nightmare?" The gentle voice of the young man came over. This gentleness was like a spring breeze, which slightly calmed the anxiety in Li Wei's heart. . Although she hadn't figured out the situation in front of her, she agreed with the boy's words: "Yes, I had a nightmare."
However, for the Queen Mother, why didn't you think this was just a nightmare.