Liu Heng packed a sesame seed cake and returned to the palace.
The food in the palace naturally tastes good.
Zhenren Zeyang was the emperor's most valued national advisor. The people in the palace fawned over him and gave him the best food, no less than the food of the concubines in the harem.
It’s just that compared to the finely crafted food in the palace, Master Zeyang prefers to eat snacks made by ordinary people outside.
Also Zeyang is a vegetarian, but Liu Hao is not a vegetarian.
Liu Heng took out his badge and entered the palace smoothly.
He walked along the path to Qiankun Pavilion. Passing by a garden, Liu Heng quickened his pace.
There is someone in the garden, presumably a concubine from the harem.
Even if she is not a concubine, but just an ordinary palace maid, Liu Heng does not want to get involved.
The eyes of the palace ladies looked at him so hotly, as if they wanted to devour him.
He understood the thoughts of these women. After all, there were too few male creatures in the harem, and there were even fewer young and good-looking male creatures like him.
It is normal for these palace ladies to want to "eat" him, but the problem is, he is a Taoist priest!
When Liu Heng saw the women in the harem, he always avoided them.
The people in the garden discovered Liu Hiiragi. The middle-aged woman in the lead looked at Liu Hiiragi's back and asked, "Who is that?"
Why did that back give her a very special feeling? Familiar feeling?
"Back to the empress, that should be Taoist Master Liu Heng, Master Zeyang's disciple."
Although the eunuchs serving Master Zeyang have also changed into Taoist attire, their temperament shows that they are not from this world.
And the only one who can freely enter and exit the palace gate is Taoist priest Liu Heng.
The middle-aged woman, the queen, looked at the direction Liu Hiong left. She didn't look back until his back completely disappeared.
The queen didn't ask any more questions. After sitting in the garden for a while, she returned to her Kunning Palace.
At night, the queen woke up from her dream.
The maid of honor who was keeping watch at night hurried forward to serve the queen.
"Go and call Banxia."
The empress sat up and ordered, leaning on the soft cushion. At this time, she couldn't sleep either.
The eldest maid immediately asked people to find the Pinellia ternata mentioned by the Queen.
In about a cup of tea, Banxia hurriedly entered the queen's bedroom.
Panxia is about the same age as the Queen, and she is the Queen's confidant who has been with her since before she entered the palace.
Panxia did not leave the palace to get married. When she got older, she became a nanny. She has always been by the queen's side and is the queen's most trusted person.
The queen sent the others away, grabbed Banxia's arm, and whispered: "Panxia, I dreamed about the emperor's son."
Banxia felt sour in her heart. : "Your Majesty, the little prince's birthday will be in a few days, so you think of the little prince."
The queen sighed: "Yes, the child's birthday will be in half a month, but I didn't even spend his first birthday with him."
Banxia felt even more sad.
Her mother-in-law suffered so much. I hate the Zhang family for making her suffer the pain of losing her son. She should not have been allowed to die so easily in the first place.
Queen: "I can't sleep, Pinellia, please help me grind the ink, I want to copy Buddhist scriptures for the emperor."
Panxia did not persuade the queen, she understood that such a queen would not persuade the queen at all. Can't live.
Banxia took her coat, personally served the Queen's clothes on the boat, and helped the Queen to the table.
Panxia laid out the paper and began to rub ink. The queen picked up the brush and wrote down words one by one on the paper.
It is the text in the Buddhist scriptures.
Over the years, the queen often copied Buddhist scriptures, and she had memorized the contents of the Buddhist scriptures. She was able to write down the contents of the Buddhist scriptures without reading them again.
Ban Xia has been helping the queen polish ink. In the candlelight, the two accompanied each other.
They had spent countless nights like this.
The next day, the queen entered the Buddhist hall with the copied Buddhist scriptures.
The Buddhist hall is located in Kunning Palace. It was set up as soon as the queen entered the palace. All the women in the harem knew that the queen was obsessed with worshiping Buddha and did not care about anything except managing palace affairs, nor did she care how the concubines in the harem competed for the emperor's favor.
Therefore, no harem fight will involve the queen.
The queen placed the copied Buddhist scriptures in front of the Buddha statue, lit incense and offered it to the Buddha. Then she knelt down and kowtowed to the Buddha statue, chanting something in her mouth.
After a while, the queen was helped up by Pinellia ternata, walked to the side of the Buddhist hall and sat down behind the table, and continued to copy Buddhist scriptures.
It is very quiet inside the Buddhist hall, you can hear even the sound of mosquitoes flying by.
Just after Ban Xia had spent a quiet day as usual, a voice sounded in the Buddhist hall.
It is the voice of the queen.
"Panxia, I feel that the emperor is not dead." The queen said, "I had a dream last night that the emperor was back."
Panxia sighed, but didn't know what to say.
The little prince is dead. He died seventeen years ago.
It’s still the kind with no bones left.
Queen: "Panxia, I know you don't believe it. But the feeling is getting stronger and stronger. I really feel that the emperor is not dead. You said that the emperor was not taken away by a wild beast, but Was he rescued? ”
How is that possible?
There are few people in that mountain, only wild animals.
Otherwise, Mrs. Zhang would not have asked anyone to throw the little prince into that mountain.
But Banxia couldn't say this: "Perhaps, the little prince really has his own destiny?"
She could only comfort the queen in this way.
The queen said nothing and continued to write Buddhist scriptures with her head down.
When it was time for lunch, the queen put down her brush and left the Buddhist hall.
Had lunch and took a nap again.
Maybe she didn’t sleep last night, so the queen took a long nap this time.
When I woke up, it was already mid-afternoon.
The queen thought for a while, and then took the people to the garden where they had been yesterday to relax.
Panxia found that the queen looked into the garden from time to time.
There is a trail there, and occasionally people pass by.
Every time someone passes by, the queen will look over there and then look away.
Who is the Queen looking at?
Banxia was confused.
Yesterday, she did not come to this courtyard with the Queen to relax. She did not know that the Queen had seen Liu Hiara and asked about Liu Hiara's identity.
But I don’t know, you can ask about Pinellia ternata.
She intuitively felt that the Queen's dream last night and today's abnormality were related to what happened during yesterday's leisure time.
After returning to Kunning Palace, she took the eldest maid next to the queen to ask Qiu, asking the queen in detail what she had done yesterday and who she had met.
"Taoist Master Liu Heng?"
Ban Xia wrote down the name.
The queen went to the garden to relax for several days in a row, but never saw Liu Heng again.
The queen stopped going to the garden and continued her previous life of chanting and copying scriptures.
But Ban Xia kept this matter in her heart, and wanted to see Liu Heng. She wanted to see what the Taoist priest Liu He looked like, and why the queen could not forget her just by looking at his back. .
On this day, Liu Heng came back from the palace and passed by the garden he had to pass. He found a middle-aged nun at the gate of the garden staring at him in surprise.
Liu Heng: "??"
Liu Heng smiled politely at his grandma and strode away.