Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 249

Inside the palace wall, Emperor Zhengyuan was ruling.

The Daxi Dynasty was only five days old.

Before the war, Lu Shouyi was an illiterate man who could only write his name. After the formation of the team, he began to learn to read and write. He changed his current name and proclaimed himself as Emperor Zhengyuan.

But the words he knew were really limited, and he didn’t like to deal with those things, especially some of the old court officials, who spoke in a delicate manner. Whenever he was distracted for a while, he couldn’t understand what the other party was saying.

“Has Qingyi not come back yet?” Lu Shouyi held a pen in one hand and scratched his neatly combed hair into a chicken coop with the other.

(His real name is Lu Shouyi)

The eunuch close to him was not from the previous dynasty, but a young general in his former army named Qian Sansi.

Qian Sansi was also a child of a poor family. When he was ten years old, his family went to find a gelding pig butcher and was castrated like an animal.

Later, his family wanted to send him to the palace as an exchange for money, but they didn’t expect such a thing to happen to poor people like them.

Qian Sansi couldn’t get into the palace but became a eunuch. His parents simply threw him into the wild and let him die.

It also happened that Qian Sansi met Lu Shouyi and joined the rebel army.

His situation was actually very similar to Wu Qingyi, who was picked up by King Yi in a desperate situation. Also because of that, Qian Sansi and Wu Qingyi were very friendly.

“The general just sent a letter to His Majesty a while ago, and he will be here in around two days.”

Lu Shouyi naturally remembered that, but he didn’t expect Wu Qingyi to help him with his official duties. Wu Qingyi, like him, was a rough man, and got dizzy when he saw the ink words. He was waiting for Wu Qingyi to invite the teacher of the three dynasties from Hanshan Town.

Although the old man was a former official of the previous dynasty, he was dedicated to the people. Otherwise, he would not have been demoted and returned to his hometown.

In addition, the old man had also made great efforts to destroy the abolished Emperor, so it could be seen that he was not a foolishly loyal person.

After reading the memorial for another quarter of an hour, Lu Shouyi couldn’t  continue anymore, so he threw the memorial and went to the harem.

There were now three females in the harem of the Daxi Dynasty. One was naturally Lu Shouyi’s mother Wang, who had been named the Queen Dowager. The other was Lu Shouyi’s wife Zhou, who was Empress Zhou.

There was another one, Concubine Feng, the sister of the former Chuzhou general and the current Duke Lu.

The only three people gathered. It was the time for Empress Zhou and Concubine Feng Gui to greet the Queen Dowager, and all three gathered in Cining Palace.

Lu Shouyi also went to Cining Palace.

The Queen Dowager was chatting with her two daughters-in-law. 

In fact, she was not a person who believed in Gods and Buddhas in the past, but since she lost her eldest grandson, the old lady became a vegetarian and believed in Buddhism. She was looking forward to her early bliss to return to the underworld. After being a vegetarian for several years, even when Lu Shouyi ascended the throne, the old lady’s meals were all vegetarian.

Empress Zhou and Concubine Feng next to her were a little careless.

Queen Dowager was inevitably unhappy when she saw it, and her face became stern.

Concubine Feng pleaded guilty first and said, “The weather has changed recently, and both children are sick. Concubine…”

The eldest grandson didn’t come out of Concubine Feng’s belly, so she was naturally not that caring, not to mention that the twins she gave birth to were also her own flesh and blood, and they were indeed weaker than ordinary children. So she went back to the palace to take care of her children.

There was only Empress Zhou left, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came there relying on each other. They used to have a very good relationship.

Later, Empress Zhou’s personality changed after she lost her eldest grandson. After a period of time, she gave birth to another son. But she didn’t let others touch him, even the grandmother, the Queen Dowager, had to get her approval to see her grandson.

With that attitude of treating everyone around her as a thief, not to mention the Queen Dowager, even her relationship with the Emperor became worse.

So in the end, the Queen Dowager didn’t say anything, sighed and let her go.

After she left, the Queen Dowager asked the palace servants about the prince. The little prince born to Empress Zhou was not uncomfortable, but he only took one less bite at breakfast that morning, so Empress Zhou was absent-minded and kept thinking about it.

Although the whole family had jumped from the ground to the cloud, the Queen Dowager sometimes missed the days when she was still in the countryside.

At that time, her son was still called Lu Dan, and not Shouyi. He only told his family that he had a business to do. He settled them in a remote place, and only came back once a year and a half.

But at that time, Father Lu was still there, her body was strong, and her daughter-in-law was filial. Later, she added a grandson to the family. Although she was concerned about her son, her daily life was lively.

But unlike then, suddenly it seemed that apart from eating and waiting to die and wasting time, there was nothing else to do.

When Lu Shouyi arrived, he saw the Queen Dowager alone staring out the window in a daze.

He waved his hand and dismissed the palace servants, stepped forward and sat beside the Queen Dowager, and asked, “Why is my mother unhappy?”

The Queen Dowager came back to her senses, and when she saw it was him, a smile appeared on her face, and she said, “I am not unhappy. My child is capable, and I became the Queen Dowager.”

Having said that, the Queen Dowager’s eyes still showed infinite desolation.

Lu Shouyi couldn’t bear it, and suddenly thought of something, and said, “Qingyi is back. He wrote to say that he has found his mother and his wife in his hometown. They came to Beijing with him. Does mother want to see them?”

“It’s Qingyi’s family, so we should meet them.” The Queen Dowager said with a loving smile, “He is a good boy.”

Back then, Lu Shouyi sent Wu Qingyi to resettle his family. It was also during that resettlement that he realized that he had a son in the countryside and he had already lost him. That was why he didn’t reassign him, and asked Wu Qingyi to find them.

Although he still did not find the person in the end, the Queen Dowager accepted that he had worked so hard to find him for several months.