After entering Shoukang Palace, Lu Yun lowered his head and stopped looking around. He was worried that there were still some old people here from more than ten years ago. Those people watched Lu Yun grow up, and it would be troublesome if they recognized him.
"You are here, I'll go in first." Huangfu Xuan told Lu Yun to go into the hall first.
Lu Yun waited outside the hall, and he looked at his toes, his heart pounding. At this moment, he really felt what it means to be close to the hometown. This feeling was so strong that he had never even returned to Luodu.
Only people have a home, and it is precisely because of the emperor and grandmother that he feels like he is going home...
In the past, scenes flashed in front of Lu Yun's eyes like a lantern. He saw the little boy of five or six years old standing in front of the emperor's grandmother obediently, wiping tears while memorizing the letter; he saw the emperor's grandmother's life saying to the boy, asking him to work hard and be a good emperor in the future; he saw that the bloody night, the emperor's grandmother stood at the gate of Shoukang Palace with a cane, roaring at the soldiers of the Xiahou clan: "If you want to come in, step over the old woman's body first!"
Before he knew it, Lu Yun's eyes were already wet...
"Mr. Lu, the Empress Dowager is invited." A familiar and unfamiliar voice interrupted Lu Yun's memory.
He quickly took a deep breath, calmed down, and followed the middle-aged female official into the hall.
The female official looked at Lu Yun strangely. She had been with the Queen Mother for twenty years and had never seen her, so excited that she could not sleep at night in order to meet a foreign minister. Although Lu Yun kept his head down, she always felt that this young man was a little kind-faced, as if he had seen him somewhere.
Fortunately, as soon as he entered the hall, the female official did not dare to peek at Lu Yun anymore, and took him into the warm room without looking sideways again.
In the warm pavilion, the furnishings have not changed at all from ten years ago. The soft couch next to the window is covered with bright yellow silk mattresses, and a pair of small tables of golden nanmu are placed on the couch, and a gilt incense burner and spoon and chopsticks incense box are placed on it. In front of the couch is a royal blue Persian carpet embroidered with the pattern of phoenix returning to the nest. To the two sides are some furnishings such as flower vases and plum vases. Apart from this, there are no other luxurious furnishings. As for the noble status of the Empress Dowager, it can be said to be very simple.
There was only the sword and iron whip hanging on the wall, which was still telling the old empress dowager's past as good as men...
But all the glory has been blown away by the wind and rain. The heroes of the female class back then are now in their twilight years. They are sitting on the soft couch in an old state, and they can't even straighten their waists.
Huangfu Xuan knelt beside the old empress dowager, pinching her legs and talking in a low voice. Seeing Lu Yun come in, he shouted to the empress dowager: "Grandmother, the person you want to meet is here."
"Oh?" The old lady raised her head with a trembling trembling, squinted her dim old eyes, and looked at the handsome young man who was walking in from outside.
When Lu Yun saw the emperor's grandmother, he could no longer stop his tears. He quickly possessed himself and knelt on the ground, suppressed his excitement, and kowtowed the old lady three times.
"My little minister bows to the Empress Dowager... I wish the Empress Dowager good and longevity!"
"Okay, okay..." The old lady responded in a trembling voice, and an uncontrollable excitement appeared on her wrinkled face. "Good kid, get closer and let the old man see you."
Huangfu Xuan hurriedly waved to Lu Yun and said, "Come quickly."
Lu Yun nodded, walked forward, and arrived three feet in front of the empress dowager's bed. When he raised his head, tears were gone on his face, only his eyes were slightly red.
The Empress Dowager looked at Lu Yun in a daze, slowly raised her hand, trying to touch his face, but forcibly put her arm on Huangfu Xuan, patted his shoulder and said, "No, you have good luck, you have to cherish..."
"Yes, my grandson follows the teachings of the emperor and grandmother." Huangfu Xuan responded with a smile.
"Everyone sit down and talk." The old empress dowager signaled Huangfu Xuan to sit back as well.
The two of them thanked the Queen Mother and knelt down on the soft cushion in front of the couch and spoke respectfully to the Queen Mother.
"I heard that you belong to the Lu Xin family?" The old empress dowager lowered her eyelids and did not look at Lu Yun, but her voice was extremely kind, completely gone from the slightest sternness of the past.
"Go back to the Queen Mother, yes." Lu Yun nodded.
"I have met Lu Xin several times back then, and I am a pure minister. Later I heard that he went to the south to become an official, so you have been in the south for many years?" The Empress Dowager asked about Lu Yun's situation over the years.
"Yes, the little minister has been in Wujun for many years and has been taught to study and practice martial arts. He will start at the fifth day and never stop until he has lost his time." Lu Yun also respectfully reported his experiences over the years to the emperor's grandmother. "I have been blessed with the Queen Mother, and I have been safe all these years until I return to Beijing this year..."
In front of Huangfu Xuan, the grandparents and grandchildren cannot recognize each other when they meet, and they also have to communicate by hitting the enemy. This is the most painful thing in the world.
Huangfu Xuan listened from the side and felt a little strange. The Empress Dowager was taciturn and even more impatient with trivial matters. Why did she grab Lu Yun and ask questions? She wanted to ask him what he had eaten, dressed and asked him every day?
But then I thought about it, it was a good thing that the Empress Dowager valued Lu Yun after all. Especially the moment in front of me, I am afraid that the old lady will have to pass it later.
Thinking of this, he finally couldn't help but speak and interrupted the "nutritionless" idle talk.
"Grandmother, there is something that my grandson wants to report, but he is afraid... he always gets angry." Huangfu Xuan stuttered.
"Just say whatever you want to do, don't be like your father, always have one thing in front of you and one thing behind your back!" The old lady was so shady that she was so kind that she had just now.
"Yes..." Huangfu Xuan thought to himself, why can't I be polite to me? But now he didn't care about taking Qiao, so he quickly told the old lady what had just happened.
"What a bastard, I'm too bullying!" The old lady was furious when she heard this, and patted Xiaoji and cursed: "Call your father over quickly. Lao Zhen wants to ask him how he taught his son!"
"Ah, this..." Huangfu Xuan heard that he was going to call the First Emperor, but he was instinctively afraid, but then suddenly realized that his father was already his backer. He couldn't help but be surprised and stood up quickly and said, "Son, obey the order, let's report to his father."
After saying that, he glanced at Lu Yun and heard the old empress dowager say coldly: "Let him stay here peacefully, I see who dares to be presumptuous in front of me!"
"Okay." Huangfu Xuan didn't do anything, he thought, and quickly withdrew from the warm room and brought the rescuers.
.
As soon as Huangfu Xuan left, the palace servant who was standing next to him quietly left the warm room, slowly closed the door, guarding the door, and not allowing anyone to approach.
In the warm pavilion, only Lu Yun and the Empress Dowager's grandparents and grandchildren were finally left.
"Good grandson, come here quickly..." The old empress dowager did not hide her emotions and stretched out her hands towards Lu Yun.
"Grandmother of the Emperor..." Lu Yun rushed forward like a slutty swallow, hugging the old lady tightly.
Chapter completed!