Chapter 718

"The Empress Dowager is not in good health recently. The slave advised her not to be too tired."

Cao An is still talking about it. He looks at Bai lixin'er with a sad face and can't help but sigh.

"But you know, your highness, where would the Empress Dowager listen to the advice of the slave? Your highness, you'd better come over later and help to persuade the empress... You've been dealing with herbs all day. How can you survive? "

"Thank you for reminding me. Xin'er knows you are kind."

Bai Li Xin'er nodded slightly, and the worry on her face remained unchanged.

"Your Highness, don't blame the servant for talking too much. He can't help talking too much when he is old."

Cao An saw that the eldest princess didn't blame herself, but her face was full of fear.

Although the Empress Dowager and his family were kind and didn't treat him as a lowly slave, he almost forgot his identity.

"Duke Cao..."

Bai Li Xin'er patted Cao an on the shoulder, turned his head and looked at the door of his mother's bedroom. He swallowed some words of comfort.

First, standing at the door and listening quietly for a while, it seemed that there was only the shallow sound of reading books, and no one else was there. Bailixin'er waved to Cao An to let him go, and then raised her hand and knocked on the doorframe carefully.

"Mother?"

"Xiner? Come in

The voice from the closed door was tired and hoarse. Bai lixin'er took two deep breaths and pushed the door in.

The eye-catching bedroom is full of books everywhere, and there are many herbs in every corner. It's not like the bedroom of a noble empress dowager, but more like a medical maniac falling into obsession.

"Empress..."

Baili Xin'er carefully does not step on the floor, and the medical books are placed everywhere. Looking at Huo Mingzhu, who hears himself come in but is still buried in the papers, her voice is a little sad.

Is it meaningful to study medicine so hard now?

That man has been gone for so many years, and his bones may have been reduced to ashes. Now that he knows medicine, he will not save that man's life, will he?

Walking to the front, Bai lixin'er's nose is sour and astringent, and her eyes become moist instantly.

Mother's age is less than 40 years old, but in front of this shoulder thin, haggard face of the woman, looking really has a sense of aging beyond her age.

The most noble woman in the Dayong Dynasty, however, turned herself into this picture.

"Mother."

"What's the matter with Xin'er?"

Huo Mingzhu heard her daughter's voice on her side. Then she slowly raised her head and looked at the past.

But the eyes because they have been staring at books, sour and boil red eyes, no trace of luster, and even seem a bit numb.

"Mother... Can't mother give up? Don't think about it any more. For the sake of Xin'er and brother Yan, will you take care of yourself? "

The tears ran down the cheek uncontrollably.

Originally wanted to pretend to be safe, a few words of humor and consolation, but it turned into a bitter cry.

Bai Li Xin'er kneels down beside Huo Mingzhu. She gently leans her head on her mother's knee, and tears soak her clothes.

"I'm just bored in my spare time. I have to find something to do. Why are you crying?"

Huo Mingzhu calmly smiles. She holds her daughter's cheek and gently wipes her tears, but her eyes are sad.