Chapter 64: Sixty-Four Transformations
"Sister Anzhi," the little palace maid with the curtain outside the door was busy saluting.
Hearing this, Anzhi nodded, turned her head to look at the little palace maid's frozen red nose, and said softly: "This time of the morning is the most frozen, if you can't hold it, you can change it with Lian'er and them." β
"Thank you sister for your concern, it's already a great grace for the mother to let us keep vigil under the porch at the door, not to mention that we are still wearing so thick, and the slave is fine. β
Listening to the little girl's crisp voice, Anzhi smiled, took a bowl of freshly boiled decoction and slowly walked into the still dim inner room, looking at Tinglan who was sitting on the bed little by little, she knew that she was tired, and no one had been able to rest well in the past two days because of Niangniang's affairs. Even the emperor has been guarding the mother for three days in a row, and she and Tinglan are servants who are servants and feel a little unbearable, thinking that the person's eyes are still clear before leaving because of the court, and a complicated look crossed in Anzhi's eyes.
"Tinglan, Tinglan," Anzhi stretched out her hand and slowly pushed Tinglan, who was already a little blurred, and whispered: "Niangniang, I'll guard here, you go and rest for a while,"
Tinglan slowly sobered up after listening to Anzhi's words, glanced at Heluo on the bed, a trace of worry crossed her eyes, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'll just go and wipe my face with a cold handkerchief later." β
An Zhi was about to reply, when she suddenly heard the movement behind her, a trace of joy crossed her face, and she quickly turned around and rushed to the bed and said, "Niangniang, Niangniang, you are awake." β
He Luo only felt that he had come out of a long and dark dream, and after a long period of relief, he sat up with the two of them, and fed him a decoction with just the right temperature.
"The slave maid just thought that Niangniang was almost time to wake up," Anzhi put down the medicine bowl and fed Heluo the warm licorice water in the teapot.
"What about him?" asked Heluo, waiting for the warm water to run down his throat.
"The emperor has been guarding you here for three days, and he just went to the early dynasty," Anzhi naturally knew who Heluo was asking.
"It's okay, if you wake up and see him, you will inevitably feel guilty. He Luo smiled bitterly, and there was a rare hoarseness in his voice.
"Niangniang......" Tinglan wanted to speak and stopped,
"Say whatever you want,"
"The emperor treats you so well, if you just say it to deal with Shen Jieyu, why hurt yourself so much?" Tinglan's words were full of puzzlement.
"It's better to do some things yourself, and I didn't do it this time," Heluo closed his eyes tiredly after finishing speaking.
Seeing this, Tinglan wanted to say something, but Anzhi took Ting Lan's hand, and the two retreated quietly.
"Mother," the young man's voice was hoarse due to his age, but it was not annoying to hear, his delicate face brought out a bit of androgyny on his soft face, and a pair of amber eyes sparkled.
"Mother, it's my brother here," a bright girl's voice sounded inside.
"Yu'er," the woman inside hurriedly got up and came out and took the young man's hand, hurriedly entered the house, and while signaling the girl to go out and guard, she taught a lesson: "How many times have you said it, call your aunt yes, if your voice is heard by the eldest lady, I can't ask you to come out with a family law?"
When the young man heard this, a trace of cruel disdain crossed his eyes, and then he turned his head to the charming young woman who looked like a Tianlan person between his eyebrows and said coquettishly: "How many times has my mother said it, my son has long remembered it, isn't it the time when there is no one?"
"That's it, mother, I can't stay in this house for a long time, and even if they hear it these days, they can't do anything to me and my brother," the girl with a bright voice took over.
"Oh, how can I talk about you two mouths combined?" The young woman's eyes bent when she heard this, and she hugged her seven-year-old son, who was rolling in her arms, and said with a smile, where is there still such a tricky and mean and shallow appearance in front of the Qiu family before.
"Auntie heard that the head of the family invited a gentleman for both of you, is it true?"
The young man listened to the cautious and mixed anticipation in the young woman's words, and the bitter pain flashed in his eyes, so that he closed his eyes and suppressed the sourness under his eyes.
The girl on the side knew her brother's temperament, and hurriedly said with a smile: " Where can it be fake, a long time ago, because of the second sister's matter, my father has been much better for me and the third sister in recent days, Yu'er was even allowed to study with Mr. Xu, and a few days ago because of the second sister, my father was a lot lighter to my mother, and now as long as it is before the spring cold state banquet, it must be too late for my father to protect us, where can we still embarrass us, after all, in my father's opinion, now we are an opportunity for the revival of the Qiu family," the girl said this, the corners of her mouth hooked a mocking arc.
"Well, mother, you don't have to worry about me and my sister. β
The young woman sighed with relief when she heard this, and said slowly: "This time it is really our mother and third son who met a nobleman, if it weren't for the concubine Niangniang, I'm afraid that the matter of Yu'er last time would not be so easy to pass," the young woman's eyes flashed with fear, and continued: "Yu'er, where is the king of Anjun who can think of the character, although the king of Anjun is said to be young because of his young age, but sooner or later he will be crowned the prince, and there are only a few brothers in the emperor today, and the king of Anjun is the youngest, and he is loved by the queen mother." You must not have any entanglements with other people," the young woman said this and looked at the young man's indisputable face worriedly, "Mother knows that every time your mother says this, you are not happy, and she also knows that Yu'er is for her mother, but Mother just wants you to be good." β
Qiu Yu listened to the words of the woman in front of her, her eyes were full of bitter hatred, but her voice was flat: "Mother rest assured, Yu'er was ignorant before, don't worry, mother, what kind of character is the king of Anjun, how can he have anything to do with his son." Qiu Yu smiled faintly.
"Well, mother, my brother is studying very seriously these days, even Mr. Xu has praised it several times, and now that there is such a thing as the second sister in the house, we are afraid that there is no more reassuring time than this time, my father and the old lady have noticed me and my brother for whatever reason, but there is only one, the eldest lady will not be able to pinch me and my brother as before, mother, you can rest assured, I will be optimistic about my brother." The girl knows her mother's knot, but in her opinion, her younger brother is so young, and the events of the past few days were just because the okra sisters used their younger brother as a cutter but the matter was bigger.
"Well, I'm relieved when my son says this, this Spring Cold State Banquet doesn't ask you two to do anything, the glory of the Qiu family has nothing to do with the mother's children, the mother only hopes that the two of you will be good, and the other mothers don't have any extravagant hopes. And it doesn't matter if the head concubine in the palace knows it or not, but it's true that people helped our mother, you have to remember this kindness, and if you have the opportunity in the future, you must report it. β
The woman chattered for a long time, but Qiu Yu on the side had already fallen into her own thoughts: When did such a person as Concubine Chen appear in the previous life, if so, judging from the favor of Concubine Chen now, how could that person not collect the past of Concubine Chen, so was there really no such person as Concubine Chen at that time? So now this Concubine Chen......
"Queen Mother," Guo Yingsheng's face seemed to be embarrassed,
"What's the matter?" The queen put down the spring cold year sent by the Internal Affairs Office in her hand and asked, this Guo Yingsheng is an old man beside her, and it is most appropriate to do things up and down on weekdays, when did she have such a look.
"As soon as Concubine Chen woke up a few days ago, she asked Shu Yao of the Summer Palace to be sent to the Shen Criminal Division, and Niangniang knew about it,"
"After the emperor's command, could it be that the Shen Criminal Division dared not follow her concubine's wishes?" The queen's words were full of anger, and Concubine Chen didn't inform her of this matter at all, and directly let Emperor Wu order someone to do it, and the queen couldn't help but clench her silver teeth when she thought of this.
"It's not that the Shen Criminal Division took good care of Na Shu Yao after being ordered, the person has already come out of the Shen Criminal Division, but he has lost a little weight. No, just now, Su Muge went to ask for the emperor's will, and he had already sent Shu Yao over, saying that it was because Concubine Chen's body was already well, so she wanted to interrogate herself. β
"Hmph," the queen couldn't help but sneer when she heard this: "Why doesn't this palace know when this harem was replaced by a concubine in charge, and directly asked the emperor for an edict without going through this palace," the queen sneered and hooked the corners of her mouth, and her face looked extremely gloomy.
"Yes, when it comes to asking the queen for your order, Song Guifei is in charge of the affairs of the six palaces and has to ask your opinion on everything, what kind of thing is her concubine, not even the ninth concubine, isn't she pregnant with a child? β
"Yes, Niangniang, it seems that the palace has not always been favored since the year of the saint's accession to the throne, but it has been ten years, so who can see who can cross you?" Guo Yingsheng said this unhurriedly on the side, but it really calmed the queen's anger, yes, as long as he is the queen, where can anyone cross him?
"Father-in-law Zhao," the master who was in charge of the imperial dining room heard his apprentice say that the first-class celebrity beside the saint was here, and hurriedly ran out, and said with a smile on his face: "Yo, what kind of wind blew you Zhao Gonggong here, but what does the emperor want to eat? Why do you need to make a special trip to this matter, you let the apprentice come and say no to me?
Zhao Su glanced at the master in front of him and said slowly: "The matter of the emperor in this palace is the biggest thing, and those of us who are slaves should run whenever we want." β
The master in charge of the spoon accompanied him with careful flattery but was blocked back by such a neither soft nor hard, so naturally he didn't dare to say more about patting the horse, so he had to be careful to pay for it, and hurriedly said: "What Gonggong Zhao said is very true, look at my mouth." He hurriedly said: "Concubine Chen, I carefully selected two good meals for the mother, both of them are very good at conditioning their bodies, both of them are old people in the palace, and someone has already sent them according to your instructions, at this time you are old, but what is wrong?"
The master in charge of the spoon said this, and he also pinched a cold sweat in his heart, after the incident of Concubine Chen's mother, the palace was cleaned three times, and the palace people who guarded the door at the gate of the plum garden that day, as well as the few minions who collided with Concubine Chen's mother, needless to say, even the guards and eunuchs who were guarding the Summer Palace were all killed, which made people panic, and even the noble emperor with a small position above also gave a few, which actually included Ning Changyi, who was guarded before, and Ning Shurong, who was very favored before.
Thinking of this, the master shrunk his neck again, and his eyes were even more eager to stare at Zhao Su in front of him, for fear that Zhao Su would say something that he couldn't hear, the two grandmothers he found were old men who served the emperor, and he had repeatedly investigated before, he was the emperor's person, and he knew that he didn't seek merit but no fault, so he couldn't go on a business trip.
"There's nothing else to do, Concubine Chen said that it was very appropriate to find two meals, and she asked the emperor to reward you!"
As soon as the master master heard this, a big stone fell in his heart, and he was not so excited when he heard the reward, but he felt that his hanging heart was half back, and he hurriedly stared at Zhao Su.
"Okay, look at what scares you, I won't go around in circles anymore, it's Concubine Chen Niangniang who said that she wanted to find a palace daughter who knows how to cook, the two grandmothers are old, and they serve the medicine properly, but they can't talk about it. β
When the master of the spoon heard this, he clapped his hands and said: "Hey, if you came to ask Gonggong Zhao before, there is really no such person, but now there is really such a person in the imperial dining room, who was sent to the palace this year, who is responsible for the soup stock, people, clean and well-behaved and diligent, if it weren't for the fact that he was a girl, I really wanted to make him an apprentice." β
As soon as Zhao Su heard this, he knew that the master in charge of the imperial dining room was saying that the background of the palace maid here was clean, so he thanked him and hurriedly brought the person back.
"Niangniang," Wei Zhongquan walked in quietly with his back bent, glanced at the palace maid kneeling in a corner of the ground, and continued: "Father-in-law Zhao has called you back, just wait outside." β
Hearing this, Heluo nodded, and slowly said to the people on the ground: "The concubine has already made it clear to you, but the concubine also knows that Shuyao, you are a clean person, otherwise you can't kneel here now." "Because of the reason a few days ago, his face turned pale, and he looked more like an unpopular jade statue than before.
Shu Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, didn't dare to look up at all, but lowered her head and kowtowed loudly: "Shu Yao will act in the future, but according to the mother's orders." β
Hearing this, Heluo hooked the corners of his mouth, leaned on the chair tiredly, supported his head with his hands, and whispered: "Go down, you still go back to your Summer Palace, wait for me to ask the emperor for an order, and then arrange you properly." β
"The slave has seen Niangniang," Zhao Su walked in very respectfully and saluted, and then got up and replied with a smile after hearing what Heluo said: "This is the person Niangniang wants, the name is Nuan Xiang, and it was only sent in this year's palace maid election. β
He Luo waited for Zhao Su to finish speaking, and then said slowly: "I am naturally relieved that my father-in-law is doing things, and I am bothered by my father-in-law about this matter today." After saying that, he glanced at Anzhi.
Anzhi stepped forward in small steps, put a very delicate purse in Zhao Su's hand, and said with a smile: "This is made by the people in the palace, it is not worth anything, but the mother knows that Zhao Gonggong you like to eat the chestnut pine nut honey cake made in our palace, and I asked the people in the kitchen to prepare it for you earlier, this will also be placed on the steaming grid, hot, the most delicious." β
Zhao Su hurriedly thanked him, and said that after the emperor would come to eat in the evening, he looked at Heluo's tired appearance, and didn't dare to say more, and while he retreated and waited outside, he couldn't help but think about the taste of the chestnut pine nut honey cake, not to mention, just this Su Mu Pavilion can make this taste, Concubine Chen Niangniang knew that he loved to eat this, and she never embarrassed him, so she often sent it to him, thinking of this, Zhao Su's face softened a little, he was a beautiful face, and the eunuch who was embarrassed inside, there was still a master thinking about what he liked to eat, and he also accumulated virtue in his previous lifeγ
Shu Yao walked out of the palace gate of Su Mu Pavilion in a trance, her eyes were blank and her face was pale, but there was a bright light in the depths of her eyes. She subconsciously probed into her lower abdomen, if it weren't for this, she might have really responded to that person's words, at this time I'm afraid that she has become a substitute for the ghost, and she is in the arms of that Jieyu Niangniang.
Shu Yao walked to the depths of the flowers, Concubine Chen's fetus couldn't conceive, even if she didn't go to hit it, it was the same, since it was cold, the silver bone charcoal sent to the Su Mu Pavilion Concubine Chen's body was not good, and the hand stove that she picked up early was just since Concubine Chen saved her because of her stomach, then she didn't have to live the life of such a person from now on, as long as she did what Concubine Chen said, she would be a human being from now on, this is a gift from God to herself, she must grasp it well, Shu Yao covered the corners of her mouth with a handkerchiefγ
"These are the things you liked to eat in the past, why don't you move today," Emperor Wu frowned, and his originally cold eyes were even more like ice, "Could it be that what is made in the kitchen is not up to your appetite?"
"Brother is too worried," He Luo stretched out his hand to cover the back of Emperor Wu's hand, and roared in his heart: Do you know how painful it is to see so many things you like to eat and can't eat them?
In the past few days, the men's irritability, sadness, and suppression of her are all in her eyes, and she didn't dare to say that she was okay with her, and now Emperor Wu is like a poisonous snake that is sleeping, Heluo originally thought that she would just plan it, who knew that looking at the current Emperor Wu, she didn't even dare to speak, she only felt that she would be bitten to death by a poisonous snake after saying it, she didn't know if she could bear the consequences, so she had to choose silence.
"It's not that the kitchen doesn't suit my taste, it's that I can't eat it recently, and it's going to be cold soon, and my brother has been busy with affairs recently, even if I can't eat, my brother has to use more, so as not to be unbearable." He Luo was pulling and pulling, and he didn't know what he was talking about, and the smile on his face was very bright. Daxuan woman's smile is the same as what Heluo knew before, and it is also required to smile without showing teeth, the body worn by Heluo originally had a mixed-race face, if she smiled slightly, it would have no characteristics, so Heluo often smiled toothily, with lips like rouge flowers, eyes like stars, and a smile is a different kind of brilliance.
Emperor Wu looked at Heluo's face in front of him and was speechless for a while.
"Come on, let's leave. Seeing Emperor Wu like this, He Luo suddenly put a smile on his face and ordered coldly. Waiting for someone to serve them, the two of them rinsed their mouths with tea, and then sent them all down.
"Does the emperor think that this time it was the emperor that you didn't protect me?" He Luo raised his eyebrows, and his sweet and delicate face on weekdays revealed a different style.
Emperor Wu didn't want to appreciate it, but after listening to Heluo's words, he was slightly wolf-bèi.
"Does the emperor think that the fault is on you? you should protect me and protect me from everything," He Luo said and smiled lightly: "Actually, the emperor, you are not wrong, if you love me, you should naturally protect me,"
Emperor Wu had never heard anyone say such a thing so bluntly. I was just stunned for a while.
"It's just that the emperor protected me from the queen mother and escaped the harem for a while, can it really protect me for a lifetime? In fact, I have known since I was a child that a person, you have to pay what you want, I don't blame anyone for this incident, and the emperor doesn't have to feel that he owes me, he always feels that I am forced to smile. When He Luo said this, he moved Emperor Wu's head back with both hands and continued: "Brother, have you ever heard of a kind of flower, this flower is called Cuscuta silk, the flower blooms lightly, the purple flavor is fragrant, inextricably linked, and it is lightly entangled. It's just that this kind of flower is always attached to the tall tree trunk, which is poignant and moving, gentle and lingering, which makes people feel pity. But the fly in the ointment is her dependence, she can only rely on other plants to survive, if the tree she is attached to is gone, then this flower will have to wait for death. β
"I understand what you mean," Emperor Wu just spit out this sentence stiffly, just shaken by the candle flame?? Visiting the people who are squandered and lonely.
He Luo looked at the awkward Emperor Wu, and didn't know why he felt a little cute, but he smiled lightly and leaned on Emperor Wu's shoulder, and said softly: "Brother, in fact, Luoluo feels that our child is not leaving, and he will definitely come again." β
"Yes. After waiting for a while, Emperor Wu hummed softly.
He Luo smiled softly on her face, but she was relieved in her heart, she was not unkind to talk to Emperor Wu about this, but if she seized this opportunity and didn't talk about it, she didn't know when she would have to wait, after all, He Luo never thought that she could rely on pampering for a lifetime, after all, she had heard the story of the favorite concubine and peach. Emperor Wu is an emperor, he is an emperor of the feudal era, a supreme person of the dynasty, relying on what he did before just entered his heart, even if he has the grace of saving his life, if this kindness is alive, it will be exhausted one day, and it is not without the bad wives who accompanied those emperors in history, but there are a few people who have a good end.
Unless he died, he became the cinnabar mole in the emperor's heart, but unfortunately, He Luo was very sorry for his life, and he didn't love Emperor Wu to the point of dying to let this man remember his own Cheng dΓΉ, after all, how can a dead person do more than a living person? He Luo smiled at the man next to him, and saw the candle flame over there with a turn of his eyes, his previous actions did not match his own temperament, if Emperor Wu intended to check, he could find it sooner or later, so it was best to change himself at this time.
The author has something to say: I wish everyone a happy Singles' Day, and the two watches will be presented.
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