Just after noon, the bell in the imperial city rang, shaking a thin snow from a tree. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The red tiles and red walls reflect extremely bright colors in the warm sunlight, but they still can't dispel the cold of that winter.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was a joyful scene in the palace, especially in the Fengluan Palace.

The red silk is pulled into a peony shape, hanging high on the branches of several acacia trees in the courtyard, and the colorful streamers interspersed with it, the originally bare tree is decorated with extraordinary joy and beauty at the moment, and a few little maids are sitting under the tree with candy and counting them one by one, with a sweet smile on their faces, which seems to be happier than receiving gifts.

When Lu Xi stumbled in, he saw such a beautiful scene, all the cries and curses were instantly choked into his throat, and it seemed that even the sadness in his heart was instantly numb.

The master who was struggling on the sickbed at this moment, and the master who was like a gossamer had no time to tidy up the dark gray old cotton jacket on his body, and let it be blown off by the howling north wind, and it was open in all directions, revealing a thin layer of deep clothes, welcoming the merciless cold and the cool deep palace.

"Queen Mother, please save Concubine Lan, please" Lu Xi's wail resounded outside the hall of Fengluan Palace, and the miserable cry was like a peasant woman doing a funeral, instantly waking up Zhou Jiawan, who was resting, from her dream.

As soon as the words fell, the two guards who followed her couldn't help but punch and kick Lu Xi, as if they had some deep hatred, every kick and every punch did their best, and with a click, the muffled sound of broken bones accompanied by severe pain made her even more crazy, and she continued to cry as if she had her name: "Queen Mother, please, save my master"

A baby's cry suddenly sounded in the Chunxi Palace, and Zhou Jiawan frowned and said: "If you want to teach a lesson, you will take it out to teach a lesson, and the prince will be shocked, and you can't eat it all for the palace."

When the old man heard this, he responded, hurriedly walked out of the Chunxi Palace, waved his hand at the two guards, and dragged the bleeding Lu Xi out of the Fengluan Palace, and beat it desperately at a corner of Yonghua Road, until he ran out of breath, and then threw it back into the high wall of the cold palace.

The baby's crying became more and more intense, and Zhou Jiawan personally coaxed it to no avail, so she said impatiently: "What about the nursing mother?" How to take care of the prince"

The nurse trembled and knelt down and said: "Queen Qiyu, the eldest prince has not eaten for three days, and the slave family has no way, if you think about it, you may be sick."

"What do you say? Say it again? Zhou Jiawan raised her eyebrows coldly, and shouted: "This nurse doesn't seem to be doing her best enough, and there are no people around the palace who can't eat white food, do you go to the Killing Division by yourself, or do you send someone from the palace to send you there?" ”

"The queen mother's life, maybe it's just that the slave's milk doesn't meet the appetite of the eldest prince, and the slave family is wronged," the nurse cried and cried.

"Alright, alright, aren't there four nurses? Not to your liking? Then find it for the palace, if the eldest prince has three long and two short, you can all follow the funeral" Zhou Jiawan said angrily.

After sending away the nurse, Zhou Jiawan sighed and said to the old man: "This emperor loves the eldest prince so much, and it is also revealed that he will be crowned the prince after a hundred days, if there is no child, the palace may lose the sacred heart."

"The queen doesn't have to worry, the old slave has already ordered the nurse to summon the nurse, and in another hour, they should all enter the palace."

"Tell them to hurry up, the emperor will come over in the morning, he has been crying for two days in a row, the emperor is very unhappy, and now Mrs. Chen is also pregnant with a child, and the fairy concubine doesn't know where to go, Concubine Lan will definitely be difficult to turn over after this scene, if the prince's position settles down as soon as possible, the palace will also count a matter of heart" Zhou Jiawan said, and then looked at the baby in his arms who was eight points similar to Yan Han and said: "Good son, don't cry anymore, the queen mother's heart will be broken"

"Niangniang, you have been in poor health since childbirth, so let's rest" The old man looked at Zhou Jiawan's pale face and said distressedly, while taking the baby who was still crying loudly.

"He's crying like this, how can Bengu sleep?" Zhou Jiawan was talking, and suddenly Mrs. Deng shouted outside the door: "The emperor has arrived"

Zhou Jiawan was stunned for a moment, hurriedly tidied up her clothes and was about to get up to greet her, Yan Han had already walked in with a sinking face, followed by two imperial doctors and a kind of nurse, signaling that she didn't need to be polite, and then said coldly: "The eldest prince can't eat milk for many days, you guys are a good errand."

When the old man heard this, he knelt on the ground and trembled and confessed, she was the nurse of Queen Zhou Jiawan, and after marrying into the palace, she became the old man in the palace, in the harem except for the old man next to the queen mother, she can basically be said to be the number one among the female slaves, and most of the matters of this prince since his birth are taken care of by her.

"Okay, okay, I didn't name you, I just finished approving the folds, and I met these nurses on the way, I heard that it was the queen?" Yan Han asked.

"It's a concubine, don't you say that the milk may not be appetizing, the nurses in the palace have tried it before, and the Zhou Mansion has also sent a few, the emperor has always been cowardly, crying after eating a few bites, the concubine thinks that she can only find some folk, maybe it can be better" Zhou Jiawan said with a pale face.

"You hurt your body during childbirth, and now you have to worry about these trivial things, I'm really ashamed of you" Yan Han said and sat at the head of the bed, stroking Zhou Jiawan's hand and said softly.

She already has a deep affection for Yan Han, and this remark instantly pierced into Zhou Jiawan's heart like a soaring arrow feather, making her, who has always been strong and independent, unable to admit defeat, and couldn't help crying.

"Don't be sad, the emperor will be fine" Yan Han saw that she looked like she was crying, and it was more and more similar to the crazy longing face in her heart, so she gently held it in her arms and said to the imperial doctor: "Why don't you diagnose the pulse quickly?" ”

The two imperial doctors respectfully touched the crying little prince and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the eldest prince is all healthy, but he is hungry in his belly."

"Then try the milk," Yan Han said, waving his hand.

The palace people brought a screen, blocking more than a dozen women, and the old man hugged the eldest prince in, tried the milk one by one, and after a while, he really stopped crying, honestly ate the milk, and even squinted and fell asleep.

Leaving a few nurses, Zhou Jiawan breathed a sigh of relief, her expression became more and more tired, Yan Han saw her haggard appearance, and couldn't bear to disturb, and sat for a while before walking out of Fengluan Palace, and was about to sit in a sedan chair, when she suddenly saw a woman in white in white rushing out of the Zique Palace not far away, and hurriedly turned the intersection and disappeared.

"Mrs. Deng, Mrs. Deng, I'm not mistaken," Yan Han exclaimed in surprise, pulling Mrs. Deng's shoulders and said.

"Back to the emperor, that's right, it's the fairy concubine Niangniang, the old slave has also seen it, it's really true" Mrs. Deng also widened her eyes, looking incredible, and said secretly in her heart: This fairy concubine Niangniang doesn't know which way of the fairy, how can the dragon see the head and not the end.

In fact, Zhu Yifei was really not so lucky, she originally wanted to walk in generously from the palace gate, but she didn't expect to be stopped by the guards mercilessly.

explained her identity, the extremely dedicated guard didn't give a look, and had a paralyzed face the whole time, looking like you won't let in if you don't show ironclad evidence, the emperor's sword was broken, and Long Yupei was also lost in the ghost king's underground palace in the Jiao Domain, and the angry Zhu Yifei had no choice but to find a place where no one was to escape in, and went straight to Zique Palace.

"Quick, keep up, keep up" Yan Han said and didn't take a sedan chair, but took three or two big steps, and then ran up, and Mrs. Deng on the side also hurriedly raised her hand and shouted to the palace people behind her: "Hurry up"

So, I saw a team of palace teams with strict etiquette and always pay attention to neatness, and they followed the emperor to spread their legs and run wildly, they were eunuchs, and their bodies were much weaker, and they were carrying a heavy honor guard sedan chair in their hands, desperately chasing Yan Han's figure, and when they stopped, they were all in a state of embarrassment with their hats crooked and panting.

Yan Han stopped, looked at the empty cross blue brick path, and saw the figure of the woman in white left and right, sighed, and said to Mrs. Deng: "Tell me to go down, find me, dig three feet into the ground, tonight, I want to see people alive and corpses when I die."

When Yan Han was so noisy that people turned on their backs, Zhu Yifei had already come to the inner courtyard of the cold palace.

The so-called cold palace is nothing more than two rows of dilapidated mahogany painted tiled houses, which have been cleaned up on a large scale since Yan Han ascended the throne.

The crazy ones were sent to the temple, and the dead were thrown into the suburbs of the mass graves, and now the whole huge cold palace is not dilapidated and embarrassing, but it is really cold to the extreme, and the main palace is separated by several towering red brick walls, as well as the infinite palace Tingxuan, and the exquisite high stacked cornices of the Ronghua Hall can not be seen.

Pushing open the doors and windows of all the rooms in the cold palace one by one, Zhu Yifei shouted as if she was crazy, but she couldn't get a trace of response, until she bypassed a house in the middle of the second row, and only then did she vaguely see a figure in the shabby gauze tent from the open window, like a paper man cut out, motionless and silent, no matter how loud it was, it would not wake up at all.

"Gulan" Zhu Yifei pushed open the door and walked into the house, but it was only about ten square meters of space, covered with dust and spider silk webs, the window was broken and crumbling, and there were a few rags hanging on the beam for I don't know how many years had passed, as if someone had hanged here.

The wooden planks on the ground are all wormholes, and stepping on them, in addition to making a creaking sound, is accompanied by a subtle popping sound from the belly slurry after the worm's body is trampled to pieces, which is very much like the grim laughter that ghosts can't help but make, and it is creepy to listen to in the ears.

On the old moldy bed board was lying a stunning woman in a gray robe and cotton jacket, her cold face was dark and gray in her pale face, her sideburns were dyed frost white, her eye sockets were sunken like skeletons, her white lips were tightly pursed, and several obvious tooth marks were imprinted on her lower lip, which could be seen to be the traces left by the great pain.

"Gulan, how can this be, Gulan" poked her fingers under her nose in disbelief, and the breath that seemed to disappear at any time, the breath sprayed on her fingertips was as cold as the cold wind outside the window, so that she couldn't help but shiver when she never felt the temperature of the world.

A gray-faced old tree suddenly came out of under the bed, and ran to Zhu Yifei's legs, as if she was about to climb up, she was so frightened that she hurriedly shook it, threw the fat mouse to the ground, let out a squeak, and ran away from the house.

Holding Zhao Gulan in his arms, he put one hand against her back and injected some Xuanqing Halal Qi Seeing that her stiff body was slightly warmer, she rushed out of the cold palace angrily, and the two guards were about to stop when they saw this, Zhu Yifei kicked on the knees of the two of them one by one, and crossed over in an instant.

"There, there, the fairy concubine Niangniang is there" just eighty meters away, there was a shout from a group of guards, and then a team of more than a dozen people walked to the front, Shi Li said: "Fairy Concubine Niangniang, the emperor sent you over"

The first one was the personal servant Pill Copper beside Yan Han at the beginning, seeing her cold face and holding a cold palace lady in her arms, she said with some concern.

"Hmph, let him wash it and wait for me in the Ronghua Palace" After leaving a sentence, Zhu Yifei ran in the direction of Bangxian Tower without looking back.