In the palace system of this dynasty, when the palace maid enters the palace, she can be regarded as a royal slave, or the one who signed a death contract.

Generally speaking, before the age of thirty, except for a very small few, court ladies are basically unlikely to leave the court. After the age of thirty, these palace maids are old and decrepit, their physical strength and energy are not as good as before, and they are worried, even if they have "grace", they are not very willing to leave the palace.

Yuan Chun recalled: If you don't count the qin, Qiu Ningshuang and the others have been waiting by his side for eleven years. They were a few years older than themselves, and now they were about twenty-five or sixteen. By the standards of this era, they are already old girls; But by Yuanchun's standards, they are now at the best age to have children. If you can get out of the palace at this time, find someone to marry, and have a few children, you won't waste your youth in vain and waste your life.

Although according to the practice in the palace, Qiu Ningshuang and the others are still a few years away from the age when they can leave the palace. But Yuan Chun felt that if she went to the queen to ask for it, except for Qiu Ningshuang and Qin Zhen, who she was not sure about, the freedom of others could still be fought for.

So after returning from the wedding of that household, Yuan Chun took some time to discuss marriage with the palace maids around him.

"I'm not a kid anymore, so I'll just say it. After returning to Beijing this time, I plan to beg the queen mother, and ask the lady to allow you to go out of the palace to marry on your own in addition to your palace registration. What are your plans? ”

Regarding this problem, Qiu Ningshuang, Qin Zhen and Xu Feiying's attitudes are very resolute: never marry!

Qiu Ningshuang said: "Thank you for the kindness of the princess! But when the slave maid entered the palace, she had made a heavy vow not to marry for life, and only lived in the palace. Now, the slave and maid only hope to stay by the princess's side for the rest of their lives! Please don't dislike the slaves! Don't force slaves and maids to marry! ”

Her last sentence made Yuan Chun couldn't help but secretly complain: Princess, I won't force you to get married! I'm not your own mother!

Qin Zhen said: "What's the good of getting married? Those stinky men have a little stinky money at home, and they are petty officials, so they have their eyes on the top of their heads, who will treat us women as human beings? Before the slave maid entered the palace, the clan was also prosperous, and those aunts and sisters-in-law in the family, those aunts and sisters who married out, which life was better? When the slave maid was in the past, she thought that she would marry in the future, and she would have to make rules in front of her mother-in-law, and she would also live like them...... I felt scared in my heart. Only then did he take advantage of the palace to recruit palace maids and fled to the palace. The princess has pity on me, don't ask me to suffer that sin again, just treat the slave and maid! ”

Yuan Chun didn't know if this was Qin Zhen's true words, or if she had been by her side for a long time, and had listened to too many half-truths and half-truths in her daily life, and deliberately made up this set of words to cast on her spleen, but she didn't bother to pursue it.

Xu Feiying said: "Before being a slave, she was only a woman born lowly, and she had to be at the mercy of others for the rest of her life. After following the princess, I learned that women can also make their own decisions, and women can also practice medicine to save people and be respected. The life of the slave was saved by the princess, and she was reincarnated as a human being, and she also hoped to follow the princess and do something worthwhile! ”

After listening to the words of the three of them, Yuan Chun felt a little regretful: "Don't you want to have your own children?" If you don't marry for the rest of your life, don't you feel that you will live in vain and leave regrets in vain? ”

Qiu Ningshuang said calmly: "In addition to a blessed person like the princess, how many people in the world can have a complete life?" Regret or not, it also depends on what you are looking for. ”

Qin Zhen raised his eyebrows, pouted and said, "What do you do when you have a baby?" Giving birth to a daughter and continuing to suffer from her mother's unfinished anger? Or give birth to a son to harm other women, and then be angry with his mother by the way? ”

Xu Feiying shook his head: "If you can follow the princess to Jiangnan for a while, you have no regrets in this life!" ”

For these three determined, Yuan Chun is not reluctant - she has always disliked forcing others.

Baoqin's answer made Yuan Chun cry and laugh: "The princess will marry me if I want to marry, and I will marry whoever the princess asks me to marry, as long as I continue to follow the princess!" ”

Yuan Chun almost knelt down after hearing this: Dear, I can't afford such a big responsibility! By the way, when did I have such a brainless fan? Can you listen to me for life's events?

She rubbed her eyebrows with a headache: "I don't want to be the master for you!" It's up to you to decide who you want to marry or not. Come back to me when you think about it! ”

When it was Yan Wan's turn, Yuan Chun said, "Don't call me the master!" I never did that! If you make up your mind, tell me, if you only care about shame, don't blame me for life! ”

Yan Wan already has a sweetheart, and the little guy next to Shui Xiao is blessed.

After listening to Yuan Chun's words, she pulled the handkerchief, endured it, and said to Yuan Chun in a slur manner: "The one next to the prince...... Yes...... Good fortune...... I don't know if you've got a wife? ”

Yuan Chun almost rolled his eyes: Is there anyone in this mansion who doesn't know if you are blessed to marry a wife or not? However, Miss Yan Wan deserves praise, at least she said it.

"Blessed are you?" Yuan Chun asked Yan Wan with a little ridicule.

Yan Wan's face was flushed, and she let out a low "um" and nodded.

"Got it! I will ask the prince on your behalf: Are you blessed to marry a wife? Cough...... If he is willing, I will go and ask the queen for permission to marry you to him!" ”

Blessed he certainly did not take a wife.

Yuan Chun told Shui Xiao about this, and Shui Xiao only realized when he asked, it turned out that the two of them had already seen each other, but they had never had a chance to beg for mercy.

After Baoqin communicated with Qiu Ningshuang and others, he was brainwashed by those three people, and he resolutely refused to marry!

Yuan Chun slapped his forehead: These palace maids around me, can't they want to start a singles club in the future? !

Two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao finally returned to the capital.

The first thing Yuan Chun did after returning to Beijing was naturally to enter the palace to ask the emperor and empress for peace and check the pulse of peace.

"Finally willing to come back?" Empress Shen scolded Yuan Chun with a smile, "But what a ruthless person, it's been more than two months since I went to Meishan!" If it weren't for the Mid-Autumn Festival, I'm afraid I wouldn't be willing to come back, right? Don't worry about what if I get sick and don't have a good doctor? What a conscienceless child! ”

Yuan Chun smiled and said: "The queen mother has wronged her son!" The queen mother is blessed with all the heavens, and she is the most physically strong, but she can't get sick easily! ”

That's true. Even in the original work, at the end of the first eighty episodes, the Emperor and the Queen Mother were healthy and safe. Jia Lian secretly married You Er's "national filial piety", just a concubine. In this world, Queen Shen's body has been better conditioned by her.

"You can talk!" Empress Shen joked with Yuan Chun for a few words, and said, "The weather is still good today, so Yingzhou will accompany me for a walk!" ”

"Yes!"

Empress Shen stretched out her hand to Yuan Chun, and Yuan Chun helped her and slowly walked towards the imperial garden.

The two chatted casually as they walked. Yuan Chun said some interesting things about Meishan Huangzhuang, such as hunting and picking purple lingzhi, a Taoist priest came to the door to talk nonsense, but the next day he fell ill and was carried by the dealer for help...... Empress Shen listened with relish.

Unconsciously, the two came to the front of the Yanqing Pond on the wind and water corridor.

Empress Shen said to the people who followed behind her: "The palace is tired, sit in this water corridor for a while." You just wait from afar, and I will talk quietly with Yingzhou. ”

The eunuchs and palace maids retreated and guarded at both ends of the Fengshui corridor.

Empress Shen asked Yuan Chun: "Yingzhou went to Meishan this time, but there are other gains?" ”

She asked implicitly, but Yuan Chun confessed very simply: "There is a harvest." When he was young, he worshipped the lotus flower and obtained the medical skills of the gods. Now on the issue of heirs, the sons are helpless, and it just so happens that there is also a lotus pond in Meishan Huangzhuang, so he will redo it, but I didn't expect it to be effective! ”

Although the bias is not obvious, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao both believe that Empress Shen is on their side.

Now that Shui Xiao is in an embarrassing situation because of the problem of heirs, they need the support of Empress Shen even more. Even if Empress Shen couldn't influence the emperor's decision, she could help them say something good, so that the emperor wouldn't despair about their fertility too quickly and not make a decision too quickly. Therefore, you must show a certain amount of trust in Empress Shen.

On the other hand, Empress Shen's direct questioning may also be under the emperor's holy order. told the queen about the situation, and probably told the emperor what he meant.

Empress Shen's eyes lit up, and her body couldn't help but lean forward: "Oh, you...... Pregnant? ”

"With" means pregnant.

Yuan Chun was slightly embarrassed and said, "That's not yet." It's just that this time I got the guidance of the fairy and know why this is happening! ”

A trace of disappointment flashed on Empress Shen's face, but she became curious again: "Have you seen that fairy again?" What did she say? ”

"The fairy asked me to ask the emperor, when will the emperor publish the set of medical books she passed on? The fairy also said that half of the sons and daughters of the seventeenth master were in the publication of this set of medical books! ”

After discussing with Shui Xiao, Yuan Chun felt that the fastest and most effective way to get the emperor to dispel his careful thoughts and publish a medical book as soon as possible was to use a fairy to suppress the emperor! Of course, you can't rely on this alone.

Empress Shen thought silently, and then asked, "Where is the other half?" ”

"The other half is on our own merits. The fairy said that the disciples of this sect need to cultivate virtue, and they don't just talk about it casually. ”

While the two were talking, the palace maid came to report: "Concubine Rong Jing asks to see you." ”

Concubine Rong? King Xiaogong's biological mother, Zhu Guifei? Yuan Chun thought to himself: I'm talking to the queen in secret, is she here to stir up the situation?

Empress Shen rubbed the corners of her forehead with a little headache: "Call her over!" "There are some things that don't need to be said too much, too clearly.

The palace maid retreated to pass the word, and then saw Zhu Guifei walking over with a smile on her face. Zhu Guifei is not young, and there are some traces of time on her face. When you don't usually smile, it's still well-maintained, but when you laugh like this, you are a little old.

Yuan Chun stood up and ducked to the side.

"The concubine has been feeling a little unwell recently, and when she heard that Yingzhou had entered the palace, she couldn't wait to come to seek treatment. Please also ask the queen to forgive her sins! Zhu Guifei bowed her head and bowed.

"Let's get flat!" Empress Shen smiled and said, "They are all people with a few great-grandchildren, and they are still so impatient!" In your life, I'm afraid you can't change this temper! ”

"It's still the queen who understands the concubine!" Zhu Guifei said with a smile, and then turned her head to look at Yuan Chun, "You have no conscience, you have been gone for more than two months, but you are really free enough!" Why, you don't know me in Meishan? ”

Yuan Chun smiled: "The concubine Niangniang made fun of it!" She blessed Zhu Guifei, "Before, the concubine and the queen mother had a very happy conversation, and Yingzhou didn't dare to disturb without permission." ”

"You're right!" Zhu Guifei snorted half-truthfully, and looked Yuan Chun up and down, "Yingzhou has been free for so long, why hasn't there been any meat?" It's always so thin, but it's not a blessing of longevity! He glanced at Yuan Chun's belly.

Yuan Chun kept the same smile: "The concubine doesn't know anything. The saying 'it's hard to buy old to be thin' makes sense, as long as it's not skinny, a little thinner is more conducive to longevity. The body size of the father and the queen mother is more moderate; For example, the figure of the concubine is slightly plump. In order to have a good body and bones, it is best for the concubine to lose weight and lose fat. ”

Zhu Guifei choked her so much that she could barely speak. However, after all, she was a person who had been in the palace for most of her life, and soon smiled: "Yingzhou is reasonable. Why don't you prescribe a few pills for me to lose weight and lose fat? ”

"The noble concubine forgives her sins. This matter of slimming and fat loss, others can't help. It's like a person who hides too much silver at home, unless she is willing to take it out, can others rob her family's silver? If you use drugs to lose weight and lose fat, you can only imitate the behavior of bandits, break in and take out the silver. This is going to break down the wall and tear down the house, which will hurt the body. ”

"So, there are times when Yingzhou's medical skills are powerless?" Zhu Guifei laughed coquettishly again, and her laughter trembled.

She is a lot older, her face is full of folds, and she is relatively fat, and she still laughs like this, Yuan Chun can't help but get goosebumps and shake to the ground.

"What I have learned is only medical skills, not immortal methods. Natural abilities are limited. Yuan Chun said as a matter of course.

Concubine Zhu finished laughing and bowed slightly to Queen Shen: "The queen mother forgives her sins, and the concubines have always been open-mouthed, and they are a little out of order!" ”

Empress Shen smiled faintly: "It's okay!" Concubine Rong Jing recently added another great-grandson, and she was a little carried away, which is also reasonable. ”

"Not really!" Zhu Guifei said with a smile, "The third child's other abilities are limited, but this descendant is still flourishing, so I don't have to worry about it." Oh...... That's right! "It was as if she remembered something," said the heirs...... Yingzhou has been through the door for more than three years, why don't you have a son and a half daughter so far? ”

Yuan Chun thought: This is the first person who dares to ask her this question so bluntly in person!

In the past, the emperor and empress also asked about her heirs. But everyone understands people, and they should also take care of each other's face, leave a little measure, and speak more subtly and tactfully. How can it be as simple, direct, and rough as Zhu Guifei!

No matter how anxious he was in private, it was impossible for Yuan Chun to show weakness in front of Zhu Guifei, and said with a smile: "Guifei Niangniang doesn't know, it is best for a woman to give birth to her first child after the age of twenty, otherwise the possibility of dystocia is high, and the child's body will be weaker." If someone else has a difficult birth, I can still save them; If I have a difficult birth, who will save me? Naturally, you should be cautious. lest the doctor not heal himself, and leave a laughing stock and people in vain. ”

It is best not to have a first child before the age of twenty, which is also recorded in the set of medical books offered by Yuan Chun. I'm not afraid of others questioning her nonsense.

Zhu Guifei laughed: "Yingzhou's joke is well-told!" Is it possible that you can't conceive, whether you can have children, and you can still be the master of your own children? That's funny! ”

"Although you can't be completely in charge, there is a way to think of it. However, the concubine doesn't know medical skills, and she probably can't understand the mystery. ”

Rhythm contraception is not very safe, but it can be tried. Of course, there are decoctions for contraception, and regularly sealing a few acupuncture points with silver needles also has the effect of contraception, but these methods are still more or less harmful to the body...... Yuan Chun did not have a perfect contraceptive method in his previous life, nor did it in the "Nine Volumes of the Doctor", and the risk of contraceptive failure always existed. Yuan Chun sometimes feels that this question is very strange: it seems that tenacious life, how can you find a way out and grow bravely! Of course, she didn't need to explain so much to Zhu Guifei about these contraceptive problems.

Zhu Guifei was stunned, and her face became unnatural: "Yingzhou is talking nonsense? The concubines in this palace, who didn't enter the palace when they were teenagers? When I gave birth to my first child, I was no more than ...... Only sixteen years old......" At this point, she suddenly couldn't speak.

Yuan Chun smiled slightly: "I heard that ...... The concubine's firstborn was a son...... Before the full moon...... "Before the full moon, before the prelude, it died!"

Even Queen Shen listened to her words!

Emperor Longzheng's Yuan and Concubine Hu passed the door at the age of sixteen and had a difficult birth at the age of seventeen. Hu's daughter died at birth, and Hu himself lost half of his life due to dystocia, and since then he has been bedridden and half paralyzed.

Hu Shi has become this half-dead appearance, which is probably not better. According to the standard of step-concubines, the first emperor accepted the side concubine Shen for Emperor Longzheng, which is now Queen Shen, and let Shen side concubine temporarily take charge of the palace housework.

When Shen passed the door, Emperor Longzheng's wife Zhu (now Zhu Guifei) was already pregnant. If the Zhu family's son can survive, he will be the eldest son of the current emperor. When the child died, the Zhu family suspected that the Shen family had harmed her child, and there was a big turmoil in the house at that time! And Emperor Longzheng was also harassed by the rumors of his wife and son back then......

Zhu Guifei is even more stupid. She had hated Empress Shen for many years, and she never imagined that she would get such an explanation today.

The words have come to this, Yuan Chun thought: The opportunity must not be lost, and the loss will not come again.

She stood up and gave a deep bow to Queen Shen: "Queen Mother, a teenager, her body and bones are not yet mature, early marriage and early pregnancy are easy to give birth, and children are easy to die; The marriage of close relatives is not conducive to the offspring; Feeding your child for a few days can nourish your child's vitality and strengthen your child's body...... These common senses are expounded in the set of medical books I dedicated to the emperor. But for thousands of years, how many people have known such a truth? If that set of medical books can be published in the world one day earlier, the people of the world will be able to understand the truth one day sooner and take some wrong paths; The women of the world can also have fewer people who have difficult births; Babies in the world can survive a few more...... Please also ask the queen to play the emperor on behalf of the emperor and publish that set of medical books as soon as possible! ”

Zhu Guifei came back to her senses: "You are talking nonsense! For thousands of years, except for those old girls who can't get married or whose marriage has been delayed, who hasn't married in their teens? How many people have had a difficult birth? If you marry after the age of 20, will you not have a difficult birth? ”

Yuan Chun calmly replied: "This is a matter of proportion. I have not counted the specific data, and there is no record of it in the medical book. But if we can reduce the number of women with difficult births and babies who die from 23 out of 10 to 56 out of 10, wouldn't it also be a merit? ”

Without waiting for Zhu Guifei to say anything, Empress Shen had already preemptively said: "Yingzhou's words are reasonable. The main palace must be the turn. ”

While he was talking, the palace maid came to report: Princess Xiaogong has entered the palace to say hello to the queen and Concubine Zhu! I heard that Concubine Zhu was talking to the queen here, so she came over and was waiting to see her outside the Feng Shui Corridor.

"Call her here!" Empress Shen commanded lightly.

Princess Xiaogong came in, and after greeting everyone, she said respectfully: "The retainer heard that the concubine was in a slight condition, so she hurried over, and asked the empress to forgive the retainer for the crime of disturbance!" ”

"It doesn't matter. You are also a piece of filial piety! Empress Shen said with a smile. There was no sarcasm or praise in the voice.

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Princess Xiaogong turned around and asked Zhu Guifei again, "I don't know how the mother is doing?" He looked at Yuan Chun next to him again, "Can you ask the seventeenth brother and sister to check the pulse?" ”

Zhu Guifei slapped her forehead and said with a smile: "Look at me!" patronized talking to the queen's mother, but forgot about it! I haven't asked Yingzhou to diagnose the pulse! ”

Yuan Chun checked Zhu Guifei's pulse, and after the diagnosis, he said: "Guifei Niangniang has no new symptoms, it is still the same as before, her body is slightly plump, and her blood pressure and blood lipids are too high. Please also ask the concubine to take the medicine on time, don't be overjoyed and too excited, and it should be fine. ”

After a pause, she stabbed Zhu Guifei again: "If you want to cure it radically, Guifei still has to control a □□ of heavy body fat, and it is better to eat less!" ”

Hearing her sarcastically eat too much, Zhu Guifei was so angry that she secretly gritted her teeth and said, "Thank you very much!" But the seventeenth daughter-in-law needs to eat more, and she is as thin as a monkey like you now, and she doesn't look like a person who is blessed with longevity. ”

Princess Xiaogong also said: "The mother concubine is right! Seventeen brothers and sisters are thin like this, I am afraid it is not the way to live a long life. It is still necessary to take care of the body, give birth to a son to the seventeenth brother as soon as possible, and add a big fat grandson to the queen mother. In addition to the eighteenth brother who is still young, now these brothers, only the seventeenth brother has no heir! ”

Yuan Chun said in his heart: Look at Princess Xiaogong's level of speech, she is much smarter than Concubine Zhu!

"Thank you for your concern! The matter of the heir, I and the seventeenth master know it in our hearts! Again, this ambiguous official reply. Anyway, I had already blocked Zhu Guifei's mouth with the excuse that it was not suitable for early pregnancy, but I didn't have to bother with Princess Xiaogong anymore.

Several women talked for a while, and Princess Xiaogong said: "When I entered the palace today, in addition to asking for peace for the queen mother and the concubine, I also want to invite the seventeenth brother and sister to my house and give Lan's daughter-in-law a look." Lan's daughter-in-law has a body, and she vomited a lot during this time, and she looked haggard and haggard. The imperial doctor said: "It doesn't look very good, I want to invite the seventeenth brother and sister to come over and have a look......"

Empress Shen glanced at Yuan Chun and said, "The emperor is busy today, and Yingzhou has not diagnosed the emperor's pulse. Wait for Yingzhou to diagnose the pulse of the palace ladies and the emperor, and finish the affairs in the palace, and then go to see Lan's daughter-in-law after leaving the palace! ”

"Yes!" Princess Xiaogong bowed, "Naturally, the affairs in the palace are more important!" ”

Empress Shen said to Yuan Chun: "The emperor doesn't know when he will be free!" You go to check the pulse of the concubines and the ladies of the palace first, and Concubine Rong Jing and the third daughter-in-law are waiting for me here, don't worry! ”

Yuan Chun went to check the pulse of the concubine and the ladies of the palace. After diagnosing the pulse, Empress Shen had already returned to Yihe Palace.

During the lunch meal, Empress Shen asked Yuan Chun implicitly: "That set of medical books, is it really so important?" ”

Yuan Chun knew that what Empress Shen was asking was: Is that set of medical books really so important to their heirs? He bowed and replied, "Yes!" Please also ask the mother to say a few kind words! ”

Empress Shen understood, and said with a smile: "Yingzhou rest assured!" Naturally, I mean it! ”

"Thank you, Niang!"

Empress Shen said very openly: "This is also a matter for the benefit of the people." I am the queen, this is also my responsibility, why do you need to thank you? I also underestimate people! ”

Yuan Chun didn't know if Emperor Longzheng was really busy or fake, anyway, when the time came, he still didn't see the shadow of Emperor Longzheng. Empress Shen sent someone to ask the emperor: Yuan Chun entered the palace to ask for peace and asked when the emperor was free?

After waiting for a long time, the emperor came to the word: I am busy with government affairs, let's see another doctor next time!