Chapter 34: Concubine Jing's Sorrow (2nd Watch)
"Yan'er, I have something to say to you. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Realizing that Duanmu Chen was different from the solemnity of the past, Jiang Yan also sat up straight.
Pei Lan had already taken everyone else down with a very good look, and only Mu Lin was still standing aside.
Duanmu Chen was silent for a long time before signaling Mu Lin to hand the things to Jiang Yan.
Mu Lin took out a small box from his arms, handed it to Jiang Yan respectfully, and then withdrew as well.
Jiang Yan took it strangely and opened it, and it was another letter, the same envelope as the letter Concubine Jing gave her, but the words "The Emperor Personally Opened it" were written on the cover.
"This ......" Jiang Yan didn't dare to open it at will, so she had to hold the letter and not move.
Duanmuchen hooked the corner of his lower lip, reached out to take the letter, opened it and handed it to her, and motioned for her to take a good look.
Sure enough, it was still Concubine Jing's letter, and it could be seen that it was written in a hurry, and the handwriting was a little messy. Jiang Yan finished reading it carefully, looked up at Duanmu Chen in shock, her small mouth opened slightly, and she looked very unbelievable.
Concubine Jing actually wanted her to raise the second prince??
Seeing her stupid appearance, Duanmu Chen lightly tapped her nose: "What's wrong?" ”
"Why, why ......" Jiang Yan blinked blankly, and finally said a sentence completely: "Why does Sister Concubine Jing want to hand over the second prince to me?" ”
After thinking about it, he said, "Didn't the imperial doctor say that Sister Jingfei's body is fine?" Moreover, where are the low-ranking concubines helping the high-ranking concubines raise children......"
What exactly does Concubine Jing mean? Jiang Yan frowned.
Duanmu Chen's face softened a lot, and he was even more ridiculous when asked by Jiang Yan, he reached out and pinched her nose again, and said, "I was also very surprised at first, but later I understood, but I didn't expect that Concubine Jing was also a smart person." ”
"Your Majesty~" Jiang Yan said angrily: "Don't play dumb riddles~"
Duanmuchen patted her head amusedly, and explained in detail: "At the beginning, I looked at Concubine Jing's face and promoted her unsuccessful father to the position of the third-grade squire, thinking that as long as he didn't make a big mistake, Concubine Jing would also be considered to be a guarantee behind her." At first, he also stumbled for a while, but Concubine Jing was very docile in the palace, although she was a concubine, she was very silent, and her father gradually stopped. ”
Speaking of this, Duanmu Chen sighed: "Last year, Concubine Jing had a child, got a title, and was in charge of palace affairs for a period of time, so Lord Luo became active again. I thought that Concubine Jing's family background was average, she was quiet, and it was not bad to have a child, who knew that it would bring such great ambitions to the Luo family. He paused and looked at Jiang Yan funny: "Didn't Concubine Jing also give you a letter, didn't you read it?" ”
Jiang Yan was surprised: "How did the emperor know?" ”
Duanmu Chen's little mouth opened slightly when she saw her startled, her apricot eyes were round, and she laughed out loud: "I said it when Concubine Jing invited me over in the afternoon." She also said that if you are surprised when you read my letter, it means that you have not read the letter she gave you. ”
Jiang Yan pouted, who said that Concubine Jing was docile and easy to deceive, obviously scheming!
However, hearing Duanmu Chen say this, Jiang Yan went to the dressing table for a long time, found the letter that Concubine Jing gave her, and read it.
After a while, Jiang Yan put down the letter and sighed.
The corners of Duanmu Chen's eyebrows were slightly raised, and he also reached out to take the thick pages, and after reading it, he also sighed like Jiang Yan.
The two looked at each other for a long time, but Pei Lan saw that it was not early and came to ask if she wanted to wash and sleep with hot water now, so she interrupted the silence in this room.
Lying on the bed, Jiang Yan squeamishly hugged Duanmuchen with one arm and didn't let go, Duanmuchen didn't dare to move for fear of touching her stomach, so she had to go with her, and slowly fell asleep.
Jiang Yan didn't feel sleepy at all, only staring at the large vines on the bed with her eyes open, her heart was numb.
She knew that such an ancient society had many unfair requirements for women, but she didn't expect that Concubine Jing and Luo Ru were in such a family.
In that letter, Luo Ru did not mourn herself, nor did she complain, but she just said those things slowly, but Jiang Yan saw a kind of grief that was greater than her heart dying.
The situation of the Luo family is average now, but there is still a family shelf at home. Luo Ru also has a brother and a sister, and the younger sister is Luo Yushu, the younger sister of Luo who has just been reprimanded by the queen, and compared with Luo Xiaomei, Luo Xiaodi can be regarded as a complete and complete loser, but Luo's father and mother only have this one son, so they are even more lawless.
Luo Ru has been in the palace for a few years, and the concubine has a lot of silver every month, but she doesn't dare to use it indiscriminately, and she will send it home once in a few months, and every time her mother writes a letter, she still accuses her of wearing gold and silver in the palace, regardless of the life and death of her family outside the palace, and threatens to go to the internal affairs department to sue her for unfilial piety and friendliness as long as she dares to give less silver.
In order not to make more demands from her mother's family, Luo Ru had to be more transparent in the palace, hoping that the dozens of taels of silver every month could make her family stop. It's a pity that last year, the emperor and queen went out of the palace to escape the summer and handed over the power of palace affairs to her, and she was surprised before she could react, and her mother had sent people to urge her many times to "be sure to get more silver". In the first few months, Luo Ru really didn't find out that she was pregnant, but after finding out, she was even more scared.
She just took over the palace affairs for the time being, and her mother dared to let her get a few hundred taels of silver to go out, if she knew that she was pregnant with a dragon heir, her mother didn't know what to do!
So she didn't dare to tell anyone, even Concubine Zhang and Concubine Lin, who met every few days, she was careful to cover up, and when her belly got bigger, she didn't come forward and asked Tianqiao to see the two of them on her behalf.
It's a pity that the emperor returned to the palace in October, Luo Ru really had nothing to hide, so he had to expose his belly to the world, and sure enough, the emperor gave him the title and gave a heavy reward. This time, I didn't wait for my mother to say, as long as the reward was not restricted by the palace rules, she gave it all out, but I didn't expect the family to not only meet the restraint, but want more and more, the mother also took advantage of her pregnancy to enter the palace again and again, and asked her to let her sister enter the palace to serve the emperor, and let her ask for an errand for her brother.
Of course, Luo Ru knew the virtue of his younger siblings, so he kept shirking and refused to respond, and her mother was finally angry and warned her that if she did this again, she would go to the emperor to accuse her of disrespect!
Luo Ru has always been worried, she is often red when she is just six months pregnant, she is worried, but with a little expectation, but she did not call the imperial doctor, until the queen Qianqiu banquet did not stop bleeding, she was pressed to drink fetal pills for a few days, and her mother seemed to feel a little tight to force her, and she did not dare to enter the palace again in those days. Before Chinese New Year's Eve, she came again, only saying that if she still couldn't think of a way, the family would send Luo Xiaomei in when she met the empress on the first day.
Luo Ru, who was desperate, really had no choice, hugged her stomach and cried all night, and decided to find a way to get rid of the child on the day of the ancestor worship, and by the way, frame others again, and make things bigger, so that the family would no longer dare to make any trouble with her pregnancy, and finding a substitute for the dead ghost can also make the emperor more tolerant of her, and maybe give her something to send home.
So there was the matter of Concubine Jing falling down the steps on Chinese New Year's Eve. Fortunately, before falling, she watched Jiang Yan's stomach rise with compassion, so she deliberately stayed away, so that the little eunuch could clearly see that she had fallen down by herself.
Unfortunately, fortunately, the child is fine. Luo Ru regretted it the moment she fell, she hugged her stomach tightly and arched her feet, hoping to save the child.
So on the first day of the new year, Luo Xiaomei arrived at Xian Ya Palace.
looked at the little sister who was still childish, and only looked at her with admiring eyes and asked her, "Sister, can I eat this?" This looks delicious", she really doesn't want such a child to lose her life in the palace.
"Maybe I'll die, maybe I won't, but I'm determined. It doesn't matter if the children are male or female, I can't raise them, I can't give them any hope. You also said that the child is innocent, I just beg you, for the sake of the child, to raise him well. Luo Ru, three worships"
At the end of the letter, Luo Ru wrote.
It turned out that she really had a will to die early in the morning.
Thinking about it this way, it wouldn't be a bad thing for her to not be able to get pregnant again......
Turning over again, Jiang Yan sighed again, and finally fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up the next day, it was already dawn, Duanmuchen had already left, and Jiang Yan only felt top-heavy and dizzy when she lay on the bed. There have been too many things happening in the past few days, and she felt that she was probably exhausted and thinking too much, so she didn't pay attention, called out to Peilan, and just wanted to stand up, she fell to the ground with a weak leg.
In the darkness, she heard 0039 talking anxiously.
When Jiang Yan opened her eyes, what she saw was Duanmuchen's anxious face, he was frowning and saying something to the people around him, but unfortunately Jiang Yan's ears were buzzing, she couldn't hear what he was saying at all, and her eyelids seemed to be heavy, she used all her strength to scratch Duanmuchen who was holding her hand, and fainted again.
When she woke up again, there was only a small light left in the room, but there was no one.
She opened her mouth, but found that her voice could barely make a sound, so she could only wait silently, and 0039 had already found that she was awake, and said excitedly: [Yan Yan! Yan Yan! You're awake and scared the baby to death! 】
"What's wrong with me?" She couldn't speak, but she could still talk to 0039 in her mind.
[The imperial doctor checked your pulse and said that it was okay, I ...... I privately exchanged your 20 task points for a [Body Detection Card] and tested it for you......] 0039 The more he spoke, the quieter he became, originally its existence was mainly to protect the safety of the host in addition to providing information, but under its nose, Jiang Yan fainted inexplicably for two days and one night, and it was so frightened that it quickly changed a card and checked Jiang Yan from head to toe.
20 mission value? Well, "So what's wrong with me?" Jiang Yan also felt as if her head had been hit with a big stick, and she didn't like to speak.
......0039 just wanted to speak, the door squeaked, Pei Lan came in with a small lamp, saw Jiang Yan on the bed with her eyes open, seemed to be in disbelief, hurriedly walked two steps, confirmed that she woke up, excitedly put the lamp aside, lying on the side of Jiang Yan's bed and cried.
Jiang Yan: ...... Hey, I'm still alive......
"Master, master, great, you're finally awake, Imperial Doctor Liu said that you won't wake up tonight...... Fortunately, the master is blessed with a great life, and the master is blessed with a great life, woo woo woo master woo woo woo ...... "Pei Lan is really sad to cry, and tears flow like he doesn't want money.
Jiang Yan opened her mouth and said hard: "I...... It's okay......"
Her throat seemed to be blocked by something, her voice was small and hoarse, but she didn't expect Pei Lan who was crying to hear it, so she quickly poured the ginseng soup that had been warm and slowly fed her to drink.
After a few cups of ginseng soup, Jiang Yan finally felt much more comfortable in her throat. She patted Perlan's hand: "I'm fine, go and rest." "It's so dark outside, I don't know what time it is.
Hearing her say this, Peilan's tears were about to fall again, but she held back, knelt on the ground and said, "The slave and maid failed to take care of the master and the little master, please punish the master!" ”