Zhao Quan was very clever, and in order to appease Zhao Quan's anger, he actually moved a whole large box of songs. Zhu Xian was half-leaning on the couch weakly, and his thin hand rested on the pile of folds. The eyes that concealed suspicion stared gloomily at Empress Guo who was sitting in the shadow under the embroidered curtain. She will always be so dignified and decent, graceful and generous. The words that come out will always be ironed into his heart.

Zhu Xian lowered his eyes slightly, and his long eyelashes covered the ridicule under his eyes. He coughed a few more times before he said slowly: "The queen has also worked hard, go back and rest for a while!" I have Liu Yuanju here to take good care of me. ”

Empress Guo's heart was instantly extremely cold, she had always known that he was a suspicious and suspicious person. Unexpectedly, even when he was seriously ill, he had been compromised for so many years, carefully maneuvering, and digging out his heart and lungs, but he still couldn't get him a little trust.

Although it was only early autumn, Empress Guo felt that her palms were cold. She flexed her fingers stiffly until the hard, cold armor poked her palms. She suddenly opened her mouth and gently exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.

She slowly stood up with the back of Lady Yao's hand, pulled the hem of the luxurious phoenix robe, bowed to Zhu Xian, and said, "In this case, the emperor will take good care of his illness, and the concubine will leave!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Xian responded lightly, without even raising his eyelids. Faced with this expected coldness, the corners of Queen Guo's mouth twitched, revealing a detached and decent smile, and then turned to leave.

Standing on the steps at the entrance of the Qianqing Palace, Empress Guo stopped. She lifted her cheeks, which were as delicate as fat and as creamy, as if they were pink. Two red gold and ruby earrings under the ears. Shaking and rustling on the collar. The golden sunlight sprinkled warmly on her face, but it could not bring a trace of warmth to her heart, which had been wrapped in layers of ice.

Seeing that she suddenly stopped, Lady Yao called out with some worry: "Niangniang." The Emperor's side"

Empress Guo suddenly smiled and said: "Although the emperor is sympathetic to the palace, he can't be without someone who knows the cold and the hot to take care of him. She was smiling, but it didn't reach her eyes at all.

Lady Yao thought for a moment and said, "Today it should be the turn of Concubine Shu to serve the sick." It is estimated that it will be too late for the second prince to stumble. ”

Empress Guo smiled slightly, lowered her head and straightened the big red silk silk silk embellishment under the beautiful jade around her waist. Said slowly: "Concubine Shu still has the second prince by her side!" He is still so young, he must not be able to leave Concubine Shu for a moment. So be it! Let Concubine Shu take the second prince well and not use it to clean up the palace attendants, and let her position be on top of the moon beauty. Anyway, they are all girls from the Jiang Mansion, and presumably Concubine Shu won't care. ”

"The beauty of the moon is already delicate and cute. It can make the emperor happy the most. Maybe the emperor saw her. Laugh for a while, and the disease will get better faster. At this point, the smile on her lips seemed to deepen

Concubine Shu didn't know that her qualifications to serve the sick had been replaced, and she specially ordered the eunuchs to carry her around Changle Gate.

Although Changle Gate is old and narrow, there are two big banyan trees with thick green canopy at the intersection, and the scattered branches and leaves cover most of the sun at the intersection.

Changle Gate is a palace maid who has always come and gone. Although there are many eunuchs, there is silence at the moment. Concubine Shu wore a red wide-sleeved silk silk silk robe. covered her pair of plum red palace shoes embroidered with peonies and pearls. She wore a luxurious nine-bearded bun, a bat-patterned gold swaying with red gold and jade, and a string of finely carved jadeite, which hung down long and shook between her forehead hair. There were also two freshly picked hibiscus flowers pressed on the sideburns of her crow, and the bright red petals were delicate, as if they were still carrying freshly sprinkled droplets.

Concubine Shu's slender jade hand coated with impatiens juice was gently placed on the arm of the palace maid, and she was walking towards Changle Gate in a graceful manner. Behind her, a group of palace maids were hula, and four strong eunuchs carried the empty soft sedan chair, following closely behind.

Durian Xi's eyes were sharp, and he saw this mighty group of people from afar, and hurriedly said to his master: "Niangniang, Concubine Shu is here!" ”

Concubine Li glanced at her and said leisurely: "If you come, you will come!" This is Changle Gate and not my Lingxiao Pavilion, can I not allow other concubines to move around! ”

Durian Xi was so anxious that she jumped to her feet, she lowered her voice and said, "But the queen is asking you to kneel here, instead" She swept a black silver hollow entwined twig lotus pattern in front of Concubine Sweep and poured herself a pot and a blue and white twinked twig lotus wine glass. Then he said with a bitter face: "I didn't let you drink here." ”

said that it was a punishment for kneeling, but in fact, Concubine Li was kneeling on her heels and making a look. Empress Guo originally wanted to take the opportunity to extinguish Concubine Li's arrogance and give her some hard lessons. It's a pity that Prince Rui himself opened his mouth and forced her to change three hours to one hour. Then a series of events happened, and Queen Guo completely forgot about her.

Who in this palace didn't know that Concubine Li was the favorite concubine of the emperor, those palace maids, and the eunuchs got the news that she was punished for kneeling here, and they all took a detour, not even daring to look at it, not to mention jumping out of the way without knowing whether she was alive or dead, accusing her of kneeling in the wrong posture.

Turning a deaf ear to Durian Xi's consolation, she took the black silver hollow entwined branch lotus pattern and poured herself a pot, poured herself a cup of fragrant osmanthus wine, took a sip, and said: "But the queen didn't say that she couldn't let me drink!" I had a headache for most of the night last night, and I didn't fall asleep until dawn. I finally fell asleep, and I was inexplicably pulled here to kneel. I don't have a few drinks, but I'm afraid I won't have the energy to continue kneeling. ”

Durian knows that her mother has always been casual, and if she continues to be verbose, it will be in vain. She simply stopped arguing with Concubine Li, but directly and neatly collected the wine jug, threw it behind the banyan tree, and snatched the wine glass from Concubine Li's hand and hid it in her cuffs. Then he curtsied at the approaching concubine and said, "I've seen the concubine." ”

Concubine Shu smiled and said, "Get up!" Suddenly, she snorted and said strangely: "Good and decent, how can you smell the fragrance of osmanthus wine?" ”

Durian Xi's heart jumped, and he hurriedly returned: "It must be the time to drink osmanthus wine in the morning." Accidentally sprinkled some on the corners of the skirt, so it left this smell. ”

"You Lingxiao Pavilion are all good things, even the little osmanthus wine is more mellow than other places." Concubine Shu's eyes flickered. cast his eyes on Concubine Li, and then said with a panicked face: "What's wrong with Sister Concubine Li, what are you doing sitting here in a good manner?" She stomped her foot again and said to Durian: "The people here are trampling on horses, and it is very dirty. Don't hurry up and help your master up. ”

Durian Xi peeked at his expressionless master, and helplessly bent his knees slightly to Concubine Shu, and replied with low eyebrows: "The queen mother punished our mother to kneel here for an hour, and it was only less than half an hour." I can't get up yet. ”

"So sister, you're punishing you for kneeling!" Concubine Shu covered her mouth in surprise, her eyes tracing peach blossom powder widened, and then she giggled again: "Sister Shu didn't see it for a while. But my sister's kneeling posture is too perfunctory, if the queen mother knows, I don't know if it's angry or funny! With that, she covered her mouth and laughed to herself.

Concubine Li glanced at her faintly and closed her starry eyes slightly. There are no words. Concubine Shu seemed to be more and more interested. She flicked her sleeves and said with a smile: "But my sister knows that my sister has always been a golden noble, and the emperor is not willing to hold on to your courtesy, so how can she be punished like this." But the queen is the queen after all, and the exit is Yi's decree, and everyone in this harem must abide by it! Sister, you are so disobedient, aren't you afraid that the queen will charge you with disrespecting the edict again? ”

Speaking of this, Concubine Shu's eyes narrowed slightly. He lightly instructed the palace maids behind him: "You guys don't go up to help Concubine Li kneel."

"Yes!" Those palace maids were just about to step forward and make a move. Durian immediately opened her arms and stopped in front of Concubine Li, and she said in a panic: "Concubine Shu, please be merciful." Our mother really had a headache last night, and she didn't have the energy to kneel well. ”

At this moment, Du Xi regretted it extremely in his heart, hating himself for being clever, because he didn't want the other palace maids in Lingxiao Pavilion to see his mother being humiliated, so he left all of them in Lingxiao Pavilion and didn't bring them out. I didn't expect Concubine Shu to have this Yaxing, and deliberately took a detour to Changle Gate to find trouble, and they were so numerous that their own mother was afraid that she would suffer a dark loss.

Sure enough, Durian Xi's move was like a mantis arm blocking the car, her thin body was quickly pushed by the group of palace maids, and her body was pinched several times by someone who took advantage of the chaos, and her tears were about to come out.

"Durian Xi, you should only say this to the queen's mother. Our mother is a good intention, I am afraid that the old accounts of Concubine Li will not be cleared and new accounts will be added. ”

"Duxi, do you want to disobey the queen's will?"

"Durian hi

In the chaos, Durian endured the pain, closed his eyes and shook his head desperately, but he stubbornly refused to take a step back.

Concubine Li opened her eyes slightly, although she was kneeling and sitting, she did not have the cowardice, horror, and fear of ordinary concubines after being punished. Her ice-like eyes shot sharply at the opposite side, and the smug concubine snorted lightly and said coldly: "It's so verbose, it's uneasy." Concubine Shu connived at her palace maid to do something to the master of the concubine, could it be that I was too cold to punish kneeling alone, so Concubine Shu also wanted to kneel together? ”

"And a few of you." Concubine Li glared fiercely at the palace maids who took the opportunity to secretly pinch the palace maids, and warned: "If your dirty hands dare to touch the palace, it will be a rebellion, and you can't run away if you enter the internal affairs office for forty boards, even your master can't protect it." ”

Concubine Li's fierce eyes instantly calmed the palace maids who were about to move, and they suddenly remembered, yes! Although the woman in front of her was kneeling, her identity was the same as her own master, she was a second-grade palace concubine. If you really want to hold a grudge against any crime, it's enough for them to drink a pot. They couldn't help but let go of Durian Xi timidly, and turned their eyes for help to the culprit behind them.

Concubine Shu's pink face twitched, staring at the woman in front of her who was kneeling, but still looking up arrogantly and threatening herself, her eyes were full of complicated looks, hatred, jealousy, disgust, contempt, provocation, and mixed tastes for a while. After half a ring, she lowered her eyes and smiled, and sneered: "Since my sister misunderstood my sister's kindness so much, it is really sad. ”

Concubine Li raised her hand to support the hairpin on the sideburns, and the crystal tassel hanging down from her right sideburns shook gently, reflecting the sunlight sprinkled from the gap between the leaves, making it even more crystal clear. Concubine Shu narrowed her eyes slightly, and subconsciously avoided this scorching brilliance.

I listened to Concubine Li's slow and logical words: "Concubine Shu's sudden 'kindness' immediately caused my personal palace maid to be bruised all over her body, if there are a few more such 'kindness', then my life will not be guaranteed!" ”

Concubine Li's words that directly tore her face caught Concubine Shu off guard, and she couldn't help but be angry, and said: "Don't speculate for more than half a sentence, this palace is too lazy to talk to you, a person who doesn't know what to do." Since she ripped her face, she was no longer too lazy to pretend to be affectionate with her sisters and sisters.

Concubine Li suddenly smiled, and said to the durian beside her: "Listen, I don't know if this bad person is more real and kinder than those sisters!" ”

Durian didn't dare to answer, except for a few insinuating sarcasm, by the way, to see her embarrassment, the rest really didn't dare to do anything to her. In the end, he had to snort lightly and walk away with everyone. Who knew that not far after going out, a little eunuch rushed to report: "The queen has a purpose, and she is sympathetic to the concubine who takes care of the second prince too hard, and in the future, the moon beauty will replace the concubine and go to the Qianqing Palace to serve the emperor." ”

"What? Why did that little slut replace this palace, this palace wants to see the queen mother and ask her to take back the decree"

Duxi looked at Concubine Shu, who was thunderous, and said hatefully in Concubine Li's ear: "Yes, let her despise Niangniang in public, there is always someone who can cure her." ”

Concubine Li raised her head slightly, looked at the bright blue sky through the gaps in the leaves, and said lightly: "Those who insult others and are humiliated by others, this is the cycle of heavenly principles, and retribution is unpleasant." So do I, and so do others."

Outside the window, it gradually turned from bright to dim, and then to pitch black. Kunning Palace is quiet and deep, and the sweet and bitter smell of Shenshui incense lingers in the hall, lingering.

Empress Guo took off her heavy phoenix robe and changed into a light lotus-colored cardigan and a goose-yellow breast-length skirt. A thick crow's long hair was softly draped over her shoulders, and Jing'er stood behind her, holding a tortoiseshell comb dipped in osmanthus oil and combing it one by one.

The door of the hall was pushed open with a "squeak", and Lady Yao walked in quietly. Empress Guo glanced at her lightly and said, "Is the prince asleep?" ”

Lady Yao hurriedly said: "I fell asleep, and before going to bed, the nurse coaxed me to drink a cup of Poria cocos dew mixed with milk, and I will definitely sleep extra sweetly this night." ”

Empress Guo sighed and said, "This kid has also worked hard, people who are not yet seven years old have to learn literature in the morning, practice martial arts in the afternoon, and review their homework in the evening, so they can only have a moment of rest when they fall asleep." But who called him the crown prince? Burdened with the hope of the country's future, the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military forces were staring at it and could not relax for a moment. ”

Female Officer Yao smiled and said, "But our prince is angry!" I heard that I got a compliment from my master today! ”

Queen Guo couldn't help but smile proudly when she heard this, she raised her hand and lightly touched the red gold ruby earrings under her ear, and said lightly: "What time is it?" ”

Lady Yao looked at the brass and replied respectfully: "It's already time!" ”

Empress Guo said slowly: "It's so late, is she still there?" ”

"I've been waiting outside the temple!"

"You didn't let outsiders see it, did you?"

"There are people from Kunning Palace on the left and right, and no outsiders see it."

Empress Guo pursed her lips and smiled, and said leisurely: "Then let her in!" Whether it is a person or a ghost, you can't see it clearly until the critical time! (To be continued.) )