Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Promise of Fireflies

Yun Fenghuan was shocked when he saw this, and thought that something was wrong, but Qi Jiulu took out the moon white crepe brocade bag from his sleeve, and stuffed it to her with some embarrassment: "I caught it for you before I came, but I forgot about it when I saw you...... After boring this night, I don't know if it's still bright. ”

At this time, there were already people in front of him who got up and walked around, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so he hurried away.

Leaving Yun Fenghuang stunned to look at the halo in his hand, the flowing fireflies like warmth, and they are not tolerant of the bitter cold of the north. She didn't know when she was young, she followed Xixi to study, and learned a song of her predecessors' "Song of Fireflies" [Note], saying "If it is not from the sky, it will be set as a moon star", she was very curious, and once asked someone to catch a firefly for her to see, what is the "rain lights are difficult to extinguish, and the wind blows more brightly" method.

Later, I learned that the Northland was too cold to give birth to such strange insects, and I cried several times...... At that time, Qi Jiulu knew about it, so he coaxed her, saying that when she grew up, she would take her to the south to see, and when the time came, she could catch as much as she wanted, and she could see it however she wanted......

At that time, she and Qi Jiulu were too young, and even a trip out of the city felt very far away, let alone thousands of miles away in the south, so that this promise seemed ethereal and untouchable.

Therefore, Yun Fenghuan was not comforted at all, and lost his temper with him, thinking that this kind of promise was insincere, but a delaying tactic, so that he would forget it after a while...... After a while, she really forgot about it.

I didn't expect him to remember.

She was stunned for a long time holding the bag that was obviously made in a hurry, and finally, Xile tentatively called someone outside, Fang Youyou sighed.

…… After a while, Xile was waiting for Yun Fenghuang to freshen up, and Nian Xuan came in and said, "Your Majesty's little father-in-law in front of me just came to say, Your Majesty asked you to put breakfast here." ”

Yun Fenghuang said lightly, I know.

Immediately, the palace people who accompanied the driver came in to say goodbye, and immediately went to the flower hall to set up a meal.

The meal was almost laid out, and the emperor arrived.

Hearing that Mao Jieyu was still grooming, she was not busy with her meal and went into the inner room to see.

As a result, when he came in, he saw the brocade on the dressing table, and the emperor picked it up and looked at it for a while, and asked with a smile: "Where did this come from?" ”

"Your Majesty didn't come last night, and the concubine was very bored, so let Xile get it." Yun Feng didn't look back, and said, "Your Majesty knows, the concubine grew up in the north, and there are no fireflies in the north, isn't this a whim, and a lot of them have been caught?" ”

The moon-white crepe brocade bag was full of fireflies, because they had been smothered in Qi Jiulu's sleeves all night, and they had died a lot now, but there were still a few tenaciously flickering tails, exuding a quiet light in the shadows.

The emperor stared quietly for a moment, put it back in place, and chuckled: "Jieyu said this as if she was jealous, then I will be here with you tonight." ”

"The concubine is not such a stingy person." At this time, Yun Fenghuan had just finished dressing up, and when he heard this, he turned his head, glanced at him, and wanted to smile or not, "Your Majesty said before that the concubines who stayed behind were arranged by the concubines, but tonight I invited Your Majesty to go to Concubine Ji, Your Majesty wants to accompany the concubines, and wait for Ming'er." ”

As she spoke, she slowly stood up, gently tugged the hem of her skirt, and a pair of jade pei tied around her waist struck each other with a pleasant sound

crisp sound, "After all, the concubine is a concubine, and she must lead by example for the palace concubines, this is one of them; Second, the concubine is now having a difficult heir, but she doesn't dare to serve His Majesty too much, so as not to delay His Majesty's efforts to spread the branches and leaves for the royal family. ”

The emperor smiled, didn't answer the words, and only said, "Concubine Ai, then let's go to dinner." ”

After they sat down in the flower hall, Yi Xingen came to ask for a meeting, and she came to serve Yun Fenghuan.

"There is a palace maid here in this palace, since you are here, just sit down and use it together." Yun Fenghuang said casually, "Liuhong, add a seat to Yi Fengyi." ”

"The concubine doesn't dare." Yi Xingen hurriedly said, "The concubine is a Fengyi, and she is a member of the Xuanqing Palace, so it is natural to serve the lord, and please don't dislike the concubine's stupidity." ”

She said so, Yun Fenghuan was too lazy to be pretentious, and waved her hand to let Xijing, who was originally serving on the side, go away, and let Yi Xingen serve.

Yi Xingen's skills in serving people are definitely not as good as Xijing and others, who have been palace maids for several years, but she is stunning, even if she doesn't dare to show off her position at the moment, only two silver-gilt silk carp hairpins are inserted obliquely on the spirit snake bun, and the ear pendants with emerald fusang flowers are still appreciated by Yunfeng Huang when she entered the Xuanqing Palace, and she has not changed them in the past two days.

A newly-cut bean green palace dress is decent and has no ornaments, but the sleeves are lightly faded, a section of the wrist is exposed, and the jade fingers are slender with toothbrushes and silver spoons to scoop the soup for the cloud wind fence.

Yun Fenghuang was in a happy mood, but Emperor Chunjia, not far away, turned a blind eye, ate and drank, took the handkerchief handed by the goose and wiped the corners of his mouth, and rinsed his mouth with tea.

But Chunjia has always been generous and never cares about such small things.

Yun Feng came out, where are you willing to wronged yourself?

At this moment, he only waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty, walk slowly, it's hot, take care of your body." So he continued to drink the soup on his own.

The emperor really didn't mean to be angry, smiled and got up to leave.

During this process, he didn't look at Yi Xingen at all, which made the beautiful palace concubine subconsciously bite her lip, but immediately lowered her head and honestly continued to serve the lord.

After half an hour, Yun Fenghuang finally finished eating, rinsed his mouth, pressed the corner of his lips with a handkerchief, and said to her: "In the past two days, the palace plans to arrange for you to serve Your Majesty more, and you will serve with some heart, and when you go to the Qishan Palace, the palace will also ask for promotion for you and the queen...... Although there are newcomers in the palace one after another this year, there are still many vacant seats. ”

Anyway, this kind of encouragement doesn't need money, and the promotion is left and right for the queen to manage, and the request is not fulfilled to let this resentful queen go.

Yi Xingen hurriedly knelt down and thanked her.

"You're tired all morning, too." Yun Fenghuang didn't care, "Let's go and rest...... By the way, Nian Xuan, take that pair of gold folded silk apricot blossom pomegranate earrings, that one is very suitable for Yi

Clothing. ”

A pair of earrings doesn't cost much, so it's comfortable to pick people up and look at them yourself, so she should be allowed to wear them for herself.

After sending people away like this, Xijing came up and said: "Niangniang, the maid looks at this Yi Fengyi and looks honest, but in fact, he may not have no thoughts." Your Majesty didn't stay in her courtyard to eat, but even ran over under the banner of serving you, and didn't say anything, did you notice when he was serving you? Her voluptuous tone...... It's a shame that Your Majesty didn't pay attention! ”

"How do you know Your Majesty didn't notice?" Yun Fenghuang smiled and said, "Yi Fengyi is beautiful, and his actions are pleasing to the eye, this palace is a woman who can't turn her eyes, and Your Majesty actually doesn't sweep your eyes, is this really not paying attention, or is it deliberately not paying attention?" ”

Xijing was shocked when he heard this, frowned and said, "Then, do you want to ......?"

"What do you want?" Yun Fenghuang said indifferently, "The palace people in this palace are angry, and it's too late for this palace to reward her, you are not allowed to mess around, otherwise this palace will know, and you will look good!" ”

Xijing was subconsciously pinched to be stronger, and when he heard the words, he was stunned, and he thought of what Fang Cai Yunfeng said to the emperor, he basically can't give birth to his own lordship, so he really doesn't need to eat too much vinegar from the palace people, after all, he still expects Yi Xingen and his ilk to give her children, right?

She then showed a comprehensible expression and was blessed: "It's the maid who is confused." ”

flattered again, "But even though Yi Fengyi has only been here for a long time, His Majesty still doesn't care about her, even if he doesn't care about it on purpose, it can be seen that His Majesty still values Niangniang more after all." ”

Yun Fenghuang just smiled at this, changed the topic and asked Ji Duzi: "What did Concubine Ji do after she went back yesterday?" ”

"It seems that someone sent a few messages out." Hearing this, Chen Zhu hurriedly replied, "One of them is going to Qishan, probably for the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother." ”

"By the way, Ji Mingji didn't drive with Yuan Shu when he came back yesterday, what can you find out?" Yun Fenghuang let out a "hmm" and remembered, "Your Majesty left after the meal just now, doesn't it have something to do with this?" ”

In fact, when the emperor entered the inner room to see her dressing up, she should have knocked on the side, but who told the emperor to see the bag as soon as he entered, picked it up, and asked?

Yun Fenghuan seemed to prevaricate and understated, but there were waves in his heart, and he forgot about the business.

Chen Zhu was quite capable, and at this moment he turned his head to look left and right, and sent away all those idlers, leaving only the person who followed Yun Fenghuang when Xi Xingxuan was left, and then whispered: "It is said that those two people who bought off the bottom yesterday were doing tricks and feet on the fishing hook, and Your Majesty's falling into the water has a lot to do with it, so they have been taken down by the Imperial City Division, and they are about to interrogate them for murdering Your Majesty...... Haixi Hou Xingningbo rushed over from Qishan last night and waited outside His Majesty's courtyard all night! ”

"I see." Yun Fenghuang shook the fan and said thoughtfully, "Then these two people are really evil!" ”

said and laughed, his expression was quite playful, but he thought of yesterday's painting boat, Ji Mingji and Yuan Shu thought

She refused to fish together, and then her faces were not very good--the temperament of those two, they would not just give up after touching a nail, even if it was the palace concubine who gave them the nail, most of them were going to do something.

As a result, she was coquettish and asked the emperor to help walk the fish, but she cheated the emperor?

It looks like this, after all, the fishing rod was stuffed to the emperor by Yun Fenghuan himself.

But when I thought about it, it was my own proposal to travel, but it was the emperor's arrangement to travel to the lake, and it was obviously a trip with concubines, so why did I pull a bunch of companions?

I always feel that most of this matter still has an inside story, and most of it has the guidance or impetus of the emperor?

After all, this emperor has a history of summer feasts.

"Zheng Fengdi's case involved the hussar general and Cui Shangshu, and the emperor fell into the water and dragged the Ji clan and the Yuan clan ......" Yun Fenghuan secretly thought in his heart, and there were several forces in the temples and temples of the country, and now in addition to the royalist Yiguo Mansion, there is also the emperor's temporary ally regent, who has been dragged in......

She couldn't help but be shocked!

Although I don't know what other tricks Chunjia has next, judging from the current situation, as long as he succeeds, it can't be said that he will take off the cage and roar for nine days!

How can this work!

Although Empress Ji's boat is not too reliable, for Yun Fenghuan, who has offended Yuan Neem Niang, Empress Dowager Yuan, Yuan Shu, and the emperor countless times, the consequences of the emperor's power are even more serious!

So she had to not let the emperor's plan go smoothly...... Especially Ji Mingji's handle this time was indirectly given to the emperor by her, if the Ji family suffered a big loss because of this, it is conceivable that they can't help the emperor, they will inevitably suspect Yun Fenghuan, and then take her out!

So what to do now?

Yun Fenghuang thought quickly, of course it would be best if she could destroy the emperor's calculations, the question was that she had always been in the deep palace, she didn't know much about the emperor's movements, and even less about her private actions...... I'm afraid that this idea won't work.

"For today's plan, it seems that we can only start from the two sides of the Yiguo Mansion and the regent." Yun Fenghuan's eyes flickered, and for a moment, he whispered to himself, "In this way, everyone is not innocent, the emperor will either be punished without discrimination, or pardoned without discrimination, and there is no way to pull a group of ......."

Well, as for how to hack these two sides......

She thought for a while and ordered: "Go and pass Concubine Ji over!" ”

Although this kind of thing can be done without going through Ji Duzi, it ...... Why!

The first to bear the brunt is the Ji family, whether Ji Duzi is willing or unwilling, anyway, he must be the first to charge!

Note: The author of this poem is Li Bai.

(End of chapter)

Lewen