"Yes, it's eighteen in the blink of an eye." Hua Ying stroked her stomach, and there was tenderness in her eyes: "The emperor said that I am now a nobleman, and it is not suitable to hold a birthday banquet, but he wants to hold a small family banquet for me in his palace, which can be regarded as a celebration." ”

"The emperor really loves his sister, last time on my sister's birthday, the emperor didn't love my sister so much, or I and Yu Changzai came to you for dinner with Sister Xiu Concubine." Ming Chang listened to it, and said with relief, but there was no trace of jealousy.

"At that time, I didn't have Yinming." Concubine Jing couldn't put down the little doll she was holding in her hand: "I'm going to have a fun this time, but I've already prepared a gift." ”

"The fourth elder brother looks much healthier than before, Sister Jing must be tired these days." Hua Ying touched the child's little face, which used to be quite yellow and thin, but now it is ruddy.

"As long as the fourth elder brother can get better, these things for me will be nothing." Women are weak, but mothers are strong, but Concubine Jing feels that women are not weak, otherwise how can they survive in this cannibalistic harem?

Rou Chang was watching while unconsciously touching her stomach, and asked the doctor to come to see her last time, saying that there was no problem with her body, but she didn't know that she would also take her own pulse, and it was impossible for her body to conceive a child. On the surface, the queen said that she would not let her get pregnant now, but in fact, it is not only now, it is estimated that she is afraid that she will be disobedient, so she made a big announcement early, and cut off her right to be a mother in the future, but she doesn't want the imperial doctor to tell her.

"Rou Changzai also wants to have children?" Ming Chang happened to see her movements and asked jokingly.

Rou Chang was interrupted from thinking and shook her head: "No, I don't really like children very much. ”

"Don't pretend, I'm sorry, I just saw that the fourth elder brother's eyes were straight." Ming Changzai only thought she was shy, and the words she said caused several people to laugh, and Rou Changzai had no choice but to acquiesce.

"Sister Xiu Concubine, what have you been busy with lately, and I can't see her anymore." It was only then that Ming Chang found out that there was no one missing.

"Ergege is about to go to the princess school, Sister Xiu doesn't have to hurry."

Hua Ying nodded: "So that's the case, that's hard to show the concubine sister." ”

"As a parent, where can you say that it is hard." Concubine Jing has a child, and her words are different from them: "I heard that Concubine Jiang has recently chosen a marriageable partner for the eldest brother, and I guess I want to choose a lady to help the eldest brother." ”

"The eldest brother is only twelve or thirteen years old, she is in such a hurry, it seems that she really wants the eldest brother to be crowned as the prince."

Ming Chang was not angry when she remembered the previous scene: "What she thinks is beautiful, but it depends on whether the sky follows people's wishes, people are watching the sky, not to mention that everyone is not everyone, I am afraid of finding a little shrew head, so that she will not be a good mother-in-law." ”

Rou Changzai couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Sister Ming is really interesting." ”

Hua Ying pretended to blame and said: "You, just say something that you don't have, and provoke Sister Rou to laugh at you, you provoked Concubine Jiang this time, don't go to her again." ”

"Okay, I know my sister, I'll hide when I see her in the future, dig a pit and bury my head, okay?"

For a while, there was laughter in Hua Ying's palace, and Li Quan outside couldn't help but laugh when he heard the movement, this little master Ying could make the atmosphere hot at any time, and he couldn't complain that the emperor liked it.

"Gonggong Li is here, but what does the emperor command?" Hua Ying saw that he was still respectful but did not have a sense of flattery, which made Li Quan very useful and comfortable.

"I've seen Concubine Jing Niangniang, Ying Guiren, Rou Chang is here, Ming Chang is always here, the emperor has ordered, come to you for dinner in the evening, you prepare early."

"Okay, thank you father-in-law, Lan Yu sent Father-in-law Li out." Hua Ying motioned for Lan Yi to give Li Quan a bag of broken silver outside, but Li Quan did not shirk it, and said goodbye, so as not to disturb them and continue to talk.

"It's good, when I was pregnant with the prince, the emperor came to see it a few times, but the noble people are different." Concubine Jing could also see that Li Quan's demeanor towards Hua Ying was not just a superficial smile like that of other concubines, but more sincere: "I don't know why, the emperor didn't give you a concubine directly." ”

"I don't want to do it myself, but Sister Jing is jealous?" Hua Ying saw Concubine Jing sigh with emotion, and deliberately teased her in a relaxed tone, knowing that Concubine Jing was not the one who cared about these things.

Sure enough, Concubine Jing smiled again: "Sure enough, it's you, if you change to someone else, I'm afraid it's too late to be happy, only you, a girl, dare to refuse the emperor, last time the emperor was angry, it was also because of this?" Although it was a question, Concubine Jing already knew it in her heart: "Besides, it's not that you don't know, I've already seen it, the emperor just remembers me and Yinming, and the rest, just let him be, I don't care about those favors." ”

"Out of this door, my sister can't talk nonsense." Hua Ying asked Qingxu to close the window before saying, "I know that my sister is also a true temperament, but in the past few years, haven't you ever been interested in the emperor?" Hua Ying thought she was a hard-hearted person, but perhaps because of pregnancy, her feelings for the emperor have also changed.

"Maybe when you first entered the palace? Yes, it was a long time ago, you girls just entered the palace, and some things can't be seen clearly. Concubine Jing hugged the fourth elder brother, let him lie in the crook of her arm, and slowly shook her arm: "If you can give birth to an imperial heir, you can give birth to one, and you can also give yourself a comfort, if you can't give birth, you can live in peace, don't care too much about ethereal things."

“…… My sister saw it thoroughly. "Whether it is your love for the emperor or the extravagant love for you, it is an ethereal thing, and Hua Ying can be regarded as being mentioned by Concubine Jing.

The atmosphere was a little condensed for a while, no one spoke anymore, or Ming Chang spoke first: "I'm still smart, I don't care about those, I just want to talk to you every day, and I am happy. ”

"That's what Sister Ming said." Rou Chang saw that the fourth elder brother was about to fall asleep, and said more softly: "The concubine will not disturb the noble Ying, and retire first." ”

"The palace is also going back, let's go together, the fourth elder brother is also about to fall asleep, so I won't leave the annoying nobles." Concubine Jing and Ming Changzai also knew that the time they stayed today was not short, and Hua Ying had to prepare to have dinner with the emperor in the evening, so they also left with Rou Changzai.

After Hua Ying waited for them to leave, she was still thinking about what Concubine Jing said for a while, and she was hugged from behind by a man full of ambergris: "What are you thinking?" So fascinated that you didn't even hear the minion's briefing?" When the emperor came to the gate of the palace, he saw that no one greeted him, so he simply came in directly, and saw Hua Ying looking meditative.

If you have something to say, you naturally can't tell the emperor, Hua Ying said: "I thought that I had been in Qingliangyuan for so long, and the emperor had never come to see the concubine, but he went to other concubines, did he forget the concubine?"

The emperor rarely saw her sour and jealous, and thought it was very funny, so he teased her: "What, do you want me to be like this?" With such a big vinegar smell, don't sour the child in the stomach. ”

"The emperor also mentions the child, mainly because he misses you in his stomach and kicks me every day, I'm afraid he loves to eat sour." Hua Ying said coquettishly: "The concubine is also a little moody when she is pregnant with a child, not as generous as before, and please ask the emperor to understand the concubine, after all, it is because of the emperor." ”

The emperor just smiled heartily: "It's okay, I like it very much." As he spoke, he stroked her belly again, feeling the movement inside, it was not the first time he had been a father, nor was it the first time he had touched the fetal movement of the child in the pregnant concubine's belly, but maybe it was because Hua Ying was still insisting on hiding the child's gender from him, which gave him a different kind of emotion, which was a feeling called anticipation.

This feeling seems to have only appeared when the queen was pregnant with a child, it was the sister-in-law he was looking forward to, but in the end he died early, after that, he knew that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, and for the pregnant harem concubine, he only visited occasionally, lest the final outcome was not what he wanted, but here in Hua Ying, he was a little really looking forward to this unborn child.