Chapter 41: Calculation
finally managed to finish the banquet, and only after the emperor and the empress dowager left, she could go back to Cuiwei Palace.
Mid-Autumn Festival weather, the temperature is still warm, Song Meiren only wore an emerald gauze dress, and she could vaguely see two lotus arms, but Cai Ling was wearing a silk shirt, and she was still cold at this time.
"Your Majesty, would you like to go to the concubine's palace tonight to reward Chanjuan?" Song Meiren's delicate little face exuded a ruddy brilliance slightly.
The emperor did not say anything, walked down the hall, and stood in front of Cai Ling. The two concubines on the left and right all got up, but Cai Ling sat still and didn't move.
The slightly drunk emperor stared at her for a moment, but she only stared at the cup of tea on the table, for fear that the panic and worry in her heart would be seen by him.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bright yellow flashing by, and Cai Ling raised his eyes, but suddenly, the emperor turned around and walked back, looking at each other, one with complicated emotions and the other with fear.
"If there are no other arrangements, can you want to go back to the Qin Wangfu tonight?" He asked.
Her eyes were instantly moist, but she quickly lowered her head, the faint abdominal pain in her lower abdomen was still bearable, and the hot blood that slowly flowed on both sides of her legs was uncontrollable. Time can not be delayed any longer, find the master earlier, and the child may be saved.
She plucked up her courage and said in a low voice, "The concubine just had other arrangements tonight. Why don't you find someone else to go with you? ”
"You!" The emperor is extremely angry.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......" Song Meiren smiled skillfully, "The concubine has admired Your Majesty for a long time, and she has always wanted to visit Your Majesty's mansion when she was the King of Qin. ”
The Emperor glanced at her and strode away. Song Meiren hurriedly chased out.
Yang Guifei helped the Empress Dowager into the inner hall, and Concubine Liangxian was about to leave, when she saw Cai Ling still sitting in her original position, she asked with a smile: "Is my sister unwell, but do you want my sister to ask Imperial Doctor Yu?" ”
"No, you don't." Cai Ling only said.
Concubine Liangxian bowed her head and led the two palace maids away. The eldest princess Jinghe was also about to leave, but saw that the horse was still sitting on the seat, so she squatted down and gently pushed his arm, but the man did not react, and looked at his gaze, and saw Jiang Shufei with a worried face. The eldest princess was so angry that she stepped on the pony fiercely, and the pony withdrew her gaze and left after her.
"Niangniang...... "The personal female officer Lu Wu persuaded, "Everyone has dispersed, let's go back to the palace." ”
"Luwu, go find a step for the main palace, it's late at night, and the main palace doesn't want to walk." Cai Ling commanded.
At the end of the day, the door of Cuiwei Palace was locked, until someone knocked on the palace door, and the palace maid guarding the eaves hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" ”
"It's me. Open the door. Lu Wu leaned over to the crack in the door, and when he finished speaking, he turned his head and smiled at the person behind him.
The palace maid's tightly knit eyebrows stretched slightly, and she hurriedly opened a door, and in an instant, she frowned again and asked, "Why not Lord Yu?" ”
"What do you do with so much?" Lu Wu didn't care about her, and only made a gesture of invitation to the person behind her.
The two hurriedly walked to the inner hall, and the palace maid hurriedly lit a few more red candles.
At this moment, the man lying flat on the bed stretched out a hand, as if to grasp the opportunity of this line, and although his body did not move, his head had moved to the edge of the bed.
But by the candlelight, through the screen embroidered with peach blossoms, she saw that the person holding the medicine box next to Lu Wu was not the person she was looking for, and her heart, which was not hot, almost froze.
"Niangniang......" The Korean doctor with an anxious look on his face was asking through the screen, "Don't you want to see Weichen?" Wei Chen knew that his medical skills were not as exquisite as his master's, but his master ...... "The rest of his words seem to be out of his mouth."
Lu Wu walked into the screen and knelt in front of her bed: "The slave is ashamed, please not be able to ...... Lord Yu"
Cai Ling withdrew her dangling arm, why couldn't she be invited? Is it because of the Mid-Autumn Festival that he left the palace? Or did he not want to see her again at all? Whatever the reason, she didn't want to think about it anymore.
"Xiao Han." Although his voice was weak, his tone was very resolute, "I have a pain in my lower abdomen, and there is dirty blood flowing out of the uterine opening, come and help me take a look." Please, you must keep the baby. ”
After taking the pulse, the Korean doctor thought for a moment, and prescribed a prescription for the fetus, Cai Ling personally read it, and the palace maids hurriedly went to the Taiyi Bureau to get the medicine and boil the medicine. Everyone was so busy that they were sweating profusely throughout the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Before leaving, Doctor Han hesitated again and again and said: "Thinking of the love of being a classmate with Niangniang for three years, Weichen risked death and said bluntly. ”
Although the fetus can be saved temporarily this time, Weichen still has to implore the mother to think twice. Since the mother was pregnant, everything has continued, and she almost wants to slip the fetus, and all kinds of signs indicate that the fetus is not stable. ”
"Niangniang has read a lot of medical skills, and the master has repeatedly reminded that a woman should abide by the rules of all things in the world when she conceives a fetus, and if she forcibly protects the fetus, there is a high chance that she will give birth to a defective child. Such children are usually doomed, let alone the families of emperors with brothers and fratricidals. ”
"Xiao Han ......" Cai Ling saw that the green was still in the house, and couldn't help but worry about his outspokenness.
"Senior sister!" Doctor Han was kneeling on the black brick floor, and couldn't help wiping away a handful of tears, "Senior sister, you have to think about yourself." ”
Cai Ling lay flat on the bed, like a soulless shell, but the tears in her eyes gradually filled with tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.
The feather eyelashes closed, his mind was full of Shen Muchi, he held her hand and said, "This is the first prince I have with you...... If she is a princess, I will leave half of the country to her. ”
In a flash of thought, it was he who said, "If my child has half a point of difference, I will never forgive you!" ”
The next day, she still needed to go to Ziwei Palace to say hello, Cai Ling got up early, and planned to go to Ziwei Palace to discuss with Xiao Han carefully.
The Empress Dowager was kind and smiling, gossiping with the concubines, Cai Ling was still too empty, looking at a certain place with empty eyes, and never spoke.
In the middle of the hour, the Empress Dowager took a break, and after everyone dispersed one after another, Cai Ling remained in the seat. Aunt Chun came over with a food box and said respectfully: "This box of steamed chestnut cake with osmanthus sugar was specially ordered by the Queen Mother to be made by the old slave, please accept it." ”
"How did the Queen Mother know that I liked this pastry?" Cai Ling hurriedly took the food box and handed it to the green turnip on the side.
"Niangniang barely touched her chopsticks last night except for eating two pieces of chestnut flour cake. The Empress Dowager got up this morning and opened her mouth and instructed the slaves and maids to make cakes. Aunt Chun knocked on her stomach and smiled.
A sense of guilt swept over, and Cai Ling was stunned.
". It's time to go back to the palace and rest. "Green Turnip reminds.
Cai Ling came back to her senses and was about to leave, when she looked at Aunt Chun, who was smiling and gray in her temples, she felt very kind, and asked, "Did Lord Yu still come on time to ask for peace for the Empress Dowager?" I don't know ......."
"!" Before he finished speaking, Lu Wu hurriedly interrupted.
She sighed in her heart, it was usually Manyun who told her tightly not to mention Yu Moyan, but now that Manyun has left the palace to get married, the Shanggong Bureau has sent another female official, Lu Wu, but she is also secretive about this person. But this man is her master! She had nothing to avoid.
Cai Ling ignored the green turnip, only smiled and waited for Aunt Chun's answer.
"Niangniang didn't know, Lord Yu took leave and left the palace half a month ago. The Empress Dowager and the Emperor mean that he should go out of the palace to treat his father-in-law, and after curing his illness, he will serve in the Taiyi Bureau......"
"What?" Cai Ling's eyes were full of disbelief, "Did you leave the palace half a month ago?" ”
After Zhuang Yuanlang fainted on the night of his marriage, the tocolytic medicine sent by Xiao Han kept saying that it was prescribed by the master himself? How can you calculate that the night was within half a month?
Yesterday! Yesterday, Lu Wu went to invite the master to no avail, only invited Xiao Han, and the two of them said that they couldn't invite Master Yu, but the specific reason was never mentioned.
If the master has left the palace, why should Xiao Han hide it?
She turned her eyes and glanced coldly at the green, and although the young woman dared to look back at her, there was panic in her eyes that could not be hidden.
"Aunt Chun, are you mistaken?" Cai Ling asked.
"On that day, Lord Yu came to resign, and told the old slave to let the Queen Mother quit for half a month, and the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival was just half a moon, how could the old slave be wrong?" Aunt Chun blurted out.
"I hope Lord Yu can return to the palace as soon as possible." Cai Ling was thoughtful.
"The Empress Dowager, her old man is looking forward to it." Aunt Chun nodded.
Coming out of Ziwei Palace, Lu Wu followed behind him and whispered, "The slave really doesn't know that Lord Yu was not on duty at the Taiyi Bureau last night?" As soon as the slave maid approached the Taiyi Bureau, he saw Doctor Han standing in the courtyard, and after listening to the slave maid's narration, Lord Han immediately rushed to Cuiwei Palace, not daring to delay for a moment. Besides, Niangniang has the appearance of a slippery fetus but doesn't report it, and Lord Han also risked killing his head to save Niangniang. ”
"It's green." Cai Ling said coldly, "Which palace and courtyard were you in before?" ”
Lu Wu only felt a sudden coldness behind his back, "Niangniang, this is?" ”
"Go back to where you used to be. This palace can't accommodate you here. Cai Ling's face was expressionless.
"Niangniang......" Luwu hugged the food box, and soon tears welled up. Cai Ling was unmoved, and walked towards the imperial garden alone.
As soon as she walked to the rockery next to the small pond, she suddenly rolled a piece of Keju to her feet, but fortunately she watched the road carefully so that she did not step on the round Keju. When I looked up, I saw a chubby little boy staggering over, small, about two and a half years old, who was the eldest prince.
Is this child Shen Muchi's son? Why every time she sees this child, it makes her think of someone else.
"Lady Niangniang." The eldest prince stopped a foot away from Cailing and bowed his hand.
Cai Ling's frowning eyebrows slowly stretched, and a smile appeared on her pale face, "The eldest prince, this palace doesn't know your name yet." ”
"My name is Yin Ke. Niangniang can call me Ke'er. ”
"Ke'er." Cai Ling whispered, "Ke" is cautious and respectful, and there is no majesty of the prince.
"Lady doesn't like my name?" The eldest prince asked.
"Oh. No. Cai Ling hurriedly smiled and asked, "This name is very good, was it given by my father?" ”
"It's not." The little face of the eldest prince was instantly filled with sadness, "My father refused to see me, so how could he name me?" It was the idea of the concubine. ”
"Hmm." Cai Ling was also sad.
"Mother." The little boy took a few steps closer, but he had long forgotten his sadness, and laughed, "Can I go back to Keju?" ”
"Of course." Cai Ling was about to squat down, when she suddenly thought of the unstable fetus in her belly, and said, "You can pick it up yourself." ”
"Yes." The eldest prince grinned.
The eldest prince just walked in front of Cai Ling, she felt that someone behind her pushed her hard, after the center of gravity was unstable, she fell straight towards the edges and corners of the rockery, in a panic, she hurriedly covered her belly, but her shoulder was still rubbed and broken, full of pain, she squatted down, turned her head, and the person quickly disappeared from view.
"Lady Lady Niangniang......" The eldest prince's face turned pale, his eyes were full of tears, and he also squatted down.
"His Royal Highness the Great Prince......"
"Don't be afraid, Grandma is here. Mama will save you. The eldest prince collected a trace of panic, turned his head and shouted, "I'm here...... Come on......"
Cai Ling covered his mouth and said in a deep voice, "Ke'er is good." Ke'er helped me up. From now on, this is our little secret, and no one can tell it, okay? ”
The cute eldest prince nodded as if he understood whether he understood or not, and pulled Cai Ling up hard.