Volume 1: The Storm and the Rain Chapter 25: The Sub-Rules
Qing Yu, who was in the inner palace, seemed to have a premonition that it would be difficult for Xuan Ye to return to the palace for a while. Sure enough, the next day, Wei Zhu sent a letter. When Qing Yu unfolded the letter, he was worried for a while, and after making sure that the Empress Dowager's affairs were okay, he was relieved. repeatedly asked Wei Zhu to tell His Majesty that he did not have to worry about the affairs in the palace, and that he should take the Empress Dowager first. Then he ordered Yixin to take some golden melon seeds and give them to Wei Zhu.
After Wei Zhu took it with both hands, he bowed down and said with a smile: "The slave thanked the imperial concubine for her grace, this time I saw that there was another heavy snow outside, Your Majesty was worried about Niangniang and the eighth princess, and Niangniang took care of herself." The slave had to hurry up and reply to His Majesty. ”
Qing Yu leaned on the side of the bed, holding Mei'er who was sleeping soundly in her arms, nodded slightly, and signaled to guide Wei Zhu away.
Qing Shi was puzzled and asked: "This person is so flattering, why is my sister so polite to him?"
Qing Yu smiled: "Don't underestimate him, in this deep palace, being kind to others is good after all."
Qing Shi snorted lightly: "I feel disgusted when I look at him, and I won't please him."
Qing Yu smiled and shook her head, turned her eyes to look at Mei'er who was sleeping in her arms, and hummed softly the song that Enie taught her as a child. The smile on his face was something that Qing Shi had never seen before.
"There is a doctor next to my sister, named Song Yanzhi?"
Seeing Qing Yu nodding in response, Qing Shi cried: "Last year, I met a disciple on the Shangyuan Festival, full of Meng Lang's words, if it wasn't for the third brother to break the siege, he would have been taken lightly." This disciple is not an outsider, it is this Song Yanzhi. ”
Qing Yu was shocked: "There is such a thing?" After thinking for a while, he continued, "Originally, I only thought that he lingered in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and I didn't want to be so rude." Now I see that he is indeed not like before, but I don't know if he will be the same in the future. Tomorrow, I will let him stay in the Tai Hospital, and he doesn't have to come to ask for a pulse. ”
Although Qing Shi was not very satisfied, he couldn't see him after all, and his heart suddenly relaxed, and he joked: "My sister holds Mei'er every day and refuses to let go, and this nurse is idle."
Qing Yu couldn't deny it and smiled lightly.
How can she not be happy about the child who has been in the palace for seven years? Everyone else said that the imperial concubine Niangniang loved her son and never left day and night. When these words came to Yonghe Palace, Concubine De was worried, for fear that Yinzhen would be wronged, so she prepared a ceremony to come to Chengqian Palace.
"Why don't you pass the word when you're here?" Qingyu smiled and hugged Mei'er to the nurse, and asked Concubine De with a smile.
"The concubine is afraid of disturbing the mother." She motioned to the palace people behind her to present the brocade box, "This is a congratulatory gift prepared by the concubine for the eighth princess in advance, a wishful longevity lock." ”
Qing Yu instructed Yi Xin to accept it, and looked at Concubine De, now that she was two months pregnant, Qing Yu withdrew the tea and replaced it with the fragrance to her: "This is the rose fragrance I used to drink some time ago, you can taste it." ”
"The ones in Niangniang's palace are really good things, and the concubine feels fragrant when she takes a bite." Concubine De snorted and smiled.
Qingyu nodded: "This rose fragrance dew is good, but you can't drink too much." If you like it, just ask the people in the palace to pick it up. ”
Concubine De bowed her head slightly in response, and asked again: "Concubine I heard that the fourth elder brother went to study in the study a few days ago, and when he came back, he was punished by his mother for not reciting it, but now he can memorize it?" ”
"He's a fun-loving person, and he can't bear to study. If you don't punish him, I'm afraid that I won't understand anything after I learn it. ”
Concubine De was still smiling when she saw her taking Mei'er, and when she turned her head to mention Yinzhen, she changed her serious complexion, it turned out that the child she regarded as a treasure and didn't dare to criticize her was less than one-tenth of Mei'er in Qingyu's eyes.
Resentment poured out of Weijun's heart, this hatred was accumulated little by little, she hated Qingyu for letting Yinzhen alienate her, she hated Yinzhen for falling down Qingyu but accidentally shirked it, she hated Qingyu's harsh criticism of Yinzhen.
She couldn't take it anymore. She stared at Qingyu's quiet face, and thought in her heart, if there was no Mei'er, would she transform her love for Mei'er to Yinzhen.
Qing Yu noticed that she was distracted and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Concubine De came back to her senses and changed her smile to hide: "Yes, it should be punished." ”
She came out of Chengqian Palace, and with an impulse, walked towards Xianfu Palace.
Half a moon has passed in the blink of an eye, and Mei'er is about to be full moon. Although the Empress Dowager's dizziness in Chengxin Garden improved, it was still difficult to walk, and the return trip had to be postponed for a few days. Qing Yu wanted to cancel the banquet, but the Empress Dowager ordered Qing Yu not to be harsh.
The full moon banquet coincided with the Shangyuan Festival, and the queen mother chose to hold the banquet in Chonghua Palace, which was on the west side of the inner courtyard, very far away from Chengqian Palace, but because of the vastness of the palace, it was often used as a place for banquets and gatherings.
In the Qing Dynasty, he specially picked a dailuo eyebrow pencil and depicted a pair of distant mountains to look solemn and steady. Qing Shi was looking up at the window pavilion of the bronze mirror, and took in the snow scene in the distance. From Yongshou Palace, he walked towards Chengqian Palace, and the jade bracelet was lost in his sleeve in the Qing Dynasty, and he went to Chonghua Palace with Qingyu.
The painting building is full of moon at the beginning, and the incense hall welcomes spring early. The Full Moon Feast is nothing more than that. In the Qing Dynasty, Qing Yu followed the steps up, the Chinese feast began, and the Jingshan was reflected in the distance. The Queen Mother sat in the banquet, looked around, and smiled: "Today's Shangyuan Festival coincides with the full moon of the Eighth Princess, so everyone doesn't have to be restrained. ”
Everyone said yes, each sitting in his place, and the stars and moons lined with the rich peony atmosphere of the people on the seat. When he sat down, one or two unfamiliar palace concubines came to talk.
Because Concubine Wen and Concubine Yi were pregnant, they asked the Queen Mother to recuperate in the palace. Without the banquet of the two of them, the full moon banquet seemed much cleaner. Everyone congratulated Qingyu one after another, and Qingyu was full of smiles.
Before the banquet was halfway through, Mei'er began to cry in the nurse's arms, Qingyu saw this and asked the nurse to hold Mei'er with her, and then touched Mei'er's small mouth with her fingers, Mei'er immediately grabbed her fingers and sucked hard, and soon Mei'er laughed and fell asleep after a while. Qing Yu hesitated for a moment and ordered: "Yixin, you send the princess back first, it's not good to catch a cold for a while." ”
Yixin said that he was holding Mei'er, and went to Chengqian Palace with his nurse and several palace people. Concubine De under the seat looked at the figure of Yixin in the distance, and felt a little uneasy inexplicably, holding the embroidered handkerchief tightly, and looking at Qingyu on the seat for a long time before relieving her heart.
"The Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine is not good! The eighth princess was robbed by Wang Jia, who rushed out of Xianfu Palace, on the way back to Chengqian Palace, and the little princess promised to ...... together with Wang Jia.
"What's wrong with you?" Qing Yu asked.
"Death together!" The waiter spoke and hurriedly kowtowed to the ground.
Qing Yu only felt a buzzing in her head, and fainted suddenly.
"Mother, mother!"
A good full moon banquet, at this moment, due to Qing Yu's sudden fainting, Concubine De looked at everything in the hall, closed her eyes and sighed, and left Chonghua Palace silently.
By the time Qingyu woke up, it was already the second half of the night, and Concubine Rong Qingshi and others, who had been waiting in the Chengqian Palace earlier, had also returned to the palace, and only Yixin was staying in the palace. Qingyu asked loudly, "What about Mei'er?"
Yixin was frightened by this sound, and replied cautiously: "The people of the Internal Affairs Office have already taken the princess away."
Just a few hours ago, Mei'er was still smiling, but at this moment, she is forever separated and is no longer visible. Qing Yu ran towards the outside of the hall regardless of Yixin's obstruction, but stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Niangniang" stepped forward to help Qingyu, but was pushed away by Qingyu, "Don't stop me, I'm going to find Mei'er!" ”
"! The princess has passed away......"
Qing Yu sat paralyzed on the ground, and when she heard this, she couldn't care about her demeanor, so she cried bitterly.
"Mei'er, how can you be willing to leave your Eni......"
Then no matter how others persuaded her, she didn't seem to hear it, and Wei Changzai, who heard the movement, also came to persuade her, but she was helpless, and she didn't know what to do.
At this time, Yinzhen heard the news, tiptoed up to Qingyu, squatted down and called softly: "Enie."
Qing Yu's cheeks were not dry with tears, her eyes were slightly red and swollen, and she ignored Yinzhen's call, still feeling sad alone.
Seeing this, Yin Zhen said in a soothing tone: "E, look, there is one more star in the sky. It's Ah Mei watching us from the sky. ”
Qingyu looked up at the stars above her head, and Yinzhen took advantage of the situation and said: "Ah Mei likes the stars, so she quietly went to the sky to play, before leaving, she told me to take care of Enie, and she will come back when she is tired of playing." If you want to be a sister, you can see her when you look up. ”
Qingyu's lips pursed, looking at the stars for a long time, it seemed that she really responded to Yinzhen's words, she seemed to see Mei'er connected by the stars in the sky, she stretched out her hand to touch, but it was far away.
When his eyes reached the eyes, Qingyu hugged Yinzhen and cried like a child.
"Zhen'er ......"
Yin Zhen choked back tears and nodded vigorously.
Since he can remember, he has never seen Qing Yu have such a gaffe, he has always admired and regarded Qing Yu as the mother of life, looking at her uncomfortable, and his heart is even more uncomfortable. He only hated himself for failing to take care of Mei'er, and if time was reversed, he would never let Mei'er suffer any harm.
He hugged Qingyu and sobbed softly: "Erni, from now on, Yinzhen will take good care of you for Mei'er." Won't let anyone hurt you again. ”