Recently, the palace has been more lively than the New Year, and the first noble son since His Majesty ascended the throne was pregnant with a beauty. Your Majesty made Liu Meiren a concubine and blessed the Shou Palace, just behind my Funing Palace.

Today, Yunzhi came to spread the word, saying that the queen mother was going to hold a banquet, imitating the flowing water banquet that was popular among the people. Ting Yun came after breakfast and seemed to be a little unhappy. I think so, she was looking forward to a child of Li Jingheng but she didn't expect it.

"Coming?" I greeted her.

She replied weakly: "Here we are." After that, I picked up a plate of melon seeds on my small table and sat down and began to eat.

"What's wilting, huh? Sick? Do you need me to ask Imperial Doctor Wen to touch your pulse for you? I knew that she was envious of Lang Wu for having a child, but I still joked with her.

"It would be nice to find a happy pulse." Ting Yun sighed and said, "It's just that I didn't have such a good thing as a turn." Lang Wu is a blessed person, and His Majesty has been resting with her in recent days. "I understand her, her only two wishes in this life are the well-being of her parents and the birth of a child of Li Jingheng.

"I don't know what's going on with Lang Sister, I heard that the first two months will be happy." I sat in the chaise longue next to her. Ting Yun pursed her lips and said, "I don't really want to go, every time I see Lang's belly, I get angry!" ”

I had to persuade: "There will always be something that should be, the harem is such a boring place, how good it is to have a child to raise together." What are you angry with Lang Wu's stomach? ”

When Yun Zhi came to serve tea, he said: "Your Majesty invited Mr. Sheng, a very famous painter in the capital, into the palace, saying that he was going to paint portraits of the ladies when the queen held a banquet." ”

Hearing this, Ting Yun asked, "But that Mr. Sheng Ju who lives in seclusion on the outskirts of Beijing?" ”

"Jia Niangniang knows Mr. Sheng?" Yunzhi added some osmanthus cake and cherry fried.

"I heard my father mention it before, saying that Mr. Na Sheng was too successful when he was young, but it seems that he didn't like pen and ink writing very much, so he apprenticed to Mr. Bai, an old painter in the palace at that time. After completing his studies, he stayed in the palace to do things for the first emperor, and later said that he violated the palace rules and refused to accept the punishment, so he escaped from the palace and lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, making a living by selling paintings. ”

I couldn't help asking: "Since you have been hidden in the mountains and forests, how can you achieve a long reputation in the capital?" ”

Ting Yun waved his hand at me and said, "At that time, Mr. Sheng set off a lot of turmoil, and it was known to women and children in the capital. His spirit of disobedience to the palace rules has caused many people to imitate the calligraphy and painting of Qingliu ink artists, and after several years, his name is also well-known in the capital. ”

Buyue, who had been listening to it for a long time, said: "I have also heard Mama say before that Mr. Sheng was not punished for violating any palace rules, but because he offended his colleagues and was designed. Because he was dissatisfied and wronged, he left the palace. ”

"That's how it is! I haven't heard my dad say that. Ting Yun took a bite of the osmanthus cake and said strangely.

"It's because he offended his colleagues, this Mr. Sheng is really wronged." I pinched the small white porcelain tea cup fired in the Ru kiln and the tea ceremony with Ting Yun.

This position of painter was originally carried forward by the Holy Ancestor Emperor, who loved beauties, so he invited painters to bring beauties into his paintings. Later, more and more people studied painting, and it became such an elegant official title, with neither rights nor titles. But I heard that the official title of painter has always been very high, and if you reuse and appreciate, you will also be given a house and land, and if your descendants are officials, it will also help.

Ting Yun held his chin and sighed: "Your Majesty also invited another painter for Lang Wu, can't those in the palace succeed?" I'd like to ask for another one. ”

"Do you like the paintings of those old gentlemen in the palace? Last time, I didn't know who came to bite my ear and said that the old gentlemen's paintings were pedantic and old-fashioned, and there was no new idea. I nodded at her forehead and laughed.

Ting Yun straightened up and sprinkled: "Then Your Majesty will not invite sooner or later, but I will invite Lang Yu to come." ”

She has always been unhappy when things don't go her way, she will play with me and Su Tang Niangniang's temper, Su Tang thinks she is troublesome, but I think she is still very cute. I still persuaded: "The first child came to the palace, why is it that people are not allowed to celebrate as fathers?" ”

"I want a child too."

"There will be, God will not be so stingy as to give Li Jingheng only one child, there will always be."

I can't help but wonder if I will have a child with Li Jingheng in my life, raise him well, accompany him to study hard in the cold window, and accompany him to learn the four books, five classics and six arts. Well, if I really have a child, I hope that he will be healthy and happy, and that he will be safe and well.

I suddenly remembered that I had seen Lang Wu since I went to the capital to listen to the opera and returned to the palace, and I hadn't seen her for a few days, so I asked Yunzhi: "Does the queen have any orders to come down and have a small gathering?" Yun Zhi replied to me: "The queen didn't say it herself, but I heard the princess Yanyu beside the queen mother say that it was probably these days." ”

"I suddenly wanted to go again." Ting Yun hummed on the side.

I gave her a blank look: "In the end, you are still greedy for the pastries in the house." ”

She pounced on me and tried to bite me, but I deftly dodged it. She learned from the tone we had just taught her and said, "Go, go, it's not." The first child in this palace, and I am not allowed to mingle with him? When the time comes, he will come out of his mother's belly, and I will definitely sew a small pocket for him, after all, it is His Majesty's child. ”

Yes, this harem is going to have freshness. The child that everyone has been looking forward to for so long is finally here, not only the harem ladies are happy, but the ministers of the former dynasty are also ready to enrich the harem beauties for Li Jingheng.

As far as I heard, everyone in the harem knows that there is the eldest daughter of Prince Yong's mansion, and the prime minister of the country, that is, Ting Yun's father, also wants to stuff a distant cousin of Ting Yun, and what other towns, the princes of Qi, the princes of Changping, have all put on folds to send their own girls into the palace to reproduce heirs for the royal family.

If you want me to say that Li Jingheng is not an idler or a womanizer, he should not accept these women. I feel sorry for girls like Tingyun and Langwen. They were born better than me, either from the Hou Mansion and the Wangfu, or from the Prime Minister's Mansion and the General's Mansion. But from birth, they were destined to either marry the emperor of the current dynasty or marry a family marriage that was conducive to the development of the family. If I hadn't been looked down upon by Li Jingheng and became a mother, I would probably have served my masters well until I was twenty-five years old, went out of the palace to find someone to marry, take care of my grandmother, and have another child.

Why did Lang Wu become pregnant and start thinking about children?

I suddenly thought a little bit about Li Jingheng, he has been resting in Fushou Palace recently, even if it is the sleeping room arranged by the palace, he has not come to Funing Palace to order a meal. Actually, I didn't really want to see him, for no reason, I just felt uncomfortable when I saw him. He didn't come and did as I wanted.

Buyue went out of the palace today to buy some fabric and silk thread for me, and I thought about making a few small clothes and making two pairs of tiger head shoes before Lang Yusheng, so as to be auspicious. Ting Yun asked me if Li Jingheng would go to the banquet when the time came, I don't know, but he will also go if Lang Yu goes.

What I didn't expect was that Li Jingheng came that night. He still waited for me to fall asleep before waking me up, and although I sensed that he was getting into bed carefully, I was still woken up. So when I opened my eyes and saw him, I was startled, and I thought it was haunted.

He asked me, "I haven't been here for a long time, do you miss me?" ”

I was shocked and asked slowly, "Why didn't Your Majesty go to Fushou Palace today?" "What are you doing when you leave your pregnant daughter-in-law alone and come to me?

Unexpectedly, he smiled playfully and asked, "Yo, Concubine Xian is vinegar?" ”

Vinegar you big pig's head! Who's vinegared? You're jealous! I ignored him in anger and went to sleep with my eyes closed. But I couldn't sleep, and in my confusion, I felt that someone was staring at me. I slowly opened my eyes, and I met Li Jingheng's eyes. I propped up my limp body and asked him, "Why don't you sleep?" Your Majesty can't sleep? Why don't you ask Buyue to come in and light a soothing incense? ”

He said coldly: "You are really considerate. ”

I thought he agreed to order soothing incense to help him sleep, so he was going to beckon Buyue, who was keeping vigil outside the door, to come in, but before he could say anything, he pressed him back on the bed. He looked straight at me and said fiercely: "I don't need you to be considerate of me because I am the emperor, do you understand Xie Yi'an." ”

My shoulders were pressed tightly by his large hands, and I twisted my body with great difficulty, trying to make myself as comfortable as possible. I replied: "I don't understand, if you don't light the incense, you won't order it, what's the matter if you press me?" ”

Hearing this, he seemed a little helpless to let go of me, and he did not lie down, but sat on the bed in a daze. I was so sleepy, but I couldn't sleep when he sat next to me like a ghost without sleeping, so I shifted my position and grabbed his waist. He noticed me looking back at me, but didn't speak. I had no choice but to beg: "If you don't light incense, don't light incense, Your Majesty, you will go to court tomorrow, so settle it early." ”

He still didn't speak, the dark room was very quiet, and only the crickets on the plane tree outside the window could be heard. When I was about to ask him two more words, he suddenly lay down, took me by the hand, and buried his head in the socket of my neck.

After a while, he whispered in my ear: "Forget it, the future will be long." ”

I don't understand why he suddenly said that, but Li Jingheng is sometimes quite inexplicable. Although it was a little warmer to be held by him, I was so sleepy that I soon fell asleep. In my dreams, I dreamed of strange stories again, but I hadn't had strange dreams since I started taking the prescription given by Imperial Doctor Wen.