Chapter 41: The Opposite
By the time Fleur changed her clothes and came back to serve, Shao Feixu was already dressed and sat in front of the mirror with a comb to brush her hair. Shao Feixu had already seen Furong come back from the mirror, and saw that she had changed into an ordinary palace dress, and her hair was only tied with a silver hairpin, Shao Feixu was very satisfied, so he beckoned her to come over and comb her hair. Furong could see that her master's mood had improved, and she thought that it was the right thing to change this outfit, so she began to dress Shao Feixu with peace of mind. She chose a Fusang Huasheng for Shao Feixu to wear, and inserted four orange blossom wishful hairpins, and finally hung two locks of long tassels to finish.
Shao Feixu looked in the mirror, his blown-up face, his dark eyebrows from the distant mountains and his delicate pink lips exuded charm everywhere, and he was even more luxurious with this outfit. Today is the tenth day of the first month of June - Shao Feixu's twenty-third birthday, Duan Yulin will come over to accompany her at night, and Duan Yulin has not summoned her for four months.
"Furong, you said, it's getting hotter and hotter day by day, why can't you afford to go to the summer resort when you're here this year?" Last year, it was because the draft failed to make the trip, and this year, seeing that the disaster in the south has eased and the army is about to triumph, why hasn't there been any movement?
"According to the slave maid, there are probably a lot of pregnant concubines in the palace, and I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for the carriage and horses." Furong said it so casually, but it just happened to poke Shao Feixu's sore spot again, and when she thought of the young concubines' pregnancy one after another, she had never conceived a child in the palace for five years, and she couldn't help but feel sad.
"Alas, everyone can conceive a child, why can't I conceive?" In the first two years of entering the palace, she also asked a lot of doctors to see because she couldn't conceive a child, and the doctor only said that there were no other problems with her weak body, and she had been taking medicine according to the prescription, but it had no effect at all, and over time even she gave up.
"The slave and maid should die, and they should not mention the sad things of the little master. But the little lord doesn't have to be discouraged, you are still young, and the imperial doctor also said that you are in good health, and you will definitely be pregnant with a dragon heir one day. Furong tried her best to comfort Shao Feixu.
"That's it, the emperor will stay in our palace tonight, and he will prepare the fetal medicine tomorrow morning. By the way, you go to the kitchenette and keep an eye on it, I don't have anything to do here. Shao Feixu picked up a book in his hand and flipped through it casually to pass the time, and Furong immediately went down to prepare for the birthday banquet in the evening.
It was already past the time when the emperor had not come up, Shao Feixu was a little anxious to wait, so he asked Furong to take a look on the way from Zhaoyang Palace to Qiutang Palace. Furong trotted all the way to the vicinity of the Zhaoyang Palace, and after waiting for a while without movement, she simply came directly to the door of the Zhaoyang Palace and asked the guards guarding the door if the holy car had left the palace? The guards told the Emperor Furong that he had gone out as early as half an hour, and it was another palace maid who hurriedly invited the emperor, and the emperor followed without saying a word. The guard also kindly pointed to the direction in which the emperor left, which was the direction she came from, could it be that she missed it with the holy driver? Fleur thanked the guards and hurriedly ran back.
"Little Lord! Little Lord! Furong hurriedly ran back to the palace, only to see that Shao Feixu was still the only one guarding a table of wine and food.
"Furong, is the emperor almost here?" Shao Feixu stood up and tidied up his appearance, looking excited.
"Little Master...... Emperor...... Didn't come? Fleur felt that something was wrong.
"Didn't you tell you to wait? Did you come or not, didn't you see? Shao Feixu sat down again in disappointment.
"Little master, the slave maid asked the guards of Zhaoyang Palace, and he said that the emperor came here more than half an hour ago, why hasn't he arrived yet? This shouldn't be! Just when the master and servant were puzzled, Fang Da beside the emperor came in with a group of eunuchs and palace maids, and he gave Shao Feixu a thousand words and said: "The slave asks for peace to the little master of the concubine, this is the birthday of the little master, and the emperor specially ordered the old slave to send a birthday gift." Fonda waved his hand, and his men placed the large stack of gifts on several tables.
"There is a father-in-law...... Dare to ask my father-in-law, what about the emperor? Shao Feixu was in a nervous mood at this time, she vaguely felt that something must have stumped Duan Yulin, otherwise he wouldn't have come by now.
"Look at the old slave's memory, patronizing the birthday gift to the concubine, forgetting to get down to business." Fang Da patted his head and said, "Back to the little master, the emperor specially called the servant to inform you that he can't come over to accompany you tonight." Concubine Lan suddenly had a fetal gas somehow, and the emperor was accompanying Ming Cuixuan at this time. No, even the concubines of Xiang just left. If there is nothing to do, the old slave will retire first. Fang Da bowed again and left with the palace maid and eunuch. Shao Feixu suddenly felt as if the strength in his body had been drained, and he sat down on the ground all of a sudden, almost scaring Furong half to death, and called out to her while helping her up: "Little master! What's wrong with you, little lord? Are you alright, little lord? ”
"It's her, it's them! It must be them! "It must have been Shen Xiaoxiang who instigated Fang Yushan to do this, and he wanted to snatch the emperor on her most important day, in order to humiliate her and see her jokes! I have long seen that something is wrong with the two of them, and since Huanyue's death, they have always been together intentionally or unintentionally, and it turns out that they have already formed an alliance behind their backs. Shao Feixu and Shen Xiaoxiang already have a deep grudge, after this incident, they swore that they would not stand together, and now her enemy has one more Fang Yushan, Shao Feixu grabbed the tablecloth and lifted it hard, and the delicacies on the table were knocked over to the ground, she looked at the cups and plates and cursed with hatred: "Shen, Xiao, Xiang!" I will make it hard for you to die! ”
Unlike Shao Feixu's monstrous anger, Shen Xiaoxiang, who returned to Yilan Palace, laughed heartily: "Hahaha...... Ice lotus, this palace has never been so happy as it is today! This confrontation with Concubine Ru can be described as a beautiful victory, and it can be regarded as Concubine Lan's reward for helping her get rid of Huanyue in the palace. "Shen Xiaoxiang is really happy, humiliating her when she is most proud is the best way to hit her.
"This time, thanks to Concubine Lan, having a child is different, and the method of using children to compete for favor is really tried and tested!" Binghe is also happy for his master, and the master has formed an alliance with Lan Guifei, who has a family background and love, and it will be twice the result with half the effort to fight the opponent.
"You're right, having a child is the real reliance, in order to stabilize the position of the harem. It's time for us to have a baby, right? As he spoke, he symbolically touched his stomach and couldn't help but laugh again.
"That's nature. The little lord has worked hard, let's take a sip of tea and rest. Binghe brought a bowl of ginseng tea.
Shen Xiaoxiang took the ginseng tea and drank it all, put the tea bowl aside casually and said, "Hard work? The palace is not hard, but the people who are pregnant in October are hard. Then he smiled meaningfully at Binghe, who returned the same smile.
On the other side, in the Ming Cui Xuan, where the lights had been closed, Fang Yushan and Duan Yulin were lying on the bed and whispering affectionately between husband and wife. Fang Yushan's discomfort was originally faked, but it would have been better a long time ago, tired of being in Duan Yulin's arms, covering his big hand on her high bulging belly and saying: "Your Majesty, you touch, our little prince is kicking the concubine!" ”
"How does Lan'er know that it must be the little prince and not the little princess?" Duan Yulin's palm was pressed against Fang Yushan's belly, gently rubbing it to feel the rhythm of new life.
"The imperial doctor has said that such a sturdy little guy is a prince. What about the emperor? Hope for a prince or a princess? Fang Yushan also put a pair of his own stalks on the back of Duan Yulin's hand
"It's all good, as long as it's born by Lan'er, I like it." Duan Yulin touched Fang Yushan's hair lovingly and said softly.
"The concubine is looking forward to being a prince, so that when he grows up, he can share his father's worries!" Fang Yushan was completely immersed in the fantasy of a better future, and she didn't notice that Duan Yulin's gentle expression disappeared in an instant after she finished saying this. Duan Yulin withdrew his palm stupidly, turned over and said lightly: "I'm a little sleepy, don't talk, go to bed early." Then he ignored Fang Yushan, who was talking about Xing, and ignored her like this. Fang Yushan was so excited that she couldn't sleep, but when she saw that Duan Yulin seemed to be extremely tired, she didn't dare to disturb, so she got under the silk quilt and closed her eyes and fell asleep.
June 20 is Feng Yi's birthday, and the emperor just led the concubines to move to the summer resort on the outskirts of Beijing on June 18, and everything was too late to prepare, so Feng Yi's birthday this year was relatively simple. But luckier than Shao Feixu, no one dared to break ground on the head of the concubine, and on the day of his birthday, Duan Yulin accompanied Feng Yi and a pair of children to celebrate well, just like an ordinary and harmonious family of four, envious of others.
Fang Yushan is about to give birth next month, and Luo Zixiao's month is also big, so it is not suitable to move, so she can only stay in the palace. Fortunately, the emperor was considerate and left several senior imperial doctors in the palace who were good at gynecology in the palace. The most unlucky is Shao Feixu, the weather on her birthday was urgent, and the next day the evil wind entered the body and was so sick that she couldn't get up, and she only recovered from a serious illness when she drove out of Beijing to escape the summer, and she was inevitably repeated on the road, so she decided not to drive with her this time. It is ironic that people who have been arguing for a summer escape before can't make the trip. And if Meng Xi, who lives in the Qiutang Palace, has a low rank and is not favored, he is naturally not qualified to drive the summer resort.
Shao Feixu was already depressed when he didn't go to Cheng Summer Resort, and seeing that Shen Xiaoxiang was gradually being valued by the emperor because he was close to Fang Huanshan, he was even more anxious. She was so hot that she thought that the people in the palace were almost gone anyway, so she tore open her neckline regardless of her image, and a talisman was accidentally pulled off by her.
This talisman was originally pointed out by Wu Yin that Huan Yue was a demon star, Shao Feixu was convinced, afraid that he would be hurt by Huan Yue's evil spirit, so he specially begged Wu Yin, and many concubines did this at that time.
Looking at the talisman, Shao Feixu suddenly remembered a fetal prescription that Fang Huanshan got from Wu Yin, although she was not pregnant, she still coveted that prescription. Shao Feixu thought that the prescription given by the mage must be different from ordinary prescriptions, and maybe there was still an effect of fertility was unknown, even if it didn't, it could be used when she was pregnant in the future.
So, she began to plan how to go to Ming Cuixuan to deceive Fang Huanshan when Shen Xiaoxiang was not in the palace, because if Shen Xiaoxiang was in the palace, with her current relationship with Fang Huanshan, she would definitely get in the way.
This empty harem did make Shao Feixu unwilling to be lonely, she had to find something to toss, just do what she said, as soon as she was excited, she didn't care about it, she stood up like chicken blood, and didn't even notice that the talisman was thrown into the corner.