When it was time to pass on dinner, Ci'an said to Prince Rui Fujin: "The dishes I have here must not suit your appetite, so I will not let you go." ”

It's really thoughtful. Otherwise, if you "give food" as usual, the "grace" of accompanying the Queen Mother to pass the meal is glorious, but Prince Rui Fujin received it, it must be very hard; If you can't help but vomit, then the scenery is terrible.

However, what Prince Rui Fujin didn't expect was that the Queen Mother didn't want her to "accompany her to dinner", of course, considering her special physical condition, but the more important reason was that the Queen Mother was in a turbulent mood at this time.

After a sumptuous dinner, Ci'an only ate a few chopsticks and asked people to withdraw.

At this point, Xi'er has seen that the queen mother and the queen mother are upset, and she is afraid that there is more than one thing about the little emperor "skipping school".

What could it be?

Is it a matter of the foreign dynasty?

It shouldn't be, when the Queen Mother and Queen Mother came out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, her complexion was fine.

Today, in addition to the little emperor's affairs in the morning, it is Prince Rui Fujin's entry into the palace in the afternoon. However, Xi'er has been by her side, and what her aunt and nephew and daughter-in-law say are basically heard, uh, what the two of them say is a happy thing.

Studied but cannot comprehend.

Thinking wildly, he even came up with such a brain hole: Will it ...... It's because the queen mother and the queen mother didn't have children herself, and when she heard that Prince Rui Fujin was pregnant, she ...... Feeling sad?

Hmph, Prince Rui is so old!

Worrying about the trouble, of course, not for the sake of Xi'er's brain, but, in a sense, the little girl's whimsy. It's not that there is no truth at all.

Xi'er asked tentatively, "Master, is your body not very refreshing?" Do you want...... Passing on the Imperial Doctor? ”

Ci'an shook his head.

Xi'er didn't dare to say anything more, and muttered in her heart: This lady is really like, she doesn't like to pass on the imperial doctor.

In winter, it gets dark early, after dinner. It's time to hold the lamp, and the people and things outside the window are slowly dimming, but the people and things with a reassuring head are becoming clearer and clearer.

She was sure that "she" was happy and pregnant with "his" child.

Ci'an is so sure of this matter, it doesn't seem to make sense.

In fact, in addition to hiking into acids. Ci'an didn't have any other evidence of Cixi's pregnancy, so how could she be so sure that "she" was happy?

She didn't have any evidence that Guan Zhuofan had an affair with Cixi - directly or indirectly, how could she be sure that "she" was pregnant with "his" child?

But the strange thing is that as soon as he heard that those fresh sour plums were "entered by Prince Xuan", Ci'an naturally had a strange idea. When it first started. The thought was still vague, and it seemed that he was still far away. After that, little by little, step by step, closer and closer, finally the face was clear and the shape was hideous. Thrilling.

This process was not fast, but it was very stubborn, and more than once, Ci'an tried to twist it in other directions. But she couldn't—it was as if an invisible force was pushing the thought, pushing it out of the fog and all the way to Ci'an's eyes, so that she couldn't hide, couldn't escape.

What's going on here?

Perhaps, she had a similar thought for a long time, but it was buried deep in her heart, so deep that even she herself was not clearly aware of the existence of this thought.

Or, once in a while, think about it, and immediately drive it away, while refuting itself for the absurd.

In short, no matter what, I have never and will not face it head-on.

Now, I finally can't hide from it.

The question is, how could Ci'an have such "similar thoughts"?

Woman's ...... Sixth sense?

Well, this factor cannot be ruled out, however, the more important reasons are as follows:

Ci'an, Cixi, and Guan Zhuofan, the three of them form a triangular relationship. This is an isosceles triangle – an inverted isosceles triangle: Ci'an and Cixi, which are the two dots above; Guan Zhuofan, is the point below, the distance from Guan Zhuofan to Ci'an, and the distance from Guan Zhuofan to Cixi should be equal.

Theoretically, this isosceles triangle should be a very stable structure. However, from the very beginning, the distance between Guan Zhuofan's point and Ci'an's and Cixi's two points was not completely equal. As time passed, the relationship between Guan Zhuofan and Cixi became closer and closer, and the distance between the two points became shorter and shorter; The relationship between Guan Zhuofan and Ci'an has not been estranged because of this, but in contrast, the distance from the "pass" to the "security point" is getting longer and longer than the distance from the "pass" to the "jubilee point".

It cannot be said that this isosceles triangle is becoming more and more unstable, but it is impossible for the parties to be unaware of this significant change in relative distance.

Cixi and Guan Zhuofan naturally know it. Among them, Cixi is also very happy for this change to happen, and has been using various means to catalyze and promote this change.

What about Ci'an?

Ci'an is loyal and honest, and she is not smart, but she is by no means a fool, let alone wood, and she has the intuition that a normal woman should have. What's more, the mother's etiquette in the world, the curtain to listen to the government, the tempering of the deep palace, the infiltration of the highest power, in some things, her feelings will only be more acute than ordinary women.

Don't say anything else, let's just say that the "Queen Mother goes on patrol", Tianjin, the Summer Palace, again and again, are all "western" messengers, there is nothing to do with the "east", no matter what the reason for the queen mother and queen mother can not make the trip every time, it is always ...... Something is wrong!

Also, the Queen Mother was fortunate to close someone's home, and it was several times before and after, and it was all a matter of one person in the "west".

These paradoxical situations, the people outside have chewed up, don't Ci'an feel nothing?

In fact, just like the various political scandals circulating in modern society, the "special relationship" between the Queen Mother and Prince Xuan was almost semi-openly talked about in the market of Beijing at that time. For this kind of word-of-mouth "stall literature", there will be no interference from the government, because no official burns out his brain to do this kind of thing that can't eat mutton and provokes a sheep - the matter is moved to the table, the Queen Mother and Prince Xuan will never think that you are loyal and capable, on the contrary, the first to kill you is the two of them.

This kind of "folk oral literature", the queen mother and queen mother are often pulled into it, and it becomes a "threesome", which is absurd and fragrant, even if it is placed in the "History of the Embroidered Bed", there is probably no sense of disobedience.

Officialdom, Shilin, different folk, similar topics, are naturally taboo, but those who are really close to each other do not really avoid this kind of topic, but the way of talking about it is more obscure, for example, King Gong and Baojun, Zeng Guofan and Zhao Liewen mentioned in this book.

Well, so, even if Sister Ci'an felt something, it was just an afterthought, and it couldn't be considered so surprising.

*(To be continued.) )