Chapter 62: Brotherly Rivalry
I asked Mother Lu to take Baoyue back to change her clothes and come back, and I ordered the imperial doctor to come and see it, and made sure that neither of them was injured in a fall, so the banquet began. My appetite is already bad, and sitting is nothing more than accompanying them. Fortunately, the child's emotions come and go quickly, and I authorized Baoyue and Yuan Xi to barbecue the 'meat' by themselves, but they were not allowed to burn themselves, and they immediately became happy, chattering around the charcoal stove.
'Spring' carefully stood aside to give me vegetables, some of the dishes that pregnant women can't eat are far away, and some dishes I look at pantothenic acid, but I can only endure it. While eating, Qi Min suddenly said, "Go and get a thick cushion." Everyone stopped and looked at him, he frowned slightly, and the eunuch standing beside him immediately rushed away, and after a while, he came with a soft cushion. Qi Min said: "The Empress Dowager's body is just right, it is not suitable to sit for a long time, and it will feel better if you pad it." β
My face flushed slightly, and I whispered, "Thank you, Lord Regent." Raising his eyes and sweeping over everyone, Gao's face condensed, Qi Huai looked at me with concern, and asked, "Are you okay?" I shook my head with a smile, and Ming Susu was so angry that he grabbed the corner of the table.
Baoyue ran over with a plate of roasted 'meat' and handed it to me: "Queen Mother, it's baked, it's ready for you to eat!"
The choking smell of charcoal roasting rushed straight into my nasal cavity, and I couldn't help but turn my head and vomit. Qi Min shouted lightly: "Baoyue!" Baoyue was stunned by fright, and everyone got up one after another, but fortunately, I didn't eat much, and I vomited all of a sudden. Knowing that it was not good, he hurriedly waved them all out.
Qihuai and Qimin insisted on staying and taking care of me, and helped me to the soft couch to lean on in the spring, there was no one else in the pavilion, and Liu Youyu went to find Shen Qi. Qi Huai and Qi Min whispered something on the side, Qi Huai's face was anxious, and he looked at me in two or three sentences, but Qi Min looked calm. I drank a glass of hot water and felt better. Baoyue looked at me with tears in her eyes, I smiled at her, and said, "The queen mother is fine, it's just that your ability to bake 'meat' is too bad at home, and it is all burnt, and the queen mother feels uncomfortable when she is smoked." β
"Really, is the queen mother really okay?" Bao Yue still refused to believe.
It didn't take long for Shen Qi to come in a hurry, check my pulse, and said, "It's okay, the Empress Dowager has some stomach discomfort, and maybe the smoke and fire in the pavilion are contaminated, so she will vomit." β
I looked at him approvingly, and then said to Baoyue: "Look, the imperial doctor said it's okay, don't worry!"
Baoyue nodded with tears in her eyes and said, "Yue'er will never roast 'meat' again in the future......"
I smiled and said to 'Chun': "This time the snow appreciation is not good, I will have the opportunity to make up for it in the future, let them all go back first, and the mourning family will also go back to Changqing Hall to rest." β
"Yes. β
Qi Huai and Qi Min walked over, Qi Huai looked at me suspiciously, I smiled at him, his eyes dimmed, lowered his head, and stepped aside. The 'spring' equinox and Bai 'Lu' helped me out left and right, and saw Ming Susu and Gao waiting under the corridor, their faces looked very bad, I glanced at them, didn't say anything, and went straight to the warm sedan chair to go back.
In the afternoon, I took a nap and leaned against the window to read, and came in with tea and snacks at the spring equinox, saying: "Don't always lean against the window, although it is closed, but there is always wind leaking in, your body is just right, but don't catch a cold again." β
I vomited at noon, and I happened to be hungry at this time, and I saw that she was making maple 'dew', and the dim sum was also light, so I used a few pieces. Bai 'Lu' came in and said, "The Empress Dowager, the auxiliary king asks to see you." "I knew that Qi Huai would come to ask me clearly, so I asked Bai 'Lu' to invite him in, and then withdrew from the palace.
Qi Huai was wearing a purple 'color' round-necked silk cotton robe, with a circle of sable style 'hair' around the neckline, which lined his face like a crown of 'jade', and his eyebrows were warm. I put down the book and said with a smile: "Is there anything the teacher wants to ask me? There is no one here, just ask, and Aroo will definitely know everything." β
Qi Huai looked at me, sighed, and said, "The child in your womb belongs to the fifteenth brother. β
I smiled and said, "So the teacher knows." β
He stepped forward and said hurriedly: "A-Rao, do you know what you are doing? You are the Empress Dowager!"
"I know I'm the Queen Mother, and I know what I'm doing. I lowered my head and muttered to myself, "This child was not in my expectations, and suddenly he was in my belly, and some time ago I was wondering whether I should give birth to him." But...... I can't bear to ......."
He walked up to me, hugged my arms, and asked seriously, "Even if you really give birth to this child, you can't raise him, have you really decided to stand by the fifteenth brother's side?"
I choked up and asked, "Otherwise, what should I do?"
He slowly let go of me, and the deep light in his eyes became ethereal, as if he was looking at me, and as if he was looking at something else through me. He raised his hand, stroked my eyebrows, and whispered, "I thought that since you became the eldest brother's concubine, we would have no possibility." I can't do anything because of my own identity, but I don't want to be a fifteenth brother...... It turned out that his ambition was so big. I shouldn't have ...... in the first place."
"Does the Eighth Emperor Brother regret it?" asked Pingdi with a laugh, and Qi Min stood behind the curtains, looking at us with a smile. "Regret letting me be regent, huh?"
Qi Huai did not look back at him, but still used his fingers to trace my eyebrows, eyes, nose bridge, lips, and jaw...... I grabbed his hand, "Teacher, what's wrong with you?" He smiled and said, "You have decided to stand by his side, but the position I stand on is opposite him, next to the eldest brother." β
I was so shocked that I couldn't speak, and the last thing I wanted to see was that they were opposed, and I was enlightened...... He finally realized that what Enlightenment wanted was not one person below ten thousand people, but a real one who would be at the top.
"It's a pity that your eldest brother is dead. Displeased, he walked in, pulled me away, and took me into his arms.
Qi Huai said: "Just because he is no longer there, I have to guard his country, at least, the emperor is still there." β
Qi Min sneered: "It's just a yellow-mouthed child, if you are here today, maybe you won't be there tomorrow." β
Qihuai's face changed slightly, I stroked my forehead, frowned, and said, "Don't make any noise, I'm a little uncomfortable." Qi Min hugged me by the shoulder and said to Qi Huai: "Brother Eight Emperor has asked everything clearly, please leave first." β
"Teacher," I stopped him, and said euphemistically, "I don't want to be estranged from the teacher, I ......" Qi Min's hand on my shoulder was slightly forced, and I could only shake my head at him.
As soon as Qi Huai left, Qi Min sat with me on the side of the 'bed' and asked me if I was unwell and wanted to call the imperial doctor, I was stunned for a moment and muttered, "Just because of this child, even the teacher has to separate from me......
Qi Min sank his face and said, "Aren't you and my child still inferior to him?!" I turned my face away, and he threw his sleeves away angrily.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and I can't soak my feet in 'medicine' water because I'm pregnant, and those 'medicine' materials are all for blood circulation and menstruation, and they are absolutely forbidden! Therefore, this year's 'leg' disease can't use 'medicine', so I can only lie on the 'bed'. In this way, there is less 'very' and more trouble, and it is inevitable that others will be seen when they are always outside, so they can't go out of the 'door', and they don't have to ask for peace, so they are relaxed.
But in November, my mood was low again, and I copied the scriptures every day except for accompanying the children.
November 17 is the death day of 'Jade', and in a blink of an eye, seven years have passed.
Every year at this time of year I would copy the scriptures and make clothes about his age and burn them for him.
Baoyue saw that I was copying the scriptures, so she watched from the sidelines, and then asked, "Does the queen mother think of Brother 'Yu'er again?, will you take us to burn paper money when the time comes?" I nodded and said, "When the time comes, I will also take Yuan Xi with me." "In the past, Yuan Xi was not in the palace, and I didn't want to take him to worship openly, but now that he is my righteous son, he can naturally be called 'Yu'er brother' justifiably.
On that day, the snow was falling heavily, and the three of us rode the carriage to the east, and when we arrived at the Xuanyuan Temple, I was helped out of the carriage and carried in with a chariot.
Kneeling in front of the tablets, my gaze slowly drifted over, lingering on Qiheng's tablet for a long time, and then pointing to the tablet of 'jade' and saying to Yuan Xi and Baoyue: "That's your brother, Youxi." The two children kowtowed and put on incense. I silently burned the scriptures and the clothes worn by my eight-year-old child.
"If your brother were still alive, he would be eight years old......" I said with tears in my eyes and choked up. I remembered that there was another one in my womb, no matter whether his arrival was good or bad, but because I had the pain of losing my parent, I couldn't bear to let him leave me without even seeing the face of this world.
Baoyue sensibly wiped away my tears and said, "Queen Mother, don't be sad, although you don't have a brother, you still have me! I will always be by your side! And Brother Yuanxi, isn't it?"
Yuan Xi hesitated slightly, and then said: "Yes, the Empress Dowager, Yuan Xi will always be by your side." β
I smiled and said to Baoyue: "Your brother Yuanxi is still a little credible to accompany me, but you want to marry when you grow up." β
Baoyue blushed and said, "Then I won't marry!"
I smiled and said, "It's up to you, okay, we'll go back when the things are burned." β
The firelight reflected my face, and I looked at the silent Yuan Xi, and I only felt that he had something on his mind. After I went back, I sent Baoyue to do things, leaving Yuan Xi alone, and asked him: "You said today that you will always be by your stepmother's side......" Yuan Xi lowered his eyes and said: "Yes, Yuan Xi is willing to accompany the Queen Mother." β
I looked at him and asked softly, "But why are you hesitating?"
Yuan Xi raised his head, glanced at me, and then lowered his head again, and said, "Yuan Xi hesitated, thinking about his mother at home...... But later, I also thought that Yuan Xi was already the adopted son of the Empress Dowager, so it was reasonable for Yuan Xi to be willing to accompany you. β
I sighed softly in my heart, this kid is still affectionate, 'touched' his head and smiled: "Go and see Baoyue, she is going to lose her temper again." β
Yuan Xi immediately smiled and said, "Yes, you went out today, you have to rest well and take care of your body." As he spoke, he bowed and withdrew.
This time the fetus passed the first three months, my appetite still did not improve, 'spring' was a little anxious, looking for Shen Qi to see, Shen Qi said: "Every time you are pregnant, there will be different symptoms, the Queen Mother is not good this time, but do you want Weichen to prescribe some 'medicine'?"
"No, I'll just put up with it. "It's a three-point poison of 'medicine', and I don't dare to take 'medicine' indiscriminately, especially when I'm pregnant.
Shen Qi also knew my temper, so naturally he was not reluctant. However, as soon as Baoyue and Yuan Xi saw him come to save the enemy, they always thought that there was something wrong with my health, and the 'spring' explained to them that I just had a bad appetite, and they were relieved, but they soon went to the side and muttered.
Qi Min has not come to see me much since that day and Qi Huai, and has been busy with government affairs. Although I no longer go to the court, naturally someone will spread the news of the court to my ears. Now, although the power dispute between the two has not been put on the table, the discerning person has already noticed the clues. It's probably because I'm worried about them, so my appetite won't get better!
But if I dissuade Qi Qi from doing anything, he will only think that I am thinking about Qi in my heart, and he will be even more unhappy.
I knew that day would come sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly, I was caught off guard, and I couldn't think of any way to resolve it.
When Qi Min came to see me, he only saw that I was worried, and naturally guessed what the reason was, and it was necessary for me to take good care of it, and not to think 'chaotically'.
There are some things, how can you say that you don't want to think about it, he told me not to think about it, but I often read it and sigh.
That evening, I ordered a meal to be served, but it was not delivered. "Chunfen" said mysteriously: "Don't be impatient, just wait a while, if you are hungry, the slave will go and prepare some snacks for you." β
I didn't feel hungry, but I was afraid that the children would be hungry, but I didn't see them at this time, so I asked, "What about Yuanxi and Baoyue?"
"You'll be able to see them later." β
I was full of suspicions, but she just refused to say, and after waiting for a while, she suddenly smelled a strong aroma, and 'Chun' said, "It's time to set the meal." "I was only surprised that when I was helped to the table, I realized that the fragrance came from here, and it was actually a bowl of 'meat' soup. Baoyue and Yuan Xi stood at the table with smiles, and put a small half bowl in front of me for me, and said, "This is cooked for you by the princess and the prince, you can use some to see how it tastes." β
I was taken aback, looked at them and asked, "You did that?"
Baoyue nodded proudly, but Yuan Xi said: "We watched the imperial kitchen make it, but for the sake of deliciousness, we found the spices that the 'Bo' country paid tribute to, so it is so fragrant." Bao Yue hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, please try it! Although we didn't do it ourselves, we also put a lot of effort into it!"
I smiled and ate it, and sure enough, my teeth and cheeks were fragrant, and I not only praised: "It's really delicious!
Yuan Xi laughed, but Baoyue didn't follow and said, "Then you eat them all, otherwise I don't know if you said this to comfort us!"
I laughed and said, "Okay, I'm sure I'll eat them all and won't give it to you." β
As a result, I really ate it all under the supervision of these two little demon stars, Bao Yue breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "The queen mother has to eat more, you can't lose weight anymore!" I was sour in my heart, and said with a smile: "Okay, the queen mother must eat well, so as not to worry our little princess." β
These days, they are very worried, even if their appetite is not good in the future, they must eat more, and they can't let their children worry about me as an adult!
I thought that when I was full, I would feel better and sleep more peacefully, but that night I was trapped in a deep dream and couldn't get out. It was as if he was being pressed by something, his limbs were weak to move, and he couldn't breathe. I struggled to wake up, sweating profusely, and my lower abdomen was heavy and swollen and painful. I didn't know it well, I exclaimed loudly, the palace lights gradually turned on, and I stretched out my hand to 'touch' my lower body, but my hands were full of blood.
The 'spring' was the first to lift the curtain, and when I saw the blood on my hands, I was so frightened that I covered my lips, and then quickly put down the curtain, and said to the palace people who came after: "The Empress Dowager is unwell, go and pass on the order of Shen Yi!" Then I listened to her whispered a few words, I was tormented by a dull pain, and I fainted a few times, but it was because of the pain that I couldn't faint.
"'Spring'...... 'Spring'......" I whispered, and 'Spring' hurriedly lifted the curtain to come in to see me, I grabbed her hand and whispered, "Child...... I'm afraid the child ......"
'Chunfen' hugged me and comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, the child will be fine, don't be afraid, the slave has asked people to find Shen Qi, and go to invite the prince to come over, you will be fine, don't be afraid, don't be afraid." β
But gradually, I felt that the pain in my lower abdomen was no longer so obvious, and by the time Shen Qi and Qi Min arrived one after another, my heart had gradually become coldβwhen Shen Qi's fingertips were trembling when I checked my pulse, I knew that I had lost him forever......
"Wechen damn it, Wechen...... Damn!" Shen Qi knelt down and pleaded guilty repeatedly, I looked up at the top of the tent, tears rolled down my cheeks, I bit the quilt tightly, and cried silently.
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