Chapter 39: An Unexpected Birth

The next day, Aunt Lu raised her eyebrows, waited for Yin Sheng to go to the yamen, and went to ask the main mother Yu to say goodbye, who knew that the Yu family was not happy, so there was no need to ask for peace.

Aunt Lu came back, and her son Yin Anlu was sitting in the front hall drinking tea.

Second Prince Yin smiled: "Why did my mother come back so soon?" ”

Although the Lu family is a concubine, Yin Anlu has been raised under her knees since she was a child, and the relationship between mother and son is very good, and she is not formal when they get along in private.

"Madame is not happy, no need to say goodbye", Lu Shi said with a smile.

The mother and son glanced at each other, and they knew each other.

Aunt Lu instructed the second young master's favorite pastries, and then said: "Although the master didn't say it explicitly last night, he also acquiesced to this matter, and I was scared yesterday, if it doesn't work to move out of the spirit kite, you will really be beaten." ”

Yin Anlu smiled slightly and said comfortingly: "I understand my father's temperament, he will definitely take care of his sister, with this layer, my mother's life will be better in the future." ”

"I'm afraid that I will be regarded as a thorn in the side", although Aunt Lu said so, she was actually happy in her heart.

Yesterday's big drama was directed and acted by Yin Anlu.

First, he made a name for himself in his restaurant business with his father; Second, he wanted to tell his father and stepmother that he had a connection with his little sister, and he would not dare to underestimate himself and Aunt Lu in the future.

"When I entered the palace for the draft, I was just ordered to do it, who would have thought that your little sister would have such a transformation", Aunt Lu sighed, and at the same time gloated, "I'm afraid that your father and the thief will regret not being at the beginning, or my son has the ability." ”

"Fortunately, my mother never felt sorry for my little sister before", Yin Anlu said, "I have corresponded with her during this time, and between the lines, I feel that she has changed a lot, but she is not as weak and ignorant as before." ”

"What kind of place is that", Aunt Lu pouted, "Once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, so naturally it can't be the same as before." ”

At this moment, the protagonist of the mother-son conversation is preparing for the New Year with curiosity, and it is the first time that Yin Lingyuan has spent the New Year in the ancient palace.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year in the palace began from entering the lunar month, and the emperor sealed the pen on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, so he did not need to go to the court, before that, Qi Ye had to write a lot of "Fu" words to bless the harem.

There is no queen in the palace, the first word "Fu" is naturally to be given to the concubine, followed by Concubine Rong and Concubine Yi, and then according to the position layer by layer, Yin Lingyuan also got one, the big red and gold-sprinkled paper is like a big "Fu" word, which is more simple and heavy than that printed in later generations.

In addition to the blessing word, there are also Spring Festival couplets and door gods, knowing that these are all taken out of the special treasury by the Internal Affairs Office and passed down from generation to generation, Yin Lingyuan almost dropped his jaw in shock. Instead of sticking them, they hang them outside the door, and when the festival is over, they are taken off and refurbished for the next year.

Of course, it is essential to give out red envelopes.

Hanlu and Baosheng had already sewn up the "Ruyi" purse, and filled it with gold and silver naked or copper coins, and gave them to the palace people.

In the main hall hall, Yin Lingyuan sat on the main seat, and the palace maids and eunuchs stood in two rows in the hall, and stepped forward in turn according to the grade from high to bottom, and said auspicious words to the master, and then Han Lu took the "Ruyi" purse reward.

On the day of the Spring Festival, the big guys will spend it together.

In the morning, the emperor had dinner with the concubines of various palaces, eating yellow rice, rice cakes and other things, with a variety of patterns. The main banquet is held in Shenzheng, the palace people have to start preparing from noon, first arrange cold dishes, snacks, this is the largest banquet of the year, not only the palace concubines to participate, the princess, the emperor's relatives and relatives have to attend, there are also important ministers in the court who are favored by the emperor.

On this occasion, no matter how much intrigue the concubines have on weekdays, they have all converged, and even Concubine Rong is smiling when she sees her.

Not to mention the richness of the main banquet, pork, fat duck, fat chicken, elbows, etc., there are all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas. With the sound of drums, the emperor and his concubines took their seats, and the order of the banquet was to drink soup first and then eat, and the eunuchs first gave the emperor soup and meal, and then sent soup to the concubines according to their rank.

The main meal is also a variety of meals and furnishings, starting from the emperor's table and turning around at the accompanying table, which means that the whole family can enjoy it together. Yin Lingyuan complained in her heart, this way of eating is really tiring.

After the main banquet, the wine banquet is placed, and the tea fruit is entered after the wine, and then the concubine takes a seat, the emperor leaves the banquet, the music of praise is played, and the family banquet begins to end.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the emperor ordered that the meals he had eaten, even plates, bowls, saucers, spoons, and chopsticks, be rewarded to close ministers, princes, and county kings, and the latter would happily accept thanks.

After the banquet, everyone watched the singing and dancing together, from the beginning of the meal to now, it has been three or five hours, Yin Lingyuan only felt physically and mentally exhausted, and never wanted to spend the ancient Spring Festival again.

However, this is not over, after the song and dance, the year must be kept, and on the Chinese New Year's Eve, the concubines will accompany the emperor to worship their ancestors, and they can eat a dumpling "supper" until the end of the ugly hour.

At this time, Yin Lingyuan was already so sleepy that his upper and lower eyelids fought, and after the ancestor worship was over, he went to the bed in the dormitory, and Han Lu hurriedly stopped: "Master, wait, you can only sleep after eating dumplings." ”

"I will reward you for eating", Yin Lingyuan waved his hand casually and lay directly on the table.

"That's not good", Hanlu tried to shake people awake, "This is a dumpling that the queen mother and the emperor personally appreciated, and the master must eat it all." ”

With her eyes squinted into a slit, she saw five plates of dumplings of various colors, as well as a variety of side dishes, Yin Lingyuan was speechless and choked, and when she stuffed a stomach full of dumplings and touched the bed, it was already past Yin.

However, she felt that she had just fallen asleep, and she was woken up by Hanlu, opened her eyes in a daze, and looked out at the sky was still dark, and then looked at the hour, just after the hour, she had only slept for more than two hours?!

This Spring Festival is really not a human being.

Yin Lingyuan got up like resignation, and Han Lu and Bao Sheng helped her, washed her face, put on makeup, combed her hair, and finally changed into complicated and heavy auspicious clothes, first went to pay New Year's greetings to the concubine, and then the concubine took the concubines to the Queen Mother's palace to pay New Year's greetings.

The emperor also had to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials in the previous dynasty.

Coming out of the Queen Mother's palace, when it was time to arrive, Yin Lingyuan couldn't stand it anymore, and fell asleep when she returned to the palace, and heard Baosheng say that she couldn't care about who came to visit her.

The Spring Festival starts from the beginning of the first month and lasts until the fifteenth, but fortunately, the work and rest will return to normal in the next few days, and only the concubines will walk around and visit each other before.

On the fifteenth day, after the last dinner, the foreign vassals and envoys who came to see the court were sent away, and the year finally ended.

The twentieth day of the first lunar month officially opened, and these few days can be regarded as a real rest for Qi Ye.

In the greenhouse in the backyard of Yinghua Palace, Qi Ye was reclining on his feet, drinking the hot tea handed over by Yin Lingyuan, and breathed a sigh of relief: "After working so hard, you are still the most comfortable for me here." ”

"Since the emperor feels tired, why should it be simpler?" Yin Lingyuan said helplessly.

Qi Ye chuckled and pointed at Yin Lingyuan's forehead: "Silly words, although they are tired, they are all rules handed down by the ancestors, and they can better show the prestige of my Tianqi country, how can I be simple." ”

Death to save face and suffer guilt, Yin Lingyuan complained in his heart, and came in with a plate of cut fruit.

"The newly picked melon today, the emperor will taste it." Yin Lingyuan handed it to Qi Ye.

Qi Ye used a silver hairpin to plug in a piece and ate it: "I ate it yesterday at the queen mother's place, and it tasted very sweet." ”

"The emperor likes it, wait and let someone pick some for you to bring back."

Qi Ye felt funny while eating: "I have always rewarded others, but it is the other way around you, and it is rare for you to grow it." ”

The melons in the palace are generally paid tribute by Yili, and they are only available in summer, and Yin Lingyuan also inadvertently got the seeds, sprinkled them on the edge of the greenhouse, and soon grew them.

She knew that it was because of the spiritual spring, but she said: "The concubine is also a coincidence, and she has no intention of inserting willows and willows." ”

"I'll take a look." Qi Ye was interested, took the wet handkerchief handed by his servant, cleaned his hands, and got up to look at the melon.

Yin Lingyuan naturally had nothing to do, she led the way in front and led Qi Ye to the side of the melon vine, where the golden and round melons hung on the vine, forming a wonderful contrast with the white snow outside.

Qi Ye was overjoyed when he saw it, so he simply squatted down and picked up the melon vine, picked up the golden ripe melon and stretched out his hand: "I picked one with my own hands, Li Defu turned around and sent it to the Queen Mother, which can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha." ”

Before the words fell, at the moment when his hand approached the honeydew melon, a green snake suddenly sprang out from the green leaves, and quickly bit Qi Ye's arm.

"Be careful!" At the same moment, Yu Ze shouted in Yin Lingyuan's head, and suddenly appeared, and a stream of spiritual power shot out, hitting the snake's seven inches, but after all, it was a step too late, and Qi Ye had been bitten by a poisonous snake with two small holes on the back of his hand.

"Someone! Escort! Li Defu was shocked, and countless guards poured in and surrounded the emperor.

Yin Lingkite was frightened, and was surrounded by everyone, and immediately a guard caught the snake that was bounced away, looking at the gorgeous eyes, eighty percent was poisonous.

Sure enough, the wound on the back of Qi Ye's hand quickly turned purple-black, spreading outward at a speed visible to the naked eye, Yin Lingyuan didn't care about anything else, quickly tore off the corner of his skirt, and slammed it on Qi Ye's wrist.

"Quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor!" She yelled and pressed the back of Qi Ye's hand desperately, trying to squeeze the poisonous blood out of her body.

"Hiss~", Qi Ye was in pain and couldn't help frowning.

"Bear with it", at this moment she can't care about any etiquette of monarchs and ministers, Yin Lingyuan doesn't know what kind of snake it is, she only remembers looking at the animal world in her previous life, and many people will die after being bitten by poisonous snakes for a few minutes.

While squeezing the blood, he anxiously asked Yu Ze if there was any pill available.

Even if there is, it needs to be re-refined, and it is difficult to solve the urgent need.

"With spiritual power." Yu Ze said, "Use your spiritual power to nourish his wounds and expel the filthy qi." ”

Yin Lingyuan nodded, quickly turned the aura of his body, and slowly nourished the place where Qi Ye was bitten by the poisonous snake.

With the injection of aura, Qi Ye's frowning brows from the pain gradually relaxed, and the color of the wound slowly returned to bright red.

"The Imperial Doctor is here, the Imperial Doctor is here!" Finally, the court judge of the Tai Hospital led a group of imperial doctors to hurry over, and before they came, they knew that the emperor was bitten by a poisonous snake, so they naturally did not dare to delay, and treated the emperor on the spot, and there was a special person to identify the snake.

There was a period of chaos, the imperial doctors diagnosed, prescribed medicine, and treated wounds, people came and went, Yin Lingyuan's vegetable garden was trampled to the ground, and the nearby area was all fallen to the ground, melons and fruits were trampled, juice mixed with soil, and it looked quite disgusting.

By the time Qi Ye's condition stabilized and he was carried out of the greenhouse, he had already fallen asleep, but fortunately, the imperial doctor said that his life was fine, and the lethargy was mostly due to drugs.

A large group of people surrounded the emperor and left, and even the poisonous snake was taken away, leaving the ground full of messes and trembling attendants in the Yinghua Palace.

The emperor was injured in Yinghua Palace, and in any case, Yin Lingyuan could not escape the blame.

"Lord, master, what should we do, the emperor ......" Han Lu said tremblingly.

Yin Lingyuan calmed down instead, glanced at the vegetable garden, and ordered in a deep voice: "Let someone clean up this place first, lift up those who can live and water some water, and clean up those who are rotten." ”

"But, master", Han Lu was anxious, "The emperor is injured so much, you still take care of the vegetable garden, and the slave is only afraid of ......"

"What are you afraid of!" Yin Lingyuan accentuated, "Clean up first." With that, he took the lead out of the garden.

There were poisonous snakes in the garden, this was something Yin Lingkite didn't expect, in the big winter, the snakes should be hibernating, how could they run out and hurt people, even if the temperature in the greenhouse is high, how did the snake come in?

"Don't you think it'......" Yin Lingyuan glanced at Yu Ze, who had been by his side.

The latter pondered for a moment, and then said: "Snakes are different from other animals, they are born with spirits, and it is said that with you and me here, they will not approach rashly. ”

In fact, it's not just snakes, small animals have the instinct to avoid powerful creatures, Yu Ze and Yin Lingkite are both equipped with spiritual power, and for animals, they are even more respectful, but this snake inexplicably appeared in her greenhouse.

Then there is only one explanation, someone deliberately put it in.

"I guess that person's original intention was to let the snake bite me, but I didn't expect that the snake was taboo against you and me, and it bit the emperor by mistake." Yin Lingyuan said.

If it is said that she is behind the scenes, the first thing she thinks of is Concubine Yi, after all, she refused her wooing not long ago, but this can only be speculation, there is no evidence.

The news of the emperor's injury soon spread throughout the harem, and the first person to usher in the Yinghua Palace was the concubine, she was the master of the harem, and it was also right to stand up at this moment.

The concubine did not embarrass her very much, but only ordered someone to seal the vegetable garden, and guarded the palace gate.

For a while, the people in the palace were panicked, but it was a bit like she was in the situation when she first came through.

"The master has finally regained his favor, and now he is the same as before, but what should I do?" Swirling with green urgency.

"Naturally, it's different from before," Yin Lingyuan said, "The current closure of the palace is only temporary, and everything has to be decided by the emperor when he wakes up." ”

"What the master said", Bao Sheng said, "Sister Hanlu, don't worry, the emperor loves the master, and he must not blame him too much." Otherwise, there is also the Queen Mother. ”

Thinking of the emperor and the queen mother, and then thinking of the little prince and He Jieyu, Han Lu finally slowly calmed down, praying that the emperor must take into account the past and not blame the master.

Yin Lingyuan is thinking about how to catch the people behind the scenes, and he will never carry this black cauldron.

It was night, the lights in the Fujing Pavilion were like beans, Liang Jieyu looked panicked, picked up the teacup and put it down, picked it up again, and finally smashed it in front of Chuncao: "It's all your good plan, but now you have hurt the emperor, and the entire Fujing Pavilion can't survive!" ”

"Niangniang is angry", Chuncao knelt, and her expression was a little uneasy, "The slave just wanted to scare Yu Jieyu and vent her evil anger for Niangniang, but somehow she became a poisonous snake, and I didn't expect to hurt the emperor." ”

Chuncao knew that Yin Lingyuan was afraid of snakes, and in order to compete for the first place in front of Liang Jieyu, she came up with this method, and her original intention was indeed to scare and scare, because what she ordered people to release was a non-poisonous snake, even if it was bitten, it would only suffer from some flesh and skin.

Who knows, there is already a pair of eyes watching in the dark, and they even steal the day, replacing ordinary snakes with poisonous snakes.

"What's the use of talking about that now?" , Liang Jieyu was completely panicked, she wanted to get angry but didn't dare to make too much noise, for fear that the wall would have ears, "It is a fact that the emperor's holy body is damaged, if someone finds out about our heads......"

"Master." Qi Hong suddenly spoke, interrupting Liang Jieyu's frightened conjecture, and said softly, "The emperor was injured in the greenhouse of Yinghua Palace, who can find out about us now, so it is better to calculate and confirm Yu Jieyu's crime." ”

"You mean......" Liang Jieyu looked at Qi Hong, a little confused for a moment.

"What Sister Qihong said is very true", Chuncao echoed, "In this way, we can stay out of the matter, and Yu Jieyu will definitely be blamed when she sees that she is guilty of sin, and she can be regarded as giving her master a bad breath." ”

"Is it possible?" Liang Jieyu thought of the emperor's favor for Yin Lingyuan, and threw a mouse bogey.

"The master might as well be like this......" Qi Hong lowered her voice and leaned closer to Liangjieyu to whisper.

Early the next morning, Liang Jieyu went to Concubine Rong's Palace, and after a while, the two came out and went to Yinghua Palace together.

"Open the door." At the gate of Yinghua Palace, Concubine Rong didn't even look at the guards, and ordered in a cold voice.

"But the concubine has an order...... "The guard has a sad face.

"Hongu said, open the door!" Concubine Rong's cold eyes swept away, and the guards suddenly did not dare to stop them, and obediently opened the palace gate.

Yin Lingyuan was having breakfast, and saw Concubine Rong followed by Liang Jieyu, walking menacingly. Inexplicably, she felt that this formation was a little familiar.

"The emperor has such a big thing in your palace, and you still have the face to eat?" Liang Jieyu opened her mouth to mock.

"What if not?" Yin Lingyuan swallowed a mouthful of rice porridge and asked slowly.

"If you still have a little heart, you should always kneel in the courtyard to pray for the emperor's blessing and atone for yourself." Concubine Rong said coldly.

Yin Lingyuan did not retreat at all: "The merits of the matter, when the emperor wakes up, he has his own decision, and the concubine Niangniang has already ordered the palace to be sealed, the two of them broke in like this, where is the will of the concubine Niangniang?" ”

"Hurry up with power", Concubine Rong said righteously, "The concubine is concerned about the emperor, and she can't take care of it for a while, but this palace will never allow people who damage the emperor's holy body to get away with it like this." ”

Yin Lingyuan's expression also turned cold, and he asked in a deep voice, "How is the mother treated?" ”

"Someone's coming", Concubine Rong raised her voice and ordered, "Arrest Yu Jieyu to the palace, the palace people up and down the Yinghua Palace, Gu will be sent to the prison for torture and interrogation, as well as the greenhouse in the backyard, and they will be knocked down together!" ”

"Wait!" Yin Lingyuan laughed angrily, "Niangniang, do you know what happened to the last person who played such a majestic role in Yinghua Palace?" ”

Without waiting for the other party to answer, she said to herself: "Wang Meiren, who was sent to Huangzhuang to farm, has the mother forgotten?" ”