Empress Pei didn't hear it, still quietly staring out the window.

A tall begonia tree was planted outside the window.

It was early spring, and the branches of the begonia trees were green.

There is a bird's nest in the tree. There were a few young birds in the nest, stretching their necks and chirping. A pair of females and males each hold worms in their mouths and feed them into the mouths of chicks. The chirping of the chicks not only did not stop, but made more noise.

Empress Pei looked at this scene, raised the corners of her mouth, and smiled slightly. There was a gleam of water in his eyes.

"Queen," the abominable voice whispered in her ears again, "it's time to pass the meal." ”

Queen Pei didn't reply: "The palace has no appetite, so there is no need to pass on dinner." ”

There was a lifeless tiredness in the gentle voice.

Qing Dai frowned, and said softly: "The queen mother fell ill last year in winter, and she will be raised for a few months." Please also ask the mother to take care of the phoenix. ”

After a pause, she accentuated her tone slightly: "The queen mother just doesn't think about herself, she should also think more about the two highnesses and the princess." In and outside the palace, it is all thanks to the mother to be stable! ”

Empress Pei's body trembled slightly, and finally turned her head.

Empress Pei, who has been sick and weak all the year round, has a somewhat sick face on her face, and her beautiful face is slightly pale. There was silence in his eyes, like a dry well.

Only when you hear the words "outside the palace" can this dry well have a trace of fresh air.

"I remember, Miss Pei Wu is almost ready!" Empress Pei asked suddenly.

Xianglan, who was on the side, replied with a smile: "Niangniang is really good memory." Miss Pei Wu still has two months to go. Miss Cheng's ceremony was earlier, and there was about half a month. ”

"The mother has the intention of rewarding, and the slave and maid will pass on the mother's message, and order someone to prepare hairpins and hairpins and dresses."

The two female officials in charge of the Jiaofang Palace were both Queen Pei's personal maids when she was young, and they were loyal to Queen Pei.

Empress Pei came out of the cabinet at the age of sixteen, and Qing Dai and Xiang Lan married into the Yanwang Mansion. Nearly twenty years. Queen Pei sat in the middle palace, and Qing Daisa Lan also became the female official in charge of the Jiaofang Palace.

Queen Pei recuperates all year round and rarely sees people. All the affairs in the Jiaofang Palace are handed over to the hands of Qing Dai Shelan.

Qingdai is the same age as Empress Pei, and she is fifty years old in her Chinese New Year's Eve, beautiful in appearance, shrewd and capable. He is in charge of all the palace people in the Jiaofang Palace.

Woad is slightly two years older and has a milder temperament than Indigo. is in charge of Queen Pei's private treasury and a pair of foreign exchanges.

What Xiang Lan said was obviously quite in line with Queen Pei's intentions.

Empress Pei finally had a smile on her face: "Okay." ”

After a pause, he said, "Order someone to pass the meal!" ”

Woad Lan smiled and gave the order in an orderly manner. Of the several palace maids waiting on the side, two of them were ordered to retreat. The rest of the palace maids still stood with their hands tied.

As the queen of the middle palace, no matter when, there are always palace people around to serve her. Qingdai and Wolan, stood by Queen Pei's side day and night. Queen Pei is not used to being served by others. In the evening, the two of them took turns to be on duty.

……

According to the rules of the palace, Queen Pei's dinner was very rich, frying, steaming, boiling, all kinds of noodles and soups, full of more than 20 local dishes, and a full table.

Queen Pei drank half a bowl of rice porridge, ate half a steamed bun, and the table was full of dishes, and only moved a few chopsticks slightly.

Rao is like this, and he has eaten more than usual.

Qing Dai and Xiang Lan glanced at each other, and each secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Empress Pei can be sick and weak, she can not fight for the favor of the saint, and she can even not see anyone, but she must not worry about her life.

The owner of this Jiaofang Palace, one day is Queen Pei, and the status of the second prince is unshakable. No one can snatch the position of the prince!

The glory and wealth of the Yong'an Marquis Mansion are all tied to Queen Pei and the second prince. There must be no room for error.

In the past thirteen years, the two of them have been "guarding" Queen Pei day and night, and there has been no mistake. I don't know how much effort it takes.

In the Jiaofang Palace, there are more than 40 palace people waiting. Almost all of them have been secretly bought by them. Queen Pei's every move is under their control.

"Queen Mother,"

A palace maid quietly stepped in and reported softly: "Yuqing Palace sent a message, saying that His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince was riding a horse today and was feeling a little uncomfortable. Tai Hospital got the news and went to see the doctor by Dr. Chang. ”

Empress Pei's right hand trembled, her expression was a little complicated, and she said after a while: "This palace knows." ”

Then, there was no follow-up.

Queen Pei has two sons and one daughter. Because Queen Pei is recuperating all the year round, she is not very close to her children. Speaking of which, Empress Pei was even better to the second prince and Princess Shouning, but she was extremely cold to the sixth prince.

Food, clothing, and daily life, almost never asked. Even if the sixth prince is sick, he never visits.

The palace maids were also used to this kind of reaction, and after the report, they withdrew.

Xiang Lan said softly: "Niangniang is weak, so it is inconvenient to go to Yuqing Palace in person." The slave and maid had the courage to go to Yuqing Palace to visit His Royal Highness on behalf of the mother. ”

Queen Pei snorted.

……

After Xianglan left, Qing Dai ordered someone to prepare hot water, wait for Queen Pei to bathe and change clothes, and rest early.

The layers of curtains were lowered, covering all the introspective eyes around him.

In one day, only at this time, can Queen Pei be her true self again.

She faced inwards and looked at the gauze tent in a daze. Two lines of tears, I don't know when they slipped into the corners of their eyes and quietly dripped on the pillow.

Thirteen years!

Exactly thirteen years!

She changed from Pei Wanru to the crown princess Pei Wanqing, and then Queen Pei. This Jiaofang Palace, which symbolizes the supremacy of the harem, is nothing more than a gorgeous and cold cage for her, trapped in it, unable to move.

One wrong step, one wrong step.

Back then, she was stunned by the so-called brother-sister relationship. I returned to the capital with my two-year-old daughter. Her husband Cheng Wang was invited to Luoyang for a doctor, and she stepped into the door of the Pei family alone with her daughter.

The elder brother Pei Qin was very gentle to her, and the eldest sister-in-law was also very kind to her. I heard that the eldest sister Pei Wanqing, who had not seen her for many years, was seriously ill, and she went to visit. daughter Jinrong was handed over to the eldest sister-in-law to take care of.

When she stood in front of Pei Wanqing, she was taken aback.

There are many daughters in the Pei family, and only she was sent to the old house in Lin'an when she was eight years old. After several years, he never returned to Beijing. The reason is that there are few people in the Pei family who know about it.

She was born similar to her eldest sister since she was a child. As I get older, my appearance becomes more and more similar. If it weren't for the four-year difference, at first glance, she and Pei Wanqing looked almost the same, and even more delicate and beautiful than Pei Wanqing.

Twelve-year-old Pei Wanqing is already a well-known beauty in the capital, she is virtuous and gentle on the surface, but in fact she is narrow-minded and jealous, and she can't tolerate her as a sister-in-law.

So, at the age of eight, she was sent to Lin'an to grow up. Until he got married, he never returned to the Pei family.

After a few years, Pei Wanqing, who is beautiful and dignified and has an outstanding temperament, has become a terminally ill and dying woman. At first glance, she was shocked and saddened.

People are dying, and there is no need to mention the old grudges between sisters. She is kind, and she is sad for her eldest sister who has run out of oil.

She didn't know that there would be such a ruthless and vicious person in the world, who would plan to use her when she was dying.