It has not rained in Beijing for a long time, and it is rare that a summer rain is not sudden, and it is dripping between heaven and earth. It's time, Huo Yunwan retracted her hand and wiped the water stains from her fingertips. He instructed the little palace maid behind him, "Find an umbrella for me." Then go to the kitchen to serve a bowl of ginseng soup and put it in a warm pot."

The palace maid was embarrassed: "Where is the mother going, the road is slippery on rainy days, I'm afraid that the sedan chair is not good." ”

"There's no need to pass it on, just look for the past and let Chun Yan follow."

The people below looked at Huo Yunwan with a slightly sad expression, knowing that the queen was in a bad mood, so she didn't dare to ask more, so she went down to find an oil-paper umbrella, the handle of the umbrella was ingenious, it was Huo Yunwan's favorite vine appearance, verdant and green, not like being held, but like winding out of the palm of a person's hand. The palace maid Chunyan carried ginseng soup in one hand and held an umbrella for Huo Yunwan in the other.

There is still a section of the road from Yongchun Palace to Yaoguang Palace, which is inevitable. Xue Se is Huo Yunwan's palace maid, Wei Long is going to go, and it is inevitable that the newcomer will be angry with the original master, and it is better to be farther away.

Fortunately, the roads in the palace are all dusty, and they are paved with broken stones, even if the rain is still falling, Huo Yunwan is also walking steadily, without losing any etiquette. However, the palace maid next to her was uneven, and said: "Why did Niang Niang go to see her in person, even if she wanted to go, she would also pick a good time." It's raining heavily, and if the wind blows, the phoenix body is sick, which is her sin. ”

Huo Yunwan looked at the fog in front of her, how could there be any heavy rain, but just a little moisture, she didn't bother to speak, she reached out and pushed the palace maid's hand holding the handle of the umbrella outward, and most of her shoulders were exposed outside the umbrella. There are a lot of precious materials in the palace that are not wet from the rain, but they are not wearing them today, and they are scattered on the splendid embroidery in the blink of an eye.

Chun Yan was puzzled, but she didn't dare to ask. The master's intentions, the subordinates really can't figure it out, the queen deliberately wants to get drenched in the rain, she can only carefully hold the umbrella, not only to let Huo Yunwan expose most of her body, but also to cover the entire bun, so as not to damage her appearance.

Xue Se has not eaten water and rice in bed for two days, not because of the harsh treatment of the grandmother who delivered the meal, on the contrary, although it is not a delicacies from the mountains and seas, but the dishes are carefully selected. For some reason, she couldn't eat it at first, but her grandmother coaxed her with good words, saying that it was a noble person who helped her, and she had to raise it well to have a chance to receive the grace of God again. But after these days, Mo said that the emperor came, and there was no message.

She even hoped that those ladies would come, although in the past there were only ridicule and ridicule, and now she didn't want to get half a good word. But she still looked forward to it, it was empty, there was no living person, and the grandmother who delivered the meal was also three times a day, and she came and went for no more than half an hour. She stayed here, like hell on earth, thousands of times colder than the broken house outside the palace before. Isn't it summer, why is it still so cold?

Xue Se wanted to force her way out, but the two little eunuchs guarding the door still remembered the generosity of the Snow Lady in the past, and they were not embarrassed, so they only persuaded her: "The lady can bear with it again, if you want to let you go out, we are afraid that we will have to lose our heads." She returned to the bed, and when Grandma came to deliver the meal again, she would not eat anyway.

What Mrs. Su said in the letter was indeed right. The mother's tomb was destroyed, damaging the blessings of future generations. She didn't get out to get a stick of incense, so she probably had to stay here for the rest of her life, and it was better to die and be saved from living sins.

Grandma couldn't persuade her, so she could only sigh a few times. I've been in this palace for a long time, and I can't help but be sent. Eat, she comes to collect the bowl, and she doesn't eat, but she needs to throw out the leftovers when she collects the bowl. The two little eunuchs leaned on the threshold and gossiped: "You said that the Snow Lady can last a few days?" ”

"I'm afraid it's going to fail, it's a pity for such a beauty. It's rare to have a good temper, and I've never felt sorry for anyone. ”

"What's the use of beauty, who in the palace is not beautiful. I don't think the emperor will come. ”

Suddenly, the two knelt down together and said, "Niang Niang Chitose." ”

Huo Yunwan patted the wet shoulder and said, "Get up, how to avoid going into the courtyard, but you have to blow the wind outside." ”

Chun Yan stood behind her, secretly annoyed, she was so cautious, why was the queen still so wet, and there were tiny droplets of water on the tips of her hair.

The two little eunuchs stood up and lowered their heads and stepped aside and said: "Don't dare to disturb the lady's purity, how can the queen mother brave the wind and rain to come, I'm afraid that it will be bad luck inside, but I want the little one to ask the snow lady to come out and talk." ”

"That's it, this palace has the emperor's blessing, there are no taboos, open the door."

Xue Sheng seemed to hear the sound of the door outside, but his body had no strength to get up to see who it was. She had heard the wind and rain in the morning, who was it? Will you brave the rain to come to the Yaoguang Palace, will it be....Husband Wei Long?

There are 3,000 beauties and countless concubines, these are too far away from the previous snow, and in the eyes of the peasants, the emperor is just a peasant with a gold hoe. Even if she entered the palace and saw that the emperor didn't use a hoe, she couldn't help but think about whether he would use a hoe one day?

The neighbor's vanilla sister married the big strong brother next door, and the son of Song's sister-in-law married a Qiaoyun girl several miles away. They sang with their husbands and wives, and they had a number of little dolls with tender hands and feet, and the couple led the family wherever they went. She also thought that in her life, she would probably be inseparable. Finally, a man made himself embarrassed and shouted husband. But the mother seemed to be very alarmed about her meeting with outsiders, and she couldn't lock herself in the house from time to time, and was not allowed to deal with any man, until she was sixteen or seventeen, and she was already very old around. Then she entered the palace.

Only then did I know that there were not only husband and wife between women and men, but also concubines, aunts, intercourse, maids, and even prostitutes. In front of the emperor, it is the queen, the concubine, and the concubine....she still hasn't completely remembered the position, but you can imagine how many women there are in this palace.

And what kind of identity she is, I don't know at all. It's just that I see the flowers and lust, and I am blinded, and I always silently recite the word "husband" in my heart. Light red candles and make soup. Aren't these all things to do with your husband? Xue Se was lying on the bed, his chest rising and falling violently, he was here after all.

"Why is my sister like this, I have repeatedly explained that the people under me are taking care of her." Huo Yunwan came in to see the situation, hurriedly put the ginseng soup aside, and rushed up to support Xuese. She was so eager that two drops of water splashed on her snow-colored face.

"Mother, why are you?". Snow-colored tears slid across the corners of her eyes at the same time, and she turned her head away from looking at Huo Yunwan, unable to tell whether she was faceless or disappointed.

Chun Yan poured the ginseng soup out of the kettle with great insight and brought it to the bed. Said: "Out of the mother, is there anyone else to come to see you, it's really self-inflicted, and you are ordered to wait for you with good food and drink, you are looking for death and life, and you want the mother to come over in the heavy rain." ”

"Say something!" Huo Yunwan took the soup bowl, picked up a spoonful and blew it, "Hurry up and help the Snow Lady up." ”

Chun Yan helped Xue Se up as she said, and when she saw that she was still tilting her head, she said, "Lady is angry with the queen."

Only then did Xue Se turn her face and face Huo Yunwan, but her eyes turned downward, and she said, "The queen forgives me." ”

Huo Yunwan handed the soup spoon to Xuexi's mouth, half-persuaded and half-forced to feed a spoonful, and then picked up another spoonful and blew it slowly. How can there be such a good-looking person in the world, who is sad and sick, and is still good-looking, and even women can't help but love it. After blowing twice, he handed it to Xuexi's mouth and said, "Drink it before you speak." ”

After drinking a bowl of ginseng soup, Xue Xue regained some complexion, and forced himself to get out of bed. Huo Yunwan hurriedly excused herself, sent Chunyan to clean up the kettle utensils, she was still sitting on the bed, and said, "Why bother, people are dead, but there is nothing left." ”

"I don't have anything now." Xue Xue suddenly smiled sadly. She remembered those days outside the palace, and she didn't have anything in her own right. But I don't have it, and the people around me don't necessarily have anything. Everyone lives a similar life, so it's not so difficult. But once I entered the Su Mansion, I found out. For there are many people in the world, and when they are born, they have everything. In contrast, people inevitably have different thoughts.

Lady Su has a bodhisattva's heart, so the dark things in her heart will not grow too fast. After entering the palace, he was in a hall full of gold and jade, but his hands were empty, and he had nothing. And in the eyes of the people here, they may not be as good as an object.

Huo Yunwan straightened her snow-colored hair, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said, "Sister, what are you talking about, the emperor has always looked at you as a person on the tip of his heart." With the emperor's favor, there is nothing in this world that you don't have. ”

"Your Majesty?" A glimmer of hope in the snow-colored eyes? Then it dimmed for a moment, and in that person's eyes, it was probably a more beautiful object. People like to deceive themselves. Coming in the wind and rain, the young son of heaven, Lang Lang Renjun, stretched out his hand to himself, and was loved by thousands of people.

"Snow this face, it's a pity to give it to ordinary people, it always has to be matched by the best man in the world", Mrs. Su's words were finally realized, it turned out that she really had such a face, no wonder her mother was not allowed to look in the mirror all year round. What is there not to see about such a good thing?

"Your Majesty... Do you remember me"? Xue Se suddenly became excited, grabbed Huo Yunwan and said: "Niangniang, I don't have it at all, I haven't told anyone about this at all, it's a guard, it must be the emperor's guard, you go and help me talk about it, help me talk about it." ”

Chun Yan nervously rushed up and pulled the snow-colored hand away and said, "How can the lady hold the mother like this?" ”

Xue Se realized that she was out of shape, suddenly retracted her hand, and said bitterly: "I... I ......"

Huo Yunwan straightened the scratches on her clothes and said, "How can the emperor not remember his sister, if he doesn't remember his sister, how could he deliberately call me over to take a look, otherwise, he has to deliberately pick a little bit of wind and rain, so as not to be seen." Huo Yunwan complained, but her tone was coquettish and a little sour, but it was really like Mrs. Zhengtou came to persuade the little lady who had a temper on behalf of her husband.

"The emperor called you"? Xue Se was surprised and couldn't believe it, looked out the door twice, and said lonely: "Then why didn't he come by himself." Also put me... And keep me locked up here. ”

She forgot her humility and called the queen "you". Chun Yan had to say a few more words, but Huo Yunwan didn't care, and said with a smile: "My sister is now the emperor's person, so I have to think about everything for the emperor." That night, the Queen Mother came over and lost her temper, and the emperor always had to take care of the relationship between mother and son, but he couldn't bear to worry about it. That didn't make people treat my sister lightly, you look at that grandma, every time you come, is it respectful? ”

Xue Se saw that what Huo Yunwan said was true, and when she thought about it, it was the same thing. I only think that my grandmother is like those little eunuchs, thinking about my friendship in the past. But the queen is right, when she was a palace maid, she had seen those cold palace concubines, even if her subordinates treated her preferentially, it was a luxury to want to eat hot food. It's like I haven't lacked delicacies from the mountains and seas, if it wasn't for the emperor's orders, I'm afraid there would be no other reason.

She couldn't help but feel a little shy, and said softly: "It turns out... It turned out that the emperor helped me. ”

Huo Yunwan poked her snow-colored head, and said in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel: "Isn't it just to help you, but where do you feel sorry for the emperor, you have been hungry for two or three days, and the emperor is anxious to not approve it, and he doesn't dare to come over by himself, so Dao Baba sent me to run like this." I knew that I was working so hard, and I shouldn't have picked you into Yongchun Palace in the first place." Saying that, he got up and called "Chun Yan", seeing that he was going back.

Xue Se drank the ginseng soup for a while, and she already had the strength in her body, seeing that Huo Yunwan was leaving, she immediately sat up and said, "Niangniang, don't go, Niangniang." The slave has remembered your great kindness all my life, but I don't want to live here, I really can't live anymore." At that time, she listened to Mrs. Su talk about the flowers in the palace and rushed in. In fact, he is doing the most menial work. When you want to go out, it's too late, Ouchi Palace, where can you come when you say you come, and leave when you say you go?

The people at the bottom are even more malicious. When she was living like a year, it was Huo Yunwan who happened to pass by, asked a few words, and went into the Yongchun Palace on an errand in the snow tone. The queen mother is generous, and the subordinates hold their own identities, and they will not be too embarrassed for her, and her life is naturally much better, if it weren't for the fact that she .......dropped the most valuable phoenix hairpin that day, Xue Se did not continue to recall, because she couldn't tell whether she regretted falling the phoenix hairpin, or was glad that she fell the phoenix hairpin.

Huo Yunwan couldn't bear it on her face, so she had to come over again and pat her snow-colored hand, and said: "Sister, don't talk so nonsense, take care of your own body, don't be angry with the emperor, he is a son of man after all, and when the queen mother's anger passes, he will come to see you again." ”

The anger passed, who can know when the queen mother's anger will pass, the snow color added sadness, tightened Huo Yunwan, and said, "Then can the lady not leave first, and then stay with me for a while." She looked around with her eyes and said, "I'm afraid." She was really scared.

Huo Yunwan withdrew her hand and said, "What is my sister afraid of, this is the land given to you by the emperor, and you are the master here." If there is anything that dares to embarrass you, it is against the true dragon emperor. You just have to rest well, the palace has been here for too long, if you let people see the queen mother, won't it make the emperor even more embarrassed? ”

Snow lowered her head and slowly lay back down. The queen is right, stay more and stay less, in fact, it won't change anything, it's just a matter of causing trouble.

"Chun Yan, let's go first."

The rain had stopped, and Huo Yunwan suddenly felt tasteless. I still expected this rootless water to be wiped with a wet hand towel first, but I didn't know that the people in the Yaoguang Hall hadn't freshened up for a few days, and they felt bad to the touch.

How can a person be unkempt and unkempt, and his face is still glorious?

"Why do you have to go and see it in person, Xue Niangzi has such an ugly thing, I'm afraid the emperor won't go to Yaoguang Hall again." Chun Yan followed behind with the empty kettle, but the umbrella was held by herself in Huo Yunwan's hand.

The water trail on the ground has not completely receded, and there are several palace roads planted with tall kapok trees on both sides. Occasionally, the remnants of the flowers are newly falling, and the palace people are still coming and sweeping away. Huo Yunwan looked good, bent down and picked one up.

Ugly thing, what ugly thing? The palace was allowed by the emperor. People were sent by the people around the emperor. Perhaps, Xue Se didn't ask to leave the palace at all, such a good thing was rewarded by Wei Long?

Husband and wife are one, can't she come to take care of Wei Long?

Wei Long's lunch is still used in Yongchun Palace, and it has been several days since that incident. The maid was ready early. It rained this morning, but it was only suitable to eat the pool of new lotus that Niangniang took care of herself.

The lotus leaves are wrapped in eight treasure chickens, the lotus flowers are washed and shredded and boiled with japonica rice for three or four hours, and the tender lotus root is also stewed soft and rotten, and the bowl of white fungus lotus seeds is peeled out of the first lotus pod this year. Naturally, there were no other mountain treasures on the table, Huo Yunwan cleaned her hands, filled a bowl of soup for Wei Long first, and said: "The emperor should also go to the palace of other sisters to walk more. ”

"But the people in the lower palace are not good at serving, and the queen wants to do it herself, Ming'er asks the Internal Affairs Office to allocate ten or eight more, maybe there will be two wonderful people like Snow Lady." Wei Long took the bowl, but he didn't drink it, just looked at Huo Yunwan and didn't smile.

The palace maid who was waiting on the side quietly covered her mouth, and the emperor came over to laugh with the queen again.

Huo Yunwan was serving herself soup, she didn't like to be served by others. Hearing Wei Long speak like this, he threw the spoon in his hand back into the soup basin and let out a slight "clang".

"Where did the emperor come to eat, it was obvious that he came to laugh at the concubines. It's not enough to take away a little maid in the palace of the concubines, Baba came to ask for three or four, and I don't know how the other sisters laughed at the concubines behind their backs. ”

Wei Long drank a spoonful of soup, and then said unhurriedly: "Who dares to laugh at my Yun Wan, since Wan'er doesn't like it, find a reason to send it away, and keep it is also a cause for trouble." ”

"How's that going to work!" Huo Yunwan had already taken a spoon to serve the soup, and when she heard Wei Long say this, her hand paused in the air, and she gently put it back into the basin and said, "And don't say that the concubines dare not be jealous, even the queen mother can't say it." ”

"Why is it involved in the Queen Mother?"

Huo Yunwan wiped her hands on the handkerchief next to her, and said solemnly: "Yesterday, the concubine went to invite the queen mother's peace, and what the sisters and sisters said is also reasonable. The emperor respected the concubine as the queen mother, which was the most filial piety and a model for the subjects of the world. The Snow Lady went out of the palace in private, which was also filial piety. Even if the palace rules are not in order, then it must be extrajudicial and gracious. The emperor is harsh, and he also has to take care of the face of the queen mother. Lest there be criticism of the arrangement, but say that the Queen Mother rewards her son for filial piety, but others are not allowed to laugh. ”

"Wan'er is reasonable, but do you want me to go and see the snow?"

Huo Yunwan had a vinegar taste on her face again, and tilted her head and said, "Whoever wants the emperor to go and take a look, the concubines will not help the emperor watch." said with a worried face, and said: "But Sister Xuexi knows that this matter is the most unforgivable, and she has been on hunger strike for two or three days, and she refuses to live." The people below came to report, and the concubine got up early to take a look, so it was better. She was timid, and it was inevitable that she would be frightened when she lived there. The emperor always has to take care of one or two. ”

Wei Long had already finished drinking a bowl of soup, and said with a sigh of satisfaction: "The queen is virtuous, give an order, lift the ban, and call some palace people over." Tell her to stay in peace, and I'll see in a few days. ”

"Yes". Huo Yunwan took a handful of snow cabbage and silver sprouts and said: "The emperor needs to use more, and on the table is the first pool of new lotus in the palace of the concubines."

Walking out of the gate of Yongchun Palace, Wei Long glanced back. Smart people are not likable, stupid people are not likable, and even their own biological mothers are gradually becoming less likable. How is it that there is no one in this world who can let himself eat in peace. Is it Yongchun Palace helping Shoukang Palace, or is Deshou Palace taking a fancy to the Huo family? It's probably the latter, after all, a few years ago, the two families got together like this. It's just that at that time, it was to help him Wei Long.

Now, who do you want to support?

"You send more rewards to the Yaoguang Palace, and the treasury is tightly picked, so you will say that the punishment is to leave the palace without permission, and the reward is to be benevolent and filial, I will go to see her later and let her live in peace." Wei Long commanded the little eunuch behind him.

In the evening, the Empress Dowager Zhaoshu smashed a tea bowl, so benevolent and filial, this is provoking herself. In the affairs of the court, the Huang family has been pressed step by step. With this harem, she can't speak, there is such a thing in the world, and the biological mother is going to let her son.

"Also pick up some good things and send them over, the mourning family always has to give the emperor some face."

Most of the candles in Yongchun Palace have been extinguished, only a few are still burning in the queen's bedroom, Huo Yunwan changed her bedclothes, half lying on the bed, holding a book in her hand and reading.

The maid waited for a long time, and when she saw that she was still restless, she persuaded: "Niangniang might as well rest earlier." ”

"There's no hurry, you guys go down, just keep an eye out of the door."

"Yes."

Three or four maids on night duty gathered together and gossiped to drive away drowsiness.

"Although the emperor comes every day, he rarely stays overnight. I don't know why. ”

"Of course, I take a fancy to our mother, but I have to take care of my heirs."

"The queen has no heirs."

"You can be quiet, yelling so loud, you can hear it inside."

"What I do is the truth, if the emperor really loves Niangniang, he should always rest in Yongchun Palace for a few more nights, and the first prince in the palace should be Niangniang."

"Yes, yes, what is your identity, Dao has arranged what the emperor and queen should do."

"I said too, if the emperor doesn't value Niangniang, can he go to Xue Niang's womb to reward him because of a few words from Niangniang? It can be seen that in this harem, the most painful thing is the mother, and the snow-colored fox can't climb up and can't turn over the waves. ”

"You are not jealous of the Snow Lady, and you say that she is not."

"I have nothing to be jealous of, I just can't see our mother's kindness to rescue her, she is good, she seduces the emperor behind her back."

"I heard that the Queen Mother also sent some rewards in the evening."

"I'm afraid I'm going to reset"

"Where's the reset. I think it's true that I can go to the next level. ”

Huo Yunwan rubbed her shoulders, feeling that the candle flame was too bright, so she got out of bed and extinguished a few more. It's a pity that the dish of snow cabbage and silver sprouts at noon had to be lost with only one chopstick.