"Master, someone has come to the palace, it is the maid by Concubine Rou's side."

The housekeeper walked lightly to the rattan chair in the backyard and said respectfully, Qi Lu was napping as always, and he didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard the housekeeper's words: "What are you doing?" ”

Housekeeper: "Niangniang said that she hadn't seen the young master for a long time, and I want you to take the young master and young lady into the palace to narrate." ”

Qi Lu opened his eyes, sat up from the rattan chair leisurely, took the teacup and took a sip of tea, before saying, "I'm not feeling well, so I won't go, you can go to Ye Yuan to find Su Ye and Rui Rui with spring." After speaking, Qi Lu slowly lay back again, closed his eyes and began to nap.

"Yes."

Chunyi didn't know if it was bad luck today, he didn't receive Qi Lu in Qi Mansion, and it happened that Qi Suye went out today and was not in Ye Garden, so he could only take Ye Ruirui back to the palace to resume his life.

Although the Xia Dynasty has suffered a lot of defeats since the beginning of the year, the configuration that the royal family should have is still very complete. The carriage that came to pick up Ye Ruirui belonged to that kind of low-key luxury, the wooden frame of the whole carriage was all high-quality wood, exuding a faint fragrance, and the space in the carriage was not large, but it was complete. Upholstery, small coffee table, dark compartment with dim sum tea, finely carved jade small objects, etc.

Mu Yi propped up his chin and carefully looked at the inside of the carriage, and finally sighed: "Xiao Qi really doesn't know how to enjoy, look at people, and then look at him, one in the sky and one in the ground." ”

Coal was napping on her shoulder, and these days the weight loss had been fruitful, and Mu Yi had allowed it to lie on her shoulder again. Hearing Mu Yi's exclamation, Coal opened his eyes, looked around, and finally concluded: "If he dares to do this, his brother will not let him go." ”

Mu Yi nodded in agreement: "This is reasonable. ”

After speaking, Mu Yi set her eyes on Ye Ruirui on the other side of the coffee table, and she asked curiously: "Ruirui, what is the relationship between this Roufei Niangniang and you?" ”

Ye Ruirui smiled, satisfying her curiosity, "Concubine Rou's name is Chu Qinrou, she is her mother's sister, her mother was persecuted ten years ago, and she tried her best to protect her husband, and she took Su Yu, who had just turned seven years old, to sleep underground. Since then, Concubine Rou Niangniang has taken pity on her husband's loss of her mother at a young age, so she often lets him enter the palace to take care of her deceased sister's last bloodline in this world. ”

Mu Yi: "In this way, Concubine Rou can also be regarded as half of Su Ye's mother." ”

Ye Ruirui nodded: "Yes, the mother has no children, and she has always treated her husband as her own son." It's a pity ......"

Speaking of this, Ye Ruirui didn't say any more, and she let out a long sigh.

"What a pity?" Mu Yi then asked.

Ye Ruirui continued: "It's a pity that the two sisters of the Chu family were famous back then, who would have thought that it would be like this in a few decades. One died young, the other was trapped in the deep palace, and the Chu family gradually declined, and the ten-mile manor was barren and overgrown with weeds. ”

Mu Yi sighed: "Things in this world are changeable. ”

The two chatted intermittently, and after a while, they arrived at the palace gate, and Chunyi took Chu Qinrou's warrant and led the two into the palace gate. Mu Yi walked under the palace wall, as he saw in the Shengjing Palace, looking up at the boxy sky, red walls and green tiles, lifeless.

Soon, they arrived at Concubine Rou's bedroom. This is a palace like no other, the whole building is made of a kind of white stone repair, the stone is carved with a variety of intricate patterns, the high palace door with gold ink is written vigorously and powerfully three big characters: Fengming Palace. The tall and white building stands quietly here, incompatible with the red walls and green tiles of the palace, arrogant and cold.

In order to welcome Chu Qinrou into the palace, Emperor Xia summoned skilled craftsmen from all over the country, spent a lot of money, and built this stone palace under the pressure of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces. Therefore, before Chu Qinrou entered the palace, she had already become the demon concubine of the country in the mouth of the courtiers.

Mu Yi couldn't imagine what kind of woman this was, the family was in decline, her sister who depended on her life died unexpectedly, she was trapped in the deep palace, and she had no children and no daughters for decades.

She remembered seeing such a story in the book before, the heroine had a tragic life, but in the end it must be a happy ending.

But the book is a book after all, at least this concubine is not so lucky.

The most important thing is that the world can't stay, and Zhu Yan is a flowery tree. The heart of the emperor is so cold, even if the pepper house was a noble pet back then, in the end, he couldn't escape a sentence of decay and love.

Chu Qinrou sat quietly above, wearing a gorgeous and expensive palace dress, full of pearls, but even if she put a lot of effort into maintaining herself, there were still faint fine lines at the corners of her eyes.

The palace people retreated very acquaintedly, Mu Yi stayed in the house for a while and then came out to breathe, people wanted to talk to their niece and daughter-in-law, and they were very redundant as an outsider.

According to the guidance of spring, she took a leisurely step to the imperial garden. Now it is late autumn, and the trees are full of acacias, and the palace people are holding tools to clean up these fallen flowers and dead branches and leaves in an orderly manner.

Coal dozed off in a daze along the way, it lay on Mu Yi's shoulder and listened to their conversation intermittently, and now it was blown by the cold wind in the imperial garden, and its sleepiness disappeared in an instant.

"In the future, will Xiao Qi's Western Chu also become what the Xia Dynasty is like now?"

Coal tilted his head sideways and looked at Mu Yi's white cheeks suspiciously, and the long beard scratched Mu Yi a little itchy. She reached out and took the coal off her shoulder and held it in her arms, and touched its cat head soothingly: "No, he will only make Xichu more prosperous." ”

"Oh." Coal nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Then will he be like Emperor Xia, well, so obsessed with beauty?" Will he let a lot of women into the palace? ”

"He ......"

Mu Yi's words were interrupted as soon as she started, and Chunyi came to her to go back, saying that Concubine Rou invited her back to have dinner together.

After dinner, Ye Ruirui took Mu Yi and drove out of the palace slowly in the carriage when she came. Not long after the two left, Emperor Xia broke into the Fengming Hall with a cold air.

Chu Qinrou was drinking tea to relieve her tiredness, and when she saw Emperor Xia coming, she didn't get up to greet her, but just glanced up at her, and then continued to drink tea.

Emperor Xia was an old man in his fifties, white and fat, with a bloated figure, he was looking at Chu Qinrou with a smile at the moment, and asked with a little hope and a little flattery: "How are things going?" ”

Chu Qinrou put down the teacup, and her voice was a little cold: "I have already told Rui Rui what you said, as for what kind of effect it will have, I don't know." ”

Emperor Xia breathed a long sigh of relief, patted his chest with peace of mind, and comforted himself: "It's okay like this, it's okay like this." Xiaoliu is soft-hearted, he will not sit idly by, he will definitely not. ”

Chu Qinrou looked at Emperor Xia's appearance at this time, her eyes full of sadness.

Time is really ruthless, but only a few decades have passed, and the high-spirited man who scolded Fang Yu in the side plug back then has become the timid and timid appearance he is now.

Thinking of this, Chu Qinrou looked away. Emperor Xia got the answer he wanted, and he couldn't sit still for a moment, Chu Qinrou looked at him like he was sitting on pins and needles and said, "The emperor is busy with state affairs, and the concubines will not stay with the emperor." ”

Emperor Xia suppressed the joy in his heart and forced a face: "Concubine Rou has worked hard today, rest early, and I will leave first if I still have something to do." ”