Concubine Hui Guifei didn't have any impression of the slave maid who served tea and poured water, there were so many people coming and going in the palace every day, and she didn't know when she arranged for a girl from the back kitchen to follow Su Jingyi.

However, the duty of a slave is to serve the master well, and if he can make the master say a word, he can be regarded as having done his duty.

The slave in front of her has done a very good job, and she should indeed be rewarded, since Su Jingyi has already opened this mouth, Concubine Hui didn't think much about it, it doesn't matter if you change to the front to serve tea.

For Concubine Hui, it was a casual thing, but it was a great thing for the palace people below, Sizhen suppressed the ecstasy in her heart, and after thanking Niangniang for her grace, she was led out by Xia Lan.

The little palace maid who was serving tea in front earlier got the news and hurried over, her little face turned a little pale, she looked at Xia Lan in a panic, and called out to her aunt.

But it's useless to be afraid of grievances, the things that the concubine Niangniang should do in person are no longer possible, from now on, the tea service in the front hall will be officially done by Sizhen, the clothes on her body must be changed, the place where she lives must be changed, the palace maid who served tea earlier will take her to the tea room to familiarize herself with the matter, Xia Lan can't listen to the crying and chirping crooked voice, and casually muttered a few words, seeing that the palace maid still doesn't know how to converge, so she asked her with a cold face: "If you really feel that you are so wronged, I will take you in, How can you tell when you go to the mother? If the mother says that there is no need to change, I will not give you these instructions, you are like this now, are you preparing to be difficult for me? ”

Xia Lan said very seriously, and the palace maid choked and stopped crying, but she still sobbed and choked, and she was so uncomfortable.

Xia Lan skimmed Sizhen, when she was asked to do something, Xia Lan thought that this girl was good, if it wasn't for Ruyi's side bumping into the emperor and causing such a series of things, maybe she would have already shown her face in front of her master.

After being silent for such a long time, Xia Lan almost forgot about her, but she didn't expect that she would fight for her own anger and seize Su Jingyi's opportunity to climb up again.

Xia Lan patted Sizhen on the shoulder: "You can do it yourself." ”

She didn't have time to care about the bickering between these little girls, so after saying this, she went in to wait, and after a while, Concubine Hui had to go out, and she stood outside for a while, and many of the servants around the little master came to ask when they went to the imperial garden.

They are still waiting for Concubine Hui to preside over the overall situation, after all, the queen is guarding the queen mother every inch today, and it is impossible to have fun with them.

Xia Lan all suppressed these words, a group of people who didn't have the eyesight to see it, Niangniang was upset at this moment, isn't it looking for scolding to talk about these now?

When Xia Lan entered, Sizhen raised her eyes, looked at the palace maid who was still hiding her face and sobbing, and said in a deep voice: "Have you cried enough?" ”

The palace maid glared at her viciously: "Despicable villain! ”

Sizhen smiled: "What kind of despicable villain am I? I relied on my own ability to stand up, if you are good enough to get into the eyes of the mother, then no one can replace you today. ”

The palace maid was speechless, and her heart was even more angry, but she didn't cry anymore, she raised her hand and pointed at Sizhen's nose and scolded: "You used these unworthy means to replace me today, and someone will definitely follow suit in the future and replace you from this position, and I will see what you do when the time comes!" ”

Sizhen curled the corners of her lips and smiled: "Since I have stood up, I will not come down again, have you heard Sister Xia Lan's words clearly?" Rubbing here again, I will be seen later, and it is not me who will be scolded. ”

The palace maid trembled with anger, and couldn't say anything about her, shook her hand angrily, and walked briskly to the back.

Su Jingyi hid her clothes behind her, not wanting Concubine Hui to see her again, and after the two sisters said something more, seeing that Concubine Hui was in a more relaxed mood, Xia Lan said the invitation of the concubines.

Concubine Hui frowned, she didn't want to go, the matter of the lucky dumplings was uncomfortable in her heart, and the stalk was naturally even more uncomfortable in the hearts of others, and a group of women got together and quarreled endlessly, too lazy to deal with it.

Su Jingyi stood up and pulled her hand: "It's just right, Sister A, let's go relax, I also made an appointment with someone to go to the painter's portrait, I'll go with Sister A." ”

Concubine Hui groaned, and finally said yes and stood up.

After all, it's the end of the year, and it's not good for her to find any excuse to be alone in the palace, and it's not good for the queen mother to feel that she has no bearing.

Su Jingyi saw that Concubine Hui agreed to come down, and hurriedly asked Xia Lan to change a set of headdresses for her sister to wear, it was too heavy to go to the Queen Mother's side in the morning, and if she sat for so long, her neck would definitely be tired, taking advantage of this effort, Su Jingyi hurriedly carried the clothes back to her room, carefully put them into the bottom of the suitcase she wanted to take away, and patted her heart after locking it, and hurried back.

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The Queen Mother's palace has always been lively, and the young people have gone all the way, but there are still many ladies and old ladies talking to the Queen Mother.

The queen accompanied her, quietly peeling citrus for the queen mother, she had a smile on her face, and others would respond appropriately when they said she was here.

The Queen Mother chatted for a while and patted the queen on the shoulder: "You go and gather with them, you don't have to stay here at the mourning house." ”

The queen smiled and handed the citrus to the queen mother: "The concubines serve the queen mother like this every year, and they are used to it, and they are happy in their hearts." ”

The Queen Mother is not good at saying anything, and it is like driving her, and it is not until the afternoon when the Queen Mother is about to rest that the people of Yongshou Palace will go all the way.

The queen supported the queen mother to walk to the dormitory, and after serving the queen mother to rest as before, she took people back to Fengyang Palace.

Halfway through the sedan chair, Chunmei suddenly heard the queen say, "Go and ask Ke Chang to come over." ”

Chunmei should claim that it was, slowed down the sedan chair and broke away from the team, and then turned around and went to the west courtyard in person.

Ruyi had just talked to Qinglin Qingxi here, and got a golden blessing from the Queen Mother, cleaned it and took it out for them to see, and said that if the Queen Mother enjoyed dinner in the evening, she would give them a plate to taste.

At the moment, there are still people in the west courtyard of the Yucui Palace, Concubine Ming did not come back in the morning, and was invited by Hai Chang to go directly to the imperial garden, Concubine Rong was even more indignant about Ruyi eating Fu dumplings, knowing that Ruyi wanted to return to the palace, she deliberately made a big detour to chase after Concubine Ming.

They frolicked for a while and Mama Zhao let it go, now there are eunuchs in the courtyard, there can be people guarding the pass outside, Qinglin and Qingxi take shifts, this time I heard Mama Zhao say, Qinglin went outside first, stepped out of the door and saw a girl standing under the stairs, was raising her face to smile at herself, Qinglin was excited, and went back and shouted Mama Zhao: "Mama, there are people outside." ”

Mama Zhao was shocked, and with Qinglin's words, the room was quiet.

"Slave maid go and see." Mama Zhao stabilized the minds of a few people and looked outside, they were a little overjoyed, and they forgot about the things that made people look outside, but fortunately, Mama Zhao thought about it carefully, and she didn't say anything just now, just talking about such a trivial thing as rewarding stuttering.

When I went out and saw Chunmei standing below, Mama Zhao was even more uplifted, and hurriedly stepped forward and said politely: "Miss Chunmei, forgive me, there is no one in our small courtyard in the past day, the little master is generous, summon us to laugh, and I have lost the rules for a while, the girl is not strange." ”

Although Chunmei is younger than Mama Zhao, as a first-class palace maid next to the queen, her status is much higher than Mama Zhao, she is smiling, and her tone is also kind: "The little master has been blessed today, and it is natural to be lively and lively, I just stood for a while, and it doesn't matter, but although no one comes to the door now, it may not be the case in the future, and now that the courtyard is fully staffed, Mama should still be in charge of it." ”

Mama Zhao said yes with a smile and led Chunmei inside.

Qinglin had never seen such a magnificent palace maid, even Mama Zhao was respectful, he moved to the side, almost sticking to the pillar, and waited until Mama Zhao led people in for a long time before he breathed a sigh of relief, and went to the gate of the courtyard to do an errand.

Xiangcui led Qingxi to the side, Chunmei gave Ruyi Fu a salute and explained her intentions, Xiangcui's mouth was fast, and she felt surprised: "What does the queen want to see my little master?" ”

Chunmei glanced at her, and then looked at Ruyi: "Niangniang is waiting, little master, please." ”

Ruyi bowed, she didn't wonder why the queen wanted to see her, she would naturally know when she went, she had nothing to clean up, and left Xiangcui to teach Qinglin Qingxi in the courtyard, Ruyi only took Mama Zhao and went out with Chunmei towards Fengyang Palace.

Xiangcui was not at ease, and followed to the door of the courtyard and stared at it, and the back was no longer visible, so he came back sullenly.

Qinglin looked at Xiangcui's face and was puzzled: "Why is Sister Xiangcui so unhappy?" Who is that girl? ”

Xiang Cui replied to him vaguely: "The queen's side." ”

Qinglin opened his eyes: "Is it the aunt next to the queen's mother?" Personally invite our master? ”

Xiang Cui heard that his tone was wrong, and raised her hand to knock on the door of his head: "What kind of good thing should you be!" ”

Qinglin covered his head and said sneeringly: "I don't understand, my sister will tell me more, so that I don't have to say the wrong thing in front of the little master." ”

Xiang Cui sighed: "There are so many noble masters in the palace, which one is not more blessed than our little master?" It's just that our little master has eaten the lucky dumplings, and you are happy to replace them? ”

Qinglin scratched his head and thought about it: "That... Isn't that something that can't be helped? ”

"Others don't think so." Xiangcui sighed, "Okay, okay, you should be on an errand, I'll take Qingxi to the back kitchen." ”

Then he left the gate of the courtyard and went inside.

Mama Zhao helped Ruyi to Fengyang Palace, Chunmei led the way in front, and she didn't mean to talk to Ruyi.

There is a long distance from Yucui Palace to Fengyang Palace, Mama Zhao glanced at Chunmei several times, and got close to Ruyi: "The slave maid thinks, it may not be a bad thing for the queen to be summoned at this juncture, in the end, the queen is virtuous, and she is still worried about the queen mother and the emperor's intentions." ”

Ruyi bowed his head, but he didn't seem particularly worried.

After arriving at Fengyang Palace, Ruyi stood under the corridor as usual and waited for the transmission, Chunmei walked up the stairs and turned sideways, and said softly: "The little master just goes in with the slave and maid, and the mother is waiting." ”

Ruyi didn't stand under the porch anymore and waited, and followed Chunmei in.

The queen was holding Yuelang to read at this time, the brush was still too long for Yuelang now, she couldn't hold it, so she took two hairpins, and the mother and daughter were scratching and writing on the table, laughing constantly.

After Ruyi came in, the queen just raised her eyes casually, smiled and asked her to sit down for a while.

Mama Zhao took off the shawl for Ruyi and hung it up, and when she turned around to her, she saw Ruyi looking at Yuelang, and she didn't notice the gentleness of her eyes.

Speaking of which, this New Year's Festival also glanced at the four princes from afar, and Concubine Hui didn't take them out later, and she couldn't see it if she wanted to.

Ruyi didn't even dare to mention in front of Jingchen that she hadn't named the four princes yet, before she spoke for her sister, she let her sister invite the disaster, she didn't want to stimulate Hui Guifei anymore, the child was still so young, at least for Hui Guifei now, the four princes were her only chance and salvation, and she would plan for the four princes.

It's just that the scene of mother-daughter love like the queen and Princess Yuelang is afraid that it won't be seen.

After teaching the words on the jade tablets made in her hand, the queen hugged Yuelang and kissed her, praised her for being smart and reading well, and waited for Aunt Liangpei's class, and then read it to the imperial grandmother.

Yuelang giggled and said okay, the queen mother is happy, and she is naturally happy.

After hugging for a while, the queen asked Chunmei to take Yuelang out, and she had said that she would go to bed after reading with her, otherwise she would not be energetic when watching fireworks at night.

The queen's gaze followed Yuelang far away before retracting it, she put the hairpin on the table aside, and said softly: "I told you to wait for a long time." ”

Ruyi's eyes were gentle: "Princess Yuelang is cute, and the concubine likes it very much from a distance." ”

The queen lowered her eyes and chatted seemingly casually: "Having children by her side is always lively, and the days are as if there is hope, just thinking that she can be well, and she is safe." ”

"The queen teaches the princess very well, and no one will dislike the princess." Ruyi's tone is sincere, hoping that Yuelang can really comfort the queen by her side, no matter what, the queen has always maintained her bearing as a middle palace, and has never done anything excessive to her, the matter of red leaves, Ruyi also believes that the queen is not intentional.

But when the queen heard her words, she only smiled faintly, and didn't seem to feel any relief.

Probably I've heard too much of this.

No matter how likable a princess is, what can she do?

After all, you still have to get married.

The queen was silent for a moment before laughing: "Look at this palace, patronizing and talking about yourself, there is actually nothing else to do when I called you here, I just want to talk to you, and I haven't been busy during this time." ”

Speaking of this, the queen suddenly changed her words: "The palace has seen the archives, and the emperor has rarely entered the harem recently. ”

Listening to the queen talk about the bed, Ruyi's nerves tensed a little: "The concubines are all covered with the blessings of the queen mother and the emperor, and they are just lucky." ”

The queen looked at her and smiled softly: "You don't have to be nervous about anything, the palace is just chatting with you, the queen mother said earlier, the heirs in the palace are thin, the emperor has always been busy with court politics, concentrating on governing the country, and he can't say that he is particularly concerned about the harem concubines, but recently the queen mother and the palace have felt that the emperor is a little bit of thought about you, although the queen mother is different from what we say, but in my heart I am looking forward to more children in the palace, although the emperor is still young, but he can't stand the consumption of so much year after year, the palace thought, Since the emperor is interested in you now, you should also be attentive to yourself, and having a pregnancy earlier makes the queen mother happy and happy, so as not to live up to the queen mother's kindness to you. ”

Ruyi was stunned for a moment, a little cramped and uneasy, the queen said enthusiastically, but Ruyi always felt strange when she listened: "Pregnancy is not something that the concubine can control, when there is, the concubine is naturally happy, but if not, the concubine is not too anxious to ask for something." ”

The queen bowed: "It's good that you can think like this, how many people in the palace are too anxious, but they haven't been delayed, these things all pay attention to a fate, but God doesn't give another say, whether you can keep the emperor or not, it's your own business." ”

Ruyi smiled silently, it was not easy to accept the queen's words, so she simply took the teacup and drank it, thinking about how to expose this talk.

It's a pity that the queen just wants to say this, of course she can see the ambiguity of Ruyi, but she still has to say: "It's just that although the children in the palace are noble, they are expensive and easy to break, and their fate is very ill-fated, which makes people sigh. As she spoke, the queen waved her hand again, "Look at me, talking nonsense to you, don't take it to heart, this palace has a little emotion about itself, but if you are pregnant in the future, remember to be careful in everything." ”

After a pause in the movement of Ruyi's hand, he slowly put down the teacup and wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief.

The queen also paused for a moment, and did not continue to talk about the child, but looked out the window, and after half a sound, reached out and tore off a leaf on the windowsill.

"There are many wild flowers and plants in the palace, and when you pay attention to the spring, under the eaves, next to the big trees, always grow the most lush, vibrant, it can be seen that the flowers and plants should also grow in the right place, if there is no eaves and big trees to shelter from the wind and rain, I am afraid that it has already been blown and folded in the night." The queen smiled lightly, and kept looking at Ruyi when she said this, "There are many trees and eaves in this palace, but some of them look luxurious, but they are not strong. ”

Ruyi was silent and clenched the embroidered handkerchief in her hand, and she understood the queen's awakening and beating.

It's not easy to get pregnant, it's not easy to give birth safely, and I want to raise the child safely. It's harder.

Flowers and plants like her, now that they are being seen, it is best to keep their eyes open and find a good tree to shelter, this is the olive branch of the queen, and it is also the temptation and opportunity of the queen.

Ruyi raised her eyes and met the queen's eyes, she stood up, walked to the queen's side, and held the tea cup and offered it.

The queen smiled with satisfaction and took it.

After leaving Fengyang Palace and going out, Mama Zhao asked Ruyi anxiously: "The little lord has surrendered to the queen?" ”

Ruyi's eyes were clear, and he glanced sideways at the Fengyang Palace behind him, and then said softly: "In this palace, I only surrender to the emperor, and only do my filial piety to the queen mother, Mama Zhao, I see the right way to go, and I won't be wrong." ”