Chapter 42: Confrontation
"How could Li Shenlan be pregnant!"
In Shoukang Palace, the Queen Mother almost said this sentence to Yin Chen in anger, for her, Li Shenlan should not be pregnant.
"What you want to do is that you keep saying and doing, let the mourning family leave it alone, but look at the current situation!"
Yin Chen has been sitting there since he arrived at Shoukang Palace, and his brows are about to wrinkle. The palace people hurriedly stepped forward and changed another cup of tea for him, which was already the fifth cup that Yin Chen had come to drink.
"What does the emperor think?"
"Knock it out! This kid can't stay! ”
The Queen Mother did not hesitate at all, Li Shenlan's child came unexpectedly, this should not be a mistake that Yin Chen would make.
"Huang Eniang, is this asking me to kill my own child again?"
Yin Chen's face was very bad, he had been the emperor for so many years, and there were not a series of pregnancies in the harem. It's just that these children were either killed or killed by their own hands.
So the most ironic thing now is that there is only one child with He'an.
"This child itself should not exist, and the mourning family asked you to arrange people into her palace at the beginning. You should be good at talking, but in fact, you forgot everything except Shoukang Palace!
Chen'er, Daqi has already produced a first emperor, and there must be no second one.
Taiwei's mind is clear in your heart, if it is really just to investigate Li Mingjin's affairs, it is impossible to do so much, and still plant so many eyeliners in the palace. ”
Yes, Li Yunshan's current methods are on par with Dong Situ back then.
"The child is innocent, in case it is a princess......"
"Do you want to gamble with the rivers and mountains of Daqi!"
The Queen Mother slapped the table angrily, knowing that Yin Chen would soften her heart and should not have spared Li Shenlan's life in the first place.
"If you can't do it, the mourning family will do it for you......"
In fact, the first time she got Li Shenlan pregnant, the Queen Mother thought about everything. Unexpectedly, Yin Chen didn't wait for her to finish, so he spoke negative and resolutely.
"Wait, wait......"
"Emperor!"
The Queen Mother already hates iron but not steel, once Li Shenlan gives birth to the prince, the royal family and the Taiwei Mansion have an inseparable relationship. Now Li Yunshan's thoughts have been revealed, and the previous dynasty had coerced the princes of the Son of Heaven, and she didn't dare to gamble.
"I don't have my permission, please don't touch her."
After finishing speaking, Yin Chen didn't wait for the Queen Mother to say anything, and walked out of Shoukang Palace with his feet. The only one who left the Queen Mother there was angry, and she couldn't wait to kill Li Shenlan with her own hands to protect the country.
Besides, Li Shenlan, since she was pregnant, the queen and Concubine Xiang ran to Yongfu Palace almost every day. In their words, it is very easy to think about them more during pregnancy, and they can spend more time with her, so as to spend their days.
However, Li Shenlan herself didn't pay so much attention to it, and this kid came unexpectedly, let alone at the right time.
The sachet was locked in a brocade box by Li Shenlan, and she had no way to verify the death of the second elder with Yin Chen. You can't take the sachet and ask directly, which also makes Li Shenlan bored all the time, and even Yin Chenlai is faint.
"I looked at Concubine Liang when she was pregnant with He'an, her fat face was round, how do you feel that you are not fat but thin."
Concubine Xiang is the most concerned, and she has been sending things to Yongfu Palace every day since she knew it. What kind of ejiao paste, milk tea is good for pregnant women, in short, she found it and entered Yongfu Palace.
"I'm afraid that I just had morning sickness, I see that you have eaten less, and there is still black green under the eyes, can't you sleep well at night?"
The queen is an experienced person, so she naturally knows the hardships of pregnant women in the first three months.
"It's okay, maybe it's not the reason I'm not used to it, I used to like dishes with stimulating tastes, but now I seem to feel light about everything I eat. At night, I have a terrible nausea and often can't sleep soundly. ”
I was thinking about the second elder, but Li Shenlan still took care of the child, and she remembered the points of attention that the queen said on weekdays, for fear of losing the child.
"I'll ask Xiyan to bring you the buckwheat embroidered pillow in the palace in a while, and that one has a calming effect when you sleep. If the mother does not sleep well, the child will naturally not feel well. ”
"Thank you, mother."
The two sat down again, and when they saw that it was almost dark, they got up and went back to the palace.
On the way, Concubine Xiang changed her original excitement, and her face looked worried.
"What's wrong?" The queen asked carefully.
"There's something I need you to do."
"What?" Concubine Xiang rarely asks for the queen, which makes her inevitably face it up.
Concubine Xiang didn't answer, but looked around and saw that there was no one, so she replied: "Just now I followed Bang Chun to the back kitchen to get a snack, and I saw that the bag that was supposed to be red bean flour tasted wrong......
"It's musk."
The queen barely hesitated, and said in an affirmative tone.
"Yes, we know in our hearts who did it, and it will be useless for me to say it......"
"I know, I'll go to him tomorrow. What about that thing? Can you put it away? ”
Fortunately, Li Shenlan has never liked to eat red beans, and because of the great loss of appetite due to pregnancy, she hasn't had time to eat that thing.
The next day, Yin Chen has been staying in the Heart Cultivation Hall since he left the court.
If he went back to accompany Li Shenlan as usual, not to mention that Li Shenlan still has a body. But the strange thing is that Yin Chen seems to be hiding from Li Shenlan for a while, and Yongfu Palace is not going, and the sign is not overturned.
In addition to going to the Queen Mother's palace every day to ask for peace, Yin Chen can be regarded as not entering the harem for half a step.
"Your Majesty, the queen asks to see you."
Since that incident, the queen has rarely come to the Heart Cultivation Palace to find Yin Chen, and unless she sends her to dine together, the two will not see each other a few times on weekdays.
"The concubines ask the emperor for peace, and the emperor is blessed with peace."
"Hurry up."
When Yin Chen hit the queen and came in, he put down the fold, and after seeing the ceremony, he hurriedly gave a seat and asked people to serve hot tea.
"Why did you think of coming to the Heart Cultivation Hall to find me?"
The queen was still gentle and calm, and when she heard this, she smiled and took a sip of tea. The smell was still the same as the original, which made the queen pause.
Yin Chen naturally understood what the queen meant, and hurriedly raised his voice to let the minions in the room retreat.
"Lan Jieyu has been happy for a few days since she found out, and the emperor doesn't consider being promoted?"
"The harem is all in your charge, if you want to promote her, you can make your own orders." Yin Chen almost didn't think about it, and said it casually.
The queen saw it in her eyes, and she didn't see a disappointed look on her face.
"So the emperor didn't care about this at all, so it doesn't matter if the child lives or dies, right?"
The words fell, and the entire Heart Cultivation Hall was silent at all. Yin Chen looked at the queen quietly, and the queen did look back at him with a disappointed face.
"Why do you say that?"
The queen did not speak, but took out a paper bag from her sleeve and placed it on the table. Yin Chen took it with a blank face, opened it and narrowed his eyes dangerously.
"This was discovered by Ah Luo in the ingredients in Lan Jieyu's kitchen, Ah Luo knows pharmacology, you know."
That thing was nothing else, it was the pack of musk powder that Concubine Xiang found the day before. Musk is a sharp weapon for beating tires, not to mention an hour or two after contact, it will be red almost instantly.
"Is that you?"
"It's not!"
Yin Chen replied in the affirmative, for fear that the queen would not believe her, and she looked up squarely, with firm eyes.
And the queen obviously sighed, and then faintly replied with a sentence that could almost condemn the crime of killing the head:
"That's the Queen Mother."
"Pay attention to the words." Yin Chen reminded.
Even though he is often dissatisfied with the Queen Mother's arrangement, the Queen Mother is the Queen Mother after all, and she is his biological mother.
The queen really didn't care, her tone was still light, if it weren't for the anger on her face, she couldn't hide it, but she was afraid that others would really think that she didn't care.
"The concubine knows it in her heart, and the emperor understands it even more. But the emperor is innocent. The emperor has been on the throne for ten years, but so far he has only one child, is it true that the so-called heir is not important to the emperor at all? ”
After saying that, the queen's voice became obviously choked. Yin Chen's original wrinkled every day, almost twisted into a twist at this moment, looking at the queen's eyes were red, but he didn't know what to say.
"If the emperor didn't want this child in the first place, Shen Lan wouldn't have been pregnant. Now that you have an idea, why not keep it firm? ”
Seeing that Yin Chen was still silent, the queen simply asked:
"The emperor has lost a princess...... Do you want to lose a second one? ”
With these words, tears welled up in his eyes. Like a string of pearl necklaces scattered, the queen cried silently, and Yin Chen looked worried.
"I didn't think about touching her......"
The queen looked at her husband with some surprise, obviously she didn't expect Yin Chen to have this in mind.
"Now that she has it, she won't be allowed to leave easily. Since this incident has not caused a tragedy, it should be treated as if it never happened, and I will tell her from the Queen Mother's side. As for you...... Don't be too sad. ”
"The emperor said so, and the concubines were relieved, and the concubines retired."
The queen returned to her old expression, as if nothing had happened.
Yin Chen looked at the back of the queen leaving, and suddenly fell back into the chair as if he had lost gravity. A sense of powerlessness surrounded him, and familiarity surrounded him.
After a long time, Yin Chen sat up straight and took out the holy decree and wrote hard......
When the queen returned to Changle Palace, she kept herself in the house, and she didn't let Xiyan and them in until the night.
It was dark in the room, and she didn't bother to light the light. It seems that if you just sit quietly, you will go back in time, back to that time when you were just pregnant.
"Niangniang, Gonggong Hou just came to tell the Sixth Palace, and the Li family of Jin Yongfu Palace is Zhaoyi."
It's a leapfrog promotion again.
The queen sat on the ground, looking at the glimmer of moonlight coming in from outside, and suddenly laughed weakly.
He always says that the country is above all else, but in the end, is there really not a trace of heartbeat? If not, Li Shenlan would have no children at all now......
As if remembering something, the queen slowly got up and groped her way in the darkness to the bed. The bedside drawer was expertly opened, and an old, somewhat broken rattle was taken out of it.
The queen sat on the ground, shaking a rattle. In the sound of banging, a children's song with a crying voice floated out of Changle Palace.
"Thousands of miles of grass, grass green, ten days, no ......"
This night, Yin Chen turned over Wang Jun'er's sign for the first time.
He was very annoyed, and he always felt ashamed of Li Shenlan because of the second elder of the Song family. And since Li Shenlan returned to the palace, she has always taken advantage of being pregnant and feeling unwell, and she is indifferent to herself.
Over time, Yin Chen was reluctant to go to Yongfu Palace. Seeing that he hadn't entered the harem for almost a month, the Queen Mother urged the people in the worship room to also remind. Yin Chen simply flipped one over.
Listen to Takemiya.
Since the miscarriage on that day, Yin Chen has never entered his palace again. Hearing that the people in the Jingshifang came to congratulate, Wang Jun'er was so happy that she couldn't find the north.
"Change that for that, this one is too red."
In front of the dressing table, Wang Jun'er had been dressed up for almost half an hour, and seeing that Yin Chen was coming, Wang Jun'er was in a hurry.
"Don't worry, master, we're already very good-looking."
"I knew that without Li Shenlan, the emperor would always be worried about me."
Wang Jun'er always blames Li Shenlan, so it's no wonder she thinks so. I think that Yin Chen remembered other places besides Yongfu Palace before.
"That's it, the slave maid heard that Lan Zhaoyi didn't know how to talk recently, and she didn't like to talk much if she didn't go back to the emperor."
"Heh, it's hypocritical to be pregnant. Go with her, I want to see if she is hypocritical and the emperor can like her later. ”
Cuiyue hurriedly responded, saying that from Wang Jun'er and Li Shenlan, Lu Xin entered the cold palace, and the days of listening to the bamboo palace are getting better and better.
"But the master, Lan Zhaoyi's child ......"
Hearing this, Wang Jun'er looked in the mirror for a moment, which was also her most depressed and anxious. Li Shenlan killed her child, but now she is pregnant, how can she not be angry.
"The Queen Mother only let me change the red bean flour, and there is no certainty as to the success or failure of the matter. The Queen Mother didn't speak again, so it was better not to do it. ”
Wang Jun'er put it bluntly, he has a thief's heart but no thief's courage, didn't Lu Xin just don't listen to the queen mother's wishes and do it? As a result, I don't know whether I am dead or alive in the cold palace now.
Just thinking about it, Gonggong Hou sang and cheered outside, and remembered that Yin Chen was here.
"Concubine to the emperor, please be safe!"
"Get up."
Yin Chen was very upset, and the information from the front line made Zhao Li's injuries more and more serious. The imperial doctor also said in the past that he was afraid that his life was in danger, Yin Chen was annoyed for a day, and he didn't dare to tell Concubine Xiang immediately.
"The emperor looks very tired, and the concubine asked the emperor to taste the ginseng soup."
"I have a heart."
Xu was indifferent by Li Shenlan, Wang Jun'er was so considerate and gentle that Yin Chen felt a lot more relaxed.
"There were a lot of things in the previous dynasty, and the harem didn't let me worry."
"The emperor is busy working hard, and the concubines and concubines in the harem naturally have to be obedient, so as not to worry the emperor......"
"You have a kind temperament and a delicate mind. Shen Lan didn't know if it was because of her bad mind during pregnancy, and her temper was also very big. ”
Wang Jun'er didn't expect Yin Chen to talk about Li Shenlan in front of her, and hammered Yin Chen's shoulder, and her heart was already full of jealousy.
Therefore, for Yin Chen, if it weren't for Li Shenlan's pregnancy and can't sleep, I'm afraid that I won't come here today......
Although she thought so in her heart, she didn't dare to show clues on her face, seeing that the time was almost up, Wang Jun'er reminded softly that it was time to rest.
"No, I wanted to accompany you well, but I suddenly remembered that there was something going on in the previous dynasty. You rest earlier, and I'll go back to the Heart Nourishing Hall first. ”
"Your Majesty! The Imperial ......"