After Ying'e lifted the grounding, everything was as usual in Jiafu Palace, except for Fang Geng who continued to follow Qiyu, the rest of the palace maids and eunuchs came back from everywhere, and the middle palace returned to its former atmosphere. And Concubine Zheng has been depressed since Yuan Zizhi's death, and her body is getting worse day by day, the weather is getting colder and she is infected with cough disease, Ying'e was anxious when she learned about it, and woke up in the morning to see that Yuan Ziyou had already left, so she got up and freshened up, and took Aunt Qiu to Taihua Hall to ask Concubine Zheng for peace.

Ying'e walked into Concubine Zheng's dormitory under the guidance of Yueru, Qihua was serving Concubine Zheng's medicine, Qihua saw Ying'e hurriedly got up, and said resignedly, "The royal maid Ru Qihua greeted the queen's mother, Niangniang is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

Concubine Zheng looked at Qi Wan's trembling whole body, her eyes were pitiful with tears, she couldn't bear it, and she opened her mouth and persuaded directly, "Queen, I think that this girl Qi Yu has served you for so many years, and she has shared weal and woe with you, you can forgive her this time, her heart for the emperor is the same as yours." Besides, the emperor is also thinking about the friendship of his father, and he has exempted her from the status of a slave, and she will stay in the Taihua Hall of the mourning family in the future, and she will not annoy the queen. ”

Ying'e heard Concubine Zheng's partiality, since last night, Yuan Ziyou's infinite warmth for her has made her feel that she is too jealous of Qihua, and now seeing Concubine Zheng like this, she found a step for everyone, "The concubine heard that the concubine was not in good health, so she thought about coming to serve the concubine, and she was relieved to see that the concubine was in the concubine." After the emperor and his concubines got married, the harem has been empty, and the concubines also thought that they should consider the reproduction of the emperor's heirs, and choose some talented and virtuous daughters to fill the harem. The royal maid Ru has been serving the concubines for a long time, she is talented and good-looking, and her temperament is gentle, and the concubines are very happy, and she will persuade the emperor to be wet with rain and dew. After speaking, he stepped forward to help Qi Wan up, and said, "I have always wanted to find a good home for you before, but now that you have it, in the future, you and the palace will naturally work together to serve the emperor well, and there will be no more mustard in your heart." ”

Qi Wan replied softly, "Yes, Queen Mother." ”

Concubine Zheng said with satisfaction, "The harem should live in harmony, and the queen really knows the general situation and is a model for the middle palace." Now that the royal maid Ru can no longer serve the queen, the mourning family asked Yueru to arrange a personal palace maid for the queen again, can the queen be satisfied? ”

Ying'e looked at Qihua standing in front of her, she didn't feel funny in her heart, and replied respectfully, "It's good that the concubine has Aunt Qiu to serve now, although Aunt Qiu doesn't talk much, but she does things quickly, which makes the concubine very relieved." Ying'e accentuated the tone of the four words "very relieved" at the end, so that Qihua knew that although she forgave her, she would never believe her again.

Concubine Zheng also heard the meaning of the words, she suddenly wheezed and coughed, Qiyu hurriedly stepped forward to pat her on the back, Yueru said to Ying'e, "Queen Mother, the concubine's cough disease needs to be recuperated the most, this god who has worked for a long time, the queen's filial piety, the concubine already knows." The queen should go back to the palace first, there are Ru maids and slaves to serve. ”

Ying'e saw that the concubine was also coughing, and gently waved her hand to let her retreat, so she performed the palace ceremony and took Aunt Qiu to withdraw.

Concubine Zheng estimated that Ying'e was out of the palace, so she stroked her chest and sat up, "Okay, the mourning family is not so weak." Qihua, you sit beside the mourning family, and the mourning family still has to ask you a few words. ”

Yue Ruzao saw that the concubine was pretending to be coughing and wanted to take Ying'e away, looking at Qi Wan's face without knowing the truth, and said with a smile, "The queen is gone, the concubine's cough will be cured, and the slave will go to the Tai Hospital to get the decoction first, and then let Imperial Doctor Zhao write this medical case." After speaking, he withdrew from the palace at the signal of Concubine Zheng.

Concubine Zheng took Qihua's hand and said, "You are the niece of the mourning family, the mourning family understands your heart for the emperor, if it weren't for the mourning family's pretending to be sick, the emperor would not accept you even if he felt indebted to you." Zizhi's hatred, the mourning family can't forget it for a moment, every time the mourning family sees Er Zhu Ying'e, they seem to see Zizhi covered in blood, dead and blind, and the mourning family can't wait to break her body into thousands of pieces. If it weren't for her father, who couldn't even move the emperor, how could the mourning family leave her in the palace to be an eyesore. But today, the mourning family heard the laundry maid of Jiafu Hall say that the emperor already wants to give her a child, and it seems that the emperor's heart is always in that girl. But don't worry, she won't get pregnant so easily, so you have to hurry up and go to the Taiji Hall to walk around more, so that the emperor can spoil you as soon as possible, you know? ”

Qi Wan nodded, "Qi Wan knows, aunt, the day I saw the emperor in the palace, I regarded him as the person of my dreams, I never thought that I would have the opportunity to be a concubine." Thank you for everything your aunt has done for me, if you hadn't told the emperor about the marriage contract, Qihua wouldn't have been able to make her dream come true. ”

Concubine Zheng smiled, "Silly girl, the marriage contract is fake, the prince looked down on your father the most, although he later opposed Gao Zhao and died, the prince had no intention of befriending him at all." If the mourning family and your mother were not poor when they were young, my father and mother would not have sold my two sisters. During the tossing and turning, one of our two sisters made a concubine for the prince of Pengcheng, and the other made a partial house for your father. Unexpectedly, the fate of our two sisters and husbands was the same, they both died at the hands of that traitor. The princess died of heartbreak because of the death of the prince within a few years, and the mourning family raised these children of the prince. ”

When Qi Yu heard the truth, she was a little disappointed and a little worried, "If the emperor knows the truth one day, will it be, will it..."

"No, the old people in the palace are dead and fleeing, and there is only this month left if she used to serve the princess, and the mourning family is kind to her. After the Heyin Incident, Qingwei, a subordinate of Erzhu Zhao, led his troops to rush into the palace, arrested anyone he saw, and was killed if he resisted. Suffering those beautiful maids in the palace, they were raped on the spot in broad daylight, and the cry, screams, and lewd laughter of the thieves that day will never be forgotten by the mourning family in this life. The mourning family was scared at the time, thinking that they would not dare to trespass into the princess's bedroom, so they hid it in the closet. But unexpectedly, this Qingwei actually dragged Yueru into the dormitory to do misdeeds, and the mourning family couldn't bear to hear Yueru's cry, so he quietly came out of the cabinet, raised the vase and smashed the prostitute to save Yueru. Just when we didn't know where else to hide, fortunately, Murong Shaozong entered the mansion to control the situation, and the mourning family knew that Ziyou was the emperor and the palace was temporarily safe. Yueru hated Er Zhurong to the core, and the same was true for the queen, how could she let the emperor know the truth? ”

Qi Wan looked at Concubine Zheng's confident appearance, her heart was put down, and she went up to rub Concubine Zheng's shoulders with filial piety, "It's just that Aunt Zheng is bitter, and she has to pretend to have a cough, Qi Wan will stew a Sydney bird's nest cup for you in a while, which will clear your lungs and nourish your face." ”

Concubine Zheng smiled lovingly at Qi Wan, "Good, remember that in the future, even when there are only the two of us, you can't call Aunt Mourning, Er Zhurong has many ears and eyes, so be careful." ”

Qi Wan hurriedly said, "Yes, concubine, the concubine remembers." ”

And Ying'e, who didn't know anything about this, was still worried about Concubine Zheng's condition, Aunt Qiu saw that she was so worried, she wanted to stop talking, and only quietly listened to Ying'e's chatter, "The hospital has been treating for so long and is still helpless about the concubine's condition, it can't go on like this, the palace wants to write a letter to her mother, so that she can find a good doctor and send it to the palace." ”

Aunt Qiu saw Ying'e waiting for her response expectantly, so she nodded, "Yes." ”

"Since you think so too, this palace will go to report to the emperor and ask the emperor to show me." After Ying'e finished speaking, she was about to go to the Taiji Hall.

At this time, Aunt Qiu said a lot of words for the first time, "Queen, forgive the slave and maid for talking too much, the concubine is old, and the autumn is cold, so the condition is repeated, and the emperor's concern for the mother will know it." ”

Ying'e was surprised and said, "Aunt Qiu, this is the first time you have said such a big thing to this palace, and this palace thought that you had a mouth disease. It turns out that you are not only clear in your thinking, but also concise and to the point. Can this palace ask you, why did you only have a few words about this palace before, and cherish words like gold? ”

Aunt Qiu replied, "The slave maid is an old man in the palace, and the emperor arranged for the slave to serve the maid because he saw that the slave maid had few words, so the slave maid can't talk much." Niangniang, let's go back to the palace first. Then he shut up and said no more.

Ying'e originally had some respect for her, but now seeing that she didn't want to say more, she didn't ask more, and followed her back to the palace. After thinking about it for a long time, I still wrote a letter, and asked Aunt Qiu to arrange for someone to send it after handing it to Yuan Ziyou. Yuan Ziyou saw that this letter was written to Princess Beixiang, the letter was full of love and happiness between husband and wife, and asked his mother to advise his father to do his best to assist him. Yuan Ziyou couldn't help but wet his eyes when he looked at it, he handed over the letter to Zhang Haosong to send it out, and it was just because of this reason that Yuan Ziyou prepared two gifts and sent them to Jinyang, one for Princess Beixiang and one for his favorite concubine Gu Ronghua.

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The autumn in Jinyang City is dry, the autumn leaves in that place are yellow, and there is a rustling sound when you step on it gently, Gu Ronghua always likes to fade the hairpin and jade pendant on every lonely day, listen quietly, the steps are light, occasionally relax your sleeves, a whirl, and reminisce about the dance steps.

Since the day she became Gu Ronghua, the "Fire Phoenix Dance" that she had practiced since childhood completely disappeared from the folk, and then there were many rumors about Yanzi among the people, some said that she was taken by Emperor Liang and returned to the harem, some said that she was a monk in Yingluo Temple, and some said that she had been stabbed to death by Yuan Yong with a sword on the day Luoyang City was broken. Occasionally, I met a few people who told rumors about her, and when they were in good spirits, they also invited people to tell them to themselves like storytellers, as if listening to the story of an irrelevant person, and applauded at the highlights, maybe for her, maybe it was better to die. It has been three months since Gao Huan gave Er Zhurong, and every night she has to talk love words to the person she hates, do provocative things, and even show all kinds of tenderness. When sharing the same bed, Er Zhurong will call out the name of "Zhen'er" when he intersects because his eyebrows and eyes are a bit like Empress Dowager Hu. She didn't care, because this was the way she could stay with Er Zhurong and do everything he wanted Yuan Ziyou to do. Every time after the incident, she felt that she was extremely dirty, and asked her subordinates to pick a large number of flower petals to bathe, just wanting to get rid of the smell of Erzhurong on her body. Fortunately, Princess Beixiang is not a jealous person, although she has a grudge against her husband, but she also shows a decent bearing, and she has been familiar with their respective temperaments for a long time, and respects each other, so that her life is not sad. Erzhu Qingjiao is the same age as herself, and occasionally talks, and gradually treats her as a second mother, with great courtesy. It's just that Er Zhu Zhao coveted her beauty earlier, but when he sent her to Gaoyang Palace, he always covered her face with a veil, so although Er Zhu Zhao didn't recognize her, every time he saw her, he still looked obscene and salivated, which made her nauseous, and she could only retreat.

Yuncui, the maid next to her, was given to her by Yuan Ziyou, not only clever and skillful, but also her ears always echoed Yuan Ziyou's gentle words, "Yanzi, I always remember the first time I saw you dance in Gaoyang Palace, you were dressed in red, with gold leaf and sideburns, listening to the drums and dancing, and the song came out from the bottom of the fan." On that day, you were delicate and eyebrows, smiling, and my heart was swaying, your beauty did not belong to me before, and now it still can't belong to me. The matter of the night dance of the Yellow River has been seen through by Gao Huan, and I have no choice but to be threatened by others, but don't worry, I will come to pick you up one day. Yun Cui is an assassin I personally trained back then, and you can protect you when you bring it to Jinyang, and I hope you will cherish it more. ”

Gu Ronghua thought of the emotion, and couldn't help but burst into tears, it happened that Yun Cui came back with the gift that Yuan Ziyou had given to Gu Ronghua, and when she saw her master crying, she understood in her heart. She gently put down the gift, took out a jasper lotus hairpin from the hairpin jewelry, the hairpin is made of gold, the pearl is the spike, elegant atmosphere, and handed it to Rong Hua, "This is given by the emperor, and the emperor is still worried about his wife." ”

Gu Ronghua held the hosta tightly and said to Yun Cui excitedly, "The emperor still remembers me, and I still remember that when I was in the Gaoyang Palace, I couldn't bear to be a plaything every day, and I was disheartened and wanted to jump into the lake." At that time, the emperor, who had just come to the palace for a banquet, happened to see me, and he pointed to the lotus flower in the pond and said to me, in his eyes I am as noble as the lotus flower, and if I wear a pale pink dress, I will definitely float like a fairy. From then on, I only wore pink. ”

"Madame's skin is white and beautiful, and the pink color is elegant, which is most suitable for Madame's temperament, and the emperor really has vision. Why doesn't the emperor remember Madame, doesn't he still miss Madame? This jade lotus hairpin, not only says that the lady's temperament is like a lotus, you look carefully at this is a lotus head. Yun Cui pointed to the lotus flower on the hairpin for Gu Ronghua to see.

Gu Ronghua quickly wiped away his tears and looked carefully, this hosta was indeed carved with two lotus flowers facing back, so when he put it on, it was the same flower ornament whether he looked at it from the front or the back. "Yes, it's really, quick, Yuncui, give me a hairpin."

Yun Cui looked at Gu Ronghua's impatience, and was also happy for her, helped her to sit in front of the makeup, and gave her a hairpin on the right side of the bun.

Gu Ronghua looked at the hosta in the mirror, looking left and right is always not enough, and asked in his heart, "Your Majesty, do you look good at Ronghua?" ”