Chapter 111: Reminiscing about the Past
The emperor stopped writing and glanced at Xue Gui, with no clear meaning in his eyes.
Xue Gui was excited, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "The slave has a lot of mouths, ask the emperor for forgiveness!" ”
Xue Gui sweated on his forehead, and he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it, and after a while, he heard a voice above his head: "Get up." ”
Only then did he get up, wiped his sweat, no longer mentioned the matter, and concentrated on serving the emperor's pen and ink.
Who knows, I don't know how long it took, I heard the emperor say: "Those women in the palace, there are many ill-intentioned and bold ones, hmph, they think I don't know!" But it's not time to clean them up. ”
The emperor lit the inkstone with a brush, and Xue Gui immediately raised his hand to polish the ink.
"No matter how careful Xiyue Wanhe is, she is just a palace maid, not as good as the queen, the master of the middle palace, others dare not make a move." After saying this, the emperor dipped the brush in the polished ink, removed the excess ink on the tip of his nose, and continued to read without speaking.
"The emperor is wise!" Xue Gui was shocked, the emperor could explain so much, it was already a great gift.
Xue Gui has been with the emperor since he was a child, and he knows that the emperor is deeply thoughtful, and he knows the movements of the harem, but he does not act, mostly because the harem of the court is widely implicated.
Many people in the court are the henchmen of the queen mother, and the emperor is ambitious, and he is already planning step by step, waiting for the day when his wings will be full.
The matter of the queen taking Feng Jingyuan spread all over the harem overnight, and the concubines gave white eyes in their respective palaces, which did not know the queen's thoughts, so they had been in the palace for so many years.
However, seeing that the queen had been picking up the little prince for three days, the emperor had not made a trip, so he did not act, and only gloated in his own house.
"What's the matter, cry cry cry, you know crying in a day!" The queen looked at Feng Jingyuan in her grandmother's arms and cried heartbreakingly, and her heart was irritable.
It's been three days, and the emperor didn't come to say anything, Feng Jingyuan could only cry, and the crying person was upset, "Is it that you dog slaves didn't take good care of the little prince, so he kept crying!" ”
The queen was angry in her heart, so she could only take people out.
"The queen mother is Mingjian, even if the slaves and maids die, they don't dare to be disrespectful to the little prince." Mama was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, still holding the little prince in her arms.
"Okay, okay, think of a way for Bengong, how can I stop him crying, Bengong makes him cry in his heart, the fire is burning!"
The queen stepped forward and took Feng Jingyuan from Mama's hand, patted him on the back, and tried to appease him, but who knows, not only did it not ease, but Feng Jingyuan cried even more fiercely after looking at the queen with his head turned his head.
"Oops, stop crying!"
The queen kept patting Feng Jingyuan, and felt that she was too loud just now, for fear of scaring him, so she slowed down her voice and continued to coax: "Good, don't cry, don't cry." "But it's still useless.
Tinglan saw it clearly on the side, and every time the little prince turned his head to look at people, he would cry even more fiercely, and stepped forward and said: "Queen Mother, the slave and maid are watching, the little prince is afraid that he will recognize people, and if he looks at his face, he will cry very much if he is not familiar with it." ”
The queen's brows were furrowed, but no, now Feng Jingyuan has been four months, and it is time to recognize people.
Although the queen felt that Tinglan's words made some sense, she still didn't have a good temper, and glanced sideways, "Then what do you say!" Is it possible to let Hongu send it back? Isn't this a slap in the face of Hongu?! ”
"Don't worry, the queen mother, the emperor often goes to see the little prince, the little prince must recognize it, why don't you invite the emperor over, so that you can ......" The meaning of Tinglan's words couldn't be clearer.
Isn't this a good opportunity to get close to the emperor, and the queen's purpose in picking up the little prince in the first place is also the same,
The mountain is not just me, I am the mountain, since the emperor himself does not come, then invite him to come, the little prince is crying and thinking about his father, this reason The emperor will not refuse.
"Send someone to invite the emperor." The queen commanded.
Immediately, I felt that the crying voice of the little prince was also very pleasant, and I was no longer depressed in my chest.
Sure enough, the emperor arrived after a while, and when he saw Feng Jingyuan, who was crying, he directly reached out and hugged him, "Come here, father, hold it." ”
Blood is magical, as soon as the emperor took over, Feng Jingyuan gradually stopped crying, but his nose and eyes were red, and the emperor was distressed when he saw it.
"Why are you so uneasy?" The emperor sighed.
"Look, look, the emperor won't cry as soon as he hugs him, we Jingyuan miss our father, isn't it?"
The queen stepped forward to tease Feng Jingyuan in the emperor's arms as if she was affectionate, but he turned her head very facelessly and fell on the emperor's shoulder.
The queen straightened up with an embarrassed expression, smiled gracefully and gently, and sat aside, "The concubine knows that the emperor is busy with political affairs, but the concubine who is crying in Jingyuan is distressed, and today is especially powerful, so I have no choice but to invite the emperor to come over, and the emperor will forgive the sin." ”
The emperor was bowing his head and teasing Feng Jingyuan with the tassel on the Buddhist bead in his hand to catch it, but he didn't see the queen's ability to change her face instantly, and said indifferently: "It's okay, I will always come in the future." ”
Hearing this, the queen smiled happily.
Since that day, the emperor has been going to the queen's palace every three or five days to visit Feng Jingyuan, and occasionally he will stay for dinner, and the queen is very happy.
Today, the emperor is in Kunning Palace again, and the queen has prepared a table of the emperor's favorite dishes.
"Your Majesty, Jing Yuan has become more and more obedient recently, and he has been crying less, just working hard for the emperor, and he is often busy in the harem." The queen put a chopstick vinegar ball into the emperor's bowl and said thoughtfully.
"Seeing Jing Yuan, I am also happy." The emperor took a bite and felt that the taste was acceptable.
"The concubine thought, Jing Yuan is also older, he can understand some words, can he find some books, the concubine has nothing to do on weekdays, and he can also read it to Jing Yuan, it should be beneficial to him."
The queen wants to hear what the emperor means, and she probably wants to learn some experience from Jing Yuan, and if she is pregnant and gives birth, she can naturally act accordingly.
"I remember that the Qing nobles did the same in the past, and Wenhua Palace should have the books you need, you can take them and use them."
When the emperor thought that Yu Qing was in the palace, he often read and wrote simple books to Feng Jingyuan, saying that it was beneficial to children's enlightenment, so he agreed with the queen's idea.
The queen didn't think of the method she had painstakingly come up with, Yu Qing had already started to implement it, and she didn't want to hear the name of the woman next to her from the emperor's mouth, so she tried to divert the topic.
"Your Majesty, try this, this hibiscus spring roll is made by the concubine herself." The queen specially prepared this dish to evoke the emperor's memories of the past of the two.
"I remember that you made me such a dish when you first got married, it was very delicious, and the taste has not changed now." The taste in your mouth seems to be the same as before.
When the queen got married, she was still in the palace, and she entered the palace early in the morning on the second day of her wedding to ask for peace, and when she came back, she said that she was hungry and wanted to order someone to prepare a meal, but she was stopped by the queen, and then she cooked it herself and made such a hibiscus spring roll.
"Yes, the emperor actually remembers." The queen was pleased, tears were in the corners of her eyes, and she lifted the brocade in front of the placket and wiped it gently.
The emperor recalled the past, remembered that the two had indeed had a period of love in the past, and sighed in his heart, I don't know when it started, and the two were no longer as ......
The emperor emotionally took the queen's hand on the table, patted it, and comforted: "Wan'er, you have worked hard all these years." ”
Although the love between the two is not as good as before, the queen has made big mistakes over the years, but she has taken care of the harem conscientiously, and she has gradually alienated her.
"The emperor......" The queen's tears burst out of her eyes, Wan'er, this is her maiden name, and she has not heard the emperor call herself this for many years.
That night, the news that the emperor was staying in Kunning Palace spread far and wide.
originally thought that even if the queen took the little prince over, she would not be able to keep the emperor's concubines, and they all began to move.
Since the second day, the queen has found that there are often some uninvited guests in the palace, and she can't get rid of them, so she sits in Kunning Palace for a day.
There is nothing serious about it, just to talk about some daily idleness, the queen is like a mirror in her heart, but she still has to hold the queen's bearing, and she can't be angry on her face.
"Concubine Jia, Concubine Hui, Lan Chang is here, Zhao promised to ask to see!" The little eunuch's shrill voice reached the house, and four people came in at the door.
The four of them greeted each other outside the door, they all understood their intentions, and their faces were full of smiles, but they were stunned when they entered the house.
In addition to the queen, there are three other people in the house, namely Liu Shuyi, Shun Gui and Qi Concubine.
After listening to the announcement, the people in the room were already surprised, but now they were calm, and got up to greet each other with the few people who had just arrived.
"Give a seat." The queen was helpless, and ordered her subordinates to add a few more chairs.
Looking at a room of well-dressed warblers and swallows, the warblers and swallows are not angry, and their faces are still virtuous and virtuous.
"Why are you rushing to this palace today, this Kunning Palace, this formation, it is more neat than getting up in the morning to say goodbye." The queen smiled gently, and the actual posterior molars creaked.
"Look at what the queen said, didn't they all come to see you, their hearts are the same, and it's not strange to run into one place." It was Lan Chang who spoke.
"But no, Niangniang is in charge of a whole harem, and the concubine understands your hard work, oh, I will bring you some bird's nest." Shun Guiren pointed to the brocade box on the table and said, "Naturally, I know that the bird's nest in the queen's palace is the best, but it is also the concubine's heart, don't dislike it." ”
"Where, how can you dislike it, the heart is the most important." The queen secretly took a deep breath and warned herself that she was the lord of the first palace and had to be magnanimous.
Listening to what the nobles said, after the others were willing to fall behind, they took out the good things they brought and presented them to the queen, and they negotiated with each other, and the competition continued.
The queen laughed angrily, where did she come to see her, she wanted to use the reason for giving gifts to let the emperor see their sensible and considerate nature.
I think I have left a good impression on the emperor, maybe I can turn over their sign tonight.
Oh, I want to climb up on the shoulders of this palace, who gave you the courage!
As soon as the queen was about to have a seizure, she heard Xue Gui's voice at the door, "The emperor has arrived at the ......" A room of people Ulala got up to greet her.
The emperor was startled as soon as he entered the door, and then walked inside, sat on the side couch before speaking: "What's the matter today, is the queen going to hold any banquet?" ”