Not long after our birthday, the emperor's illness worsened and he was bedridden.

The daily recitals were carried to the emperor's bedroom and reviewed by Qi Xi and Qi Jin. The queen and the ladies of each palace took turns to go to the dormitory to wait for the emperor to take the decoction, and the old lady led me to visit the Son of Heaven on the sickbed several times. The power of life and death in the palm of his hand, the emperor who is the only one in the world is still so vulnerable in the face of illness, sickly face, bloodless lips, for a moment I seem to see the appearance of Qi Ge when he is seriously ill. Qi Xi and Qi Jin reviewed the recitals in front of the sickbed, and it should be late in the wee hours of the morning when all the recitals were piled up as high as a hill...... Ay!

"Jin'er."

I was stunned, and Qi Jin was also stunned, it was the emperor on the sickbed who shouted. Qi Jin immediately got up from the desk and knelt in front of the hospital bed:

"Erchen is here!"

The emperor waved his hand, motioned for Qi Jin to step back, and beckoned to me. The old lady was also surprised, this name has been changed to Nian Huan for several years, and the emperor still calls me Jin'er.

"Lord Nianhuan stays, and everyone else retreats!" The old lady was so frightened that I almost fell to my knees. The dormitory was cleared, and I was standing there alone, and the emperor on the sickbed was still waving to me.

"Emperor, Uncle Huang." I knelt on the cushion in front of the sickbed and grabbed the emperor's hand.

"You are really similar to your mother."

what？ At this time, I remembered Eniang.

"E-Niang, E-Niang and Ama are both in the south."

"I know that I will not allow them to set foot in this Forbidden City again."

It's silence again, should I say something? When he was seriously ill, he missed my mother, and it seems that his mother was in his heart, and the weight was not light.

"Uncle Huang, are you thirsty?"

"In this palace, there are many children of the royal family and the royal family, just like you, I am not thirsty."

"Why don't they call you that?"

"Because I am in this position, even my own brother does not dare to call me Imperial Brother. They didn't dare. ”

Imperial power, supremacy, throne, no one's top. Who would dare to take offense?

Make sure that no one around you knows what you're thinking to be a successful emperor.

"Is this seat really that good?" I asked. The emperor smiled and shook his head.

"To gain supreme rights means to lose. What is good when you get and you lose? Back then, you Ama used this seat as a bargaining chip to get your mother. And I have been alone ever since. ”

Eh, in this way, my previous conjecture was wrong, Eniang and the emperor are official matches, but I don't want to kill Ama halfway and take Eniang to the south. The emperor chose the throne and lost the woman she loved, and Ama chose to take her mother away without the throne.

"You have so many concubines, and the queen mother!"

"Hui'er enters the palace once every two years, and it is also the happiest time I have been in the past two years. Every time I ask her, yes. But she won't want to. I know it's my fault. I pushed her away, and now I hope that she can come back, how can what I have lost come? Jin'er, Lao Sixteen has made great achievements in war over the years, do you know what the reward he asks for each time he fights? ”

I shook my head, and the emperor smiled:

"I always thought that he wanted you every time because I cut your Amma's title and wanted to protect you, but as time went by, the number of times accumulated more and more, and I suddenly understood that he really cared about you."

Although I had guessed this answer a long time ago, I was still a little surprised when this answer was confirmed by others. The emperor went on to say:

"In the past few years, you have become more and more like your mother. After Ge'er left, I didn't give you a marriage and left you in the palace, I always felt that your mother was still by my side. If you care about someone, maybe you just want her to accompany you. ”

That's why you haven't been marrying me in recent years? Because I look like my mother! I thought I was your ultimate weapon to use as an important pawn to assist the future emperor!

"After this year, I will let Lao Sixteen marry you into the mansion, he is a good boy, and he will be able to treat you well. You Ama treats your mother so well, I am relieved. ”

When I came out of the emperor's bedroom, I was drowsy. I didn't see Qi Xi coming up, so I walked straight past him, Qi Jin grabbed my arm, and I bowed and withdrew. It wasn't until I returned to Moju Garden that I got a little better. The emperor likes Eniang, Ama also likes Eniang, and the emperor and Ama fight

The throne, Ama gave up the throne and got Eniang to go to the south, the emperor chose the throne and gave up Eniang, and since then he has been lonely. I was raised by the emperor in this palace for so many years because I looked like Eniang, and after looking at my own experience, the emperor now understands the truth that if you like someone, you need her to accompany you, so I am ready to marry me to Qijin after the year.

Now it is Qixi and Qijin fighting for the throne. Qixi and Qijin also like me.

Who will choose me, who will choose the throne?

I chose Qi Jin, if Qi Xi made a request for me like Amma, would Qi Jin choose me or the throne?

A little eunuch came at the door with a food box, saying that Prince Rong saw that the county lord was not looking good, so he specially sent a soothing soup. I asked Xi'er to reward her with money and sent her away. After a while, another little eunuch came with a food box, saying that it was the tranquilizing soup ordered by Prince Yu to be specially sent to the county lord of Nianhuan. In the same way, I asked Xi'er to reward the silver, but the little eunuch didn't want it, saying that the master had already rewarded it. Looking at the two bowls of soothing soup on the table, my scalp was numb.

In the blink of an eye, deep winter, heavy snow covered the entire Forbidden City, the sky was gray, and the snowflakes were still falling. Since that time the emperor called me Jin'er, the old lady often took me to visit the palace, and even arranged an errand for the emperor to serve me after a few more visits, and the old lady should also know that the emperor likes the story of Eniang, so that I can sway from time to time in front of the palace to comfort the emperor's lonely heart. I helped the emperor to retire to another study after tea, Qi Jin and Qi Xi discussed state affairs with the emperor in front of the emperor, every time I retreated and closed the door, I noticed that the emperor would bow slightly in my direction, in a trance, he should have regarded me as a mother. This love has been hidden in the emperor's heart for so many years, and it still hasn't changed, does Eniang know it, or doesn't she know? I opened the window in the study, there was heavy snow outside the window, the cold wind was cold, Eniang, the emperor let you never be able to enter Beijing, do you want you to suffer from the cold of the ice and snow or do you only want to know the warmth of Amma all year round? He's dying, and when he's dying, he realizes that he's thinking about you, isn't he so stupid?

The whole concubine is here, and I asked the emperor for peace before leaving. It was late in the evening, the snow had stopped, and Keiki was following me. Thinking of what Qin Bi said, thinking of the day when Keiki from the Imperial Garden helped me close the collar of my clothes, thinking of the golden hairpin with my name engraved on it, I didn't dare to look back, and I didn't dare to speak. I was afraid that as soon as I opened my mouth, I would hurt him and hurt my wishful brother-sister friendship. One after the other, he walked deep and shallowly, and Qixi didn't speak, and sent me to the gate of Moju Garden.

"It's cold, rest early." Keiki said behind him. I turned around and saw Keiki holding the lantern himself. He sent me back alone. Xi'er tugged at my sleeve on the side, and I nodded:

"Thank you, second brother, for sending me back. By the way, I liked the last birthday gift very much, and the second brother has a heart. ”

"Let's get in." Keiki nodded, the dim candlelight reflected his figure, so blurry and desolate. I can't tell where it's desolate, it's desolate anyway.

Watching me enter the house with Xi'er, Kei-hee left.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is not as lively as in previous years, the emperor is seriously ill, and everyone's thoughts are on the emperor's dragon health problem. I was carried by the old lady to the Qianqing Palace to keep the New Year, responsible for telling jokes and amusing the emperor on the sickbed and the queen's palace concubines and the prince's brother, Mingmin's little brother insisted on me to ask me for butterfly crisp to eat, the emperor beckoned to him, rewarded him with a piece of butterfly crisp, and then he turned around and ran over to give me the butterfly crisp as a treasure, causing a room of people to laugh.

"This Nian Huan county lord likes butterfly crisps, even our little brother knows that if we want to be happy with Nian Huan in the future, we have to bring butterfly cakes when we go to her!" Concubine Quan sat across from me, looked at me, hugged the little brother, and quipped.

"Auntie, when will I have a little brother?"

At this moment, the little brother in my arms suddenly opened his mouth, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was extraordinary, and the tone of his milky voice instantly attracted everyone's attention.

"This, you're going to ask your E-Niang, ask your E-Niang what you want to add a little brother to!"

I pulled the little brother's nose and said, Mingmin on the side blushed. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart, the little brother's words caused many reactions, Anshuo and I are about the same age, and now I am sitting diagonally opposite me with my stomach upright, and Jun'er is also holding Xiao Gege who has just been born for a long time in her arms, and the old lady obviously listened:

"Nian Huan has been in the palace for a long time, and the mourning family is also inseparable, or the emperor will find a forehead for Nian Huan in this palace."

"Yes, Huang Eniang. Nian Huan is a princess, and she can't be taken lightly. as

Among today's princes, only the sixteenth is unmarried, and Yi'er Chen sees ...... "The emperor catered to the old lady and took it, and just mentioned Qi Jin, before he finished speaking, the old lady excitedly snatched the words:

"The old sixteen is good, the old sixteen is good! is about the same age as Nian Huan, and he grew up smaller! ”

"The sixteenth elder brother is outstanding in both literary and martial arts, but ......" queen also joined in. Oh my God, I almost forgot, this queen lady doesn't want Qi Jin to have a relationship with me other than my brother and sister. One sentence just whetted my appetite, and at the same time made Qi Jin anxious, seeing him get up from his seat and kneel in front of the main hall, Qi Xi, who was closer to the emperor, stood up before him and knelt on the main hall.

"Second Brother, what's wrong?" Concubine Quan asked in surprise. I was also surprised, I almost choked on the sip of water I just drank.

"Huang Ama, the sons and daughters have something to ask for." Keki said. I instinctively looked at Qin Bi and realized that Qin Bi was also looking at me. Oh my god. Keiki doesn't want to say he wants me at this time, does he? At the same time as my eyes widened, Qi Jin also knelt on the top of the main hall:

"Erchen wants to marry Nianhuan as his wife."

For a while, the people in the main hall exploded.

Qi Jin's back was straight and straight, and his face was full of spirit.

Kei-hee looked surprised and looked at his younger brother, who was also kneeling beside him. What he wanted to say was finally preempted by him.

The old lady and the emperor laughed happily, the queen glared at Qi Jin, but she didn't cooperate with the emperor and the old lady to laugh, the concubine glanced at Qi Xi with a frustrated face, raised her eyebrows, and laughed along. Qixi is like a balloon that has been deflated, his back is quite straight one second, and the next second, it is wilting. After Qi Jin finished saying that, he turned his head sideways to me and smiled. I tugged at the corners of my mouth, but I couldn't laugh.

"This kid is still in a hurry!" The old lady sat on it, laughing at Qi Jin.

"Erchen wants to marry Nianhuan as his wife, I wish, I wish to pray for Huan together."

Qi Jin knelt in front of me, facing the emperor, and said word by word.

A good sentence to read together, pray together. The emperor was moved, and all the ladies present except for the queen and Qin Bi all threw envious looks at me.

"Your Majesty, Prince Rong is also kneeling." The queen reminded on the side, and the emperor asked:

"What's the matter with Prince Rong?"

Qixi buried his head low, and he couldn't come back for a while:

"Erchen, Erchen......"

Qi Jin received:

"The second brother wants to say that the emperor's grandmother's proposal is very good, right?"

Qi Xi smiled lightly at Shang Qijin's eyes:

"Yes, the imperial grandmother's proposal is very good, Nian Huan and the sixteenth brother have grown up together since childhood, it was a good match, and now the imperial grandmother, the emperor Ama is the master of marriage, which is very good."

As soon as Qi Xi's words fell, Qi Jin replied:

"Second Brother Xie is complete."

The emperor asked someone to draw up a holy decree on the spot to give marriage, Qi Jin stood up and walked towards me, stretched out his hand in front of everyone, and the moment I put my hand on his hand, everyone was in a commotion again. In the sound of blessings, we thanked us, kowtowed, and received the holy decree. Keiki didn't know when he returned to his seat, looked at us thanksgiving, and poured wine alone. After the early hours of the morning, everyone dispersed, and I handed over the little brother who was sleeping in my arms to Ming Min, and after sending them into the carriage, I turned around and looked up, and Qi Jin stood not far away looking at me.

"Why don't you leave?" I walked towards him.

"Send you back." He also walked towards me.

"There are a lot of ladies in your house who are looking forward to your return soon."

"Jealous?"

"If you're jealous, they won't pay attention to you."

"The war in the southwest, the beauty offered by the local wealthy family. It was only a stopgap measure to be included in the house. I can't compare to you. ”

"But a lot?"

Qi Jin stepped forward quickly, grabbed my hand and put it on his heart.

"Three thousand weak water, I only take one scoop to drink."

I couldn't help but laugh.

"Why are your hands so cold?" As he spoke, Qi Jin put my hand in front of his mouth and sighed, then took my left hand and put it on his waist, and he wrapped me in a cloak.

"Jin, can I ask you for one thing."

"Huh?"

"No matter what happens in the future, let the second brother go."

"I didn't want to embarrass him."

"That's good."

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