Chapter 155: The Fifteenth Lantern Festival

The weather has been good these days, Qinghuan's lower abdomen is still faintly painful, and in addition to some pain in the first half of the night, he sleeps very deeply in the second half of the night.

In the past few days, I have been sleeping until three o'clock in the sun, and Qinghuan is a little embarrassed. Fortunately, Qing'er Xin'er had long been accustomed to it and didn't tease her.

Tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. In previous years, Qinghuan would take Wenle out for a walk, but this year, she touched her lower abdomen and sighed, her body was weak, and she was afraid that she couldn't be too tired.

Everything in the palace has not changed, as in previous years, during the Lantern Festival, there are always lanterns. It's just that Qinghuan's state of mind has changed.

She stood at the gate of the palace, looking at the long road outside the door in a daze, unable to return to her senses for a long time.

When Changge came, he saw her staring at a little bit of the void, with a faint sadness on her face, she didn't know what she thought, she closed her eyes slightly, and exhaled.

When she turned her head, she met his eyes, her expression was a little stunned, Changge didn't see her expression, walked over with a smile, and asked, "It's so cold, what are you doing outside?" ”

Qing Huan immediately recovered his expression and said with a faint smile, "It's nothing, seeing that the weather is good today, come out for a walk." ”

Changge didn't poke her either, stepped forward to help her, and took her back to the inner sanctum. Maybe she can't forget Su Ying!

Remembering the incident when Su Ying went to the Marquis of Anqing's Mansion to find him a few days ago, he frowned slightly, if Su Ying didn't love Qinghuan, how could he be willing to take the risk of going to the Western Regions to find medicine; If Su Ying loves Qinghuan, how could she be hurt like this?

"By the way, why did you have time to come here today?" Qing Huan suddenly turned his head and asked.

Changge retracted his thoughts and said with a smile, "Tomorrow is the fifteenth, my mother asked me to come and see you, and ask if you will go to the Fanfu for dinner, and the old man Feng will also come over!" ”

Qing Huan was surprised, "Grandfather is going to the Vatican?" Why don't you come to the palace? ”

Changge helped her to the chair, put a coat on her, and said: "A few days ago, I asked the old man to do something, so I invited him to the house for a gathering, besides, you don't know the old man's temper, let him come to the palace, did he come?" ”

Qing Huan was dumbfounded, too, according to his grandfather's character, he wouldn't come! I just thought about it and asked, "What did you do with your grandfather?" ”

Changge sat opposite her and said casually, "It's nothing, it's just a trivial matter!" Changge automatically concealed the fact that he went to Fengfu to ask for medicine that day, if Qing Huan knew, he would definitely know how much silver Old Man Feng had deducted from him.

It is said that when people are old, they are very stubborn, and they have a lot of strange habits. Unexpectedly, the Feng family, who had unlimited scenery back then, and now accounts for half of the wealth of Beiqing, actually has a habit of accumulating wealth when he is old.

It's just that little red fish, so he asked for half of his family wealth in Anqinghou's mansion, fortunately, Anqinghou's mansion has a lot of property, otherwise he would have lost his family wealth by the old man.

He remembered again, he was better, when Nanyue married Qinghuan, the old man asked the emperor for half of the country! Thinking of this, Changge burst out laughing.

Qing Huan put the tea in his hand aside, for fear that his saliva would fall into her tea bowl, and then asked disdainfully, "What are you laughing at?" ”

I didn't expect that I couldn't hold back, just laughed like that, Changge was a little embarrassed, bent his fist in front of his mouth, coughed lightly, and then raised his head, as if he was fine, "It's okay." ”

Qing Huan saw his reaction strangely, and muttered in his heart that it was inexplicable! Then he ignored him and drank tea by himself. said it was tea, but in fact, it was all medicinal food, Qinghuan drank it every day, and it tasted good, otherwise she would have been tired of it!

There was suddenly some embarrassment in the air, because Qing Huan faintly felt that two eyes were shooting over, but when he turned his head, he saw Changge holding his cheeks and looking at her with burning eyes, as if he was studying something.

"What do you think!" Qing Huan's face turned red and he lowered his head and asked.

"I'm wondering, how much dowry do you need if you marry you......" Changge replied without thinking about it.

Qing Huan's hand trembled, the tea splashed on the back of her hand, she hurriedly dropped the teacup, knocked over the teapot again, and the atmosphere in the room was extremely embarrassing.

Changge was shocked by her series of actions, and finally knew what she said, so she hurriedly helped her clean up, and said with a wry smile, "I'm just kidding, what are you doing so nervous!" ”

I said so on my lips, but I was very disappointed in my heart. He and Qing Huan have been together since childhood, and he understands the meaning of her every move.

Qing Huan was in a hurry and didn't know what to do. What Changge said just now really scared her, and now that she is in such a situation, even if Changge is joking, it makes her feel embarrassed.

Changge suddenly pressed her flustered hand, her expression was a little calm, Qing Huan suddenly raised her head, and crashed into a bay of clear water, with the tranquility of green mountains and green water.

"Qinghuan, you don't have to be like this." Changge said lightly, a wry smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

Like a long song, Qing Huan also knows a long song. Every one of his movements, every smile, every look she understood. At this time, he said this sentence calmly, which made her more flustered than the sentence just now, her eyes flickered, and she said, "Changge, I only treat you as an elder brother!" ”

Changge talked for a while, helplessly hugged her in his arms, in a flat tone, with a slight sigh, he touched her head and said, "I know." From now on, let me protect you like my sister, okay? ”

Qing Huan was in his arms, nodded slightly, but said silently in his heart, I'm sorry, Changge, I'm sorry. I can't respond to your feelings right now......

The embarrassing atmosphere of Qinghuan and Changge stopped at Qing'er. As early as a few days ago, Qing Huan discussed with the emperor and queen about Qiumei's return to the palace, so he posted a post and sent someone to answer in person, preparing to let Qiumei return to Beiqing on the fifteenth day of the first month.

At this time, Qing'er hurriedly ran in, and was a little embarrassed when she saw the two hugging each other, but after seeing the two separate, she said with a smile, "Master, Princess Qiumei is back!" It's outside the palace gate at this time! ”

Qing Huan raised his eyebrows, and the embarrassment of being bumped into by Qing'er just now was gone, and he hurriedly said, "Take me to pick it up!" ”

As he spoke, he put on his coat and left with the soup woman. Changge wanted to stop her, but she had already gone away with Qing'er. He sighed helplessly and had to follow.

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The road from Huailiang to Beiqing, to say the least, is also six or seven days away, at this time Beiqing sent someone to answer, and it took much less time.

This is the first time Qiu Mei has set foot on the road back to her hometown, she took Xue Yuting's hand excitedly, and asked all the way what the character of her father and queen mother was.

At this time, she is not a female killer with thousands of flowers, nor is she the wife of Xue Mansion, just a little girl who has been away from home for a long time, and she is excited.

Xue Yuting smiled honestly, and his eyes were doting. For so many years, since Qiu Mei arrived at Xue's house, he has been with her.

When she had a bad leg and was bullied, he took care of her next to her, never leaving her; When she was ridiculed for having no father or mother, he beat those people to the ground.

Over the years, he has carefully cared for her and prevented her from being wronged. Now she is going to see her parents, and he will be by her side to protect her.

In fact, when Beiqing sent the letter, he was happy for Qiumei. Sure enough, when she heard the news, she also cheered.

Originally, she was pregnant, and it was inconvenient for her to travel long distances, so he did not agree with her going. It's just that he has to take the team to hunt for treasures in the spring, and he has no time to take care of her.

happened to hear that Qing Huan was in Beiqing, so he thought that it would be good for her to go back to live and take care of Qing Huan. After running around for a few days, they finally arrived at the Beiqing Palace.

Qiu Mei got out of the carriage, and her heart was unstoppably excited and faintly nervous. She grabbed Xue Yuting's hand, and she trembled a little.

Xue Yuting squeezed her hand, she looked up, looked at his side face, and suddenly became less nervous, as if seeing him, all difficulties were solved.

Qing Huan hurried to the gate of the palace, and finally saw Qiu Mei and Xue Yuting, and happily ran up and hugged Qiu Mei. Her belly was also revealed, which made Qing Huan slightly stunned.

Then she came back to her senses and took them to Longxiang Palace. Along the way, she and Qiumei talked about many things in Beiqing, which made Qiumei feel a lot less nervous.

Longxiang Palace had already received the news, and the queen was also restless, she hadn't seen each other for more than twenty years, and suddenly appeared in front of her, if it were you, you wouldn't be nervous.

The emperor laughed on the side, "It's just to meet your daughter, what are you doing so nervous!" ”

The queen glanced angrily, obviously he was the most nervous one, and he was embarrassed to laugh at her. Suddenly, the corner of her eyes skimmed out of the door, and she said in surprise, "Qiumei ......"

The emperor, who was sitting on the seat, heard this call, jumped up and looked out of the door. The queen covered her mouth and laughed, "Look at it, I don't know who is nervous to death, but it's just a daughter, you are so nervous!" ”

The emperor finally reacted, he was teased by the queen, so his face turned slightly red, and he said as if he was annoyed and angry, "You are so old, and you are still so naughty!" ”

At such an age, the queen actually let the emperor say the word "naughty", and her face couldn't help but be a little red, so both of them blushed and saw their eldest daughter for the first time.

When Qiu Mei entered the main hall, her mood suddenly relaxed a lot, because her father and queen mother got down from the dragon chair and saw her daughter for the first time, and this scene suddenly moistened Qinghuan's eyes.

But Qiumei and the emperor and queen were all indifferent, as if they were normal, but Qiumei had gone on a long trip, but they hadn't seen each other for a few days.

"Good boy, it's good to be back!" The queen touched her head, although Qiumei was a head taller than her, she still looked up at her with pity.

The emperor was on the side, and he didn't know what to say, so he ordered someone to prepare chairs and tea, and arranged them well.

Wenle and Su Lu also arrived, and Changge, who was following Qing Huan, also watched this scene, and everyone did not make a sound at this time, for fear of disturbing the tranquility of this moment. Xue Yuting saluted the emperor, and the two of them took a look.

The emperor had some relief in his eyes, three daughters and three sons-in-law, but it was this boss who was the most satisfying to him.

When the queen was pregnant with Qiumei, the emperor was just a prince, and the palace deceived me so that the child was killed by a traitor before he was born.

Simply later, they could be saved, but unfortunately they were born to be bad, they didn't plan to abandon the child, but they didn't expect to be taken away by Dieyi.

Qing Huan had already told the emperor and queen about Qiumei, if it weren't for the Xue family and Xue Yuting, Qiumei would have been dead a long time ago.

Therefore, at this time, the emperor's eyes when he looked at Xue Yuting were a little satisfied. can protect his daughter so well, he naturally has to be good-looking.

After greeting for a long time, the men spoke in the front hall, and the women went to Luanhuang Palace with the queen. Among the group, the queen and Qiumei were pregnant, and Wenle brought two small milk bags from Yuechen Baby, wanting to talk about the child, but he didn't open his mouth when he saw that Qing Huan was still there.

Qing Huan looked relaxed, touched this belly, touched that belly, and said happily, "I will have one more little brother and one more nephew in the coming year!" ”

Everyone was taking into account Qing Huan's feelings, and when they heard Qing Huan say this, they suddenly felt a little sad, the queen knew Qing Huan best. She didn't want people to worry about it, so she also smiled and said, "How do you know it must be two boys, maybe two girls!" ”

Qing Huan pouted, at this time she really left everything behind, and only felt that she was the youngest princess in this place, so she said with a smile, "Because the imperial sister is accurate!" ”

After speaking, he looked at Wenle, and Wenle also smiled, "Where did I say that Sister Qiumei's belly is a little nephew!" ”

Qing Huan stuck out his tongue, "I want to give it a try, too!" ”

The crowd laughed.

On the other side, the emperor sat in the first place, and the three juniors sat in the lower seat. Xue Yuting is older, and he chats with the emperor the most. Su Lu is the kind of person who can't speak without asking, and Changge listens to others with a smile.

In the entire hall, there were only the voices of the emperor and Xue Yuting. The emperor showed his satisfaction with Xue Yuting between the lines, and let Su Lu on the side silently blacken.

Alas, the mistakes he made back then made the emperor hold such a grudge. Now that he and Su Ying have offended the emperor, I am afraid that the road to changing their image in the future will be long and difficult!

In other words, he was a proton in Beiqing when he was a child, did this old father-in-law really take more care of him? Su Lu is full of doubts about his life......

Of course, if the emperor hears this, the emperor will definitely snort coldly, you are just a medium, I will take more care of you, not to mention that you still teach the princess badly, I hate you too late! I also take care of you, and think beautifully!

In the evening, the queen prepared a table of good dishes, and everyone gathered together to eat a family feast. Although there are many royal rules, they are no different from ordinary people, everyone talks and laughs, and the meal ends quickly.

In particular, the presence of two small milk bags coaxed a group of adults around.

After the hustle and bustle, Qing Huan was supported by a few girls and returned to his palace. Today I was too tired, and my lower abdomen ached faintly. She supported the palace of the Hui Dao, sweating profusely on her forehead.

Qing'er and Xin'er were so frightened that they brought two more stoves, fetched hot water, and decocted medicine, although they were in a hurry, they were orderly. When everything was busy, Qinghuan nestled in bed and prepared to sleep.

It's just that the scenes of the day are still lingering in her mind, lingering, her head hurts, her ears seem to have the sound of the day, she pinched her eyebrows with her hands, and her face was full of pain.

She forced a smile in front of people, just to keep everyone from worrying. As a woman, when she sees others having children, she is sincerely envious, and if her own children are still there, she can happily share them with them.

But now...... Qing Huan came back to his senses, and the pillow was already wet...... That's it, there is such a thing as fate, maybe she has no fate with that child......

When Su Ying came, Qing Huan frowned, and couldn't tell if she was asleep, but Su Ying knew that she was asleep, but she didn't sleep deeply. He reached out and touched Qing Huan's neck.

His slender fingers smoothed her eyebrows, and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with his rounded knuckles. Finally, he sighed lightly, took off his coat, and lay on the bed with a familiar car, hugging Qinghuan.

Qing Huan didn't want to see him, he couldn't find any better way, so he could only wait for her to sleep every night and stay with her for a while.

The stupidest person in the world is Qing Huan, and the stupidest person is none other than Su Ying......

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On the second day, Qinghuan got up refreshed, and it was the third pole of the day. Qing Huan was a little puzzled, was he too strange, he got up so late every day, but to be honest, after a good night's sleep, he really felt that his vitality was back.

Qinghuan washed up, and let Qing'er and Xin'er go to Luanhuang Palace with him. Sister Qiumei came here yesterday, and the three sisters haven't said enough yet. Yesterday, when I heard Wen Le's words, it seemed that I was going back to South Vietnam after the fifteenth year, and I wanted to get along with them more.

It's just that when I arrived at Luanhuang Palace, I found that there was no one, Qing Huan was a little strange, why couldn't anyone see it at this time? They walked around, and Qing Huan casually pulled a little eunuch and asked, "Where did the queen mother go?" ”

The little eunuch hurriedly said, "The princess doesn't know yet, the queen mother and the eldest princess and the second princess are in the imperial dining room!" ”

When Qiumei returned to the province yesterday, Chang Tianyang issued an edict in Beiqing and named Qiumei a princess, proving her identity. So at this time, the people in the palace are called Princess Qiumei, Princess Wenle Er, and Princess Qinghuan San.

After the eunuch finished speaking, he was about to run, looking in a hurry, Xin'er was anxious, and immediately became unhappy, and dragged the little eunuch and said, "Stop!" Did the master let you go, you ran so fast! ”

The little eunuch stopped with a sad face, Qing Huan saw that he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and it was a time to play, so he didn't blame him, and asked, "What made you run so quickly?" ”

The little eunuch said, "Oh, the queen is competing in the imperial dining room, and whoever does a good job in the Lantern Festival will be rewarded with ten taels of gold!" ”

Lantern Festival? Qinghuan pondered for a moment, there is no custom of eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of Beiqing, and it is generally eaten dumplings. And the queen mother never went to the imperial dining room to cook meals in person. Wait, she suddenly realized that Xu is Qiumei is here and takes everyone to make the Lantern Festival!

Thu Mui lives in South Vietnam all year round, maybe South Vietnam has this custom! She let the little eunuch lead the way, and she followed him.

Sure enough, Qing Huan guessed correctly, when he arrived at the imperial dining room, the long table where the imperial meal was placed in the past was all flour, and a group of palace maids and eunuchs were all gathered together, talking and laughing.

At the end of the long table, headed by the queen, Qiumei and Bunraku were on her left and right, and next to Bunraku were two small milk bags. Several people were also busy.

Qing Huan walked over with a smile, feeling a little funny, the queen mother actually changed her dignified and elegant image in the past, and made peace with everyone? She quietly walked behind the three of them and looked at the dough, where is the Lantern Festival, except for Qiumei's, the rest are crooked.

"Poof" Qing Huan couldn't hold back any longer, and laughed out loud behind the three of them, the queen was startled, and her hands full of flour covered her heart and said, "Bad girl!" You're scared to death the queen mother! ”

"Queen Mother, what are you doing, Huan'er is lonely and unheard, I really can't guess!" Qing Huan held back a smile and asked.

The queen's ten fingers don't touch the spring water, this is the first time to do this kind of thing, hearing Qing Huan's comments, she still blushed, "Go and go, go while going, don't do anything, you know that you are pointing fingers!" ”

The rest of the palace maids and eunuchs covered their mouths and snickered, Qing Huan was not convinced, and said, "Let me tell you, I am the referee today, isn't it a game, if anyone laughs at this princess, he will be directly out!" Are there any unconvinced? ”

Everyone hurriedly silenced, where did anyone dare to argue with the third princess? Everyone grew up watching the third princess. Although he left the palace at the age of five, when did he go back to the palace and not make the chickens and dogs jump? The most powerful thing is that when she was fourteen years old, she disguised herself as a man and passed the top prize, and compared other people in the palace exam in court.

After the emperor knew that the new champion Lang was a princess, he almost didn't faint, but Qing Huan said in the palace, "Who said that women are not as good as men, women can serve the country as well, the so-called women don't let them have eyebrows!" Women should be given a chance! ”

Since then, the Beiqing folk style has been opened, and there are both male and female schools, of course, only the ladies of aristocratic families can go to school, and the rest of the small households are still patriarchal.

Of course, the idea of the third princess is also good, so later there were many female officials in Beiqing, and Jin Shuiyue, the small lord of the Jin family, was one of them!

The matter of these three princesses can't be finished for three days and three nights. So when I heard her open at this time, how could anyone dare to be dissatisfied in person! That's not all the three princesses who slipped one by one.

Qing Huan saw that everyone didn't speak, and smiled with satisfaction, it seems that his power has not diminished back then! It's just that what they do is too boring, and it's really not her interest, so she has to sit and watch with her cheeks on her back.

It was already time for lunch, and everyone was over, Qing Huan stretched, stood up and commented on the reviews, praised those who looked good, and ridiculed those who looked bad.

The last little eunuch who didn't know Qing Huan's personality was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, which made Qing Huan stunned, and when he reacted, he realized that Xu was too ruthless, and the little eunuch thought that what he had done was too ugly, which made the princess uncomfortable, so he knelt on the ground in fright.

Qing Huan held back a smile, pretending to be vicious and said, "Such a bad Lantern Festival, you dare to show it to this princess!" You see, this princess doesn't punish you heavily! ”

When the little eunuch heard this, he wanted to cry without tears, Qing Huan snickered, and everyone tried their best to hold back their laughter, Qing Huan coughed and said, "Then fine you ten taels of gold!" ”

"Huh?" Ten taels of gold? It's going to kill him!

"Someone! Reward him with ten taels of gold! Qing Huan finally couldn't help it, laughed, and everyone laughed.

The queen covered her mouth and chuckled, the little devil had finally returned. After laughing, she felt a little distressed in her heart, Qinghuan was so stubborn, she didn't know whether to be relieved or sad.

The little eunuch who was kneeling on the ground still knew in the clouds that Qing Huan and the others were leaving, so he stood up, and he was confused with ten taels of gold.

The rest of the participants all had a share, but they were all five taels of gold, and everyone envied the little eunuch, so they told him about the princess's "bad temper", and he knew that he had been tricked by the princess.