The noble concubine was born in a deep mansion compound, and was favored by her father and brother since she was a child, and her temperament was obedient. When he was young, he entered the submersible mansion, and he was fortunate to have a long history, no big or small, and he was used to falling out of favor, demoting his concubine, and giving birth to a dead baby, like heaven to hell, and he was in pain, and his heart was already like ashes. What can I do when I see my parents, but the left is becoming more and more painful, it is better to be quiet, and the soul is broken.

When the emperor heard the absolute meaning of her words, he became more and more pityful, and said: "The importance of recuperating from illness is to nourish the heart, open your mind, and see something good in everything." The noble concubine's eyes couldn't stop crying, her temples were wet, but she smiled faintly and said, "The emperor is right." Speaking of this, he didn't say anything more, silently looked at the silver-white tent with melon and fruit vine patterns, and let his eyes dry and tear.

Coming out of Xianfu Palace, it was already moonlit and night.

Wu Shulai didn't know which palace the emperor was going to set up for dinner, although according to the convention, the emperor stayed in Changchun Palace for the first night after returning to the palace, in order to show the orthodoxy of the middle palace. But in the days of the palace, the emperor ate and slept with the pure concubine every day, and at this time, he went to Yikun Palace according to his habits, and he couldn't say for sure. He bowed forward and asked, "Where do you want to go?" ”

The sorrow in the emperor's heart has not yet dissipated, half leaning on his shoulder, supporting his forehead with his hand, closing his eyes and saying: "Go back to the palace of nourishing the heart." Wu Shulai was stunned, took half a step back, and said, "Yes." Dozens of palace people carry the sheep's horn palace lamp slowly, the moon is as clean as a plate, hanging high on the top of the eaves of the imperial city, the stars are sparse, and they are hidden. The emperor raised his head and asked, "You're almost at Yikun Palace, right?" ”

Xianfu Palace is close to Yikun Palace, and it has long passed.

Wu Shulai guessed the emperor's thoughts, and said along the way: "It's almost there." He hurriedly told the man carrying the sedan chair to turn around. The emperor looked around, understood, and was not angry, waved his hand and said, "Forget it after that, go to Changchun Palace." He was in a dull mood, and when he turned a thought, Wu Shulai served cautiously, for fear of provoking the wrath of the saint.

Changchun Palace is not like the silence of the day, the queen knows the emperor's temperament, the first night of returning to the palace, will be the first to come to the middle palace, so he ordered someone to clean up the courtyard, from the inside to the outside to burn brilliantly. She picked out a colorful embroidered robe with light yellow piping, wore a flag-headed phoenix hairpin, carefully described her makeup, and waited in the hall for the palace people to speak. Expecting that the emperor would not have time to eat, he ordered the kitchen to prepare hundreds of meals for him. Shanrou sent the palace people to inquire over and over again, and when the saint drove out of the Xianfu Palace, the palace people passed it on over and over again.

Long live the Lord out of Xianfumen.

Long live the Lord to West 2nd Street.

Long live the Lord has entered the Changchun Gate.

It wasn't until she heard a kowtow outside that the queen helped Shanrou to walk to the door to greet her. The emperor and queen have not seen each other for several months, so they naturally have to observe the etiquette and greetings first. The emperor sat on the kang, and the queen was on the opposite side, and said gently: "The road is bumpy, and the emperor has worked hard." The emperor smiled and said, "You are also working hard in the palace. The queen said modestly: "Being in her position and planning her own affairs, the concubines did not feel hard." He smiled again: "I don't want to eat well on the way, the concubine has prepared a meal, and the emperor might as well eat first." ”

The emperor nodded, Shanrou and others brought warm water and towels inside, and the queen personally twisted the veil and waited for the emperor to clean his hands and face. The dining table at the mercy of the people of the Sishan Palace in the morning, four large cases of vermilion lacquer, are dazzling, from birds and animals to swimming fish and seafood, there is everything. The emperor suddenly wanted to eat boiled cabbage made by green oranges, which was sweet, crisp and refreshing, not heavy on oil and salt. He served half a bowl of rice with the thick sauce of chestnut roasted wild duck, ate a bowl of ham and bamboo shoot soup, and put aside the bowl and chopsticks.

Seeing that his face was sad, the queen did not dare to persuade him to eat, although she only ate two points full, she also put chopsticks away.

Removed the meal, cleaned his face, changed his bedclothes, and when the queen took off her makeup and Zhu Hai, the emperor and queen hugged her to the bed. Shanrou led the palace people to retreat to the outer hall, listened to the movement inside for three quarters of an hour, and then went into the house to wait for the two to wash. When it was over, the emperor was tired and soon fell asleep. The queen has not accepted favor for a long time, and looks sideways at the emperor's undulating back like a majestic mountain range, and is nostalgic.

Before dawn, the emperor got up to read early, and when he saw that the queen was going to serve and dress, he said thoughtfully: "You can rest and sleep for a while." The queen said: "It's okay, anyway, the concubines can't sleep." The emperor felt that she had something to say, and he did not stop her, and let her serve. After breakfast, when Wu Shulai handed over the meal card, the queen said: "The emperor has been absent from the palace for a long time, but I am afraid that the green head card in the worship room will be dusty." ”

As the old saying goes, nothing is new. As soon as she spoke, the emperor had a bottom in his heart.

The Emperor said, "I know. The queen had been brewing for a long time, but after only saying one word, she blocked it back. Pushing him to other women, she is also unwilling, but she is the queen, the middle palace, virtuous and dignified, and generous Fang Fengyi. She also said: "Concubine Jia has four elder brothers, Concubine Yu has five elder brothers, and their identities are different, the emperor attaches great importance to the prince and should treat their biological mother well." ”

She intended to enjoy the concubine, but she couldn't say it directly, but the emperor knew it very well.

The emperor did not provoke her, only nodded, and set off. The queen rested and fell asleep until the sun rose, and then got up to wash again. For a while, Concubine Chun came to ask for peace, but she didn't dare to treat her badly, so she announced it in the side hall. Qingcheng took Yongzhang and Yongying to Shoukang Palace early in the morning to greet the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother was quite happy to see her two grandsons.

Coming out of Shoukang Palace, Yongzhang went to the south study to study, Yongying wanted to sleep, and let Mama carry him back to Yikun Palace. Qingcheng gave a big gift to the queen, sat down on the kang, and said with a smile: "Yongzhang and Yongying should have come to ask for peace to the mother, but the schoolwork in the south study was too tight, and I didn't dare to let Yongzhang delay." Yongying is also sleepy, so as not to make her angry and annoy her mother. ”

The queen smiled: "It's okay, it's enough to miss me as the emperor's mother." I'll have them come over another day, and I'll have a few of their favorite snacks. Qingcheng said politely: "Thank you for your understanding." "In the past, the queen didn't take green oranges in her eyes, but now she can't. She smiled: "Have you gone to visit Master Gao?" ”

Qingcheng said: "I came back late yesterday, and the affairs of Yikun Palace are complicated, and I haven't had time to go to Xianfu Palace yet." "In fact, I was not busy with that field, but the emperor made a special trip to visit the noble concubine, and if she also went, the concubines of the palace would inevitably be criticized.

There are many people in the palace, and there is a queen mother watching from above, so she has to think twice about doing things.

The queen said: "Then you hurry up and go to Xianfu Palace to have a look, I wanted to go with you, but the fifth elder brother went to the south study on the first day today, and I have to ask for help to rest assured." Qingcheng got up, bowed down, and bowed respectfully.

Xianfu Palace was silent, and the palace people were lifeless, and most of them were decadent and depressed. Entering the dormitory, the palace people waiting inside are all unfamiliar faces, and the strong fragrance of sinking water wants to cover it, and the smell of bitter medicine is twisted together, which is very nasilous. Qingcheng ordered the smoker to be moved under the porch to extinguish it, and said, "Go and open the window to let in air." ”

The palace man in charge was slack and said, "The imperial doctor has ordered, you can't ask Master Gao to blow the wind." ”

Qingcheng said: "Stuffy in the room, the smell is uncomfortable, and normal people have to hold back their illness." After a pause, he added, "Which imperial doctor ordered it, I have to ask carefully." ”

The original words of the imperial doctor are actually "No matter how hot the weather is, you can't put ice in the room, and then there are curtains that must hang down all the time, don't let the wind blow the high master." "Since the wind can't let the wind blow, the palace people don't even bother to open the window, and they don't go into the house when they have nothing to do, but only guard in the outer hall. Sometimes the queen and concubines came to visit and asked, thinking that it was the imperial doctor, but they didn't care. Today, Qingcheng suddenly said that he wanted to announce the confrontation of the imperial doctor, and the palace maid in charge panicked, and said calmly: "Since the pure master asked the slaves and maids to open the windows, the slaves and maids did not dare to disobey, but if something went wrong, the slaves and maids could not bear it." ”

This is not about his own appearance, so he was so angry that he said: "I don't care where you are transferred from the palace maid, since you are the errand of Xianfu Palace, you should serve Master Gao well." You—" Before the words fell, a voice came from the tent, saying, "That's it, I'm used to smelling it, and it doesn't matter." Qingcheng let go of the palace maid for the time being, walked to the couch, and said, "I've woken you up." ”

After that, he made a big salute according to the rules.

The noble concubine gave her a seat, ordered someone to hang up the tent, and put four or five large satin pillows under the pillow to lean on. Her face was pale, and she didn't even have the color of her lips. The cheeks are deep-set, and the eyes appear hollow and huge. Qingcheng had imagined her countless appearances, but she didn't expect it to be like this, so she couldn't help but feel sad, and said, "But you can suffer." When the noble concubine saw her, she was even happier than when she saw the emperor, and said: "No matter how bitter it is, it's already like this, just one day at a time." ”

Qingcheng said: "But if there is anything you want to eat, I'll let Erqi make it for you." ”

A smile pursed on the noble concubine's lips, white and white, and incomparably infiltrating. She said: "The tongue coating has long been poured with decoction and tasteless, and everything you eat is the same." It is also a blessing that you have a faithful slave like Erqi. Unlike me... but was harmed by the people beside him. Qingcheng's heart was terrified, it seemed that Jin Ling had murdered her and the prince was dead, and she knew it completely. I thought she would be loud and heartbreaking, but I didn't want to be so calm and quiet.

Qingcheng was stunned for a while, and then said, "You relax a little, don't be bored." ”

Concubine Gao was about to speak, and coughed suddenly, but the people below were indifferent, or Hai'an brought the spittoon and ginseng tea. Qingcheng sat on the edge of the couch and patted her back gently, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she said: "When I take care of Xianfu Palace, it's really lawless." Concubine Gao finally stopped coughing and said, "Forget it." ”

Anyway, I won't live long, forget it, everything, forget it.

Qingcheng said: "How can it be...", the noble concubine covered her hand and said: "Forget it, they were pointed out to me by the queen in vain, and they already feel that it is a great suffering, so why bother to be embarrassed, just accumulate blessings." After a pause, he said, "I am not an unreasonable person, and the things you have done for me are as clear as a mirror in my heart. If I can get better, I will definitely have a heart-to-heart relationship with you, but..."After stopping the words, he suddenly remembered something, and said: "I know that you are close to Yu Concubine, I don't want to leave you in the middle, but I still want to remind you that this person is thoughtful, and the city is very deep, you... Be on your guard. ”

Her hands were as thin as a skeleton, her muscles and bones bulging, and she was as old as a woman. Qingcheng shook his hand, cold as ice, without a trace of temperature, like a person who was about to die. There was a commotion outside, and a palace maid entered the house, holding a vermilion lacquer food box in her hand, and said: "Master, the emperor rewarded two cups of bird's nest soup." Qingcheng beckoned, and the palace maid approached, took the soup herself, and said, "I'll feed you some." ”

The noble concubine did not refuse, nodded and said, "There is labor." ”

She only ate half a bowl of soup before saying she was full. Qingcheng didn't dare to be reluctant, so as not to hurt her spleen and stomach, and when she saw that she was tired, he helped her lie down, covered the brocade quilt, and said softly: "You have a good rest, and I will come to see you tomorrow." After a pause, he looked at the palace maid in charge next to him, and raised his voice: "If they dare to snub you again, they will tell me that I will not tolerate those who should be punished!" ”

The palace maid in charge was so frightened that she hung her head with her chest and was silent.

Concubine Gao didn't even have the strength to open her eyes, and closed her eyes and stopped talking. Qingcheng returned to Yikun Palace, and it was almost noon. The emperor went to Shoukang Palace to serve the Queen Mother for dinner, Yongzhang stayed in the south study to tutor, Yongying slept and got up to eat, and slept again. From yesterday's four people eating together, to only one person left, it is really a world of difference.

Qingcheng saw the noble concubine, and the mood was already low, and at this time he lost his appetite more and more, so he only let the kitchen order a bowl of beef noodles, and ate cold kelp, shallots, sour and spicy fungus, boiled cabbage and bean curd tofu, and sat under the window to practice two words, looked at the sky for a while, and was lazy to take a nap.

The emperor specially announced the noble concubine's father in the Yangxin Palace, and said: "Shu Yao is seriously ill, I originally wanted to let my relatives in the palace to visit, but Shu Yao refused, and I had no way. Gao's father had felt that the emperor's grace was immense, and said: "It is the luck of the Gao family that the noble concubine can be so favored by the saint, and I hope that she will have a good birth and raise her body and live a long life in peace." The monarchs and ministers comforted each other, and when the father retreated, it was already dark, and Li Yu, who was in the worship room, entered the hall with a green head card, and said, "Please turn over the card." ”

Wu Shulai was busy serving the emperor to drink tea, but he didn't expect Li Yu to come in through the loophole, and he couldn't help but stare fiercely.

Li Yu was defenseless, and was glared at by Wu Shulai, thinking that he had made a big mistake, and his heels were weak. The emperor was not happy, and he wanted to let Li Yu retreat, but suddenly remembered the queen's upright words, and his fingertips crossed the jade cards of the two rows of green ponds, and after a moment of secret thought, he turned over the sign of Yu Concubine and said, "Go ahead." ”

For most of the month, the emperor almost blessed all the concubines, so that the queen mother and queen had nothing to say.

The emperor did not go to Yikun Palace, and Qingcheng was idle. Draw two lotus flowers every day, copy two volumes of scriptures, accompany Yongying to feed rabbits and squirrels for a while, look at Yongzhang's homework, and visit and visit the noble concubine, which is also considered to be a full life.

This day is the fifteenth, and the concubines went to Shoukang Palace to greet the Queen Mother. In the hot summer, the queen mother set up a shed in the courtyard to shade the sun, and let the little palace maid and eunuch below step on her feet and kick the shuttlecock to show her. The rich and noble people are also young, and they are very playful, and they are laughing and laughing with the palace people to please the queen mother.

Qingcheng is in the concubine position, and the queen is around the queen mother, serving tea and pouring water, not messing up at all. The Queen Mother smiled: "If it weren't for the hot weather and the sun, the mourning family would still want to see you fly kites and play." The queen said: "The queen mother is sympathetic to the palace people, and the concubines are ashamed." Qingcheng neither spoke nor agreed, as long as the Queen Mother didn't ask her, she kept waiting.

This is neither humble nor arrogant, but it is quite in line with the Queen Mother's mind.

Concubine Shu is accustomed to pleasing the Queen Mother, and when the day is not dawn, she personally took a boat to pick lotus flowers and lotus pods in the Royal River. The lotus flower has already been taken to the grandmother to insert a vase, and at this time the lotus pod was paid out, and said with a smile: "The concubine doesn't know whether the queen mother likes it or not, and the concubine feels that the fresh lotus seeds are delicious when they peel them themselves." The Queen Mother patted her face and said, "Little girl, there are a lot of things." It's hard for you to think about it with your heart, and the mourning family is happy. Now is the season to eat lotus seeds, lotus seeds can nourish the heart and calm the nerves, nourish and replenish the deficiency, it is a good thing..."

A mellow voice came in, saying, "What a good thing, let me taste it." ”

The emperor was dressed in an apricot yellow satin tuanfu robe, did not wear a crown, and wore yellow cowhide boots, handsome and majestic, and walked slowly with his hands. Everyone hurriedly stopped their movements and bowed their knees in unison. The emperor smiled, glanced around, and said, "Get up." He knelt down on one knee to greet the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother called her body flat, and said with a smile: "Shu Concubine picked a lotus pod early in the morning to honor the mourning family-" and glanced at Shu Concubine with a smile, and said: "What are you still doing stupidly, don't peel two for the emperor to taste." ”

Concubine Shu came back to her senses, surprised and delighted, and was about to take the enamel armor and peel the lotus seeds, but the emperor smiled and said: "No need, it's interesting for me to peel and eat by myself." The queen took the lotus pod from the plate and handed it to the emperor, and said with a smile: "Concubine Shu said the same." The emperor broke the lotus pod with his bare hands, and his own little eunuch held a plate next to him to catch the broken skin of the lotus pod, and said to everyone: "What did you do just now, what are you still doing, to please the queen mother, that is, to please me, you don't have to be restrained." ”

The palace people listened to the order and continued to play. But several noble concubines wanted to show their faces in front of the emperor, so they didn't want to go any more, and gathered around the holy driver, chirping. The emperor felt that it was too noisy, but his face was silent, and he said with a smile: "You go over there to kick the shuttlecock, and whoever wins will be rewarded." So he sent the nobles and the nobles to the competition.

The Queen Mother was a little hot, and said: "Concubine Chun, there is a pu fan on the couch of Xinuan Pavilion, you bring it for the mourning family." When I tell her to do things, I also appreciate her. Qingcheng didn't dare to support the palace people, so he answered the call and turned around and walked towards the Xinuan Pavilion. The palace people inside and outside were called to serve outside, the hall was empty, Qingcheng passed through the front hall, went west along the palace corridor, entered the warm pavilion, and sure enough, found that there was a fan on the couch. She didn't stop for a moment, picked up the fan and walked back, and when she reached the corner of the palace porch, a hand suddenly stretched out from the corner door and dragged her in. There was a scream of "ah" in her head, and she opened her mouth to call someone.

The Emperor kissed her involuntarily and swallowed her cry into his belly.

He tightened her tightly, as if he hadn't seen her in a few lifetimes, kissing her all the way to the neck. Qingcheng breathed a sigh of relief, pushed him, and said, "What do you want to do?" The Emperor raised his head and smiled evilly, "What do you say I want to do?" Qingcheng glared at him obliquely and said, "This is Shoukang Palace, the Queen Mother knows, what should I do?" ”

She pressed against the vermilion wall, and the hot air rushed straight to her, making her sweat drenched. She was dressed lightly, and the clothes on her chest and back were transparent and glued, lining off her bumpy collarbones and high breasts. The Emperor propped his hands on the wall and encircled her in the middle. He was tall, she had her face up, and he had his head down, just facing each other.

The two stalemate for a long time, Qingcheng was so ashamed that her neck was red, and the emperor suddenly smiled, pinched her face, and said, "What do you want?" I have to do something, you think it's normal, don't you? Qingcheng came back to his senses and complained: "Oh, the Queen Mother is still waiting to use the pu fan, you follow me, the Queen Mother is unhappy to know." ”

The emperor said: "I said that I wanted to change clothes, and I turned half of the garden to the backyard of the East Warm Pavilion, and others didn't know that I had come to the West Warm Pavilion again." Qingcheng broke free from his arms and said, "I'm going back." The emperor said, "Wait a minute." He stuffed something into her hand and said, "I'm going to Dongnuan Pavilion again." With that, he went in the opposite direction to her.

Qingcheng spread out his palm and saw that it was four white and tender lotus seeds with peeled skin, and he couldn't help but smile. She walked back slowly, chewing the taste of lotus seeds, sweet and astringent, and slightly bitter when she chewed the lotus heart.

But she still thinks it's delicious.

The people in the courtyard didn't know what had happened just now, Qingcheng looked down, walked behind the Queen Mother, and gently shook the fan. The Queen Mother glanced up at her and said, "Why did you go for so long?" Qingcheng lied and said, "Pu Fan fell under the bed, and the concubine looked for a while." Fortunately, the sun was bright, and her face was flushed, and the Queen Mother only thought she was sunburned, and she didn't ask again.

After a while, the emperor came from the east, and he glanced at Qingcheng faintly, and nothing happened. Everyone said for a while, first the emperor drove away, then the queen mother was tired and wanted to rest, and everyone in the back was scattered, and the remaining Fu nobles stomped their feet in the court and said: "If you want to disperse, you don't say a word, the emperor clearly said that the winner will be rewarded, I..."

If you want to talk about rewards, the emperor casually talked nonsense and forgot about it a long time ago.