After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather gradually gets cold, the leaves in the courtyard are withered and withered, it rains at two o'clock at night, and when you get up in the morning, the fallen leaves are spread all over the court, and you are depressed everywhere. Yun Huang rested the plum-shaped tea tray on the porch, smoothed the cuffs of her skirt, and brushed her sideburns against the glass window before lifting the curtain and entering the house sideways.

The emperor writes in the study, and the concubine embroiders socks in the east room, with a flower hall in between. Yun Huang glanced at the study, bent his knees in front of Concubine Chun with the tea tray, and said, "Master, please use tea." Qingcheng was stunned, she didn't call for tea, and thought that the emperor was thirsty, so she said: "I don't need to, you can send it to the emperor." ”

Yun Huang answered "yes" softly, but retreated into the flower hall, lifted the bead curtain, slowly entered the study, and said with a lowered face: "Long live the lord, please use tea." The emperor hummed, put down the imperial pen, served tea and asked, "What is Qingcheng doing?" Yun Huang was a little nervous, and his palms trembled slightly: "Long live Lord Qiyu, the pure master is sewing socks." He added another sentence and said, "The female red of the pure master is really good, and the embroidered butterflies can really fly." ”

There was only one little eunuch in the room, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but sweep his eyes.

The emperor's brows furrowed, and he quickly calmed down. He took a leisurely sip of tea, and asked in a cold air: "Don't you know the rules of the imperial front?" Yun Huang's little trick was recognized, his heart was cold, and he knelt down and said: "The slave and maid lost their words, please forgive the emperor." The emperor threw the tea on the case and said, "Don't you dare to think about it when you look at the pure master who is easy to bully?" Sheng Yan was furious, and the little eunuch who was bluffing Mo weakened his knees, knelt on the ground, held his breath, and didn't even dare to raise his head.

Yun Huang kowtowed again and again, and said: "The slave and maid don't dare, the slave and maid are guilty, please let the emperor calm his anger." ”

Qingcheng heard the sound of the study, threw away the needle and thread, helped Hai'an over, and said with a smile: "What's wrong?" Who made us angry? Seeing Yun Huang kneeling and trembling, he said softly: "Yun Huang has been serving in the house for a short time, you have to take care of it." Then he led the emperor straight to the east house, and said, "I embroidered two pairs of socks, you can try to see if they fit." ”

The emperor looked at Yun Huang, gritted his teeth and said: "I am the most disgusted person! ”

Yun Huang trembled, his lips trembled, and he collapsed to the ground. The emperor had no more words and went with the orange. Hai'an pulled Yun Huang back to a secluded place under the corridor and asked, "What the hell is going on?" Yun Huang recalled that the emperor was still scared, and his face was full of tears, and he didn't dare to say it to Hai Anming. Hai'an looked at her dress, seventy percent of the new light green embroidered madder pattern palace satin robe, with clusters of new silk flowers between the sideburns, shaved her face and spread a thin layer of incense powder, slightly coated with rouge, it does have a bit of a posture.

Haian understood, poked his fingertips on her forehead, and scolded: "You, you, are you delusional?" It's really bold, dare to think about the charming master..."Yun Huang grabbed Hai'an and said: "Good sister, I was blinded by lard - confused, you say, will the emperor tell the pure master?" Will the pure master drive me away? ”

If you let her go back to Xinzhiku, it is better to kill her directly.

Yun Huang cried and cried: "It's all Rouman's dead girl, what do you say to make the pure master like it, it's better to let the emperor like it, I'm afraid that she will take the lead, and then... Good sister, what should I do now? ”

Hai An said: "No matter which palace maid it is, if you dare to seduce the emperor in front of the master, you won't end well." Yun Huang cried more and more, and choked up: "Then what should I do?" Hai'an said: "If you are truly repentant, admit your mistakes to the pure master, and serve the master with peace of mind in the future, don't look forward and backward, and die by yourself." ”

Yun Huang nodded, his palm clenched into his fist, secretly thinking about how to beg Qingcheng for mercy.

Qingcheng concentrated on the emperor's dragon foot comparison, and his expression was not a trace of displeasure, and the emperor couldn't help laughing: "Don't you ask why Yunhuang made me angry?" Qingcheng put on his socks again and said slyly, "Since you are angry, I don't need to ask again." Anyway, it didn't matter what she did, so why bother me to ask something. ”

Everyone knows it.

She was not good at bending over, and the emperor himself put on Huang Zhang's leather boots, looking displeased. Qingcheng grabbed his sleeve and said with a smile: "Be jealous, you dislike it, I finally indulged it, but you still dislike it." The emperor glanced at her and said, "It's not a question of being jealous or not...", he pinched her cheek and said, "I'm worried that you will be bullied by the minions." ”

Qingcheng smiled proudly and said, "As long as you are here, no one will dare to bully me." After a pause, he said: "Yunhuang, this girl is not bad in nature, and she is also quick in doing things, but she has made you angry today, and I am afraid that I will never dare to do it again in the future." Besides, she is still young, so she can stay in the palace for a few more years. Erqi is twenty-five years old this year, and he will always be released from the palace. ”

The emperor said: "There are so many grandmothers in the palace who stay until they die. ”

Qingcheng pulled his fingertips and shook them, and said, "She has been with me for many years, and she always has to leave the palace, not only her, even Hai'an, but also Hai'an." The more faithful they are to me, the less I can do them badly. ”

The emperor sighed lightly and said, "Don't be reluctant to do it yourself. The two talked for a while, and after dinner, the emperor drove back to the Heart Cultivation Palace. Hai'an intended to help Yun Huang, so he led her to Qingcheng to apologize. Because the emperor's performance was acceptable, Qingcheng was not very angry, but if he was not punished, he was afraid that the wind would grow, so he said: "I will go to the Shen Punishment Division to receive ten rods, if there is a second time, I will follow the rules of the palace." When the time comes, you will die or live, and you will never be soft! ”

Yun Huang breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Dai De and said: "Master Xie Chun forgives, Master Xie Chun forgives, the slave and maid don't dare anymore." He happily ran to the Penal Division to receive the punishment. In such a fuss, there is no longer the heart of the Lord.

Half a month later, it was the time when Qingcheng was in labor, and Erqi's illness was cured, and he still went back to the house on an errand. While she is taking care of the green oranges to give birth, she is teaching Yunhuang hand in hand. In the days of recuperation, she got along with Jian Yuheng every day, the two of them were as plain as water on the surface, but their hearts were like turbulent waves, and their relationship was getting deeper and deeper. The two tacitly agreed that they did not need to promise to testify, nor did they need to exchange tokens, but they were just safe and calm, waiting for the opportunity.

The autumn cold dew is heavy, the green orange gives birth to a daughter in the middle of the night, the emperor loves it, and sees the moonlight as white as silver frost, casually evokes the nickname of the second princess, for "Jiao'er", which means to take the wish of brightness and beauty.

Among the harem children, Jiao'er is the only child who has her own name at birth.

The emperor also attached great importance to the recuperation after the birth of the green orange, and he also wanted to let her have a few more children, afraid that there were too few cooks in the kitchen of Yikun Palace, so he transferred two cooks from Jiangsu and Zhejiang from the imperial dining room. He was afraid that the ingredients would not be fresh enough, so he specially ordered Erqi to list the required ingredients one day in advance and submit them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure that the vegetables and meat that Qingcheng eats every day are transported into the palace from outside the palace early in the morning. I was also worried that she would not be able to go out, and the air in the dormitory was not good every day, so the Internal Affairs Office cultivated four or five Xifu begonias, all of which were tall, packed in large black porcelain jars, and placed under the window for green oranges to enjoy the flowers.

Xifu Begonia is the flowering period in March and April, and the internal affairs office baked these pots of flowers originally intended to be placed in the Qianqing Palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, and when the emperor gave the decree, they baked for several nights before four or five plants were opened, and all of them were moved to Yikun Palace. This flower is away from the warm place, and it will freeze to death overnight, and the petals fall into a room, and the green orange is reluctant to be swept away, so he sat on the stool and looked at it for a long time, and sighed: "It's a pity." The Emperor stood beside her, stroked her head, and said, "It's a blessing for you to be able to take a look, but it's a pity." He smiled again: "When you are out of confinement, let's go to Nanyuan for the New Year, okay?" ”

Qingcheng said: "It's good, but for the New Year, you can't take just one of me." ”

The emperor rubbed her cheek and sneered, "Then I'll go back after the New Year, and I'll only take you with me when the time comes." Qingcheng nodded and said, "Take Yongzhang, Yongying, and Jiao'er, as well as the lion and the gray rabbit." There is also this rocking chair, I also want to bring it, and I will ask Hai'an to take some materials from the warehouse, Ruyi and the like, and go to Nanyuan to reward the palace people who are in charge below. The emperor looked at her and was overjoyed, and said, "You can bring whatever you want, even if you move Yikun Palace over, I will agree." But—"

He looked at her in a foolish manner, and Qingcheng looked up and said, "But what? If you can promise me anything, then I can promise you too. The emperor leaned over to her ear and lowered his voice, a strong manly breath brushed on her sideburns, strands of broken hair floating around her neck like tickles, and he said, "Bring a few more nurses." ”

Before he finished speaking, Qingcheng blushed first, glared at him with a smile, and said, "Don't rob Jiao'er's rations!" ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Who robbed her?" There are so many nurses, can she still be hungry? He stretched out his hand to untie the brocade button on her chest, and said, "Let me see, there is not much ration for Jiao'er." Qingcheng was amused by him, turned around and stood up, took a few steps to avoid him, and said, "Hai'an, they are listening outside." Where did the emperor care about this, he waved his long arm, took her in his arms, and said, "It's not that they haven't heard of it, what are they afraid of." ”

Qingcheng hurriedly shouted outside: "Hai'an, I'm thirsty." ”

The emperor had an expression of "don't think that you can escape by calling someone", and gnawed his head straight into her neck before giving birth to a child. The buttons burst open two or three, revealing a strong milky fragrance, the emperor opened his mouth to suck, Qingcheng pinched his mouth with both hands, and the flower branch trembled: "No, no, I haven't been out of confinement yet." Then he whispered, "Wait a little longer." The emperor stopped, and the two of them warmed up for a long time before they hugged each other and sat on the couch and spoke. They are the masters, they can do whatever they want, but just now Qingcheng shouted and asked Hai'an to serve tea.

Hai'an is the palace maid in charge of Yikun Palace, she has done countless things, she has always been generous and clever, but she is also embarrassed at this time, holding a tea cup in her hand, neither entering nor retreating, standing at the door hesitating.

Wu Shulai wore a black coat and cloth boots, tiptoed into the flower hall, and glanced at Hai'an. Hai'an willed, followed Wu Shu to pick up the curtain to the corridor, and asked: "What is the matter with Wu Chenda?" Wu Shulai grimaced and said, "What's going on inside?" As soon as he opened his mouth, he felt speechless, and hurriedly said: "The minister of Hongde Hall sent people to urge me several times, and I broke into it recklessly, and I didn't know how to send me down." Hai'an also felt embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "Just now, the pure master shouted thirst, and I didn't dare to enter after serving tea." ”

In the early winter, Wu Shulai rubbed his old hands and sighed lightly: "There is no way out, I can only wait." ”

The shadow of the begonia flowers in the house is horizontal, quiet and fragrant, like deep spring. The green orange hair is not curled in a bun, and the black strands are shiny, hanging down on the shoulders like ink jade. Her cheeks are slightly plump, but her face is extremely beautiful, and she has the charm of a woman when she smiles. The emperor looked at it with a smile, stared fixedly, and did not speak for half a sound.

Qingcheng held his face in both hands and said, "Am I getting fat?" The face is rounded. ”

The emperor couldn't help but smile, pulled her hand away, lifted a few strands of hair on the side of her ear, and said, "What's wrong with being round, no matter what you become, I don't dislike it." Concubine Xian is too thin to conceive an heir. ”

He gently kneaded and played with her earlobe, making her itch and tremble, and leaned over to kiss again, Qingcheng leaned slightly to the side, and smiled: "Don't make trouble, you still have to go into the talk..." Qingcheng gradually became emotional, and his hands climbed on his shoulders, allowing him to act recklessly.

The two were inseparable, and suddenly there was a loud cry outside the door, Qingcheng was stunned, pushed the emperor away, and said, "Jiao'er is awake, I'm afraid I want to breastfeed." Then he looked outside and said, "Come in with the second princess." Haian replied "yes" and was busy in the back room. Wu Shulai found a gap and said courageously: "Long live Lord, it's time to go and speak." ”

The emperor disturbed his interest and said, "Really..."Qingcheng straightened the dragon robe for him, and said with a smile: "What is it?" The emperor pinched his cheeks with love and hatred, bared his teeth and said, "It's really annoying!" Qingcheng pursed his lips and smiled, and then held his expression and said: "Yongying should go to school in the south study after the New Year, I haven't been able to care about choosing haha beads for him, you look for it first, you have a candidate in your heart, and wait for the New Year to lead it into the palace for me to see." ”

Mama Jiaoyin stood in the flower hall with Jiao'er in her arms and didn't dare to come in, and said carefully: "Master, the second princess is here." ”

The Emperor replied, "Come in." Then he said to Qingcheng: "I have written it down." Seeing him go out, Qingcheng took a royal blue silk cloak from the truss, waited for him to tie the golden ribbon, sent him out of the bedroom with a smile, and turned around to hug the second princess to breastfeed.

Although Concubine Chun was born to a princess, no one in the harem dared to peep at her. Needless to say, the emperor's reward is so much that it can be worn until the second princess is ten years old, and there are only more than ten kinds of gold, silver and jade, but each piece is worth a lot of money, and the green orange is not taken out, and it is directly sealed in the treasury, ready to be given to her as a dowry. Then there is the queen mother's reward, which is not luxurious, but it is the "Diamond Sutra" transcribed by the queen mother herself, and Qingcheng ordered someone to bind it and put it next to the pillow of the second princess to ask for the protection of the gods. Since the Empress Dowager had given face, the Empress did not dare to slacken, and ordered the Internal Affairs Office to prepare the auspicious clothes and crowns worn by the second princess on Chinese New Year's Eve in advance, and personally sent them to Yikun Palace to celebrate.

The queen entered the green orange dormitory, and saw that there were more than ten kumquat trees in the room, yellow and bright, very attractive, and couldn't help but say: "There are fruits in the house, and the fragrance is better than those flowers and plants, quiet and elegant." ”

Qingcheng picked one casually, peeled it with his bare hands, and handed it to the queen: "You taste the taste, it is sweet and sour, and the entrance is delicious." The queen broke two pieces and ate them, and said with a smile: "It's really good." For a while, I asked Mama to bring the second princess over, and the queen said a wishful word of health and safety, and then drove back to the palace.

Feng drove to the palace street, and the queen suddenly felt that something was wrong, and asked Shanrou, "I was in the garden yesterday, why did I see that the kumquat on the tree was rotten?" Shanrou's expression froze, and she said calmly: "The kumquat in the pure master's room is not the variety you usually see, but it is specially cultivated by the Internal Affairs Department in order to please the pure master. Long live the Lord was afraid that the pure master would be stuffy in the house, and the air was not good, so he ordered the Internal Affairs Office to smoke the house every day for the pure master to pay tribute to a kind of flowers. I also paid tribute to Xifu Begonia..."

The queen rebuked: "Enough! ”

Shanrou hurriedly booed, silently following her shoulder. The winter sun was shining, and the wind was wrapped in a cold air, but the queen did not feel cold at all, and in her chest, no, every corner of her body, there was a fire, and the heat was rising, as if it was about to burn, so hot that her hands and feet trembled, and she couldn't breathe. She leaned weakly on the stool hand, and secretly thought: Wrong, wrong, wrong from the beginning, her opponent may not be Concubine Xian at all, not Concubine Gao, but this lowly Han girl.

The golden light poured across the glazed roof, reflecting on the queen's face, which looked particularly pale and deep. She clutched the sandalwood beams on the stool tightly, her knuckles were white, and her tendons were jumping, as if she was going to break the wood!

Among the three children, Kyau'er is the most like a green orange, her eyes are like two black grapes, she is big and round, her nose is straight, and more importantly, she is the only one who inherits the pear vortex of green oranges. She was only a few days old, and she was looking around with her eyes open, and the emperor put his finger in her palm, and she grabbed it tightly, opened her mouth and smiled, revealing a shallow pear vortex. The more the emperor looked at it, the more he felt like an orange, and the more he liked it. Yongzhang was even more proud, showing off to the eldest princess, eldest brother, and fourth elder brother in the south study all day long, saying how beautiful his sister looked. Originally, there was only one girl in the palace, the eldest princess, and several boys were very accommodating to her, but now that there is a second princess, she suddenly loses her status.

After class, several princes and princesses came to Yikun Palace to see the second princess.

Jiao'er is not afraid of life, and she will smile at whoever teases her. The fourth elder brother shouted to hug him, but the eldest elder brother hurriedly stopped him: "No, be careful of falling the second princess." Yongzhang refused even more, and said: "Even I am not allowed to hug you, where can I get your turn." They focused all their attention on the second princess, the eldest princess felt very lonely, and felt inexplicably wronged, and as soon as she turned around, she was full of tears.

But no one noticed.

Qingcheng came out of the confinement, and on the first day, he took the second princess to Shoukang Palace and Changchun Palace to thank him, and on the second day, he and Hai'an counted the rewards of the second princess in the treasury one by one. It was not until the third day that she found time to reward the grandmothers and eunuchs who had contributed during the childbirth, and even the imperial doctors and medical women of the imperial hospital, she took care of them, and ordered Erqi to take fifty taels of silver from the warehouse, and let the kitchen prepare a table of good meals, and reward the imperial hospital for a banquet.

As the New Year approaches day by day, there are fewer and fewer political affairs between the DPRK and China. When it snowed, the emperor stayed in Yikun Palace almost every day, he sat in the study to make folds, and Qingcheng was in the east room or to deal with palace affairs, or to hold the second princess to play, or to take a needle and thread to embroider socks and brocade. Since giving birth to the second princess, she often feels back pain, can not sit for a long time, can not stand for a long time, sometimes read and write for a long time, the waist pain at night can not move.

The emperor knew that she had fallen ill and was worried. Every time he lingered on the bed, he didn't dare to be as reckless as before, he was always careful and careful, gentle and gentle, for fear of making her have a backache. Later, I heard the imperial doctor say that practicing horse steps is helpful for treating back pain, so I often have to force Qingcheng to practice. How can a lady do such a rude action?

Qingcheng twisted in every way but refused, the emperor was easy to say, and finally thought of a way, and said: "If you are willing to practice horse steps for a quarter of an hour every day, I promise you not to mention the marriage between Jian Yuheng and Fucha." ”

When he was still in confinement, Qingcheng mentioned to the emperor that Jian Yuheng had a sweetheart and didn't want to be married. The emperor felt that this was not the same thing at all, and if he had a sweetheart, he could be a side Fujin, a concubine, or a concubine, and there was no conflict with him marrying the Fucha clan. What's more, the emperor wanted to raise Qingcheng's family background, and thought that Jian Yuheng was too ignorant, and he wanted to find an opportunity to train him well.

With such a deal, Qingcheng had to agree. But every time, he silently hid behind the screen to practice, and no one was allowed to look at him except Haier who was waiting on the side. After more than half a month, the emperor suddenly found that the strength on Qingcheng's waist was really great, so he often let her move on him, because Qingcheng is pregnant, childbirth, and confinement, the two don't know how much time they have lost, and when the taboo is unlocked, it is really like lacquer, and the newlywed after a long absence can't be dismantled.

Qingcheng crossed his legs on the emperor's waist, he sat with her waist pinched, biting the flesh on her chest, and playing with his wonderful hands, "At dinner, I saw that you had only eaten half a bowl of porridge, are you quitting eating again?" Qingcheng didn't have much strength on his own, so he relied on the emperor's hands to float up and down, and gasped: "I have a double chin on my face, and when spring opens and I lose my clothes, it will look bloated, which is really ugly." The emperor relieved the softness in his mouth, raised his head and smiled: "Who said it was ugly, I feel that it is better to be fat, and it is more interesting to touch and rub." Qingcheng bit him on the shoulder and said, "I don't want it." ”

That being said, after listening to the emperor's words, he stopped fasting.

When the emperor turned around, he told the queen about the cancellation of the marriage, and the queen was very happy when she heard it, and she didn't show it on her face, and said: "Master Jian has excellent medical skills and an unlimited future, and it is a pity to lose this marriage." Since she was polite, the emperor did not expose her, and laughed it off. The queen said: "Concubine Chun gave birth to the second princess and suffered a lot, and the emperor should cherish her." After a pause, he said: "Yesterday, the concubine went to Shoukang Palace to ask for peace, and the queen mother had a lot of complaints about this, wanting the six palaces to be harmonious, and the emperor should treat everyone equally, and the concubines..." ”

Seeing that the emperor's face was gloomy, the queen didn't dare to say any more, so she lowered her face and said, "It's the concubine who lost her words." The emperor didn't really care about her, and after drinking tea, he drove back to the Heart Cultivation Palace.