The moonlight was blurred, like a pouring streamer, covering the courtyard. Qingcheng sighed faintly, born in the royal family, whether it is favored or not, the road is very difficult. Er Qi went into the house to invite dinner, and the emperor was strategizing, not wanting to push too hard, and said with a smile: "I know that you are tired all day, so let's eat early and rest later." ”

Then the palace people set up a meal, and the two of them ate around the table, and the delicacies did not need to be detailed.

Qingcheng had no appetite and put aside the dishes and chopsticks early. The emperor knew that she was in a bad mood, so he said, "The moon is full today, let's go for a walk in the forest and eat less." "The back garden is lush with trees and summer flowers, swirling and dancing under the moonlight. The guard of honor followed from afar, and the emperor grabbed Qingcheng's finger and said, "You are ready to prepare, but you will return to the palace tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Qingcheng was stunned, obviously said that he would live until the New Year, why just... No wonder he just said that he wanted Yongzhang to move back to his brother's office, it turned out that he had already measured and wanted to drive back to Luan.

The emperor stepped on the broken shadow and paced slowly, and said: "Shu Yao is seriously ill, the queen has a letter, I'm afraid it won't last long, I always want to see her for the last time." "Shu Yao is the nickname of the noble concubine, and there are few concubines who can make the emperor remember the name. Qingcheng was stunned, and only said in a half-loud voice: "Didn't you say that it has improved?" The emperor smiled coldly and shook his head helplessly.

In the final analysis, Concubine Gao was also seriously ill in order to pass on the emperor's ancestry, and he finally felt guilty.

Qingcheng comforted: "Don't worry too much, the noble concubine is a celestial person, and it will be fine." The emperor pinched her face and smiled reluctantly, "If you don't go against me, I will be comfortable." Qingcheng pouted and said, "When did I dare to disagree with you?" ”

The emperor said: "I said two words about Yongzhang, you just put on a face with me, and you don't even eat a snack, don't you call it a contrarian?" Qingcheng smiled: "I really can't eat, I just have no appetite." The emperor glared at her and said, "Why don't you usually see that you have no appetite, but you are still angry with me, right?" ”

Qingcheng was so anxious that he stomped his feet and said, "I'm really not angry." ”

At this time, she was indeed discouraged, and she didn't know how lucky she was compared to the noble concubine.

The emperor likes her angry little daughter's posture very much, she is angry and stupid, and the shallow pear vortex is the most demagogic. I couldn't help but peck at her lips and said, "What a little thing that flatters the master..."

Qingcheng thought that he would return to the palace in two days, and there were countless women waiting for the man in front of him, so he panicked a little, and couldn't help but throw himself into his arms and said, "I really want to stay here forever." She looked up at him again, the milky moonlight reflected on her face, and there was a faint sadness in the haze, and said, "When will we come back?" ”

The emperor rubbed the tip of his nose against her forehead and said with a smile: "I haven't left yet, I just want to come back." ”

Qingcheng said: "Only here can I feel truly relaxed and comfortable. Every morning, I wake up to the sound of you stepping barefoot on the ground. Every night, no matter how late, you will come back to me. Don't worry about anything, don't worry, you'll come back obediently. Her careful thinking, the emperor saw through it, hugged her tighter, and said: "Don't be afraid, although there are many people in the palace, you are different from them." After a pause, he said, "Because you are my sweetheart." ”

He is the most noble person in the world, and there is no woman in the world who can resist his love words.

Qingcheng's eyes were fogged, and he involuntarily stood on tiptoe and kissed him...

It's like a sweet, smooth and tender custard... I don't want to let go, I can't wait to swallow it. It was hot in early summer, and he was in three or five or two.... Tender and sweet, wishful thinking.

The shadows were sparse, and the palace people were standing in the distance with their heads down, and they couldn't see it clearly. I just knew that the two were hugging each other, but I didn't know what they were doing. Of course, in the eyes of the emperor, even if he knew, it was nothing, who would dare to chew his tongue?!

The Changchun Palace was silent, the emperor was not in the Forbidden City, the harem was silent, and the queen took care of sorting out the accounts and cleaning up the palace forces of Concubine Xian, and even the palaces were exempted. Concubine Yu ran to Changchun Palace every day, on the one hand, to visit the fifth elder brother, and on the other hand, the queen was short of people, so she was just taking her. The queen held a bowl of almond tea, pinched the silver spoon with a small cloud handle and scooped it slowly, raised her eyebrows and said, "Aren't you afraid that the noble concubine will be cured, do you know that you killed her child?" ”

Concubine Yu hurriedly covered the ears of the fifth elder brother, who was already three or four years old and could understand the words. She couldn't help frowning and said, "Please don't say these things in front of Yongqi, the queen master." ”

The queen said: "The son gave the name, and you are also bold." ”

Concubine Yu was stunned, and squatted and said: "The concubine lost her words, please forgive the queen." The queen let her squat, instructed Shanrou, and said, "You take the fifth elder brother out to play for a while." Shanrou agreed, led the fifth elder brother out of the flower hall, and let the grandmothers lead them back to the side hall.

The queen drank the almond tea slowly before saying, "Get up." ”

Concubine Yu said respectfully: "Queen Xie." She lost sensation in her legs, and when she sat back on the stool, she gradually dispersed like ten thousand ants gnawing at her, until she could not move half of her body.

The queen said: "I don't care about the noble concubine, she is the banner of the Han army, and her family background is a little better than that of the pure concubine, but compared with you and me, it is far behind." It's nothing more than her father and brother who are powerful in the court, so the emperor named her a concubine. Her enamel armor scraped on the kang table one by one, and Yu Concubine trembled when she heard it, and continued: "But one more person is always upset when competing for favor." She had such a serious illness, if her father and brother made any more great achievements, the emperor might give her a Manchu surname and give her an identity. ”

Concubine Yu knew that the queen could no longer tolerate a terminally ill noble concubine, so she asked tentatively, "What do you mean..."

The queen smiled on her lips and said, "You should understand." He added: "If you do this well, I will send Yongqi to study in the south study tomorrow." "Earlier, Concubine Yu begged Qingcheng to mention the matter of haha beads to the emperor, saying that she said it, and haha beads were also found, but the emperor turned around and went to the palace, and Yongqi's study in the south study was delayed.

Concubine Yu's heart was surging, and she had killed the noble concubine and lost her child, which had made her feel very guilty, and now she was still letting her kill people, really... It's hard to accept. Concubine Yu stiffened her head and said: "It is only a matter of time before Yongqi goes to the south study, and the concubine is not in a hurry." ”

The queen seemed to guess that she would be like this, and sneered: "Shangnan study will have to go to the study sooner or later, but if you get sick, the emperor can't do anything." Concubine Yu was so shocked that her fingertips were numb, and she couldn't even speak, she had always felt that the queen was a Manchu surname, a real nobleman, and she had lost her son, so she wouldn't treat the fifth elder brother badly anyway, but she didn't want to, she forced her to the point where she was.

Concubine Yu had thousands of thoughts in her mind, but none of them could be grasped. Seeing that she was hesitant and couldn't make up her mind, the queen breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Actually, you don't have to do anything, the noble concubine is hanging with a breath, it's nothing more than the pure concubine deceiving her that the seventh elder brother is still alive, you just need to reveal some rumors to her, so that she knows the truth, that breath is gone, and naturally she can't live." ”

When Yonglian died, if it weren't for the entire Fucha family, the queen was afraid that she would follow, precisely because she knew the pain of losing her child, and it was precisely because she understood that she could attract fatality and harm people invisibly.

Concubine Yu bit her lip, very embarrassed. But for the sake of the fifth elder brother, she has a way to choose.

Qingcheng got up early in the morning, first served the emperor for breakfast, and filled his stomach with it. When the emperor drove to the front hall, she passed the word and asked all the palace people to carefully pick up their luggage and prepare to return to the palace. I went to the second courtyard to see Yongzhang again, stared at him after taking the medicine, washed up, and let him read early in the room by himself. For a while, Mama hugged Yongying, Qingcheng checked the prickly heat on his body, smeared the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor, and led him to the yard to see the sika deer.

But in the blink of an eye, it was afternoon. After serving Yongzhang and Yongying, they both took a nap, and Qingcheng got the things that he wanted to bring back to the palace at the sea security checkpoint. What porcelain bowls, spoons and bottles and the like don't have to be taken, clothes, shoes and socks are also picked up and kept for most of them, and then there are three or five rabbits, squirrels, golden monkeys and sika deer, it is troublesome to bring back to the palace, and they are reluctant to put it here, which is really annoying.

When the lamp was in charge, the emperor returned to the apse, and the room was rummaging through the cabinets, and dust was blowing everywhere. Qingcheng was afraid that he would be pickled, so he hurriedly pushed him to change his clothes in the bedroom. The emperor said: "I will come in the future, and I will keep some things that can be kept." ”

Qingcheng said: "There are already a lot left. Waiting for him to change into an apricot yellow ice silk robe, he twisted a warm towel and wiped his face for him, and then walked out hand in hand. Back in the flower hall, Hai'an had already cleaned up, put the sandalwood box high in the corner, and asked someone to load the carriage early in the morning. Qingcheng knelt behind the emperor, rubbed his shoulders and neck for him, and said, "Whatever is on the side, it's easy to say whether to stay or take away." But those rabbits, squirrels, golden monkeys and sika deer, Yongzhang and Yongying like them very much, and it's a pity not to take them away. She looked at the emperor with pleading faces, and if he agreed to take him back to the palace, the people under her would have to figure out a way anyway.

The emperor sat cross-legged on the kang, his hands on his knees at will, upright and majestic, meticulous. He said: "After Yongzhang returns to the palace, he will go to the south study to study, how can he have time to play." Yongying was young, and when she got into trouble with the animals, she inevitably contracted the disease. Seeing that Qingcheng was quite disappointed, he smiled again: "If you like it, bring rabbits and squirrels, but you can barely do it." ”

Qingcheng leaned over the emperor's back, wrapped his hands around his neck, and said happily: "Thank you, Emperor." ”

There is a sewing basket on the kang table, which is filled with silk flowers, colored threads, silk silk, etc. The emperor stretched out his finger and flicked it, and said, "You did it all by yourself?" Qingcheng replied: "He Hai'an cut and embroidered patterns, and there are some colored silk threads left, and it is a pity to throw them away, make some small velvet flower spikes and the like, and use them well." The emperor picked up a crimson flower, put it on the green orange sideburns, looked left and right for a long time, felt very satisfied, and said with a smile: "You occasionally bring some red pink, it looks good." ”

Qingcheng put away the sewing basket, smiled, and said, "When you wear it too much, you feel cheesy again." He turned around and called Erqi for a snack, on the last night of the palace, Qingcheng cherished it extraordinarily, and I don't know if there is such a good time in the future, I can guard the huge palace alone with the emperor, just like ordinary people's families, husband and children, and harmony.

The sky is full of stars, the moon is in the sky, and the Milky Way is like a bright pearl falling into the sky. The dining table was placed in the pavilion, and Mama brought Yongzhang and Yongying to say goodbye, and the brothers played around the dining table. The cool wind on the summer night blew the light gauze curtain floating, Qingcheng drank quietly, watched Yongying hugging the emperor's thighs and coquettishly, and said: "Huang Ama, hug... Hug..."

The emperor bent down and hugged him in his lap and asked, "What do you want to eat?" Yongying said: "Crisp cheese." The emperor said with a calm face: "If you eat too much, you have prickly heat on your body, choose something else to eat." Yongying said again: "Glutinous rice chicken." The emperor picked up the chopsticks and was about to clip them, hesitated for a moment, and said: "At night, eat glutinous rice and be careful to accumulate food, you..." E-niang..."

Qingcheng got up and hugged Yongying in his arms and slowly coaxed. The emperor said, "What is he crying about?" Qingcheng smiled: "You don't let him eat this, you don't let him eat that, of course he will cry." Yongzhang still had a way, so the eunuch brought the cage containing the squirrel and said to Yongying: "Brother, let's feed the squirrel chestnuts together, okay?" Yong Ying wiped her tears, twisted her little arms and legs and followed Yongzhang to tease the squirrel, and after a while, she giggled.

In the middle of the night, Yongzhang and Yongying went to sleep, and Qingcheng refused to leave the table. She ate two pots of osmanthus wine, her face was flushed, and she walked a little swaying. The emperor said softly: "Ming'er has to leave early in the morning, so you have to rest early." She twisted and refused, and said, "I still want to drink, and when I go back to the palace, I can't be presumptuous." The emperor couldn't help it, so he carried her back to the house, served her to change her clothes, took off her shoes, cleaned her hands and face, and ordered Hai'an to serve her to wash herself.

The emperor lay down in a wide robe, and the headlights were turned off in the room, leaving only two oil lamps on the bedside table. The brightness of the bean filled the room, reflected on her cheeks, and lined her cheeks. She was already asleep, breathing steadily, with a faint smell of alcohol. He remembered that the last time she was drunk was a few years ago, when Yongying was not yet there, she threw up all over his body, and kept muttering in her sleep: Your Majesty... I have you in my heart... Do you have me in your heart?

At that time, he didn't know how to answer, the harem concubines, there is pampering, and when pampering, there is naturally something in his heart. No one dares to despise his grace, and no one dares to dominate his grace. He has a lot of women, from the concubine Gege who was rewarded by the Queen Mother before the wedding, to the later accession to the throne, the minister's dedication, the draft in the palace, countless women, surrounded by him, Yingying Yanyan, he is also a person who does not refuse. So ask him if there is anyone in his heart, and he can say that there is, but no one will stay long.

Green orange is the one that has been the longest stop.

Even he himself never thought that such a Han woman, who was not the most beautiful, not the most gentle, had no noble status, and no father and brother to support her, could stay by his side for five or six years and give birth to two princes.

Moreover, he actually wanted to continue to keep her in his heart.

In her dream, she was coquettish, turned sideways, and kicked the quilt. He sat up very gently, borrowed the dim light to replace her armpit quilt, wiped away the broken hair in his mouth, and was afraid that she would get up tomorrow morning and have a headache to hurry, so he thought that he must let her drink the sobering soup and get up again. Groggily remembered the first time I met her in the royal river, the moonlight was blurry, she was holding a lotus flower in her arms, black silk was full of shoulders, and she was humming a little tune casually. The tone rises and falls, gradually spreading in the mind, as if falling into a dream.

Before dawn, Qingcheng woke up. The emperor was already dressing, and said, "You sleep for a while, and when the things are loaded and everything is arranged, you get up again." He also instructed Hai'an, saying, "Cook two bowls of decanting soup for your master to drink." Hai'an responded, Qingcheng felt a headache, squinted his eyes for a long time after eating the sobering soup, and waited for the sun to rise, so he dressed and washed.

Wu Shu came to do things neatly and cautiously, and Qingcheng had a meal, and there were palace people who came to invite him to sit in a sedan chair. She took Yongzhang and Yongying to the palace gate in a sedan chair, the emperor had already arrived, and when the four masters got into the carriage, the honor guard of hundreds of people began to march slowly. Non-stop, in the evening, it has arrived at the Forbidden City's Donghuamen Heavenly Street.

The emperor first went back to the Yangxin Palace to change his clothes, freshened up a little, and then sat on his shoulder and went to Shoukang Palace to greet the Queen Mother. He was benevolent and filial, and when he was in the palace, he had to hand over an excerpt almost every day. The Queen Mother was in good spirits, leaned on the kang and smoked a hookah, and sighed: "The high girl is also unlucky, you go and see her, it's not in vain for the husband and wife." The emperor was worried, so he knelt down and hurried to the Xianfu Palace. Xianfu Palace was originally a concubine's dormitory, magnificent and luxurious, and the place was deep and wide, but when I looked at it now, even Wu Shulai couldn't help but shudder. It was deserted, and the long-lasting smell of medicine could be smelled everywhere, and even the palace people who were waiting for it were full of gloom.

A palace maid sent a message to the dormitory, saying, "Master Gao, long live the Lord has come to see you." ”

The noble concubine lay on the couch for several months, shaped like a tree, her face was pale, and even her breathing was intermittent, if there was nothing. When she heard this, she wanted to sit up, but she didn't even have the strength to move. She called out to the palace maid who was with her and said, "Quickly hang down the tent and burn two spoonfuls of agarwood incense into the incense burner." The palace maid responded, and she was in a hurry for a while.

When the emperor entered the house, everyone had not seen the saint for a long time, and they all wanted to make a great salute. The emperor walked to the front of the bed several times and said, "It's all free." He added, "Hang up the tent and let me take a good look at the noble concubine." The palace maid was embarrassed, and the noble concubine said in a weak voice: "Your Majesty, please forgive the concubine for being rude, the concubine has not dressed up for several months, it is not suitable to see the emperor, I am afraid that your eyes will be stained." ”

In the Han Dynasty, there was a Mrs. Li, who was deeply favored by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and when she was seriously ill, she was masked and did not meet Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to let Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty remember her appearance when she was beautiful and treat her family well. Concubine Gao didn't read much, and she didn't know why, but she didn't want the emperor to see her. She didn't know what to say, but the emperor understood, so she didn't force it, and moved a square stool to sit in front of the couch to talk.

The doors and windows were closed, and the aroma of agarwood incense could not cover the strong smell of bitter medicine, and the emperor took pity on you and said: "Shu Yao, let you suffer, when you are well, I will definitely compensate you." Listening to the emperor calling her boudoir nickname, the noble concubine burst into her throat, and tears rolled all over her face. She said: "Thank you for your concern, Shu Yao is very happy to have your words." After a pause, he said, "Does the emperor remember the first time he saw his concubine?" The emperor said: "I remember, it was winter at that time, there was a lot of snow, the emperor held a banquet in the plum garden, and you danced in the plum blossoms in a red dress, which was really beautiful." ”

There was no sound in the tent, and the noble concubine was stunned for a long time, and said: "The concubine remembers that it is spring, the peach blossoms in the palace are blooming, the concubine is naughty, and she climbed to the tree with the girl to pick flowers, and accidentally fell off the tree, and you took the concubine back to the house." ”

The emperor thought about it for a while, and sure enough, he remembered it wrongly, and said embarrassedly; "That's right."

Concubine Gao knew in her heart that the emperor must have confused herself with other women, and she felt a sense of loss in her heart, and said: "The emperor has a lot of opportunities, and it is normal not to remember such trivial things. ”

The emperor became more and more guilty, and promised: "When you are cured, I will take you to the Mulan paddock to hunt, I remember that you love to ride horses." But I heard the noble concubine smile faintly and said: "It's not the concubine who loves to ride a horse, it's the master who is a good master." The emperor realized that he had said something wrong, so he simply shut up. The noble concubine said again: "I'm afraid the concubine won't be good, the emperor doesn't have to be sad for the concubine, death is a relief for the concubine, and the emperor should be happy for the concubine." ”

With such a sad tone, the emperor was sad when he heard it, and said: "Don't think nonsense, wait for you to get better, and I will announce that your parents will enter the palace to see you." The noble concubine's voice came low through the curtain and said, "No need. ”