The emperor would not let her go, and with a stretch of his long hand, he covered his body. She was thinking about finding the needle and thread, her fingertips wrapped around the buttonholes on his chest, and her eyes were dizzy, and she said, "I want to sew buttons...", the emperor smiled slyly................ There was a faint smell of wine and the aroma of lotus seed tea between her lips and teeth, and she was slightly drunk......... Enthusiastic.

Not long after resting, it was already dawn, Wu Shulai called up, the emperor put it on, and looked at the green orange on the bed, she was in a dream....... Sleep deeply. The emperor was in a good mood, waved his hand to Hai'an, and whispered two words. After breakfast, the holy driver drove the military plane, bumped into the eldest brother and Yongzhang on the road, and walked together for the first time on a section of palace street.

At three o'clock in the morning, Qingcheng got up, feeling pain all over his body, if it weren't for the palace people waiting to dress and wash, he almost couldn't get off the bed.

After eating, Hai'an brought the ointment, and Qingcheng asked, "What is it?" Hai'an blushed first, and was embarrassed to say it clearly, so he only said: "It was the master who called the slave and maid to prepare, saying that the master could use it." "Qingcheng opened the goose yellow glass lid, and there was half a jar of blue and semi-permeable ointment inside, which was cool and cool, revealing a faint medicinal fragrance.

Qingcheng understood, his cheeks turned red, he took a sip, and said angrily: "He..."

When the words came to his lips, he paused again. The people in the room had all served on the bed, and Qu Zhi understood it all after a little thought. Qingcheng became more and more ashamed, and retreated from everyone, before hiding alone in the curtain to smear.

After the Qixi Festival, we should prepare for the Wanshou Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The queen, concubine and others are all busy, they fight everywhere, and they want to control the power themselves, making Qingcheng more and more idle day by day. She is also idle, she won't do anything if she doesn't give her something to do, except for going to Shoukang Palace and Changchun Palace to ask for peace, and every day she nests in Yikun Palace to draw two paintings, write a few words, and accompany Yongying to play with rabbits and the like. Sometimes Yongzhang brought the princesses to eat pastries, and she also had time to prepare them herself.

Hai'an and Er Qi are the palace maids in charge of Yikun Palace, and they have a very good face in front of Qingcheng, so each of them has a unique room. After a day of green orange lunch break, I felt hot and wanted to eat ice cheese. Erqi had gone back to the next room to eat, Hai'an listened to the words of the palace people, and saw that Erqi's door was half-covered, so he leaned in and wanted to say something. saw Er Qi sitting quietly in front of the window, holding a pair of black boots in his arms, crying silently. Hai An said: "The master wants to eat ice cheese." ”

Erqi seemed to be greatly stimulated, and hid the black boots behind her back in a panic, but as soon as her hand was released, the shoes fell to the ground. She was stunned and looked at Hai'an blankly.

Hai An knew that the pair of boots, there were palace people in front of him who bumped into Er Qi and Jian Yuheng giving each other objects, Hai An talked to her once, and it was a big crime to teach privately in the palace. Er Qi was weak-hearted, and only said that he borrowed the eunuch's things and sent them to Jian Yuheng for urgent use, Hai'an was aware of it at that time, but he didn't investigate it deeply. When I saw this scene today, I immediately understood it.

The two of them absentmindedly returned to Qingyunzhai to serve, Hai'an didn't ask, and Er Qi could only be silent.

The Wanshou Festival was supposed to be celebrated, but because Yongcong was sick, the emperor had no intention of congratulating, and after receiving the congratulatory gifts from the princes and ministers in the previous dynasty, he stayed directly in the Changchun Palace, and even the dinner in the Yangxin Palace was exempted. To the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yongcong's illness has not yet healed, the emperor got up in the morning in Shoukang Palace to the Queen Mother to ask for peace, successively saved the Mid-Autumn Festival worship and singing and dancing banquets, and transferred from outside the palace to the shaman to pray for blessings, and the chickens and dogs in the palace were restless for a while. Soon it snowed, and in order to let the queen take care of Yongcong with peace of mind, the emperor specially ordered Concubine Xian and Concubine Chun to assist in the harem and deal with the major events of the New Year together.

Yongcong's tossing and turning cold disease was finally cured, and the front and harem were all relieved. The emperor sat in the warm pavilion, looking out the window at the heavy snow, the emperor held a bowl of hot tea in his hand, and the hot air spread out, as if separated by a layer of fog, so that people could not see clearly. He got straight to the point and said: "Jian Yuheng has profound knowledge and superb medical skills, and he almost lost his life for the diagnosis and treatment of the people in the epidemic area, and he is a rare good talent in the imperial hospital." After a pause, he said, "I want to marry your fourth sister to him." ”

His intentions, the queen is very clear, in order to give face to Concubine Chun's family.

How could the daughter of the Fucha family marry a Han Chinese? And she is also the sister of the Empress of the Qing Dynasty? The queen didn't dare to argue openly, and said gently: "Lord Jian's concubine has seen it, she looks handsome and her medical skills are also exquisite. But the fourth sister has only been married for a short time, and there is a real gap in age between her and Master Jane..."The emperor took a sip of tea and said, "Age is nothing. He also said: "Don't worry, I will not treat your sister badly, and when the time comes, I will make her a county lord, and the dowry will also be drawn from the Internal Affairs Office, and it will definitely be beautiful." ”

The emperor politely consulted with her on his face, but he couldn't tolerate anyone not agreeing to what he said. In fact, this fourth sister, when the queen married the emperor, she was still in infancy and did not have much feelings. She didn't want to hurt the peace with the emperor because of this, so she smiled and said: "It's all up to the emperor to decide, and the concubine Xie Zhu Longen." ”

Back in Qingyunzhai, Qingcheng listened to the emperor's words and was overjoyed. Although she had never seen the young lady of the Fucha family, she thought that it was not bad, so she wanted to send a letter to her family and ask them to prepare carefully. Qingcheng asked, "When are you going to give the marriage?" The emperor replied, "It's better to finish the New Year first." ”

Qingcheng nodded and said with a smile: "I have to pick up the dowry earlier." ”

The closer we get to Chinese New Year's Eve, the heavier the snow falls. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was held in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and the snowflakes were fluttering, and the empress was ingenious, ordering the imperial dining room to prepare forty or fifty kinds of hot pot. The hall is full of gurgling boiling water, pushing cups and changing lamps, and talking about the joy of family. Qingcheng felt nauseous in his chest when he woke up in the morning, and he didn't even have breakfast, and the smell in the house was strong at this time, and the queen led all the concubines to toast the queen mother. There was no way, so she had to force herself to get up, stand in the center and bow her head three times, and drink the wine.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, so she ordered Erqi to go to the side hall and ask the imperial doctor on duty to take a look. It happened that Jian Yuheng was on an errand, he was wearing an ink-colored official robe and a winter hat, took out a white copper hand stove from his cuffs and handed it to Erqi, and said warmly: "It's very cold outside, Miss Erqi, don't be cold." Erqi thanked her in a low voice, her face flushed with nervousness, and she couldn't speak. Fortunately, at night, although the lights were hanging high, it was not as bright as the day, and Jian Yuheng didn't see anything.

The two of them walked briskly along the corridor, and there was a commotion in the distance, but it was quiet all around. Neither of them spoke, step by step, towards the land of silk and bamboo music. Hai'an had already come out to greet him, leading Jian Yuheng to the small side room at the back of the main hall, Er Qi stayed and stood in place to watch Jian Yuheng's figure disappear into the door curtain.

She swept the hand stove in her arms, so warm that even the tips of her toes were alive.

Jian Yuheng diagnosed Qingcheng's pulse through Jinpa, and Qingcheng had a group of doubts in his heart, and he didn't dare to open his mouth to squeak before it was implemented. Jian Yuheng diagnosed four or five times, and was about to speak, when the emperor suddenly lifted the curtain and came in, "What's the matter?" Got cold? Jian Yuheng hurriedly bowed and retreated to the side, Qingcheng pursed his lips and smiled, revealing the shallow pear vortex on the side of his cheeks, and said, "It's nothing, it's just that there is some discomfort in the stomach, so you don't need to worry." ”

The emperor said to Jian Yuheng: "Really? ”

Jian Yuheng took half a step forward, knelt down on one knee and said: "Congratulations to the emperor, the pure master is pregnant, so he will feel nauseous, it is a normal phenomenon, and it will naturally get better after a while." Qingcheng Xindao was indeed like this, and he was not surprised. The emperor was overjoyed and stunned, and then laughed and said, "Good, good, good, it's a really good day." He shook Qingcheng's hand again and said, "Don't keep vigil today, I will send you back to the palace to rest, you are very tired." Qingcheng was indeed a little tired, so he said: "You don't have to send me, the Queen Mother hasn't left yet, it's not good for you to leave first, I'll go and ask the Queen Mother for peace." ”

When the emperor heard what she said, he took her to the outer hall.

The Queen Mother was also happy when she heard this, and said again and again: "The road is slippery at night, but you have to tell the sedan chair driver to be careful." It's almost time, you go back to wash up and rest. Qingcheng thanked him, and was helped by Hai'an to sit in a warm sedan chair under the corridor. The emperor was afraid that the road would be dark, so he ordered someone to hit the head, lit all the palace lamps on the road from Qianqing Palace to Yikun Palace, and added hundreds of yarn lamps to the foot of the palace wall, like a fire dragon to the depths of the Forbidden City.

Er Qi held the hand stove given by Jian Yuheng in his arms, and his thoughts were like dead leaves falling in autumn, stacked one after another, making people feel lost for no reason. It seemed that the blood in her whole body was rushing to the top of her head, she tore off the Mingjue in her ears, her footsteps hovered close to the green orange sedan chair, and lied for the first time: "Master, the slave's earrings are missing, I want to go back and look for them." ”

Qingcheng said: "It's a big night, the snow is heavy, don't look for it, I'll reward you when you go back." ”

Er Qi said stubbornly: "That pair of earrings was only given by you yesterday, and the slave likes it very much." Ask the master, let the slave and maid turn around and look for it, the slave and maid have good eyes, and it will be fine. The sedan chair was silent for a while, the slender hand raised the sedan curtain, and Qingcheng showed his face and said: "Then you go and go back quickly, if you can't find it, forget it, don't freeze yourself." Er Qi smiled happily, and his whole body was full of strength, and said, "Thank you, master." In fact, she didn't know what she was going to do, so she made an excuse for herself: return the copper hand stove.

The wind and snow were in full swing, and the lights were hanging high all the way, pointing to where she was going. Her steps were brisk and lively, obviously cold snowflakes, but in her opinion, they were stepping on cotton, fluttering, as if they were about to overflow her thoughts. In the midst of all the chaos, there was only one thing left: she wanted to see him, she wanted to see him.

Her shoes were soaked, her skirts were soaked, her shoulders were soaked, and her hair was soaked, but she didn't know it. She stood under the porch and shouted into the side hall, "Master Jane, please come out." "She is the palace maid in charge of the pure concubine Niangniang, and she has a lot of dealings with the imperial hospital, others didn't think much about it, took a look, and then ate and drank.

Jian Yuheng put down the chopsticks, cleaned his hands and face, and went out, seeing that Er Qi was wet, he thought that something had happened to Yikun Palace, and asked anxiously: "What, is something wrong with the pure master?" ”

In the dark sky, snow flakes fall and fly to the lights, like flocks of butterflies dancing in summer. The banquet in the front hall has not yet dispersed, and the voices of people, laughter, and Xiao Zhu have been blown away by the wind and escaped into every corner of the deep palace.

Erqi's cheeks were red, and her heart was pounding. She lowered her head, not daring to look at his face, looking at the geese and birds embroidered with silver silk on the official robe, and was uneasy.

Jian Yuheng was anxious, and asked again: "Is there something wrong with the pure master?" ”

Erqi whispered, "No. She stiffly handed over the brass hand stove, but was speechless. Jian Yuheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled lightly: "It's a cold day, you just take it, you don't have to pay it back." After a pause, seeing that Erqi still didn't speak, he felt a little embarrassed, so he said: "It's almost time, if it's okay, hurry back to Yikun Palace." ”

He turned around to enter the house, Er Qi grabbed his long sleeves, raised a pair of crystal clear black eyes, and said, "What do you think I came to see you in the heavy snow and at the risk of violating the palace rules by locking it?" ”

Jian Yuheng looked at her blankly, unable to answer.

Erqi continued: "I heard that you were injured in the epidemic area, and I was so worried that I couldn't sleep for several nights. I made a pair of boots for you with my own hands, but I didn't dare to tell you, and I asked the palace people to send them to you when it rained. Knowing that you don't like sweets, whenever you come, you will always prepare cakes without sugar. Her tone became softer and softer, "I think you should understand that I like you." The pure master is choosing Fujin for you, and I know that I am not worthy of you, so I have been very worried about whether to tell you. ”

Jian Yuheng seemed to be a little surprised, and seemed to suddenly realize. He stared at her fixedly, wanting to say something, but he didn't know where to speak. A sad smile bloomed on Er Qi's lips, and he said faintly: "I can't help myself." "Time seems to be frozen in this moment, there is no one else but themselves. Jian Yuheng opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a roar, and then the sky and the earth were like day, and the firecrackers bloomed like flowers in the sky.

He instinctively followed the sound, and the stove in her hand fell to the ground, and she stood on tiptoe and touched his lips gently.

It's like a dragonfly dotting water, fleeting.

Jian Yuheng looked at her in surprise, as if she was stupid, and was stunned. Someone in the house was clamoring to come out to see the fireworks when they came out, Er Qi took two steps back, blessed his body, and said, "May the New Year be auspicious and prosperous." Then he looked at him again and turned away. She walked extremely fast, and within a while, she disappeared into the depths of the palace wall.

The colleague patted Jian Yuheng's shoulder and said, "But Yikun Palace has something to order?" ”

Jian Yuheng retracted his gaze and hummed in despair. He tried to take a step, but his toes hit the hand stove that fell to the ground, and it hurt hard. He bent down to pick it up, and looked at it for a while before stepping back into the house.

Qingcheng is pregnant, and Jingshifang temporarily withdrew her green head card, and everyone in the palace is ready to move, all wanting to take the opportunity to win some favor. Since the emperor ordered the fifth elder brother to move into Zhongcui Palace to live with Yu Concubine, Yu Concubine had a dislike with the queen. Now Concubine Yu wants to settle down in front of Qingcheng, so she often goes in and out of Yikun Palace on the grounds of taking the fifth elder brother to Yikun Palace to ask the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother for homework.

That night, the emperor happened to come to see Qingcheng, saw Yu Concubine, smiled, and didn't say anything.

The eldest brother, the third elder brother, the fifth elder brother, and the sixth elder brother all write in the study, and the four brothers sometimes write faster than whom, sometimes better than whom, pointing fingers at each other, which is very interesting. Qingcheng smiled: "Why don't you go and see how many of their brothers write?" The emperor sat cross-legged, leaned on the pillow, and said, "Forget it, I have asked about my homework during the day." ”

He was worried about scaring the brothers into breaking up.

Concubine Yu felt quite restrained and wanted to say goodbye, but she was looking forward to it, so she secretly held on to herself. The Emperor leaned back on his pillow and said slowly, "You've been diligent lately. When Concubine Yu went out, she dressed up, just to prevent her from facing the holy driver, her face was white and red, and her eyebrows turned tactfully: "The fifth elder brother is clamoring to come, and the concubine thinks that the pure master is pregnant, and it is not good to move around, and the concubine chats with her, which can be regarded as accompanying her to relieve her boredom." ”

The emperor bowed his head and said, "It's good that you have this heart." He shook Qingcheng's hand in front of her and said, "Go, bring me the book of Li Taibai." With a look in his eyes, Qingcheng already understood, got up, and shouted to Hai'an: "You help me." Hai An obeyed the order and led the palace people to retreat quietly.

There are only two people left in the house, and the majesty of the emperor is like pressing the head and neck, which makes people breathe hard. Concubine Yu was inexplicably scared, and she couldn't wait to get up and walk away immediately. The emperor still spoke in an unhurried tone, and said: "Before, you relied on the queen for everything for the fifth elder brother, and I saw it in my eyes and understood it very well in my heart. ”

Got it? Understand what? Could it be that the emperor already knew about her murder of the noble concubine...

Concubine Yu was so frightened that her heart was numb, her throat was dry and swollen, as if she had swallowed a mouthful of boiling tea, and she was so hot that she grinned. The Emperor continued, "I don't intend to pursue the past. However, since you were once the queen, you shouldn't always run to Concubine Chun. People who don't know what to do, and they still want to use you to deal with the queen. ”

As the words were, Concubine Yu heard clearly, he didn't do anything else, but he was afraid that he would implicate Concubine Chun.

She hurriedly looked at and took half a step, and said in a squat: "The concubine is confused, and she is so focused on the grace of her pure master that she has not thought it through. When the emperor heard the sound of green orange's shredded footsteps, he straightened up and said, "If you really remember the grace of the pure concubine, don't trouble her." After speaking, Qingcheng had already entered the house with a yellowed book.

Concubine Yu immediately said goodbye: "It's late at night, and the concubine doesn't dare to disturb, so she retires first." He ordered his grandmother to call the fifth elder brother, and the two mothers and sons took a warm sedan chair back to Zhongcui Palace. Qingcheng flipped through Li Taibai's poetry collection casually, sat opposite the emperor, and asked: "What can't you say in front of me, and still look away from me." ”

He doesn't like anything Li Taibai.

The emperor straightened his legs and half lay down, squinted and smiled, and said, "Anyway, it's for your own good." Then he asked, "Yongzhang, have they finished writing?" Qingcheng said: "The fifth elder brother is gone, they are bored, and they go back to the house with the unfinished rice paper." The emperor asked, "Why don't you see them kneeling?" Qingcheng smiled: "Lest you reprimand, I will exempt them." ”

The two of them crooked on the kang and talked for a while, and when sleepiness hit, they rested.

The queen opened the file of the worship room and found that the emperor had stayed in Yikun Palace for several nights in a row. In a month, the emperor only slept in Changchun Palace on the fifteenth day of the first month, and then summoned Concubine Xian and Shu Concubine to sleep for two nights, and the next one was either alone or in Yikun Palace. She didn't have a way to restrain the emperor herself, so she went to Shoukang Palace to make a speech. At dinner time, the Queen Mother announced the pure concubine and reprimanded her face-to-face.

Qingcheng is no longer the only little Chang who was in the past, turned around and told the emperor.

The emperor's sword eyebrows furrowed, squinted at Qingcheng, and said, "What did the Queen Mother say about you?" Qingcheng was pregnant, and she was already a little arrogant and irritable, her mouth was upturned, and she said, "Knowingly ask!" The emperor couldn't help but sneer and said, "The queen mother just reprimanded you twice, so she was not happy?" ”

Qingcheng looked down and sighed lightly: "How dare I! The Queen Mother is right, the harem is the most taboo to be favored by one person, and everyone is in the limelight, and it is not good for me. You are the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the overall situation is important, and you must not be in love with your children. The emperor thought for a moment and said, "What else did the Queen Mother say?" Qingcheng opened his mouth, suddenly changed the conversation, glared at him, and said, "I still want to hear it!" ”

The emperor knew that she was uncomfortable, so he pinched her face and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ming'er I will go and tell the Queen Mother." ”

It is naturally superior for their mother and son to get together and talk well, and they are most afraid that the Queen Mother will think that it is instigated by Qingcheng. She pulled the emperor's sleeve and said, "Don't, the Queen Mother didn't misunderstand, and she didn't like me even more." The emperor knew that she was looking forward and backward, and said with a smile: "Don't worry." "In the matter between the two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law, the emperor knows that he can't act rashly, otherwise only Qingcheng will suffer. Who is the Queen Mother? If she really wants to deal with anyone, no one in the harem is an opponent. The emperor understood that to deal with the Queen Mother, he could only come soft, not hard.

For two days in a row, the emperor obediently slept in the Heart Nourishing Palace. Then he flipped through a few noble people's signs, and most of the time he would go to Jingren Palace to sit with Concubine Xian. The Queen Mother felt that the reprimand of Concubine Chun had an effect, and she remembered Concubine Chun's work of "persuading Concubine Chun to be wet with rain and dew". Concubine Xian's favor is getting heavier, and the queen has no intention of helping her, which is really regretful.

In the spring, the branches have drawn the tender shoots, walking in the court, the faint fragrance of flowers and plants is fragrant, and it is very refreshing and pleasant. This year's new plums have not yet ended, and the ministers of the DPRK and China all know that Concubine Chun loves to eat sour during pregnancy, and they all carry people to the palace to send sour plums frozen in the freezer. In the past, the emperor never talked about the harem in the previous dynasty, but now he intends to hold a handful of green oranges, and specially praised a few ministers who sent sour plums.

Erqi uses sour plums to make all kinds of snacks and soups, so that the green oranges are tired of eating.

In the blink of an eye, the Flower Dynasty Festival arrived, and the palace changed its spring shirts. Qingcheng's belly began to show its outline, and the robes and skirts sewn last winter were a little small, and the spring was warm, so she ordered Hai'an to put a few tables in the court, basking in the sun to change her clothes. At one point, the eunuch of the Internal Affairs Office came to pass the word, knelt on the ground and asked: "Master, the territory has paid some topaz, which is the size of two fists, long live the lord and let the slave ask you, what jade do you want, and the slave will make it for you." ”

I don't know how many jade Ruyi, jade pendants, and jade hairpins are piled up in the library, and even the whole piece of unpolished jade has two basins. But since he has a dumb eye, people come to ask, if she refuses, won't she refute his holy face in public?

She thought about it carefully and said: "Make three jade pendants that press the skirt, engrave the words auspicious, wishful thinking, and peace respectively, and then engrave some cloud patterns." It doesn't have to be too luxurious, the simpler the better, and it shouldn't be too complicated for children. "The eunuchs of the Internal Affairs Office are all clever ghosts, and after listening to Qingcheng, they knew that they were made for the third elder brother, the sixth elder brother and the imperial heir of her belly. He kowtowed and said, "The slave knows, and the slave retires." ”

Qingcheng continued to bow his head and sew, and said, "Go ahead." ”