In the second half of the night, the snow fell more densely, and the fine snowflakes fluttered in the heaven and earth, and soon the palace walls, cornices, and golden roofs were dyed into a color, and the ground was also covered with a layer of white snow quilt.

This ancient palace city, which has been used since the previous dynasty, is surprisingly quiet, but for the harem girls, it is definitely a thrilling night.

Especially the palace eunuchs who served the two mothers, all of them seemed to be on an errand with their heads up, they were afraid that one of them would not be good, their master had ascended to heaven, even if they could escape the punishment of the wrath of the Son of Heaven, they didn't know what kind of hell place they would be sent to do hard work by Princess An, who was in power!

On Tangshan, Princess An herself and the Queen Mother slept soundly.

Princess An got up very early and listened to the latest news from her henchmen, and she was quite happy.

She refreshed herself and carried a bottle of rugged and beautiful plum branches into the queen mother's room, and said to the queen mother who was combing her hair by Mama He with a smile: "The queen mother is getting up late today, which shows that this hot spring village is in line with the queen mother's heart." If not...... The queen mother should stay here for a few more days. ”

The Queen Mother watched Mama He put on solemn outing jewelry for herself in the mirror, and smiled almost invisibly.

"The queen's birth is a major event of the country, and it is reasonable to mourn the family, so she should return to the palace to sit in the town."

After that, she asked Princess An to pack up and prepare to return to the palace in advance.

After the grooming was completed, Mama He went down to pass the meal, and the Queen Mother took the opportunity to wave away the other idlers and talk to the most favored eldest daughter-in-law.

"Mother, the plan is going well. The person who was placed in the Hanyu Hall by Concubine Xian gave Wen Meiren an oxytocic drug, she is the head of the first palace, and it is her duty to take care of Wen's production, and it is safe here. As for the queen, our people in Kunxu Palace also took advantage of the chaos to make some moves, so that the queen mother also went to share weal and woe with the Wen family. However, His Majesty had been guarding the Kunxu Palace last night, and they didn't leave until they were about to go to court, and they were not very easy to do. ”

The Queen Mother snorted, as if she had already heard reports from others, and she was not surprised.

"Both of the Qin and Wen families are firstborns, and they are not full-term, one is seven months, and the other is eight months, both of which are very dangerous. The mourning family had already instructed them not to take action until necessary. God may come to our side. After that, he even recited Amitabha.

Princess An echoed again and again, but a small drum played in her heart.

She knew that her mother-in-law was cold-hearted, and when she was a concubine, she didn't know how much blood she had on her hands, but now that she is older, she believes in the Buddha, but the essence of coldness is still increasing.

Princess An's life is not good, she was widowed soon after her marriage, and her full-term birth was not very smooth, and she was still deeply impressed by the fear of wandering in the ghost gate in the past few years, and at this time, she also had some pity for the Qin family and the Wen family, who were also women.

Pity is pity, if you want to achieve her goal, or rather, to achieve the goal of the Queen Mother and her, the Qin family must not give birth to a healthy prince, otherwise there will be endless troubles!

The only thing Princess An is worried about is that the Queen Mother actually endured such a poisonous hand against her own son and grandson, and such cold-blooded really made her cold.

Although Princess An knows that the Queen Mother has always been worried about the difficult childbirth when she gave birth to Her Majesty, the relationship between mother and son is not very harmonious, and she is paranoid that the death of the eldest son is also controlled by the second son, but Princess An is worried that if her son really sits in that position one day, what fun will she have when the new Queen Mother is pressed by the Queen Mother?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had breakfast, and the person sent by the palace to report the news had just arrived.

After listening to the report expressionlessly, the queen mother looked at Princess An, who had a sincere expression of grief, and smiled coldly in her heart.

The group hurriedly returned to the palace, and after entering the Shenwu Gate, the Queen Mother did not go back to Cining Palace to settle down first, but went directly to Kunxu Palace.

To the surprise of the Queen Mother, the emperor, who was supposed to handle government affairs in the upper court or in the imperial study, actually welcomed out.

Huo Yanzhi said with a heavy expression: "The queen mother replied quickly, which shows that the messenger was done properly and should be rewarded." ”

When Wang Dexi in front of him heard this, he hurriedly responded, and ran down in small steps to give the reward.

The little eunuch who received the reward didn't dare to take credit, and he didn't even dare to show a little joy on his face, but he felt that it was better not to have a second time with this reward.

The queen mother's heart was suddenly, she raised her eyes and looked at the emperor carefully, and saw that the other party's face was slightly yellow, the eyes were blue and black, and there were a lot of red blood in the whites of her eyes, obviously she had stayed up all night.

"The queen's childbirth is a major event of the country, and the mourning family hurried back when they heard the news. After all, there is no one in charge of affairs in the palace, and the mourning family is not at ease. Speaking of which, just a few steps from Chengguang Gate to Kunxu Gate, the mourning family saw a number of palace people and eunuchs walking around randomly, which is really not like words! ”

Huo Yanzhi didn't respond, and only led the Queen Mother inside, and Princess An had to warm up on the side.

"How could it be so coincidental that Wen Meiren and the queen mother got together? However, the two of them seem to be ten days and a half months apart, and it is fate that they collide together. When I got up early this morning, the queen mother and the concubines were frightened when they heard the news, and the queen mother was very anxious, or the concubines coaxed them to finish breakfast, and returned to the palace with a few people. ”

Huo Yanzhi nodded lightly: "Princess An has a heart." ”

While everyone was talking, they surrounded the Queen Mother and the Emperor into the hall.

The Queen Mother couldn't wait to sit down, so she asked: "The little eunuch who asked on the road just now said that the queen has not yet given birth, what is the situation now?" ”

Hearing this, Huo Yanzhi's expression became even lighter.

"In the second half of the night, the situation was a little bad, I have ordered the doctor to administer the needle, and now the midwife, the doctor and others are trying to find a way."

The Queen Mother held the Buddha beads and asked, "What about the Wen family?" Why did it start all of a sudden? Another eight months......"

That's what Concubine Shu is talking about.

Concubine Shu was confined to Shangyang Palace on suspicion of poisoning Wen Meiren and the eldest princess at that time, and it happened to be launched when she was eight months old, which was quite strange. And the production is also extremely difficult, and the eldest son of the emperor who was desperately born is still a congenital sick seedling!

Huo Yanzhi lowered his eyes and sighed slightly, as if he also remembered the eldest son who had a hard life.

The Queen Mother frowned, and her voice immediately raised.

"Emperor, this is not the time to break your spirits! What happened to Wen? In this gap, the Xiao family is not guarding the Kunxu Palace, so it shouldn't be the Wen family, right? Previously, Concubine Xiao Shu had harmed the Wen family once, and this time it was launched in advance, if it was done by that poisonous woman again, the mourning family would not spare her again! ”

Because the palace gate is going to be under the key at night and the city gate is also going to be closed, yesterday, the queen mother only had time to receive the news of the Wen Meiren before dark, and the queen's wrestling was also followed by the premature birth or the news that she only received this morning.

But in order to be the first to go out of the city to report the news when the city gate opened, the man had already touched out of the palace and did not know the follow-up.

When she returned to the palace, the queen mother was followed by the person sent by the emperor to report the news, and it was not easy to ask questions immediately with great fanfare, at this time, she really didn't know whether Wen and the fetus in her womb were dead or alive, so she also had a little sincere anxiety when she pretended to be with the emperor.

"Don't worry, the queen mother, Wen Meiren has Concubine Xian to take care of her, Concubine Shu and the others are in their own palace, I asked them not to come out......"

Before Huo Yanzhi finished speaking, someone outside rushed over and shouted in surprise: "Your Majesty, start your Majesty, Wen Meiren gave birth to the third princess safely!" Mother and daughter are safe! ”

The Queen Mother was stunned, and the corners of her mouth immediately appeared with a smile of relief.

"Good! Wen's merit, deserve a heavy reward! ”

Princess An took the initiative to retire with a very good look, and went back to Cining Palace to make some gifts for the Queen Mother for Wen Meiren.

Huo Yanzhi also breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyes to look at the vast world outside, but felt that his heart was also white, and he didn't have the slightest mood swing.

The Queen Mother looked at him twice, but she thought he was worried about the queen, so she didn't show any joy.

But she thought about it for a while, and felt that maybe the emperor just didn't like Wen Meiren, after all, he didn't even go to the harem recently, and he only remembered the cheap maid who looked like Yuan Guifei.

If that cheap maid really entered the harem, I'm afraid it would be a powerful harem Yuan Guifei, fortunately, she made a timely move and stuffed people into the backyard of King Xin's mansion!

The emperor and King Xin are close in age, and they have been very deed since they were children, and their relationship is better than that of many biological brothers, which can be regarded as a strange story in the royal family. Now the emperor intends to cultivate his wings, and he wants to reuse the king of letters, but when the lowly maid becomes the person who believes in the king, can the brothers still trust each other and cooperate seamlessly?

Xu is Empress Dowager underestimated the friendship and tacit understanding between the emperor and King Xin, and also underestimated the degree of the emperor's audacity, so she did not leave eyeliner, nor did she know that Zhi Wei entered the palace of King Xin with her front foot, and was sent out through another side door in less than an hour.

At this time, in the small courtyard of the Song family, the atmosphere was also a little tense.

While Jiang Xue was serving Zhiwei for breakfast, Xiao Ling blocked Jinxiu in the corner.

She asked in an unkind tone, "Why did the girl take off this bracelet last night run into your own makeup box today?" ”

Jinxiu was shocked and refused to admit it.

Seeing this, Wen Zhu and Yan Qiao also came up to play a round, saying whether there was a misunderstanding.

Xiaoling didn't care about it, and directly pulled Jinxiu to distinguish it in front of Zhiwei, and threatened to let Zhiwei see the true face of Jinxiu, Yunyun.

Zhi Wei tossed and turned all night, barely falling asleep, and woke up at dawn, now she had a headache, and it hurt even more when she heard Xiaoling's trademark loud voice.

After learning what had happened, Zhi Wei's face was a little strange.

Although she had never seen Jinxiu, she knew from her brother that Jinxiu was a stable and generous girl, a leader inside and out, and was deeply trusted by her mother. Although she is a maid, her mother is actually similar to her daughter, and even prepared a thick dowry for her, but Jinxiu has never met the person she likes, so the dowry has not been sent.

The bracelet Xiao Ling was holding in her hand was one of the "dowries" that the Queen Mother ordered her to give her yesterday, and the workmanship was quite exquisite, but it was not a good product, and it was worth ten taels of silver at most.

If she said that she received such a small bracelet as a splendid meeting with five or two months' money, a generous annuity, and a large dowry from her mother, and even stole it from her master's precious daughter on the first night she returned home, then she would be too stupid!

Compared with Xiao Ling, who has only known each other for a few months and has a shallow relationship, she is naturally more trustworthy than her brother who is connected by blood.

Zhiwei looked at Xiaoling and then at Jinxiu, and then put down the spoon slowly and methodically.

"Oh, don't you say I almost forgot, I gave this bracelet to Jinxiu. Over the years, Jinxiu has taken care of my mother and made great contributions, which is a little bit of my care. ”

She turned to Jinxiu and said angrily: "Sister Jinxiu is too, why is she so narrow, don't tell Xiaoling directly, and still cooperate with her to act?" My brother is really right, Sister Jinxiu is a Maitreya Buddha who can't be offended, and now I understand it. ”

"What? How can it be? This bracelet is obviously ......"

Zhi Wei glanced helplessly at Xiao Ling, who was halfway through the questioning and lost her voice, and she didn't have to think about it to guess Xiao Ling's lame calculation.

"Okay, it's just a misunderstanding, don't take it personally. If you don't want to stay here, you can tell me directly, and I'll send you back to Huangzhuang in a hurry. There is just one thing, if you stay in my Song family for a day, you have to treat Sister Jinxiu as a general respect, and you can't call at her at will, you know? ”

Zhi Wei is used to serving others, but now her identity has changed suddenly, but Jiang Xue and others still have a feeling of "being the same as the end of the world", and they don't want to shake any prestige casually. But Xiaoling's approach was really weird, so she had to guard against it.

Jinxiu also got off the donkey down the slope, smiled and said no to Xiaoling.

Xiao Ling was so angry that she didn't dare to officially tear her face, so she had to respond with a forced smile and expose the matter lightly.