The news of the joy in the middle palace was like a long leg, and it didn't take long for the queen to settle down, and she flew to every corner of the harem.

Not to mention how jealous and resentful the harem concubines were, how many delicate silk handkerchiefs they tore apart, how many silver teeth they crushed, and how many sleepless nights they tossed and turned......

Among these people, Concubine Xian is not the most calm, but at least one of the top few people.

It is naturally needless to say more about sending congratulatory gifts as soon as possible, but should this seal and palace affairs be handed back to the queen?

Lilac muttered, "Hasn't the queen been sick lately? Now that he has a body again, where can he still have the heart to manage palace affairs? You've only taken over this amount of time, and if the queen takes it back, she will inevitably call those little goblins to talk. ”

Concubine Xian smiled, and still sent her to Kunxu Palace for instructions.

She herself washed her hands and went down to the kitchen, made a bowl of soup to clear the heat and relieve the heat, and sent someone to send it to the Qiande Palace.

The emperor came to Yongle Palace that night, and there was no new news the next morning, and the people in the palace knew that at least in the short term, Concubine Xian Niangniang did not have to return the palace power to the queen.

For a while, all kinds of speculations were caused in the palace because of this incident, and everyone met the palace people and eunuchs of Yongle Palace who were more polite than usual.

Kunxu Palace.

As the queen's most trusted and the first palace maid to know the good news of the queen's happiness, Green Peach is naturally the one who is the most happy. Although His Majesty did not hand over the palace power, the queen mother seemed to be very relieved, and only said that she would put the imperial heir first, so she also put aside the matter and concentrated on serving the master and raising the baby.

Aunt Lin was gone, so she took on the burden of dispatching manpower, and shouted for a while to put away the incense in the palace and the calligraphy and painting decorations that were not suitable for prenatal education, and then called the old ginseng who opened a private warehouse to take hundreds of years to decoction medicine, and was very busy.

Zhi Wei and Mama Chen came to Kunxu Palace in this hectic area.

Thinking of the words that the emperor had instructed her before leaving, she only felt that one head was two big.

Green Peach was the first to question: "What? Your Majesty asked you to serve the mother? With—"

"Green peach, don't talk too much!"

The queen who was leaning on the soft collapse was no longer sluggish, and her face returned to normal, with only a hint of satisfied joy.

"Since Your Majesty meant, we should be grateful. It's just that the palace can't get up, so it's up to you to thank the palace for a while. ”

Lu Tao could only kowtow in the direction of Qiande Palace in the south, and didn't forget to glare at Zhiwei after getting up.

It was only at this time that she dared to interject: "Queen Qiyu, Your Majesty said, there are naturally people to serve on Niangniang's side, and there are a few clumsy slaves and maids, and this time I came to serve Niangniang to give Your Majesty peace of mind." When the little prince is safe and sound, the slave and maid naturally dare not bother anymore......"

The queen said leisurely: "Miss Zhiwei is serious. You are the person who serves in front of the palace, even you are clumsy, how can there be anyone who can be used in this palace? ”

Zhi Wei hung her head and didn't speak, and Mama Chen even pretended to be quails with her.

When she was led to the next people's house, Zhiwei dared to breathe a sigh of relief, but found that Lu Tao directly arranged her and Mama Chen in the same room.

Being able to live in a room between two people is a pretty good treatment, but in this way, if you want to inquire about the news, there are fewer channels. Come to think of it, Green Peach is also worried about this, right?

As Zhiwei expected, Green Peach really guarded against these two foreign "newcomers".

She was not allowed to handle the things she ate and used, and even Zhiwei was not asked to do what she was best at planting flowers.

Zhi Wei felt that Lu Tao probably learned the painful lesson of Concubine Shu's miscarriage last time, and was afraid that she would do it in the potted plants, not only did she not let her handle these, but also got out of those flowers and plants in the name of raising a fetus.

However, this makes it more convenient for her to collect information while wandering around the Kunxu Palace under the title of "His Majesty's personal gift" and "Imperial Palace Person".

However, the green peach didn't let her stay idle for long.

On the third day of Kunxu Palace, the queen casually pointed out what she told the Queen Mother and Princess An a while ago, and she opened her eyes and said nonsense, not to mention that the Queen Mother was full of praise for her, and a few words set the next work responsibilities of Zhiwei.

She was taught as a prenatal teacher.

Mama Chen knows a little about medical science, and when she was young, she served the concubines who were pregnant when the first emperor was pregnant. After coming for a few days, I also cautiously pointed out a few words of daily meals, and got a different look at the green peach.

There are several old mothers like her, and the emperor also sent one over when the concubine was happy. In contrast, Zhiwei is much more eye-catching than her.

Just when Zhiwei was beating her spirit every day to read the Four Books and Five Classics to the queen, there were more and more rumors about her in the palace.

In these rumors, her image is changeable, sometimes she is a bewitching and cheap woman who seduces and lures the emperor and is sent to the queen to make a target, sometimes she is humiliated and humiliated, and follows the queen's loyal chess pieces early, and sometimes she is a scheming woman who plays with the queen's concubine in the palm of her hand......

When Concubine Shu heard these words from He Zhaorong's mouth, her face was very bad.

"Ridiculous! If that cheap maid really has such a scheming, why is she still just a little palace person today? ”

He Zhaorong, who was almost hit by anger, said cautiously: "Perhaps, that cheap maid is deliberately staying in front of His Majesty?" After all, we are in the harem, and we can only hope that Your Majesty will remember us when he has time. She is a member of the Imperial Palace, but she can see His Majesty every day......"

"What?"

Concubine Shu's delicate face suddenly distorted: "It's the palace that looks good, I didn't expect her to have such a mind to retreat!" ”

He Zhaorong echoed and scolded Zhiwei a few words, Concubine Shu regained her composure, frowned and said, "You say, what does Your Majesty mean by sending her to Kunxu Palace this time?" ”

"This, the concubine doesn't dare to say anything. However, Niangniang should have heard that the queen was very wary of her, and she hardly let her touch her hands with the things she eats every day. I really don't know if His Majesty sent her over, whether he wanted the queen mother to have a good baby, or ......"

Before He Zhaorong finished speaking, Concubine Shu snorted: "Didn't the queen want to get her to serve before?" This time the opportunity came, she was tied up, how funny! ”

Although he said that he was funny, there was no smile on his face, and there was a faint anxiety in his eyes. If it weren't for the fetal movements like small fish spitting bubbles from time to time in her abdomen, Concubine Shu was afraid that she would have to say even more ugly words.

"Well, it's none of our business. The palace is also tired, if there is anything, let's talk about it another day. ”

He Zhaorong couldn't help but care about Concubine Shu's body again, and then retreated respectfully.

After leaving, her personal palace maid muttered: "Niangniang is so sexual!" That one is always like this, he comes and goes as soon as he is called, but he has a piece of meat in his stomach, and he is about to think of himself as the mother of the palace! Let Niangniang run errands, and I don't see her on weekdays for Niangniang to say a sentence or two before His Majesty......"

He Zhaorong looked around with a cold face, and when he saw that there was no one, he softened his tone: "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

The palace maid said: "The slave maid is just wronged for the mother." After all, she is the fourth concubine, and Niangniang is the ninth concubine, which is not much worse than her......"

He Zhaorong snorted: "It's far away, at least, your mother doesn't have a piece of meat in her stomach to show off her might, right?" ”

"Next year's draft is going to be drafted again, and Niangniang still has to plan early. The slave felt that the Tang Cai people in the side hall could be used. When she first entered the palace, she also accepted Enlu a few times, but because of her appearance, she looked like the one and didn't like it, and then she was beaten down and has been silent until now. Recently, the slave and maid have seen that Tang Cairen's temperament seems to have changed a lot......"

He Zhaorong and his henchman walked away in a whisper, but they didn't notice that a pair of eyes were curiously looking at a low tree beside the two of them in the distance.

After a while, Zhi Wei walked around behind the bush of dwarf trees with a few books, and stayed for a while before returning to Kunxu Palace thoughtfully.

As soon as he entered the door, he greeted Lu Tao, and the latter asked in an unkind tone: "Why did it take so long to go to the library to pick up a few books?" ”

Zhi Wei said helplessly: "The queen mother asked for out-of-print books, which are very difficult to find. If I hadn't asked those guards to accompany me to look for me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come back by now. That's it, there are two books that can't be found. I'm about to ask my mother for guilt, but Sister Green Peach is still going to stop me? ”

Green Peach let her in.

The queen did not react much to her plea, as if she had expected this result a long time ago, and gently exposed it with a casual reprimand.

Zhi Wei also knew this, since she came to Kunxu Palace and was entrusted with the important task of "storytelling" a few days later, the queen came up with a new way to "serve" her, that is, let her go to a library in the northeast corner of the inner palace every day to find books.

Today I want a certain dynasty version of this scripture and that ceremony, and tomorrow I want a hand-copied version of a certain poetry collection......

In short, after this secondment, she either recited the book in her hand, or crouched on the desk to make an emotionless copying machine, and then held a few books back and forth between the library and Kunxu Palace.

Although she was unable to do any substantive intimate service for the queen, Zhiwei lived an extremely fulfilling life.

The matter of reporting to the emperor can only be done secretly by taking advantage of the loopholes, for example, on the way to the library to connect with Wang Dexi or others.

Qiande Palace.

When the wax-sealed paper scroll was opened again, His Majesty the Emperor's mood had lost its first excitement.

He calmly unfolded the note, looked at the crisp handwriting on it, and his originally calm face suddenly appeared like a lake that had been stoned, with a shallow ripple.

It is not surprising that the queen suddenly moved all the flowers and plants in the palace, after all, no one knows if there will be anything in the pollen that will harm the pregnant woman and the fetus. The concubine in the palace wants to raise a fetus, and it is not too cautious.

But before making this decision, the few words that the queen and her confidants said when they privately reminisced about the past were a little intriguing.

"Concubine Shu is used to using the topic to play! In the past, she had a miscarriage, and most of them had nothing to do with the maid of Fang, but she still made a lot of trouble, coaxing His Majesty to send the maid of the house into the cold palace. She did this, isn't it because the Fang family's imperial history participated in her father's book for a while, and because the palace has pulled the fang maid, she wants to kill two birds with one stone......"

"Back then, this palace would never believe that there was no one behind Mo Cainu, but it was a pity that that person did everything well, except that Mo Cainu died too suspiciously. She died unjustly, I really don't know how she got into Shangyang Palace and did something in that potted plant! Green Peach, you have to keep some attention, don't let those ghosts follow you into Kunxu Palace......"

"And that Sun Cainu, this palace felt that she died a little strangely, but I never expected that Her Majesty would have such suspicions! Oh, these days, you pay attention to the people below, check carefully, and see which slave who betrayed the master poured dirty water on the head of the palace! ”

The Emperor's hand shaking the note quickly remembered the scene when Wen Po came out with the cloth holding the unformed fetus.

"It's a boy's fetus, it's almost formed, it's a pity~"

"Your Majesty wants to be the master of the concubine, it must be them, it is they who are jealous of Your Majesty's favor for the concubine......"

"Your Majesty, Mo Cainu confessed that she was jealous of Concubine Shu's favor, and was punished by Concubine Shuniang for kneeling once in front of everyone, so she hated it, colluded with the maid of the house, and disguised herself to blend into Shangyang Palace......"

"Oh no, Mo Cainu committed suicide by taking poison!"

"Your Majesty, Sun Cainu is gone, is this funeral ......?"

In the empty hall, the soft curtain was moved by the wind, and he remembered the white flags when the first emperor was buried in heaven for no reason.

For a while, the wails and cries of those concubines who did not belong to him seemed to overlap with those in the Shangyang Palace that day, and they were still echoing in his ears at this moment.

For the first time, Huo Yanzhi seemed to see clearly what was hidden behind these noisy chaos.

Is it really sad?

Maybe it's a little sad, but it's more likely to be crying for the loss of power, right?

It turned out that he was not only a stupid emperor who could be deceived by the courtiers and beware of his own mother, but he had never even really recognized the woman in his backyard.

The so-called lonely family, but that's it.