"Concubine Xiang's mother......" Chu Tao said and tilted her head: "I don't have any news, but I heard that Concubine Xiang's morning sickness is a bit bad and she doesn't often go out of the house." ”

Lin Yuan let out an "oh". Concubine Xiang was a little unexpected. When she came back from Youzhou Station, the biggest defense in her heart was Concubine Xiang, thinking that she had taken away the imperial favor she valued the most, and she didn't know how she would hold a grudge. However, in the past five or six days, I haven't seen any action from the other party. Lin Yuan's heart has been hanging, I don't know how she will make a move, or she is not ready to make a move at all?

After breakfast, Lin Yuan boredly played with a few jade ornaments newly rewarded by the emperor. There was a ground dragon in the house, and there were three large braziers at the feet, which made people drowsy warmly, but Lin Yuan got up too late and couldn't sleep, and at this time he really felt that life was too idle.

After waiting until dusk, the people of the big and small palaces in the Mirror Moon Pavilion were also busy, preparing to welcome the holy car. However, half an hour later, Chu Xue came in panting from outside, and said to Lin Yuan: "Little master, the emperor can't come today." ”

Lin Yuan didn't have a look of disappointment on his face, but pulled the corners of his lips and smiled: "Did you go to Lintoe Palace?" I know where Concubine Xiang can sit still. We don't have to bother with ......."

"No, little lord!" Chu Xue waved her hand again and again: "The emperor is in Huayang Palace...... Ye Guiren is pregnant, and it has been three months! ”

Lin Yuan sat up from the bed suddenly.

How did Ye Xiuxin get pregnant?

Pinching his fingers, the emperor left the palace on September 14 and went to Beisai, and now it is November...... Ye Xiuxin should have been pregnant in early August. At that time, she was a favorite, and the emperor stayed for many days, so it was not uncommon for her to become pregnant. Can...... Tuoba Hong's harem is different from that of previous dynasties, and several powerful relatives are inseparable and check and balance each other, and the disputes are far more cruel than those of other dynasties. The struggle between the queen, Concubine Xiang, and Shen Yunrong also caused the situation of the heirs of the harem withering. Ye's small nobleman, without the support of a strong mother's family, was able to conceive a child for three months, which was really not easy.

"Is the news coming out? She even hid it before that? ”

Chu Xue thought for a while and said, "What I said is that the emperor has been away from the palace for so long, and Ye Guiren's pregnancy has not revealed the slightest rumor. It's really hard for her to hide it, the emperor is gone, but the palace is the world of Concubine Xiang...... Oh, didn't Ye Guiren serve the Queen Mother with Concubine Tian? The slave maid guessed that it was sheltered by the Queen Mother. ”

"Really?" Lin Yuan's brows furrowed: "These days, the Changle Palace is served by Tian Concubine, Tian Concubine is a capable person, and in just a few months, Ye Guiren, Wu Guiren, and Xu Ronghua have all been suppressed. Ye Guiren and they rarely show their faces in front of the Queen Mother. ”

"But if it's not the Queen Mother, then who else can it be! Ye Guiren himself did not have such a great ability to keep the child. Chu Xue said: "Now the Queen Mother is also very happy, and she has just personally decreed that the noble person is a good lady." Ye Guiren was thin and weak, and he couldn't see anything in the thick satin in winter. Today, Ye Guiren asked for peace in the queen's palace, and he was dizzy and asked the imperial doctor to come and see, so he missed the trap. There is no main seat in the Huayang Palace where Ye Guiren lives, and the queen has already ordered the nobles to move to the side hall of Changxin Palace for a temporary residence, which is also convenient for taking care of ......"

Lin Yuan was suddenly startled when she heard this: "You said the queen? ”

"Yes, it is also the queen's job to take care of the pregnant concubines." The first snow is still unconscious.

Lin Yuan was shocked. She pulled the first snow with one hand: "In the two months that we followed the emperor to Beisai, most of the people who served in front of the queen mother were Wang Shurong and Tian Concubine, Xu Ronghua and Ye Guiren were all excluded by Chu Huasheng. The Queen Mother and the emperor were valuing Chu Huashang, and a Ye Xiuxin had no weight in their hearts, so they let the Ye family be suppressed. You've heard about this matter, if it is said that the Queen Mother wants to protect the Ye family, how can she snub her? ”

"Now that Ye Guiren has a body, the Queen Mother is naturally happy when she knows it. But why didn't Ye Guiren move to Changle Palace, but Changxin Palace? ”

Lin Yuan asked many questions. In the end, she looked at Chu Xue fixedly and said, "Do you remember that when Bai Xiuwei was alive, she used to be friends with the Ye family?" ”

Chu Xue grew her mouth in surprise, and the look on the back was specially frightened: "Little master, you mean...... Empress? ”

"You tell me, did Ye Guiren agree to move to Changxin Palace?"

Chu Xue suddenly felt a little enlightened, and nodded and said: "Yes, Ye Liangyuan is now the most expensive little lord in the palace, and the emperor is very happy, if she doesn't want to go to Changxin Palace to live temporarily, the queen can't force her." ”

"That's right." Lin Yuan said, and suddenly slapped his palm on Xiao Ji, and his face revealed anger: "Queen Xiao, what a good means!" Far away in the deer paddock can still strategize and win thousands of miles away! She calculated the lives of the Shen family and King Zhao, and also calculated that she wanted to have a child for nothing! Ye's children are different from Concubine Xiang, the emperor is jealous of Concubine Xiang, but he likes a concubine from a humble background like Ye to give birth to an heir. There are so few children in the harem of Great Qin, if this child can be born safely, it will not be the biggest bargaining chip in the hands of the queen, and even the future heir ......"

When Lin Yuan said this, his voice stopped abruptly. In the silent hall, he could even hear the sound of snow outside the door pressing on the branches, and Lin Yuan felt that his palms were sweating.

She didn't care about the injury, and almost immediately wanted to jump out of bed. She grabbed Chu Xue's arm vigorously and exclaimed, "Queen, she played such a big game of chess!" Chu Xue, do you remember how Bai Xiuwei died in the first place? She was a corpse with two lives, and she was poisoned by arsenic in the Lintoe Palace! I have never understood why the queen would use a child as a bet in exchange for Concubine Xiang's life. It's not a good deal......"

When Chu Xue heard this, her heart was even more turbulent than Lin Yuan. The corners of her lips trembled, and she muttered in a low voice, "When the accident occurred in the Lintoe Palace, it was exactly a few days after the fifteenth day of August. According to the day, the little master of Liangyuan was pregnant in early August, and if the pulse was stable, half a month's pregnancy could be detected. In other words, the queen already knew at that time ......"

"That's right! She's already aware of everything! Lin Yuan's face gradually turned pale: "Ye, the daughter of Jeju Tongju, entered the palace in the winter of the seventh year of Qianwu, and was favored at the beginning of the eighth year. At that time, Concubine Xiang was a little louder, and I and Bai's and Ye's new favorites were often bullied by her, Ye Xiuxin's mother's family was not obvious and not particularly liked by the emperor, and she was punished by Concubine Xiang in public several times, and her life was very difficult. Later, she became friends with me, but because of Concubine Xiang, she had to pretend to be incompatible with me on the surface. Ye Xiuxin is soft and weak on the face, but in private she is good at dancing with long sleeves, and she slowly got close to Bai Xiuwei when I didn't know it. I used to suspect that she was being co-opted by the queen, but now it seems ......"

"In other words, the queen mother has already held an imperial heir in her hands!" Hatsuyuki tried her best to suppress her horror.

"Yes, she has long controlled the Ye family, so she dares, she dares to sacrifice Bai Xiuwei's child." Lin Yuan sighed slightly, Bai Xiuwei is an excellent candidate to be a chess piece, but the only deficiency is that she is most proud of her illustrious family background - the granddaughter of Bai Ze, the secretary of the ministry, and the eldest daughter of Bai Yi, the governor of Lunan, such a background, even if the emperor does not favor her, it is impossible to wronged her. It is unlikely that the child she gave birth to will be handed over to others to raise, and it will take a lot of effort for the queen to get this child.

And Ye Xiuxin, the daughter of a little six-pin-general judgment, even if she gives birth to a prince, she is not qualified to raise herself.

Tuoba Hong weighed the thoughts of the court, and his wisdom was as clear as the queen. It was impossible for the emperor to allow her to hold two imperial heirs, Ye and Bai Xiuwei could only choose one, so the other was used by the queen for other purposes......

Everyone in the palace knew that Bai Xiuwei was the queen's person, but they didn't know that Ye Xiuxin was also working for the queen. On the bright side, Bai Xiuwei did a lot of things for the queen, and finally put her life on the line, which can be said to have died after doing her best. But what the queen really values in her eyes is the inconspicuous Ye family.

"Speaking of which, the Ye family lives in Huayang Palace. Isn't there a master in Huayang Palace? Lin Yuan thought of an inconsequential question and asked it casually.

Before Chu Xue could answer, she remembered herself, patted her head and said, "Oh, that Zuo Zhaoyi Niangniang, who has been sick for five years, lives in the main hall of Huayang Palace, right?" It's a pity, if Zuo Zhaoyi is in good health, how could the Ye family's fat be easily snatched by the queen. ”

***

Ye's pregnancy was like a boulder, thrown into this harem, which was not peaceful. And the news that she was about to move to Changxin Palace shocked the concubines even more. The Ye family has a bad background and can't become a big climate, but once this child becomes the queen's bag, he will be named or something in the future, isn't the harem of the Qianwu Dynasty the queen alone.

Not to mention what the harem concubines have in their hearts, this Queen Xiao is getting heavier and heavier, and Tuoba Hong will not be happy when she sees it. It's just that Xiao Yueyi was poisoned by the assassins sent by King Mu Wu and fell ill, and she couldn't have children for the rest of her life. The most important thing is that the Ye family himself also respects the queen very much, and he also personally asked Tuoba Hong for grace and wanted to move to Changxin Palace.

Lin Yuan didn't know Tuoba Hong's thoughts, but no matter what, three days later, Ye Xiuxin still moved into Changxin Palace as she wished.

Tuoba Hong finally allowed the queen.