Lin Yuan naturally couldn't tell Tuoba Hong the truth, so he only lowered his head and kept saying, "The concubine should not be loved by the emperor" and so on.

Tuoba Hong saw that he couldn't get a result from the discussion, so he smiled and threw it away, turned around and hugged her tightly on the bed, and the two of them didn't mention it.

***

Lin Yuan was still in confinement, and Tuoba Hong couldn't have fun with her, so he just slept together for one night. On the second day, Tuoba Hong still left early, and at noon came the news that Emperor Dao ordered a new "Yuzhao Palace" in the palace to be given to the newly sealed Hui Gui Concubine.

Lin Yuan couldn't hold the bowl when he heard it, he fell on the small table with a click, rubbed his head and sighed: "What the hell are you thinking about all day long!" If you want to build a palace, it will cost hundreds of thousands of silver taels, and I will become a disaster for Daqin! ”

I knew that Tuoba Hong's brain hole was so big, and he shouldn't have shirked Xianfu Palace yesterday, there was no good reward for hypocrisy! It's really going to roast her on the fire!

Chu Xue didn't speak, and the newly raised palace maid Lan Yi nodded seriously: "Niangniang, you are right, there were courtiers playing in the court this morning, saying that Niangniang is arrogant!" ”

Lin Yuan squirted out a mouthful of tea and slapped the table in anger. Ancient women had no human rights! It's obviously Tuobahong's wishful thinking, and the final charge will be deducted from her!

"No matter what, I won't move to Yuzhao Palace." Lin Yuan was deeply troubled, thought for a while, sighed and beckoned Chu Xue to step forward, and whispered in his ear: "You can send a message to the right prime minister, Lord Xiao." ”

Although Lin Yuan has made friends with Xiao Zhen, she will not communicate with him easily, and she doesn't know how powerful the crime of interfering in the harem is. This time there was no way, so I had to ask him for help.

So on the second day, several imperial historians led by the right prime minister jointly wrote a letter, reprimanding the harem concubine Lin for being "pampered and arrogant" and "extravagant", and scolded Lin Yuan as a disaster for the country and the people. Everyone in the harem listened to it as a joke, and the concubines who were not on good terms with Lin Yuan sneered in private.

Xiao Zhen is a champion from a background, with extraordinary literary talents, and he is quite vicious when he scolds people. Tuoba Hong looked at the corner of his mouth twitching, he was a little puzzled, didn't he just build a house for his favorite concubine, his father built three rooms for Li Guifei, and he hadn't been scolded so badly, why did he become a faint king? He's wronged. Moreover, he also has a valid reason for building a new palace, it has been 300 years since the founding of the Great Qin, and many of the houses in the palace are very old and should have been renovated a long time ago.

In addition, in these years, the country has been rich and the people are strong, and the Huns who have been beaten down have just paid a tribute of 100,000 taels of gold, and the national treasury is enough to spend several years, what happened to building a Yuzhao Palace?

However, the right prime minister was so excited, Tuoba Hong himself couldn't sit still. Alas, isn't it just building a house, what a big deal, provoking the courtiers to jointly admonish, and later generations will really think what a mediocre thing he has done when they hear it!

As a last resort, he went to the Scarlet Building and grabbed Lin Yuan's hand to complain. In his opinion, Lin Yuan must not continue to live in the side hall, and he has already agreed to move the palace, and he regrets it at the end, where will the emperor's face go. Lin Yuan took the opportunity to give him a suggestion, saying that the new palace was too eye-catching, so it was better to choose a small pavilion and a small garden that needed to be repaired and expand it into a palace.

Tuoba Hong's eyes lit up, and he praised Lin Yuan for being smart with a smile. After a short time, he returned to Jianzhang Palace and made up his mind, repairing a "Linshui Pavilion" not far from Jianzhang Palace for concubines to play in summer, and expanding it into Yuzhao Palace.

This method finally calmed the dissatisfaction of the harem and the previous dynasty. Master Feng, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, followed Yao Fusheng with an abacus, shook three times around the Linshui Pavilion, knocked on the abacus and said: "The expansion is expected to cost 105,000 taels of silver, which can save more than 300,000 taels compared to the new construction!" ”

So the expansion was decided.

Tuoba Hong was satisfied, and with a wave of his hand, he handed over the matter to Empress Xiao.

It's just that even if it is expanded, it will take at least three or four months. Many palaces in the palace have not been renovated for a hundred years, and the first emperor originally planned to renovate the palace once, but at that time, the war was raging, the people were not happy, and where there was spare money, it was dragged to the Qianwu Dynasty.

Speaking of which, Tuoba Hong's father, Emperor Kang Jing, really didn't have any achievements, he couldn't go outside and couldn't settle down, and he didn't even clean his own house.

Nowadays, these old palaces are in need of a solution. Takubahiro decided to take this opportunity to repair it as well.

It also includes the Buddhist hall of Changle Palace. Compared with the Yuzhao Palace, the Queen Mother's Buddha Hall is the most important, the hall was built up as a Buddha hall one hundred and seventy years ago, and now the beams and pillars are bitten by insects and rats, and the palace pillars have been damaged several times, although they will not collapse, but the palace is dilapidated and damages the face of the royal family, and it is really time to repair.

This is a big project, at that time, Queen Xiao, who had finished investigating the flower garden, unfortunately contracted the summer heat in her exhaustion, and lay in the Changxin Palace for two days and couldn't summon the concubines. At this time, Concubine Jing naturally came to Changxin Palace to visit the sick in a timely manner, and handed over the watch with a smile, saying that she was willing to share her worries for the queen and help the queen renovate the palace.

Empress Xiao almost wanted to smash this recital on Concubine Jing's face. She forcibly pressed the fire, supported the edge of the bed with one hand, and with her usual graceful smile on her face, she said lightly: "This palace is just an occasional minor illness, and there is no major problem, so I won't bother Concubine Jing." Besides, the emperor personally explained the matter, the palace should do its best, where can I be lazy and hand it over to others? ”

Concubine Jing didn't argue, smiled and said a few words of concern, and then withdrew. Empress Xiao grabbed the pillow in disgust and threw it on the ground to deflat, and said to Mama Qi forcefully: "Go to the ministers of the Propaganda and Industry Department to meet you." ”

Mama Qi hurriedly came to persuade: "Niangniang, you can't be reckless, Imperial Doctor Liang just said, there is something wrong with your palace cold, you must be careful." Renovation matters...... It's not too late to wait for two days, mother, to get better......"

"The emperor confessed, how can this palace ever be lazy!" Empress Xiao interrupted her, pulled her coat with one hand and got out of bed, and her mind was groggy thinking about which palaces Tuoba Hong had said to renovate.

In a trance, Queen Xiao's fingers trembled and went to the small table to flip through the account book. Suddenly, she felt a pain in her chest, and the daily torture had returned. She was no longer afraid, and crouched down and clutched her chest, trying to hold on and wait for the pain to pass.

But the pain grew more and more intense. Empress Xiao couldn't help but moan, her throat was sweet, and a mouthful of scarlet blood spurted out violently.

At the moment of falling, she saw the crowd rushing towards her like a tidal wave. Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and she eventually lost consciousness, but the warm liquid at the corners of her lips flowed down the hem of her clothes like an endless stream of water.

***

Empress Xiao suddenly fell ill.

Tuoba Hong listened to the report, and when he stepped into Changxin Palace in a panic, the large pool of blood in the outer hall had not been scrubbed clean, and the shocking red color was like the peony blooming in the flower garden in the front yard of Changxin Palace.

Takuma Hong's throat was a little dry, and he raised his foot and broke into the inner room. Imperial Doctor Liang had already arrived, kneeling on the ground to check the pulse of the unconscious queen. He looked up at the emperor, and his expression couldn't hide the panic: "Niangniang is an old disease......

"How bad can an old disease be?" Tuoba Hong's anger erupted: "Although the queen has the disease of palace cold, she has been recuperating well all these years, except that she can't have children!" Today's onset is vomiting blood and falling into a coma, what is going on! ”

Imperial Doctor Liang couldn't stop sweating on his forehead, and several colleagues around him were even more trembling. After a while, he boldly replied: "Your Majesty, Niangniang's illness is menacing this time, and it is different from the past...... In the past few days, the queen has worked hard, and then she has a terrible attack......"

"Liang Yuanju, you don't need to be spitting out." Tuoba Hong calmed down, and his voice was cold: "Something happened to the queen, you talk to me in 1510, and I won't blame you." ”

He could feel that Empress Xiao's illness this time was unusual.

Imperial Doctor Liang was slightly stunned. After a while, he got up and followed the emperor to the outer hall.

After another stick of incense, Tuoba Hong returned to the dormitory, and waved his hand to order the imperial doctor and the palace people inside to retreat.

The news of the Changxin Palace soon spread all over the palace. The queen is seriously ill, and people's hearts are fluctuating.

The concubines didn't know the inside story, they only knew that the queen's situation was not very good, and the emperor stayed with him in Changxin Palace all night. On the second day, everyone went to the gate of Changxin Palace according to the etiquette and kowtowed, but they didn't dare to say much.

The queen woke up in the middle of the night the next day, and she opened her eyes blankly, and with a movement of her arms, she found someone lying beside her. She turned sideways and saw the handsome face of the man who had been there for decades, and let out a long sigh of exhaustion.

How long has it been since we've shared a bed?

Even after the incident in Changle Palace, he felt guilty and gradually warmed up, and he only came to Changxin Palace from time to time to eat together, and rarely slept together. I couldn't help laughing at myself in my heart, I was already thirty years old, and his favorite concubine Hui Gui was only sixteen years old.

Drafted every three years, the royal family has never lacked fresh beauties, and the women in the palace will not be favored after the age of thirty. As a queen, she is already very lucky to be able to control the power after falling out of favor. As everyone knows, Wang Shurong and the like can only accompany the Queen Mother to chant in the Buddhist hall in Changle Palace day by day, and spend the rest of her life like a puppet.

Empress Xiao wanted to look at him quietly for a while, but her internal organs ached faintly, her throat was unusually dry, and she couldn't help coughing. Finally, Takubahiro was woken up by her, turned over and sat up to look at her.

The two looked at each other, and Empress Xiao didn't know what to say for a while.

Fifteen years of husband and wife, Tuoba Hong has long become a roundworm in Queen Xiao's stomach. He opened his mouth and looked out of the dark window: "Yueyi, why didn't you tell me about your illness earlier." ”

Empress Xiao's throat stalked, and she immediately lowered her head. Her right hand touched the warm teapot on the small table, grabbed it and poured a cup, it was still hot, obviously prepared by the people below at all times. She poured it down, seemed to find a trace of strength in her body, and gasped a few times and said, "Lord Liang told the emperor?" ”

Tuoba Hong turned around and grabbed Empress Xiao's shoulders with both hands: "Do you know how dangerous this disease is?" Why didn't you tell me? You get chest pain every day, don't you? You won't say anything......" Takubahiro sighed with a wry smile.