In the Changle Palace, Empress Dowager Cui, who was wearing a red base and embroidered a winged phoenix Luo skirt with gold threads, sat on the summer cool bamboo chair in front of the window, picked up the tea cup and tasted the amber juice. Immediately, Liu Ye raised his eyebrows, and frowned, Danfeng's eyes looked at Zhiqiu who was pestle on the side, and said, "The tea last few days was quite refreshing, why is it not as good as today?" ”

Zhiqiu fell to his knees with a pop, his body trembling like chaff.

The tea of the last few days was made by Lingxi every day. Zhiqiu studied for a few days, and when she smelled the smell, she said to Lingxi that she had learned. Who knew that he had only taken over for the first time today, and he was tasted by Empress Dowager Cui.

Qian Weishi stood on the side, and when he saw that Zhiqiu didn't reply, he said, "The Queen Mother asked, answer truthfully!" ”

Zhiqiu kowtowed and replied timidly, "Returning to the Queen Mother, the tea of the last few days was not made by slaves." ”

Empress Dowager Cui let out a long sigh, and her eyebrows stretched, "But Mei Cairen came to Yongshou Palace?" The next time she comes back, she'll bring me to see me, and she's ...... heart."

According to the harem rules of the Dashun Dynasty, only the concubines above the main position, that is, above the concubine position, are qualified to greet the queen mother. Mei Cairen is a talented person of the fifth grade, and according to the ancestral system, he cannot meet the Queen Mother.

Zhiqiu knelt on the ground and didn't dare to reply, raised his head slightly, and quietly glanced at Qian Weishi.

Qian Weishi naturally saw Zhiqiu's eyes, and stepped forward and said to the Empress Dowager Cui: "Go back to the words of the Empress Dowager." Mei Cairen has never been to ......"

"Oh?" When Empress Dowager Cui heard this, she was interested, turned around to look at Qian Weishi, and the tassel on her head touched lightly, "Who is that......"

"It was the Ling'er girl who was waiting in front of the palace, and she was the one who trained the birds from the uncle's mansion." Qian Weishi carefully looked at Empress Dowager Cui's face and spoke, seeing that there was no displeasure on Empress Dowager Cui's face, he continued, "Miss Ling'er was brought out by Meicairen, and this tea naturally has a little taste of Meicairen. ”

Empress Dowager Cui stretched out her hand to serve the teacup, but when she thought about the taste of the tea, she put it down again, only stroked the edge of the cup with her fingers, and said softly, "It turned out to be her...... Has this kid's bird training been completed? Why don't you come back to the front hall to say hello to the mourning family? ”

Qian Weishi lowered his head and thought for a moment, raised his head and said, "I'm afraid that I haven't trained well, otherwise I will definitely come to ask the Queen Mother to say goodbye." ”

Empress Dowager Cui dislikes Lingxi's origin, but she can't say it. It is a capital sin to speculate on the mind of the master.

"Send someone to take a look," Empress Dowager Cui stood up, put her hand on Qian Weishi's hand, and said, "Take a walk in the courtyard with the mourning family, and I have been stuffy in the house all day, and I can't get out of breath." ”

Qian Weishi hurriedly said yes, respectfully supported the Empress Dowager Cui, and beckoned the palace maid behind him to follow.

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Lingxi became the most powerful palace maid in front of Empress Dowager Cui in one fell swoop, and her favor was no less than that of Jasper at the beginning.

Lingxi knows that serving pets and pets will not end well in the end, so he is more cautious and cautious in whether he is doing things or being people.

This kind of spirit rhino makes Empress Dowager Cui like it even more, she doesn't look down on publicity, and her good granddaughter Cui Guifei is an example.

Cui Guifei is nearly eight months pregnant, and every time she comes to Yongshou Palace to ask for peace, her demeanor is several times higher than that of Queen Wang and Dong Guifei. It is as if her child will be made the crown prince of the middle palace when she is born, and she will soon ascend the throne as the emperor.

Queen Wang has a good belly, everything is for Cui Guifei to think of the front, the imperial doctor passes three times a day, and the tonic and tonic are rewarded innumerable, and the palace maid who is waiting close to her has made an exception from the ten people in the concubine's position to pull out twelve people like the queen. Mother Wen Po was even more prepared in the Qianyun Palace early, afraid that she would be caught off guard when she gave birth.

In order to allow Cui Guifei to raise the baby with peace of mind, Queen Wang even moved Yun Jieyu, who lived in the same palace to Penglai Palace, to live with the pure concubine who gave birth to the ninth princess.

Even so, there are still chickens and dogs in the Cloud Palace. The palace maid and eunuch were punished for being a long thing, and the nurse was replaced batch after batch.

When the concubines asked the queen to say goodbye, the queen's right hand wearing a jade ring stroked her chest, and sighed to the concubines who sat down: "Cui Guifei's sister is really crushing the heart of the palace. If it weren't for the ancestral system being limited there, the palace really wanted to take her to the Weiyang Palace to raise the fetus, and see that those palace people dared to snub the concubine's sister. ”

Cui Guifei is pregnant with a dragon heir, and such a thing as asking the emperor and queen to be safe on weekdays has long been avoided. Only on some important days will he appear in Weiyang Palace or Yongshou Palace, and the rest of the time he will be in his own palace. So when Queen Wang said this, Cui Guifei was not a concubine sitting there.

The concubines above the concubine position in the middle of the seat have all given birth to children. The royal children are difficult to feed, which one of them came from a time of fear? But there is really no such arrogance as Cui Guifei, who puts the queen's kindness on the ground and tramples on it at will. In the final analysis, it is a good mother's backing!

Concubine Hui put down the teacup in her hand and said quickly, "The queen is generous, which of us didn't come from that time." In the end, we are rough people, not as delicate as Cui Guifei. ”

Concubine Dong Guifei rolled up her dark green sleeves and whispered, "The concubine remembered that when the queen mother was pregnant with the prince, her body was tired, and she couldn't swallow a mouthful of anything all day...... When the crown prince was born, the queen mother lost a whole circle. It's really distressing to the emperor......"

After listening to Dong Guifei's words, the concubines in Weiyang Palace stopped speaking one by one, and glanced at Queen Wang's face with their eyes.

Compare Cui Guifei's fetus with when Queen Wang was pregnant with the crown prince, this, who dares to speak? Even Concubine Hui, who speaks cheerfully on weekdays, picked up the tea cup and ate the tea attentively.

Queen Wang glanced at the concubines and concubines, and took everyone's expressions back into their eyes. Then he picked his hair, sighed and said, "Sister Dong Guifei mentioned this, and the palace also remembered the events of that year." When a woman gives birth to a child, it can be said that she walks through the ghost gate, and the hardships are unknown. Therefore, this palace feels sorry for you to spread the branches and leaves for the Dashun Dynasty and extend the heirs. Fortunately, Cui Guifei has been pregnant for eight months, and after two months of hard work, it will be ripe......"

After speaking, he patted his chest with relief, as if it was not Cui Guifei but her who was pregnant with the dragon heir at this time.

The queen herself is so generous, but of course the concubines in fact are not good at saying anything more. I only picked a few words and turned this matter away.

The lower Queen Wang's attitude was, the more worried Empress Dowager Cui became. She knew better than anyone how the queen climbed to the position of queen back then, and how many concubines and concubines had stepped on under her feet. Although she doesn't like Cui Guifei, she is pregnant with her imperial grandson in the end.

Since Dong Guifei came out of the Yang Palace on the day of the fight, her attitude towards Cui Guifei was to hide as far as she could, and occasionally met her in the imperial garden, and nodded her head when she met her, as if she couldn't hear Cui Guifei's sarcastic words. Even the biological mother of the crown prince of the dynasty, the queen of the current emperor's main palace, Wang and Empress, avoided its edge, she was a little concubine who only gave birth to King Ping, where did she dare to compete for the limelight.

The eighth day of the sixth month is the day of King Rui's wedding.

The concubines in the palace could not go out of the palace to congratulate, but they also prepared the objects for the reward of Princess Rui early.

The queen rewarded a statue of Guanyin, a pair of jade ruyi with good color, which means that the Rui Wang couple gave birth to a noble son early, and everything went well.

Cui Guifei rewarded a coral tree more than a foot high and pure color, and gave two necklaces made of high-quality pearls, which were extremely luxurious.

Concubine Dong Guifei did not dare to overpower Queen Wang and Concubine Cui Zhongfei, who was gaining power, in the limelight, so she rewarded a lifelike Ruyi doll carved from jade, and gave a pair of Luanfeng jade pendants, which means that the Rui Wang couple Luanfeng and Ming, and the beauty of harmony.

Concubine Hui is the head of all the concubines, and she also rewarded a lot of objects on the premise of not surpassing Concubine Dong.

The other concubines also rewarded a lot of things according to their rank and relationship.

The gifts were prepared, and everyone looked at the Yongshou Palace.

King Rui was brought up by the Empress Dowager Cui herself, and the reward must be rich.

But who knew that the gifts of the harem concubines were all moved into the Rui Wang's Mansion the day before the wedding, and there was still no movement from the Empress Dowager Cui.

On the eighth day of the sixth month, the reward of Yongshou Palace finally fell.

The reward is not the complicated playthings imagined by the concubines of the inner palace, only a jade bracelet of good color and a gorgeous phoenix hairpin. The jade bracelet was given to King Rui's concubine Ge Yuhe, and the phoenix hairpin was given to Guan Qiao'er, the concubine who married King Rui on the same day.

Empress Dowager Cui's phoenix hairpin can be described as a small pebble thrown into the calm lake, causing layers of ripples.

Some low-ranking concubines who were anxious hurriedly made up a gift and rewarded it to the concubine of King Rui, not asking for no success, but begging not to offend this person.

Some concubines knew that King Rui would marry a commoner concubine, and they didn't take that reward into account at all. But now that the Queen Mother has given a reward, where are they still lazy?

In the afternoon of the same day, the rewards were continuously carried into the Rui Wang's Mansion, although they were not as valuable as the previous ones, but they were all given to Guan Qiao'er by name.

And the most amazing thing is that King Rui's concubine Guan Qiao'er was ordered by King Rui to think about it behind closed doors early in the morning of the second day of the wedding, and she was not allowed to step out of the Qingfeng Pavilion where she lived for half a step.

On the ninth day of the sixth month, King Rui took his concubine Ge Yuhe into the palace to meet Emperor Yonghe and Empress Wang.

After Ge Yuhe served the tea with his own hands, he was naturally rewarded in every way.

Queen Wang looked at Ge Yuhe's lower abdomen lovingly, and couldn't wait to see when a pink and tender fat doll would be born inside.

Out of the queen's Weiyang Palace, Li Chenfeng coldly said to Ge Yuhe, who was dressed festively and gorgeously, "I'm tired today, let's go home." ”

Ge Yuhe stretched out his hand and gently grabbed Li Chenfeng's sleeve, and the beaded flower made of gold and jade on his head was particularly dazzling in the sunlight, "Lord, I haven't said hello to the Queen Mother yet." ”

Li Chenfeng raised his eyebrows, and he was bored in his heart, but because of all the things in the inner palace and court, he could only say patiently, "The imperial grandmother is going to take a nap as soon as it is summer, and going at this time is disturbing the tranquility of her old man's house." It's better to ...... another day."

Ge Yuhe didn't follow, his little hand pulled the sleeve and didn't let go, Ruyu's face was dyed with a touch of shame, "According to the ancestral system, it is to ask for peace......"

"I'm going to go to you!" Li Chenfeng shook off Ge Yuhe's little hand and walked out of the palace with an unkind face.

Ge Yuhe's hand froze in the air, his little face turned pale, and his eyes showed resentment, but in a flash, he returned to his little daughter state, followed behind Li Chenfeng timidly, and stopped talking.