After returning from the Ruyi Palace, Lingxi's brows furrowed into a pimple the size of a peanut. Lotus Ye asked worriedly, and after Lingxi snorted impatiently, he silenced his voice.

Since Wu Zi left the palace, Lingxi's temper has become worse and worse, and she often has a straight face, except for playing with the five princesses and the five princes, the palace people can rarely see a smile on her face.

Therefore, the palace maids and eunuchs who were newly selected from the internal bureau became cautious in their work, speech and work, and the atmosphere in the palace gradually became gloomy.

Lotus leaves, Qiaozhu, and Xiao Dezi have been by Lingxi's side for the longest time, so they naturally know Lingxi's character. On weekdays, if any palace maid and eunuch dared to chew their tongues behind their backs, Qiaozhu glared at him and drank back.

Lingxi didn't know how she had changed in the hearts of those palace people, and her heart had been tugging for Allure for the past few days. If she hadn't heard that Concubine Yu was pregnant today, she wouldn't have known how long she would have been lost.

After dinner, Lingxi called Xiao Dezi Lotus Leaf and several people to the inner hall. Looking at the trembling and worried eyes of several people, Lingxi sighed.

Lotus Ye heard Lingxi sigh, and suddenly raised his head to look, and saw that Lingxi was looking at him, and lowered his head again.

Lingxi rubbed his cheeks vigorously with both hands, tried to relax the expression on his face, and said to the three people, "I have been in a dazy space these days, and I don't care about the things in this palace, you can tell me what happened in the palace in the past few days." ”

Xiao Dezi looked up left and right, and saw that Lotus Leaf and Qiaozhu were both lowering their heads, so he gritted his teeth and took a step forward, and asked, "Niangniang, do you want to hear about that day?" ”

Lingxi lowered his head and thought for a while, raised his eyes and said to Xiao Dezi, "Just from that, just from the day I came back from the Zichen Palace." ”

Xiao Dezi lowered his head and thought for a while, and replied, "Shortly after Niangniang came back from Zichen Hall that day, Gonggong Feng came to ......."

Lingxi nodded, she still remembered it.

That day, she left in a hurry from the Zichen Palace, and she had already fallen into the eyes of others. If it weren't for Gonggong Feng and Xiaojingzi saying in front of Emperor Yong'an that they left in a hurry because of the heat stroke, I am afraid that Emperor Yong'an would already know that he was standing outside the study and eavesdropping at this time.

"That day, the emperor stayed in the Changxia Palace......"

"It's not just that day," Qiaozhu interjected, "It's been more than seven days since that day, and the emperor has never left Changxin Palace except for Wen Jieyu and Cao Guifei." ”

Lingxi's forehead wrinkled into a Sichuan character, and he said to himself, "It's a ...... who has been there for a few days."

Lotus Ye nodded, "On the seventh day of the first month, the noble concubine went to the Zichen Hall to greet the emperor, and I heard Xiaojingzi say that she sat for a while." I went again on the eighth day of the first month, and I went with the eighth prince, and Gonggong Feng also said that the emperor smiled happily that day. ”

"On the ninth day of the first month, the emperor's morning meal was used at Xin Concubine......"

"Xin Concubine?" Lingxi looked stunned, raised his eyes and said, "How did you go to Concubine Xin?" ”

"Niangniang, that day the emperor went down to the early court, and Concubine Ying went to Zichen Palace. I'm afraid it has something to do with Concubine Ying......"

"Cao Guifei and Wen Jieyu are sisters together, regardless of internal and discordant, they must be in a class of their own when outsiders look at them as sisters. Concubine Ying just wants to win them over, and it's not easy to win them over. Xian Guifei is very thoughtful, and on the surface, she has already released her suspicions with me, Concubine Ying must not believe it, Concubine Xin, how did she fall in love with Concubine Xin? Lingxi sneered, suddenly his eyes lit up, and asked Xiao Dezi, "What about Concubine Ren, what has Concubine Ren done in the past few days?" ”

"Concubine Ren......" Xiao Dezi thought carefully for a while, and replied, "Concubine Ren has only stayed in the Hehuan Hall for the past few days, and has not gone anywhere. ”

"It shouldn't be...... Lingxi frowned and thought deeply, "Concubine Ren has already left her cruel words there that day, how can she not do anything?" ”

Xiao Dezi shook his head, and continued to tell the schedules of several concubines and concubines above the rank in the past few days and where Emperor Yong'an went.

When he was about to finish, Lotus Ye interjected, "Niangniang, the day before yesterday, the slave maid went to the Zichen Palace to deliver the food box according to your wishes, and I heard Gonggong Feng say that the emperor is losing his temper in the palace." ”

"But I asked Gonggong Feng why the emperor lost his temper?"

"I heard that it was because the ministers proposed the general election......

Lingxi bowed slightly, she had heard Emperor Yong'an mention of this. After the death of the Zhu family after the abolition, many ministers in the court repeatedly persuaded Emperor Yong'an to change the general election every five years to once every three years under the pretext of the withering of the royal heirs. In fact, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than wanting to send his daughter to the palace when the queen's position is not decided, so as to fight hard.

But Emperor Yong'an rejected it with the excuse that 'the first election in five years is the ancestral system set by the ancestors, and the ancestral system cannot be violated'.

Unfortunately, the queen's throne is too tempting, even if Emperor Yong'an repeatedly reprimands this ridiculous excerpt, there are still ministers who risk their lives to meet them.

Taking the tea cup handed over by Qiaozhu, Lingxi asked, "Who do you say in this harem has the best chance of being canonized?" ”

Lotus Ye said first, "Among the four concubines, Concubine Ying is the most likely. Concubine Ying is an old man who waits for the emperor in the prince's mansion, and Lord Pan has been named the right Shangshu again, looking at the entire harem, there is no more suitable person than Concubine Ying. ”

Qiaozhu has a different opinion, "The slave maid doesn't think that if the emperor named Concubine Ying as the queen because of the relationship between Lord Pan, then what is the difference between the Pan family and the original Zhu family, isn't it the same power inside and outside?" The slave maid thinks that the possibility of Concubine Rou is not small, although the Zhu family ** has fallen, but the vein of Concubine Rou has not fallen. Although it is said that it is not powerful in the DPRK and China now, it is everyone after all. Now that Pan Shangshu has supported half of the government in the previous dynasty, if Concubine Rou is the queen, he can suppress Concubine Ying in the harem, so that Master Pan will not be too arrogant. But if Concubine Rou is the last, won't the Zhu family be up again? Didn't the emperor suppress the Zhu family in vain? Qiaozhu scratched his head, his eyes were already confused, and said, "Niangniang, the slave is really stupid, I can't understand the twists and turns in this." ”

"The slave thinks that the Cao sisters are more likely." Xiao Dezi grinned, "Now that Cao Guifei and Wen Jieyu are so favored, if Wen Jieyu can really give birth to a pair of little princes, the emperor will be happy, maybe he will be directly sealed......"

Lingxi shook his head again and again after listening to the analysis of the three of them.

Lotus Ye's words are good, Concubine Ying is indeed the best candidate for the posterior. But if Emperor Yongan really wanted to crown Concubine Ying as the queen, why didn't he make a decree to canonize him. What is Emperor Yong'an waiting for?

Qiaozhu's words sound a little messy, but one thing is right. If Concubine Ying is the queen, the Pan family will become the second Zhu family. If Concubine Rou is the queen, the Zhu family will rise again. In this way, it is unlikely that the two will follow......

As for Xiao Dezi, his mind is not as delicate as lotus leaves and Qiaozhu, and the things analyzed are also rough. Although Cao Guifei and Wen Jieyu are favored, they have a lot of disadvantages compared with Concubine Ying and Concubine Rou, and intuitively it is impossible to be named queen.

Lingxi took a sip of the teacup, tapped his fingers on the carved tabletop, and said secretly in his heart, "Concubine Ren, Concubine Ren, when are you going to wait until you do it?" I'm in a hurry to wait. ”

On the afternoon of August 20, the eighth year of Yong'an, just when Lingxi was thinking about when Concubine Ren would make a move, Wen Jieyu, who lived in the Hanxiang Pavilion of Changxin Palace, saw red again.

Because of the proximity, Lingxi did not take a soft sedan chair after hearing the news, and walked directly to Changxin Palace with the hand of the lotus leaf. When she arrived at Hanxiang Pavilion, only Cao Guifei was sitting in the outer hall of Hanxiang Pavilion, with a sad expression on her face.

Seeing Lingxi coming in, Cao Guifei got up to greet her, and after getting up, she pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief, and choked up, "Concubine Yingniang, you said that Wen Jieyu's life has been plagued by disasters since she became pregnant with the dragon heir, this, when will it be the head?" ”

Lingxi took Cao Guifei's hand and comforted her softly, "Don't worry, Wen Jieyu is pregnant with twin children in her belly, and she will be more tired." But the blessings are also behind, you can't mess around as a sister......"

Cao Guifei nodded, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and stopped crying, "In the end, Concubine Yingniang has given birth, not like a concubine, and she can't hold her courage when she sees blood." ”

Lingxi smiled back, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and watched the palace maids go in and out of the basins of pure water and blood, and there was a nausea in his throat and eyes. Lotus Ye hurriedly patted Lingxi's back and whispered, "Niangniang, are you okay?" ”

Lingxi shook his head, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Concubine Ying holding Su'er's hand and hurriedly coming from outside the hall.

Concubine Ying had an anxious look on her face, and as she walked into the hall, she waved her hand to Lingxi and Cao Guifei, who had not yet gotten up, and said, "Excuse me." After sitting firmly in the first position on her right hand, Concubine Ying turned to Cao Guifei and said, "What the hell is going on?" She was fine when she came to see her last night, why did she see red under her after only one night? ”

Concubine Cao Guifei got up, and after blessing Concubine Ying, she replied, "The concubine doesn't know why, the concubine made two small clothes for babies a few days ago, and I sent them over thinking that I had nothing to do today." Who knew that before she could say a few words to Wen Jieyu, Wen Jieyu said that she had abdominal pain. Frightened, the concubine hurriedly ordered someone to call Imperial Doctor Wei, who took care of Wen Jieyu's body on weekdays......"

"Why don't you call Imperial Doctor Liu?" Concubine Ying stared sharply, as if it was Imperial Doctor Liu, and Wen Jieyu's body would not be red.

Cao Guifei replied aggrievedly, "Concubine Ying, Wen Jieyu's body has always been taken care of by Imperial Doctor Wei. The concubine also wanted to order someone to call Imperial Physician Liu, but Imperial Physician Liu happened to go to Concubine Yu's Qingle Palace, so she ......"

Concubine Cao raised her eyes and looked at Concubine Ying, swallowed the words in her stomach and said no more.

After Wen Jieyu was diagnosed as pregnant with twin sons, Emperor Yong'an had intended to point out Imperial Doctor Liu to Wen Jieyu. But Wen Jieyu politely refused on the grounds that Imperial Doctor Wei had taken care of her body for a long time.

Concubine Ying sighed after hearing this, and did not say anything more. After all, Concubine Yu is also pregnant with the imperial heir, even if Wen Jieyu is pregnant with twins, there is no reason to call Imperial Doctor Liu out of Qingle Palace.

Concubine Ren also came while speaking, and after Concubine Ren blessed Concubine Ying, she consciously sat opposite Lingxi. When he picked up the teacup, a pair of beautiful eyes were full of smiles, and he handed Lingxi a meaningful look.

Lingxi received Concubine Ren's gaze and was shocked, secretly saying that Concubine Ren would not be so bold to make a chapter on Wen Jieyu's twins. If this is found out, Emperor Yong'an will have to give an order to delay her.

Just thinking about it, I saw a little palace maid hurriedly running out of the inner hall, kneeling down in front of Concubine Ying and saying, "Niangniang, it's not good, Wen Jieyu fainted!" ”