Chapter Seventy-Four: To My Child
Lingxi naturally wouldn't think that Concubine Ren's personal palace maid would be so 'arrogant' that she dared to pick it knowing that the canna was a concubine, nor would she think that Queen Zhu would happen to appear in the Hehuan Hall when Concubine Ren ordered someone to slap Concubine Rou twice, let alone think that this incident happened at this time It was a coincidence.
All this is just a farce directed and acted by Queen Zhu and Rou Guifei. And the purpose is to completely pull Concubine Ren off the horse.
Concubine Ren is a princess who is in a foreign country, there is no strong family in the foreign dynasty as a backer, and the relationship in the harem is so stiff, even if she is second only to Queen Zhu, what about the second-grade concubines, and in the end, she is still in the battle in the harem?
However, is Concubine Ren really the reckless person who doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick it is?
It's a pity that no one answered Lingxi's question, Queen Zhu couldn't, and neither could Concubine Ren, who was grounded for a month.
After Concubine Ren was grounded, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 followed.
On the viewing platform, Emperor Yong'an and the concubines talked about wine, so it was not lively. Concubine Yu and Concubine Ling, who were pregnant with dragon heirs, were especially cared for by Emperor Yong'an. Not to mention that Emperor Yong'an did not allow them to drink, the dishes on their table were different from those of other concubines, and even when the drums were jubilant, Emperor Yong'an ordered them to stay away from concubines and concubines, so as not to scare the fetus in their wombs.
Cao Guifei sat on the hands of Concubine Yu and Concubine Ling, her eyes were so jealous that her eyes were about to pop out, and the wine was poured down one after another, and she showed her drunkenness in a moment.
She has been in the palace for five years, and has changed from a fifteen-year-old young girl to a twenty-year-old young woman, but there is still no news about her belly. Because he could not give birth to a dragon heir, the Cao family had already prepared to send another daughter surnamed Cao to Yong'an during the six-year world election to protect the glory of the family.
Also envious of Yu Concubine and Concubine Ling is also the Lingxi who did it to Concubine Yu and Concubine Ling. Lingxi had already asked the Imperial Doctor to come and examine her carefully, and the Imperial Doctor said that her body was normal and there was no discomfort.
There is no discomfort, so why hasn't she been able to conceive a dragon heir yet?
Pregnancy, in addition to men's problems, is also women's problems. Other concubines spread the good news one after another, and Emperor Yong'an was naturally no problem.
But why can't you conceive?
Lingxi frowned, thinking about the past few years, could it be that he had unknowingly fallen into someone else's calculations?
"Please Yingjie Yu'an." In a trance, the eldest princess Zhu Xiaoxiao was wearing a moon-white delicate waist-cinching tight Luo skirt, with a bun on her head, and stood in front of her table with a wine glass in her hand.
Lingxi was stunned for a moment, quickly stood up and saluted Zhu Xiaoxiao, and then held the wine glass on the table.
"Yingjieyu frowned, but she was unwell?" Zhu Xiaoxiao did not clink glasses with Lingxi, but entered Lingxi's seat familiarly.
Lingxi glanced at the lotus leaf, and the lotus leaf quickly took a round stool from behind him and placed it next to Lingxi's chair.
Zhu Xiaoxiao didn't like the simple stool, so she sat down on her own.
Lingxi raised his eyes to look at Li Lingyun, and saw that Li Lingyun was also looking here, not knowing whether he was looking at Zhu Xiaoxiao or Lingxi. Lingxi's heart involuntarily skipped a beat, and she straightened the corners of her skirt with her hands to hide her confused mood, and sat down.
"Princess Xie cares," Lingxi said with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "It's just that I've eaten a few more glasses of wine, and I'm a little dizzy." β
"It turned out that she was drunk," Zhu Xiaoxiao held up her sleeves and covered her mouth and chuckled, took the opportunity to put the wine glass in her left hand on the table, and said happily, "That concubine is not respectful to Yingjieyu and eats wine, and besides, the thing in the concubine's cup is not wine, but tea." β
Lingxi tilted her head and looked at the eldest princess with a smile, not understanding the purpose of the eldest princess's visit, and not knowing why she told herself that the contents of her cup were tea and not wine.
Zhu Xiaoxiao's face turned red, and she said with a little shyness, "The concubine has a body, and the eldest prince is not allowed to drink." But the concubine wanted to come and talk to Yingjieyu again, so she had to come with tea at the risk of disrespect. β
"You can't eat and drink, the eldest prince is right." Lingxi looked at Zhu Xiaoxiao scrutinically, and said with a smile, "The eldest princess is really a blessing, she just gave birth to Lin'er for the eldest prince last year, and this year she has good news." β
Zhu Xiaoxiao lowered her head in shame, "That's good news." Zhu Xiaoxiao approached Lingxi's ear and whispered, "When I gave birth, it hurt ......."
Zhu Xiaoxiao's gaze jumped over Lingxi's high bun, and he saw that the eyes of the eldest prince Li Lingyun looking at this side became fierce.
The goal was achieved, and the eldest princess Zhu Xiaoxiao and Lingxi returned to Li Lingyun's seat after a few more idle words.
Li Lingyun put the wine glass in his hand on the table and made a voice from his throat, "What are you doing to toast her?" β
Zhu Xiaoxiao looked back and smiled, "What is the eldest prince panicking about?" The concubine is just looking at Yingjieyu's good face and wanting to be close. β
"A bird trainer, how can you be so high-minded." Li Lingyun raised his wine glass and frowned slightly.
"What's wrong with the bird trainer?" Zhu Xiaoxiao poured herself a glass of wine and drank it all, "That was before, so she was Yingjieyu who was deeply favored by the emperor, and if she gave birth to a prince and a princess in the future, she would be a concubine." The prince and daughter he gave birth to are the younger brother and sister of the eldest prince, and they are also the younger brother and sister of the concubine. Such a person who has a deep relationship with us, how can a concubine not be close to him? β
Li Lingyun snatched Zhu Xiaoxiao's wine glass, with anger in his eyes, "You are pregnant now, what are you crazy about?" β
Zhu Xiaoxiao looked at Li Lingyun coldly, and the corners of her mouth provoked a trace of ridicule, "It's not that the concubine is crazy, it's the eldest prince who is crazy, it's you who is crazy!" β
Zhu Xiaoxiao's last sentence was quite loud, and Li Lingfeng, the second prince who was seated, couldn't help but look at Li Lingyun and said with a smile, "Brother Huang, what is the imperial sister-in-law talking about?" What is not windy? β
Li Lingyun put on a smiling face, and replied with a greasy tone, "I was talking to Xiaoxiao about what to name the child in the belly, I said to bring a double soil seal, but she said that the second emperor brother has a wind character in his name, and he must not take the seal word again." β
The smile on Li Lingfeng's face was fixed there, "The name is naturally chosen by my father, I'm afraid that the emperor's brother is thinking in vain." β
"The name of the jade disc is naturally given by my father, I think of a nickname, the happiness of being a father." Li Lingyun continued to laugh.
Li Lingfeng's face darkened at the moment, and he snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Li Lingfeng is 19 years old this year and has already been married. But after the wedding, the second princess had nothing, not only the second princess and concubine had nothing, but several ladies and concubines in the second prince's mansion had nothing to do. Concubine Rou faintly suspected that it was Li Lingfeng's problem, but because of Li Lingfeng's face, she didn't dare to let the imperial doctor treat him.
After the eldest princess Zhu Xiaoxiao sat back in her seat, Lingxi's eyes drifted there from time to time. Although she didn't know what Li Lingyun and the eldest princess were talking about, a trace of worry rose in her heart.
Although she and Li Lingyun are now well water and do not violate river water, the past cannot be written off. If you are really troubled by the eldest princess, I am afraid that the last unlucky one will be the inferior concubine with a low status.
For the rest of the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, Lingxi was so frightened that he didn't even dare to squint at Li Lingyun. When he returned to the Yilan Palace, Lingxi's heart was put in his stomach again.
She is now living in the Sixth Palace, even if Zhu Xiaoxiao suspects something, I am afraid that Emperor Yong'an will not believe it easily. Besides, Lingxi's reddened nails were buckled into the palm of his hand, he was a gift from Li Lingyun to Emperor Yong'an, how could Emperor Yong'an be suspicious?
Without Concubine Ren, the harem was much more peaceful, and in late August and early September, the concubines lived by staring at the lower abdomen of the concubine and the concubine.
Concubine Yu was selected to enter the palace in the first year of Yong'an, when her father Yu Wei was implicated by Ge Zhongqiu, the former right Shangshu, and was demoted to three levels, which was the time when the family was in the middle of the road. Yu Wei originally wanted to send his most beloved daughter Yu Yuan to the palace to save his career with his power in the harem. But he didn't want Yu Yuan to choose to enter the harem and lived in the Chuxiu Palace with the three hundred picking girls, until the Chinese New Year's Eve of the third year of Yong'an, he stood out among the women.
Concubine Ling is also one of the three hundred girls, and she can be loved by Emperor Yong'an, all by relying on a paper kite. That's right, it's so clichΓ©. The paper kite that Ling Concubine interrupted in Chuxiu Palace fell in the imperial garden, and Emperor Yong'an happened to accompany Lingxi, who was still from the four beauties, to take a walk in the imperial garden. Its paper kite fell from the sky, and fell dramatically in front of Emperor Yong'an, and its paper kite was carefully written in small block letters on the name of the concubine's boudoir......
So, it came naturally.
No matter how great the blessings of Concubine Yu and Concubine Ling are, they can't stand the eyes of the three thousand beauties in the harem who are full of envy, jealousy or resentment.
On September 15 of the fifth year of Yong'an, he saw red under his concubine. Although it was saved by the hands of the imperial doctor, Yu Concubine's body was not as good as day by day. In less than half a month, a male fetus that has already taken shape is a small moon.
On the sixth day of the tenth month of the fifth year of Yong'an, the concubine was walking in the imperial garden, and her feet were unstable and mixed on the stones, so the palace maids and eunuchs around her were all buried with the child who was five months old in her womb but was not blessed.
The concubines in the harem are all embarrassed, and they can't say sympathy or schadenfreude.
That night, Emperor Yong'an entered the Yilan Hall to steal incense, and he sighed with his smooth and tender body in his arms, "Since Concubine Xian gave birth to the three princes, the concubines in the harem have no longer been able to give birth to the heir safely." Lingxi, is it really blessed? β
Since Emperor Yong'an learned Lingxi's name, he only called her by her name when no one was around.
Lingxi also sighed, put his hand on his lower abdomen, and said, "It's not that the emperor is not blessed, but the concubines are not blessed to give birth to a dragon heir for the emperor." β
Emperor Yong'an touched his hair, and whispered, "It's not that I'm not blessed, it's not that you're blessed, it's someone who doesn't let this emperor be born." I don't have time to take care of the harem now, I can only watch the emperors turn into pools of blood......"
"The Emperor's ......"
Lingxi suddenly felt a little sorry for this Emperor Yong'an, who was the king of a country. The family pleasure that ordinary people can still enjoy has become a luxury in him.
"Lingxi," Emperor Yong'an turned over and pressed Lingxi under him, his hands playing rhythmically on his body, "You can protect the three princes of Xian Concubine from being born safely, and you will definitely be able to protect your own emperor...... Lingxi, give me a child, and I will love you......"
Lingxi frowned lightly, Emperor Ren Yongan rampaged in his body, and his voice became fragmented, "Concubine, concubine is willing to ......"