Chapter Eighty-Five: Guilty
Lingxi used to be very afraid of cats, and that was when she kept a wren brother every day. For a while, she was always worried that the cat would run into Luomei Xuan and eat Brother Wren, which would save her life.
So, after coming and going, everyone in the Yongshou Palace knew that the Ling'er girl in front of Xiao and the Empress Dowager was afraid of cats, and she was extremely afraid, so it could be said that she was talking about cats changing color!
But only Lingxi himself and Chun'er, who used to live in the same room as Lingxi, know that Lingxi is extremely fond of cats.
When she was a killer in her previous life, her only hobby was raising cats, and she knew the habits and attributes of cats.
Therefore, when the black cat that had always been huge broke into the dormitory in the dead of night, Lingxi's first reaction was not to scream or dodge repeatedly, but to touch his hand to the small table next to the bed. There was the pastry she had eaten before she went to bed, and the leftover half of it was placed there. After picking up the pastry, Lingxi raised his hand and threw it to the corner of the dormitory.
In the faint candlelight, the black cat's eyes sparkled. It stared at the spirit rhino for a moment, and finally ran to the pastry.
"Lotus leaf," Lingxi said to Lotus Leaf, who was guarding the bedside, "Don't be alarmed. ”
Lotus Ye is not afraid of cats, so after Lingxi threw the pastry to the cat, she first put down the bed curtain, and then pulled out two lily branches in full bloom from the vase, trying to get the cat out.
Lingxi sat on the bed, holding his eight-month-old belly, and said softly, "Don't rush out. Who's on the night today? ”
"Xiao Wuzi goes to night." Lotus Leaf Road.
"You go to the kitchenette and see if there are any fish, and bring some." Lingxi said, "Let Xiao Wuzi take a cloth bag and catch this cat." Don't alarm others......"
Although Lotus Ye didn't know what Lingxi was going to do, he still listened to Lingxi's instructions and bypassed the cat and went out.
In the corner, the black cat scratched it with its paws a few times, sniffed it with its nose, and tried it a few times before carefully taking it in its mouth.
But as soon as the pastry entered its mouth, it spit it out, and its eyes widened.
During pregnancy, the pastries eaten are sweet and sour.
The black cat circled around the pastry, wanting to eat it, but not wanting to give up like this.
After a while, Lotus Ye brought a small bowl and came in with a tight nose, "Niangniang, the slave didn't see any fish, but I found a few shrimps, and some of them already tasted." ”
Lingxi reached out and lifted the curtain of the bed, allowing the lotus leaf to put the bowl on the small table next to the bed.
The black cat smelled the fishy smell and cautiously walked to Lingxi's bed, where he whispered with his tail intact.
"Mother, you don't want to keep it and raise it." Lotus Ye asked with a little surprise, "The palace has always regarded black cats as bad luck, Niangniang, if you like it, the slave will go and get you a brightly colored one." ”
Lingxi smiled lightly and didn't reply to the lotus leaf's words, only stared at the black cat that was staring straight at her with her eyes.
She winked softly at the black cat, once, twice, three times......
Squinting, in cat language, I love you.
Suddenly, the black cat squatted on the ground and responded.
Whenever the spirit rhino blinks its eyes, it will also squint.
The smile on Lingxi's face became stronger and stronger, and it seemed that this cat language in this historical gap also worked.
Lingxi tapped his finger on the edge of the bed a few more times. The black cat stood up, held its tail firm, and walked leisurely to the bed and squatted on the pedals, purring in its throat.
The black cat tilted its neck, touched Lingxi's fingers a few times with its paws, and then pressed Lingxi's hand on the bed to prevent Lingxi's hands.
Lingxi raised his hand and gently scratched the black cat's chin, and the black cat narrowed his eyes in enjoyment. Xu was happy, the black cat leaned down on his feet, exposed his belly with a little white hair to Lingxi, and then rolled - fell.
Lotus Ye burst out laughing and said, "Niangniang, this cat likes you very much." ”
The black cat rolled over and rubbed its face against Lingxi's hand, making a 'meow' and 'meow' sound.
Lingxi was inconvenient, so he picked up the bowl on the small table and handed it to the lotus leaf and put it on the ground next to the bed. The black cat immediately ran over to eat the two shrimp in the bowl that had changed their taste, and ignored the rhino anymore.
Lotus Ye twisted the wet handkerchief and handed it to Lingxi to wipe his hands, and said, "Niangniang, you fed it today, it will definitely come again tomorrow." ”
Lingxi wiped his hands carefully, handed the handkerchief to the lotus leaf, put down the red silk bed curtain, and said, "Let Xiao Wuzi come in......
Suddenly, Xiao Wuzi took a pocket of flowers and took the black cat out.
Lingxi specially instructed through the bed curtain, "Don't throw it away, put it in a cage and raise it." ”
After Xiao Wuzi went out, Lotus Ye said, "Niangniang, the black cat is unlucky, let's raise another suit." ”
"What's unlucky?" Lingxi let the lotus leaf lie down with his heavy body, and said, "It's nothing more than people imposing their own will on cats." This cat jumped into my temple, and it is considered to be related to me, so let it be kept. ”
Lotus Ye saw that he couldn't persuade Lingxi, so he stopped persuading. After tucking the curtain, he sat down on his footsteps.
Now that the month of Lingxi is deep, I can't sleep for a few hours a night, and I often wake up when I fall asleep, and sometimes my legs will cramp. Add to that the fact that it's already May, and it's hot. Although Lingxi has no morning sickness, his appetite is not as good as in winter, so his body looks thinner and thinner.
The concubines who came to visit Lingxi in the Lingyan Hall also became more and more sure that Lingxi really suffered from congenital deficiency. Looking at Lingxi's eyes, he couldn't help but show three points of pity.
What about the strong grace, it is not a blessing, I am afraid that the day of the birth of the dragon heir is the time of one corpse and two lives.
During Lingxi's pregnancy, the most popular in the harem was the jade beauty who lived in the Ningxiang Pavilion of Yide Palace, followed by the Lecai people who lived in the Yizhu Hall of Qingle Palace.
Talented people are good at dancing, jade beauties are good at singing, Emperor Yong'an often recruits them in a hall, listening and singing, how appropriate their lives are, how appropriate.
Emperor Yong'an occasionally invited these two to sleep in the Manna Hall together and enjoy the rain and dew together.
Although the ancestral system did not say that it was impossible for the emperor to recruit two concubines overnight, Empress Zhu was still angry.
In her opinion, Jade Beauty and Le Cai are foxes and seducers, and Emperor Yong'an is extravagant.
But she didn't dare to say this to Yongan Diming. Therefore, after several attempts to persuade them to no avail, Empress Zhu could only ground the two of them on the grounds that the jade beauty was happy and talented, and the virtue of the woman was wrong. The jade beauty was grounded for two months, and the Lecai was grounded for a month.
When Lingxi heard that the Jade Beauty and the Le Cai were grounded in the Spirit Research Hall, he laughed with a pop.
If you can be grounded, isn't it convenient for Emperor Yongan to steal incense at night?
Since Lingxi's second abdominal pain, Emperor Yong'an rarely came to Lingxi's Lingyan Palace. may have felt that the dragon heir in the belly of the spirit rhino could not be saved, so he deliberately alienated the spirit rhino.
Lingxi did not have any resentment or grievance towards Emperor Yong'an's actions. Emperor Yong'an was an emperor, and he was an emperor who valued his children. Lingxi knew that he did not have the support of a strong family behind him, and he could not give birth to a dragon heir to Emperor Yong'an, so such a useless concubine was not worth Emperor Yong'an's trouble.
A few days after Empress Zhu grounded the jade beauties and the Lecai people, Emperor Yong'an pampered the first-class palace maid Qingyu beside Empress Zhu, and named it Yubaolin, and gave it to live in the listening rain pavilion system of Qingle Palace.
On the second day of the bed, Yu Baolin knelt in front of the Weiyang Hall for a whole day and begged Queen Zhu for forgiveness, but Queen Zhu just didn't invite her in.
That night, Yu Baolin hanged himself in the Listening Rain Pavilion, ending his life as a flower at the age of nineteen.
Emperor Yong'an was furious about this and started a cold war with Empress Zhu.
Empress Zhu has become a joke among the harem concubines. Not to mention that two of his personal maidservants climbed onto the emperor's dragon bed, one of them was forced to death by Empress Zhu.
Queen Zhu was so angry that she fell seriously ill and spared the harem concubines from asking for peace every day.
The more lively the harem, the more stable the Lingxi will live in the Lingyan Palace. Every day, I either walked around the yard or fed the huge black cat with some cat food.
On May 17 of the sixth year of Yong'an, Concubine Ren was born prematurely.
Although Concubine Ren was already nine months pregnant, the delivery at this time still made the Imperial Doctor Wen Po sweat in her heart.
Concubine Ren shouted in a dumb voice from the evening of May 17 to the dawn of May 18, and finally gave birth to the fourth prince of Emperor Yong'an, and the mother and son were safe.
Emperor Yong'an was overjoyed, and all kinds of rewards moved into the Jiyue Hall of Concubine Ren, if it weren't for the identity of Princess Renfei Dayue in his heart, I am afraid that he would directly seal the position of concubine.
On the second day of Concubine Ren's birth, Concubine Xian came to Lingyan's Lingyan Hall with various supplements.
He sat down and began to cry in a low voice, crying so that Lingxi's heart was mixed.
If you say that you hate Xian and your concubine, Lingxi can't hate it, after all, this is her own sister, how she has protected her in the past two years, she has seen it bit by bit in her eyes and remembered it in her heart.
But if it weren't for not blaming her at all, if it weren't for the noble concubine, Lingxi was already outside the palace at this time, and lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes with the princess of Allure, why live such a fearful life in this harem?
It is precisely because there is such and such a mustard in his heart, and Lingxi has a lot of things that are different from Xian Gui Concubine, so Xian Gui Concubine thinks that Ling Xi really has congenital deficiency.
Xian Guifei took Lingxi's hand and said with tears in her eyes, "Good sister, why are you so miserable." I thought that if you gave birth to a dragon heir, life would be better after that. Why do you have this disease? Xian Guifei wiped her tears vigorously with a handkerchief, "Why not me, why not me?" ”
Lingxi also took a handkerchief to help Xian Guifei wipe her tears, and chuckled, "Sister Jing said some nonsense, fortunately it's me not you, otherwise I would be distressed to death." ”
As soon as Xian Guifei heard this, her eyes became more and more violent, and her hand holding Lingxi trembled vigorously.
Lingxi touched his eight-month-old belly and said with a warm smile, "I am already a concubine now, and the emperor will not demote my position if there is no big mistake." If this child can be born safely, our mother and son will have a better day. If there is a real accident on that day, the emperor will definitely issue an order to protect the dragon heir......"
Xian Guifei lightly covered Lingxi's mouth, shook her head and said, "Sister, don't say such frustrating words. If there really is that day, I will ask the emperor to protect ......"
"Don't be stupid," Ling Xi interrupted Xian's concubine, "The ancestral system cannot be violated. If there is really that day, my sister will take care of the child for my sister, and my sister has nothing to do with him in this life, so I will be a mother and son in the next life...... "That's right, today is still the third watch, hehe, the third watch will be later, I try to come up as soon as possible~."