CHAPTER XIX

The Qianyun Palace is located in the West Sixth Palace, and Cui Guifei is the main seat of the first palace, and she lives in the main hall of the Jiyue Palace. Yun Jieyu, who is in the fourth grade, was still in the Qingyin Pavilion of the West Side Hall when she was still in the Cloud Palace. Later, after being moved away by the queen, the Qianyun Palace was lived alone by Cui Guifei.

When Empress Dowager Cui rushed from Yongshou Palace to Qianyun Palace, Emperor Yonghe and Empress Wang had already arrived, sitting outside with their brows furrowed. The pure concubine and the concubine sat on the chair with the handkerchief in their hands, twisting the handkerchief in their hands, and they didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere. There were a few palace maids who were beside Cui Guifei when the accident happened, and next to the palace maid was a cat that had been strangled.

The potpourri in the hall still can't hide the strong smell of blood.

The palace maids of the Tilting Cloud Palace kept coming and going, bringing in basins of hot water, and then basins of blood water.

Cui Guifei's voice was already hoarse from crying, and Wen Po shouted vigorously, "Niangniang, just work harder, ...... harder"

Seeing Empress Dowager Cui coming in, Emperor Yonghe and Empress Wang hurriedly stood up and sat down with Empress Dowager Cui together. The pure concubine and the concubine wanted to get up to say hello, but they were interrupted by the Empress Dowager Cui.

Empress Dowager Cui took Queen Wang's hand and asked, "Empress, what's wrong?" Isn't it only eight months? ”

Queen Wang wore a beaded flower made of crystal on her head, the tassels hanging from the beaded flowers swayed gently, her willow eyebrows were furrowed, and her face was anxious, "Queen Mother, Cui Guifei's sister was startled by a cat and gave birth prematurely." ”

"Cats?" Empress Dowager Cui looked at Queen Wang's expression, "Concubine Cui didn't say that she had a cat." ”

Emperor Yonghe pointed to the cat that was killed on the ground and said, "It was that beast that shocked Yao'er's womb!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui looked down and saw that the cat she knew was the snowball that Concubine Dong had given her. She remembered sending the palace maid holding the cat out, why did this cat appear in the Cloud Palace?

Empress Dowager Cui seemed to have a clear understanding in her heart, let go of Empress Wang's hand, sat on the chair and straightened her skirt, and asked, "What about Concubine Dong?" Why didn't you see her coming? ”

Empress Wang sat on the chair next to Empress Dowager Cui, her buttocks were only on one side, and after her eyes swept over Empress Dowager Cui's expression, she said slowly, "It's been hot recently, and Sister Dong Guifei's body fell a few days ago, so she didn't come." ”

"What about the concubines? Isn't your body neat? Empress Dowager Cui said sharply again.

Without waiting for Queen Wang to speak, Emperor Yonghe replied first, "Concubine Hui is here, and Yuerou's health is not very good, so I allowed her to go back to take care of Yuerou." As for the other concubines, they were all thrown back, and they were dizzy in front of them. ”

Yuerou is the second princess born to Concubine Hui.

When the pure concubine heard this, her face turned pale all of a sudden, she lived in the East Sixth Palace, and when she heard the news, she rushed to the Qianyun Palace and did not see other concubines. As soon as the emperor said this, he immediately felt uneasy.

The concubine covered her cherry mouth with her sleeves embroidered with pine and cypress leaves, and although the expression on her face did not change, the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

The emperor sent all the other concubines back to the palace, but he didn't chase her and the pure concubines, does this mean that in the emperor's heart, their weight is relatively heavy?

Empress Dowager Cui nodded and stopped talking, and sat there with her eyes closed.

The palace maids in the hall went in and out, carrying the items needed for the inner hall. Zhou Yizheng wiped the sweat from his forehead vigorously, knelt on the ground in the outer hall and talked to Wen Po from time to time to understand Cui Guifei's condition.

Suddenly, Wen Po ran out and said a few words to Zhou Yizheng, and Zhou Yizheng suddenly collapsed on the ground.

"Zhou Yizheng," Queen Wang stood up and walked in front of Zhou Yizheng, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?" What happened to Cui Guifei, how is the prince? ”

Zhou Yizheng is over fifty years old, and his hair is half gray. After hearing the words of Queen Wang, he crawled in front of Emperor Yonghe, knocked his head on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent...... Cui Guifei and the child in her womb can only keep one. ”

Emperor Yonghe stood up violently, overturned all the tea and fruit plates on the low table to the ground, pointed at Zhou Yizheng and said angrily, "Cui Guifei's fetus has always been taken care of by you, and you have always said that the fetus is stable......

Zhou Yizheng kowtowed and said, "Cui Guifei's fetal appearance has been stable, but the fetus is not yet a month...... Please ask the emperor to make a decision as soon as possible. ”

Cui Guifei's heart-rending cry suddenly came from the inner hall, "Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't want to die...... Your Majesty, the concubines haven't waited for you enough, Your Majesty ......"

Cui Guifei was afraid, and it was difficult for the children in the palace to give birth. For generations, there have been many things about giving up her mother and protecting her children, and she is afraid that she will be abandoned like this.

Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyebrows invisibly when she heard Cui Guifei's shout, and sighed in her heart.

Dull!!

Which woman in the harem doesn't live for children? Now she shouts to the emperor that she doesn't want to die, isn't that a disguised way for the emperor to kill his own child? Even if the emperor feels sorry for Cui Guifei's suffering in giving birth to a child, I am afraid that he will lose those Xu Qingyi because of this sentence.

The concubine can be re-established, but the royal blood must be left behind.

Cui Guifei's words violated the taboo in the heart of Emperor Yonghe, and his first empress, Empress Zhao, once encountered the same situation as Cui Guifei. At that time, Empress Zhao was bent on saving the dragon child in her womb, so she ordered the medical administration who delivered the baby to protect the child in disobedience to the emperor's order. didn't expect that the child who was exchanged for her life was gone less than 100 days after birth.

Emperor Yonghe just wanted to say to Zhou Yizheng to protect the child, but when he saw that Empress Dowager Cui had her eyes closed and her face was expressionless, she said irritably, "I want adults and children, if you can't protect them all, I will destroy your nine clans!" ”

Empress Dowager Cui opened her eyes at this time and said to Emperor Yonghe, "The emperor must not be righteous and angry. He turned back to Zhou Yizheng and said, "According to the ancestral system." ”

The ancestral system is to give up the mother and protect the child.

Zhou Yizheng kowtowed and then crawled back to the door of the inner hall, two ringing heads knocked down, and said loudly, "Welcome to the prince!" ”

When Cui Guifei heard the phrase 'welcome the prince', she suddenly let out a breath in her chest.

What if she is a concubine? Wasn't he sentenced to death by the sentence 'Welcoming the Prince'?

The pain in her lower body became more and more intense, but Cui Guifei's consciousness became more and more confused.

Wen Po knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Cui Guifei and said, "Guifei Niangniang forgives her sins, the ancestral system is like this, the old slave is offended." As he spoke, he turned around and picked up the knife he had prepared.

Cui Guifei suddenly opened her eyes and shouted with pain, "No, this palace will not die, this palace can live!" ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the brocade quilt under him tightly with both hands, the green tendons on his white arms exploded, and his upper body bowed forward, his face was bruised, and his sweat was like rain. But Cui Guifei didn't scream again, holding her breath and exerting herself in her lower abdomen......

"Wow~" A baby's cry came out of the outer hall.

After hearing the cry, Cui Guifei couldn't support it anymore, and she couldn't lie back on the bed and no longer need any strength. She knew she didn't have to die.

Wen Po packed up the child, carried her to the outside of the hall and knelt on the ground and said, "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, you are a little princess!" Mother and daughter are safe! ”

Emperor Yonghe was very happy to hear the child's cry, but when he heard that it was a princess, the excitement in his heart was a little less.

Queen Wang hurriedly took the pure concubine, and the concubine congratulated Emperor Yonghe and said, "Congratulations to the emperor for getting the princess." ”

A room full of minions all knelt down and congratulated Emperor Yonghe.

"Reward! All rewards! Although Emperor Yonghe was unhappy, after all, it was his own blood and bones, and with a wave of his hand, all the monthly cases in the Jiyue Hall were added for half a year. After the reward, he asked Wen Po to bring the little princess over to see.

Wen Po hurriedly hugged the little princess to Emperor Yonghe.

The concubine turned around and smiled at the pure concubine, "Didn't the ninth princess shout for a sister earlier?" This time, it was a wish. ”

After the pure concubine was given a faceless time by Cui Guifei last time, where did she dare to mention this stubble, and quickly changed the topic.

Empress Wang stood beside Emperor Yonghe, looked at the baby in swaddling clothes and said, "Zhenzhen is small, pink and tender." ”

Emperor Yonghe frowned and asked, "Why is it so small?" Didn't you say that it's been eight months and almost nine months? ”

Saying that, he hugged the child in front of the Empress Dowager Cui and said, "Queen Mother, look, why is the princess so small?" It's not as big as my two palms together! ”

The baby was crying profusely, and his little red face was wrinkled. Emperor Yonghe looked at the child in his arms and cried, not only did not have a trace of love in his heart, but instead gave birth to disgust.

Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyes to see the child, it was indeed too small, she was born prematurely when she gave birth to Emperor Yonghe, and she was born at nine months, which was half older than this child.

Queen Wang coughed and said, "Sister Guifei can't eat in the past few months, and the child will be thinner." ”

Wen Po walked up and said, "If you go back to the emperor, the little princess has only been in the mother's body for seven months, so she will naturally be smaller." ”

Emperor Yonghe was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked, "You said that Concubine Cui Guifei was pregnant with the little princess for seven months?" ”

"Nonsense!" Queen Wang suddenly screamed, and said angrily to the stable woman, "Concubine Cui Guifei is obviously more than eight months pregnant, how can you allow this cheap slave to be arranged here?!" ”

Wen Po was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a puff, and said tremblingly, "The old slave doesn't dare to talk nonsense." The old slave is fifty-three years old this year, and he has been delivering babies since he was twenty years old, and he has never missed it......"

Emperor Yonghe kicked Wen Po over, with an angry face, "You said that this child was born in seven months? ”

Wen Po slammed her head on the ground and replied, "The old slave doesn't dare to lie, Wen Po understands this truth, and the old slave doesn't dare to talk nonsense." ”

Emperor Yonghe looked up angrily to look at Zhou Yizheng, but saw that Zhou Yizheng didn't know when he had fainted. Emperor Yonghe was even more furious in his heart, if he was not at fault, how could he be frightened and fainted at this moment?

Xiangyi was still happy when she walked out of the inner hall, and when she saw that the atmosphere was not right, she hurriedly smiled, and said to Emperor Yonghe after blessing a few masters, "Your Majesty, the concubine wants to see the little princess." ”

There was no sound in the hall except the cry of the little princess. Xiang Yifu didn't dare to get up there, and didn't understand why the concubine gave birth safely and Emperor Yonghe was still angry.

After a long time, Queen Wang looked at the emperor's face and said cautiously, "Your Majesty, the concubine's sister has really worked hard...... The little princess is also hungry, so it is better to take it in and show it to her sister, and then let the nurse feed some milk. ”

Emperor Yonghe gritted his teeth, handed over the ball of tender meat in his hand to Xiangyi, turned around and looked at Empress Dowager Cui angrily, without saying a word.

Empress Dowager Cui was already so angry that her hands trembled, and she patted the table and said to Queen Wang, "Check, carefully check for the mourning family!" Before the truth is found, if there is a gossip, don't blame the mourners for being ruthless! ”

Emperor Yonghe shook his hand away, and Queen Wang knelt on the ground and answered yes. The pure concubine and the concubine were already so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they knelt on the ground and trembled.