After the emperor and my father left, the queen smiled and said to me: "It's rare to be quiet today, so our mother and son will have a good time." Don't go there at noon, and eat with me. ”

Of course I'm happy, it's not undesirable to have such an opportunity to get closer to the queen's mother-in-law?

It's a pity that someone won't give me this opportunity.

Before he could say a few words, a report was reported outside the palace gate: "Xie Cairen asks to see him." ”

Xie Jiu walked in with a haggard face supported by two palace maids. Before she knelt down to say goodbye, the queen hurriedly told her to "flatten down", and asked someone to bring her a very spacious and comfortable chair, and looked at her face worriedly and asked, "What's wrong with you?" I saw it fine yesterday, why did it become like this today? There's nothing abnormal about your body, right? ”

Xie Jiu looked at the prince and then at me, but after all, he just lowered his head and didn't say anything.

The queen was so anxious that she frowned: "If you have anything to say, there are no outsiders here." One of them is the father of the child in your womb, and the other is his mother-in-law, what can't you say? ”

Xie Jiu still didn't say anything, but the palace maid who served her knelt down and said: "The talented person didn't sleep for almost a night last night, and he kept vomiting and vomiting, and he didn't vomit until dawn, just retching." I didn't eat in the morning, and I vomited when I saw what I was eating. ”

The queen's face changed greatly, and she shouted to call the eunuch to pass on the imperial doctor, and reproached Xie Jiu's palace maid and said: "In this case, you should serve the talented person to lie in bed and have a good baby, how can you take her around?" And what about Mama Li and Mama Bi? I specially sent them to serve talented people, just to see that they had served me in confinement before and had experience. Now that they are like this, why don't they stop them from going out? What's the use of them? ”

At this time, Xie Jiu cried and said, "Don't blame them, it's all the fault of the slave mother and son." ”

Mother? Please, you haven't given birth yet, how do you know it's mother and son?

When the queen heard this, this was strange, a fetus less than three months old, what was wrong with him?

Everyone waited quietly to hear what she had to say.

Xie Jiu sobbed and said, "This child in the slave's womb is very spiritual, he seems to be able to sense his father. Every time His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was around, he was very well-behaved; When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not there, he was irritable and awkward. He also gave evidence to explain: "For example, I kept throwing up in the room over there, and now I stay by His Highness's side, and it's fine." ”

At this time, even the queen rolled her eyes.

There are tens of thousands of women in the palace, all of whom want to compete for favor, and it is a common trick to use children as an excuse. Basically, everything that can be pulled has been ripped many times. But it seems that this kind of reason like Xie Jiu is still the first time I have heard it, strange and fresh, is it only the one she is pregnant with is the true dragon son and the emperor of the world?

Although she understood in her heart that she was just fighting for favor for a reason, but in front of the emperor and grandson, the queen still said: "Then the prince will come with you after dinner." Since you are here, take a rest with me, and when the Imperial Doctor comes, you will see me here. After lunch, I will send a sedan chair to carry you back. You can't run around anymore, especially during this time, and you have to lie still. After the fetus is formed at four or five months of pregnancy, it can move around appropriately. ”

Xie Jiu nodded in thanks, and stopped crying. Her purpose was achieved.

After a while, the imperial physician came, and the queen personally accompanied the imperial physician to the inner room to check Xie Jiu's pulse, and called the prince in. I'm going to follow, but when I get to the door and turn back, what's the matter with me? In case Xie Jiu pulled out the reason again, saying that the true dragon Tianzi she was carrying also had feelings for me, and she was irritable when she saw me, wouldn't I be going to die of resentment?

All of a sudden, I was the only one left in the living room, sitting like a fool, not knowing whether to leave or stay.

stay, embarrassment; Walking, and it's not polite.

The warmth of the royal family turned out to be just an illusion, and the family happiness of the royal family was just a dream bubble, which could disappear without a trace in a flash.

Just as I was looking down and thinking, someone tapped me on the shoulder.

When I looked up, it was actually Zuo Guifei.

I quickly stood up and made amends, how did those eunuchs do it, and no one reported it when they came?

Zuo Guifei hurriedly said that she didn't let her report, and she came every day, what did she report?

In this palace, Concubine Zuo is the person I respect the most. She is Zuo Si's younger sister, born in a scholarly family, and she is also a famous talented woman, I grew up reading the poems and songs she wrote.

She sat down next to me, looked at me with a smile and said, "What's wrong with the little girl?" A sad look. ”

I can't say anything, just a few kind words like thank you for your concern.

At this time, the voices of the queen and the imperial doctor were faintly heard inside, and they were discussing how to make up for the fetus if it was safe. Concubine Zuo took my hand, took me to the courtyard outside the palace, and asked me in a low voice, "Are you sad about what happened inside?" ”

I smiled sheepishly.

She sighed softly and said, "Do you know how many years I've been in the palace? ”

I shook my head, and she said, "This year is the tenth year that I have entered the palace, but do you know how many times the emperor has been to me? She held out three fingers at me.

I was shocked, it can't be three times, right?

She smiled bitterly: "It's three times." On average, it is less than once every three years. ”

I don't know what to say, I just feel infinitely sad.

She said: "When people outside see that the emperor always invites me to recite poems and make me a concubine every time he feasts, they think that the emperor loves me very much." Actually, I'm just a signboard for the royal family, used to decorate the façade, and there is no other use for anything else. ”

Seeing that I looked at her in amazement, she explained, "You may think it is strange, we don't know each other, why do I say this to you? For one, I can't bear to see you sad. You have just entered the palace, and you may still have some unrealistic ideas about the palace. I just wanted to tell you that this one you encounter now is nothing at all, and you will encounter it often in the future. Like the queen isn't it yet? When was there no woman with a big belly in the palace? Second, I also have a little selfishness and want to entrust my niece Zuo Ying to you. ”

"Entrust it to me?" This can't help but look down on me, I also just entered the palace, and I haven't even made a mess in the palace yet.

She said: "When my brother wanted to send Zuo Ying to the palace, I was resolutely against it. But he still gave me my name behind my back. When the emperor saw that it was the daughter of our Zuo family, he immediately circled it with a red pen. In his opinion, each generation of monarchs should accept a few talented women, so that they can be called a wise monarch who loves talent like life and is eager to seek talent. ”

But the question is, "I can't grasp my own future, how can I afford such a heavy trust from you?" ”

"You can!" She gave me an encouraging look: "The first time I saw you, I knew that you were an extraordinary girl, and the whole palace would be yours in the future. ”

"Why?"

"Because you have flaming eyes."

Do I have one?

She looked around at no one, and actually made a big salute to me and said, "Your Royal Highness the Crown Princess, I have entrusted Zuo Ying to you." Rest assured, she is not a beauty and does not have the ability to compete with you for favor. I just hope that her life in the palace is not too miserable. The crown prince is different from his father, his father will at least make me a noble concubine, and the prince will probably not even be able to do this. I'm afraid that my poor niece will die as a beloved with no formal rank. ”

Since she had said everything to this, I couldn't refuse, so I agreed to her.

She thanked me solemnly, and said, "Although my niece is not beautiful, she is still smart, and if Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess does not dislike her, let her be a girl." In this palace, it is very difficult to fight alone, there are traps everywhere, and it is impossible to guard against them. One more helper, one more eyes and ears, it's always good. ”

I also solemnly thanked her, this is definitely a win-win for us, why should I turn people away thousands of miles away?

At this time, the prince ran out of it, hugged me with an aggrieved face, and said, "Nanfeng, why did you come here?" I searched everywhere inside, and I thought you didn't want me anymore. ”

Concubine Zuo gave me a thumbs up and walked around us and inside.