It was always so cold in November and December, and the cold wind blew into the temple, so cold that everyone shivered, and rubbed their arms around to keep warm. Dai Qing went to the door of the palace and instructed several eunuchs at the door to quickly carry three copper stoves to the inner hall to surround them to keep warm at any time. Everyone was sneezed by the wind just now, especially Mrs. Guan, who was pregnant with an emperor, subconsciously quickly raised her hand to cover her abdomen, Chanxin saw this scene, and quickly took the purple cloak she carried with her and put it on Mrs. Guan's shoulder. The girls also hurriedly brought a few bowls of warm bait soup from the back kitchen, and everyone drank it together while it was hot. After Lu Hou finished drinking, rinsed her mouth, and inadvertently saw Mrs. Guan holding the hot bait soup, and she drank it without caring about her appearance, wiping her mouth and still looking afraid of the cold. Empress Lu's eyes were silent for a long time, she shook the tea set in her hand, and asked Mrs. Guan indifferently, "It's been three or four months, right?" Then he took his tea and drank it.

Mrs. Guan let out an 'um' and nodded. "Avoid heat and cold during pregnancy, so that you can give birth and raise, and ask Shaofu if you need anything." Lu Hou said. Guan Wen thanked Empress Lu, but she looked flattered, and told herself how gentle the queen was today. Everyone also focused on Mrs. Guan, except for Guan Wen, the rest of the people present had children. Looking at Mrs. Guan, who was smiling at the moment and caressing her lower abdomen lovingly, Mrs. Qi first said a word of congratulations to her with a smile, "Congratulations to Mrs. Guan for adding to the Han room." Hearing this, Mrs. Guan's face changed greatly, and her eyes just met Mrs. Qi's wicked and cold smile that disgusted her, thinking that she must be taking revenge for her mockery just now and falling into a hole for her. Most of the credit for her pregnancy is Qi Ji, but Guan Wen hates that Qi Ji has been domineering the emperor day and night recently, making it difficult for her to see the emperor, and she can't ask about her younger brother. So he was extremely disgusted with her in his heart, although he had promised Qi Ji to work together with her to pull down the prince and support Ruyi, but Guan Wen was a person who was difficult to deal with and capricious and extremely lacking in integrity, and he had never wanted to be associated with Qi Ji, and the child was a last resort. She has been dissatisfied with Qi Ji for a long time, she is pressed in the bottom of her heart, today everyone is here, Mrs. Qi is humble and courteous on the surface, Mrs. Guan has to play with her, and she also gritted her teeth indifferently and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Qi" Lu Hou smiled coldly in her heart when she saw that the two of them sang and saw a little fire bud and gap. Zhao Zi'er took the dim sum and ate it rattling, and when she saw that everyone was talking about Guan Wen's child, she suddenly went to Mrs. Guan's belly to listen, and frightened Guan Wen, Zhao Zi'er's black eyes that leaned over Guan Wen's abdomen turned back and forth, listening carefully to the movement in Mrs. Guan's stomach, and suddenly got up and danced eagerly and shouted to everyone, "Madame, the child is moving, so strong, it seems that it must be a boy." Mrs. Guan stiffened her face and smiled slightly embarrassed, and she glanced at Empress Lu's disdainful and slightly cold eyes, and she didn't dare to face her, but just awkwardly shifted her gaze on a few familiar beauties. Bo Ji peeled a few oranges for her and handed them to her, and Mrs. Guan smiled at Bo Ji as if she was going down the stairs in favor of her, and Bo Ji patted her hand to comfort her to relax. Shi Meiren glanced at Empress Lu, who had an indifferent and cold face, and nodded and smiled at Mrs. Guan, "The emperor is so blessed, and there is another little prince to be born, congratulations to Madame." ”

Mrs. Guan felt as if she had become the target of public criticism at this time, it was very unnatural to smile instead of laughing, and her face was only a stiff expression like a thousand years of wind and sand. She wasn't stupid, she understood that the queen was the last thing she wanted to hear. When everyone was congratulating them sincerely or with ulterior motives, Mrs. Guan no longer paid attention to their 'good intentions', but lowered her head and drank tea quietly on the surface, deliberately not continuing this topic, for fear of accidentally angering Empress Lu. Mrs. Guan's originally red face was pale and stiff at this time, and cold sweat invaded her back, hoping that everyone would not keep talking about the child in front of Lu, so she drank five cups of tea nervously.

Mrs. Guan didn't calm down the nervousness and panic in her heart, so she heard Lu Hou's cold 'hum', bent the corners of her mouth, and said in a rigid and slightly off-string voice, "It's good to be the emperor's child, the Liu family's bloodline must be absolutely orthodox, and men and women are the same." When all the concubines heard this, they all looked at each other in surprise, and they all focused their eyes on Empress Lu. Lu Houlian's calyx looked more leisurely, and he smiled faintly and played with the golden hairpin in his hand without even saying a word. Mrs. Guan was frightened when she heard Empress Lu's words, thinking that Empress Lu wanted to take the opportunity to remove the fetus in her womb under the pretext that the child was unknown, so she was so frightened that she accidentally knocked over the tea on the case and splashed her body, and before she had time to pick up the tea stains stained in front of her, she immediately met Empress Lu's cold and solemn eyes in fright, and knelt on the mat and said in fear, "The concubine's womb is indeed His Majesty's heir, and the mother knows it." ”

Lu Hou smiled leisurely with a cold 'hum', seeing Guan Wen's nervous appearance, Lu Hou was even more disdainful and arrogant, got up and walked to the copper tripod incense burner placed in the center of the inner hall, leaned over and smelled the incense, and gently brushed the curling smoke clouds, and suddenly the smoke clouds turned into flexible shapes floating in the main hall, such as the fairy mist in the temple of the Queen Mother of the West. Lu turned his back to them and said arrogantly and coldly, "Of course it's the emperor's, otherwise this palace will let you stay until now?" Empress Lu's tone was obviously rigid and angry. Mrs. Guan looked frightened, bowed down to listen to Empress Lu's teachings, and didn't dare to say a word. One person suffered from the pond fish, and everyone didn't dare to say anything, and bowed their heads respectfully.

Empress Lu paced in the hall and said, "Over the years, the palace has not managed the harem well, and I don't know what is hidden from the palace. After Lu Hou finished speaking, he carefully looked at the faces of the concubines, and some of them were calm; Some of them were nervous as if they had done something wrong, and they didn't dare to look up at anyone; Some seem to have nothing to do with themselves, and they don't care about it; Some didn't know what Empress Lu said at all, and looked at everyone one by one with an innocent and immature face. Seeing that everyone didn't know her original intention, Empress Lu looked at Dai Qing a little anxiously. Originally, the main purpose of coming to them was not to talk about silkworms, but to lead to the pregnancy of the Beiyuan woman, I believe that Zhao Meiren told them about it, but after talking about it for so long, even if no one told the news, Lu Hou didn't know if they forgot about it or they were the same as themselves and waited for others to speak first to be the first person who had the courage to sue.

Empress Lu was anxious in her heart, squinted her phoenix eyes and circled around them, thinking carefully for a while, she was sure that she couldn't tell this matter in person, and she couldn't provoke Liu Bang to abandon her again at this juncture, she wanted to kill people with a knife and use her strength to fight. But it was something that Empress Lu didn't expect to be able to pull out Mrs. Guan for so long, and said that sentence itself was aimed at the woman in Beiyuan, but Mrs. Guan became nervous with fright. Lu Hou was a little impatient in his heart, and his eagerness jumped on his face, and he unconsciously walked to Mrs. Guan's side, Lu Hou stayed for a while, and his eyes glanced down and his heart suddenly lit up, and he told himself that Mrs. Guan has always loved to be lively, loves to spy on other people's secrets and is known as a long-tongued woman, and is not as smart as others. Empress Lu planned in her stomach for a long time and pretended to ask, "Have you been to Yongxiang and Beiyuan these days?" Everyone shook their heads. Lu Hou said with a smile, "I remember that every year in late spring and early summer, beautiful flowers bloom next to Yongxiang, and at that time, we and the emperor were in the Baihua Pavilion next to us to enjoy the flowers and laugh." There is also a large area of flowers on the periphery of the North Garden, which is also our favorite place to go, casting nets to catch butterflies during the day, and leisurely shaking the fan at night. "Empress Lu seems to have really returned to the time when she enjoyed the flowers with everyone at the turn of spring and summer, and she was really a little joyful.

When all the concubines heard Empress Lu say this, they all looked longing for their memories, their eyes were full of happiness, and they were full of hope to grasp the happy moments in their memories. Zhao Meiren smiled at Mrs. Guan's hand, at that time, everyone did not fight, and they were like real sisters to each other. Bo Ji looked in the direction of the front of the temple gate, and a yearning smile slowly appeared on her face. Shi Meiren looked at everyone with no expression, but she only lowered her head and tasted the tea ceremony, and she was never infected by Empress Lu's words. Empress Lu took advantage of the situation to change her words, "How many capable women have come out of Yongxiang and Beiyuan, do you still remember the former Mrs. Tangshan?" ”

Everyone immediately panicked, they all knew that Mrs. Tangshan was from Yongxiang, and there was once a rumor that she hooked up with Liu Bang, and they also knew that she was very talented, and wrote "The Music Song of the Ancestral Hall in the Room" to be passed on to future generations. But she died unexpectedly, everyone knows that until now, the emperor still thinks of Mrs. Tangshan in his heart, for her death, the emperor did not find any clues, but he was very angry at the time, angry for many days, no one in the harem women, and the ministers did not dare to meet the emperor casually. After two months, the emperor finally slowly let go of this matter, but everyone knows that the emperor has always valued Mrs. Tangshan, and the emperor will not care about her death, and everyone has never mentioned the topic of Mrs. Tangshan once in front of the emperor, for fear of angering Liu Bang. Empress Lu suddenly talked about Mrs. Tangshan, and everyone remembered her again.