Chapter 28: The Beginning
Ping'er was surprised and delighted: "Niang Niang wants to give this sachet to the emperor?" , you're finally starting to shoot! ”
Calamus glanced at Ping'er with her dark eyes: "What am I going to do?" ”
"No, no, no......" Ping'er was a little incoherent excitedly, "The slave means that the emperor must be happy to receive the sachet carefully embroidered by the mother." ”
For fear that the calamus would regret it, Ping'er hurriedly took the sachet and walked out: "The slave maid will go to the Chengqian Palace." ”
Calamus shouted at her: "It's dark and the road is difficult, remember to take a lamp." ”
When Ping'er arrived at Chengqian Palace, the guards did not let her in: "The emperor has rested, and no one is allowed to enter." ”
"The slave maid came to meet the emperor on the order of the mother." Ping'er said kindly, "Please let the slave and maid in." ”
The guard had a cold face and was impatient: "This is the rule of the palace, even if the queen mother is here, it is the same." ”
Ping'er was in a stalemate with them, and was pushing, when Fu Rongbao came out of it: "What are you doing in the middle of the night?" ”
The guards hurriedly reined in: "Father-in-law Fu." ”
Fu Rongbao scolded sharply: "If you alarm the Holy Driver, how many heads do you have to fight your life?" ”
"Uncle!"
Fu Rongbao was startled, and when he saw that it was Ping'er, his face changed: "Dead girl, why are you here?" ”
Ping'er pulled him over and handed over the things in his hand to Fu Rongbao.
"What is this?" Fu Rongbao spread it out and looked at it, "Sachet? ”
Ping'er couldn't hide her excitement: "This is a gift from the mother to the emperor." Uncle, the emperor and his mother have a play! There's a play! ”
Fu Rongbao glanced at her: "What are you making a fuss about?" ”
"I'm happy for my mother."
Fu Rongbao is also unknown: "How did she think of giving the emperor a sachet?" ”
Ping'er said coldly: "Why should uncle guess Niangniang's thoughts, when it is given to the emperor, he naturally understands Niangniang's intentions." ”
"I'm talking about you, girl!"
Ping'er hurriedly grabbed his hand: "Uncle, please leave this matter to you." Don't let down your mother's heart! After saying that, he ran fast like a rabbit.
On the fifth watch, the people of Chengqian Palace served Sun Wen to dress and wash.
Fu Rongbao was supposed to go to rest, and this will walk in from the outside again.
Sun Wen saw him: "Why are you here?" ”
Fu Rongbao presented it with both hands: "This is sent by Ping'er, and it is not safe for the slave not to hand it over to the emperor in person." ”
Sun Wen took it and frowned: "Sachet? Where did it come from? ”
Fu Rongbao raised his head slightly, looked at him gloomily, and emphasized again: "It was sent by Ping'er." ”
"When was it delivered?"
"When it was sent, the emperor just lay down to rest, and the slave didn't dare to disturb."
Sun Wen looked at the meticulous needlework and sniffed the breath of the sachet: "Why did you send the sachet for no reason?" ”
"Niangniang said thank you to the emperor for the sweet potato porridge, please the emperor must accept this small gift."
Sun Wen held the sachet in his hand and asked, "What does it mean that she gave the sachet to me?" ”
Fu Rongbao smiled: "Looking at the emperor's smile, you should know what Niangniang means." ”
Sun Wen hurriedly subconsciously restrained his smile, and said unnaturally: "I ...... Are you laughing? ”
Fu Rongbao said "um": "This may be the first step taken by the mother, and the emperor should be a little patient." ”
Sun Wen was menacing: "I am not patient enough with her?" After waiting for ten years, she escaped and I arrested her, and made sweet potato porridge on her birthday yesterday...... Who would be as good to her as I am? ”
Fu Rongbao felt sweaty: "The emperor thinks it's good, maybe the mother doesn't think it?" ”
"She doesn't care about me at all."
"She's rare now, and the emperor should do a good job."
"Why? I am the emperor. Besides, just because a sachet can impress me? ”
"Sometimes, the emperor should forget his identity. Perhaps it is precisely because of the emperor's high status that Niangniang has never seen the emperor's mind. Fu Rongbao saw his cold eyes and was busy silent, "It's like a slave talking a lot." ”
"What do you mean...... She's starting to have a crush on me? ”
Fu Rongbao was also skeptical: "After a long time, she will always be moved, especially now that she is pregnant with the dragon seed." Niangniang has been staying at home in the East Palace for almost a month, with Niangniang's cleverness, will she not know what is best for herself? ”
"At the end of the day, she still doesn't care about me."
"But at least it gave the emperor a chance to get close." Fu Rongbao deserves to be by Sun Wen's side all the year round, and knows his intentions well, "Unless the emperor really plans to let her stay in the East Palace for the rest of her life." ”
Sun Wen shook his head, sighed and said, "I'm almost disturbed by this woman. ”
Watching him walk out, Fu Rongbao knew that Sun Wen already had a bottom in his heart.
asked Ping'er to send the sachet, and the calamus didn't say much, waiting to see what happened. She had to know what moves Sun Wen made first, and then she could take countermeasures accordingly.
But she waited for three days and didn't hear any news from Sun.
Calamus began to feel disheartened, and then laughed at herself in her heart: "After all, it is just an ordinary sachet, how can he put it in his heart?"
"! Empress! Ping'er rushed in from the outside.
Calamus was looking at the gladiolus in the garden by the window, and was shocked by Ping'er: "What's so urgent?" ”
A voice came in from outside: "She's so happy to see me coming." ”
Calamus showed a look of surprise and joy: "Why is the emperor here?" ”
Sun Wen walked in: "I'm going to take a look at the child in the belly, can't I?" ”
Calamus lowered her head and smiled lightly: "The concubine thanked the emperor for the love of the child in her belly." ”
Seeing that she was about to salute, Sun Wen held her with one hand and frowned slightly: "Don't do these false salutes at this time." ”
The iris is not attached, so it does not rush to salute.
Sun Wen almost helped her to the windowsill: "Are you looking at gladiolus?" ”
"Probably deeply influenced by the emperor, the concubines gradually fell in love with the flower gladiolus."
Sun Wen glanced at her: "What day is today?" Your mouth is like honey. ”
He joked, who knew that Calamus was serious: "Do you want the emperor to taste it, and see if the concubine's mouth is smeared with honey?" “
There was a hint of temptation in her dark eyes.
Sun Wen subconsciously stopped her waist: "Tang Calamus, do you have a request for me?" "He knew this woman too well and knew that there was a deep meaning behind everything she did.
Calamus shook her head: "No." ”
She just took precautions for the child in her belly.
Sun Wen said bluntly: "Then why are you ...... to me?"
"Because of sweet potato porridge." Calamus raised her head suddenly, looked at her, and went straight to the bottom of her heart, "No one has ever made porridge for a concubine." ”
"You're moved?"
"Sort of."
Sun Wen laughed in an uproar, his thick eyebrows bent into an arc.
Calamus was very serious: "Your Majesty, the concubines will not run away again." ”
Sun Wen slowly restrained his smile: "You can't go, I don't mind." He pressed his hand to the heart of the calamus, "I don't mind your heart, do you really want to stay?" ”
For him, it doesn't matter if there is one more or less in the harem, but when the matter involves gladiolus, he deeply minds.
Calamus put her hand on the back of his hand: "If the concubine says yes, is the emperor willing to believe it?" ”
He used his other hand to enchant her jaw: "Can I still trust you?" ”
"Why not?"
Sun Wen stared at her: "What about him?" ”
Referring to Sun Qi naturally.
Calamus twitched slightly in her heart, but there was a quiet smile on her face: "Time can change everything." ”
Sun Wen sighed softly: "Time can change everything, but some things can't be changed. ”
In an instant, they looked at each other, and what they couldn't see through was each other's hearts.
Calamus took a deep breath: "If the emperor feels embarrassed, he should be a concubine who has not said those words." ”
"Do you know you're a lot like someone?"
"Who?" Hearing him mention "that person" again, Calamus became curious.
"She's the same as you, she doesn't show her joys and sorrows." Sun Wen suddenly smiled softly, "So in my heart, what I hope most is to see her really laugh once." ”
"Your Majesty, who is she?"
"My queen mother."
"Empress Dowager Mingchun?"
Calamus naturally knows something about the Empress Dowager Mingchun, she is the first queen of the Empress Sun Jingzhi, the sister of the Empress Dowager, and the biological mother of Sun Wen.
There are many stories about the Empress Dowager Mingchun in this palace. Most of them said that she was suave, modest and polite.
Calamus only felt that this person was far away from what she wanted to go, especially out of reach. At this time, Sun Wen said that she was very similar to the Empress Dowager Mingchun, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "How can a slave and maid, how dare she be compared with the Empress Dowager?" ”
"I just said casually, do you really think you're the same as the queen mother?"
When he slandered himself like this, Calamus couldn't help but look a little pale and turned his head away and said no more.
Seeing her strange expression, Sun Wen felt a little reluctant in his heart, and deliberately opened the topic: "By the way, how did I explain that you are responsible for the selection of the maid officials?" ”
"The concubines have been arranged, so that the maid aunt Gu Lan and the supervising aunt will be ready for selection at the beginning of next month."
"What to test?"
"The concubine can't say."
Sun Wen was a little disdainful: "Can't even say it?" ”
"Just because you are the emperor, you should abide by the rules."
Sun Wen secretly said in her heart, she even spoke with the same demeanor as her queen mother.
He pressed her head into a corner: "Then please tell me, what rules do I like the most?" ”
Calamus's face was not red and her heart was not beating: "The concubine is ignorant and doesn't understand what the emperor means." ”
Her stubborn nature is really love-hate and hate-like.
"At the critical moment, you pretended to be stupid with me?"
"The concubines have always been stupid and stunned, but the emperor has never found out."
Looking at each other, both of them couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Renming Palace.
Aunt Ruorong knelt at Su Ruyuan's feet, her hands on the ground: "Please leave the selection at the beginning of next month to the queen." ”
Su Ruyuan always has a lofty attitude: "The position of the female official of the inner chamberlain has always been a capable person, and you should have no problem in the inner servant bureau for so many years." ”
Ruo Rong smiled: "The slave also thinks that she does things in a proper manner, and there is nothing wrong with her." It's just that the Quran selected together should not be underestimated. ”
"Gouran?" Su Ruyuan frowned slightly, "This name is so familiar." ”
Ruorong reminded: "The queen mother should have heard of her, she was the right-hand maid beside the Empress Dowager Mingchun back then. ”
Su Ruyuan suddenly realized: "I see." Then how did she end up in the Inner Bureau? ”
"Because Concubine Xian didn't want to see her, she also entered the Inner Service Bureau under the protection of the current Queen Mother." Ruorong said cautiously, "If the queen wants to promote Gulan, the slave and maid also understand, after all, she is the person of the Empress Dowager Mingchun......"
Su Ruyuan interrupted her: "The first queen's person, why should this palace be kept?" ”
Hearing Su Ruyuan say this, Ruorong's hanging heart finally let go: "The queen loves the slave so much, the slave is really scared." ”
"This palace doesn't want to see the old people continue to stay in the inner service bureau." Su Ruyuan's tone was unquestionable, "Including Gu Lan." ”
"Niangniang means ......"
Su Ruyuan squinted at her, smiled lightly, and said with a joke: "If there is no Gu Lan, you will be firmly in the position of the maid official." ”
Ruorong's heart skipped a beat: "The slave understands what Niangniang means." ”
Seeing that she was about to retreat, Su Ruyuan asked, "Do you know how to start?" ”
Seeing her calm demeanor, Ruorong cautiously tested: "I don't know what the queen's opinion is?" ”
Su Ruyuan held the tea bowl, neither drinking nor putting it down, but was silent.
Her silence was intimidating.
In the quiet hall, the cry of the little prince suddenly came from outside, which really startled Ruorong.
Su Ruyuan put down the tea bowl and said, "If the person in the East Palace accidentally dropped the child, and all the evidence points to the Gu Lan ......" She smiled slightly, and her smile was ruthless, "Isn't it very good to kill two birds with one stone?" ”
Ruorong knelt down with a puff, cold sweat on his forehead: "Niangniang...... Slave ......"
She didn't know what to say, but the thought of killing the child in Gladiolus's belly made her feel inexplicably frightened.
Because she is not someone else, but a Tang Iris who has jumped from an unknown palace maid to a maid in a few months, and then promoted to Concubine An!
She even saw the shrewd Huiyun defeat in her hands!
The nurse came in with the little prince in her arms, and Su Ruyuan took it: "Yan'er, the queen mother is here." She looked at Ruorong, who was kneeling on the ground like ashes, "You have to rely on this palace, and this palace will also need to rely on Yan'er in the future." If you want to be blessed, you have to pay first, if you can't even do this little thing, what qualifications do you have to be the maid officer? Without you, this palace can still take care of others. ”
Seeing that she was leaving, Ruorong hurriedly rushed over and grabbed her phoenix boots: "Don't be a mother!" don't! She raised her head and looked at the domineering Su Ruyuan in a begging tone, "What needs to be done, slave maid, but according to the queen's orders." ”
Su Ruyuan slowly lowered his eyes at her: "The meaning of this palace is already very clear. ”
Ruorong didn't know where the courage came from: "The slave will do her best to do this." ”
She stood up and resolutely walked out of Renming Palace.
Seeing Su Ruyuan looking at her departing back in a daze, An Qing walked over: "The slave always feels that Concubine An is not so easy to deal with. Her affair with King Qi repeatedly violated the emperor's bottom line, but the emperor still got her back from Gusu. It can be seen that she is still very means. ”
Su Ruyuan snorted and laughed: "No matter how much means there are, they can't match the importance in a man's heart." Tang Calamus is so rampant, doesn't she just rely on the emperor to like her? ”
"But according to the slave maid, the emperor also likes the mother and the prince very much."
There was a hint of loneliness on Su Ruyuan's stunning face: "An Qing, the emperor's liking for this palace is different from his liking for Tang Calamus, if it wasn't for dealing with Concubine Xian, he wouldn't have made this palace the crown princess." ”
An Qing lowered her head and was speechless, and asked instead: "Is it reliable for Niangniang to let Ruorong do this?" ”
"A woman who is determined to climb up, don't you think it's reliable enough?"
Ruorong returned to the Inner Servant Bureau, and happened to meet Gu Lan and wanted to go out.
As soon as the two of them met, they couldn't help but stop.
The next lady-in-waiting officer was born between them, and the relationship was extremely delicate.
Ruorong looked at what Gu Lan was holding in his hand: "Where is this going?" ”
"This is a tonic for Concubine An." Gu Lan's expression was solemn, "Last time, I almost made a big mistake because of the queen's mother, so I am especially careful now." ”
As soon as she heard that she was going to the East Palace, Ruorong thought about it in her heart, and smiled on her face: "Yes, especially for Concubine An, you have to be more careful." ”
Gulan could hear something in her words: "What do you mean?" ”
"Everyone knows that the selection of the internal attendant at the beginning of next month is decided by Concubine An, if you can please Concubine An, you will be able to sit firmly in the position of internal attendant."
Gu Lan sank his face: "If you think that being an internal servant is just a sycophant concubine, then you can send tonic to Niangniang." As she spoke, she handed a bunch of things in her hand to Ruorong.
Seeing her like this, Ruorong hurriedly pushed it back, and said with a smile: "Hey, are you really like this?" I'm just kidding, as for putting down my face like this? He pulled Gu Lan's elbow again, "We've been in the Inner Service Bureau together for so many years, will I still not know who you are?" ”
When people are unprepared, they wipe the things between their sleeves and between the sleeves of Guran's clothes.
Gu Lan gave her a cold look and did not speak.
Ruorong urged her: "Okay, don't be angry, send it to Concubine An." ”
Guran jerked his way over and left.
Ruorong sneered at her back: "What a thing! ”
Gu Lan sent things to the East Palace, and inevitably had to give a salute to the calamus.
She saluted in a proper manner: "The slave maid salutes Concubine An." ”
For the Internal Service Bureau, Calamus herself has always had a cautious attitude, she said: "I haven't seen Aunt Gulan for a long time, how are you doing lately?" ”
Gu Lan got up and bowed slightly: "Everything is fine with the slave, Xie Niangniang cares." ”
"At the beginning of next month, the internal chamberlain will be selected, and I hope that Aunt Gulan will be ready and compete fairly."
"Yes, sissy."
Calamus suddenly sneezed and wiped her face with a handkerchief: "Maybe the fragrance of flowers outside is too strong, Ping'er, close the window." ”
Ping'er said on the side: "Niangniang, I haven't opened a window at all today." ”
Calamus Fox wondered: "Where did that fragrance come from?" ”
Ping'er shook her head: "The slave doesn't know either." ”
Calamus looked at Gu Lan, and Gu Lan subconsciously sniffed it: "The slave maid also smelled it." ”
Ping'er leaned closer: "This smell seems to be from Aunt Gulan?" ”
Calamus asked, "Guran, what have you rubbed?" ”
Gu Lan shook his head: "The slave didn't wipe anything." ”
Ping'er felt incredulous.
Calamus looked at Gu Lan, felt a faint pain in her stomach, and subconsciously covered it with her hand: "Come on, Xuan Taiyi!" ”
Gu Lan also had a bad premonition, and took a step back: "Niangniang, the slave didn't do anything. ”
"Arrest the Gouran." Calamus Tieqing's face, her heart is trembling, the child in her belly was saved by her humiliation and life, can't she still escape the deception of the harem?
The palace people helped the iris back to the inner hall to lie down, and she kept asking, "Is the imperial doctor here?" When will the Imperial Doctor arrive? ”
Sun Wen arrived almost at the same time as the imperial doctor, and his face was also pale, and he grabbed the hand of the calamus: "What happened?" ”
The moment she saw him, Calamus's tears flowed down unconsciously: "Your Majesty, this time the concubine doesn't want to lose this child." ”
Sun Wen grabbed Calamus's hand vigorously: "I won't let you lose this child!" ”
The imperial doctor checked the pulse of the calamus, and the deeply locked brows made people faintly uneasy.
Calamus recognized him as the royal physician and asked, "How is it?" ”
Before he finished a sentence, he began to choke up.
Imperial Physician Wang put her hand back, stood up and looked at Sun Wen and Calamus's eager eyes, and suddenly knelt down: "Concubine An Niangniang ingested a hundred flowers, and the subordinates implored the emperor and Concubine An Niangniang to be mentally prepared." ”
Sun Wen shouted: "What are these words? ”
Doctor Wang was worried: "This Baihuasan is a strange fragrance mixed with seventeen kinds of flowers, and there were concubines who used it to rub it on the body and keep the body fragrance. Later, it was confirmed that Baihua Scatter would make people infertile and became a forbidden drug in the uterus. Concubine An has already injured the fetus after smelling it, and even if she is born, it will be mutilated. Therefore, the ministers implore the emperor and the mother to ......"
"I'm not going to have an abortion!" Calamus reacted immediately, "He has been growing in my body for more than three months, and I won't let him leave me!" ”
For more than three months, her eating habits have all changed because of this child, and because of this child, she endured the humiliation and returned to the palace, and now she told her that the child had fallen, and she couldn't accept it anyway!
Sun Wen hugged her person hard: "You calm down!" It's even worse for your child to do this. ”
"The concubine can't calm down!" Calamus has never shown such a desperate and pitiful appearance, "That's a life, a life in the belly of a concubine." ”
Hearing her words, Sun Wen's heart twitched even more, and he asked Imperial Physician Wang in a deep voice: "Is Niangniang's pulse stable now?" ”
Doctor Wang snorted: "Niangniang is fine now, and the ministers are worried about waiting for the child to be born...... It will be too late then......"
"What will happen?"
"According to medical records, symptoms such as deafness, cartilage, and dementia will occur."
"Is there no solution?"
"Not yet."
Sun Wen's heart sank suddenly, he looked at Calamus, she also looked at him, and neither of them spoke.
In the end, he spoke first: "Calamus, you and I are still young, if you want the child to have a chance in the future......"
"The concubine has lost a child."
She can have nothing, no support, no Sun Qi, no name, but she can't live without children.
Because of the child, she felt pity in her heart, had a sense of home, and was warm and down-to-earth in her heart
The sentence "The concubine has lost a child" made Sun Wen feel distressed for a while: "You also heard what the imperial doctor said, even if this child is born, there will be a mutilated ......"
Calamus raised her head, tears unconsciously overflowed from her eyes, silent, piercing: "This child is like you, he likes to eat golden silk roasted wheat and salted buffalo beef." ”
Sun Wen's eyes also became sour: "Really? ”
"Is the emperor willing to kill his own child?" Calamus shook her head, "The concubine is reluctant." Ask the emperor to keep this child, right? ”
Looking at her almost pleading eyes, Sun Wen's heart hurt, and he turned his face and took a deep breath: "I am not reluctant." But what if you are not reluctant? ”
"The concubine gave birth to the child."
Doctor Wang hurriedly said: "Niangniang can't ......"
"Calamus, you have to think clearly, Baihuasan has hurt the fetus, and the child will be crippled when he is born."
"If the child is disabled, will the emperor treat him as his own child?"