Chapter 42: Concubine Yue is pregnant
Seeing that Ling Tiange was taken back to the palace by the sedan chair, Liu Ruoxin couldn't help but be a little puzzled.
Just now Nalan Zhi also put himself aside, deliberately letting Ling Tiange do this and that around him, making her out of the limelight, why did she drive people away now?
Although there was a look of concern on his face, he ordered someone to call the imperial doctor to take a look, but he ignored the sadness in Ling Tiange's eyes. Liu Ruoxin wanted to know what Nalan Zhi was doing.
Although Ling Tiange was missing from the room, Nalan Zhi still pretended to review the recital, not mentioning anything that he had just remembered.
Liu Ruoxin glanced at him helplessly, and secretly moved her steps to find a comfortable place to lean on.
Looking at the official document in his hand, Nalan raised his head suddenly, and saw that Liu Ruoxin's face was full of a little temper, and he couldn't help but hook his lips and smile.
Liu Ruoxin was looking at the porcelain on a carved wooden cabinet in the room with empty eyes, but when she heard Nalan Zhi's voice suddenly sound, she came back to her senses.
"Aifei, I'm going to test you a question, right?"
Nalan curled his starry eyes, his thin lips pursed slightly, and he held his chin with one hand and looked at Liu Ruoxin straight like that.
"Well, what's the matter? Your Majesty, you said. ”
"Whoa." Nalan stretched out his long arm, grabbed Liu Ruoxin on the side, pointed to the official document on the table and said, "What do you think about the problem of the flood?" ”
Liu Ruoxin reluctantly swallowed the exclamation in her throat, squinted her eyes and looked at the words on the text carefully.
Speaking of flooding is not a trivial problem, not to mention that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, although Nalan Zhi asked himself, Liu Ruoxin also answered very carefully.
"Back to the emperor, the concubines don't know much about this. However, according to the concubine Miao's opinion, the flooded areas should first be allowed to dredge the rivers under their jurisdiction and build dams, and then the state treasury should allocate funds to properly arrange the victims and calm the people's hearts. ”
Liu Ruoxin's tone was indifferent and detached, but everything she said was very reasonable, which made Nalan Zhi's eyes light up.
"Concubine Ai is a smart person, if she joins a man, I am afraid she is also a capable minister."
Liu Ruoxin only hooked her lips and smiled lightly, thinking to herself: If only I were really a man, I would never have a deep relationship with you in this life.
Just as Liu Ruoxin was immersed in her emotions, she saw that Ping An ran in at an inopportune time and saluted Nalan Zhi.
"Back to the emperor, Lord Dongfang has been punished, you see ......"
Before Ping An could finish speaking, Liu Ruoxin had already interrupted him.
"What's wrong with Lord Dongfang? Why is there a penalty? ”
Liu Ruoxin swore that he was just curious and blurted out to ask, but Nalan Zhi's face suddenly turned cold, and he waved his hand gloomily to send him down.
Closing the door safely and walking out, Liu Ruoxin couldn't help but look at Nalan Zhi suspiciously.
"Dongfang City's punishment is naturally because he did something wrong, not to mention that he is my guard, and the concubine is really lenient enough!"
Hearing Nalan Zhi's bad tone, Liu Ruoxin was a little surprised, but she really didn't understand where Nalan Zhi's anger was.
Seeing Liu Ruoxin's furrowing eyebrows and puzzled eyes, Nalan Zhi felt that the anger in his heart could not be calmed, and said in a low voice: "Dongfang City has just committed a crime, and it is normal to be punished. ”
The following are guilty of ...... Liu Ruoxin was stunned when she heard this, but she didn't show anything, she just muttered in her heart: This Nalan Zhi is really a tyrant.
But thinking of his current situation, he is still a concubine who has no power to restrain a chicken and no ability to carry iron on her shoulders, and her life and death are all in the hands of Nalan Zhi, and she is really tired of living.
Thinking like this in her heart, Liu Ruoxin couldn't help but reject Nalan Zhi even more, the previous contradictions and vacillations suddenly disappeared, and her eyes were much colder.
Feeling that the atmosphere in the room seemed to be a little gloomy, Nalan Zhi was also very irritable.
He asked Ping'an to call Liu Ruoxin after Ling Tiange came, just to be angry with Liu Ruoxin and make her jealous, but now she is happy and she is also indifferent, and she is unhappy with an indifferent look, and she sees that she is on fire in her heart, so it is better not to let her come.
I don't know if Liu Ruoxin felt Nalan Zhi's thoughts, and when the room was so quiet that he could hear a needle on the ground, he opened his mouth when it was really quiet and couldn't be quiet anymore.
"Presumably, the question that the emperor wants to ask the concubine has already been asked, and if there is nothing to do, the concubine will retire."
Liu Ruoxin's words were fluttering, she squatted down and Shi Shiran saluted Nalan, and her hanging eyelashes reflected a long shadow on her face.
"Okay, let's go."
Nalan Zhi was silent for only a few seconds before agreeing, and then summoned Ping An and asked him to send Liu Ruoxin away.
Liu Ruoxin did not refuse, and calmly snapped out of the imperial study. And Nalan Zhi also let out a long sigh at that moment.
When she came before, Liu Ruoxin came out without bringing late autumn, and now she and Ping'an are walking together.
Along the way, Ping An hung his head and was silent, until Liu Ruoxin couldn't hold back and asked him about Dongfang City, he stopped.
"Lord Dongfang didn't suffer much punishment, and the reason for this is not a big deal. It's just that when Concubine Yue came to the study to find the emperor, she was stopped outside by Lord Dongfang, and accidentally touched the lunch box brought by Concubine Yue, and was punished by the emperor. ”
Ping'an's tone was very light, as if it was just a trivial matter like a grain of rice, but it was different when he heard Liu Ruoxin's ears.
"It's just that if you accidentally touch the lunch box, you'll be punished, Nalan ...... The emperor has a little bit of a pass......"
Liu Ruoxin clenched the Jinpa in his hand tightly so that he didn't let his anger show on his face.
However, Ping'an is also a person who has been observing words and emotions in this palace for many years, and he can see Liu Ruoxin's anger, and he can't help but shake his head in his heart.
"The old slave didn't dare to say much about these words, but Lord Dongfang was suspected of committing the following crimes, and the emperor was just aware of everything."
Hearing this, Liu Ruoxin couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and a trace of resentment flashed in his clear eyes, and he had been tortured by Nalan Zhi many times, but wasn't it because of his discernment!
It's just that how can Ping An know these things, and thought that Liu Ruoxin was angry just because Nalan stopped punishing Dongfang City, and frowned for a while.
The two of them didn't say anything after that, and only walked all the way to the Green Shade Temple. However, just after Liu Ruoxin stepped into the palace gate, Ping An stopped her in a low voice.
"Although Niangniang's status is noble, those of us who are slaves should not have any thoughts about Niangniang's work, but the old slave still wants to say that Niangniang should pay attention to her identity before everything, and don't make the emperor sad."
After saying that, he left after a bow, leaving Liu Ruoxin standing in place and frowning thoughtfully at his distant back.