As he spoke, the emperor reached out and touched Min'er's lips, wiped off the star-dotted bun crumbs, and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that you would take things out and eat while walking with me." After entering Beijing, the queen mother's family was brought in, and the palace began to pay attention to everywhere, although the Kishu palace also has the dignity and rules that the palace should have, but it is not as depressed as the palace, but even if I am the emperor, I can't change these things. ”

Min'er said: "If the emperor doesn't like it, the concubines won't do it anymore, naturally this is not the habit of the concubines, it's just a whim just now." ”

Xiang Ye frowned: "I'm not saying that I don't want you to affect what you want to do because of my likes and dislikes." After saying these few words, the emperor couldn't tell whether he didn't wait for Min'er to answer, or Min'er followed the topic and took the matter of Concubine Shu away.

On the contrary, Min'er took the initiative to say: "The concubine and the concubine have never had a deep relationship, there is no affection and no festival, and the concubine will not care about her." The position of the middle palace was given by the emperor, as long as the emperor did not drive the concubines away from the Shangyang Palace, no one could shake the status of the concubines. ”

Compared to Min'er taking something out to eat in order to walk with her, such a blunt thing doesn't sound so kind. High-sounding is what should be said in her position, advance and retreat appropriately, and there is no mistake to find fault with, but it is not what Xiang Ye wants to hear.

He looked at Min'er helplessly: "I don't know what I'm talking about." ”

Reaching out this time, it was really gently touching Min'er's face, after last night, they should have been closer to each other, it was good to see each other at noon, and after a trip to Anle Palace, it suddenly became different, Xiang Ye didn't know if there was something wrong with him, or if the person in front of him had something on his mind.

"Your Majesty, let's continue walking." Min'er didn't let go of the emperor's hand, but walked forward by herself, but was pulled by Xiang Ye, she looked back and was asked, "You saw me hugging Concubine Shu, didn't you?" ”

Min'er nodded: "I just saw it." ”

Xiang Ye stepped forward and grabbed her waist: "What should I say to you, so that you will be happier?" ”

Min'er smiled: "The concubine is not unhappy." ”

She remembered the scene in the bedroom of Anle Palace, and also remembered that the emperor gently and steadily put down Concubine Shu, and when she left, she was thinking about the meaning of that action, did she want to see the emperor push Concubine Shu away violently, like a thief who had been caught? No, in contrast, she would rather see this gentle and considerate scene, but in her heart, she was not very happy.

In the dim light, the emperor looked into Min'er's eyes, as if trying to read a few words of truth from them, and said with a little disappointment: "You are not jealous, it is okay, the queen mother always praises you for your bearing and heart." ”

Min'er looked up at him and asked, "The emperor wants his concubines to be jealous, to satisfy your expectations, and the concubines care about your feelings, right?" ”

The emperor was stunned, frowned, and said, "You are not small. ”

"It's tiring to always speculate on each other's moods." Min'er said, "In the face of concubines, ministers, and people in the world, concubines are queens." With you, or in front of the queen mother, just your wife, the queen mother's daughter-in-law. The concubine likes the queen mother, so she is willing to make the queen mother happy, not to make the queen mother happy, so she goes close. Similarly, the concubines are reluctant to say some so-called heartfelt words in order to make the emperor happy, since they don't want to say something and don't want to show emotions, that is, they should not appear, not hypocrisy. The concubines also have to spend a lot of time to understand the emperor, and the emperor is the same for the concubines, and ask the emperor not to put his feelings for the concubines on others, whether it is Queen Jing'an or Concubine Shu, any woman in the palace is the same, and they have nothing to do with the concubines themselves. ”

Xiang Ye asked puzzledly: "At your young age, where did you get so many truths, all taught by the old lady?" Why did the old lady teach you this? ”

Min'er smiled: "How could grandma think that her granddaughter would become a queen one day, but what she taught her concubines was to hope that no matter where she was, the concubines would live with dignity and protect their hearts." ”

Xiang Ye had seen Mrs. Qiu, who was a few years older than his mother, but she had a seemingly younger but calmer bearing, neither humble nor arrogant, and spoke calmly. Indeed, the temperament of the ancestors and grandchildren is very similar, and the one who can survive in such a complex family as the Qiu family must have seen the sophistication and entanglement of human feelings clearly a long time ago.

He only ordered Qiu Min'er to be his wife because Qiu Zhenyu happened to have an unmarried daughter, and only because he wanted to shut up the impetuous old ministers, but God sent this woman directly into his heart.

What does he like about Min'a? The first time they met, the stubborn eyes he saw, did he just want to conquer this woman?

"In this case, in the future, when you are with me, don't call yourself a concubine, there is no dignity between husband and wife, and you are not my minister." Xiang Ye let go of his embrace, took Min'er's hand well, and walked slowly around the Shangyang Palace.

They didn't speak for a long time, and once again went around to the main entrance of the main hall, and saw the lonely dragon and phoenix throne on the wide hall, Xiang Ye called Zhou Huai and ordered: "Remove this chair and put on a throne that can accommodate me and the queen to sit together." ”

Zhou Huai took the order to retreat, and immediately took someone to move down the gorgeous and dazzling dragon and phoenix throne, Min'er watched quietly, but heard Xiang Ye say in her ear: "It's been so long, I have forgotten to fulfill your first wish." ”

Min'er smiled: "The concubine herself has forgotten, it is rare for the concubine to see the harem, and the emperor will not come, so no one will worry about it." ”

Xiang Ye approached her, a little sneering and a little proud, as if he had finally caught Min'er's shortcomings.

"Now...... There's someone else, you see. Min'er pointed to her side indiscriminately, but her cheeks were already red, with an unconvinced smile, under the emperor's gaze, she finally relented, "I wrote it down, I must remember it." ”

At this moment, the food in Xiang Ye's stomach has been restrained, and the night is getting deeper, so he naturally stays in Shangyang Hall for the night, but he doesn't want Min'er's body again tonight. The hard work of the early night yesterday, those traces left on Min'er's body, just looking at it made me feel distressed, just hugged my beloved in my arms, whispered some words, and fell asleep peacefully.

However, the only few times I slept with the same pillow in the past, it was always the emperor who watched Min'er go to sleep, secretly looking at her cute and stable sleeping appearance, tonight, when Min'er was awake, Xiang Ye was already snoring slightly.

There was only a candle flickering in the dim light outside the gauze tent, but in such a dim light, it was the first time that Min'a looked at her husband carefully and for a long time.

More than two months ago, the people who fell asleep because they were too tired to care about the rudeness of the sad emperor did not dare to imagine that there would be such a situation today, and the people who were forced by the emperor to almost fall under the railing of the water pavilion never expected any gentleness. Therefore, everything in front of him, wrapped in the solid and warm embrace of the body, is so unreal.

"I don't know why, I feel unhappy when I see you holding another woman." This was defined by Min'er as a word that should not appear in front of the emperor, and it was whispered at the moment, with an indescribable sourness in her heart, and even a faint unwillingness, can she really fall in love with this man, who once treated her so roughly?

But in the end, how can it be considered love?

The next day, the rain was majestic, when the emperor left the Shangyang Palace, he saw the churning Taiye pool water, saw the waves that slapped ashore, and began to worry about whether the filled island could protect the integrity of the Shangyang Palace, this island and the palace, from the beginning of the construction to the completion, have also experienced rain, snow, wind and frost, but he has never worried about this problem, and now he is worried about Min'er's safety.

Fortunately, before noon, the rain stopped, and the Taiye Pool also returned to its former tranquility, and the water of the Taiye Pool did not flood into the Shangyang Palace. Min'er stood outside the water pavilion, watching the palace maids wipe the bottom plate dry, re-lay the blanket, and wait here to write a letter to her grandmother.

At this moment, Qingya came to spread the word, saying that the emperor would take craftsmen to the island to check the terrain and the drainage on the island, and ask Min'er to sit in the queen mother's palace.

Qingya said with a smile: "After the completion of this Shangyang Palace, the slave maid has been here for a year, the emperor has never thought about these things, this year's midsummer is spent in Qinzhou, but in previous years, the midsummer rainstorm, the water of the Taiye Pond will not come in." The slave maid was worried about the heavy rain all summer last year, the emperor didn't care much, and the slave didn't want to disturb the emperor for this matter. ”

Min'er said casually: "Why does the emperor have to build this palace on the water?" ”

Qingya said: "The slave maid heard from the old people from the palace that it was because Empress Jing'an liked water, and Kishu was all stones, and it was a barren place in the past, so for Empress Jing'an, who likes water, the emperor built this palace." Naturally, the emperor himself did not say the real reason, and it doesn't matter now. ”

Min'er nodded: "Indeed, the emperor said that this palace was built for her." ”

Qingya was worried that she was uncomfortable, and said with a smile: "The slave is too talkative, how to mention these things." ”

Min'er turned around to change her clothes, and prepared to go to the Longevity Palace to take refuge, and said indifferently: "If you don't mention it, it won't change the reason why this palace was built." ”

After changing her clothes, she sat on her shoulder and went to the Longevity Palace, on weekdays, Min'er would walk over, but today after the heavy rain, the ground was slippery, and the muddy water that was washed away had not had time to clean up, which would stain her luxurious skirt, so she had to use her shoulder to walk.

Soon after she left the edge of the Taiye Pool, she saw two children chasing in the distance, she recognized both children, one was the eldest prince's son Xiang Hong, and the other was Zhou Jue, the only son of Princess Huiyi.