Chapter 15: The Queen
The Queen Mother thought about today, the reaction of those concubines when they saw the painting, and found that everyone's expressions were similar. The more she thought about it, the more irritable she became, and rubbed her somewhat painful forehead with her hand.
Mama Liu watched the Queen Mother's movements and hurriedly stepped forward to massage the Queen Mother. I wanted to comfort him, but when I looked at the Queen Mother's closed eyes, I still didn't say anything.
Xia Lian told the queen everything that happened in Cining Palace today, and the queen looked in the direction of Bauhinia Tower and said with a smile: "Concubine Ning is pregnant, this is good!" He turned around and instructed Xia He: "Xia He, bring some things to the palace and reward them to Ning Guifei." ”
It seems that during the time when the palace is recuperating, the harem is very lively! This Ning Guifei only slept once, and she became pregnant. What a stomach!
"Xia Lian, is it half a month before the Laba Festival?" The queen asked.
"Back to the Queen, yes."
It seems that the disease of this palace should also be cured, or they should forget about this harem and the existence of this palace.
"Xia Lian, go and call the Imperial Doctor."
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Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. There is a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.
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"Sister, you're here, sit down." Li Ji saw Su Wanqing's arrival and hurriedly got up to greet him. Turning his head and ordering: "Lu Yan, serve tea quickly." ”
"It's been a little colder lately, are you okay?" After Su Wanqing sat down, he asked.
Listening to Su Wanqing's worries, Liji smiled and said, "Sister, don't worry, I'm almost fine now." It's okay. ”
"That being said, you should pay attention to it and don't get cold." Su Wanqing said when he heard this. "This is the Laba Festival soon, the queen mother has been recuperating for so long, it seems that it won't be long before she should come out."
Li Ji stretched out her hand to take the soup woman handed over by Xia Lian, and said, "Yes, I found out that Ning Guifei was pregnant a few days ago, and this harem has been quiet for a long time......"
"Sister, I'm just a little concubine, it's okay, but sister, you have to be careful in everything."
The two chatted like this, and in the blink of an eye, it was noon, and Liji stayed here to have lunch.
"Sister Xia Lian, this is ......" Ziqiu looked at the tray held by the eunuch behind Xia Lian, a little puzzled.
"Oh, these are some supplements that the queen mother specially selected when she heard that your concubine was pregnant. Make up for your concubines. Xia Lian pointed to the tray and smiled at Ziqiu.
Ziqiu heard this: "This is my mother's mother just fell asleep, or Xia Lian will wait for this sister for a while, I will call." ”
When Xia Lian heard this, she thought for a moment and said, "Oh, the noble concubine is asleep, so don't disturb the noble concubine, let's talk about it when the noble concubine wakes up." I'll leave it here, and I'll go back and talk back to the queen first. ”
"Ziqiu."
Ziqiu, who was waiting outside the door, heard the call of his mother, and hurriedly entered the house to serve Ning Guifei to change clothes.
Ziqiu helped Ning Guifei comb her hair, and said, "Niangniang, when you were sleeping, Xia Lian next to the queen mother came." took some supplements, saying that the queen mother heard that the master was pregnant, and gave the mother to make up for her body. ”
Ning Guifei looked at herself and Ziqiu in the mirror, handed a hairpin to Ziqiu in her hand, and said softly: "Then why didn't you wake up this concubine." ”
Ziqiu took the hairpin handed over by Concubine Ning and said, "Xia Lian said not to disturb Niangniang. ”
"Well, okay." After speaking, he got up and went to the bookcase to get the book, and walked towards the concubine.
Ziqiu hurriedly took a blanket and covered it with Concubine Ning.
"Ziqiu, help me go out for a walk, stay in the house every day, stuffy and panic." Ning Guifei put down the book in her hand and called Ziqiu Dao, who was standing at the door.
"Yes, sissy."
The two walked to the palace gate, and Concubine Ning shivered coldly. After Ziqiu noticed it, he said to Ziyin on the side: "Ziyin, you wait here with Niangniang for a while, and I'll go back and get a coat to wear first." After speaking, he looked at Ning Guifei.
"Well, you go first." Ning Guifei said.
The three of them walked to the plum garden, and Ning Guifei stood under a plum tree. "It seems that this year's plum blossoms will bloom well." Ning Guifei raised her head and blocked the sun's rays with her hands, squinting slightly at the buds of the trees.
The plum trees in the entire plum orchard are already crawling with buds. Those buds, red, little by little. It's beautiful, especially now in the sun.
"Niangniang, why don't you go back to the palace first, you've been shopping here for so long, and the imperial doctor also said, you can't be tired." Ziqiu reminded loudly.
"If you don't say it, you don't realize it. You really feel a little tired when you say this. But after just walking around for a while, I remember that there seems to be a pavilion behind the rockery in front of me, so let's go there and sit there for a while. He walked like the pavilion in front of him. Ziqiu Ziyin and the two hurriedly stepped forward to help.
"Didn't you say, did you mention it to Niangniang, then why ......" Listening to this voice, Ning Guifei was thinking about who this was, and she heard footsteps from far and near.
If you want to hide at this time, it seems that it is too late. Ning Guifei hurriedly pinched Ziqiu's wrist with her hand, covered her stomach with her other hand, bent down slightly, and looked at Ziqiu Ziyin.
"Meow ......"
Ziqiu instantly understood the color of Ning Guifei, and shouted loudly: "Niangniang, how are you, are you okay......" After half a sound, the people in the rockery also left, and Ning Guifei also took Ziqiu and a few people to the rockery.
"Alas, you said, did Concubine Ning hear our conversation just now?"
"There shouldn't be, when we went in, there was no one around, it should just be a coincidence."
"It should be the same, I just heard a cat meow, maybe Ning Guifei was scared by a wild cat."
"Well, it's fine. Go back and do your own thing first. ”
Ning Guifei originally wanted to go shopping for a while, but after what happened next to the rockery just now, she was always a little uneasy. After resting in the pavilion for a while, I went back to the palace.
When I returned to the palace, I thought about what I had just heard from that person, and the sound of that talk, I always felt that I had heard it somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while, and after thinking about it for a long time, I still didn't have the slightest impression.
Just as Ziqiu came in and asked, "Niangniang, what do you need for dinner, the slave maid wants the imperial dining room to see this." ”
Since I've thought about it for so long and still haven't figured it out, I haven't thought about it anymore. "Just like usual, with another porridge. Tonight, I suddenly wanted to drink porridge. ”
"Yes, mother, the slave and maid retired first." After Ziqiu finished speaking, he slowly retreated.
At night, when Ning Guifei fell asleep, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach, and when she just called Ziyin, she saw Ziyin trotting over.
When Ning Guifei's stomach hurt slightly, Ziyin had already felt it outside. When he heard the mother calling herself, she hurriedly ran into the house.
Since Concubine Ning became pregnant, Ziqiu and the others were extra careful, especially at night.
By the time the imperial doctor came, Concubine Ning had already recovered and was not in such pain. "Doctor, how is it, my mother is fine." Ziqiu and the two of them asked anxiously when they saw that the imperial doctor had finished diagnosing the pulse.
The doctor was busy: "Don't worry, Niangniang, it's just that I broke my stomach at night, it's fine." ”