On this day, the emperor and the empress brought the concubines of the six palaces to the queen mother to ask for peace. The Queen Mother comforted Yi Guiren, and then ordered Fujia to bring a mahogany lacquer plate with red embroidery velvet from inside, on which a unicorn gift gold lock was placed, and held it in front of Yi Guiren and said: "The Book of Poetry has clouds: the toe of Lin, Zhenzhen Gongzi." The mourning family will send you a unicorn golden lock, hoping that you will add a brother to the emperor as soon as possible. ”

Yi Guiren couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and thanked him.

The emperor was also quite happy, and said: "Qilin, with faith and righteousness, rules in the step, politeness and movement, there is grace, and it is a divine beast that sends children." The gift of the emperor is really unique. ”

Concubine Hui smiled and stroked the jade tassel on her neckline: "The Queen Mother's heart must be the heart." In fact, what does it matter to Princess Brother, as long as the mother and son are safe, don't be as blessed as Mei Guiren. ”

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand to pluck the newly opened clusters on the case at hand to welcome spring, Jin Yingcui calyx, and the branches were Schumann, with the warm and cool breath of early spring. The smile on the Queen Mother's lips was also warm and cold: "The queen has always disliked luxury, and the mourning family sees that the jewelry used by these concubines is also silverware and gild. The mourning family gave the noble man the red gold unicorn lock, and the queen would not be confused by the mourning family. ”

The queen hurriedly got up and said respectfully: "The emperor's mother is full of thoughts, how dare the ministers think like this." What's more, the Yi nobles are pregnant, and the emperor's mother's love for the Yi nobles is equivalent to caring for the concubines. ”

The Queen Mother smiled slightly: "The peace and tranquility in the palace are due to the queen's virtue. I heard that in order to make the harem concubines have more children, the queen asked the Tai Hospital to boil a lot of fetal medicine and send it to the palaces every day, and she also has a heart. She turned her head to the emperor and said, "A few days ago was the day when the second dragon raised its head in the first month of February. I don't know if Qin Tianjian can tell the emperor the result? ”

The emperor raised a little joy and said: "Qin Tianjian said that the sky is peaceful, especially referring to the Northern Heavenly Maiden with a small star at the tail of the star, which is exceptionally bright for several months, which means that the harem woman is pregnant with a noble child. The son was also very comforted. ”

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "The female Pleiades was originally shaped like a bat, and the Lord was blessed and Dorjee. And the harem women are pregnant, only Yi Guiren. It seems that this child is indeed a great blessing. ”

In this way, Yi Guiren was even more overjoyed, and Concubine Hui pursed her lips disdainfully, and said nothing with a cold face. The queen was relieved and said: "In this way, the concubine will ask the queen mother and the emperor for a favor." Yi Guiren has served the emperor for many years, and her position is ......"

The emperor smiled heartily: "After the Yi nobles give birth, whether they are male or female, I will definitely give her a concubine and live in the main position of Jingyang Palace, how about it?" ”

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "That's very good." The mourning family also hopes that the harem concubines can have more children and nourishment, and it is good to spread the branches and leaves for the royal family. ”

After a few words of greeting, the Queen Mother specially told Yi Guiren about the fetal protection, and then dispersed.

Before leaving the Yimen of Cining Palace, the emperor said to Ruyi in a low voice: "Yesterday, Jiangnan paid tribute to some good tea, and I gave it to you." While you're free now, why don't you cook tea for me to taste? ”

Ruyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled lightly: "The concubine is not afraid that the emperor will not come to taste tea, but you haven't been to Changchun Palace for several days." The other day was the first day of February, and you were supposed to spend the night in the Queen's Palace, but you only went to sit down and went back. ”

The emperor was about to speak, but he heard the queen hurry up and asked An Dao: "The emperor is blessed." ”

The emperor smiled and said lightly: "The spring is cold, isn't the queen going back to her palace?" ”

The queen was quite embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, you haven't been to the palace of your concubines for many days. The concubines are ignorant, I wonder if the emperor blames the concubines for Lianxin's abuse by Wang Qin? ”

Lianxin followed the queen and knelt down hurriedly and said: "Your Majesty, the slave and maid are suffering these things just because the slave and maid are suffering from it, and the slave and maid don't dare to tell the queen for fear that she will worry." After Wang Qin's accident, the queen mother knew the hardships of the slave and maid, and she was very sorry and blamed herself, and personally medicated the slave and maid, and the slave and maid were grateful. Therefore, the fact that Wang Qin belongs to the slave maid's own life, and she doesn't do the queen's mother's business! ”

The emperor looked at the empress with a little more warmth, and he said gently: "Empress, you were just kind at the beginning, and you pitied the loneliness of the palace people, but you failed to know people well. Lianxin has been by your side for many years, and you have neglected for a while, not only has Lianxin suffered a lot, but also the crooked wind in the palace has also arisen. I can't help but think that this is the queen's mistake. ”

The queen stood at the tuyere, and the cold wind passing through the road disturbed her delicate bun that was combed to the bare seam, and a few strands of ink-colored green silk brushed her bloodless face, like a cold lotus withering in early autumn.

The queen bowed down and blessed herself, turning the cold tears in her eyes into self-contained calmness: "It is indeed the concubine's negligence, and the concubine will think about it again and again. She bent her knees: "Then, the concubine sent the emperor to the emperor." ”

After the emperor tasted tea at Ruyi's place, he returned to the Palace of Nourishing Heart to deal with government affairs. If Yi has nothing to do, he will take the silk thread dyed with fragrance and embroider the spring color one by one.

Ah Zhen came in with a freshly lit incense and said: "The little master also embroidered when he fell out of favor, and now it's not enough to be busy accompanying the emperor, why did he start embroidering again?" ”

Ruyi smiled slightly, took a needle and thread and said: "When you fall out of favor, you must let yourself learn to be calm, and when you are favored, you must also warn yourself that you can't be impetuous." This is the case with embroidery, a mistake in the eyes is the destruction of the whole world; If a needle is slanted, I'm afraid that it will hurt you. Therefore, if you are tempted to forbear, you can't make a mistake. ”

Ah Zhen smiled thoughtfully, took a baked lotus incense cake and put it in the oven, and covered it with mica separators to separate the incense cake from the charcoal fire, and dripped in one or two drops of condensation-like honey: "Now that spring is in the spring, the weather is dry, and the honey is dropped when the incense is burned, which can clear the heat and moisten the dryness, does the little master think it is good?" ”

"Now that your mind is quieter and more proper, there is nothing bad about it." Ruyi smiled lightly, thought about it and said, "Yi Guiren likes to burn sandalwood after pregnancy, although sandalwood is good this morning, but after burning incense, she always feels dry and hot, and she is a greedy sweets." I remember that the small kitchen had acacia nectar prepared for the last year, and it was the best way to clear the heat and cool the blood. Wait a minute, and I'll send her an urn." ”

Ah Zhen smiled: "Nothing else." The acacia nectar was deliberately sent to the suburbs of Beijing to find a large locust forest when the year was last year, and the snow-white and clean blooming flowers were cleaned, and the appropriate amount of tender mulberry leaves were steamed out of the locust flower dew. The slave remembered that the locust flowers were the most squeamish, and the flowers picked from hundreds of trees could not withstand the steaming, so in the end they only got two small urns of locust flower dew, and then refined them with honey from the wild beehives produced in Changbai Mountain. The Communist Party is just such an idea, and the little master has to take it away and give it away. ”

Ruyi said angrily: "Now Yi Guiren is the emperor's heart, and even the queen mother thinks highly of her." I also thought that if the Yi nobles were safe in this child, and the emperor also untied the knot in the heart of the Mei nobles who gave birth last time, this would be good. ”

Ah Zhen smiled: "What's so good about others being pregnant." In the past, Yi nobles were not favored at all, but now the pregnant emperor is so promoted. If the little lord also takes advantage of the current holy family and quickly conceives a child, that is what really makes the emperor happy. I don't know how the emperor is going to hold love like an eyeball, and it's too late. ”

Ruyi smiled and glanced at her: "I love nonsense more and more." ”

As she was talking, the little palace maid Green Mark came in with the decoction and said, "The medicine that has just been boiled, the little lord should drink it quickly." ”

Ruyi sniffed lightly, frowned, and said, "As soon as you smell the smell, you will know that it is the smell of fetal medicine." ”

Ah Ji took a few sweet and sour fruits and put them in Ruyi's hand, and said in a good voice: "This fetal pill is pregnant, no matter how bitter it is, we have to drink it." You see, the slave and maid have even prepared carved kumquat and candied milk pears, so the little master should drink them quickly. ”

Ruyi took the bowl and drank it with her face up, rinsed her mouth with water, and quickly took the candied fruit and put it in her mouth for a while, Fang said: "This fetal medicine is drunk bowl by bowl, and even the bottom of the tongue is bitter, I really don't know when I will get pregnant?" ”

Ah Zhen smiled and said: "As long as the emperor comes often, that luck will come sooner or later." The little master drank the medicine, let's go to Jingyang Palace to get pregnant. I heard that although Concubine Hui was dissatisfied with the celestial phenomenon and said that Yi Guiren was the child of a nobleman, she often went to Jingyang Palace in order to get pregnant. ”

Ruyi took Ah Zhen's hand and smiled: "In that case, you can take the urn of locust nectar and accompany me to Jingyang Palace to have a look." ”

Jingyang Palace is behind Yanxi Palace and Yonghe Palace, Ruyi saw that the sky was excellent, so she took the palace people to walk over. Because Yi Guiren is pregnant, Jingyang Palace is also specially decorated, and when he walked outside the palace wall, he saw that the vermilion palace wall was towering, and even the glazed tiles looked like a wash.

Ruyi looked at it carefully and said: "It's a festive color, this wall is a new pink color, it seems to be particularly bright." ”

The little eunuch who greeted him smiled brightly: "No, the queen has instructed that the color should be festive, which is auspicious." Ruyi took Ah Zhen's hand into the heavy Zhu Gate, only to see the carved railings colorful, depicting red and gold, and the freshness was abnormal.

Ruyi nodded secretly and said, "Sure enough, Guiren Yi is pregnant, and Jingyang Palace is not the same as before." She turned her head and asked the little eunuch, "At this time, what is Yi Guiren doing?" ”

The little eunuch said: "The noble man is tired, and he is resting in the warm pavilion at the moment." Concubine Xian Niangniang please. ”

Ruyi was about to enter the main hall, when she suddenly heard a frightened scream inside, which turned out to be the voice of Yi Guiren.