After coming out of Yikun Palace, Ling Yunche saw Yinwan. Walking down the long street in the twilight, the towering red walls of the aisle were dyed by the setting sun with a kind of red on the faces of dying people, dim and lifeless. And Yinwan, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, seemed to have lost the brilliance brought by his grace when he left, like a gorgeous puppet, lifeless.

After making eye contact with him, there was obvious surprise and fear in Yan Wan's eyes: "You're back?" ”

Yun Che bowed politely: "There is no expectation of the little master, Weichen is still back." ”

Yin Wan quickly concealed her undeserved emotions: "That's good." I heard that you have been promoted, and you are also married by the emperor, and you are about to marry. Congratulations. ”

Yun Che said bluntly: "The little master still likes to say things against his heart and do things against his will. ”

Yin Wan frowned unhappily: "Even if you are favored by the emperor, can you talk to the palace like this?" The person who harmed you is Concubine Jia, if you have anything to say to her, don't come to the palace. ”

Yun Che smiled and said clearly: "Why does Concubine Jia want to harm Weichen? Who in the palace can't tolerate Weichen, Weichen understands. ”

He took a step closer, and Yin Wan was obviously very uneasy about his behavior, and took a step back in surprise, "What are you going to do?" You ......," she had a deep guard in her eyes, "if there is evidence, you can go and tell the emperor!" ”

"The so-called evidence is sometimes only a look, a kind of understanding." Ling Yunche said in a dumb voice, "You don't have to be afraid. You and I are no longer our former selves, as long as we are safe, we can keep each other safe. But, don't try to hurt me again. He glanced at Yinwan deeply, as if he had said the most complete goodbye, "These words are where all the feelings of the past lie." No matter how dare you harm me, I also have a handle. ”

Yin Wan leaned against the wall, watching him leave in a daze, as if pondering the deep meaning of his words. After a long time, he finally smiled self-deprecatingly: "Isn't it?" A woman who is not favored, who can she help, and who can she harm? With a hint of resentment, she watched the slanting sun gradually fall into the western mountain, and the thick inky sky immediately swallowed her lonely figure and face.

A few months after returning from the Mulan paddock, Ruyi soon found out that she was pregnant again. Maybe it's the emperor's favor after giving birth to a child, or maybe it's the recovery of Jiang Youbin's body after many years of pranayama. In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Qianlong, Ruyi became pregnant again. And Yun Che also married Mao Qian this autumn. After marrying, he seemed to be more and more busy, except for the days when he should be on duty, he always took turns for other guards, serving the emperor wholeheartedly, and he was also more relied on by the emperor.

There are joys in the middle palace one after another, and it is a happy thing for the palace. With Yongxi's birth, it doesn't seem to matter whether this child is male or female. For Ruyi, adding another prince is certainly the icing on the cake; But if you have a daughter, it is really the intimate warmth of both children and daughters.

At that time, Yihuan's beloved son, Brother Shi, gradually did not get better.

Maybe it was the disease of kidney qi weakness brought out of the mother's womb, but as Brother Ten grew older, it did not get better, but gradually became a rope that strangled his life, and it became tighter and tighter, as if it could kill him if he tightened it again.

During that time, Chuxiu Palace always had a faint cloudy atmosphere, even if the Queen Mother and Ruyi had sent the best imperial doctor from the Tai Hospital to stay in Chuxiu Palace to ask for medicine, but Yi Huan's faint cry seemed to imply that the haze would not dissipate.

After the spring, in order to let the tenth elder brother rest better, and in order for Ruyi to take care of the baby well, the emperor took the queen mother and the concubines to the Old Summer Palace to live in Yiqing temporarily.

The Old Summer Palace was built from the hands of the Holy Ancestor Kangxi, and began to build vigorously when the first emperor Yongzheng arrived. In the hands of the emperor, because of the emperor's elegant and beautiful garden scenery, and relying on the peace of the world and the wealth of the country, he carefully built it. The pavilions, mountains and rocks and trees in the garden integrate the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River and the atmosphere of the northern Yange into one garden.

The spring breeze opens the purple hall, and Tianle goes down to the Zhu Tower. The song of the warbler smells too liquid, and the phoenix blows around Yingzhou. Chi Riming singing seat, new flowers and beautiful dance clothes. Fireworks should set sunset, and silk pipes are drunk with spring breeze. Compared with the restraints in the palace, in the Old Summer Palace, it is such a day of flowing water.

The emperor liked the comfort of the breeze on the lake, and as usual, he lived in Kyushu Qingyan. Ruyi lived in the east, the closest to the emperor, Tiandi Yichun, and clinged to the spring of the royal tomb. Concubine Ying was deeply favored, and the emperor liked her by his side, so he gave her Luxiangzhai in the west to live. Luyun was old, and Hailan's favor was weak, so she chose the most quaint and interesting Apricot Blossom Spring Pavilion and took her children for fun. Yuyan lives in the natural picture of Wufu Hall, in front of the court to repair ten thousand poles, and the double tung mirror, the wind branches are exposed, the green sleeves are full, but also quiet. In particular, the fourth elder brother Yonghui was very much loved by the emperor, and he was quite concerned about his reading, so he personally pointed out such an elegant and pleasant place for him to read, which was also convenient for him to meet every day.

Qing Concubine and several new palace Chang Zai lived in Maoyu Zhai and Zhuxiang Zhai in Rugu Hanjin. Ru Guhan is surrounded by Jia trees and flowers, fragrant and fragrant, with curved walls, and the bright windows of the pavilion, which also has a unique feeling. In order to ask the tenth elder brother to recuperate quietly, Yi Huan lived in the spring rain a little farther away. Ruyi was jealous of Yinwan, so she let her live in the farthest Wuling Chun Xuan, which was close to the Cui Fu Lou of the Jin concubine, who also fell out of favor. The queen mother likes to be quiet, the Changchun immortal hall is deep, the heavy eaves and sheep thresholds, and the courtyard paths are full of rocks, which is most in line with her heart. The rest of the concubines lived in the middle of it, and they were comfortable with each other.

Ruyi's delivery date was at the beginning of July, and in addition to visiting Yihuan and Brother Ten on a regular day, she comforted them from time to time, so she only raised the baby with peace of mind. The days in the harem are just like this, no matter how big the waves are, they are just stirring in the backwater, but they are quiet for a while. And the real uneasiness is in the former dynasty.

Because Ruyi gave birth to her son-in-law Yongxuan, the emperor's sacred heart was happy. In May, the world was again granted amnesty, and the autumn trial and the court trial were suspended for more than three times. This is a good thing that the world is peaceful, but the country is so peaceful, but Dzungaria is gradually not quiet.

In the past, after the death of the leader of the Dzungar tribe, Galdance, he left three sons. The eldest son, Dorza, was not allowed to stand on the throne because he was a concubine; The second son, Namzar, inherited the throne because of his mother's wealth; The youngest son, Dash, supported the great policy of Zero Dun Dob. Namzar's brother-in-law, Sachiburak, helped Dolza destroy Namzar and gave Dolza the throne. However, his ascension to the throne was opposed by the Junggar nobles, and in order to quell the chaos in Dzungaria, the imperial court made it easier to marry the queen mother's daughter, Princess Duanshu, as the wife of Dolza, in order to show the stability of the imperial court. For many years, Dorza has been arrogant and arrogant, drunk on alcohol, and in order to prevent the recurrence of the mutiny, he killed his younger brother Dash, which is very unpopular. The Dzungar nobles could not bear it, so they had to support another relative of the Dzungar tribe, Dawaqi. Dawazi is the grandson of Dace Lingdun Dobu after Batur Huntaiji, taking advantage of the fluctuation of the hearts of the Dzungar tribe, taking the opportunity to lead his troops to detour into Ili, taking advantage of Dolza's unpreparedness, beheading him and pacifying the tribe. Since then, Dawazi has stood on his own feet.

This time, the government and the opposition were alarmed, and even the Queen Mother had to ask.

Just because Junggar Taiji Dolza is the husband of the eldest daughter of the Empress Dowager, the eldest princess of Duanshu Gulun, although Dolza has many favorites over the years, and his personality is extremely strong and proud, the relationship between the husband and wife is light, and it is not very harmonious, and even the princess has been married for many years, and even a son and a half daughter have not been born. But after all, a husband and wife maintain the stability of the court and Dzungaria. Dawaqi's support of the army was self-reliant, and the Dzungar department was in turmoil, and the eldest princess Duanshu also had to write a letter to the palace, asking the emperor to intervene to avenge her husband's rehabilitation and pacify the civil strife in Dzungaria.

However, before the letter of the eldest princess Duanshu arrived in the palace, news came from Dzungaria that Dawaqi asked to marry the eldest princess Duanshu as his wife. This word is like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, although Aixinjue Luo clan is raised from outside the border, there are countless cases of brothers marrying younger brothers and daughters-in-law, and sons inheriting their father's concubines. Even when the Central Plains was first set in the customs, such things happened repeatedly, and there were rumors that the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang married the regent Dolgon, that is, the Shunzhi Emperor also married his younger brother Bogol's widow Dong E as the imperial concubine.

However, the Qing Dynasty has been in the Central Plains for a hundred years, and gradually been baptized by the way of Confucius and Mencius, and it is necessary to conform to the will of the people and respect etiquette. Therefore, after Shunzhi, there was no such incestuous marriage, and even the widow and remarriage among the relatives and nobles were rare. As a Mongolian tribe, Dzungar has always been accustomed to these things, so it is common for them to propose to marry a daughter who remarries.

For such a tricky matter, the emperor naturally discussed politics with the ministers in the Qinzheng Palace every day, and he couldn't take half a step to the harem.

In the afternoon of this day, Ruyi was sleeping soundly under the west window, and the summer cicadas on the branches outside the window sizzled and sang, which made people more sleepy. Nine wind wheels rotated, blowing the snow-white frangipani flowers offered in the hall into the room fragrant. Rong Pei came in and whispered in her ear: "Queen Mother, Queen Mother is anxious to see you." ”

This sentence was enough to wake up Ruyi. She immediately got up and passed the sedan chair, changed into a slightly solemn blue satin dark flower bamboo leaf coat in the homely style, only decorated with a few pearl buttons, and wore a long skirt of lotus leaf-colored silk silk on the ground. She wore a golden silk dotted emerald flower hairpin, which was a touch of light and refreshing in the hot weather of nearly June, and she looked like a well-behaved and diligent daughter-in-law. She thought about it, and still said, "Is the Xianglian bird's nest pear stewed for the emperor refreshing?" ”

Rong Pei said: "It's already stewed and cooled, and you can send it to the emperor later." These days, the emperor's heart is booming, and the Qinzheng Palace replied that the emperor is drinking this. ”

Ruyi straightened the Hetian white jade bamboo joint collar button on the placket, nodded and said, "Prepare the next one, and the palace will send it to the Changchun Immortal Pavilion." ”