Ruyi turned her face, and the blood stains left by Cheng Han's feet became more and more like red lotus blooming on the muddy ground under the dim light and shadow of the lantern. Ruyi gripped the door frame with great effort, and because she was not wearing armor, the inch-long nails on her fingers were picked into the cracks of the wooden door, and there was a slight hissing sound. She whispered, "Yes." I almost fell for someone else's trick, so the person with crippled feet is ourselves. ”

Yi Xin said quietly: "It's still the little master who is alert." ”

Ruyi squatted down, took the package of paper money and burned it all, and the fire stained her pale cheeks as white as paper: "Heart, if Hailan sends something, will it be stuffed in by herself through Ling Yunche's hand?" And after sending so much, it seems that he has completely forgotten that there is still a lot of paper money left for Prince Duanhui last time. Hyland would not be so careless. ”

I was still shocked: "How could the little master know that the Queen Mother would come?" ”

"Someone set up this bureau to lead to big things. Only the queen mother, the head of the family, is left in the palace, and there is such a violation of palace rules in the cold palace, even if she doesn't come herself, she will let the closest person in front of her come. So as long as someone comes, there is no fear of this matter, and people must know that there are people around the Queen Mother who do things for other masters. How can the Queen Mother tolerate such eyes and ears around her, and we can get out. ”

Xin gently patted his chest: "It's so dangerous!" The slave is still afraid that something will go wrong. ”

Ruyi sank her face, watching the faint firelight finally turn into dark ashes, spread out thinly, and said, "If you don't walk on the tip of the knife, how can you get out of a bloody path." It was also Concubine Ji who was bent on revenge and gave us such an opportunity. The Queen Mother not only knows our loyalty, but also can get rid of the unclean people for her, and when it comes to employing people, she will think of us. As long as the Queen Mother is concerned, there is more hope for going out. ”

She stood up, sprinkled the ashes of the burned paper money all the way on the blood stains left by Cheng Han's feet, and muttered, "Amma, my daughter is not filial, so I can only burn a little paper money for you after taking care of these things." You are under the Nine Springs, you must bless your daughter, bless the Ulanala clan, don't be humiliated again, don't have no future. She looked back at the side hall where Concubine Ji was hanged, and closed her eyes: "Concubine Ji, I will definitely not take revenge like you and kill others in vain." ”

She raised her head, and the clouds were still there, except for a few faint crows, patting their shoulders and flapping their wings and flying away.

This period of calm and silence came to the end of the summer of the fifth year of Qianlong, Chu Yue and Miao Yao colluded to make trouble, and the emperor read that Miao Yao's matter was quite important, and the involvement was also wide, and it was inconvenient to stay in the Old Summer Palace to deal with it, so he ordered to return to the Forbidden City. And just as the emperor and the queen mother wished for a child, when the royal driver returned to Luan, Hailan was already more than three months pregnant.

After the emperor was born in the fourth year of Qianlong's fourth brother, Yonghui, he was happy again a year later, and he was pregnant with Hailan, who had been favored in the past two years, how could he not like it. In addition, the imperial doctor said that Hailan's body was not strong enough, and it would take four months to withstand the fatigue of the journey, so the emperor arranged it to take a good rest in Yanxi Palace, and then let Hailan move in. This delay will have to be delayed for half a month before returning to Luan.

Hailan was pregnant, and she was originally quiet, but she was willing to tell the emperor until the fetal gas was stable in three months. This is naturally the palace alarmed, the concubine Mei and the noble Shen are still acceptable, and the emperor's new favorite Qing Chang is only a momentary interest, and he has already been left out in the cold, and he has nothing to say. The saddest thing is Concubine Hui, who has been in the Old Summer Palace for the past year, since she has been the most favored, but there is no movement of pregnancy at all, I only see others have flesh and blood in their wombs, how can they not be sad. Although the emperor also desperately hoped that this beloved concubine, who had been favored for more than ten years, could become pregnant, he was helpless.

And in this compartment, Ruyi only hoped that the matter of the Queen Mother could be slightly helped, but there was no movement for a whole year, but the food sent in was slightly improved, often with meat and vegetables, and it was no longer cold and wet. Because of the sorrow, because of the diet and thought, Ruyi gradually lost weight. This kind of thinness is unconscious, but the skin and flesh are thinning down bit by bit, and when it is thin, you can faintly see the flow of tendons and veins. In the late summer and early autumn, the prickly heat on the body faded due to the heat of the house, but the wrist was much thinner than in previous years, and the jade beads were wrapped around the red golden lotus bracelet on the hand, and it was already able to roll to the arm. She thought about it for a while and took it off and put it on the dressing table: "In the end, it's the queen's reward, don't break it." ”

The heart was slightly sad: "Back then, the queen mother rewarded a bunch of them, and the other person who wore them was favored outside, and the little lord was trapped and died here." ”

As he was talking, Jiang Youbin came in, bowed down and saluted: "Little Lord Wanfu, Weichen has been ordered to ask for peace for the little master." ”

Ruyi smiled and stretched out her wrist: "I thought that the imperial doctor was to cure the sick and save people, but every time you come to ask for peace, others know that I am safe, isn't it a blockage for people?" ”

Jiang Youbin smiled indifferently, and his two fingers fell on Ruyi's wrist through the yarn, feeling her pulse beating: "The responsibility of Weichen is only to take care of the well-being of the little master, and the rest of Weichen don't have to pay attention to it." ”

Ruyi snapped her fingers and joked: "You came more often than usual, but who in the cold palace led you?" ”

Jiang Youbin glanced at his heart, and his face was a little coral-colored. I was embarrassed, so I turned around and went to add tea.

Jiang Youbin always had a gentle look: "The queen mother's instructions, knowing that Weichen is in charge of the errands of the cold palace, instruct Weichen not to make the little master uncomfortable." He smiled at the heart who was boiling water under the porch: "Miss heart can be idle, except for the old disease, everything is fine for the little master." ”

Xin Xin's face turned red, and he immediately said indifferently: "But the slave maid feels that the little master has lost a lot of weight." ”

"Thinness is a blessing, if it is too fat, it will cause all kinds of diseases." He smiled, "There has been a happy event in the harem recently, and I think the little lord will be happy when he hears it." ”

Ruyi smiled and said, "What? ”

"Hai Guiren is pregnant in the Old Summer Palace."

Ruyi was overjoyed, but was overwhelmed by more worries: "You want her to be careful in everything." ”

Jiang Youbin had a determined smile on the corner of his lips: "The fetus of the Hai nobles has fallen on Weichen, and now it has been almost four months, and the fetal image has been stable, and it is difficult for others to do anything." ”

Ruyi pressed her heart and showed a smile of relief: "That's good." She thought about it for a while, and took the jade beads wrapped around the red golden lotus bracelet on the dressing table: "There is nothing more valuable than this around me, this is still the queen's reward back then, give it to her for me, stay by your side, and be a thought." ”

He persuaded in his heart: "The little master will always have a day to go out, and the queen will know that he has given this away, I'm afraid it's not good." ”

Ruyi stared for a moment and said with a smile: "This string of things has been with me for the longest time." Just don't let people see it. ”

Jiang Youbin stretched out his hand to pick it up, but when he didn't know that the hand was unstable, the red golden lotus bracelet fell to the ground. The bracelet was originally made of large jadeite beads, because the jadeite is fragile, each bead is protected by red gold flakes in the shape of lotus flowers, and the jadeite beads are wrapped with vine-shaped twisted gold wire. Unexpectedly, two of them fell to pieces on the brick floor.

I was so distressed that I chanted the Buddha, and I hurriedly squatted down and picked it up and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity that these two broken ones are removed, and they will feel tight when they are worn on their wrists." ”

Ruyi said: "That's it." Anyway, we can't get out, and no one will blame if it is broken. ”

As he was talking, he let out a soft "huh" and broke open the broken bead, and a black bead the size of a small fingernail fell out of it. Looking at the light, he said strangely: "There is a very faint fragrance, but I don't know what it is?" ”

Ruyi took a look, and she didn't know it at all.

Yi Xin only pouted and said: "The queen mother is too thrifty, saying that it is a jade bead bracelet for reward, but most of it is not jadeite, but it is a side thing, in vain we have been wearing it like a baby." ”

Ruyi said: "It's really hard to say why this kind of foreign tribute is there. ”

Jiang and Bin saw that the master and servant were both dazed and groaned, so they said: "If the little master is relieved, please show Weichen." ”

Ruyi handed it to him and said with a smile: "Does Imperial Doctor Jiang know all the things in his daughter's house?" ”

Jiang Youbin looked at it carefully, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it for a while, then took the broken jade beads in the palm of his heart and looked at it, and said with a straight face: "The things of the daughter's family may not all be known to the ministers, but this kind of doctor's things can be understood at a glance." ”

Ruyi heard that this was not very good, and her heart sank suddenly, so she said: "Imperial Doctor Jiang is not an outsider, you might as well say it directly." ”

Jiang Youbin took the broken jade bead and put it into a perfect shape, and said: "The little master can see that this jade bead is carved hollow in advance, and then stuff the things you want to stuff into it and dry it, and then press the eyes to leave a perforated line, from the outside it is just a jade bead, not anything else." ”

He said in his heart: "What you said is not clear. What the hell is this thing? ”

Jiang Youbin's expression was a little ugly: "There is a kind of grass and tree called Linglingxiang, and it is said in "Jiayou Materia Medica" that Lingling fragrance is pungent, warm and slightly poisonous. If you use it more, you will strengthen the joints, astringent Rongwei, and make the blood veins not work. Qi is the handsomeness of blood, and blood is the mother of qi. Especially women, if the qi and blood are stagnant, it is not easy to get pregnant. Tonka has a strong aroma, can be calcined and ground into powder, remove the foreign fragrance, and then made into a thick black-brown ointment, which can be squeezed into the object at will, and wait until it is air-dried and hardened, it becomes this seamless thing. The jadeite beads are sealed with smaller nasturtium pieces outside the two holes, and gold wires are wrapped around the beads, which seems to be to increase its gorgeous beauty, but in fact, it is to protect the jadeite beads from breaking and not letting the contents be exposed. This kind of mind is indeed a hundred times more powerful than that of a skilled craftsman. ”