However, there was only a trace of clouds in the sky, faintly obscuring the traces of the pale moon. The cold Yongshou Palace, as if it can't even get a little moonlight.

When Yi was six months pregnant, E-Niang entered the palace to accompany her. Ruyi knew that it was the emperor's grace, and she was also accompanying herself for the emperor who had been unable to sleep for several months.

When the Queen Mother sent Aunt Fujia to see her, she also smiled: "In the end, the queen mother is so blessed." When the first Empress Xiaoxian was there, she only came in to accompany her mother's mother when she gave birth to the second elder brother in Qiandi, and it was not so solemn when she entered the palace. "Older people, when it comes to having children, it's a big deal, and Aunt Fujia is a very talkative, a "Duchess Chengen", and the straight coaxing Eniang is very happy.

After arriving at the person, the mother asked about her daughter giving birth to a boy and a girl, and Ruyi was also indifferent: "The imperial doctor said that it seemed to be a princess." ”

The mother was stunned, and she couldn't believe it: "Which imperial doctor said it, is it accurate?" ”

Ruyi didn't take it very seriously: "The emperor also asked about his daughter, but the imperial doctors Qilu and Jiang Youbin, who served his daughter, one is a veteran national player, and the other is a rising star, both of whom are among the best in the hospital. ”

The mother's face was a little unsightly, and she sighed for a while and said, "It's okay, it blooms first and then bears fruit, and it can always give birth to a prince." ”

In fact, when he was pregnant until May, the emperor sighed every time he looked at Ruyi's gradually bulging belly: "If it is a concubine......" He saw Ruyi's smile faintly, so he smiled and said, "Of course, the princess is also good." ”

Ruyi smiled and sewed a water-blue baby shirt: "Also, there are only two princesses under the emperor's knees, and Princess Hejing married to Mongolia again, and the concubines also want to add a princess." How caring my daughter is! ”

When her back turned to no one, Ruyi stared at Jiang Youbin and said, "How is the fetus?" ”

Jiang Youbin bowed with a smile: "Everything is stable." ”

Ruyi weighed and asked, "Male fetus and female fetus?" ”

Jiang Youbin congratulated him: "The pulse is strong and powerful, the emperor will come true, and he has a son-in-law." ”

Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief: "This palace believes that you are telling the truth. Qilu Laocheng was cautious, he didn't dare to talk about men and women to the palace, and he didn't dare to say it to the emperor. ”

Jiang Youbin said with a smile: "Naturally I don't dare." After saying that, if it is not right, it is a capital crime. ”

Ruyi glanced at him with a smile: "But you dare to say it?" ”

"That's because the queen won't kill Weichen."

Ruyi smiled, then straightened up, and ate a piece of sour plum cake: "It's okay for a male fetus." But this palace doesn't want the emperor to be happy too early, and he doesn't want others to be unhappy too early. ”

Jiang Youbin understood: "The matter of the fetal elephant, except for the person who asked for the pulse, no one else knows. If they want to guess whether the child in the mother's womb is male or female, they can only look at the mother's diet. ”

Ruyi held the sour plum cake and smiled: "Sour and spicy girl? ”

"There is some truth to folk rumors."

Ruyi smiled slightly: "This palace is acidophilic, and now I have to eat more spicy food." ”

So the dishes served in the small kitchen were mainly spicy, and the spicy smell spread in the Yikun Palace, so that all the noses in and out could smell it.

Then some people with good things began to speculate: "The queen mother loves spicy food so much, don't she be a princess, right?" ”

Someone chimed in: "Isn't it? Sour and spicy girl. Every child conceived by Concubine Jia is sour. Today, I also ate a large plate of pickled cabbage from her hometown and a bowl of fish in sour soup for lunch. ”

"It's still a blessing for Concubine Jia, and the fetus is the prince. The queen mother is old, and it is easy to conceive a child, but she is a princess, and her efforts are in vain. ”

"The emperor dreams of being a concubine, if he is a princess, I don't know how disappointed he will be."

"Tsk! Isn't that Jia Guifei more favored! ”

Such rumors were even more popular on the seventh day of February in the seventeenth year of Qianlong, after Yuyan gave birth to the eleventh elder brother Yongying. Even the palace people didn't feel a trace of pity when they looked at Ruyi, as if they were lamenting the tragic fate of this old and newly pregnant queen who couldn't give birth to a prince.

Not to mention Yinwan and Yuyan, even the emperor's new favorite Ying Concubine also laughed behind her back: "It's easy to conceive a child, but it's just a princess, what's the fun." I heard that today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a few pink and purple materials to make clothes for the children in the queen's womb. ”

Ruyi heard the rumors, but she couldn't laugh. Approaching production, Rong Pei led the people of Hegong Palace to become more vigilant. It's just that the vigilance is not the labor on the surface, but the secret inspection of everything. Ruyi's every drink and food in her mouth were carefully checked with a silver needle, and then Jiang Youbin could only enter after a careful look. Even the silver scissors, white soft cloth, and even utensils and clothes and bedding used in production were repeatedly and strictly checked, for fear that there would be a trace of mistakes and omissions, until Rong Pei's eyes turned green, and everyone was sensen.

And Ruyi watched as Dr. Zhang Zhenxi, the doctor of Qin Tianjian, chose the "auspicious position" of "planing the pit" at the east gate of the apse of Yikun Palace, as an auspicious place to bury the placenta and umbilical cord of the child after giving birth in the coming day. The three eunuchs planed the "happy pit", and the two grandmothers recited the happy song in front of the happy pit, and scattered some chopsticks, red silk and gold and silver eight treasures, which meant "fast and auspicious".

Ruyi accompanied her mother and the queen mother with a smile and watched, full of expectation and joy, enjoying the pride and apprehension of being a first-time mother.

The next day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent ten Jingqi grandmothers, lamp grandmothers, and water grandmothers, and Ruyi personally selected two grandmothers with the highest status and both children for backup. In addition, four experienced midwives have been on duty since the beginning of March, and six imperial doctors have been on duty in the hospital in turn in case of emergency.

Ruyi only dared to hide the sour apricots under the brocade quilt, secretly ate one, ate one, and was so sour that she burst into tears.

Rong Pei smiled and said: "This is the sour apricot that Changping paid tribute to, and the slave maid secretly took it, is it delicious?" ”

Ruyi said with a smile: "I ate so much spicy for dinner, it was so spicy that my stomach was on fire, and now I am more comfortable after eating apricots." ”

Rong Pei whispered: "The slave has hidden a lot." If the mother wants to eat, she tells the slave maid that the slave and maid keep vigil at night, and no one knows about it. After that, he sighed again, "You are the queen's mother, and you don't dare to let people know casually when you are pregnant with the prince, and it is really hard for the slave to watch." ”

"The tree is a big move, when Empress Xiaoxian was pregnant with the prince, how many eyes stared at it. This palace is not as good as Queen Xiaoxian's family background, so she can only be careful in everything. Ruyi stroked her bulging belly and said, "Now I am quite stable in my belly, but if I am born, I don't know how to be careful." ”

Rong Pei's face was solemn: "Don't worry, the slave and maid will protect the mother and the prince to the death." ”

In the eyes of everyone who were sneering or puzzled, on April 25, the 17th year of Qianlong, Ruyi finally gave birth to a prince after a day and a night of pain.

In the dormitory, there is a smooth and small cherry wood cradle, the bright yellow fine cloud satin carefully wraps the child's delicate and soft body, the child's black fetal hair makes up two round swirls, and the pink and white little face is flushed with lovely red, very soft and lovely.

At that time, the emperor was staying in the Fengxian Palace, and was ecstatic after hearing the news, and immediately rushed to Yikun Palace after offering incense to the ancestors and ancestors.

Hailan had already been waiting by Ruyi's side, the emperor had seen the newborn prince, and when he saw Ruyi, he wiped her sweat with his own hands, fed her Ningshen decoction, and said with a smile: "This son is the only son-in-law under my knees, and he can continue the foundation, so he is called Yongxuan, okay?" ”

Ruyi nodded effortlessly, watching the nurse hold the child by her side, smiling and relieved.

Hailan said with a smile: "When the concubine gave birth to Yongqi, the emperor said, Xuqi, jade is also." Yongqi and Yongqi are really good brothers. ”

Yongxuan's birth has very well alleviated the kind of imminent separation between the emperor and queen since the turmoil in Yongshou Palace. Ruyi sometimes thinks, no wonder there must be children between men and women, and children are the blood and bones that are connected. Originally, it was just two people who were skin-to-skin, no matter how sticky and happy they were, they were just skin-to-skin clinging and fleshly attached. But with a child, each other's blood has a common coagulation, which cannot be separated.

And the emperor also loved Yongxuan very much, and authorized Ruyi to be raised in his palace, and was never sent to his brother. Because of the care of the nursing mother and the careful care of the mother by her side, Ruyi quickly recovered.