By the middle of March, the weather was getting warmer. It is like a spring breeze and rain overnight, full of willow green, peach scorching, full of rain and dew, and blooming the spring of the heavy palace.

The weather is good, and the queen's illness has gradually improved, although she can't get off the ground yet, she can at least support herself to sit up. In order to ease the queen's heart, Concubine Hui took the third princess to the queen every day to amuse her filial piety. Although the queen lost her beloved son, she thought that she was still young, and she still had a daughter after all. The emperor was relieved from time to time, and ordered the imperial doctor to recuperate, hoping to have another son-in-law.

With this distraction in her heart, the queen had to struggle to recuperate herself. When the spirit gradually improved, one day Concubine Hui sent out all the people who were waiting, took out the doll that had been hidden for several months and burned to only half a piece, and explained the whole thing one by one, and there was circumstantial evidence of the third princess, the queen's biological daughter, so the queen couldn't believe it.

The queen was still on the hospital bed, but she was wearing a homely silk satin palace dress with lake blue embroidered lotus purple lines and dark silver threads, and the Baohua bun on her head was decorated with a few dark beads, but her face was pale with iron blue, and she trembled her lips and said, "What you said is true?" ”

Concubine Hui immediately knelt down, and swore an oath: "The incident happened a few days after the death of Niangniang's Duanhui Prince, and it was this thing I saw near the cold palace. If it is not a curse, the concubine will not believe it! ”

The queen sat up straight unconsciously, as if facing a great enemy: "Are you suspicious of her?" ”

Concubine Hui said: "Where is there anyone going in the cold palace?" This thing can only exist if it is blown out of the cold palace by the wind. She can worship Prince Duanhui so kindly, she must have heard the death knell crying, and knew that Prince Duanhui died early, the poisonous woman was not so happy that she refused to let the prince go, and cursed him on the road. Her expression was awe-inspiring, and her beautiful face added a bit of anger: "The concubine thought, I'm afraid this kind of curse is not only on that day." I'm afraid that when we don't know, we'll already secretly curse it. No wonder since she entered the cold palace, Prince Duanhui's illness has been good and bad, and there is always no time when it is all right, I am afraid that it is the ghost caused by the crazy woman. ”

The queen has newly lost her beloved son, and when she heard these words, she was like crying blood, how could she hear someone cursing her beloved son like this. She thought about it carefully, although her son was not very good before Ruyi entered the cold palace, but it was indeed after Ruyi entered the cold palace, the child's condition has been repeated, so that she suddenly died violently, so that she, a mother, almost broke the hope of a lifetime, and now I think about it, with this reason in it, I almost hated that my eyes were bleeding, and I held the brocade quilt with both hands, and the green tendons on the back of my hands burst out, as if I was going to swallow someone.

Concubine Hui was almost by the queen's side immediately after entering the palace, and after many years, he had never seen the queen's expression so terrifying, and he was not afraid in his heart, and hurriedly called: "Niangniang, queen Niangniang, don't be angry with the phoenix body." ”

The queen was cold for a long time before she breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Where is the body angry in this palace." My sister obviously sent a good medicine, urging the palace to force herself to get better, and she couldn't lie here like a living dead anymore, and let the children of the palace go in vain. ”

Concubine Hui Guifei listened to her say slowly, but bit hard word by word, knowing that the queen really hated it in her heart, so she said: "Then the queen mother means ......"

"Now she's in the cold palace, and we're outside. Don't be in a hurry, just come steadily. The queen waved her hand, flicked her nails slowly, and said, "Those foods are still sent in for her to eat, right?" ”

Hui Guifei said: "Where can she eat rotten things, and there is also accommodation for a little silver." Then let's send those things in for her to eat. Rest assured, I can't see it at all. ”

Su Xin came in with a bowl of medicine, and the queen nodded and said, "Leave it alone." ”

Su Xin put it aside and retired, although Concubine Hui was arrogant and wanton to the concubines, the queen was meticulous in front of her, so she personally served the queen with a decoction and medicine, and took sour plums to relieve the queen's bitterness.

The queen sighed: "Now you are the only one who really dedicates herself in front of the palace." By the way, your body is always bad, remember to eat more warm and tonic things, don't delay. ”

Concubine Hui thanked her as much as she could, but she heard the outside say: "Shen is often here to say hello to the queen." ”

When Concubine Hui heard the name of Shen Chang, she was a little disdainful, sat up straight, and slightly sorted out the broken jade tassel hanging from the jade orchid on the collar button.

The queen saw that Concubine Hui was not very good, so she said, "What? I don't like her anymore? ”

Concubine Hui Guifei was only in front of the queen alone, so she said angrily: "The fox is cheap, and the mother is sick these days, but she doesn't know." The emperor summoned her for more than ten days in a month, and he rewarded this today, and he rewarded that tomorrow, and even the favored Hai nobles and Mei Concubine couldn't catch up with her limelight. ”

The queen smiled and leaned on the soft pillow of the heart-saving group: "What about you?" Does the emperor still care for you? ”

Concubine Hui's face flushed slightly: "But stay with the concubine five or six times a month." ”

The queen said with a faint "oh": "That's not less." You are an old man in the palace, and your position is high, only under the palace, you don't have to worry about the concubine with a low rank, and you don't have to lose your identity. You have to remember that they are fighting for a moment's favor, but you are fighting for a lifetime's thoughts. Look out further. ”

Concubine Hui Guifei learned the queen's lesson, and she didn't dare to speak out for a while. Listening to the queen's summons to Shen Chang to come in, I saw that where the brocade curtain was lifted, a gorgeously dressed beauty Ying Ying came in, wearing a five-color satin robe with lotus red embroidered orchid gui Qifang, and the head was a silver leaf agate flower, and the pearl ruby tassel of the tired silk phoenix trembled and hung down to the ear.

Concubine Hui couldn't hold it back, snorted softly, and pressed the powder on the wing of her nose with a silk to resist the compelling incense coming from Na Li's body.

Shen Changzai respectfully invited a Da'an, and said: "The queen mother is blessed with Jin'an." The concubine heard that Niangniang was doing well, so she came to visit Niangniang. As he spoke, he asked Concubine Hui for peace.

The queen smiled and ordered to "get up" and "give a seat". Ah Zheng dared to sit.

Concubine Hui slowly turned the pigeon's blood ruby ring in her hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Shen's complexion is really good, looking white and red, like a peach blossom under the porch outside, with a pink face and spring." Looking at my sister's face full of spring breeze, I think the emperor was resting with you yesterday. ”

Shen Chang listened to her sour tone, so he smiled wryly: "Sister said it was funny." ”

"Jokes?" Concubine Hui sneered, "My sister is often with the emperor every day, and her kindness is long-term, so naturally she takes this favor as a joke." It's not like us, I only saw the emperor once in three or four days, and it's too late to be happy, where do you dare to laugh. ”

Shen Chang blushed and turned white on his face for a while, but he hung his face and didn't answer her words.

Hui Guifei saw it in her eyes, and thought that she was blindly favored, so she didn't put herself in her eyes, and she was even more unhappy in her heart. Hui Guifei's father, Gao Bin, has been the most powerful courtier of the previous dynasty since the emperor ascended the throne, and assisted Zhang Tingyu, an old minister of the three dynasties, like the emperor's right-hand man. She was favored in the harem again, where could she stand such anger, so she looked at Shen Chang and said: "Shen Chang is dressed up well today and the colors are so gorgeous, I don't know if Chang Zai is not here to visit the queen's illness and comfort the mother of the pain of losing her child, but it seems to be a joke." ”

Shen Chang was slammed suddenly, and said cautiously: "The queen's mother is good, and the concubine is dressed like this to respond to the good looks of the mother." Another ......" She turned her face to Hui Guifei and smiled: "The queen mother is in good health in her prime, and she is deeply favored by the emperor, so it is very easy to get ten more princes and eight princes." Did the concubine say yes? ”

When Concubine Hui Guifei was told by her, she knew that she was very articulate, and there was indeed something that the emperor liked. It's not good to say anything in front of the queen at the moment.

The queen smiled pleasantly: "Your mind is known to this palace." You've done so many things, don't Bengong and the concubine still know your mind? The concubine is just joking with you, and she just treats you as a close person. Come, sit closer, and the concubine will have a lot to say to you. ”

A little smile condensed on Concubine Hui's lips: "No, my sister is now the top of the emperor's heart, and I heard that she will raise the nobleman in the near future." If we don't count on our sister, who else can we count on? ”

Out of Changchun Palace, Ah Ji held the hand of the palace maid Xinyan and walked fast and urgently, like a gust of wind. Xinyan knew that she was annoyed, and she didn't dare to speak, so she had to persuade in a low voice: "Little master, go slower, go slower, and take your steps carefully." ”

Ah Ji walked quickly, and suddenly stopped, the pearl and red pearl strings hanging from her sideburns rustled her cheeks, as if someone was slapping her. She pulled it hard, tore off the bun and put it in Xinyan's hand, and said hatefully: "What kind of Laoshizi, you also came to bully me!" ”

Xin Yan was so frightened that her face turned white, and she shook her hand with the tired silk phoenix and said: "Little master, this is the emperor's reward, you look at the little master in the palace, where can you wear a red treasure below the concubine?" It's all the emperor's heart for you. ”

Ah Zhen walked with a slight sweat on his forehead, standing under the red wall and waving a silk angrily: "The emperor rewarded me?" The emperor rewarded me a lot! ”

Xin Yan hurriedly smiled and said, "Not really." The emperor will not reward us here, Rao is Jia Concubine gave birth to a prince, the emperor is like a phoenix, but it is just such a reward, the slave and maid look at many things are not as good as ours, Jia Concubine does not know how red-eyed. The emperor still loves the little lord in the end! ”

Ah Zhen flicked a string of pearl twisted silk on his wrist, and said slowly: "Do you also think that the emperor favors me?" ”

Xin Yan said happily: "No, isn't it all said in the palace, although the little master has a lower rank, but in terms of favor, no one can compare to you." ”

Ah Zhen was stunned, and suddenly his face rose, and his backhand was a slap: "Whether the emperor favors me or not, can you also discuss?" Be careful that I pluck out your tongue. ”