Highland's high fever subsided after three days. When she woke up, a bright autumn sun shone obliquely through the hollow long window like a faint golden ointment, and the sunlight slowly flowed through the light mantle of the magpie embroidered on the plum, and the somber smell of red sandalwood in the air was imminent.

She sat on the bed in a daze, looking at the flowers and bamboos outside the window, the sun was warm, but it was just a desolate and faint shadow that had been solidified, and the palace was covered with dust and jade. Yanxi Palace has really been vacant for too long......

Ye Xin came in with the medicine, and when she saw that she was awake, she burst into tears with joy: "The little master has finally woken up." ”

Hailan opened her chapped lips slightly: "I've worked hard for you these past few days, has anyone ever come to see me?" ”

Ye Xin was a little embarrassed, but still said: "Pure Concubine Niangniang and Xiu promised to come to see you." However, Xiu promised and Wan agreed to only look out the window, and only the pure concubine Niangniang brought something to the eldest brother and sat at the head of your bed for a while. ”

Hailan smiled slightly: "In this palace, only pure concubines have hearts." It's just that she's also a pitiful child. She thought about it, struggled to sit up, and stroked her messy sideburns: "Ye Xin, you go and prepare some return gifts, I will personally go to thank the pure concubine." Let the green mark come in and groom me, I've been sick for a few days, it must be ugly. ”

Ye Xin happily agreed, and was also a little surprised: "The little master doesn't care about dressing up the most on weekdays, but how can he pay attention to it today." ”

Hailan seemed to answer, as if sighing to herself: "A disease is like a new life." ”

When she took the hand of the pure concubine and looked at the third elder brother together, her spirit was already much better. Even the pure concubine praised: "I changed my color clothes and dressed up well, I am really a beauty, and I look a lot more energetic." ”

Hailan smiled: "Yes, it's always cowardly, from spring to summer, and now it's autumn, I really feel that I don't have any energy." ”

The third elder brother was holding a big Buddha hand in the arms of the nurse and playing very energetically, giggling with laughter.

The pure concubine sighed lightly and said to the nurse: "Laugh lightly, don't let the next door hear the sting." ”

Hailan asked, "Is the second elder brother still the same?" ”

The pure concubine smiled bitterly: "Isn't it? Over and over again, the queen's tears were about to cry out of a large vat. I knew that this was the case, and it was better to be as stupid as the third elder brother in the palace, although I didn't like him Emperor Ama, but in the end, I was safe and strong. ”

Hailan said in a low voice: "How do you say this?" ”

The pure concubine sent the nurse to the side to coax the third elder brother to catch the tiger and play, and said in a low voice: "This palace also learned from what the eldest brother said." It turned out that since the second elder brother entered the study room to study, the queen mother wanted her son to become a dragon, and checked her homework day and night, forcing her to be very tight, in order to stand out in front of the emperor. Bengong didn't know how Ruyi taught her children in the past, so she told the eldest brother that he should not be competitive and compete with the second brother, everything is better to lose to him. Otherwise, it's not that you're at a loss. ”

Hailan bowed his head and said: "Big brother is obedient, he will understand Niangniang's hard work." ”

Concubine Chun and Hailan stood under the window, watching the imperial doctors in the second elder brother's room go in and out, busy with each other. Several palace maids stood under the porch and turned over the second elder brother's Fushou pillow quilt. The pure concubine shook her head and said, "It's just that I pity the child, and I am so sick and suffered." I heard that the second elder brother's wind cold turned into lung fever, and he almost couldn't breathe after a few inconveniences. ”

Hailan looked back at the third elder brother who was having a good time, and said, "Actually, if there is no second elder brother, there will be a third elder brother in the emperor's eyes." Pure concubine Niangniang, concubine has always had a doubt. When the third elder brother was raised by your side, he was always smart and clever, and he was quite liked by the emperor. Why did you leave you and enter the brother's house after entering the palace, and you were stupid and not liked by the emperor. The concubines have come with you a few times, not to mention anything else, the grandmothers don't even teach them to recognize things, no wonder the third elder brother is blindly playful. I hold it in my hands all day long and don't teach me to walk well, and now I'm more than three years old, and the third elder brother still walks unsteadily. Her voice was extremely low, like a soft needle, slowly piercing in: "Do you know that the hearts of these grandmothers and nurses are towards the third elder brother and you?" ”

The pure concubine's face gradually turned gray: "This thought is usually just a turn in the palace, just think about the people in the palace are always more careful." Does my sister think the same way? ”

Hailan said in a low voice: "I don't dare to think about anything else, it's just that she is the same nursing mother, and she is also ordered by the queen, how can you treat the second elder brother so meticulously and strictly, and treat the third elder brother so spoiled and indulgent?" Now that he is young, if he grows up, the third elder brother will not only not be valued by the emperor. Once disgusted, didn't the first emperor Yongzheng Ye delete the name of his third elder brother and our emperor's brother from the jade and expel him from the genealogy? ”

The pure concubine has always been timid and afraid, but when she hears about her son, how can she not care. The grace of her life is nothing more than that, the only hope is all on this son, these words are almost like a cone in her ears, and she secretly clenches her fists, looking at the eyes of a group of nursing mothers, with a thorn-like suspicion, gloomy and difficult to discern.

When Concubine Chun and Hailan left, the emperor happened to take Li Yu out of the second elder brother's room. This year's autumn came early, and the yellow leaves in the courtyard were lonely. Occasionally, autumn geese flew over the clear sky, with a hint of sorrow. In the lifeless atmosphere of the elder brother, Hailan, who was wearing a violet flying flower and a warbler-like autumn shirt, walked down the steps with a pure concubine, and Hailan's violet embroidered phalaenopsis shirt was like autumn water.

"It's the two of you?" The emperor's eyes lit up slightly, and his eyes turned to Hailan, "It's rare for you to dress so brightly." ”

Hailan smiled as lightly as a cloud: "Let the emperor laugh." Dress brightly and come to the brother's office, I hope the brothers are happy to see it. ”

The emperor smiled and helped her: "You have a heart." Usually plain, occasionally a little bright, which makes people shine. Whoever sees it will love it. ”

The pure concubine also smiled: "No, the third elder brother likes the sea nobles." ”

The emperor patted his forehead and said with a smile: "I have forgotten that you are already a nobleman." Living alone in Yanxi Palace, are you still used to it? ”

Hailan said: "I'm used to it, and I'm not used to it." ”

The emperor laughed: "Why do you talk like this? ”

Hailan smiled faintly: "In the past, Sister Ruyi was a companion, but now she is alone, so she is not used to it." But a person has been in front of the shadow for a long time, and he is used to it. ”

The emperor's smile gradually faded, and a thin shadow of frost seemed to float in his eyes, and he said "oh", and said, "I am tired, you are also tired, kneel down." ”

The emperor left by himself, and the pure concubine looked at her with disgust: "Have you forgotten that Ruyi was sent to the cold palace by the emperor's decree?" It's so easy for the emperor to talk to you, why did you mention her to make the emperor unhappy? ”

Hailan said disappreliantly: "The emperor didn't mention Sister Ruyi for the first half of the year, since the emperor himself has forgotten, what's wrong with the concubine mentioning it?" ”

The pure concubine was quite sad: "You, if you continue like this, that idea of grace will not even be as good as this palace." Hongu still has a child, but you ......"

Hailan Zhengse said: "Just because my mother has a child, everything must be based on the child." She smiled slightly bitterly, and the smile was thin, like a withered flower scattered on the ground: "People like concubines don't matter." ”

The pure concubine looked at the second elder brother's room, and listened to the third elder brother's carefree laughter, her expression became more solemn.

Hailan sent off the pure concubine, and then returned to the hall and pruned a few reeds that Ye Xin had just sent in the morning. The reeds had fluffy tidbits that looked like a pile of light snow floating in mid-air from a distance. Hailan said: "Did I tell you to go to the Internal Affairs Office to get the Hangzhou silk material?" ”

Ye Xin was embarrassed: "The material of Hangzhou silk is rare, and the Internal Affairs Office holds on to it, saying that it is not enough to give it to a few main mothers." ”

Hailan was hesitant, so he said: "That's okay, those people have always been so snobbish." ”

Ye Xin explained: "I can't say for sure. When the slave maid went to the internal affairs office, I heard several aunts in the embroidery room say that it was the Double Ninth Festival in a few days, and the emperor specially instructed to sew a bed of longevity ruyi quilt for the queen mother. They are all busy with this, and there are some who can't take care of it for a while. ”

Hailan's eyebrows moved, and she played with the reed in her hand that was as light as catkins: "Is the emperor very concerned about this matter?" ”

Ye Xin said: "Of course." I heard that the emperor will go to the embroidery room every two days to see in person and supervise the progress. ”

Hyland's smile slowly floated at the corners of her lips, like a rose that bloomed suddenly, flashing bright and beautiful in the dark night.

On this day, the emperor went to the Internal Affairs Office to check the birthday gifts for the queen mother, and the ones were all exquisite, and the emperor was also satisfied, and praised him: "Qin Li, you are quite attentive in your work." ”

Qin Li, the eunuch in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, personally accompanied him, nodded and said: "Most of the longevity ruyi given to the queen mother has been sewn, but the phoenix feathers on the top are not bright, and the embroidery girls are in trouble." ”

The emperor said casually: "If you want to be bright and bright, or match more colors, or twist gold wires, what's so difficult?" ”

Qin Li looked embarrassed: "It's all embroidered for the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother said it was cheesy and reprimanded it again." Slaves, I'm running out of brains, but I still can't help it. ”

The emperor shouted: "Confused! None of the little things in this point can be done, no wonder the Queen Mother is angry. Let me see, what kind of phoenix feathers are so difficult. ”

As he was talking, the group had already turned to the long window of the embroidery room. Qin Li was about to report, the emperor saw that the embroidery girls were all surrounding a woman through the long window with sparse hollows, and he was a little curious, waved his hand to signal that he was not allowed to make a sound, and stood outside the window to watch.

The woman said softly: "The Queen Mother is in her old age, she is used to seeing flowers, and this quilt is a thing that covers her body, it is too gorgeous and looks dazzling at night, she naturally doesn't like it, and she feels even more cheesy." ”

An embroidery lady asked, "Then what do you say?" ”