Xuan Ye came in, cold all over, Concubine Wen stepped forward to untie her clothes, handed over the hand stove, the emperor covered his hand and asked with a smile: "These days, you are here?" Great work. ”

"Concubines should serve their sisters." Concubine Wen stepped aside and asked the emperor to go inside, while she gave Dongyun the clothes and took the palace maid to sit elsewhere.

Xuan Ye walked in, and when the bell rang, he and the queen both looked at the bell, and the queen spoke first: "I heard that the emperor has a new one?" The concubine also wanted to open her eyes. After that, he sat on the couch and bowed, claiming that he was sick and could not get out of bed to salute.

Xuan Ye said with a smile: "It's in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, you can go and take a look." Sitting on the side as he spoke, he looked at her carefully, "You look very bad, it's getting colder and colder, but you have to take care of it for the winter." ”

"The concubine is better, thank you for remembering, why is the emperor here on a snowy day?" The queen was worried in her heart, she thought that she would see the angry emperor, and she came to ask herself why she was tossing his beloved virtuous nobleman, and thought that Wu Yashi would go to the emperor to complain when she turned around, did she really think wrong?

"I have something to be happy about, and I thought I should tell the queen first." Xuan Ye smiled deeply, in contrast, the queen was even more weak and haggard, but when she heard the emperor's words, she couldn't help but have a light in her eyes, and only heard the emperor say, "Shang Zhixin has also fallen, and now there is only Wu Sangui's old fox left. ”

"Really?" The queen was overjoyed when she heard this, she knew the weight of the three feudatories to the emperor, and what surprised her may not be who surrendered, but that the emperor was so happy, and he was the first to tell her that she had been with the emperor for more than ten years, and she had never been treated like this. ”

Xuan Ye was overjoyed and said to her: "Then take care of your body, I have a minister of civil and military affairs in the previous dynasty, and the family of the harem is all yours." ”

The queen burst into tears and agreed, but she remembered that the noble people knelt here for most of the day in the morning, although the emperor didn't mention it and maybe didn't know it, but she knew in her heart that she was deliberate, she deliberately wanted to toss Wu Ya's family, but how could she have thought that the emperor would really respect herself as a queen.

"The affairs of the court are always busy, I have neglected the prince after all, and now I am about to develop a lifelong temperament, I think that when you are well, I will send the prince to the middle palace and let you take care of your upbringing. Now that you have your own sister by your side, and you have a credible person to help you in everything, I am not afraid of tiring you. Xuan Ye continued slowly, "You are my queen, and the crown prince should naturally be raised by you." ”

The queen looked at him blankly, and secretly swallowed the breath blocked in her chest, everything she had asked for but couldn't ask for, holding the child, the position of the middle palace, and the emperor's concern...... Now she has it, but why is her heart still empty, it's far better to be full than to block that breath, what else does she want?

Xuan Ye didn't seem to care about the embarrassment and stagnation of her expression, and said to herself: "Your sister has a good temperament, and the imperial grandmother and the queen mother like it very much, just look at the weakness, you know Concubine Tong's temper, don't let her bully your sister." ”

The queen's eyes were moist, she lowered her head and rubbed her eyes and smiled: "The emperor can't say such a thing, the concubine should be so wronged when she hears it, people are good, why do you bully the concubine's sister." ”

Xuan Ye also smiled: "I'm just joking, as for her temper, you also understand, more things are better than less, your sister is too weak." ”

The queen bowed and said: "You feel sorry for her so much, and the concubine thanks the emperor for her sister." ”

"I still have to tell the imperial grandmother the good news, if I don't sit with you more, I have to take care of my body." Xuan Ye stuffed the handstove to her, smiled slightly and turned to leave, the queen held the handstove and stared at his back, and the tears that had just been hidden rushed out, but she didn't understand what she was crying for.

Hearing that the emperor was going to get off outside, Concubine Wen hurriedly came over to serve, but Xuan Ye had already put on her clothes, and smiled slightly when she saw her coming, so that she didn't have to send her off, didn't say anything more, and went straight to the door.

Concubine Wen knelt in front of the door, only waited for the emperor to leave Kunning Palace before getting up, turned around and came in but saw her sister crying with the stove she had just handed to the emperor, she was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, and she kept asking what was wrong, and it took a long time for the queen to laugh in her eyes and say: "My sister is happy, the emperor came to tell my sister that Shang Zhixin had surrendered." The emperor also said that the empress dowager likes you very much, good sister, you have brought many blessings to my sister. ”

Concubine Wen was ignorant and didn't understand much, but just comforted: "Since it's a happy thing, sister, don't cry, crying hurts your body." ”

On this side, Xuan Ye turned to Cining Palace against the wind and snow, although he sat in a warm sedan chair, he could go a while from the door, and it was enough to blow a cold body, and he was pulled by his grandmother to roast by the stove when he entered the door, and changed his clothes into a clean one, and then approached the warm pavilion, only to see the prince writing with his grandmother, the prince saw him coming, and hurriedly climbed down from the kang to salute and kowtow, Xuan Ye picked up his son, sat down together and asked his grandmother: "Can this child disturb you to rest?" ”

"Among the brothers and brothers, the prince is the quietest, do you say it's noisy?" The Empress Dowager smiled and said, letting the nurse come and carry the prince, while holding the prince's handwriting to show her grandson, "The prince is very smart, but his temperament is too dull, he should be alive and kicking at this age, how naughty the eldest brother was at that time, I was so annoyed that I beat it once, but shouldn't children be lively?" ”

Xuan Ye said: "Sun Er thinks, let him follow me, it is inevitable that he will learn to be too cautious, and now he can see a little bit, the prince should have the demeanor of the prince, and it is not a good thing in the long run, so I discussed with the queen, I want to wait for her to get better, and I want to send her to Kunning Palace for her to raise, and the children who are taken care of by Eniang are always better." ”

"Now that you've decided, what else do I say." The Empress Dowager said with a smile, "Spread the news that Shang Zhixin had surrendered, and that year Geng Jingzhong surrendered, you came to tell me excitedly, but this time you just sent someone to say a word, asking them where the emperor went, and it turned out that he went to tell the queen in person." ”

"It's the grandson's fault for neglecting the imperial grandmother, don't be angry." Xuan Ye blamed himself with a smile, and also saw his grandmother smiling happily, "What do I have to be angry about, I personally brought up my grandson like this, and the imperial grandmother is happy." ”

Xuan Ye was actually a little embarrassed, he also understood the changes in himself in the past two years, and only then did he really understand what the emperor's qi is, how can the emperors who are rich in the world care about women in general, what they ask for is just the short and long intimacy of love, and the person who can't have a bowl of water is himself, he should be more tolerant and generous, as he did before, where is the appearance of an emperor.

Today's events, he didn't plan to run to tell the Middle Palace in person, naturally he should have come to report the good news to his grandmother first, but he heard that Lan Qi knelt in Kunning Palace all morning, quietly, for no reason, and inexplicably let her kneel for a morning, how could Xuan Ye not feel distressed. But he was no longer the young and impulsive emperor before, so he decided to go to Kunning Palace in person, hoping that his generosity could alleviate the resentment in the queen's heart, and what he was looking forward to was the long-term peace of the harem.

"Now like this, you can ensure that Lanqi's girl will be by your side for a long time, I didn't like that grandson in the past." The Empress Dowager is full of pity, and now she is really old, and said with a smile, "Who said that the country and the beauty can't be paid equal attention, and the mediocre monarch naturally doesn't deserve anything, but my grandson is a Ming Jun, an emperor who wants to be the Emperor of the Ancient Mingjun, how can there be no beauties by his side?" ”

Xuan Ye joked: "Lan Qi is not a beauty, now she looks more and more ugly, and her temper is also bad, and there is nothing to please people." ”

The Empress Dowager was overjoyed, pointed to her grandmother and said, "Su Mala, you quickly send someone to tell the noble people that the emperor dislikes her......

The grandparents and grandchildren joked and enjoyed each other, perhaps a storm that should have been had was resolved in Lan Qi's forbearance, the emperor's generosity and the empress dowager's kindness, none of them were hurt, no one added to their troubles, only one person, in the dead of night, panicked and uneasy.

When everything she once wanted was at her fingertips, her life fell into extreme confusion, and her heart was more empty and hesitant than ever. Can't sleep at night, can't be at peace in the day, Queen Niu Hulu has been sick since then, fortunately the month finally got better, when the eight times and the concubines asked the queen mother in Cining Palace, they looked much better.

The emperor sealed very early this year, the eleventh day of the month was sealed, the first few days he personally led the prince in the Kunning Palace, and also stayed in the middle palace at night, so that the prince gradually adapted to the care of the emperor's mother, and the queen has a young son under the knees, no distractions and no effort to think about other things, the mood is good, and the body is increasingly recovering, so it does not disappoint the emperor's hard work, the feelings of the emperor and the queen are more harmonious than at any time in the past ten years.

In the blink of an eye, the new year is coming, but the heavy snow does not stop for several days, compared to the first snow does not become a climate, the cold deep winter, the snow every day is solidly accumulated, to the day before the new year, it is said that the deepest snow in the palace is almost over people's knees.

There are also little eunuchs sent by the Internal Affairs Office to shovel snow and clear the road in Zhongcui Palace every day, which is a very hard thing, but the nobles and nobles of De and Bu are rewarded richly, and they are polite and generous.

On this day, someone still came to clear the snow, and the snow in the yard overnight was over the ankles, thick as a velvet blanket on the ground, Lan Qi looked at the window every day, hoping to go out for a walk, and it could start snowing from the beginning of winter, after she came back from Kunning Palace that day, the emperor sent someone to order, let Huanchun take a good look at his master, saying that she was weak and don't go out to run blindly on snowy days, so whenever she didn't go to Cining Palace to serve the Empress Dowager, she was "house arrested" in the dormitory, and she just lay on the window every day to satisfy her hunger, Watch Yu Kui and Jin He build a big snowman in front of her window.

But today Huanchun went to the Internal Affairs Mansion, Bu Guiren went to Duan Concubine Niangniang because of Duanjing, and Yu Kui and Xiangyue were left in Zhong Cui Palace, she was so good at saying that she coaxed the two of them to loosen their mouths, and did not let the little eunuch from the Internal Affairs Mansion sweep the snow, Lan Qi was wrapped tightly and came out, and built a snowman with the two of them, half an old snowman was built, and Lan Qi was already hot and sweaty.

Xiangyue and Yukui went to the back to find coal radishes to make eyes and noses for the snowman, leaving her alone in front, looking at the snow like a velvet blanket on the ground, Lan Qi, who was playing hot, suddenly had a whim, took off her shoes and socks, and jumped into the yard, the snow was soft and silky, and it was unexpectedly cold enough to make her shiver, Lan Qi had a good time, but was soon seen and shouted by Xiangyue when she came back.

"Don't shout, you guys can step on it too, it's comfortable." Lan Qi said as she walked back, stepping into her shoes barefoot, but when she looked up, she saw Xiangyue Yukui kneeling, and was about to ask inexplicably, when she heard Xuan Ye's voice behind her and asked her, "What are you doing?" ”

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