When Xuan Ye saw his son come in, he didn't think much about it, but when he heard that it was dinner time, he was a little surprised, and muttered, "It's so late?" While instructing the people from the palace, he said, "Go back and tell me that everything is fine with the crown prince, and ask the empress dowager and the empress dowager not to remember it." In addition, I passed on my will and told Yonghe Palace Concubine that when it was warm and cold, the Empress Dowager liked to be greedy and cold, and asked her to serve carefully and take care of herself. ”

The crown prince stood aside, raised his head high and said, "I also asked the emperor's grandmother and the emperor's grandmother for me, saying that the prince lives and eats with his father, everything is fine, please don't worry about it." ”

Xuan Ye smiled: "Just follow what the prince said." On the way, Yinren asked him: "Huang Ama will go back to travel, can you bring the royal sister, the third brother, the fourth brother and the younger sisters?" ”

Xuan Ye said: "This trip is special, the next time Emperor Ama will lead them together, but your third and fourth brothers are still young, and in a few years." ”

Yinren nodded and said: "Erchen listens to Huang Ama, but Erchen thinks that studying and riding and shooting must be self-disciplined by the prince and cannot be wasted, but there is no need to distinguish between brothers and princes, and Erchen does not want to be separated from his brothers and sisters because he is the prince." Mrs. Zhang said that there is a difference between sons and sisters and brothers, and sons and daughters think that now sons and daughters are just princes, and they should be brothers and sisters first, and then monarchs and ministers, do you say Huang Ama? ”

"You've grown a lot." Xuan Ye was pleased, and secretly sighed in his heart that the prince's capital, Yinhe had been in the study for so long, and he was still very childish in talking and doing things, the prince had only been studying seriously for two months, and he had already shed a lot of childishness, so what he said with a clear eye, whether it was he came up with it himself, or Zhang Ying's teaching, made him very satisfied. And Zhang Ying is also right, the prince is different from other princes, Xuan Ye doesn't want anyone to belittle him because the prince lost his mother, and it is not a bad thing for the child to have the self-esteem of being a prince.

The little one tilted his head proudly, looked at his father adoringly, and said, "The son will be a good prince and share the affairs of the state for the emperor in the future." ”

Xuan Ye happily touched his head: "Huang Ama will teach you well." ”

Father and son filial piety, rare to get along alone, the prince is much more lively than when he was in the palace, and then followed his father to perform rituals and sacrifices, the little child behaved decently, and his words were extraordinary, and the accompanying ministers all saw it, and praised the prince's talent and intelligence as the blessing of the Qing Dynasty, Xuan Ye was naturally very happy, and even more people passed these things back to the capital, so that the imperial grandmother was also relieved and happy.

In the Cining Palace of the Forbidden City, the Empress Dowager was naturally relieved to hear about these things, but she didn't show it in front of people, and only said to Su Mala in private: "The prince stands early, there are pros and cons, if the child does not fight and does not grow, sooner or later he will not be able to sit firmly in the East Palace, fortunately, the prince is the emperor's concubine and the destiny is extraordinary, I see that this child can have a future, but the words can't be full, who knows what will happen in a few decades?" ”

Mama Su Mala didn't quite understand, "What is the master worried about?" ”

The Empress Dowager sighed lightly and said, "If Xuan Ye can live as long as you and me, wouldn't the prince be the prince for thirty or forty years?" The prince when he was a teenager must be high-spirited, and in the next ten or twenty years, he will definitely be able to learn a lot of skills and make a difference. But what about the future? All the princes have grown up, and they are all the sons of the emperor, why can't they be emperors? Whether it is Taizong, Fulin and Xuanye, they are not sons-in-law, and the Qing Kingdom has not had a son-in-law to inherit the unification, since this is the case, the other princes will not want to? I'm afraid that their ladies have already begun to think about it now, and it will be time for them to think about it in twenty or thirty years. ”

Hearing this, Mama Su Mala was very nervous, and persuaded softly: "I can't say it, I'm afraid that no one will mention it and don't dare to have this heart, and when I hear about it, I will be shaken." ”

The Empress Dowager could see it: "If there is really this day, the two of us will be gone a long time ago, I can't see it, I can't touch it, I don't have to worry about it, even if it's right in front of my eyes now, I won't be too sad." When I ascended the throne and Xuanye ascended the throne, which way was not to overcome obstacles? The prince's life will not go all the way, whether he can go on or not, depends on his fate, but also on his own virtue. Those who are capable come first, and they will cherish it if they work hard to win the world. These are all afterwords, and you and I can't see them. ”

Mama sighed: "The slaves and maids really don't want to see that day, Taizong was not easy back then, the four major Baylors fought openly and secretly, even if Taizong became a great Khan, they were still eyeing each other, the Baylors of the year all grew up rolling on the battlefield with Emperor Taizu, but today's emperors and brothers are all raised by nurses and mothers, which will ...... in the future."

"No matter what, after all, it will be passed on from generation to generation, how could Zhu Yuanzhang have thought that the Forbidden City would be dominated by Manchurians? I don't think about it in a few hundred years, I've experienced everything in my life, and I'm content. The Empress Dowager smiled lightly, "Su Mala, we are also old, I don't know when we will leave, it is not our turn to worry about the things in a few decades, it is time to enjoy the blessings." ”

"Slave and maid listen to you, let's go and see if Concubine De's tea is ready, but the palace maid in the pantry is lazy, and she can't be busy alone." Su Mala smiled, turned around and came outside, but when she went out, she saw De Concubine standing there holding tea, she reached out and touched the tea bowl, it was no longer hot, so she pulled Lan Qi outside, and asked softly, "How long has Niangniang been here?" ”

Lan Qi said frankly: "It's been a long time, I've heard everything that should be listened to and shouldn't be heard, and I don't know why, I don't want to move if I'm there, Mama, I should go and admit my mistake to the Queen Mother." ”

"The slave and you went to change the tea again, there is no need to admit the mistake, and the master didn't say anything important." Mama Su Mala and her returned to the pantry, and the two exchanged the hot tea in silence with each other, and did not speak for a long time, until Mama asked Lan Qi when she was leaving, "Do you still remember what the slave maid once said to you?" ”

The old man's heartfelt heart also touched Lan Qi's heart, and when Mama asked at this moment, she immediately had an answer, nodded vigorously and said, "You said that I can't do politics, but I can watch my son and keep my son." ”

Su Mala was pleased, and went to the empress dowager with her, and said with a smile on the way: "Then it's okay, the slave and the master just enjoy the blessings, and in the future, you have to weigh it yourself, anyway...... There's always a long live by your side. ”

When the two entered the door, the Empress Dowager didn't know about these things, and when she saw Lan Qi's thin clothes, she said to her: "Xuan Ye sent someone to spread the word, asking you not to be greedy, why don't you wear one more, so thin that I look at my body with relish." ”

Lan Qi hurriedly went out and added a gown to come in, and said with a smile, "The stove in the pantry is hot as soon as it is baked, and it has just been taken off." ”

The Empress Dowager drank her favorite date tea, and said comfortably to the side: "Don't be young and don't know how to maintain, you see that Yi Concubine's disease will be raised before the summer, Xuan Ye will come back in a blink of an eye, you have to serve by your side, don't have a cold and cough, Yinzuo is more than a year old, you should also add a younger brother and sister to him." ”

Lan Qi's cheeks were crimson, and she was tired of saying to the Empress Dowager: "You always talk straight like this, and you take care of the thin skin of your concubines, and there are a few times when the emperor says the same thing when you say it, and people are bullied and teased when they look back." ”

But the Empress Dowager was very happy, rubbed her and said: "Yes, yes, you can't take care of him when you are pregnant, you guys, it's really contradictory." ”

At this time, the maid of the palace came to tell her, saying that Concubine Wen had arrived, and the Empress Dowager was strange, how could this little Niu Hulu come here, and this hour should not be in the morning and dusk to ask for peace, so she asked Mama Su Mala to go out to take a look, and after a while, Mama came back first, whispered in her ear beside the Empress Dowager, the old man frowned, and asked in a deep voice: "There is such a thing?" ”

Lan Qi was already standing aside, the Empress Dowager looked at her, as if she didn't think there was anything wrong, so she asked Su Mala to bring someone in, and as soon as Concubine Wen entered the door, Lan Qi saw that her eyes were red as if she had cried, followed by Dong Yun, and there was also a imperial doctor.

A group of people bowed their heads and saluted, and the Empress Dowager let Concubine Wen sit down, and asked the imperial doctor directly: "How did you find out?" ”

Lan Qi listened inexplicably, but when she saw Concubine Wen, who had been very lively and cheerful in recent days, she turned her face and wept, but she wiped it stubbornly, and then listened to the imperial doctor and Dong Yun explain what was going on, and Lan Qi felt a chill down her spine when she heard it.

I still remember the day of Juechan's delivery, Lan Qi was in Xianfu Palace, and was uncomfortable with Concubine Wen, Dongyun specially boiled black chicken soup, obviously also pay attention to maintenance on weekdays, but Concubine Wen has always been soft, this time because of Juechan's postpartum conditioning, also have to take medicine every day, when the doctor came to check, he found that Concubine Wen's tonic on weekdays smelled wrong, at first I thought it was a mistake on both sides of the medicine that Juechan often takes, and then checked, not only is it not wrong, Concubine Wen has been taking such tonic for a year or two.

For example, the medicine that Jue Chan often takes at this moment can help the discharge of lochia and blood, but the medicine with similar efficacy Concubine Wen has been eating for a year or two, and with such a weak body and such strong blood, the palace naturally can't keep the fetus, so inferred, Concubine Wen has slept a lot in the past two years but there has been no good news, which should be because of taking the wrong medicine.

When Lan Qi was recuperating her body, she followed Cining Palace to take medicine every day, she never thought that she would take the wrong medicine, but in fact, after the careful conditioning of Mama Su Mala, she really gave birth to the fourth elder brother smoothly, and then there was Yinzuo one after another, those medicines must be excellent things, but the same thing was Concubine Wen's turn, she unknowingly took the wrong medicine for so long.

The imperial doctor said even more alarmistly: "If you eat for another three or four years, I am afraid that Concubine Wen will not be able to get pregnant for the rest of her life." ”

The Empress Dowager was so angry that her face turned pale, and although Concubine Wen wept, she did not cry, she sat there steadily, and only after a long time did she hear the Empress Dowager ask her: "Who else knows about this matter?" You...... What about the people in your family? ”

Concubine Wen said: "After the concubine listened to what the imperial doctor said, she first came to Cining Palace to ask you to be the master, who is in the family?" Ah Ling, their concubines will never communicate again. ”

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