The last three words came out lightly from between Jin Yuyan's glamorous and burning red lips like spitting melon seed skin, and pierced Yan Wan's heart deeply. After fighting so much and begging so much, it turns out that he is still unworthy in the eyes of others! Is she going to be in such a situation without children? She stared at Yuyan's bulging belly, her fingers trembling uncontrollably. She had never felt that Yuyan's high bulging belly was so annoying.

Li Xin smiled and said, "Please also make the nobles more careful, don't rudely wipe the little master's shoes." ”

Yuyan glanced at Yinwan, stilted the tips of her shoes, and saw that they were indeed clean, so she said lazily: "Okay, let's step down." The upper of this Su embroidery is more delicate than your fingers. She lifted her toes, pushed her chin against her back, and laughed uncontrollably.

The Suzhou embroidered upper is as smooth as the skin of a newborn baby, almost bursting with a blow. The fine stitches, bright colors, and delicate stitches and threads were on her chin, but they could almost rub out the blood droplets on her heart. Yan Wan stood in front of Yuyan with a silk hand, not daring to move, nor daring to retreat, as small as a grain of dust. She suddenly felt that with the meager grace she had, she might be buried under this red brick and green tile one day, and no one cared.

Yuyan was having fun, but when she saw Li Yu coming over with Ling Yunche, she hurriedly said to her: "Concubine Jia's mother is blessed with Jin'an." ”

Yuyan took advantage of the situation to retract her feet, straightened her expression and said with a smile: "Where is Gonggong Li going, he is in such a hurry." ”

Li Yu said: "The slave was about to go to Qixiang Palace to deliver the decree, and the emperor invited the mother to go to the Yangxin Palace for dinner. ”

Yuyan hurriedly smiled and said, "There is Gonggong Lao, and the palace will go immediately." Yuyan glanced at Yinwan, snorted lightly, as if she was tired of teasing the cat with mice, and waved away. Yinwan's body shook, Chunchan hurriedly helped her, and said eagerly: "Little master, are you okay?" Yan Wan stood up straight with her arms, looked at Yuyan's distant back, and pinched her palm.

Ling Yunche saw Yuyan walking away, and hurriedly said to Li Yu: "Father-in-law, I know the way to the satin warehouse, I can go by myself." My father-in-law is still busy with errands. ”

Li Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, put his hand in his sleeve, and said with a smile: "It's okay." Ling Guard, the emperor remembers that you saved the queen, and he must reward you with ten tribute satins before commending you. You have a bright future! ”

The two parted. Yan Wan turned her face and saw that it was Ling Yunche, knowing that Fang Cai's embarrassment had fallen into his eyes, she felt more and more embarrassed, and she couldn't wait to get into the cracks in the palace wall. Yin Wan glanced sideways slightly, and Chun Chan took a few steps back in amusement. Yun Che took out the handkerchief in his arms and handed it to her: "Wipe it." ”

Yin Wan didn't pick it up, Yun Che was slightly embarrassed, but still smiled: "How can the little master use the things used by his subordinates." ”

Yin Wan threw away the silk in her hand fiercely, lifted the cuffs embroidered with white Xiaochun orange blossoms and wiped her chin vigorously, turned her face and said, "I'd rather the emperor see it, than if you see it." ”

Yun Che was silent for a moment: "The emperor saw it with pity and emotion, and Weichen saw it, but it was just the sadness of the old man." ”

Yin Wan smiled, but a little hazy tears involuntarily appeared in her eyes: "I thought you had forgotten, we are old friends." ”

Yun Che turned his face away, and his clear face was a little more heroic. Yes, they are no longer thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, two people who are gradually drifting apart, how can they still have old hearts. He said in a low voice: "What the little master tries to forget, Weichen will also try to forget." ”

A clear light flashed in Yinwan's eyes: "Brother Yun Che, what you have to try to forget is the hardest to forget after all." Isn't it? ”

There was a moment of apprehension, and even Yinwan herself didn't understand why she would ask such a thing. In her days as a palace concubine, she proudly reminded herself all the time that she was already a woman who was already the supreme king. She has always disdained to talk about the past, and refrained from thinking of people in the time she disdained, such as Yun Che. That's why she has been avoiding meeting and talking to him.

In fact, they themselves know that they can see each other often. When she went to the Heart Cultivation Hall to Cheng En, when she was carried from the enclosure into the dormitory of the Heart Cultivation Hall with her naked body wrapped in a brocade quilt, she would see his blurred face guarding outside the temple in the deep darkness. She even wondered if he could hear his sweet and ambiguous laughter and moaning beneath the emperor on a windy night.

However, inside the door and outside the door, there is the difference between the abyss.

And after so many years of separation, this is the first time she has changed her old name back to the old one, calling him "Brother Yunche", as before.

It was as if there were droplets of water falling coldly from a high place, clicking, and knocking heavily on the heart. Countless past events instantly surged into my heart, and the faces of the innocent Yinwan when I was a teenager and the noble and delicate Yanwan at this time overlapped each other, and they couldn't be folded into the same person for a long time.

Yun Che looked at her, and there was a trace of pity in his eyes: "Yinwan, is this the path you have worked so hard to get?" ”

Tears welled up in Yinwan's eyes: "This road is certainly not easy to walk, and it may not be much more difficult than the previous road." I'm going to do my best to make this path a little easier. ”

Yun Che tried his best to be as indifferent as possible, but there was still a trace of warmth that could not be concealed: "Fighting with people like this, fighting with others, and being humiliated." Yinwan, I just think you're working too hard. ”

"All roads have to go forward, and they are all the same." Yinwan's tone was as low and soft as the petals of a quietly blooming flower, shaking the thin and soft stamens little by little, "With your care, I am enough." ”

She bowed and walked away slowly. After a few steps, he met Chunchan's outstretched hand, low and firm: "Chunchan, no matter what method I use, I must conceive a child, definitely!" ”

The days after the death of Empress Xiaoxian, although there were constant trivial matters, they also passed in an orderly and peaceful manner. Lu Yun meditated on "recuperation", almost closed himself in the palace, eating fasting and reciting Buddha every day to pray for his children, hoping to calm the emperor's anger. In the palace, only Yuyan was more public, but because she was pregnant and couldn't sleep, everyone let her. Concubine Mei's grace is gradually not as good as before, and Weiyi Huan is more outstanding. In addition, Hailan, Yinwan, Lu Yingluo, Wanyin and Xiu agreed, except for Hailan, who did not need to accept favors, and the others lived as usual. And Ruyi, in addition to taking care of all things in the harem, raised Yongqi wholeheartedly.

Compared with the calm of the harem, the former dynasty is not very quiet. The aftermath of Empress Xiaoxian's death continued, first when the emperor found that the empress's canonization document was translated into Manchu, he mistakenly translated "imperial concubine" as "the first empress dowager", and in anger, he dismissed the criminal department of the Hanlin Academy, Actun, as a "great disrespect" and pardoned after being beheaded and imprisoned; The Criminal Department was full of Han Shangshu and Shilang all asked for the guilt, and was dismissed and retained. And because the Hanlin Academy wrote the queen's sacrificial text, the word "Quantai" was used, and the emperor thought that these two words were acceptable for ordinary people, "how can they add the respect of the queen"? Even with the important ministers of the three dynasties, Zhang Tingyu, a university scholar, and others were also punished.

The Ministry of Industry was guilty of handling the "rough manufacturing" of the queen's treasure. Guanglu Temple because of the preparation of the queen's sacrifice used in the dumpling, tables are "unclean and distinct", Guanglu Temple Qing and Shaoqing have been downgraded. The Zongren Mansion has also been reprimanded several times. Subsequently, more than 50 Manchu civil and military officials from other provinces were invited to go to Beijing to pay homage to the Empress Zigong because they did not have a fold, or demote or cancel the punishment of military merits. A number of officials illegally shaved their hair during the queen's funeral period and were punished after investigation. Fifty-three people, including Yin Jishan, the governor of Liangjiang, Kar Jishan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Yun Zhu, the governor of Caoyun, Gu Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, Kaitai, the governor of Jiangxi, and Shuose, the governor of Henan, were all courtiers who were heavily used during the first emperor's reign, and they were also punished this time. Zhou Xuejian, the governor of Jiangnan River, even committed suicide because he shaved his hair without authorization and found that there was corruption. Even for "illegal shaving", even Emperor Huixian's father, Gao Bin, a scholar, was severely reprimanded and was pleaded for by the emperor in front of the court.

It's just a matter of others, Zhang Tingyu is an important minister of the Three Dynasties, and one of the old ministers who has always supported Empress Xiaoxian's status in the harem, and at this time he was convicted of the death of Empress Xiaoxian, which is really unexpected. What's more, after the death of Emperor Huixian's concubine, the emperor remembered it, and every time the imperial concubine died, he would definitely compose poems to mourn, every year. He also treated the mother of Emperor Huixian's concubine very favorably, and even her two nephews got official titles to serve in the imperial court. Now that even the imperial concubine's Ama has not been taken care of, and he has been punished like this, and the emperor is really angry to the extreme.

So when Li Yu came to invite Ruyi, his face changed, and he wiped the sweat on his forehead with some anxiety because of the trotting all the way: "Concubine Xian, Lord Gao Bin and Lord Zhang Tingyu were both reprimanded in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the emperor lost his temper, at this time, I am afraid that only you can go and see it." ”

Ruyi put down the eight-treasure five-colored silk thread that she was sorting out at hand and asked, "Why did the emperor reprimand them again?" Didn't you already reprimand you in the court two days ago? ”

Li Yu hurriedly said: "Lord Zhang and Lord Gao originally came to ask for the blame for the last time, and they didn't want the emperor to see them and talk about transporting the big ship Qingque Fang, where Empress Xiaoxian lived during her eastern tour, back to Beijing for preservation, Lord Gao didn't dare to refute, but Lord Zhang first praised the emperor and his wife for their deep affection, and then said that this move was inappropriate. ”

"Wrong?" Ruyi was puzzled, "Qingque Fang is the last place where Empress Xiaoxian lives, the emperor just wants to keep this ship, is there anything wrong?" ”

Li Yu frowned, and gestured: "The boat is too big, and the city gate is narrow, so you can't enter the city at all." The emperor wanted to tear down the city gate. ”

Ruyi was taken aback, and then said: "Such a big event, no wonder Zhang Tingyu is opposed." ”

Li Yu rubbed his hands and said, "It's not." So the emperor was angry and reprimanded the two adults for being heartless! The two adults were reprimanded, and the emperor was angry, but how could it be good. ”

For the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian, the emperor was angry for several days, and Ruyi's heart was also a little nervous, so he hurriedly ordered the sedan chair to go with Li Yu.

The palace was extremely quiet, and the palace maids and eunuchs were all waiting outside, standing silently with their hands down, for fear that the emperor's thunderous anger would involve them. Ruyi helped Li Yu's men get off the sedan chair and motioned for Xin Xin and Lingzhi to wait at the bottom of the steps. She had just stepped up the white marble steps when she heard the emperor's angry voice: "Empress Xiaoxian is the mother of the world, what if I tear down a city wall for the mother of the world?" How can you understand the pain of losing my wife? It's all heartless things, and it's only full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. Get out! ”

Ruyi waited outside the hall, only to see the two old ministers looking at each other, and retreated in embarrassment. ”

Ruyi bowed slightly, not caring that they were not very respectful to her. Also, she has been fighting with Empress Xiaoxian and Emperor Huixian for half her life, Zhang Tingyu has always supported the queen, Gao Bin is the biological father of the imperial concubine, why should she be respectful to herself. She looked at the backs of the two and smiled meaningfully, respecting and respectful, it was not at the same time.

She walked slowly into the hall, and it was early afternoon, the warm April wind was cut off by the closed windows, and the sunlight became a thin shadow reflected on the window, ethereal. The Emperor lay down on the cold chair with his head tilted, looking tired.

Ruyi said with a smile: "It's good for the emperor to lie on his back like this, and people have never looked at the road under their feet, but rarely looked at what was above their heads." So that the dark clouds cover the top, and they are still hurrying. ”

There was a faint tiredness in the emperor's voice: "You are here." You heard me lose my temper. Are you afraid of people? ”

Ruyi approached him: "The anger of the Son of Heaven, the four seas tremble, of course the concubines are afraid." Not to mention the concubines, Zhang Tingyu and Gao Bin, the two adults, walked out, trembling, as if struck by lightning. The concubines thought that they were really afraid, and only if they were afraid, the whole court would be in awe of the emperor, and no longer regard the emperor as a young monarch who had just ruled the world. ”

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief and put his hand on his forehead: "Ruyi, I am already thirty-seven years old. ”

Ruyi hugged the emperor from behind and sighed a lot: "Yes." The concubine has been with the emperor for seventeen years. In the past seventeen years, the concubines have never seen such a thunderous anger from the emperor. She took the mint oil from the enamel drawing bowl from the case, rubbed it on her fingertips, and gently rubbed her forehead for the emperor, "The emperor just loses his temper with outsiders, but don't really get angry and hurt your liver and body." Judging from the concubines, what the emperor did today is happy. ”

The emperor closed his eyes and muttered, "Why am I happy?" ”

Ruyi pursed her lips and smiled: "These days, outsiders have seen the emperor's liver very hot. But the people punished by the emperor are either the elders of the three dynasties, or the former ministers of the first emperor, or the concubines' mothers. For those who can't get rid of the tail, and who relied on the old and sold the old to hinder the emperor in the previous dynasty, take this opportunity to get rid of it, which is justifiable, and it is the emperor's deep affection, and it will never cause criticism. ”

The corners of the emperor's mouth showed a somewhat calm smile, and he reached out to grab her hand and smiled: "Ruyi, why are you so smart." ”

Ruyi stretched out her slender fingers and shook the emperor firmly: "It's not that the concubine is smart, it's the concubine and the emperor who are single-minded." ”

The Emperor pressed his cheek against the back of her silky hand: "I like you to say that, Yixin. ”

Ruyi smiled gently, a little moved, but also a little doubtful. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the emperor's remembrance of the queen is also a rare heart. Perhaps the so-called single-mindedness was originally like a brocade of flowers and flowers in the eyes of others, but the inside was full of holes. Who knows?

After being silent for a moment, Ruyi still asked: "Although the emperor reprimanded Zhang Tingyu and Gao Bin, the emperor should have a plan in his heart about moving the Qingque Fang." ”

The emperor bowed his head and said: "Haiwang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has come up with a way to transport ships into the city for me, that is, to build a wooden frame to pass through the battlements of the city wall. The wooden frame is equipped with wooden rails, and the wooden rails are covered with fresh vegetable leaves to make them lubricated. At that time, more than 1,000 people will be pushed and pulled, and the royal boat can be smoothly transported into the city, which can not only keep the city tower, but also save a lot of manpower and financial resources. I thought about it, Empress Xiaoxian died outside the palace, and the last place where she survived was the Qingque Fang, so I moved the Qingque Fang into the capital, and I could also express my grief a little. ”

She bowed her head: "The emperor has a sincere heart for the queen, and the concubines are respectful." ”

The emperor slowly flicked the jade wrench on his finger: "The death of Empress Xiaoxian is irreparable, and no matter how sad I am, it is just a matter outside my body." It's just that if I take advantage of this incident to clear the court, then those old stubborns will really think that I am still the emperor who has just ascended the throne. ”

Ruyi smiled slightly: "The ministers and concubines in the court don't understand." The concubines only know that once the son of heaven and a courtier, those who are promoted by themselves will be truly grateful to Dade and have no second hearts. ”

The emperor smiled knowingly: "I'm not afraid that they have two hearts, and they don't dare!" It's just that don't always think that you have something to rely on, so you call yourself a hero. I like wise and obedient courtiers, and those who like to point fingers can retire and rest. ”

Ruyi's heart moved, and she wanted to say something, but after all, she felt that it was inappropriate, so she had to change her unintentional tone and said: "The emperor is right." It's just an outsider, Yonghuang and Yongzhang are your biological children in the end, and you can forget it if you are angry. Yonghuang has been sick so far, and no one dares to see him, and Yongzhang is always depressed, strange and pitiful. ”

The emperor glanced at her and said coldly: "A woman's mind is so gentle and delicate, can't it fall on the big stage?" In other words, Ruyi, you have always been the smartest and most transparent, why it fell on your children, you can't see it clearly. ”

Ruyi was stunned, but she could only turn this surprise into a slightly confused look: "The concubine is just a little woman, and her vision is short-sighted. Occasionally I can guess the emperor's thoughts, it's just a fluke, how can I really be like the emperor's eyes? ”

The emperor smiled with relief: "That's fine." You have been living in the harem, and the world you see is just a side of the sky in this Forbidden City, no wonder many things are blindfolded. ”

Ruyi Yingying looked at him: "If the concubine doesn't know, the emperor will just talk to the concubine if he can't listen to it." The concubine was expecting to hear clearly. ”

The emperor's fingers were clasped on the rosewood table, and there was a dull tuk tuk sound: "The matter of Yonghuang and Yongzhang, of course, has their unfilial piety, but I also understand that their unfilial piety is also the fault of Empress Xiaoxian herself, no wonder the two children." ”

Ruyi saw that the emperor's tone was a little loose, and she was very relieved for Yonghuang, and said busily: "The emperor said yes." Children are young and frizzy. ”

The emperor's tone was steep and sharp, he stood under the closed window sash, the sunlight on the long window was like a faint ink trace, covering the emperor's face with a shallow shade, and it became more and more unpredictable: "But what I care about most is that as my eldest son and third son, they actually covet the position of crown prince." They have behaved for Empress Xiaoxian since their filial piety, can't I see it? One claims to be the eldest son, and the other claims to have a biological mother to rely on to compete for favor. Are these deeds deserved to be my death? ”

Ruyi saw that although the emperor's tone was calm, the cold meaning underneath was like the sharp ice surging under the river, which could pierce people's heads and bleed at any time. She hurriedly bowed down and said, "The emperor is angry." You are in the prime of life, and you don't dare to think like this. Especially Yonghuang, Emperor Zhemin's concubine died early, he has not been taught by his biological mother, and the only one he can rely on is the emperor, and he dare not have such an arrogant heart. ”

The emperor snorted coldly: "Don't dare, he has already moved such a mind." The Holy Ancestor Kangxi has many heirs, and the eldest son Yunhe has the intention of seizing the heir, and has been imprisoned and died. How can I not be chilled? Moreover, my son must listen to my words and obey my will. How dare they not be sad when I am sad, how can I bear it when they are not of the same heart and mind to me in front of the concubines and relatives? ”

Oh, that's what it means. Heavenly husband and wife, royal father and son, in the final analysis, are just monarchs and ministers, and can only obey. No, even courtiers have times when they speak out, but people like them can't. There are only low eyebrows, only obedience, and only forbearance.

They, like them, have never been a group of people who can have their own opinions and ideas.

Ruyi was silent, and in the silence, she also understood the sad fate of Yonghuang and Yongzhang. Maybe Hailan is right, she is free from grace, so she can see through and hit with one hit. She pushed open the window, and there was a thin wind outside pushing the golden sunlight in, and the air was so sweet and greasy that it was almost intoxicating. The drunk is also drunk himself.