Yinzhen took off her snow coat and snow hat outside the door before coming in, and saluted in front of her grandmother's couch, and the queen mother was very happy to see her little great-grandson, because she couldn't speak, but smiled kindly.

"Why don't you come with the third elder brother today?" Lan Qi got up and touched the fourth elder brother's hand, seeing that his hand was very cold, he took the hand stove on the side and gave it to him, and wanted to call Huan Chun for a snack, but she turned around, and Yin Zhen suddenly said behind her, "I'm here to visit you, so they won't come, if they come to visit the great-grandmother, they will probably come together." ”

Lan Qi turned around in a daze and asked puzzledly, "Look at me?" ”

"Kowako said you almost fainted today." Yin Zhen held the hand stove in one hand, vacated the air with the other, and gently pulled Lan Qi back, let her sit back next to the Queen Mother, and said seriously, "Niangniang, you have to take care." ”

Lan Qi was at a loss, she had been cared for by the people around her, but she had always watched the fourth elder brother feel sorry for the imperial concubine, and occasionally thought in her heart, how good it would be if her son loved her so much one day, but she knew that the fourth elder brother had a mother in his heart, and she was already very satisfied.

The Empress Dowager let out a weak laugh, squinting at the mother and son, Lan Qi knew what the old man was thinking, and knew that her mind was seen through by her, so she couldn't help blushing, and casually touched the flower rope resting on the couch, so she changed the topic and asked Yinzhen: "Will you turn over the flower rope?" ”

The fourth elder brother shook his head, frowned slightly and looked at the things in her hand, and said with little interest: "This is for girls to play." But before these words were spoken, I saw that Concubine De only moved her fingers slightly, and a simple rope was woven into all kinds of tricks in her hand.

"These two people can play too." Lan Qi smiled and held out her hand to her son.

"Yes, I saw Sister Duanjing and Wen Xian playing." Yin Zhen nodded, looking at his mother reaching out, he didn't know how to refuse, so he could only put down the hand stove, clumsily stretched out his fingers, and turned and turned in his mother's hand, but he moved all the rope to his fingers, and with a slight stretch, the rope was all scattered.

The Empress Dowager looked at it and smiled, and Yinzhen saw that her grandmother was happy, and she also smiled innocently and said, "Although it is a girl's play, it is not easy, grandmother, will you?" ”

The Empress Dowager seemed to clear her throat, Lan Qi knew that she was going to speak, and wanted to listen closer, but the old man's voice was much clearer than before, and said to Yinzhen: "How simple and easy is what a woman's family does?" These clothes you are wearing, how much knowledge is in it, not only in books, Yinzhen, you have to stand higher and see farther, in this world, there are many, many things worth learning. In the future, when you grow up, you will have to be a corporal, most of the children of the royal family think that they are short-sighted, you have to go out and associate with people who are learned and knowledgeable. ”

The Empress Dowager said so many words in one breath, and the fourth elder brother listened very carefully, his eyes flashed, and he promised his grandmother that he would keep it in his heart.

Lan Qi was worried about the old man's hard work, and wanted to let her rest, but the Empress Dowager beckoned Yinzhen to come to her, stretched out her old hand and trembled to turn over the flower rope with him, Yinzhen clumsily circled her hand a few times, and raised a mess. Lan Qi couldn't stand it, reached out to help him, and helped the queen mother's hand to pick it away, the fourth elder brother saw that the rope was formed in the hand of the great grandmother, and it seemed to be very complicated, and he had no clue for a while, staring with wide eyes, trying to see some doorways.

Lan Qi saw that the fourth elder brother rarely showed this cute and honest appearance, and couldn't help but smile, and the depression in his heart also dissipated a lot, so he held the hand of the Queen Mother, and pointed to him with his mouth to show him which ropes to pick, the fourth elder brother pursed his mouth and looked serious, his fingers shuttled between the ropes, and he raised his hand for a long time to pull the rope away, but the rope left in the hands of the Queen Mother was stretched to death, and the hand of Concubine De was also entangled, he was panicked to shake it off, but his fingers were also entangled.

The hands of the three ancestors and grandchildren were tied together, Lan Qi looked at Xu Qi in a daze, the Empress Dowager laughed, she also laughed aloud, only the fourth elder brother blushed and was embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "Concubine De Niangniang, how to untie it?" ”

Lan Qi's hand was not entangled, carefully untied the wrapped flower rope, the Empress Dowager held Yinzhen's hand in the palm of her hand and gently rubbed it, and asked lovingly: "Does it hurt?" Silly child, next time I will find your sister to learn, and ask him to teach you, and coax your daughter-in-law to use it in the future. ”

The great-grandmother said this suddenly, and the fourth elder brother was even more cramped, her face was flushed just now, and even her neck was red at this moment, which made the empress dowager very happy, and gently hugged the little great-grandson and said: "It's a pity that the great-grandmother can't wait for that day, but I look at Yuxi very well, and I know which my great-granddaughter-in-law is, so the great-grandmother is relieved." ”

Lan Qi saw that the Empress Dowager was in really good spirits, as if she wanted to talk to the fourth elder brother, and saw that the fourth elder brother was so anxious that he was sweating profusely just now, afraid that he would catch a cold after a while, so he asked Yinzhen to accompany the great grandmother, and he went to call the palace maid to fetch hot water to wipe him, got up and walked down from the pedal, and the little guy in his stomach suddenly rolled over, so bluffing that Lan Qi couldn't help but snort, gasping for breath, and holding the lampstand on the side and not daring to move.

Lan Qi's movement startled the Empress Dowager and the fourth elder brother, Yin Zhen heard the moaning, turned around and saw her mother holding the lamp stand stiff and did not leave, she was nervous, and ran to Lan Qi anxiously after leaving the Empress Dowager, holding her body with both hands and asking, "E-Niang, what's wrong with you?" Do you want to have a baby? ”

The little guy in the belly seemed to be frightened by his brother, no longer punching and kicking, he calmed down a little bit, Lan Qi's breathing gradually calmed down, and there were tears in his eyes that ran out somehow, but the child in front of him didn't seem to realize what strange things he said at all, and carefully helped Lan Qi and asked: "E-Niang, you sit down first, I'll go and call Huan Chunlai." ”

Lan Qi was pushed by Yinzhen, and returned to the queen mother step by step, the fourth elder brother nervously turned around to call someone, ran out suddenly, and saw his father standing at the door, Yinzhen pointed inward in a panic, and before he could speak, there was already a palace maid who followed up.

Xuan Ye looked down at his son, and saw that his cheeks were red and sweaty, he saw the scene just now, and wanted to rush in to help Lan Qi, but his son rushed in front, and he heard the sound of "Eniang" really well, seeing Lan Qi's sluggish expression with his own eyes, and watching tears welling up in her eyes, but this child didn't seem to feel unusual, or he himself hadn't eased up.

"Go and wipe the sweat from your forehead and neck, and you will get cold with the wind, but you will delay your homework in the study." Xuan Ye brought his son over, touched the wet hot sweat on his neck, pushed him to the grandmother beside him, and asked them to take the fourth elder brother to wipe the sweat, and when he entered the door again, he heard the imperial doctor say, "Niangniang is at ease, it's just ordinary fetal movements, you and the fetus are fine." ”

Lan Qi nodded absentmindedly, and when the imperial doctor saw the emperor enter the door, he hurriedly saluted again and repeated the words, and when they all went down, the room was clean again. Xuan Ye saw Lan Qi's hand resting on the couch, the imperial grandmother's hand covering her hand, patting gently and slowly, Lan Qi turned to look at her grandmother, and couldn't help but burst into tears, but the imperial grandmother just smiled with relief, smiling so happily.

Outside the door, Mama Su Mala heard the movement of the imperial doctor here, she was worried, so she came over with her body again, and saw that the fourth elder brother wiped his sweat and wanted to go in, the prince saluted Mama very politely, and Mama hurriedly stopped and said: "How can the fourth elder brother give the slave and maid a good job." ”

Yin Zhen said with a smile: "Huang Ama wants everyone to respect Mama, and we are the same." ”

When he said this, the imperial doctor came to Mama's side and said softly: "Mama Sumala, the minister has something to say, I didn't dare to mention it in front of the Empress Dowager and Niangniang, you should persuade Concubine De Niangniang, she will support her body again, adults and children will not be able to get better, pregnant women can not work so hard, and the worst result is great." ”

The smile on Mama's face faded, her heart sank again, and she took the fourth elder brother's hand and said, "The fourth elder brother will persuade Concubine De Niangniang for a while, and what the slave and maid said will not be used for a long time." ”

Yin Zhen nodded in agreement, and comforted her grandmother: "I will say it well." ”

When I entered the house again, I saw that I was picking up the flower rope like Fang Cai, and the fourth elder brother followed my grandmother to stand in front of the door and didn't go inside, and I heard my mother laughing: "How can the emperor be clumsy, it's not as good as Yinzhen, the concubine's hands are entangled and painful." ”

The father huffed and said, "What's there to play with this thing?" Don't move, the more you wrap up, the tighter it gets. ”

The hands of the three of them were also entangled, Yin Zhen saw that his father was as anxious as himself, and hurriedly ran over to untie them, Xuan Ye seemed to be unhappy to lose face in front of his son, and said to him angrily: "It's so late, go back early." ”

Lan Qi looked at her son stupidly, seeing that he didn't have any strange reaction to the other party's "E-Niang", and she didn't dare to make a fuss for fear of scaring him, anyway, she heard it clearly, her son called her E-Niang from the bottom of his heart, even if it was just like this twice in this life, she was content.

The fourth elder brother saw that his father wanted him to go, pursed his mouth and didn't dare to refute, and was about to salute and leave, when the great-grandmother suddenly stretched out her hand to him, Yinzhen stepped forward, and the empress dowager gently shook his hand and said: "Yinzhen, when you grow up, you must honor your mother." ”

The fourth elder brother nodded vigorously: "Grandson knows, grandson will honor Eniang." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Lan Qi on the side, and took the opportunity to say to the worry of the imperial doctor, "Eniang, you are pregnant with a child, you really have to take care." ”

Lan Qi's body trembled, unable to speak, and the Empress Dowager laughed: "Good boy, she will listen to your words, every day the pestle is here, I have to feel at ease." ”

But after saying this, the Empress Dowager seemed to be extremely tired, and after a long breath, she closed her eyes weakly, Yinzhen stood aside at a loss, and finally her father called him: "Go back." ”

Outside, a few Xiaohezi came in to serve the fourth elder brother wearing a snow coat and a snow hat, and after saluting together, he hugged the fourth elder brother and left, here Xuan Ye helped Lan Qi up, wanting her to go to the side hall to rest, but Lan Qi didn't stand up yet, the Queen Mother slowly opened her eyes again, her pale face flashed with a beautiful red light, and looked at the two people holding hands with a smile, Lan Qi came up and asked softly: "Are you thirsty?" After talking for a while, the concubine made you date tea. ”

The Empress Dowager shook her head slightly, turned her eyes to look at Su Mala who was standing aside, and Mama hurried to the couch, the old sister reached out and touched her face, and said with a smile: "In the next life, I will serve you." ”

Mama Su Mala laughed with tears: "What are you talking about, in the next life, the slave and maid will come to be a girl for you, let's go horseback riding together." ”

"Let Xuan Ye bring Atul back to be your companion, and you will take care of her for me." The Empress Dowager said, and Mama Su Mala promised, "The slave will take care of the princess." ”

The Empress Dowager said that Attu was her youngest daughter, Princess Shuhui, and Xuan Ye hurriedly said: "My aunt is much better, she is already on her way to Beijing, and she will be able to reunite with you in a few days." ”

"Really?" The Empress Dowager was very happy, and looked silently into the distance, as if she wanted to see her daughter on the way back to Beijing, and she knew that she couldn't wait for the child.

Lan Qi and Xuan Ye helped Su Mala to get up and sit aside, the Empress Dowager looked at them quietly, she knew that Su Mala would not be treated badly, she had nothing that she couldn't put at ease, and thought of Fang Cai Yinzhen's voice, and said with a smile: "It's so good." ”

Lan Qi and Xuan Ye didn't know what the Empress Dowager wanted to say, and wanted to come close and ask, but the old man slowly closed his eyes, humming softly in his mouth, and his fingers were gently beating on his chest.

The empress dowager hummed a tune, although she didn't have much strength, but her tone was long and long, soothing and free, Lan Qi's eyes blurred when she listened to it, Xuan Ye helped her, and said softly: "The imperial grandmother hummed, it's a grassland long tune." ”

In the long and melodious tone, Lan Qi, who should have been horses, cattle and sheep, blue sky and white clouds, but blurred her eyes, only saw one scene after another with the Queen Mother in the past ten years, laughing and scolding, joy and sadness, when she hugged Lan Qi, who was whipped to death, the Queen Mother told her that she had written down this kindness; gave birth to the fourth elder brother and felt sorry for the separation of her mother and son, and adopted her in Cining Palace; Annoyed that she ran out to see Xuan Ye and punished her for kneeling for a few hours...... More than ten years have all appeared in front of us.

Grief and tears came overwhelmingly, the weak pregnant woman was no longer able to stand, completely relying on Xuan Ye's support, she wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, she knew that the Empress Dowager liked to see Wu Ya Lanqi's smile.

"Imperial grandmother." Xuan Ye helped Lan Qi, seeing that the beat between the Empress Dowager's fingers was getting slower and slower, she called out this sound in a panic, the Empress Dowager slowly opened her eyes, Xuan Ye was here, Lan Qi was there, Su Mala was also there, and the people who gave her the most love and care in this life were there.

The red light on her face gradually dissipated, but a kind smile froze on her face, and the Empress Dowager closed her eyes comfortably again.

"Imperial Grandmother ......"

After a long mediation, the dormitory fell silent, Lan Qi leaned on Xuan Ye, covering her mouth with one hand and trembling uncontrollably, Su Mala Ma threw herself beside her master, trembling and reaching out between the snorts of the Empress Dowager, the sad old man immediately cried out in pain: "Gege, don't leave me behind......"

Lan Qi's body was completely soft, Xuan Ye was unable to support her, the two fell to the ground together, the female eunuchs of the palace outside rushed in, and saw Huan Chun supporting the master, Xuan Ye rushed to his grandmother's side, grabbed his grandmother's hand and called her one after another, but he couldn't wake up anymore, his grandmother was gone, and the grandmother who gave him his life was gone.

"Imperial grandmother, you said that you want to accompany Xuan Ye forever......"

The emperor's cry spread from the dormitory, and the palace maids, eunuchs, and eunuchs standing outside knelt down one by one and wept bitterly, and the cry came from Cining Palace, as if it shook the heavens and the earth, and the north wind whistled, rolling up snow particles and slapping everything in the world.

On the way back to Chengqian Palace, the fourth elder brother was hugged and hid aside to avoid the wind and snow, Xiao Hezi used his body to shield the master from the wind and snow, Yin Zhen suddenly smiled at him: "Xiao Hezi, I called Eniang today." ”

Xiao Hezi was stunned, and the fourth elder brother smiled again: "I finally called Eniang, I always think about when I can call Eniang, I want to call Eniang, I have always wanted to." ”

"Fourth Elder Brother ......"

Xiao Hezi was about to speak, the heavy and deep bell suddenly echoed in the Forbidden City, the bell overshadowed the wind and snow and spread throughout every palace road and every palace, everyone listened stunned, Yin Zhen couldn't help asking: "What sound?" ”

Xiao Hezi realized that this was the death knell, and suddenly knelt on the ground and cried: "Fourth elder brother, the empress dowager has passed away. ”

Yin Zhen looked at him blankly, his small body stiffened in the wind and snow.

On December 25, the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi, the Empress Dowager Zhaosheng, Borzigit died.

In the heavy bells, waking up from the abyssal dream, Lan Qi saw the pale room all over the place, and Bu Guiren and Huanchun were standing by the bed, in a trance, as if returning to May of the thirteenth year of Kangxi.

"Are you awake? How do you feel about your body, the doctor said that you and the child are very dangerous, and you must take care of your body. Bu Guiren came over and choked up as he spoke, "What do you have to do, what do you tell the emperor to do, what do you want us to do?" ”

Lan Qi felt that her body was heavy and weak, and her head was even more chaotic, looking pale, listening to Sister Bu's words, she finally gradually came to her senses, this is not the thirteenth year of Kangxi, it is the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi, and the Empress Dowager drove west just before she fainted.

Sadness poured out of her heart, Lan Qi cried uncontrollably, Bu Guiren and Huanchun both advised her not to be excited, but the pot-bellied person cried breathlessly, she struggled to go to Cining Palace, Huanchun held down and said: "Niangniang, if you move again, you and your children will not be able to keep it, do you also want to leave the long-lived master to go by yourself?" ”

"Let me go with the Empress Dowager, she is on the road alone, how lonely she is......" Lan Qi cried bitterly, crying almost out of breath, and when it was easy to calm down, the whole person was already dying.

Bu Guiren wiped her tears and said to Huanchun: "She will slow down for a while, and she will cry again, how can this be." ”

The Empress Dowager returned to Yaochi in the west, and the palace quickly became a state of no one in charge, even if the old man originally lived in Cining Palace and didn't care about anything, all kinds of people had spiritual support, and they were the backbone after all. Now the queen mother is too sad and sick, the body of the imperial concubine can not withstand the toss, Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui are too busy to do the funeral, and the emperor cuts his braids and mourns in Cining Palace, and he can't disturb his grandmother at all.

At the moment, no one can take care of Concubine De, who is about to give birth, and Yonghe Palace, which was once a thousand favors, has changed overnight.

Lan Qi's body was hollowed out in the last days when she took care of the Empress Dowager, and no one knew what kind of strength supported her day and night in Cining Palace, but when the imperial doctor finally said to Su Mala that Concubine De's body could not be consumed any longer, the Empress Dowager chose to leave, and no one knew about the coincidence here, as if everything was destined by God.

Lan Qi wakes up and sleeps, waking is crying, compared to losing Yinzuo when she doesn't cry or make trouble all day long, this time she doesn't hide the sadness and fear in her heart, but after all, she can't stand the weakness of her body day by day, and then she can barely even cry, and the mother and son have fallen into a great crisis.

But the imperial doctor said that because Concubine De Niangniang is too weak, even inducing labor is very dangerous, if it is not for natural childbirth to force her to induce labor, I am afraid that there will be two lives at that time, and now Concubine De Niangniang has no strength to give birth to a child by herself, when the time comes, it will almost depend on the ability of the child in her belly, whether the child and the mother can survive, and then they will have to resign themselves to fate.

Fortunately, after two days of chaos in the palace, it gradually got on the right track, and the queen mother's funeral began to prepare early in the morning, and it was not sudden, but the people involved were too sad to take charge, and it was a little chaotic for a while, and the imperial concubine never cared about the affairs of the six palaces, but this time she got up to do everything for the emperor, but her health was very bad, and she returned to Chengqian Palace every night, and she couldn't even walk.

In the blink of an eye, it was already in the first month, the palace gradually calmed down, the imperial concubine was completely ill and could not take charge, and the queen mother was also inseparable from the sickbed in Ningshou Palace.

On this day, the elder brother dispersed from Cining Palace, crying for several days, the children gradually got used to it, all the elder brothers went back to their palace, the fourth elder brother took Xiao Hezi away, Xiao Hezi followed him and whispered: "The slave was waiting outside the door just now, and I heard someone come to report, saying that Concubine De Niangniang is very bad, master, do you want to go and see." ”

Yin Zhen looked at him nervously, remembering the words of the imperial doctor that day, he hurriedly walked forward, while instructing Xiao Hezi: "You go back to see E-Niang first, tell E-niang where I am, and I will go back immediately." ”

But halfway through, he stopped Xiao Hezi and said, "Don't tell Eniang, I'll go back soon anyway." "After that, he took Xiao Hezi from another road to Yonghe Palace, and did not let the people of Chengqian Palace notice, and the people of Yonghe Palace were very surprised when they suddenly saw the fourth elder brother coming.

Huan Chun came out, took off the snow hat for the elder brother, and said: "Can the fourth elder brother persuade the mother, if the mother continues to cry, her eyes will be broken." ”

Yin Zhen walked in a hurry, sweating on his body, and when he entered the door, he felt that the earth dragon burned the house and made people impatient, but suddenly saw his mother dying on the sickbed, and his whole body was cold.

"E-niang." Yin Zhen threw herself to the side of the bed and took Lan Qi's hand, "E-Niang, are you okay?" ”

Lan Qi, who was teary-eyed and energetic, relieved herself, saw her son in front of her, listened to him call her mother, and thought that she was in a dream, so she smiled faintly and ignored it, but when Yinzhen called her again, she realized that her son was really in front of her.

"I promised my great-grandmother that I would honor you in the future." The fourth elder brother looked at his mother like this, and thought that the adoptive mother in the Chengqian Palace was also very sick, and his weak heart could no longer bear it, so he cried to his mother, "You are all sick, I am very afraid." ”

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