"Every time, the emperor comes to coax the concubines first, and then says why don't the concubines coax you." Lan Qi lay on Xuan Ye, greedily enjoying this comfort, and was willing to say something nice to make him happy, and deliberately said heartlessly, "Actually, the emperor will not come back today, and the concubines will go to the Qianqing Palace after they are cleaned up, but unfortunately the emperor didn't wait, and let you take the lead." ”

"It doesn't matter, I'll leave you now, go back to the Qianqing Palace and wait for you." Xuan Ye wanted to push her away, but the person hugged her neck tightly and accidentally touched her slightly bulging belly, telling him not to move, and said in a good voice, "Hurry up and sit down, I don't hurt you, I still hurt the child in your belly." ”

"Then the emperor is not leaving?" Lan Qi didn't let go yet.

"Where are you going?" Xuan Ye smiled, "It's so easy to move you here, it's spacious, it's open and quiet, of course I have to use it well, I don't have to worry about anyone, and I don't have to trap you in the Qianqing Palace." ”

Lan Qi let go of his hand and sat down, his stomach was slightly up, Xuan Ye frowned, stretched out his hand and touched it gently, "I ask the Imperial Doctor every day if you are okay, thinking that if you are uncomfortable, I can have an excuse to come and see you, you are really angry, the Imperial Doctor says it every day, I am down-to-earth and conflicted, and the Imperial Grandmother has always been hanging in her heart, saying that you have worked hard to take care of her to recuperate, but the result is negligent." ”

Lan Qi smiled: "The concubine eats a lot, and her body is very strong. ”

"Fang Cai......" Xuan Ye wanted to say that she didn't move her chopsticks a few times in Chengqian Palace, and she didn't want to evoke those unpleasant things, so she changed her words and said, "Don't be too complacent, take care of it." After thinking about it, he nagged her again, "It's okay, don't keep calling some people to get together, where are they coming?" ”

Lan Qi glanced at him, lowered his head and muttered: "It doesn't matter if others come or not, anyway, the emperor will like it wherever he sees it." ”

Xuan Ye knew what he was talking about, and laughed at her: "Jealous? ”

Lan Qi nodded: "It's too sour, Huanchun made a dumpling to eat the day before yesterday, and the concubines don't need to dip it in vinegar." ”

"Coax the emperor's grandmother to go and show it in front of me?" Xuan Ye sneered, pulled her to sit down together, put one hand on his shoulder, and said slowly, "I am in charge of the world, how many tens of thousands of people have seen me?" Even if life is better, I am grateful for today's good governance, and I don't even have an appearance in my mind, which one is I thankful for? I know that no matter how hard I work to keep the country peaceful, all I see is a book of good news and not bad news, and what I hear is only the flattering good words of the ministers. ”

Lan Qi saw that the emperor was speaking seriously, and she listened carefully, because Xuan Ye told her that even if she didn't understand, she would let him have a place to speak, and she would rush out to stop the emperor just now, so she must have remembered this sentence.

"Whether it is tens of thousands of ordinary people, or the majestic rivers and mountains, I can't see or touch them, but I haven't tried my best to protect them day and night, can't my wives and children around me protect them well?" Xuan Ye sneered, "I feel ridiculous when I think about it, as if I have an empty piece in my heart, and I can't fill it up." ”

Lan Qi said unconsciously: "The Empress Dowager said that this is the loneliness of the emperor. ”

Xuan Ye looked at her blankly, Lan Qi also came back to her senses, and hurriedly smiled and wanted to escape: "The emperor continued." But they nodded solemnly, "That's right, I think so." The imperial grandmother has seen all of this thoroughly, but I and you still have to explore it slowly. ”

"The concubine sent the fourth elder brother to Chengqian Palace, not to make you sad and lonely." Lan Qi shook Xuan Ye's hand with both hands, "The concubines are no longer worried about others serving the Empress Dowager, and they will also be jealous of other people serving the emperor, and they are even more worried that the fourth elder brother will be calculated by someone again, since they can't do everything, they must let go of some things." Sending away your relatives is cold-blooded, and you can coax you to cry now, but if you really lose him one day because of this and the other, I'm afraid you can't coax him either. Instead of panicking all day long for the possibility of tragedy, it is better not to let the tragedy happen at all, the emperor, the concubine thought like this, and sent the fourth elder brother away, willingly. ”

"But I see you crying ......"

Lan Qi also said without scruples: "Today, the concubine deliberately did this, and the concubine's heart is not iron, of course I can't help it, don't you believe it and ask Huanchun, the concubine is really much better, and it is not as painful as outsiders say." ”

Xuan Ye smiled bitterly: "If you don't feel sad, I'm fine." He also explained, "The concubine's temper is like that, she didn't know that you were going to send the fourth elder brother, and she thought that I had agreed to Tong Guowei's request to send the fourth elder brother, she was afraid that you would go back, so it was understandable to deliberately confess and guard against it." For the sake of her distressed Yinzhen, forget it. ”

Lan Qi nodded again and again, she has always understood the relationship between the emperor and the concubine, whether it is politics or feelings, she just guards the happiness of herself and Xuan Ye, watching how other people's paths go their own way, jealousy is coquettish and frolic, but she has never been unhappy and jealous in her heart, she can go step by step to the present, and get the love and favor of the two palaces, not because of this little open-mindedness.

The two talked for a long time, they all spit out their hearts to each other, and the mood of the gloomy whole month was dispersed, and God also seemed to be relieved, the snow was delayed at the beginning of this year, and it finally snowed this night, and when Xuan Ye set off from Yonghe Palace to go to the court the next day, the snow on the road was over the ankles, and everyone went straight to Ruixue Zhaofeng Year.

After a few days, the emperor was in Yonghe Palace, and all the people in the harem who stretched their necks to watch the moonlight scene were all stunned. Some people say that it is the concubine who promotes good things, in order to thank the emperor for sending her the fourth elder brother, and some people say that the concubine will be spoiled, there is no foxy kung fu over the years, how can she keep the emperor, but no matter who says anything, she has not instigated the contradiction between Chengqian Palace and Yonghe Palace.

In the blink of an eye, Layue was in front of her, on this day Hui Concubine came to Yikun Palace to sit idly, Juechan promised to come to ask for a few words, Guo Guiren sent her away disgustedly, Yi Concubine leaned on the bed with a huge belly, and recently she was panting hard, and said heavily: "Sister Hui Concubine also teaches my sister for me, she is always like this, it's not good." ”

Hui Concubine didn't say anything, but after Guo Guiren argued a few words by himself, he left unhappily to see the little princess, leaving Hui Concubine and Yi Concubine, she came to Yikun Palace every day, and gradually became estranged from Rong Concubine and Duan Concubine, and she didn't see anyone else at this time, so she said: "Originally, I saw that Concubine De was also pregnant, and I was unhappy with the emperor for the matter of the fourth elder brother, and I wanted to send a newcomer to serve the emperor, but I didn't expect the emperor to stay in Yonghe Palace and not leave, Concubine De is really a blessing, I just watched her step by step shoulder with herself, The person who used to grovel before me, now I came to the door and told her that everyone was the same. ”

Yi Concubine snorted, with disdain and disdain in the corners of her eyes, "I really don't know if the emperor can keep it, or if she can go out and dare to serve with her stomach up." ”

Concubine Hui raised her eyebrows and sneered: "What nonsense are you talking about?" No shame. ”

"I'm not talking nonsense." Yi Concubine lowered her voice, "The emperor is strong-blooded, will he not be emotionally moved by guarding her these days?" God knows what's going on, she doesn't have any foxy kung fu? I don't believe it. ”

Concubine Hui turned half of the greasy dim sum in her hand, lowered her eyebrows and said, "If that's the case, the one in your backyard is the most effective, and it looks so good, the emperor just hasn't looked at it carefully." ”

Yi Concubine had an uncomfortable stomach, took a breath and said, "Sister, let's wait, the matter of the noble man has not yet passed." ”

This made Concubine Hui tense all over, and said angrily: "What does it have to do with us? Miyazato ...... There is no serious explanation, she was crushed to death by the earthquake, and that incident was just a rumor. ”

"Are we still sloppy?" Yi Concubine was disdainful, and when she saw the palace maid outside coming to change tea, she stopped first, and then continued when the people left, "A good noble person can't be mourned casually if he is crushed, so he scribbled, it is impossible that nothing has happened, not to mention that the person is also dead, if he is not dead, he may not know how to check it." ”

Concubine Hui's face turned pale, and she was stunned for a while before she eased up: "Okay, let's just know it in our hearts, what to do when we mention it, don't make trouble." ”

Yi Concubine came out with a sentence: "The eldest brother was originally the most noble below the crown prince, but now the son is noble by his mother, and the fourth elder brother is ......."

Before she finished speaking, someone came in outside, and Concubine Yi was annoyed and wanted to be angry, but the person who came said: "Concubine Rong Niangniang sent someone to invite Concubine Hui Niangniang, saying that Dai promised to be pregnant, let you go over and have a look." ”

The two looked at each other, and thought for a long time before remembering what Dai promised, wasn't it Dai Jia's family, who was inexplicably favored by the emperor in October, how could there be good news overnight? In the early years, An Guiren always said that there were fox spirits in Zhongcui Palace, and what kind of fox spirit was this, which was clearly a blessed place for Guanyin to be blessed.

"Look, can you prevent it?" Concubine Hui threw away the snacks in her hand, asked the palace maid to fetch water to wash her hands, and then hurried to Zhongcui Palace, with mixed feelings in her heart, she only understood one thing, and she also knew that the sentence that Yi Concubine didn't finish saying also knew that now the fourth elder brother is more expensive than her mother, and her eldest brother has been compared.

When Dai's promise to be pregnant was spread to Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager was chanting in the Buddhist hall, and Mama Su Mala waited for her to come out before she prayed, and sure enough, even the old man couldn't remember what Dai promised, and then when she heard what was going on, she laughed happily: "Lan Qi is a blessed person, and the people around her are also blessed." ”

Mama smiled: "You are too partial. ”

But the Empress Dowager said: "She is so good, I don't favor her?" Someone else came to let me be biased, is it good for you to choose? ”

Mama advised: "You can't say this to the Lord Long Live, they are all people around them, and there are still jealousy and troubles in small households, not to mention the royal family." ”

The Empress Dowager sighed: "You ask me why the matter of the Nala clan is allowed to be investigated on Hui Concubine and Yi Concubine, you think about the events of that day, since she knows that she is pregnant, she will never save Lan Qi, and if she saves herself, she must have watched the fall, but she wanted me and the emperor to think of her heart." ”

"The slave thinks that if this is the case, it can be said that she does not know that she is pregnant, and then it seems that there is no motive." But after Mama finished speaking, she remembered it and said to herself, "The master's words make sense, if you pretend not to know, you have to fall out of a good way to ask for a doctor, otherwise you have to ask for a doctor, what kind of doctor is invited for no reason, Yi Concubine thought about it thoroughly, probably she bet that others would not think deeply, after all, no one saw what happened at that time, and Concubine De also said that she was saved by her." ”

The master and servant were talking and walking to the dormitory, someone came in front of the palace gate, it was the queen mother who heard that Dai promised to be happy, and came to congratulate the queen mother, so it happened that the queen mother was trying to see her, the mother and son and Su Mala sat in the palace, and the queen mother said: "I have something to entrust to you, and then you will not be idle, you think about it, you should respond to me, and I will not be reluctant if you don't want to." ”

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "The emperor is so polite, the concubine can mumble in her heart, did she do something bad to make you angry, what do you say, the concubine is idle all day long, I wish I had something to do." ”

"That's good, I'll see if anyone else is suitable." The Empress Dowager's eyes were dark and slightly serious, "There have always been some troubles in the palace recently, but every one of them is not painful or itchy, so it is not easy for us to deal with it, but the young concubines should be beaten." ”

The Queen Mother didn't seem to understand much, and responded blankly: "You say." ”

"Yi Concubine's temperament still needs to be experienced, I don't think she is suitable for raising the prince, the imperial doctor said that most of her fetuses are boys, so it is not suitable to be born and raised in Yikun Palace." The Buddha beads in the Empress Dowager's hand slowly rotated, and she said calmly, "But in the end, she is in the concubine position, and it makes no sense for the child to be sent to the elder brother or to anyone, only to send it to Ningshou Palace is the most appropriate." After that, when Yi Concubine is born, if it is a prince, take it to Ningshou Palace, you have to suffer a little, and the milk doll is not easy to bring. ”

The queen mother heard that she could raise a child, she was very happy, she was widowed at a young age and had no children, Ningshou Palace was empty and deserted, that day was really only she knew how difficult it was, she had always had this thought, but she didn't dare to mention it, but although she was secretly happy at the moment, she still said: "I'm afraid that Yi Concubine is not happy, I heard that she has a straight temperament, if she is coquettish with the emperor or something, the concubine is not afraid that she will make trouble, but she is afraid of making trouble." ”

"I will let the imperial doctor arrange it, saying that she should recuperate, and she can't make trouble." The Empress Dowager didn't care, and said, "Don't think that this is Yi Concubine's child, just think about raising a prince for Xuan Ye, don't bother to educate any knowledge, just raise it." ”

The Queen Mother took the reassuring pill and was even more happy in her heart, but she thought that if she had a princess in her life, she would be disappointed again, and she was frustrated, but she heard the Queen Mother say again: "If it is a princess, it will also be sent to you to raise, so it is decided, I want to see that Yi Concubine is restrained, and it is the same whether the child is male or female." ”

This matter was quietly decided in Cining Palace, Yi Concubine didn't realize that she had lost the right to raise her relatives, she gave birth on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar month, and gave birth to the fifth elder brother with hard work, but before she could take a closer look at the child, the edict of Cining Palace came.

I thought it was a reward for giving birth to a prince, but who knew that the Empress Dowager gave an order and directly sent the little brother who was born to Ningshou Palace to be raised by the Empress Dowager.

When she woke up, everything in the delivery room was packed, and the previous cradle bedding and toys were all gone, as if she was not pregnant in October at all, and she had never given birth to any children.

This matter is like a resolute decree, and it is rumored in the palace that Concubine Hui was so frightened that she didn't dare to come to the door to say hello, and when Lan Qi, who was closed, heard about it, she just told Huanchun without raising her eyebrows: "Is the gift ready?" You will send it with Zhong Cui Palace tomorrow. ”

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