"Being a mother is so blessed, and the little brother is naturally blessed." Concubine Wen said with a smile, as soon as she raised her hand slightly, Dongyun and the others understood, saluted and retreated, Huanchun glanced at her master when she saw this, and when she saw her bow, she had to walk away.

There was no third person in the room, Lan Qi guessed that Concubine Wen would not just sit casually today, so she said truthfully what she thought in her heart, "The concubine thought that you would hold a grudge against the past, although the concubine still doesn't feel that she did anything wrong now, I hope you can pass it sooner in your heart, since the emperor doesn't pursue it, don't worry about it." ”

Concubine Wen chuckled, with only the pride on her face, she drank tea and picked a winter date on the fruit plate, and said casually: "The stalk is in my heart, aren't you a noble person?" You see that I came proudly in the spring breeze today, where do I seem to have something in my heart? Isn't that thing long gone? ”

"The concubine is a stalk in my heart." Lan Qi didn't hide it, looked straight at the person in front of her, and poured out all the doubts in her heart, "Niangniang has no intention of joining forces with her concubine, right?" You deliberately waited for the concubine to go and expose it to the emperor, so you told the concubine in advance in the name of joining forces. ”

The winter dates are crisp, Concubine Wen takes a bite and chews slowly, the sweet taste spreads in the mouth, a pleasant fragrance swims all over the body, she comfortably moved a big pillow for herself and leaned on it, without any dignified state, eating winter dates leisurely, and said slowly: "If you don't come to it, Concubine Tong is speechless, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother are angry, she will lose half her life if she doesn't die, the youngest daughter of the Tong family is not enough to enter the palace as a concubine, and I will be able to live in peace for a few years in the future." And for you, it is Concubine Tong Guifei who has been wronged, and if I don't die and lose half my life, if I am silent in the harem from now on, I can live in peace for several years. Virtuous people, all I ask for is a few years of An Ansheng's life. ”

"But ......"

"Those medicines can't kill people, aren't the princesses all right?" Concubine Wen threw down the jujube core and wiped her hands with the handkerchief on the side, it seemed that it was a little sticky and unclean, Lan Qi got off the kang and brought her a basin of water, Concubine Wen was stunned, and said while washing her hands, "Deguiren, you are a habit of serving people, or should you change it, fetch water and wash your hands, shouldn't you call the palace maids to come in?" ”

Lan Qi didn't care, or she was used to it in front of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, and said, "It's just a little thing." When he turned around to put down the basin, he heard Concubine Wen say behind him, "I said that it wouldn't harm you, how could it hurt the child in your belly, those things can't kill people and can't hurt the fetus, as for Guo Guiren's coquettish shouting that it's uncomfortable, you also know what happened last night, true or false, who knows what happened to her?" ”

Lan Qi came back and sat down, still frowning deeply, Concubine Wen is still younger than herself, how can she be so old, and her tone and expression are more shrewd than that of Queen Niu Hulu.

Concubine Wen took a piece of southern candy in the snack box to eat, seemed to be in a good mood and had a good appetite, and said slowly, "When I was a child, my family told me that in the future I would go to the palace to accompany my sister, to be the emperor's concubine, and to assist my sister's status in this harem. At that moment, I thought, this palace is absolutely not to come. ”

Lan Qi put away the needlework she had just done, and slowly listened to Concubine Wen say, "Do you know what life I lived before I entered the palace?" Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, I am a good man, and I have learned a belly of Han culture, just because my family says that the emperor likes Sinology. I thought that it would be better to eat fatter, and I would leave it in the primary election, but I only ate with an open stomach for two days, and my family noticed it, and then the meals were regular and quantitative every day, and I was not full or hungry every day, and I couldn't lose weight if I didn't get fat or lose weight. I only pretended to be weak, became silent, became cowardly and incompetent, and hoped that they would see that I was useless, but they still didn't let me go, and I couldn't get around the years, I grew from a little girl to a big girl, and I still entered the palace. ”

Lan Qi listened to it with a heavy heart, and then listened to Concubine Wen's sigh: "Except for the teaching master, except for the Ama brothers, except for a few crooked minions in the family and the male dependents who occasionally see them when they enter the palace for banquets, do you know, I have never spoken to any man in my life, guess why?" Because of the people in my family, I am afraid that I will see other men who are in love for the first time, and make some trouble. They guarded me like a thief, and prevented me from doing anything that would ruin my one day entering the palace as a concubine. Later, when I entered the palace, I thought that I had my sister on top anyway, and she was looking forward to me giving birth to a boy and a girl, so when I gave birth, I didn't have to worry about anything else, who knew my sister ......"

"Mother." Lan Qi spoke, Concubine Wen couldn't speak, and she also interrupted Concubine Wen's words, Xiao Niu Hulu sighed, smiled and asked, "What?" ”

"The concubine also knew since she was a child, she couldn't escape the life of being a slave in the palace, Ama Eniang didn't even dare to teach her to read and write, she was more than a teenager in white, and she couldn't read a few words when she saw the signboard on the street, and she entered the palace to be a palace maid, and the master was a blessing, but she met a vicious housekeeper, she was seriously ill and was tossed, and she had to be filial piety first, although the master was distressed, but her life was also very bad." Lan Qi turned out the past, but there was no sourness in her heart, for her, that experience seemed to really contribute to today's happiness, naturally what she wanted to say to Concubine Wen was more than that.

"You said that the incident was either you died or Concubine Tong was not alive, and the ultimate goal was just the day when you wanted to live in peace, but why did Concubine Niangniang sacrifice for these things?" Lan Qi's eyes became more and more quiet, as if sighing, "It's not easy for you, I'm just afraid that the concubine Niangniang can't help herself, the concubine is a palace maid, there are not so many complicated things, and you can't understand your so-called hardship, but the concubine understands that no matter how difficult she is, it is not a reason to harm others." If you didn't catch up with the concubine Niangniang in that incident, the concubine might still sympathize with you, but not only did you involve the concubine, but also made the princesses sick, even if you have died countless times today, just to seek relief, the concubine can't recognize that you are right to do this. ”

"Really?" Xiao Niu Hulu smiled coldly, and between his eyes and eyebrows, which had not yet fully grown, there was a confusion about what to do.

"There is no reason to forgive for doing evil and harming others." Lan Qi lowered her eyes and didn't look at Concubine Wen's face, "It's not the enemy who killed his father and destroyed the family, why is this so?" The concubine is outspoken, if there is any offense to the mother, please also ask you Haihan. ”

"yes, why not." Concubine Wen's smile took off her pride and contempt, became pure, and even the inappropriate heavy makeup became better, she stood up from the hot kang, took a piece of winter melon candy from the snack box, and said as easily as if she had put down her burden, "I came here just to talk to you about the reason, your heart is open, and I am relieved." As for the days to come, if I live in peace, I will naturally be fine, if I can't live in peace, I can only live in peace, and what can I do, but I keep these words in my heart and look forward to one day cultivating such a mind as you. ”

Lan Qi also got off the ground, ready to send Concubine Wen away, Concubine Wen pointed to the snacks in her box and said, "But Huanchun did it?" If you want, bother her to make some more and send them to Xianfu Palace, after being in the palace for so long, the first time she eats delicious, I can also put it out to entertain people during the New Year's Festival. ”

"The concubine remembered, let Huanchun send it to you another day." Lan Qifu was blessed, went to the door to open the curtain to call people in, and when Dongyun and a few people came to wrap Concubine Wen tightly with a coat and hood, and sent it all the way to the door, Concubine Wen asked her to stay, and said with a smile, "When will you come to Xianfu Palace to sit, you promised me to come and sit before, I can wait for it." ”

Lan Qi didn't say anything, sent Concubine Wen away, saw her figure disappear before breathing a sigh of relief, turned back to the house, saw the snacks and candies on the kang table, and asked Huanchun to prepare some more to send to Xianfu Palace, but Huanchun said: "These are not made by slaves, they were rewarded by the concubine Niangniang yesterday, Concubine Wen came suddenly, and the slave maid dismantled them and entertained them." ”

Lan Qi wondered: "Is the reward of Chengqian Palace different, Concubine Wen said that she hadn't eaten these, thinking that you made it and let me send some more." ”

Huanchun said while packing up his things: "The food sent by Xingqian Palace has been thrown away in Xianfu Palace, and of course Concubine Wen has not eaten it." ”

"Throw it away?"

Huan Chun smiled bitterly: "The world in your eyes is clear and beautiful, Concubine Wen and the people in Xianfu Palace are different." ”

Lan Qi understood, but corrected Huanchun with a smile and said: "The world in my eyes is not as clear as before, but it is still very beautiful, I feel chic when I see a dead leaf, and I rarely feel sad about spring and autumn, but long live your family, but I say that I have no heart and no lungs, and I can be angry when I think about it." ”

Huanchun saw her smile brightly, and when she mentioned the emperor, her eyes were full of light, and she was happy and funny, so she just cleaned up her things, and when she was busy stopping, Luzhu and a few people also came back from crazy play, and were scolded by Huanchun, and the four of them were kicked out to stand under the eaves, thinking that they could still be coquettish with their masters, but they didn't expect Lan Qi to lie at the window and laugh at them deserved.

waited for the Duan concubines to come back, and saw the four of them standing outside like candles, so cold that their eyes and noses were crowded together, so they let them come in to roast the fire, saying that Lan Qi would also toss people, but when Huan Chun said the reason, Duan Concubine couldn't help but be disgusted: "There are always people coming from time to time during the New Year's Festival, and there is not even a person around your master, what do others think of the rules of Zhong Cui Palace?" You can play with you during the New Year, but you have to be diligent in these days. ”

Luzhu didn't dare to talk back, for fear of angering Huanchun again, so they warmed up their bodies and dispersed to do things, here Duan Concubine and Bu Guiren talked about the Empress Dowager and Little Brother, Chunxi and Duanjing chattered and said that their younger brother was cute, and Duanjing also gestured and said: "My brother's arm is so thick, thicker than mine, he wet his mother to change his diaper, and I saw that his legs were circles of flesh." ”

Lan Qi smiled with crooked eyebrows, yesterday in the Wumen City upstairs nurse hugged, through the swaddling clothes can also touch the son's chubby body, it is not the day it was taken away, this child is growing up day and night, I am really afraid that I will not recognize it in a few days.

After that, Bu Guiren led the two daughters to wash their hands and change their clothes, and the concubine didn't leave, but asked Lan Qi: "What did Concubine Wen come to tell you?" Don't blame my sister for being troublesome, I still want to persuade you, Concubine Wen is like that, we can't afford to provoke her, she is so thoughtful, how can you and I compare? ”

Lan Qi also nodded again and again: "The concubine has a sense of proportion. ”

Concubine Duan knew that she was smart and no longer verbose, but she had to mention another thing, and sighed and said: "I just heard the people from Brother Wan's house in Cining Palace reply, Brother Wan Huang is not very good, and I don't know if it was caused by that incident, although the imperial doctors all said that it was a hidden disease." ”

"Since then, I have been saying that it is not good, and the doctors are saying this now, I am afraid that there are really not many days left." Thinking that there will be another little life in the palace that will soon die, Lan Qi, who is a first-time mother, feels more sad and pitiful than before, and is more worried about her own flesh and blood in Cining Palace, and also feels sorry for Xuan Ye who is going to lose a son again.

"When I rushed to Brother's office, the little princess was already out of breath." Recalling the past, Concubine Duan saw a sad look on her face again, "It's okay if I have a lot of things, I think if I can ask for grace, let Nala always accompany the little brother, but she still has one in her belly, and she doesn't know whether it is taboo or not, I'm afraid that if I say it, I will be blamed for a lot of things." ”

Lan Qi was kind-hearted, "The concubine will be able to go out in a few days, if she goes to Cining Palace, the concubine will find an opportunity to talk to Mama Suma." ”

Duan Concubine hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to pry you up, I really care if this matter is appropriate, after all, Nala is always pregnant in her stomach." ”

Lan Qi knew that Duan Concubine was not that kind of person, and she really felt sorry for Wan Huang's child, and didn't want him to end his short life alone in the elder brother's office, so she coaxed Duan Concubine and said: "Niangniang's mind and concubine understand, if you think about it too much, we will be bored." ”

Duan Concubine was relieved, and told her something about the child, and was taking the tiger head shoes to look at the needlework, and suddenly heard Duan Jing crying, and the villain cried and ran to throw herself into Duan Concubine's arms, saying that Eniang hit her palm, and when the cloth nobles led Chunxi over, she held Chunxi to show the two, and the little girl actually cut Chunxi's face in order to grab snacks with her sister.

Although Bu Guiren often favors his own daughter, he is not unreasonable and doting, this time he reprimanded Duan Jing with a tiger face, which scared the little princess to cry and make a fuss, Chunxi looked like a sister, and pulled Bu Guiren to say that she was fine.

Princess Chunxi is seven years old, if Concubine Duan's daughter is still there, it is also this age, and Chunxi is the daughter of Prince Gong after all, she doesn't look like Xuan Ye, and she can't be like Concubine Duan, although the sisters Rongxian and Duanjing are not the same mother, their eyes and eyebrows are similar, and they are usually not obvious, when the three children are together, the big sister is very different from the younger sisters.

Lan Qi is pampered by Duan Jing, and she is more distressed by Chunxi, the seven-year-old female doll is already sensible, she understands the mood of Duan Concubine, and she also cares that Duan Jing is the biological daughter of Bu Guiren, once when she was alone with Lan Qi, she quietly asked her if the aunts in Prince Gong's mansion would enter the palace during the festival.

It turned out that this child had always known that she was the county lord in the palace, and in her heart, there was also a pro-Eniang, but she told Lan Qi that the concubine was very good to herself, and she couldn't think about kissing her mother, and she hurt E-niang's heart, so she begged Lan Qi not to tell others, she just wanted to celebrate the festival, if the aunts of Prince Gong's mansion entered the palace, she could take a look from afar.

At this time, Duanjing was crying and making trouble, the little girl had a good temper, Bu Guiren was impatient and scared her to spank, and as a result, she cried even more heartbreakingly, Lan Qi's ears were about to be deafened, Duan Concubine could only take the child away, Bu Guiren thought about it and was reluctant to cry her daughter, and it didn't take long to go out.

Huanchun took the medicine box to wipe Chunxi's wounds, but there was a cut under his ear with a fingernail, and he couldn't see his hair covered it, Chunxi nestled quietly in Lanqi's arms, looking up from time to time at the place where his sister's cry came from, and he didn't know what he was longing for. If it was in the past, Lan Qi might not have guessed that she would also be a mother at this time, so I wondered if this child was envious of her sister having her own mother by her side.

Her heart moved, coaxing Chunxi to whisper a few words, the little girl's eyes lit up, and she looked at Lan Qi incredulously, she stretched out her hand to tick Chunxi, and said with a smile: "I can't tell others, otherwise there will be no next time, our Chunxi is the most sensible, right?" ”

The little girl's heart was overjoyed, she hugged Lan Qi and kissed her a few times, and soon went back to Duan Concubine, just waiting for Lan Qi to realize her wish.

After the whole day, Lan Qi was busy making tiger head shoes for the little brother, counting the fifteenth day of the lunar month to be able to put on his son in person, but he didn't feel that time passed, and he heard the melodious guqin of Chengqian Palace, only to realize that a day had passed, and Xuan Ye had probably come in front of him.

Huanchun knew that she was going to do needlework, and lit a lot of candles and oil lamps to illuminate the room, and saw Lan Qi listening to the guqin with her head up, and was just about to speak, when she suddenly heard a hideous loud sound of the piano, it stopped abruptly, and it shocked people's hearts.

"What's wrong?" Lan Qi muttered to herself, the needle in her hand was accidentally pricked between her fingers, the pain made her frown, biting her fingers and sucking the blood beads, Huan Chun came to hand over the needle and thread to do it again during the day tomorrow, she was not reluctant, but her heart was very hanging, and finally couldn't help it, the first time she took the initiative to let Huan Chun go to inquire about what happened in the Chengqian Palace, since she began to listen to Tong Guifei playing the piano, for so long, she can gradually hear the emotions in the piano, and the hideous sound made her very uneasy.

Huanchun was ordered to inquire, and when he came back after a while, he said magically: "How did you know that something was wrong?" The slave maid heard that the emperor was not here tonight, and the concubine was losing her temper, as if a little palace maid had made a mistake and was being punished. ”

Lan Qi sighed, but Huanchun's words really shocked her, she didn't expect Xuan Ye not to come to Chengqian Palace, but to Xianfu Palace, and complained for no reason: "Yesterday I said that I would go to Yikun Palace, but I came to Chengqian Palace, and today I suddenly left this side and ran to Xianfu Palace. ”

Huan Chun smiled: "You can't say this." ”

Lan Qi glared at her, and said angrily, "Then he did it?" ”

Huanchun leaned over and asked, "Are you jealous for the concubine, or are you sour in your heart?" ”

"No nonsense." The little nobleman threw the ball of thread in his hand at Huanchun and shouted, "Set the table quickly, I'm hungry." ”

Whether or not he is jealous, Lan Qi knows best in his heart, and if the emperor is not in Xianfu Palace in the next few days, it is in Yikun Palace, Chengqian Palace will naturally not be cold, and in seven or eight days, Concubine Tong, Concubine Wen and Concubine Yi will share the spring equally.

Rong Concubine and Hui Concubine have long had no capital to compete for, and the two of them are only responsible for the New Year's Festival in the palace, changing the previous Empress Niu Hulu who held all the rights but was not close to the emperor, and was favored by the low-ranking palace concubines, but now the people below are busy with the major affairs in the palace, and the top few are just pestering the emperor to invite favor.

The fifteenth day of the lunar month is in front of you in an instant, the noble people can finally go out, the sky is bright and dressed up to Cining Palace, when the queen mother has not gotten up, she and the palace maids are waiting outside, although the itching wants to go to the little brother's house to see, but dare not break the rules, honestly wait for the queen mother to get up and serve this side first, is waiting for a lot of boredom, the baby's cry suddenly came, and then the sound of the nursing mother patting, she only looked up to follow the sound to find the direction from the sound, there was movement in the dormitory, the queen mother got up.

I haven't seen the old man for a long time, Lan Qi Zhou Zhou is doing a big salute, and the Queen Mother doesn't want her to be busy with anything, she keeps holding hands and talking, letting her look carefully in a circle, the old man smiled and said: "It's very good, it seems that I don't have to worry about holding the two of you for three years." ”

The little nobleman blushed and was about to reply, when a group of people came in outside, the nurse was holding the little brother and was surrounded in the middle, and then the palace maid supported the salute, saying that the little brother asked the grandmother to say goodbye, and the queen mother saw Lan Qi's eyes shining, and pushed it with a smile and said: "Go and hug it, let the child recognize you, don't just remember the nurse." ”

Because Laba saw it on the city tower that day, Lan Qi didn't miss it and panicked, and when she hugged her son, she only felt that her arms were sinking, and the nurse smiled and said, "Little brother is growing again." ”

Lan Qi hugged over, and the nurse said hard, and the child to the Queen Mother, the old man every day of course is not unusual, let her go to the little brother's house, after most of the day did not come, only wait for lunch when the little brother fell asleep to come to serve, the Queen Mother asked her if she was too happy, Lan Qi frankly shook her head, said that she would not get tired of seeing it every day.

"Let Xuan Ye love you more, get pregnant with another one earlier, and when you are promoted to the concubine position, you can raise yourself by yourself, save yourself from arguing with me every day, you have to be patient and wait." The Empress Dowager would never say these words to the concubines bluntly in the past, that is, in the early years, when she wanted to use the Hui nobles at that time to balance the relationship between the concubines and let her take care of the Zhongcui Palace more, she also made a promise under the guise of Su Mala's mouth, but now she said these words to Lan Qi without scruples.

After waiting for the old man to rest in the afternoon, Lan Qi came to the little brother's house again, and then sat down and looked at the cradle for a while, and Mama Su Mala came in, smiled and flipped through a roster for her, pointed to a name and said, "The emperor and the empress dowager formulated a few days ago that they would typeset the prince's brother and the sons and daughters of the sect, and the princes and sons and daughters of the clan would have to change their names in the future." The little elder brother began to use the word 'Yin' in this life, and the name of our little elder brother was personally chosen by the Queen Mother, called Yinzhen. ”

"Yinzhen?" Lan Qi looked at these words and knew that it was her son's name, so she didn't have a reason to look good.

Mama smiled and said: "'Zhen', I am really blessed, isn't it your nobleman, your mother?" ”

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