Fang Shanggong raised his head in some surprise: "The princess went to the Changning Palace?" ”

Qinghe nodded slightly. 8].]

Fang Shanggong didn't ask anything more, just pondered for a while and said, "Got it." ”

After Qinghe left, Fang Shanggong couldn't concentrate on the work at hand, she hung up the half-picked thread in her hand, and slowly walked to the window.

It was almost evening, and the sky was overcast, and if the lamp was not turned on, the room would already be dark. Looking out of the window, you can see several palace people passing by the corridor at the end of the courtyard, they are wearing green palace clothes, combing in the same style, even the weight of the steps are different, holding boxes and other things in their hands, light and calm through the corridor, disappearing from the vision of Fang Shang Palace.

A drop of rain fell.

Fang Shanggong looked up, and there were two swallows flying by in the dark sky, probably because of the rain and rushing home.

Fang Shanggong looked at the direction where the two swallows flew and was slightly distracted.

In such weather, birds generally do not come out to forage, the weather is cloudy or sunny, and birds are far more well-informed than people. But counting the days, the swallows fly in the spring, build nests and settle down, multiply, and now there must be more than one mouth in the nest to eat. To raise chicks, even in such weather, you have to fly out in the rain to find food.

Whether it's a person or a bird, it's all the same.

Xie Ning held Xia Yue and Xia Hong's hands, slowly moved out of the hall gate, and paced back and forth under the corridor.

Hu Rongzheng led the two little eunuchs to light up the lanterns under the corridor one by one. Seeing Xie Ning coming, the two little eunuchs hurriedly avoided the side and knelt down to salute.

Shainin motioned for them to do their jobs.

Hu Rong was okay, and the two little eunuchs were trembling and walking on thin ice.

When Xia Hong saw that they had hung a lamp a few times and didn't hang it back, she couldn't help it, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Get up, I'll come." ”

Look at the two little eunuchs' trembling appearances, they are almost like two quails frightened by the thunder outside.

Xia Hong hung the lantern with a long pole, and Xie Ning sat on the round bench by the railing, looking up slightly at her busy work. The shadow of the lamp swayed, and the rain outside the corridor was like a pale silver silk thread, dragging out a vague afterimage in the eye.

Xia Hong hung up the lamps closest to Xie Ning, then handed the long pole back to Hu Rong, and said with a smile: "Okay, you can do the rest yourself." ”

Hu Rong smiled and said, "There is Sister Lao, go back and invite my sister to tea." ”

In fact, the two little eunuchs were either clumsy, or timid in front of the concubine. When they went to hang the lantern at the end of the cloister, they became nimble and calm again.

Far away, the emperor saw Xie Ning sitting on the railing of the cloister, looking up at the rain curtain outside. The dim glow of the lantern overhead shone on her. Xie Ning leaned against the pillar, narrowed his eyes slightly, and protected his increasingly heavy stomach with one hand.

There was a mesmerizing tranquility on her face, and when you looked at her like this, you could feel that her thoughts were not in this place, but in a more distant, quieter place.

The emperor stood at one end of the cloister and watched her quietly, until Xie Ning saw his arrival, turned his head and showed a gentle smile.

"How are you sitting here?"

Xie Ning held his hand and slowly stood up, and couldn't help but glance behind the emperor: "Yu Yao? ”

Princess Yuyao slowly poked her head out from behind the emperor, and she could see that she had washed her face and combed her hair again in the past half a day, and her clothes had changed. None of this could hide her swollen eyes and red nose.

Yu Yao slowly walked over and snuggled up to Xie Ning's side. Because Xie Ning was about to give birth, Princess Yuyao felt frightened when she looked at her belly, for fear that her big watermelon-like belly would crack if she touched her, so she was careful every time she touched Xie Ning.

In the afternoon, she cried happily, and now she was in a trance, dazed, and didn't even have the strength to say a word. Even now her steps seemed vain, step by step as if she were stepping on a pile of cotton.

Xie Ning glanced at the emperor, and then lowered his head to look at Yu Yao.

It seemed that no one was going to tell her what was going on for a moment.

Xie Ning asked Yu Yao softly: "Dinner will be half an hour younger, are you hungry at this time?" What do you want to eat? ”

Princess Yuyao thought for a while: "Lotus seed soup." Her voice was hoarse and low, and she couldn't hear what she was saying unless she was careful.

"Lotus seed soup? Okay, I guess there's something ready in the dining room. ”

Princess Yuyao also added: "Don't be icy, be hot." ”

Shainin responded: "Okay, it should be hot." ”

The emperor followed them and entered the palace gate: "Let them send an extra bowl, I want to eat it too." ”

Such weather is said to be the average person who eats something hot? Even if you can't afford to use ice, you will eat food, melons and fruits in the well water before eating.

Princess Yuyao is usually afraid of heat, afraid that her stomach can't stand it when she is young, and she doesn't dare to let her eat anything with ice. Today, she herself changed her temperament and wanted to eat hot soup, which made Xie Ning feel relieved on the one hand, but of course strange on the other.

She knew that Princess Yuyao had gone to Changning Palace, but what she said to the emperor's father and daughter, Xie Ning could only vaguely guess a few points.

The lotus seed soup was quickly delivered, one bowl per person. Princess Yuyao washed her hands, and she didn't need to be fed by others, she held the bowl and drank it while blowing.

As soon as the sweet and glutinous hot lotus seed soup was swallowed, the sweat on his body was forced out by the hot soup. But Yu Yao, who usually doesn't want to eat a mouthful of hot food, seems to be not afraid of heat at all, swallowing one bite after another, sweat beads trickle down from top to bottom, gathering to the tip of her nose and chin, turning into large crystal beads of sweat.

Xie Ning carefully wiped her sweat and instructed softly: "Don't choke when you eat slowly, just take a few bites and pad first, eat too much, and you won't eat dinner again." ”

The emperor also ate a bowl of lotus seed soup that he usually doesn't like very much.

The lotus seed soup is sweet and sticky, and the emperor has always never touched it, whether it is hot or cold. But when I ate such a bowl of sweet soup at this time, I felt that the hot soup that slipped down my stomach quickly warmed my empty and hungry stomach, and also made up for the mental energy consumed by facing Princess Yuyao for half a day.

Xie Ning also accompanied him to eat a small half bowl. She doesn't eat much now, her stomach is too heavy, and the closer she gets to give birth, she will inevitably feel a little panicked. I can't sleep well at night, one is because of the heat, and the other is because of the heavy body and panic. During the day, she couldn't eat sweetly, and her food and appetite became very poor, but fortunately, she was calm and did not feel uneasy all day long.

A bowl of lotus seed soup made Princess Yuyao's spirit much better.