"Long live the Lord just doesn't know what you're doing here, what's the matter." Huanchun didn't agree, hanging his head and muttering, "If the slave doesn't say it, you should let the Lord know the situation here, and if you know that you are sick, he will feel distressed." ”

Lan Qi was helpless, held her arm and said, "When this word is passed on, what should other people think?" I must say that I can't tolerate the Jue Chan clan, and I want to win back the emperor's heart, I don't care what others say, but I'm not in the palace, and those words don't have to reach the emperor's ears? Huanchun, you say, what does the emperor like about me? ”

Huanchun raised his head and looked at his master, speechless for a moment, Lan Qi continued: "I can have the blessings I have now, and I am content. I don't want to cause him any trouble in this life, even if I have hardships and grievances, I will endure it, he is a monarch and an emperor, and the whole world is his, not to mention one or two women? Of course I'm jealous, and I still complain in my heart, but I can't let others pass these words to the emperor, I can't let him guess and confuse him, whether I'm happy or wronged, I have to really put it in front of him, Huanchun, can you understand? ”

Huanchun nodded, as if it was an illness, and the people who recovered from the illness were more mature than before, or maybe it was the accumulation of bits and pieces over the years, and they didn't feel how they looked at it every day, but now they suddenly encountered something, and it was revealed.

Lan Qi's eyes were firm, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she calmly told Huanchun: "You go and tell Gonggong Li that I won't let him say it, and anything will be counted on me." First, don't let the emperor be distracted by the things here, let the emperor deal with the floods in the south of the Yangtze River with peace of mind, and second, you tell him, I just don't want to be chewed behind the back of other concubines, and now that the Jue Chan clan is favored, they themselves must be sorry for others to be bad, if they know that I am sick, maybe they are secretly happy, why let them be happy? ”

Huanchun wrote them down one by one, walked a few steps and called other palace maids to help the master go back, and waited until he went forward, and only after half an hour did he see Gonggong Li come out with a disgraced face, and when he saw her, his eyes were shining, and he hurried to ask: "Is the concubine good?" Huanchun, you girl is really good, why don't you find someone to pass the word back, so that I am not a person inside and out. ”

Huanchun hurriedly said all the words of the master, Gonggong Li was obviously a little embarrassed, Huanchun said: "I will return to the palace in a few days, you will take care of these days, the slaves and maids here will be fine if they serve well, the emperor's disaster relief is important, and when the floods in the south of the Yangtze River have passed, we will also return to the palace, what do you have to say to the concubine Niangniang herself and the emperor, the queen mother wants to be angry and has her own reason for their ancestors and grandchildren to speak, let's intervene in the middle to pass the word, what's going on?" ”

Mr. Li was a little shaken at this time, and Huanchun persuaded a few words, and couldn't help complaining: "Gonggong Li, you are really, you always say that your heart is towards my family's concubine Niangniang, how long has you been out of the palace, what kind of Zen is always there, and it is a shame that the concubine in the palace has not made trouble with you?" ”

Gonggong Li was trained by the Empress Dowager to be bloody, and Huanchun was allowed to squeeze him, and he glared with grinning teeth and said, "Little hooves, you can't step on it?" Over the years, you have seen who I sent to the Qianqing Palace, long live the lord but if you don't take a look, even if people wipe their necks in front of the Qianqing Palace, I won't raise your eyes, do you have the ability to use this to greet the long live lord, and tell me, count you loyal? Little girl, go back and coax the concubine Niangniang is serious, Jue Zen is often beautiful in the United States, and the temperament is not likable, how can we have no respect for a beautiful face? You'll find out when you come back. ”

Huan Chun felt a thrill in his heart, and asked with a smile: "In this way, the emperor's grace to Juechan is not enough?" ”

Father-in-law Li glanced at her: "Who knows what kind of situation I will be in this time?" You are serious about serving the concubine Niangniang, good and decent, the Queen Mother has not seen the rain pounced, but the concubine Niangniang fell ill first, it's not that you don't serve your heart, wait for me to go back and clean you up. ”

Huanchun was bored, and he didn't dare to talk more, smiled and coaxed a few words, and emphasized that he should go back and don't say anything, Gonggong Li rested for a while and immediately set off to return to the palace, and pondered these things carefully along the way, and his heart was still wavering, but when he returned to the palace, he saw that the ministers came and went frequently, and the emperor was worried about the disaster in Jiangnan, so he made up his mind not to mention the things in the palace.

And said that a few days ago, the capital rained for days, and the south of the Yangtze River was even worse, and the eight hundred miles of urgent folds were sent up, only to say that Suzhou was flooded and plagued, Jiangyin rainstormed and accumulated, Gaoyou did not stop for several days, Wuxi flooded Huishan, the city walls in the south of the Yangtze River collapsed, the houses were submerged, the seedlings were flooded, the autumn harvest could not be counted, the casualties of the people were incalculable, the rich township was full of victims, and Xuan Ye's eyebrows were deeply sealed, and he only worked with the ministers every day to deal with the disaster relief, and the officials of the six ministries were not allowed to rest, and the lights in the Qianqing Palace were bright, and it took four or five days to preliminarily formulate disaster relief matters.

And this disaster relief is so hasty, all because I thought that after the Gyeonggi earthquake in the old year, the imperial court groped out a set of disaster relief measures, and when preparing for the flood before the summer, I wanted to use last year's method to countermeasure the possible disasters this year, who would have thought that the flood in the south of the Yangtze River had not been encountered in a hundred years, and the old year's method could not keep up with the extent of the people's disaster, so that a group of ministers were in a hurry, but fortunately, the treasury still had silver and two reliefs, although they were busy day and night for more than ten days, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But after this incident, Xuan Ye had an epiphany of the way of being prepared for danger in times of peace, blaming himself for being too high and indulging in pleasure, and after the initial decision of the three feudatories, he relaxed his spirit, and his momentary negligence caused thousands of people to suffer, and led hundreds of civil and military officials to pray at the Temple of Heaven After praying, he often thought about it in the Qianqing Palace, or talked to the minister, and did not enter the harem for the whole June, and the green head card of the Internal Affairs Office was stopped and accumulated a layer of dust, and in the blink of an eye, it was July, and Concubine Tong mentioned it to the emperor under the reminder of Rong Concubine, and asked when to welcome the Empress Dowager back to the palace.

In the harem, after the favor of the Juezen family, the court suffered a catastrophe, although it was not to attribute the sin to her, but the emperor was so busy that she was too busy to have time, she was forgotten in that quiet corner after a few days, and a curious concubine came to visit, and came back to say that her attitude was cold and not good at words, and it was not interesting to go, and gradually no one came to the door again, and she really fulfilled her wish, and she could live a clean life from now on.

Everyone also said that if it weren't for this disaster, if she was favored like this, Concubine Tong in the Chengqian Palace would not be able to sit still, Concubine Tong couldn't even tolerate the concubines who were not as beautiful as her in the past, how could she tolerate such a beautiful woman, and everyone who had carefully looked at the Juechan clan said that she was indeed a real beauty.

In the courtyard where I haven't seen guests for a long time, Hui Concubine Niangniang brought the palace maid to visit, Jue Chan greeted her in the door, Hui Concubine didn't have time to sit, first stood and looked at her carefully, and sighed: "I still remember clearly what the little girl in the sewing room looked like, the eighteen changes of the female college are really different, you are a natural beauty, I believe what Mrs. Mingzhu said, your mother is also a beauty." ”

Praise the beautiful words, Jue Chan is tired of listening, it doesn't matter if other people come to sit idle, love comes to sit or not, only Hui Concubine, she is a guest who has been waiting for her to linger in the Qianqing Palace for several days, and she often waits for a guest after being promoted, she knows that Hui Concubine will not give up easily, and it was a lively time before, she has no good opportunity to intervene, and now for the sake of disaster relief in the imperial court, the emperor is gradually indifferent to himself, Hui Concubine is time to come.

Xianghe served tea, and Concubine Hui asked her and her palace maids to wait outside the door, and after drinking tea, she went straight to the point and said: "The emperor is busy these days, and he can't remember anything in the harem, but the things ahead are almost the same, anyway, there are four seasons of disasters every year, the emperor can't keep an eye on it all the time, the queen mother will return to the palace in a few days, you should go to the Qianqing Palace these days to show your face, don't let the emperor forget you." This place is too secluded, why don't you ask for a grace and move to the East and West Six Palaces to find a good place for feng shui? ”

Jue Chan smiled: "Niangniang has not yet lived in the six palaces of the east and west, how dare the concubine look at the face of the pillow, thank you Niangniang for her kindness, the concubine is very good here." ”

"Although I am not in the East and West Sixth Palace, I also live in a lively place, but you are too remote here." Concubine Hui smiled awkwardly, now she and Concubine Rong have not yet moved into the East and West Sixth Palace, although they are already the lords of the first palace, but because they have their own courtyards and live alone in the early years, probably because the emperor saw that they lived well and did not move the idea of moving, it is not good to say, the two of them will never have any chance to add heirs, and they do not need a more spacious place. But not being able to master a palace has always been an uncomfortable knot in Concubine Hui's heart, and at this time, Jue Chan said it without taboo, and there was inevitably another layer of disgust for her in her heart.

But disgust is disgust, for Hui Concubine, the person who is worth using is not like or dislike, in her eyes there is no difference between a bloodless tool, so she said: "It may not be difficult to live in obscurity, I am afraid that if you are favored and lonely in a blink of an eye, someone will come to step on it, and that kind of day is really terrible and difficult." I advise you to have a snack, you don't have to let the emperor favor the sky, but with your appearance and appearance, it is easy for the emperor to think about it from time to time, you used to be like a childhood sweetheart, he is the first talent in front of the emperor, there must be a lot of ink in your stomach, I know that you will read and write before entering the palace to be a palace maid, the emperor used to like the concubine, and when he saw the sky pulling her to write and read, you must be much smarter and more capable than her, why not make good use of it? ”

Juechan slowly raised his eyes and looked at Concubine Hui, and smiled coldly: "The concubines have forgotten." ”

I have forgotten, those years, under the willows before the flowers, the good times have been forgotten, she is a female stream but full of poetry and books, Rong Ruo led her to see the world, she was praised for her talent at a young age, but she is a little girl after all, the family just thinks it is fresh and interesting, because she does not delay the needle girl red, and is willing to attach to the Pearl Mansion, so she follows Rong Ruo's poetry against her, just as a child playing. And when the family road falls, the tree falls and scatters, who still cares if she has ever studied.

"The concubines were transferred from the hard labor to the needlework room, and then followed the nobles of Nala and then to the Yikun Palace, and they were only accompanied by needles all these years." She took the unsewn purse on the side, rubbed the needle in the bun slightly, her fingertips did not stop, and she continued to say, "The concubine can't even write a gift list now, let alone how to hold a pen and polish ink. ”

Hui Concubine was choked on this sentence again, her stomach was full of unhappiness, and she snorted coldly: "I'm for your good." ”

Jue Chan put down the needle and thread in his hand, raised his eyes and smiled: "Niangniang is good for herself, the concubine is waiting for you to come, looking forward to the neck is sore, I think I am lowly and dare not come to the door, but I look forward to you coming back, so that I can make my words clear." The concubine only has this face, the heart is empty, and the soul doesn't know where to go, but it's just a walking corpse, you and other ladies look at the concubine's good life in the Qianqing Palace, how are the concubines and the emperor, do you want to hear it? ”

"What are you talking about, asking me about your bed?" Concubine Hui was angry, and when her eyebrows were tangled, a fine line appeared at the corner of her eye.

Jue Chan shook his head: "You misunderstood, the concubine wants to say that the emperor and the concubine are just the grace of rain and dew, don't say that the concubine doesn't want to be used by you, even if she is willing to do something for you, she can't help." You have been with Wan Sui Ye for more than ten years, don't you understand the meaning of these words of the concubine? ”

How could Concubine Hui not understand, but she was unwilling, even if the grace of rain and dew was better than that she couldn't even enter the door of Qianqing Palace now, but this woman said so bluntly, what is not used, what is not willing to be used...... The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, Concubine Hui got up suddenly, made a gesture to leave, and then took a step, and then turned back to her and said, "You also know, I have been in this palace for more than ten years, and you think that by saying these few words, you can escape my mercy?" Let's just wait and see, if you have the ability, you can mix up like a concubine to be on an equal footing with me, otherwise, ......"

Jue Chan also got up and looked at her with a smile: "What does the concubine have to manipulate you, if you want to use the past to make the concubine comply, it's a big deal, and you can't get out of it." Or, do you want your concubines to persuade the emperor to summon you to bed, or do you want your concubines to assassinate the emperor? ”

"You're crazy!" Concubine Hui was shocked, her whole body trembled, and she almost reached out to grab her collar, but in the end she calmed down and gasped heavily, "The days in the palace are still long, you boil slowly." ”

The two sides parted unhappily, and the concubine Hui, who had always been stable and generous, walked out angrily, and the fragrant lotus outside was so frightened that she didn't dare to raise her head, and only waited for someone to go away and close the courtyard door before coming back to look at her master, and asked with concern: "Concubine Hui is embarrassed by you?" ”

Jue Chan shook his head and smiled: "What else can she embarrass me?" But before the words fell, I felt a depression in my chest, my stomach turned over the river and the sea, the heat was surging, I turned around and fell on the table and vomited, and I vomited so much that I searched my intestines and scraped my belly, and when I was quiet, I was crooked on the bed, listening to Xianghe say that I was going to ask for a doctor, Jue Chan's fingers were slightly calculated, and my whole body was tight, her monthly letter, since the beginning of May......

In the Qianqing Palace, Xuan Ye, who has been busy for months, rarely breathes a sigh of relief, a few days ago, the concubine came to ask when to welcome the Empress Dowager back to the palace, and today she summoned her brother in, wanting him to pick him up, at this moment Fu Quan entered the Qianqing Palace, and before he sat down to see Gonggong Li come in, he said: "You go to the Tai Hospital to pack some high-grade blood swallows and let people take them to the palace." ”

Xuan Yeqi said: "I just want the imperial brother to pick up the imperial grandmother back to the palace, why do you have to send things again?" The imperial grandmother wants to enter the blood swallow? ”

Fuquan was even more strange, and said: "A few days ago, I sent a letter back to ask how my family was doing, and I also asked if there were any ready-made blood swallows to send some over, saying that Concubine De's cough and asthma have not been good, so let me send it to my mother." Some of the ministers have already taken it, and when they entered the palace just now and saw the medicinal materials in the Tai Hospital, they remembered this matter, and thought that the palace must be better, so they came to remind me, doesn't the emperor know? ”

Xuan Ye frowned, and his eyes turned to Manager Li: "When is Concubine De coughing and wheezing?" The day before yesterday, I asked you where you were in the palace, and I didn't see you say anything, did I ask you in front of you? The imperial sister-in-law writes a letter to her family? ”

Fuquan sat down, drank tea and said, "It's been seven or eight days here, isn't it a matter of May when Concubine De Niangniang is sick?" The emperor doesn't know? After speaking, he looked up and saw Gonggong Li lying on the ground, shaking like chaff, and he smiled, "Gonggong Li, what's wrong?" ”

Fuquan and Xuanye have become monarchs and ministers, and they have never seen him so angry, but he never expected that it would be for a woman, and Manager Li did pass, this is due to the illness of the concubine, if the empress dowager is sick, he conceals it and does not report it, but I am afraid that if he does not wait for him to walk out of the Qianqing Gate, Gonggong Li will be in a different place, and Fuquan himself is also very worried, I don't know if he said the wrong thing and caused trouble, and then saw that the emperor was okay to find him, so he quickly slipped away.

As for Manager Li, fortunately, he has been by Xuan Ye's side for many years, although Xuan Ye is angry, he will not want his life, and after listening to Gonggong Li explain the matter, he is just sulking. Gonggong Li waited outside the door with fear, until sunset and dusk, when someone from Chengqian Palace asked the emperor if he could not have dinner tonight, he came in hard, but saw that the emperor was standing in front of the table and looked at the folds, pointed to a bunch of approved pieces and a bunch of unseen ones and said: "These are returned, these are packed and put away, you go to pass the decree, I will leave the palace tomorrow to welcome the Empress Dowager back to the palace, there is no need to be too extravagant, don't send the news over for the time being, the imperial grandmother will definitely send someone to stop me." ”

Gonggong Li's heart finally put it back into his stomach properly, and he quickly packed up his folds, thinking in his heart, the emperor probably didn't go to pick up his grandmother home, but to visit the sick concubine. He came back from the palace, the emperor did ask a few times if it was good, he said that he believed it, and the court was too busy, the Qianqing Palace had not turned off the lights for three or four days, if the emperor was blamed for the new favorite beauty, he could say a few words, and the days after that could not even enter the harem, it was because he was too busy. I don't know what the palace thinks of these, since Prince Yu Fujin has asked for things at home, it can be seen that this disease has not been cured.

"After I arrive in the garden, don't alarm the people inside, at least don't let Lan Qi know that I have passed, I want to go and see her, I may not take people back, or it is clean there to recuperate, but she has a fever that lingers for more than a month, what are the doctors doing?" When he set off the next day, the emperor finally said what he thought in his heart, and scolded him again and again, "Go to the Tai Hospital and bring a few Tai Doctors away, and all the people who served there will be brought back to ask for their guilt." ”

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