"When did she really get proud? It's just playing tricks in front of you, from the time I was young to now, I have seen the so-called favorite concubine, never like her, they all say that I am partial to her, but I don't really like it after a few years of cold eyes, at that time Su Mala said that she was good, and I was very calm and said that it was not pretended. When the Empress Dowager talked about Lan Qi, her heart was warm, her face was full of love, and she smiled at Xuan Ye, "With her by the imperial grandmother's side, you can rest assured that you are busy in the previous dynasty, and among the grandchildren and daughters-in-law, only she is the best." ”

Of course, Xuan Ye was happy, and after a few words of gossip, Mama Su Mala brought someone from the Tai Hospital to tell her, saying that the delivery room had been arranged in Xianfu Palace, and the emperor was asked not to go to Xianfu Palace in the near future.

Speaking of this person, the Empress Dowager said: "This Juechan Clan's appearance is too enchanting, I don't like it, don't blame the emperor's grandmother for being verbose, you have to be measured in your heart." ”

Xuan Ye was indifferent, and only said: "Imperial grandmother rest assured." ”

In a blink of an eye, the fifth day of February is Yinzuo's birthday, because the third year of the Empress Niu Hulu is about to be memorialized, and the banquet in the New Year Festival costs a lot of silver, and the Queen Mother did not give the fifth elder brother Yinqi a banquet, Lan Qi resigned the kindness of the Queen Mother, and did not give her son a big first birthday banquet, but took Yinzuo to Cining Palace early in the morning to kowtow to the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother.

The little guy is now swaying and can walk a few steps, strong and healthy, when the old year and today are dystocia, everyone is sweating for the mother and son, a year has passed in the blink of an eye, the child grows up the better, the queen mother is ten minutes of love, said that when Yinzuo grows up again, she will teach herself.

The queen mother is because the fifth elder brother and the sixth elder brother are of the same age, and they like to put them together, they are all tiger-headed and chubby, Yinzuo also looks better, and the little brother is together, looking like twins, and today she also gave Yinzuo a great reward, and Lan Qi said: "I look forward to them growing up, and in the future, they will go to the study together to study and practice martial arts together, and they must be the most affectionate among the brothers." ”

After saying a few words affectionately, Lan Qi was about to leave with the child, although she was not extravagant about the banquet, Yonghe Palace still prepared a banquet to invite all palaces to gather, and the concubines and concubines asked her to beg for wine and eat in the first month.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager did not leave her, and waited for Lan Qi to return to Yonghe Palace with the child in her arms, before she changed her clothes for Yinzuo, and heard Yinzhen's voice ringing in the yard, shouting "De Niangniang" in a milky voice, put down Yinzuo and came out to see, the little guy was dressed in auspicious clothes, holding a new cloth tiger in his hand, no longer a strange look before, as soon as he saw her, he staggered over and let Lan Qi hug, waved the cloth tiger and said: "To my brother, cloth tiger to my brother." ”

Lan Qi came in with him, Yinzuo was excited when he saw his brother, Yinzhen stuffed the cloth tiger to him, and said proudly: "E-niang made it, give it to my brother." ”

Yinzhen's attendant nurses and mothers also followed up, and put down the formal congratulatory gifts, saying that it was a congratulatory gift for the sixth elder brother to be rewarded by the concubine Niangniang, Lan Qi thanked her, and said that the concubine let the fourth elder brother play here for a day, and then come to pick up in the afternoon, Lan Qi said that she should go and invite the concubine to come and sit, and the nurse smiled embarrassedly: "Niangniang, she is uncomfortable, and said that she will also invite the concubine Niangniang to go over and sit another day." ”

"It's fine." Lan Qi didn't dare to be reluctant, turned around to take care of her two sons, and soon Rong Concubine Duan Concubine came together, and even Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi arrived, all of which were polite on the scene, giving face to Yonghe Palace, and naturally to the Empress Dowager and the emperor.

And the women get together, inevitably talk about some gossip, the current meal has not been set, the children are playing in Yinzuo's house, everyone sits around drinking tea and eating snacks, and those who are in a hurry are going to cause some trouble, good things such as An Guiren and the like, now the status is not up or down, and there is no taboo to speak, and the taste of Yi Concubine is lucky and blessed by misfortune, seeing that she is also here today, someone said sourly: "Why didn't the fifth elder brother come, and the concubine didn't ask the queen mother to send the fifth elder brother to the brothers and sisters to get together?" ”

On the side, Yi Concubine's face really changed, she lowered her head and pinched the big pomegranate in her hand, making her hands full of red juice, Hui Concubine was sitting next to her, and persuaded softly: "There is always a broken mouth, what about her?" ”

And Lan Qi was the one who was asked, so she couldn't help but respond, and smiled perfunctorily: "When I went to invite An, the fifth elder brother was in Cining Palace, but when I was leaving, the child fell asleep, and the queen mother said that the fifth elder brother didn't sleep well last night, and he couldn't be greedy for fun today, so he didn't let him come." As soon as he diverted the topic, he called Huanchun to change tea, saying that the emperor knew that she was feasting guests today, gave her good tea and water, and invited the sisters to taste it, everyone knew that Concubine De was waiting for tea in Cining Palace in her early years to please her, and now it is rare to be able to drink her cup of tea.

In order to make fun, the tea stove was placed in the hall, and we watched her serve the tea set and cook tea, talking and laughing diluted the embarrassment just now, but when the tea was about to be ready, Ziyu hurriedly came in, and said with an inexplicable face: "Niangniang, Guo Guiren has arrived, and he said that he came to congratulate the sixth elder brother." ”

Lan Qi didn't think much about it for a while, just smiled and said, "Please." But I heard someone on the side say quietly, "Long live the Lord and let Guo Guiren go out?" ”

Some people even asked: "Yi Concubine Niangniang, has the emperor relented?" ”

Everyone looked at Yi Concubine together, her face was full of embarrassment, at least there was no such thing before she went out, maybe the emperor suddenly relented at this time, but this was too coincidental, she didn't believe it.

But the people of Yonghe Palace had already gone to greet him, and when he saw Guo Guiren coming in, the originally glamorous and beautiful person had lost a few laps of weight and had a withered face, and even more inappropriately put on heavy makeup, scarlet lips, and miserable white skin, everyone was taken aback, and An Guiren even said: "Sister Guo, what's the matter, it makes people panic." ”

Lan Qi was hospitable and asked Huanchun to arrange a seat for her, but the little palace maid brought a chair, but saw An Guiren pulling a few Chang Zai to agree and said, "Put the chair here, our palace should be concubine Niangniang and Guo Guiren are sisters, of course sisters sit together." He deliberately said, "Seeing that Concubine Yi Niangniang came alone, I thought that Guo Gui was not in good shape and didn't go out, Niangniang is really, isn't it better for you to wait for the girl to come together?" ”

On the side, Concubine Hui glared at them a few times, and said, "Concubine Yi looked at the embroidery at my place early in the morning, not from Yikun Palace." ”

An Guiren was obviously not convinced, she couldn't be rude to Concubine Hui, and after eating Guo Guiren, she asked her with a smile without any scruples: "Did the emperor order to revoke my sister's grounding order?" My sister can't disobey the holy decree for the sake of He Xide's concubine. ”

Even Yi Concubine asked: "An Guiren is right, if not, you can go back if you say goodbye, otherwise it will be the fault of Concubine De." ”

Guo Guiren glanced at her coldly, his eyes were dead and silent, his chapped but thick rouge lips squirmed, and he said gloomily: "Naturally, it was ordered by the emperor, the emperor said that today is a good day for the sixth elder brother, and the concubines should also come to join in the fun, doesn't the mother like to see the concubines go out?" ”

Yi Concubine was choked by her, and she didn't speak, but An Guiren laughed on the side: "What do you say, sister...... Look at the enemy. ”

"An Guiren, this palace wants to go and see if the princesses are bullying their younger brothers, are you going?" Duan Concubine got up and left her seat, glanced at An Guiren, and took this mouth away without any hindrance.

Out of the door, Duan Concubine pulled An Gui and said, "We were all in the palace in the early years, don't blame me for not reminding you, what does Concubine Yi really want to do with you, what can you do?" People have a higher position than you, you are happy for a while, she doesn't care about being generous, if you have to treat your crimes, how many years of face in the palace are gone, why do you bother? Don't say anything else, just look at Guo Guiren's abuse of the Juechan clan and his grounding, you once abused Dai Jia's clan, if you count the old accounts, you won't be able to eat and walk around. ”

An Guiren was very unconvinced, squeezed his eyebrows and muttered a few words, and suddenly another spirit was excited, pulling Duan Concubine and said: "Sister, don't blame me for being troublesome, it's really not that I have to say this, it was my palace maid who bumped into me when she went to the Tai Hospital to get me medicine, saying that Yikun Palace was looking for someone to get medicine in the Tai Hospital, and I don't know what medicine I took, and I don't know who I gave it to." ”

Duan Concubine was puzzled, "Everything in the hospital must be known through Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui, I haven't heard Sister Rong mention anything strange." ”

An Guiren was still a little excited, and said softly: "What about Concubine Hui?" There is no one more red and white than her, these days Yi Concubine is favored, she is about to step on the threshold of Yikun Palace, maybe what is Hui Concubine Niangniang knows, Rong Concubine Niangniang is negligent here? ”

"Okay, okay, we don't have a director, don't mix blindly, you have to listen to what I advise you, now the palace is not the time when there were few people in the past, you don't care about your mouth, this time I can pull you out, and the next time I don't know who will slap you, their young nature is not as bearable as ours." Duan Concubine sighed and said, "I only helped you this time, and as for those words just now, I didn't hear them." ”

An Guiren is the most timid and afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard, was frightened by the concubine's words, and no longer dared to talk nonsense, followed to take a few glances at the children, and then returned to the main hall, already about to set up a table for dinner.

Although Lan Qi himself rarely does such a lively thing, he has helped a lot in Cining Palace, and he is also a good one, and he has set up two tables of banquets in the palace properly, not extravagant or shabby. Xuan Ye also personally came to give her five hundred taels of silver a few days ago, Lan Qi stretched out her hand to ask for more, saying that it was not easy for her to raise a son now, and she was reprimanded by Xuan Ye for being insatiable, but after a few days, she sent someone to tell her not to be too shabby when she had a treat, and not enough money to spend on him.

These boudoir whispers naturally can't be said to outsiders, today is still a decent meal, the guests and hosts are happy, after the banquet is dispersed, they go back, only Rong Concubine Duan Concubine still stays to speak, Bu Guiren and Dai Chang are going to coax the children to take a nap, the three of them are resting in the warm pavilion, they all drank some wine, and the blush on their faces has not dissipated.

In fact, Concubine Rong ate a few more glasses of wine, and wanted to go back to rest, but was left by Concubine Duan to say that she had something to say, and at this time, after serving tea in Huanchun, she took people to withdraw, and the three of them sat down, Lan Qi poured tea for them, and listened to Concubine Rong ask: "What do you want to say?" ”

Lan Qi didn't know the reason for this, and when she looked up, she heard Duan Concubine start to say what An Guiren told her, she frowned and said: "You have also seen the appearance of Guo Guiren, how can this look be done without inviting a doctor, but they obviously don't invite a doctor, why did they secretly go to get the medicine again, and what kind of medicine did they take?" ”

Concubine Rong was obviously unhappy, holding a cup of tea in her hand and only smelling the taste and not drinking it, it took a long time to drink it, and said coldly: "I and Director Hui Concubine, she has always picked meritorious things to do, and it doesn't make much sense to say it, I don't want to offend her, and I don't want to turn my face, I want to work harder, but I don't know that she still has something to do with me?" Thinking about it, there must be, since the emperor took the Juechan clan to Xianfu Palace, and later regained favor with Yi Concubine, she has been too lazy to take care of me, some days, if it is what An Guiren said in recent days, it is not strange. ”

Lan Qi seemed to be distracted from serving the tea set, but in fact, she had already thought about these words in her head several times, thinking about what Xuan Ye told her about the behavior of the Hesheri clan on the night of the Lantern Festival, sure enough, she was not wrong, it was indeed a hand that reached in from outside the palace, and they could reach out to the inner palace to do things like the sky, and even at the expense of poisoning the eldest prince and trapping the concubine in injustice, so what should the people in the palace do, it is even easier, but Lan Qi can't accept it, and their sisters will also kill each other?

Listen to Concubine Rong sneering: "Since it is Yikun Palace who makes medicine for her sister to eat, what do we worry about, she is so cold-blooded and ruthless, if we interfere, the fangs are poisonous, and she may bite back." This Yi Concubine is really powerful, she looks like a very good person, but she is so vicious in her heart? That's her own sister. ”

Duan Concubine Youyou said: "It's her own sister who caused her to be hated by the emperor, and now she finally turned over, how can she still be by her side by this scourge?" Let's take a look, the emperor pardoned her for the sixth elder brother today, and in a few days it will be rumored that she is not in good health, and she will not go out again. I saw that the two sisters were talking about the posture just now, and the concubine wanted to get rid of it quickly. ”

Lan Qi's heart was cold when he said every word, what kind of magic is there in this deep palace, which makes her sisters kill each other, Duan Concubine and Rong Concubine are also very gentle people on weekdays, but when they encounter such a thing, they all have a good attitude of watching a show, but if you think about yourself, you can't actually do anything, if you hear it today, you have heard it, Guo Guiren is really sick or she was drugged by her own sister, she will not explore, she is still like this, what qualifications do you have to sigh others?

Concubine Rong finally told Lan Qi: "You are too merciful, but the poisonous snake can't be warmed with your body when it freezes, the affairs in the palace, the life and death of others, just look at it." ”

Lan Qi smiled lightly: "I remember." ”

Yinzuo's birthday was very satisfying, although Concubine Tong Guifei has not come to the door, but let the fourth elder brother eat and sleep here, until the evening Lan Qi felt that it was not suitable, so he asked the nurse to send the fourth elder brother back, but Yinzhen held his younger brother and refused to let go, insisted on staying here for one night, Lan Qi was afraid that he would make the concubine unhappy, but Yinzhen cried and refused to part with his younger brother, he cried Yinzuo also cried, one big and one small made the nurses at a loss.

Lan Qi couldn't cry or laugh, and finally compromised, she couldn't leave Yinzhen too much, but she could send Yinzuo to Chengqian Palace, as soon as the little guy heard that he was going with his brother, he didn't even want his mother, one was held by the nurse on one side, and the two little hands were still holding together, Lan Qi looked at it when she was sent to the door, her heart was warm and helpless, Huanchun said to her: "This is the flesh and blood, nature." ”

The nature of flesh and blood relatives should indeed be like this, but Lan Qi also knows the battle between the sisters in the Yikun Palace, and it is chilling to think about it, and then go back to pack up her things, so tired that her limbs hurt, but Xuan Ye came in the night without warning, saying that she had a hard childbirth in the old years, and the day of the child's birthday was the hardest day she had ever had, and she had to appease her well, Lan Qi knew what Xuan Ye was thinking, laughing and playing, and the two of them were happy for a night.

Then a few days later, Xuan Ye was busy for the two queens to enter the mausoleum, but he did not enter the harem for a few days, this day Lan Qi was in Cining Palace for a day, and when he came back in the evening, the road he was used to walking suddenly began to be repaired in the afternoon, because there were craftsmen walking, the front and back were blocked, and the palace concubines were not allowed to pass, Lan Qi could only take a detour back, and the soft sedan chair walked slowly, and when it was near the Xianfu Palace, the sedan chair suddenly stopped, and Huan Chun said outside: "Master, Juezen is always in front, can you see it?" ”

"She?" Lan Qi didn't want to see her, but after thinking about it, she was about to give birth, in case she "offended" her, what was wrong was not clear, so she let the sedan chair fall to the ground, and helped Huanchun's hand down, and sure enough, she saw Jue Chan in front, supported by Xianghe and another palace maid, and slowly came over to salute her, Lan Qi naturally excused herself, and asked politely: "The hospital said that you are going to give birth in a few days, why are you still walking outside?" ”

Jue Chan said: "It's just that there is no movement, the imperial doctor asked the concubine to come out for a walk, and I met you as soon as I went out." ”

"I'm ......" Lan Qi just opened her mouth to say about giving birth to Yinzhen, but she felt that it was inappropriate, she shouldn't have pretended to be the fourth elder brother's biological mother in front of others behind the concubine, so she changed her words, "That's true, you've worked hard, but you also have to be careful, look at your belly has gone down, it should be these days." ”

Jue Chan didn't mean to stop Lan Qi from talking, but just happened to meet, at this moment he had smiled and agreed to stand aside, and asked the concubine to go first, Lan Qi didn't want to say anything, and told her to get on the sedan chair and walk away after a few words, but the soft sedan chair resumed, and she couldn't walk a dozen steps, and there was a sudden commotion behind her, and there was a palace maid screaming, Lan Qi was shocked when she heard it, and the sedan chair also stopped, only to hear Huan Chun hurriedly say: "Master, Guo Guiren pushed Jue Chan Chang down, and he was punching and kicking." ”

Lan Qi felt like she was listening to the opera, and without waiting for her to speak, Huan Chun had asked the little eunuchs carrying the sedan chair to go over to help, all of them were powerful people, and they rushed over and quickly held down Guo Guiren, who didn't know where to escape, and when Lan Qi rushed over again, Jue Chan had fallen to the ground, Xianghe was protecting her, the little girl's clothes and hair were messed up, and another palace maid on the side exclaimed in vain: "Blood, often bleeding......"

"Hurry up and find the imperial doctor, no, carry her back quickly, there is a delivery room prepared in the Xianfu Palace, and the stable woman should be there." Lan Qi pushed all the people around her over to carry the pregnant woman, and suddenly heard Guo Guiren who was pressed to the ground shouting frantically, "Slut, damn it", she trembled with anger, and with trembling hands, she commanded the eunuchs and said, "You, you plug her mouth, don't let her scream!" ”

Everyone got the order, and simply pulled a rope to tie up Guo Luo Luo's five flowers, tore a piece of cloth and blocked his mouth, and Lan Qi had been pulled away by Huanchun, and there was a mess in Xianfu Palace, Concubine Wen was napping crookedly because of her uncomfortable stomachache, and was urged by Dongyun to say that something was wrong, and when she came in a hurry, she told her that Juechan was going to give birth.

The doctors came in a hurry, and Wen Po has been on standby in Xianfu Palace, fortunately, everything is prepared, but she is a little flustered when she is about to give birth suddenly, and now everyone is in place to see if the mother can survive it. Not long after that, it also alarmed the Sixth Palace, Concubine Rong arrived first, and had heard about Guo Guiren before entering the door, as if she was afraid that Concubine Hui would come first, so she came in a hurry without even changing her clothes, and begged Concubine Wen to order Guo Guiren to be detained first, Concubine Wen said impatiently: "I don't care what she does, you just look at it." ”

So when Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi arrived, Guo Guiren had already been imprisoned, and the people who took care of her were Rong Concubine, Concubine Yi bent her knees in front of Concubine Wen to confess, saying that she did not take good care of her sister, and Guo Guiren and Juechan have old enmity Everyone knows, thinking about it for this reason, Concubine Wen sneered: "I usually don't even bother to fly crows here, it's rare to be so lively, I don't know whether to be happy, Yi Concubine, you don't have to confess, and it's not that you pounced on Juechan." ”

But Concubine Yi continued to cry about her sister's various bad deeds, not to mention that her sister had done something wrong to complete for her, but even worsened her evil deeds, and even turned over the old accounts of bullying and abusing Juechan in the past, and Concubine Wen was so impatient that she finally drank and made her shut up: "This palace doesn't blame you, naturally there is a judgment of the Zongren Mansion, so don't you cry anymore, is it annoying?" ”

sent Concubine Yi away directly, not letting her stay in Xianfu Palace, and sent someone to ask if she was alive, back and forth several times to no avail, Concubine Wen smiled bitterly and said: "It's better to have dinner together, tonight is really lively." ”

But who still has the heart to eat, Concubine Hui took the opportunity to pull Concubine Rong outside to speak, the word is the head, the two of them are straight to the point, Concubine Hui persuaded her: "The emperor is back to favor Concubine Yi, she is now in the limelight, my sister might as well hand over people to her to take care of, why don't you bother with this idle matter, and there is no credit." ”

Concubine Rong smiled: "I take care of the people, the favor is for you, you and Yi Concubine get along, you always have to hold something in your hand, you can handle this matter best." Later, I will always go to the top to reply, the person is my care, and I will push you out to deal with it, and when the time comes, whether it is for the Queen Mother, the Emperor, or Guo Luoluo, you will do things beautifully, and both sides will benefit. Juechan's is not Wuya's, as long as the child is born, who cares if she is wronged? If it is De Concubine who is injured today, we will have to weigh it. ”

Concubine Hui suddenly realized that Concubine Rong was waiting for her here, saying that it sounded good to let herself pinch Yi Concubine's handle, in fact, she already knew what she knew in her heart, she came to pinch her handle, and then pretended to be a good person to send favors.

But the matter has come to this, she doesn't want this hot favor, she has to ask for it, the matter over there has nothing to do with her, she also knows that Concubine Rong will not turn her face with her, so she gritted her teeth and agreed, "Please also ask my sister to be considerate." ”

Lan Qi just came out in front of the palace gate, and when she looked up, she saw them talking under the eaves, the two were a little embarrassed, and came over to ask why they were leaving, Lan Qi said that Concubine Wen asked her to go to Cining Palace to restore her life, Rong and Hui glanced at each other, and said that they went to Cining Palace to reply and let Lan Qi stay.

"That'...... There is labor. How did Lan Qi know about their calculations, she didn't want to be too reluctant, and then turned back, Concubine Wen was already sitting at the table to eat, and when she heard that she was not going, she beckoned, "Then let's eat, didn't you say that you will be born for a long time, don't be hungry." ”

Lan Qi sat down, the palace people came to add dishes and chopsticks, her mind was full of the scene just now, and she kept thinking of Concubine Hui Rong talking again, her heart was a little confused, and when she looked up and saw Concubine Wen eating leisurely, she couldn't help but ask: "Niangniang, do you really care?"

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