However, Hongyan has been focusing on taking care of herself and her children these days, and there is no news about the palace outside, and the people of Yanxi Palace have always kept to themselves, and now in addition to knowing the general situation of Yikun Palace, those gossips have not reached their ears, and they heard the emperor say: "How can our son be a disaster star?" If you hear someone talking nonsense, you can only show the dignity of your concubine and punish them with hatred. ”

"Scourge?" Hongyan couldn't help but look at her sleeping little son in swaddling clothes distressedly, shook her head and said, "How unbearable are they to calculate natural disasters as a child's life?" The emperor can rest assured, the more the concubines care, the more proud those talents are, why should the concubines fulfill them. ”

Hongli asked, "So you don't know?" ”

Hongyan smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid I haven't had time to know, but when the emperor says it at this time, he can't be sad if he has the comfort in front of his eyes." ”

Hongli hurriedly wanted to put one hand around her, and said gently: "With me, who dares to bully you." ”

Hongyan pushed his hand away with a smile and pointed to the child in his other arm: "Your Majesty, what did you say last year, do you remember?" ”

Seeing Hongyan's ambiguous smile, the emperor's heart warmed, remembered his promise, carefully held the child and separated from Hongyan, and said calmly: "I remember, this time I can't make mistakes again, I really can't bear to let you work so hard." ”

But Hongyan is not hard, Dr. He said that people's physique is different, some people will face life and death threats during childbirth, while some people are easy, Hongyan has not been able to have children for more than ten years, others look at how difficult it is, and has given birth to Xiaoqi and Fourteen Elder Brothers, all of which are unusually smooth. This is due to the proper conditioning during pregnancy, and also to Hongyan's own physique, which is probably the compensation and gift that God has forgotten her for more than ten years, and Hongyan has no fear of childbirth.

She just smiled: "The emperor has the intention to avoid it, because he feels sorry for the concubines, but let's go with the flow, no matter how many children and concubines like it." ”

Hongli said: "The child is good, but you work hard. He also said, "You have given birth to children for me, you have taken care of the affairs of the Six Palaces for many years, and you have worked hard, you should have been canonized as a concubine after Xiao Qi was born, and now that the youngest son is here, the position of the concubine should be yours." ”

Hongyan didn't care about her status before, and now she doesn't force it, she only knows that her status is higher, the Queen Mother has more scruples about her, and the Sixth Palace has to have more scruples about her, and a lofty status is never a bad thing. But in this current situation, not long after Concubine Jia passed away, the middle palace lost her children, and she became a concubine at this juncture, so she should become the target of public criticism.

"Your Majesty, can you listen to what the concubines have to say?" Hongyan decided to tell the emperor about his concerns, when it comes to the fourth elder brother and the eighth elder brother is the time when people want to care, even if the emperor does not have that intention, but as long as he deliberately takes care of some things, the relationship between father and son will definitely become better, the fourth elder brother is a sensible child, and now he is in the court to lead an errand, he is very capable and loyal, and the emperor cannot easily live up to the child's filial piety and loyalty. What's more, what is more important is the loss of a son in the middle palace, the emperor should grieve with the queen, how can there be a reason to promote other concubines at such a time and leave the queen aside.

Hongyan said: "The emperor was worried about the behavior of the Nala clan, and the emperor should be considerate of his concubines, don't let the people of their family turn their grief into hatred for their concubines." ”

Although the emperor was helpless to hear these words, he felt very comfortable in his heart, and said with emotion: "If everyone is as frank as you and tell me the truth, why should I be so suspicious and wary. Hongyan smiled and said nothing, she knew Hongli's temper, he clearly knew the helplessness and disadvantages of whitewashing Taiping, but he was willing to live in the "Taiping World".

In this way, under Hongyan's begging, the full moon and the 100 days of the fourteenth elder brother were not ready to celebrate, and there was nothing for the emperor to worry about in Yanxi Palace, so he used the time outside of court affairs to take care of the aftermath of the two children in Yikun Palace, giving enough dignity to the middle palace, and enough to give the Nala clan the grief they wanted, and the Mid-Autumn Festival in August was not celebrated. Although it was not as solemn and solemn as the mourning clothes, it was not until September, forty-nine days after the death of the two children, that the palace became lively again.

But at the end of September, the cold wave suddenly came, people were caught off guard, many people in the capital were infected with wind and cold, almost into the state of the epidemic, the concubines in the inner palace, and the palace concubines were not spared, and they died in the early winter, from the loss of children in the palace in July to the present, the palace seems to be unable to shake the bad luck, this time even with the people in Beijing are implicated. It was a good and abundant season to rejoice with the people, but in the end it was depressed.

However, in Yikun Palace, the queen only when the twelfth elder brother asks about her younger siblings, she will be a little sad, on weekdays, for the loss of those two children, the only regret is that she can no longer play with Qing'er, in her eyes, the two children are Qing'er's playmates, as for the love of flesh and blood, the queen herself does not understand, how to make it look like that. God left Qing'er to her, which is the greatest gift, this time the cold disease broke out in the capital, she was also carefully guarding the twelve elder brothers, who died or lived in the palace had nothing to do with her.

It wasn't until this day that Hongyan and Concubine Yu came to ask about Concubine Yi's death, and the queen knew that a concubine had died, so she only said lightly: "Concubine Yi is an old person in the palace, and since she is different from others, she should also share the grand aftermath as appropriate." But the emperor has no clear will, and the queen mother has no grace, you have to be careful, don't get into trouble yourself, and don't attract criticism to the deceased. ”

These words were said calmly and objectively, but it was equivalent to saying nothing, when Hongyan and Concubine Yu withdrew, they smiled helplessly at each other, and they just looked at it. But at this moment, there happened to be an attendant who led the queen's family into the palace to ask for peace, Nabul, his wife, and the eldest daughter-in-law met the two ladies in front of the Yikun Palace, and they all bowed, and Concubine Yu said politely: "My lord, I'm afraid I'm afraid I've been waiting for a long time." ”

But they waited for the two ladies to leave, and then they were going to the palace gate, Hua Rong came to greet them, and when she saw the old man staring at the people who were far away, she asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

Nabur said coldly: "Looking at Concubine Ling, I haven't had the opportunity to look at it carefully in the past, so I just paid attention to it a few times, and if it is really a blessed person, that face and temperament are different." ”

Hua Rong said: "Concubine Ling is a good person, with her, the queen can let go of the affairs of the six palaces with peace of mind and take care of the twelve elder brothers wholeheartedly." ”

Nabul shook his head: "Aren't you afraid that the queen mother will put it down and never get it back?" He rolled his eyes and asked Hua Rong, "I heard that the Queen Mother is dissatisfied with Concubine Ling, and it is rumored in the palace that the fourteenth elder brother is a disaster star?" ”

Hua Rong was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again: "The emperor likes little brother very much, and adults can't help it when they say this." ”

Nabur frowned and said, "What does the emperor like to do with his concubine?" And he has a heavier thing in his heart, that is, although he now relies on the glory of the queen's family, the children of the clan are gradually alienated from the core power of the court, but he is just an empty shell, and if he wants to do anything big in the future, he will not be able to do anything. With a grim look in his eyes, he smiled faintly, and left Hua Rong and went to the door.

After that, as the aftermath of Yi Concubine and Chang Chang was properly organized, as the weather became really cold, the raging cold and heat disease gradually disappeared in the capital, and when it was supposed to remove the bad luck and usher in the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve, somehow, rumors suddenly spread in the three palaces and six courtyards, saying that after the birth of the fourteenth brother, the palace and the royal family were not peaceful, he killed his brothers and sisters, and killed so many people and concubines in the palace, which is a veritable disaster.

For such a thing, the Buddha, who has always been gentle and kind, took out the majesty of the princess to blame them when she met the palace maids and eunuchs who chewed their tongues. It was supposed to be a warning to others, but the queen mother called her to Ningshou Palace to reprimand and reprimand her on the grounds of the princess's abuse of lynching, Hongyan could bear anything, the queen mother treated her children so unfairly, not to mention how many unsightly things the queen mother herself had done, Buddha was just fighting for her younger brother at the moment, and those palace people with unclean mouths should have been punished, and the queen mother had to be so harsh on the Buddha, she couldn't bear it.

Knowing that the Buddha was called by her grandmother to give a lecture, Hongyan put down the matter in her hand and came to Ningshou Palace, seeing Buddha kneeling in the center of the hall to listen to her grandmother's reprimand, Hongyan secretly clenched her fists in her sleeves, and was about to walk forward to salute, but the Queen Mother said coldly: "You just stand there, you can't teach children, then watch and learn, and figure out how to educate the prince and princess well." ”

Fo'er is already a big girl, she won't be afraid of crying like a child, but she won't be as sleek and coquettish as a child, it is the age of temperament, the queen mother is so unfair, how can she be convinced. But when she turned around, she saw her mother shaking her head at her seriously, so she hid her grievances, mother and daughter were connected, she knew that the next thing was just to be handed over to Eniang, and she didn't want to do much.

Hongyan did not obey the Queen Mother's words, resolutely stepped forward, knelt beside her daughter and said: "The rules of the Six Palaces are strict, although Buddha is a princess, she must not violate the rules." The queen mother came forward to teach, which was the blessing of this child, but it was the guilt of the concubine. I also asked the queen mother to give the concubine a chance, and let the concubine take the Buddha back to teach a lesson, this child beat and scolded the palace people, and the concubine must give you and the six palaces an explanation. ”

"Kid?" The Queen Mother smiled coldly, "Fo'er is not too young, if it weren't for the emperor to stay by his side, he would have married and kissed a long time ago, and made his due responsibility for the court and the royal family." ”

Hongyan was silent, and the Queen Mother continued: "But if she marries like this, she will only embarrass the royal family, and He Jing has been reading and writing in the study since he was a child, and he has learned a talent and character, but this child is crazy and frolicking all day long, what does it look like?" ”

"Imperial grandmother...... "Buddha couldn't help it, she wanted to tell the queen mother that she should read a book that she should read, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Huang Ama and Eniang have invited the best teachers for her. Because of the disability of her hand, she repeatedly had to give up when she was a child, and she was beaten hard and pressed her back to the desk, she just didn't go to the study, and it was no worse than Sister Hejing.

But Hongyan pressed the Buddha's hand and reproached her: "The words of the imperial grandmother, have you written it down?" Why don't you thank the Imperial Grandmother for her teachings? ”