Recalling last November, when he returned to the Forbidden City from Yingtai on the day of heavy snowfall, Hongli went to Changchun Palace and had a long talk with his wife.

That day, since An Yi collapsed in front of him shortly after Yonglian's death, the queen cried heartbroken again. The shadow of her son's death has not disappeared, and she can't live as unburdened as she imagined, she longs for another son from the bottom of her heart, but the reality torments her day by day.

Hongli agreed with his wife that they should take care of each other's bodies, choose a good day to have sex, and he will patiently guard the queen's side, if he still can't conceive for a year and a half, he will make other decisions at that time. Hongli didn't even leave the heirs of the other concubines during that time, and only waited for the good news from the queen wholeheartedly.

However, more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye, and before they could re-discuss how to go forward, the queen mother couldn't wait to exert pressure first, and she didn't bother to talk to the emperor or the queen, anyway, it was obvious that she was going to make an unpleasant scene, so she simply acted directly and began to care about the body of the harem concubines.

The emperor once felt that the queen mother was out of kindness, and she had conflicts with his wife and himself because of different positions, but he and the queen worked hard for half a year under pressure, is it fake? It's not that he doesn't have a son, and now the four princes are alive and kicking around in the palace, even if he dies tomorrow, he's not afraid that there will be no one to inherit him, right?

"Your Majesty." When entering the Yang Heart Palace, Gonggong Wu reminded him, and Hongli was full of anger and entered the door with his head held high. In this deep palace, he is An Yi's only support, and he must be strong to face her.

In the study, the queen is standing at the table, lifting the pen to continue the landscape that the emperor has painted half, it is rare that the queen's style is graceful and beautiful, and the emperor's pen is often magnificent, she can also imitate vividly, Hongli approached to see, do not remember where he stopped painting.

"This is what I want to take to reward people, and now it's even more worthwhile." Hongli said with a smile, "I'm just afraid that I don't know the goods, or I don't know the goods, the former doesn't know the value of this painting, and the latter sees that it is from the handwriting of two people, and it should be a fake imitation in the market." ”

The queen looked at the brushstrokes she had added, and handed the brush to the emperor with a smile: "Then the emperor continues to finish painting him, I can't see a good painting in vain, and when I pick up the pen again, the person who paints is in a different mood, and the artistic conception of the painting has changed." ”

Hongli put down the brush and asked gently, "Are you not in a bad mood?" But I'm not happy, the emperor is embarrassing you again, isn't it, Eniang is too impatient, for my sake, don't be upset by yourself, let's take our time, Eniang will deal with it. ”

"E-Niang has done a little too much, but as long as I am generous, it is nothing at all, and the concubines of the Sixth Palace still dare to see my jokes? But the time is almost up, we have worked hard for so long, in fact, month by month disappointment, I have no feeling around you recently, and I can't connect with each other, how it seems to be coping. ”

The queen said bluntly, there are naturally no outsiders in the palace, she doesn't seem to be affected by the queen mother, probably because she has waited to the limit, and looked at her husband seriously at the moment: "Why don't I take good care of my body, let's seek white hair and eyebrows in the future, this thing is really forced, and if you have it, you have to gamble with your life, right?" Hongli, let's do what we said before, let the harem spread out, and in the future, I will choose a favorite child to raise in the middle palace, just like you did back then. ”

"I'm not in a hurry, it's not like I don't have a son right now." Maybe it's because he has persevered and worked hard for so long, but the emperor can't let it go, or maybe he is worried that his wife is pretending to be strong again, and he doesn't follow the Tao, "Wait a little longer, maybe you will ...... next month"

"Hongli, I'm tired." The queen smiled bitterly, picked up the paintbrush and continued to finish the painting, and said lightly, "What the emperor said is right, this road is not going to work, we should retreat to the second." After more than ten years of harmony, the intimacy between us has never faded, and I still look forward to the joy of clouds and rain with you, and I don't want to carry a heavy burden every time. Hongli, we might as well give up and cherish each other. I'm tired, I'm tired even from competing with the emperor. ”

"If you really think like this, I will definitely rely on you, but Anyi, in front of me, you don't have to hide any thoughts." The anger in Hongli's chest dissipated a lot, but he asked his wife again and again, "I said, you have to believe me." ”

The queen smiled gently, her beauty was soaked in the nobility of a lifetime, and she picked up a paintbrush and quickly clicked a matchmaker mole on Hongli's face, revealing the coquettishness of her youth, but seeing Hongli frowning and unwilling to play with her, her enthusiasm suddenly decreased greatly. However, he lowered his eyes sullenly, Hongli actually bullied up, grabbed the paintbrush and held the queen's head, and wanted to draw something on her face, the queen was so anxious that there were tears in the corners of her eyes, and she didn't let go until she begged for mercy.

The two gasped slightly, almost rubbing the breath in the boudoir late at night, but in the study of the Heart Cultivation Hall in the middle of the day, they couldn't break the rules, Hongli hugged her, kissed her lightly on the cheek, and said affectionately: "No matter what, you have to believe that I am your only support in this palace, so that I can shield you from the wind and rain for the rest of your life." ”

Suddenly there was a rumbling thunder outside, although it was not a movement that shook the earth, it also made the queen laugh, and gently twisted it on the emperor's face: "Talking big, right?" But he also looked at Hongli Dao affectionately, "With you feeling sorry for me so unreservedly, if I don't spare any blessings, I won't be able to live this life, I can really only rely on you if I don't have a son, let me hide behind you for the rest of my life, okay?" ”

Outside the study, the rainstorm was loud, the first thundershower of this summer came without warning, the morning was still cloudless and the weather was good, it was said that the face would change, the black clouds were pressing the city at the moment, the water level of the Jinshui River soon overflowed, Hongli and the queen did not have time to stay warm for a while, the emperor immediately summoned the Minister of Industry, this year's flood protection and disaster relief in various places, and it was necessary to entangle a whole summer.

In Fu Heng's home in the capital, the one-year-old milk doll couldn't help the sound of thunder and rain, and cried non-stop in the arms of the nurse. The maid said on the side: "On weekdays, the young master can't stop crying, it's good for the adults to hug a little, it's better to send the young master to the study." ”

Ruyin shook her head: "He Ama works so hard every day, it's just a matter of teasing the child, how can he always bother him?" ”

When talking, someone carried an umbrella into the yard, pouring rain, and gradually the wind rose, the umbrella was no longer enough to cover, the woman was wet for more than half, stood outside the door and said: "Fujin, the little girl over there in the study passed the word, saying that the adults went out, I don't know where to go, only left to say that if you come back late, please have lunch first." ”

Fu Hengcai returned from the next dynasty, and when he came back, he went to the main courtyard to see her and the child, and then went to the study, and said that after some things were dealt with in the morning, he had lunch with her, but this rain fell, but he took people out of the house, Ruyin hugged the crying child, and then asked: "The adults didn't say where to go?" ”

The woman said: "The people in the study are asking, if Fu Jin wants to know, they will follow." ”

Ruyin hurriedly shook her head: "That's it, the adults will naturally explain to me when they come back, the rain is too heavy, you go everywhere and keep an eye on it, don't have a leaky house, and be careful that the pond in the backyard overflows." ”

On this side, Fu Heng rushed out of the house in the rain quickly, and actually rushed to Yingtai, last year Yingtai was flooded with gold due to heavy rain, at that time, because the concubines were in the palace, the location of the palace was at a high place, and there was nothing major, but Fu Heng rushed to see that the flooded place was in a mess, and he still felt guilty, for fear that if something happened, Hongyan would be in danger.

In the past, if the saint drove to Yingtai to escape the heat after entering the summer, in the event of heavy rain and heavy water, the palace people and guards would go all out to prevent the lake from flooding into the palace and palace, but it was the turn of the concubine to live here for a long time, and many things were negligent, and the manpower could not keep up.

The horse galloped in the torrential rain, several times almost slipped and fell, when Fu Heng arrived at Yingtai, he was already soaked, and the clothes on his body were also thrown off halfway because of the trouble, sure enough, the long bridge leading from the land to Yingtai has been flooded up, and the muddy water surface makes it difficult to see the road underneath, leaving only the fences on both sides to guide the direction.

Fu Heng took people to wade through the water, and wanted to go to Qingyun Hall to ask if the concubine was okay, but he saw many people rushing towards Penglai Pavilion in a hurry, and when he saw Lord Fucha, they all stepped forward and said: "The water there has overflowed the small bridge, and Concubine Shouqi and Wei are trapped in the pavilion." ”

Let's say that the weather was sunny this morning, and the concubine said that if it was hotter, she would be lazy to go out, and everyone lifted her shoulders to send her and Wei out for a walk. Resting in the pavilion, it was to watch the palace people salvage aquatic plants on the lake surface is very fresh, suddenly it rained, the concubine has always liked to watch the rain, all thought it was a momentary thundershower, so I was at ease in the pavilion to watch the rain smashing into the lake, who knew that the rain was endless, and the small bridge when I turned around was submerged, and the water surface rose higher and higher, and it was about to overflow into the pavilion.

There are only Xiao Lingzi Cherry and Yuzhi Mama in the pavilion, Xiao Lingzi and Cherry both took off their clothes to shelter the concubine and Mama from the wind, and Hongyan commanded the people on the other side of the small bridge, but the rain was too loud to pass at all, and she was only in a hurry, but suddenly saw a familiar figure in the rain curtain, I didn't expect Fu Heng to come at this time, remembering that after the rainstorm last year, the emperor also sent him to comfort the concubine, but today everything is so sudden, he must have a heart to come.

The current situation is not dangerous, if there is only Hongyan in the pavilion, there is no hurry when the rain stops, but the concubine and Yuzhi Mama are old, and the windbreaker on all sides of the pavilion has no walls, and the rain is getting higher and higher, Fu Heng can see that Hongyan is already soaked.