Huanchun smiled: "Why are you willing to tell the slave maid at this moment?" I asked you before, but I didn't say it. ”

Lan Qi didn't care about it, and said, "I didn't think about it myself, and then I didn't care, and you just followed me silently, and didn't ask me again?" As he spoke, he sighed lightly, "Time is really fast, as soon as the wax moon passes, it will be thirty-three years of Kangxi, and it has been twenty years." ”

Huan Chun smiled: "In the past twenty years, you have been looking forward to the growth of the princesses, and you don't think that the time is long, but people can have a few twenty years in a lifetime, and the slaves and maids have followed you to really come over, and it has been so long to look back." When you go out of the palace to visit relatives, the juniors have dolls, and the slaves and maids around you don't feel that they have an age, and when they go home, they know that they are already grandmothers and grandmothers. ”

"Really?" Lan Qi was pleased, and asked Huanchun if she had sent out a lot of New Year's silver, and asked her if she had enough money to spend.

Huanchun followed the master who had been favored for more than ten or twenty years, and naturally had a lot of self-esteem, but when he talked about this, he couldn't help but say: "When you haven't come back yet, Fujin asked the slave to help her do something, and the slave and maid made excuses perfunctory, but I still have to tell you." ”

After entering the door for two years, Yuxi rarely told her what she wanted or what to do, the only thing she often said recently was the matter of giving Yinzhen a concubine, at this moment Huanchun said that Yuxi had something to ask her, Lanqi knew that she couldn't hide from it, and when she heard Huanchun say it clearly, she said helplessly: "I expected such a thing at the beginning, and now the situation is much better than I thought." ”

Putting down the things in her hand, Lan Qi couldn't help rubbing her forehead, and continued: "I'm most afraid that she will keep everything in her heart, and she will be strong while being wronged, and in the end she will be tired of herself." She can say to me openly and honestly, I am really relieved, but the matter of taking a concubine, she doesn't count, I don't count if I say it, the emperor doesn't nod his head, I can't make the decision easily. ”

Huan Chun smiled: "Long live the lord, it's not your word?" ”

Lan Qi said: "It's different, now Yinzhen is not just a child who reads, he is half a minister, I can't interfere too much in his affairs in the future, I can't always tell the emperor how the fourth elder brother is, it is inevitable that there will be suspicion of interfering in politics." The emperor may not care, but I have to be measured, I can only take care of the women in the harem for him, and the children who have not grown up, and everything else has nothing to do with me. ”

Huan Chun cleaned up the things on the table for her, and when she heard these words, she couldn't help but say: "The slave maid thinks that when the Lord Long Live looks back, he must blame you for being too careful." ”

"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, he is the emperor." Lan Qi looked at her lazily, as if talking to herself, "Aren't people outside always curious about why I've been by his side for so many years?" Isn't it because of this little thing, this kind of thing can only be mentioned to me by him, I can't overstep my identity too much, and then I will get older and older, I want to keep his heart, and my face and body have long been unreliable. ”

After saying this, the tired person said that he wanted to doze off, and slept on the warm kang for most of the hour, and when he woke up, he heard Wen Chen's dog barking, and the footsteps of someone coming in outside, without waiting for the palace maid to report, Concubine Rong came in with the curtain, and said with a smile: "What time is it, are you not afraid that you won't be able to sleep at night?" ”

Lan Qi asked her to sit, while calling the palace maid to take a mirror to take a look, and held her hair and collar steady, before she laughed with Concubine Rong, and saw her daughter-in-law and daughter come in together, Wen Chen went to Concubine Rong's arms for a nest, and Yuxi was blessed and resigned, and she was going back to her residence.

Lan Qi casually told a few words, and asked Huanchun to send someone to send Yuxi back, the two sisters-in-law were playing in Jingyang Palace, and at this time Concubine Rong personally sent it back, Lan Qi knew that Concubine Rong should have something to say, so she invited her to stay for dinner, while instructing Huanchun to prepare a few dishes that Concubine Rong liked to eat.

Concubine Rong smiled: "I'm not here to eat, but I saw that the snow was not small, and I was afraid that the children would not be able to walk steadily on the road, so I would feel at ease when I sent one." ”

Lan Qi joked: "My sister seems to be looking for me for something, so if she has something to say, she will just say it, and she will still go around the bend with me?" ”

"But you told me to say that." Concubine Rong rolled her eyes, looked at the scene in the room, and said to Lan Qi, "A lot of people outside have come in to probe the wind, do you remember a joke between the Queen Mother and the Emperor about Zhang Luo's draft next year?" It's the end of the year now, and the emperor has never mentioned it again, this year, you take care of those things in Qixiang Palace, and I have nothing to do but think about this. There hasn't been a draft in the palace for many years, and I have a hanging in my heart, and when the time comes, the burden will fall on us, and it's okay to work hard, don't end up with people inside and out. ”

Lan Qi really forgot about this incident completely, and listened to it in a daze, and only said after a while: "I don't know the doorway here, it's all thanks to my sister." ”

Concubine Rong smiled: "You are so smart, I don't worry at all, I just don't know if the emperor has this meaning, if the emperor doesn't want to, we can worry." Or like Concubine Yi and the others back then, each flag was selected to come in, and there was no need to go through a lot of trouble to pick one by one from the eight flags, the difference between the front and back was too big, I wanted to ......"

Lan Qi heard Concubine Rong's tone, and only then did she understand that Concubine Rong's intention was here, and sure enough, she heard Concubine Rong say: "Someone always has to ask the emperor about this matter, it is easy for me to speak, but some words can't be said to the end, if you want, can you work harder this time?" ”

"What does my sister want me to work hard for?" Lan Qi was not very happy in her heart.

Concubine Rong said with a smile: "Can you tell the emperor, don't go through a lot of trouble in the draft, or let the flags be recommended, the number of people will not be dazzling, everyone will be worry-free." ”

Hearing these words, Lan Qi secretly straightened out her preface and afterwords in her heart, as soon as Concubine Rong opened her mouth, she said that someone came to probe the mouth, and then said that, there is no doubt that someone asked her, but if she said that she was asking, it was better to say that she was a favor, and it seemed that who wanted to send her daughter to the palace.

Although Concubine Rong is not a "favorite concubine", she has been taking care of the affairs of the six palaces, the emperor and the queen mother have given her face, and she seems to be a favored concubine, but she has no contact with the ministers outside, and she is meticulous when doing serious things in the palace.

Think about it again, Concubine Rong really doesn't care about what woman the emperor likes anymore, she may have been jealous ten years earlier, but now there are many young people around the emperor, all of them have nothing to do with her, this kind of thing Concubine Rong is happy to accept a favor, and she has been working hard to fight for face in the palace, all for the third elder brother. At present, the third elder brother is outside, and he has begun to follow his brother on errands, and the ministers are all cunning foxes, and many things their mother and son will be involuntary even if they are the imperial concubines and princes.

Lan Qi understands all of this.

"This matter, the Queen Mother said it was the best." Lan Qi smiled gently at Concubine Rong, it didn't sound like a refusal, but she still put herself and Xuan Ye aside, "I'll go and mention it to the Queen Mother, let the Queen Mother ask the emperor, what's the matter with us talking too much?" It just so happens that the Queen Mother also hates complicated and extravagant things, so if we fan the flames and say a few words, the Queen Mother will look to her sister's meaning, don't let the emperor do a big deal. ”

Concubine Rong seemed to only care about the result, so she rejoiced with satisfaction: "When will you go to the Queen Mother and call me." ”

That night, the thirteenth and fourteenth elder brother returned and had dinner with Concubine Rong, Lan Qi was unhappy about this matter, although her face was kind, her appetite was a little worse, but Concubine Rong, who has always been careful, didn't care at all, and sat down and said a few words after dinner, and left before the wind and snow became bigger.

But even the children noticed that Eniang seemed to be unhappy, the fourteenth elder brother had the sweetest mouth, and Concubine Rong came to coax her mother as soon as she left, Lan Qi showed a little smile, and said that the younger son was like a female doll, and the boys were worried about what to do so much, so they drove them to study.

She stood in front of the door and looked at the backs of the children running away, and couldn't help murmuring: "In a few years, they won't be around, will I be like Concubine Rong?" ”

This matter involves Xuan Ye to add new people, although she is no longer as stingy as before, and she overturns the vinegar vat at every turn, but after all, she will not be at ease in her heart, and she will not be able to show her face all night because she is teased by Concubine Rong, and Huanchun mentioned a few words when she was serving her to sleep, and said: "How do you think that Concubine Rong is not worried about finding a new person for the emperor, maybe she is looking for someone, and wants to send it to the third elder brother to be a side blessing." As you know, Concubine Rong and Sanfujin have a very bad relationship, for the sake of Fujin's previous miscarriage, she was kindly concerned but was misunderstood by Fujin as blaming her, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a dispute in Jingyang Palace. ”

Lan Qi really forgot about this matter, her own daughter-in-law was well-behaved and obedient, and she was by her side like a daughter, how could she have thought that those people were so unpleasant.

Huanchun said: "Concubine Rong is a shrewd person, so thankless for the emperor to recruit newcomers, she won't bother, the slave thinks that she is most likely thinking of the mother, so that she can take the opportunity to talk to the emperor to give the third brother a concubine." ”

Lan Qi was still confused for a while, and said dissatisfiedly: "Since this is the case, why didn't she go and tell the emperor herself?" ”

Huan Chun said with a smile: "Didn't you just say that to the slave maid during the day, if you can think of it, don't let Concubine Rong think of it, the slave maid thinks it's mostly for this." ”

Lan Qi was really even more unhappy, and said sullenly: "In the past few years, I have respected her everywhere, and she has also learned to use me as a gunman?" ”

In this matter, Huanchun also felt that Concubine Rong was a little bit of an inch, so she had to appease Lan Qi not to be angry, and see how this matter developed, anyway, she was ready to push it to the Queen Mother, not to mention that it was the Queen Mother who joked with the emperor that she wanted to draft a draft and persuaded Lan Qi not to take it to heart.

But they all thought too simply, the draft was such a laborious and troublesome thing, and there were many newcomers in the palace to make trouble, and sure enough, even the queen mother was unwilling to talk to the emperor.

The next day, when Lan Qi went to Ningshou Palace to test herself, the Queen Mother waved her hand again and again and said: "There is no shortage of princesses in the palace now, many of them are still young, what are you doing in a hurry?" I don't want to tell the emperor, if he has the heart, he will have to wait so long? There hasn't been a draft in the palace for many years, and I don't think the emperor may have this thought, it's just a joke. ”

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