Seeing that his pot-bellied wife was full of sadness, Fu Heng couldn't bear it, got up and helped Ruyin to sit down on the soft couch, and advised: "You have a big belly, don't think about these things, presumably the concubine doesn't want you to worry about her." After so many years, what has the concubine Niangniang not experienced, and Hejing is my niece, no matter what, I can persuade her. He Jing didn't even want to go back to the capital, you said that she still had the heart to compete with people, she was there a place, but she was really pitiful, she was widowed for only a month, if you saw her unwilling to leave in front of the tomb and wanted to follow life and death, you must not bear to blame her. ”

Ruyin said: "I know, the princess is really pitiful, anyway, I can't help anything other than making noise in front of you now, and I will also trouble you." ”

Fu Heng smiled: "Why is it noisy?" It can be seen that his wife has a pitiful gaze, feeling sorry for her at this age and not having a child by herself, so she can only say distressedly, "Yes, you say anything." ”

Ruyin knelt on her husband's chest and said: "But I still have to say that the ladies in the palace, the princes and the princes, how many people can experience the bitterness of the princess, they will only see the princess's pivotal and incomparably noble status, what do you say?" ”

Fu Heng bowed his head and said: "Yes, at least in this Forbidden City, most of them are fallen into the well, and a few will hope that others will be good." For Hejing, why bother to show her weaknesses to others, no one will sympathize with her, but will only gloat behind her back. So even if you pretend to be strong, you have to pretend to be decent, why should people be mean and make fun of you. ”

Ruyin said softly: "That's not as good as ...... Let's leave it alone. Unless Sister Hongyan comes to ask us, don't mention it in front of the princess, otherwise the princess will be cold before she can ask her uncle for help. ”

Fu Heng nodded again and again: "I listen to you." ”

Let's say that the emperor held a banquet in the Qianqing Palace to wash the dust for the princess, and when he first saw his father, he politely refused, but the emperor had the emperor's intentions, and hoped that the world would know that although his daughter was widowed, she was not pitiful, and no one could be despised by anyone, especially those women of the clan who had broken their mouths. Therefore, on the second day after He Jing returned to Beijing, the Qianqing Palace still prepared a banquet as usual, and there was no joy in the palace for a long time, and for irrelevant people, this excitement was expected for a long time.

And the banquet has not yet begun, in broad daylight, there are rumors in the palace, saying that the princess was disrespectful to the queen yesterday, the queen will not attend the banquet, the emperor has placed the position of the middle palace, if it is empty, many things will be self-evident.

The people from the Internal Affairs Office didn't dare to take responsibility, so they hurriedly ran to Yanxi Palace to beg the concubine to show them, and asked with a frown: "The queen mother told you herself, she didn't attend the banquet?" ”

The eunuch was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "The gate of Yikun Palace is closed, and the minions didn't dare to ask, but this is being spread in the palace......"

Hongyan said coldly: "It's really getting better and better at running errands, Gai Ming'er doesn't even have to wait for the emperor to say the holy decree himself, any one in the palace can influence the world if he spreads a few words of nonsense, right?" ”

"Minions don't dare, minions don't dare." The comer bowed his head again and again, and simply dared to say, "Guifei Niangniang, what if?" The minions thought, in case the queen really doesn't attend, will it be too late to invite again? ”

Hongyan was asked, although it wasn't the queen herself who said whether she would attend the dinner, but she might not really come, and her non-coming would not be aimed at Hejing or to give the emperor a face, she must still be mourning for Huarong, but she simply didn't want to participate in anything in the palace, but others wouldn't think so, and presumably Hejing wouldn't understand.

"Concubine Niangniang." The people from the Internal Affairs Office fell to the ground and pleaded, "Can you work hard for you and go to Yikun Palace." ”

Hongyan and Cherry glanced at each other, Cherry hurriedly sent the man out, and talked for a long time outside the door, Cherry came in and said: "Niangniang, they are really worried, what do you say If the queen mother does not go, it is better not to put the position of the queen mother, just put your seat on the dragon chair and do it, so as not to be empty there, then no one wants to have a good meal." ”

"Go and tell them right away, if you don't want me to attend, just talk nonsense." Hongyan was displeased, but he was really uneasy in his heart, and asked Cherry, "Did you send someone to ask, when will He Jing enter the palace?" ”

Cherry responded: "The princess said that there are many things to take care of in the house, and then enter the palace at the time of the banquet at night, and the queen mother seems to have urged her twice, and the princess will not come." She asked again, "Do you want the slave maid to send someone to take those eunuchs and palace maids with broken mouths and rectify them properly?" ”

"Fighting, killing, and killing make things bigger, and it's very boring." Hongyan's hand unconsciously rubbed on the bracelet, and finally said, "Prepare the sedan chair and go to Yikun Palace." ”

When I came to Yikun Palace again, it was still the same as before, and since the queen came back, nothing has changed in Yikun Palace. Because of yesterday's incident, Cherry warmly accosted the palace people here, wanting to ask them how the queen mother and the twelve elder brothers were.

In the dormitory, the queen sat on the beauty couch and looked at the sky from the window, although the sky was far away, she could be bound in the boxy window, she was used to seeing the world of the sea and the sky in the mountain house, and suddenly returned to the Forbidden City, and the concubines in other palaces were not adaptable, but the queen actually didn't care, no matter how broad the sky was, she couldn't see Hua Rong, and everything was the same in her eyes.

After saluting, Hongyan said: "The concubine came to ask you, at the princess's reception banquet at night, do you want to put soft cushions on your couch, if the mother does not drink, change the wine in the wine pot in front of you into water, do you think it is appropriate?" ”

The queen shook her head: "Don't bother, I don't want to go, speaking of which, I haven't taken leave from the emperor yet, you can tell the emperor for me in a while." ”

Hongyan sighed in her heart, the people in the Internal Affairs Office really guessed well, and the rumors in the palace were not out of nowhere, and in the state of the queen, it seemed that anyone could guess her thoughts. She thought for a while and said: "The concubine knows that Niangniang is mourning Hua Rong, so she has no intention of any joy, but she still wants to explain what happened yesterday, what the princess said to the twelve elder brothers, please don't take it to heart, the princess has lost her husband, and she is strong in the human wall, but in fact, she is always heartbroken." And in the princess's heart, there is no substitute for the mother, what the twelfth elder brother said is not wrong at all, but he said it to those who shouldn't say it, and those who shouldn't listen to it. ”

The queen looked at Hongyan lazily and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"What's the matter?" Hongyan was stunned, and cautiously mentioned that yesterday He Jing failed to come to the queen yesterday to say goodbye, she tactfully said that it was the twelfth elder brother who invited the imperial sister, but He Jing refused, while observing the changes in the mood on the queen's face, but soon she found that she had done more, and the queen didn't even shake her eyes.

"Yongxuan hasn't spoken to me in a long time." The queen sighed lightly, turned her eyes and continued to look at the sky framed in the window, "The day Hua Rong was gone, he heard what I said to Hua Rong, he knew that I had only thought about Fu Qingge in my heart for so many years, the child knew everything, he knew it in the end." ”

Hongyan covered his mouth and looked at the queen in disbelief, no wonder the twelfth elder brother became sharp, no wonder he was so excited to prove the dignity of his concubine in the middle palace in front of people yesterday, that sentence My Eniang is the queen of the middle palace, said so loudly and firmly, sure enough, there is a reason for everything.

"Since then, we have barely spoken." The queen said, "I was not fair to him, what else can I ask of him." He bumped into the princess, and it was troublesome for you to be considerate in front of the princess, but Yongxuan's temperament made it difficult for him to apologize. ”

Hongyan tried to settle her mind, at least she could rest assured, the twelfth elder brother would never betray his mother, the child grew up and could understand the importance of it, otherwise he wouldn't have said those words to He Jing yesterday, the child looked at it, as if he wanted to earn his own future from now on.

"What Niangniang meant, the concubine understood." Hongyan said, "But even if Niangniang doesn't attend, your seat still has to be placed there, please allow the concubine to think about herself selfishly, and the concubine doesn't want to be said to have encroached on your dignity." ”

The queen smiled, "I don't care, you know. ”

Hongyan said: "Niangniang doesn't care, but the concubine does." Can the concubine ask you another word? Seeing that the queen nodded silently, she said, "For the twelfth elder brother, does the mother still regard herself as a mother, and will she still think about the future of the twelfth elder brother?" ”

The queen smiled bitterly: "I naturally still regard myself as a mother, but what else can I do for him, you can also see it, I can't do anything without Hua Rong." Once upon a time, she was there, taking care of the things up and down for me, and I ...... Just think about Brother Fu Qing. ”

Hongyan said: "But in the past ten years, you are no less than Queen Fucha in all aspects, the emperor has been praising you in front of the concubines, forgiving the concubines for being too talkative, the queen mother, what do you want to do for the Twelfth Elder Brother now, it may be really too late, but as long as you still support your dignity and responsibility as the Middle Palace, the Twelfth Elder Brother will not be looked down upon by others." In the affairs of the six palaces, there are concubines, and the concubines will not bother you, but the position next to the emperor, only you can sit, you just need to sit next to the emperor and smile at everyone, it is enough. ”

The queen smiled slightly and asked Hongyan: "Your words are also right and wrong for others to hear, and it is rare that you can say these heartfelt words to me." ”

Hongyan bowed and said: "It's the mother who treats the concubines well." ”

The night of the wind banquet, the Qianqing Palace was staggered and lively, the emperor was surrounded by the queen mother and the queen, Hongyan just sat at the head of the concubines, the embarrassment of the wind did not appear, whether it was the queen or Hejing, they were all decent, even if they had something on their minds, even if the Nala clan in Hejing's eyes was not worthy of sitting in that position at all, but the royal dignity that had been on the lips of the queen mother did not lose any of it.

Hongyan sat quietly on the side, drinking the wine in the cup, and heard Concubine Yu say in her ear: "Have you been to Yikun Palace, haven't you, the queen really gives you face." ”

Hongyan smiled: "It has nothing to do with me, they each have a sense of proportion in their hearts, but we are worried about it." ”