In the past, Zhongcui Palace was lonely, and the Hui nobles at that time came to the door to sigh, the four seasons in the deep palace are never what flowers are red and yellow, but the scene of the ups and downs of the palaces and courtyards, and now the winter is going to spring in the first month, who would have thought that the Yi Concubine of Yikun Palace would make a scene like that, and after angering the Queen Mother, there would be such good luck.

Legend has it that she spent money to let the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace lead the emperor to fight there, so that she could see her pitiful appearance and be moved, and legend has it that the emperor was originally very fond of her, so he privately pleaded with his grandmother to exempt Yi Concubine from punishment.

But having said that, the light of Yonghe Palace is still dazzling, on the night of the Lantern Festival, everyone stretched their necks to see which palace the emperor would go to, whether it was appropriate for the concubine to be in the limelight, and they would forget about Yonghe Palace, but Xuan Ye would never forget the night of love with Lan Qi, and after the banquet was dispersed this night to serve the emperor's grandmother and sleep, the two walked back hand in hand.

There was a heavy snowfall before the Lantern Festival, and when the snow was the coldest now, Xuan Ye stopped and touched Lan Qi's other hand as he walked, and said angrily: "Put the warm sedan chair and don't sit, you have to walk back, look at the cold hands." So he put her hand to her mouth to warm up, and asked the person behind her to bring the hand stove and persuade her, "The sedan chair is following behind, is it okay to sit in the sedan chair?" ”

Lan Qi took the emperor's hand and continued to face forward, Xuan Ye followed, and heard her say: "These days, the time to see the emperor is getting less and less, and it is rare to be together, so I want to see you all the time, and the sedan chair is about to separate." ”

"Slow down, be careful." Xuan Ye followed behind her, and was pulled forward step by step by her, recently he did go to Yi Concubine more, that day after being drunk in Qianqing Palace, he never spent the night in Yonghe Palace, occasionally went over to take a look during the day, or had lunch or drank a cup of tea, all of them were talking skills, most of them were close to Yi Concubine, or in Chengqian Palace and Xianfu Palace, I thought that she would be jealous, but every time I saw people, she smiled so beautifully and sweetly, and my heart was steady. Seeing her jumping in front of me now, I like it in my heart, and I can't help but tease her: "These days, are you jealous?" ”

Lan Qi turned around and stopped, looking at Xuan Ye proudly, "If the emperor doesn't come tonight, the concubine will really be jealous, the concubine has already told the empress dowager that if you go elsewhere or in the Qianqing Palace tonight, the concubine will not plan to go out in the first month, and she will not go to Cining Palace to serve." ”

Xuan Ye frowned with a smile and patted her forehead: "You have such a big temper, you dare to make a mess with the imperial grandmother?" ”

"Isn't it? It's all used to the queen mother and the emperor, and they can't be changed. Lan Qi shook her neck proudly as she spoke, but she heard a soft click, and her neck immediately froze there, so painful that she couldn't help but whimper: "Your Majesty, your neck, your neck can't move." ”

"What's wrong?" Xuan Ye reached out to hold her head in shock.

Lan Qi's body couldn't help but shrink back, whimpering: "It hurts, the emperor is light." ”

"Can you still move? Slowly try to turn back. Xuan Ye held her head and wanted to turn her neck a little bit, but Lan Qi was so pained that tears flowed, waving her hand and begging for mercy, "Can't move, don't turn the emperor, your neck is going to break......"

Xuan Ye was so angry that he wanted to beat her, but he still held back, picked up the person, and instructed Li Gonggong to announce that the imperial doctor was looking for the orthopedic master, and the warm sedan chair behind her followed, but she held the door alive and refused to be with the emperor, so she threw her into her warm sedan chair again, and the group hurried back.

The orthopedic master groped and kneaded for a long time, and said: "Niangniang, it's rude." Hearing a clattering sound, Lan Qi's head was just coming over, under the severe pain and fright, a face with tears as white as paper, the osteopathic master and the imperial doctor said some careful things, and then tossed and withdrew.

Everyone came to serve and wash, Xuan Ye's face was full of anger, Lan Qi wanted to serve him with his own hands, and was scolded to stay still, Huan Chun came over to wink at her, and said softly: "Master, stop it." ”

After washing and changing, the palace maids and eunuchs all retreated, both of them were already wearing their bedclothes, Lan Qi was still sitting on the kang, so she clumsily wanted to go to the ground, but obviously her neck could move, but she was timid and didn't dare to move, her movements were stiff and couldn't get the point, and she hadn't rubbed it down for a long time, Xuan Ye saw that her intestines were itchy, and she came over and picked her up and put her back on the bed, gritting her teeth and saying, "What do you say you are messing around?" For a good night, tossing these things, and saying that you want to be with me all the time, that's all nonsense? ”

But no matter how angry I was, I was still very distressed to see her pitiful appearance. What I was anxious about was that if there was any big trouble, her body would be damaged was a lifelong regret, and now the imperial doctor and the osteopathic master said that it was okay, relieved, it was really funny to think about it, and scolded her and didn't dare to fight back, curled up in a ball, and saw that people were soft.

"Does it still hurt?" As soon as Xuan Ye lay down, the people around him got into the crook of his arm and lay down, how could he be willing to train her again, and gently touched his neck to coax her, "If you are uncomfortable, you must say that you are distressed, but you are not allowed to speak for fear of being scolded." ”

"Yes." Lan Qi responded softly and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, is it true that your neck will be broken if you twist it badly, and you will die?" ”

"You know that, too?" Xuan Ye snorted, "But it's not death that's terrifying, if you make it half-...... Bah, don't you remember those eight words? Mention what death, you will accompany me for the rest of your life. The orthopedic master is right, you serve the emperor's grandmother every day, and you do those things over and over again, and the bones on your body are stiff, and I will let them find a female Taoist priest in a few days, and you will practice Tai Chi and move your muscles and bones. ”

Lan Qi nestled in his arms and said softly: "The emperor lives in Yonghe Palace a lot, and the concubines' muscles and bones are loose, what kind of Tai Chi do you practice?" ”

There was silence on the bed for a moment, Xuan Ye didn't understand, Lan Qi was weak-hearted, but soon there was laughter, and Xuan Ye pinched her under the waist, "Don't be ashamed, you are really not ashamed now." He teased her again, "What a good day, I have to toss blindly, I am reluctant to work hard for you anymore, take care of your neck for a few days, and sleep honestly tonight." ”

Lan Qi also has self-knowledge, tonight's neck is like this, and she can't do it anymore, so she wants to coax Xuan Ye to be happy, and the two of them talk and laugh. Because they were all a little excited after eating, snuggling up to the south and the north and chatting, Xuan Ye suddenly remembered something and instructed her: "At the end of February, on the third anniversary of Empress Niu Hulu's death, I have decided to move Empress Hesheli Zigong to Changrui Mountain, and then I will leave the palace for more than half a month, and I will come back in mid to late March, I will take the prince with me, you are in the palace, take good care of the imperial grandmother." ”

"The concubine knows, the emperor can rest assured." Lan Qi responded.

"There is another thing, I hesitate to tell you, I am afraid that it will scare you, and if I don't say it, I don't know if you will be stupid and bullied in the future." Xuan Ye sighed, turned over and hugged Lan Qi in his arms, and gently stroked her back, "I ask first, do you want to know?" ”

Lan Qi couldn't guess, "What's the matter, the emperor is so nervous?" ”

Xuan Ye's voice was deep: "The eldest brother accidentally ate poisonous mushroom mooncakes, there is a result, I don't plan to tell Concubine Hui, anyway, she won't come to ask, just drag it out, but you ......"

Lan Qi immediately replied: "The concubine wants to know." ”

The night is deep, it has long passed the time when the doors of the palaces are locked, but there is a lively movement in front of the door of Yikun Palace, Yi Concubine stands in front of the door, Hui Concubine is wrapped in clothes and is about to get on the sedan chair, and says with a smile: "Go back quickly, be careful of freezing, I will turn a corner here, don't get in the way, see you tomorrow." ”

Yi Concubine was polite, but insisted on watching the warm sedan chair leave, only then did she shiver back to the dormitory, standing on the edge of the charcoal basin to roast the fire, Peach brought a bowl of hot milk to warm her body, and said softly: "Concubine Hui has a way, the princess will not cry when she is coaxed by her." ”

Yi Concubine drank hot milk before coming to the cradle, reaching out to Ke Jing to tuck the quilt, there was love in her eyes, but her mouth sneered: "Isn't the nurse more capable of doing it than her?" It's just that when I saw her rushing to help, I just took advantage of the situation. She saw that my life was better again, so she came to stammer, in this palace, she said that it sounded good, it was exquisite, and it was ugly, isn't it just the grass on the wall? But there is Mingzhu Mansion behind her, and our Guo Luoluo family is far away in the northeast, so it is not a bad thing to get along with her. ”

Taohong smiled: "In the final analysis, the emperor still feels sorry for his master, and even the will of the empress dowager can be changed, which is your blessing." ”

Yi Concubine sat in front of the mirror, looked at her beautiful face in the mirror, and motioned for Taohong to remove her hair bun for her, but she looked at her blankly, and only said for a long time: "The Empress Dowager tossed me, mostly for the sake of Wu Ya's anger, those things I and Hui Concubine tacitly know, I have been scared, and I dare not argue anything, to say that I was really drunk in front of Ningshou Palace that day, and I really couldn't bear the separation of flesh and blood, who knew that it would be transferred, and the emperor took pity on me again." You all say that it is my blessing, and it is the Lord who cherishes me, but I am his pillow person, what is going on, I can understand in my heart. ”

Peach could see it a little more and persuaded her: "The master just cherishes the blessings, what does he care for?" Long live the Lord is good to you, it is the face of this palace, isn't it good for us to live a beautiful life? When the emperor comes, you greet him with a smile and serve the emperor well, if there is a man and half a woman, the queen mother can no longer snatch it away. ”

Yi Concubine bowed: "This can only be the case now, one step at a time." Saying this, a cold light of disdain flashed in the eyes of the person in the mirror, and he laughed at himself, "Even Concubine Tong can't fight her, and she is restrained by the care of the Queen Mother. ”

At this time, there was a sudden loud noise, and I didn't know what was dropped outside, so I heard someone crying: "Let me out......" Seeing that Ke Jing was about to be awakened, Yi Concubine's face was dark and heavy with murderous intent, and she drank Ling Taohong, "Control her, the medicine that should be given to her, don't stop, I don't want to hear her screaming." ”

The noise of Yikun Palace was quickly curbed, in the middle of the night, no one knew what medicine Guo Guiren had been poured into, but recently she has become more and more quiet, but on the one hand, it is so quiet as if it does not exist, and on the other hand, she is hysterical when she occasionally has a seizure, naturally this side will not be exposed in front of people, every time the emperor comes to Yikun Palace, Guo Guiren is sleeping, and outsiders only think that she is not in good health, who will really care and care.

As the days passed, Concubine De once joked with the Empress Dowager that if the emperor did not go to Yonghe Palace on the night of the Lantern Festival, she would never go out again, nor would she go to serve the old man, but the emperor obviously went, she still did not go out, and the old man later heard Xuan Ye talk about her neck sprain, and smiled from ear to ear, and bluntly said that Lan Qi is a living treasure, and she is still full of childishness after all these years, and then heard that the emperor decided to put the Zigong of the two queens into the mausoleum, so he had to mention the matter of the middle palace being suspended.

After all, the harem cannot be ownerless, but Xuan Ye just doesn't let go, and he tries his best to be impartial for the two families, everyone is waiting for three years, this year, the two queens' Zigong will be the last to enter the mausoleum, and the court will inevitably begin to loosen again, and there are also old ministers who come to the empress dowager to make suggestions, hoping that the emperor can be established, and the Qing Dynasty cannot be without the mother of the country.

"The imperial grandmother and the imperial mother are both the mother of the country, why is there no such thing as the mother of the country?" Speaking of these words, Xuan Ye still had a tough attitude, and said to the Empress Dowager, "In the future, if they come to bother the imperial grandmother again, you will send them to the Qianqing Palace to talk to me." ”

The Empress Dowager has always known her grandson's intentions, but she passed these words on to him, Xuan Ye was not angry at her, she comforted her grandson and said: "What are you angry about, they also have their concerns, I tell you, not to force you to stand up, but to let you know what they are thinking." ”

"My grandson understands that he doesn't want to wronged you." Xuan Ye calmed down, and said with a smile, "Right now, in the harem, although Concubine Tong is respected, but the phoenix seal of Empress Niu Hulu has not belonged, if the three feudal lords are decided this year, the grandson will give you and the queen mother another emblem, and at that time, I will also ask the imperial grandmother to issue an order, I will seal the six palaces, and hand over the phoenix seal to the concubine." ”

The Empress Dowager said: "The concubine has ignored the affairs of the Six Palaces so far, she holds the phoenix seal, are you not afraid of chaos in the palace?" ”

Xuan Ye smiled: "The concubine's mind is very simple, just meet everything she wants, not to mention that she has always been too lazy to take care of the affairs of the six palaces, and she has no ability to take care of it. If there is really something out of the ordinary, there is always the imperial grandmother who is there, and if you give a few more words of admonition, your grandson will sit back and relax. ”

The Empress Dowager laughed: "You don't want me to live in peace." ”

Xuan Ye said: "It's just that Lan Qi is not as old as them, otherwise with her in charge of the Sixth Palace, you can sit back and relax with your grandson." ”

"Lanqi?" The Empress Dowager shook her head with a smile, and Yin Yin advised, "You are willing to let her do things, I am still reluctant, I can't always be in front of me when I am busy with the affairs of the Sixth Palace, not to mention that she has been young and good in the past few years, you should love her more, let her feel at ease and add more grandchildren to me." ”

Xuan Ye was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "When she hears these words, she will be even more proud." ”

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