After the emperor turned around and left, every mouthful of noodle soup swallowed by Hongyan seemed to be flavored with tears, she didn't cry, but she knew in her heart that the emperor's patience should be in the end. He once said that he would wait forever, Hongyan didn't believe it at the time, and this time she asked the emperor to wait, not a month or a year, she hoped that the concubine would live a long and healthy life, which meant that after this farewell, goodbye would be indefinite.

Hongyan even felt that it was better to break it off, and the long pain was better than the short pain. Unexpectedly, he was still thinking about himself and her birthday.

"Wei promised, there are some snacks here, made by your mother, and a few more clothes are also sewn by her, yesterday I got the news that we won't see you today, and we are worried about what will happen, sure enough, it ......" Wei Qingtai was distressed and helpless, he was honest and honest, he tried his best to go to Baozhen's door for his daughter, but he didn't expect Baozhen to destroy her future, and her daughter was favored by the queen, and then she didn't dare to think about it.

A year has passed, last year he looked at his daughter from afar through a door in the inner palace, Wei Qingtai's heart was broken, he hated his daughter for ruining her whole life, but the person who ruined her was the emperor, Wei Qingtai didn't even have to fight hard, how could he have thought that the emperor had true feelings for his daughter.

"Amma, I will leave the palace with the concubine the day after tomorrow, and when the emperor and the concubine choose a place, I will go there with the concubine, and I will not return to the Forbidden City." Hongyan accepted the things sent by her father, and calmly told her where to go, "You have also heard about today's events, I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in the palace, no matter what, I can't let the emperor get caught in it, there must be someone to back down, and the concubine is willing to take me in and take me away, which is already the best result." If you are in Yingtai or the Old Summer Palace, when Ama wants to come to see me, it is not difficult to walk more, if you go directly to the Chengde Palace, I don't know if you can be free in time, you can leave the Internal Affairs Office for a few days to make a round trip. ”

"Never coming back?" Wei Qingtai didn't know what to say.

"I'm looking forward to the emperor coming to pick me up, but Amma, you know that there will be new people coming in this palace soon, and Shu Guiren and Lu Guiren will appease the emperor." Hongyan smiled, really reluctantly, but quickly cheered up and said, "Ama don't worry, there is a father-in-law, even if I am not good, I am not afraid that someone will embarrass you." When you and your father-in-law are gone in the future, it's almost time for you to step down, follow your brother and sister-in-law, and enjoy your old age in peace. ”

"Child, this go, I'm afraid it's ......" Wei Qingtai sighed, thinking to himself, Hongyan is targeted everywhere here, and he is even more powerless in the face of the embarrassment of the Queen Mother, and in the end he will only end up with the notoriety of provoking the relationship between the Queen Mother and the emperor's mother and son. went to another place, if he was really forgotten by the emperor, he could still think of ways to dredge up elsewhere, even if he let his daughter be a palace maid to support himself, it was better than being pushed into a desperate situation here without knowing when.

"Amma, how did we think that we could have today, let's just let it go, the concubine said that I am a blessed person, I think at least I can't die." Hongyan smiled hard, hoping that her father could feel at ease, and told Ama not to tell E-Niang about today's incident, and when she went elsewhere, she also said that it was hand-picked by the emperor and the concubine, and she would live well in the future.

The father and daughter were talking in front of the door, how many pairs of eyes looked at it, naturally they couldn't say it deeper, Wei Qingtai didn't forget to salute when he left, and Hongyan remembered that the queen said in the past, it is rare to see relatives, but they are prostrate at your feet, what a sad feeling. But Hongyan felt that the rules in the palace could not be broken, and Amma was just dealing with people on the face, their father and daughter were grateful to each other even when they could see each other, and the queen's sadness should not be that relatives knelt at her feet, but that those relatives had long lost their affection.

Xiao Lingzi and Cherry sent Lord Wei out, Hongyan went back with something to talk back to the concubine, and the concubine also asked Yuzhi to take the gift she prepared to Hongyan, and when Xiao Lingzi and Cherry came back, they brought back another thing, but it was the person from Changchun Palace who they met on the road, saying that Aunt Qianya asked her to send it to Wei as promised.

"I thought no one knew that today was the concubine's birthday." Hongyan smiled with tears, maybe compared to the first year in the palace no one knows, compared to last year she was happy and waiting to serve the queen, went to the small kitchen to eat a bowl of noodles by herself, and woke up on the dragon couch in the Palace of Nourishing Heart, this year she has received so much attention from so many people, received so many hearts, even Qianya still thinks about her.

"Go pack our things, we'll leave the day after tomorrow. When you're done with your work, come and clean up for me, Yuzhi has already complained, saying that there are too many things to collect. "The concubine is full of expectations, and she has no nostalgia for this Forbidden City.

Hongyan took the cherry back to her house, her things were originally very simple, but this year, the emperor sent things to her at every turn, and then there were favors from other places, the house was stuffed full, spread out, and tomorrow she had to ask her father-in-law to get a few big boxes.

Hongyan put on the clothes that Eniang sewed for her, either the sleeves were short, or the trouser legs were short, Hongyan called the cherries, took them off and gave her a try, and it didn't fit well, so she had to smile and said: "It's appropriate for you to grow taller next year, and my Eniang is still the size when I entered the palace, and the clothes are small." ”

Cherry has no father or mother, and the clothes she wears are all entrusted by her father-in-law to make them when the palace maid in the needlework room is free, and she is wearing the clothes made by Hongyan's sister Eniang, and she is so happy that she is reluctant to take it off, as if she got her own mother's doing, and Hongyan urged her: "Take it off, let's put things away, and we will leave the day after tomorrow." ”

Cherry came running and asked, "Is it that I won't be able to see my grandfather again in the future." ”

"The concubine said that the princess would stay in the palace for another year, and then she would go to us." Hongyan said, "Otherwise, I am reluctant to part with you." ”

"That year, I was lawless, and my grandfather couldn't beat me." Cherry smiled like a flower, but Hongyan knew that she was deliberately trying to make herself happy. Seeing the scars on her forehead that would take some time to fade, she couldn't help but feel distressed, pulled the cherry to the light to apply the plaster, and repeatedly advised, "Don't scratch it with your hands after you are ready, it will be ugly if you leave a scar, and if you don't obey, I will tie your hands." ”

Cherry smiled innocently, but she thought to herself, what she promised the princess today, is it better to fulfill it, grandpa said that if he promised people, he must do it, but they will leave the day after tomorrow.

This night, Shoukang Palace was busy packing up things, and others saw it in their eyes, and gradually news spread out, but I don't know if the concubine is going to leave or Wei promised to leave, there is no accurate number of where to go, all the palaces have calculated that after tonight, they should be able to know tomorrow.

The emperor was bored alone in the Yangxin Palace all night, since the queen had shirked motion sickness before and couldn't walk, and it was inconvenient to go out to see him again, knowing that Hongli had hit a wall in Ningshou Palace, and broke up unhappily in Shoukang Palace, he could only wait like this. Stayed up until the next morning, the queen personally sent He Jing to the study, planning to go to the Yangxin Palace to wait for the emperor to go down, as soon as the mother and daughter went out, Wang Gui found that someone was sneaky, and took the little eunuch for two or three months to find it, and sure enough, he caught a little palace maid.

Seeing that it was the cherry beside Hongyan, the queen couldn't help but worry that something had happened to Hongyan, and asked, "What's wrong with Wei Promise?" ”

Cherry was so frightened that she trembled, but when she saw the princess beside the queen, she still mustered up the courage to say: "Wei promised that it was okay, the slave and the slave maid are here to find the princess." ”

The queen was even more surprised, and asked her daughter, "What can you do?" ”

In Shoukang Palace, Hongyan didn't see the cherry early in the morning, and the little Lingzi who was with her all day long was nowhere to be seen, she suddenly remembered what the cherry had said when she combed the concubine's hair, worried that the child was really going to find the princess, and didn't dare to tell the concubine to let her old man bother again, under the pretext of packing up her things and leaving, she called the two little eunuchs to go out to find it.

But they didn't go far before they met Xiao Lingzi and Cherry who came back, and Cherry heard that Hongyan was worried, so she immediately ran back and happily showed Hongyan what the queen mother had rewarded her, and said with a sigh of relief: "The princess said forget it, don't let the slave and maid receive the punishment, and the queen mother also said that the slave and maid did a good job and rewarded me with this." ”

Hongyan's heart fell back into her stomach, patting her head, not knowing whether to blame or praise, but the cherry is so small that she understands the truth that she must do what she says, even if she is afraid, she dares to face it, but many adults can't do it.

After that, they were busy packing up their things, and it didn't take long for Mr. Wu to personally pass on the emperor's words, saying that Yingtai had been selected for Concubine Shouqi, and someone had been sent to do it at the moment, as long as it didn't rain tomorrow, the concubine would be sent out of the palace. In this way, the matter of the concubine and Wei agreeing to leave the Forbidden City has finally reached a certainty, but there are different opinions about whether this trip is a short period of distraction or a long-term non-return.

Mama Hua personally came to ask Mama Yuzhi about it clearly, and returned to Ningshou Palace to tell the Queen Mother, mentioning that after the concubine went to Yingtai, the emperor and the harem and even the Queen Mother could no longer get close to Yingtai, and she wanted to spend her last days there in peace, in other words, Wei promised not to come back, Mama said: "The body of the concubine, let alone a year or two, the emperor will definitely forget it after a year or two, so don't worry about it anymore." ”

However, after a night of calmness, the Queen Mother is no longer as strong as yesterday, she has no malicious intentions, and she doesn't really want to target Hongyan. But every time she has something to do with Wei Hongyan, she will become a villain inexplicably, the emperor doesn't understand her, the queen avoids her, this time even Concubine Shouqi personally came to slap her in the face, and she, the queen mother, is too aggrieved.

The day passed quickly, Hongyan's things had been packed, the concubine was ready to go first, and then sent to Yingtai after handing it over to her father-in-law, Concubine Wen Hui was also willing to go with her sister after learning the news, and after their sisters were locked in the house and discussed for a long time, Concubine Shouqi finally agreed. In this way, Shoukang Palace is almost half empty, and there are no elders in the palace who can overpower the Queen Mother, and the few old people left by Kangxi Ye, after all, have a low status and cannot be compared with the two imperial concubines.

On the day of departure, the weather was fine, the six palaces wanted to send each other, the emperor was persuaded to retreat, and even the queen did not let the queen come, I don't know what others think, the queen knew in her heart that Hongli was going to say something to Hongyan in the end, if she was on the side, she couldn't say anything.

She wasn't jealous in her heart, but this time it happened too suddenly, and it had nothing to do with her, and when she wanted to reconcile it, everything was decided. And Hongyan left, I don't know if he broke off his affection with the emperor from then on, or even took Hongli's heart away.

In front of the Shoukang Palace, it is rare to gather so many people, Hongli served the two grandmothers to board the sedan chair, Hongyan followed the Shouqi concubine, they did not say anything after taking a photo, after the sedan left the Forbidden City, the concubine asked the emperor to stay, but ordered Hongyan to get out of the car: "Go and say goodbye to the emperor, pass on my words, please take care of the emperor." ”

Hongyan has always been very calm, she thought that she had fully accepted such an arrangement, but when she saw Hongli again, the two stared at each other under the car, she knew how painful her heart was, and she realized how reluctant she was to go, and she bit her lip tightly to contain her sadness, but the emperor stepped forward and said: "If you don't want to go, I will tell the imperial grandmother now." ”