It has been a year since the emperor promised Hongyan to let her do it, if there was no queen to stop her at this time last year, there would have been no concubine Xin in the palace, and she should have been in the Forbidden City, or in this unsightly place in the Old Summer Palace, and slowly end her life.

"It's okay, the biggest thing in the palace in the past few years is the 70th birthday of the Queen Mother, we are enjoying it, and she is tired." Hongyan walked to her room, Cherry followed, and heard her master instruct herself, "When I discuss with Yongying, you can send a message to Imperial Doctor He, as long as she can't sleep." ”

"The slave knows." Cherry agreed, but couldn't help muttering, "Killing chickens with a knife, why does the master go around in such a big circle?" ”

"I want the Queen Mother to see clearly." Hongyan said, "Otherwise, I don't know who will come again, as long as I live from now on, the affairs of the six palaces will definitely be in my hands, I hope her old man can understand, I will respect her for the rest of my life and serve her, she is the supreme existence in this palace, I hope she will not cause me any more trouble." ”

"What if the Queen Mother is obsessed?" Cherry asked.

Hongyan smiled bitterly: "In fact, the Queen Mother understands better than anyone else, where is he obsessed." ”

Let's say that on the day of the Queen Mother's birthday, the princesses played carefree all day, but they had to go back to the study the next day to collect their hearts. And the eleventh elder brother's calligraphy has been tutored by Hongyan, he often writes in Hongyan's room, today Hongyan specially called her, while writing while mentioning what to do later, Yongying usually looks like he forgot about this matter, but in fact, he kept his promise and waited for Hongyan to tell him, and said very steadily: "Ling Niangniang, I have been waiting for you, I thought you forgot." ”

"How can I forget, every March is the death day of your fourteenth brother, how can I forget." Hongyan said softly, "Yongying, if you have any unwillingness, tell me immediately, it is best not to involve you." I'm still very uneasy, I don't know if your mother is in the spirit of heaven is blaming me. ”

Yong Ying said: "Although my memory has long been blurred, if I don't see the portrait, I can't remember what E-Niang looks like, but I still remember E-niang's voice calling me." The fourth brother and the starling remember it very clearly, and the starling still thinks about Eniang now, although the people in the palace say that Eniang is domineering and arrogant, and no one likes her. But she is our E-Niang, E-Niang's death is not clear, and my starling and I both want to give E-Niang an explanation, but the fourth brother is in charge of it, and we are not even allowed to mention E-Niang on the death day every year. The fourth brother is too timid. ”

I still remember that when Hongyan was still a palace maid, Queen Fucha's palace maid Baozhen was afraid that she wanted to replace her, and joined hands with Jia Concubine at that time to harm herself, and it was Fu Heng who saved herself at the last moment, so this lingering affection to this day, as well as the so-called blessing of Hongyan's immortality, have everything today. Baozhen has long since disappeared, Queen Fucha and Concubine Jia are gone, just like the confinement of Concubine Chun, everyone remembered her when she was alive, and as soon as she left, everyone forgot her, Hongyan thought about it carefully, except for that incident, she couldn't remember what Concubine Jia said when she was mean to her.

"Let her live, don't let the Queen Mother forget her." Hongyan muttered to herself, her very soft voice did not let Yongying understand, she put away the words written by Yongzheng and said, "I am not strong enough to write, and then I will teach you the words in the future will be a little girly, and I will go back and let Huang Ama invite a good gentleman for you, and give good advice." ”

Yong Ying thanked him, thought about it, and said curiously: "Do you know that Ling Niangniang's words were learned from the Fucha family." ”

Hongyan was stunned, and even a little nervous, Yongying copied the font of the twelfth elder brother Fucha Demin, but one said that he was learning from the emperor's mother, and the other was learning from his grandfather, and later learned that the queen's mother learned it from Demin's great-grandmother in Fucha's house when she was young, and it was a little complicated, Yongxuan just smiled: "Yongxuan is not happy, and said that he will not let Demin write his grandfather's font in the future, and Yongxuan will not write it." ”

"Yes, no wonder I heard that the emperor invited another gentleman for the twelfth elder brother." Hongyan was perfunctory, and coaxed Yong Ying to say, "This is a matter of the Middle Palace, let's not care, if you want to learn better, I will go with your mother and tell Huang Ama, you just have to say it generously." ”

At this time, Xiao Qi probed his brain in front of the door, and said impatiently: "Brother Eleven, why are you not well, we are waiting for you to eat, come quickly." ”

Hongyan smiled and asked, "Why don't you invite E-niang to dinner." ”

Xiao Qi smiled: "Huang Ama is coming in a while, what is Eniang going to do." Then he ran up and pulled Yong Ying out, leaving his red face alone.

This night, the emperor came, mentioned the canonization of Rong Concubine, and said that the Queen Mother wanted to see him today, and she must be to ask for the title of Xin Concubine, and the emperor did not go to see the Queen Mother on the grounds of being busy. ”

"The concubine should send the concubine back to the Forbidden City before the lunar month." Hongyan suddenly said, "Chengqian Palace is the place where Empress Xiaoyi lived in the past, it is not appropriate to let her recuperate, and the concubine has arranged another place for her to live, I don't know if the emperor wants to nod?" ”

Hongli was stunned, for so long, she thought that Hongyan had given up, and with his personality, he would never take the initiative to mention it and ask what was going on, but she didn't expect that she was still thinking about it. Thinking about it, the Queen Mother has just passed the Thousand Autumns, and she should have waited until now to take into account the mood of the Queen Mother's birthday.

"After that, there will be some waves in the palace, there will be some things that should not be mentioned, and some people will be involved." Hongyan lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the golden dragon on the emperor's chest, and continued, "If the emperor can trust the concubines, everything will be cleaned up by the concubines. The concubines only asked the emperor to show a word. ”

Hongli was silent, and they muttered to each other for a while, and the emperor took her hand and said, "You know, I ...... 's temper and personality, I don't know what I'll see later, I wish you would stop. ”

Hongyan smiled indifferently: "The concubine guessed it." ”

Hongli was not convinced, and said helplessly: "But I promised you, even if it will still make you feel that I am unreliable in the future, I will never regret this matter, you do it, if you can't clean it up, there will be me." In your eyes, I'm the best at whitewashing the peace, and I can cover up the things that are so bad that they can't be worse. ”

At first hearing this, Hongyan was shocked, it could be seen that the emperor's eyes were so sincere, and he knew that he was dissecting his heart, so he smiled and said: "That's not it, how can the emperor be so unbearable?" ”

Hongli put his arm around her waist and said, "Kick your nose in the face, dare to say such a thing, you are not afraid of me turning my face and leaving." ”

Hongyan has the heart to coax the emperor to be happy, in order to fulfill his wishes, how can he really let the emperor turn his face and leave, the soft fingers on Hongli's chest lightly stroked, and the emperor was a little soulful, she smiled: "I can't leave tonight, and the concubines can't be reluctant." ”

Hongli said unceremoniously: "You have something to ask me for, so you came to make me happy, and my mind has been on the children for the past few years, you think I don't know." ”

But the people in front of him are full of style, what the years have left on Hongyan is not aging, but making her bloom different beauty at different ages, more than 20 years together, can still make the emperor feel excited, only to see Hongyan gentle as water: "Putting your mind on the children is just an excuse, it is looking forward to the emperor having less sexual self-cultivation, and after ten or twenty years, he can still have the spirit of Ryoma." ”

Hongli laughed, blaming Hongyan for being able to say anything in order to achieve his goal, and the two of them didn't know which sentence was a joke and which one was serious, but because they were open to each other, they didn't need to pursue these things at all, and they were already immersed in the graceful beauty in front of them.

After that, the emperor was by Concubine Ling's side for several days, and he always shirked the busy affairs of the court during the day, and did not go to see the Queen Mother. Although the Queen Mother has the right to influence the promotion of concubines, she cannot be arbitrary, and Hongli's attitude is clearly not to agree, and the Queen Mother understands better.

This day is still empty, Manager Wu personally said that the emperor wants to see a few Mongolian princes, can not come to Ningchun Hall to ask for peace, when he left, he secretly glanced at the Xin concubine sitting aside, really frightened, the thick fat powder can not cover the black circles of the eyes, sunken eyes and cheeks, as if not eating, drinking or sleeping for a few days, such a dignity makes the emperor see, and the emperor is scared again.

The Queen Mother seems to be watching every day and is used to it, after Manager Wu left, she said lazily: "You also step down, the emperor will not come today, you go back and rest for a while." ”

Concubine Xin got up, obviously dangling weakly under her feet, and said to the Queen Mother: "If you don't give orders, the concubine will retreat." ”

"Have you not slept in days?" The Queen Mother said, "Let the Imperial Doctor prescribe soothing medicine for you, you look like this...... It's better not to see the emperor. ”

"The doctor prescribed medicine, but the concubine still couldn't sleep." Concubine Xin felt that her three souls and seven spirits had long since disappeared, and she had not slept for several days, as if she was wandering away from this world.

The Queen Mother summoned Mama Hua and asked her to ask her royal physician to diagnose and prescribe medicine for Concubine Xin's pulse, and sent people away, but she sighed to Mama Hua: "Empty bed and cold pillow, of course I can't sleep, I worked hard in the palace to help Fujin do everything, but the first emperor only saw Fujin virtuous, I can't see my hard work, I can understand the mood of Concubine Xin, better than anyone else." In the dead of night, there is only 'unfairness' left in this world. ”

Mama persuaded: "How can Concubine Xin be qualified to be compared with you, you are a blessed person, you look at the pomp and circumstance on the day of the birthday banquet, the whole world is bowed to your feet, from ancient times to the present, there can be a few people as noble as you." ”

The Queen Mother was quite proud, but she still shook her head: "I still have unsatisfactory things, I heard that the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was back then, Kangxi Ye did not follow her for a single thing, look at me, the emperor has not come for a few days?" ”