"Sister, when you return to the Forbidden City, will you also experience such a thing?" Ruyin asked Hongyan, and felt guilty that she couldn't let Concubine Shu go, "My cousin cried so sadly, I couldn't say a word." ”

Hongyan said: "It's not easy for Concubine Shu, but the Queen Mother likes her, so she will look forward to her well." As for me, the Queen Mother doesn't like me, so how can she care about me about these things, but she is worry-free. ”

Ruyin pursed her lips and said softly: "The Queen Mother doesn't like me either." ”

Hongyan was very surprised, looking at Ruyin's delicate and picturesque beautiful face, although she heard a few rumors during the draft, she always felt that the Queen Mother did not choose Ruyin because Shu Concubine's background was more valuable, and she couldn't help asking: "Because during the draft, didn't the Queen Mother choose you?" ”

"I listened to Fu Heng's third sister-in-law, I don't know where she heard the gossip, saying that I look too shrewd and capable, and there is no room for people like me in the palace." Ruyin said very sincerely, with a little smile, "Although I don't think I seem shrewd and capable, but the Queen Mother didn't choose me, it's really good." In the past, I only thought that I could not enter the palace, and I never had the luxury of marrying someone as good as Fu Heng. ”

Hongyan looked at her with a smile, Ruyin's happiness was about to overflow from her eyes, she was worried about what Fu Heng would do if she couldn't let go of that relationship, as a person who had never moved her heart from beginning to end, she really didn't know how to respond, and now that their husband and wife are loving and sweet, she is really relieved.

"I'm sorry sister, I'm not saying that the emperor is not good and doesn't want to enter the palace, I just don't want to carry the future of the Nalan clan, and even my cousin, my biological daughter, is unwilling to bear the honor and disgrace of the family, let alone me." Ruyin felt that what she said was a bit excessive, after all, Hongyan was the emperor's person.

"If there is a ......choice," Hongyan thought of the Double Ninth Festival that year, and shook her head, "The wish that used to be is no longer important now, I just look forward to living a good life in the future, just like your heart is in Fu Heng, my heart is in the emperor, I think we are the same." ”

Ruyin's joy was on her face, and after getting along for so long, she felt more and more Hongyan's deep affection for the emperor, and she never noticed the slightest ambiguity between her husband and her. Their acquaintance was long before his marriage contract with Fu Heng, and Fu Heng fell in love with someone else, even if it wasn't a red face, it was normal. Now it should be glad that Fu Heng is in love with Hongyan, if it is another woman, but if there is any impropriety to be messy with Fu Heng, Ruyin doesn't know what to do.

"Ruyin, in fact, I've always wanted to." Hongyan thought about these words for a long time, and felt that it was appropriate to speak today, she asked, "From the position of Lord Fucha, I think the people of the Fucha family don't want you to have more contact with me, right?" ”

Ruyin nodded and smiled awkwardly: "My sisters-in-law have reminded me many times, and when I entered the palace in the Mid-Autumn Festival, I said in front of my mother that I was inconsiderate of the queen. But then they all walked away, and Niangniang told me privately that she hoped that I could communicate more with my sister, and that when you returned to the palace in the future, you could get along better with Concubine Shu because of me. I also know what happened in the past, but I don't think Niangniang doesn't care anymore, so don't worry too much about my sister. ”

Hongyan understands everything in her heart, the queen's words must be just a rhetoric, as for whether to befriend Shu Concubine, Hongyan said frankly: "I have dealt with Shu Concubine Niangniang a few times, she looks at me very strangely every time, I am afraid that I can't let her like it, and it will be good to be at peace in the future, anyway, there are many people in the Forbidden City who hate me, and I don't force it." ”

"Cousin, she doesn't have a bad heart, she is just the pride of being used to by her family, get along more, she is a very real person." Ruyin smiled crookedly, "It must be that my cousin feels that she is being compared to you, so she is not happy, she saw me wearing a new dress, and her eyes were not good-looking." ”

"Really?" Hongyan laughed, "Next time, look at the way she looks at me, is it the same as when she was a child." ”

When the two were talking and laughing, Concubine Wen Hui happened to pass by, so she told Concubine Shouqi about this situation, and after she left, Concubine Shouqi and Mama Yuzhi said: "They are so good, I don't know if it is fate or evil, but if they can really last a lifetime, for Hongyan, they can have a bright and bright support." This child is really blessed, she can meet nobles everywhere, and the part between her and Fu Heng is not for the present and the future? ”

Yuzhi Mama said: "I don't know what Hongyan's future heirs will be, the slave and maid look at it, the queen mother is not there." ”

However, although the queen has little hope at the moment, she once had, as she gets older, it is understandable that she can no longer make a difference, on the contrary, young people such as Shu Concubine and Lu Guiren, the emperor's favor continues, but there has never been good news, and the queen mother is worried about whether the emperor's health is not good.

Time flies, this year's Double Ninth Festival, Hongyan didn't see Hongli again, maybe he hid in a corner and looked at himself I don't know, but she really didn't want Hongli to appear, and always felt that she had fulfilled this promise in order to fulfill her promise to pick her up in the future.

She was afraid that a sneaky short reunion would cause unnecessary trouble, and she was afraid that a moment of greed and happiness would ruin a lifetime of happiness, so she would rather wait patiently. Naturally, every time the emperor sent Yingtai to the concubine, there was always one thing that was specially given to her, and she knew that Hongli was still thinking about herself.

In the blink of an eye, it was the middle of winter, and before the emperor sealed it, he did the left deputy capital Yu Shi Zhongyongtan and E Rong'an to investigate their crime of leaking palace secrets, and these two people were once recommended by Gao Bin, the father of the concubine, and it was inevitable that they would be implicated.

Moreover, the harem does not ask about political affairs, but it involves the secrets of the inner palace, and the queen mother had to ask a word or two, and learned that it was inseparable from the noble concubine's family, so naturally she had to doubt the noble concubine's intentions, causing the noble concubine to not raise her head in front of the queen mother, she could not withstand the scare, and fell ill again before Chinese New Year's Eve.

However, because the concubine is sick, even the hospital is no longer shocked, this time no one cares about her, one is the New Year's Festival, no one does not want to be auspicious and festive, and then before the Lantern Festival in the first month, news came from Yingtai, saying that the concubine Shouqi was ill urgently, and asked the emperor to send another doctor.

Hongli attaches great importance to it, and the queen mother does not dare to be contemptuous, after the mother and son discussed, the emperor took away almost the entire people of the imperial hospital, and rushed to Yingtai the day before the Lantern Festival, but the concubine is very old, and a wind and cold cause many complications, and medicine can only continue life, and stay up for time.

Hongyan and the emperor have been separated for a year, but they can't care about what love words they say to each other, the concubine's condition is not optimistic, Hongli stayed in the Qingyun Palace all night, and the next day he didn't plan to return to the palace, he accompanied him to talk when the concubine woke up in the morning, and the concubine weakly warned him that he must take the country first, and the emperor can return to the palace.

Hongli didn't agree, and the concubine's repeated persuasion was useless, so she said that she wanted to find Hongyan, but Yuzhi's grandmother said: "Wei promised to send the decoction in the morning and disappeared, last night Wei promised to be in the Buddha Hall, and I just went to see it, and I was not in the Buddha Hall." ”

The concubine sighed weakly, pushed Hongli and said: "Go and look for it, and go back to the palace after a few words with her, you are guarding me like this, is it possible to look forward to me leaving?" I'm fine. ”

Mama Yuzhi also advised: "The imperial doctor said that the concubine Niangniang has eased up, and the concubine Niangniang can't recuperate with peace of mind here, she has no scruples when you go back, and the emperor will listen to his grandmother." ”

Hongli could only take a step and said: "After I dispersed the court every day, I came to see my grandmother, and I returned to the palace immediately after seeing it, so as not to delay the government and government, you can't stop me." ”

The concubine was too lazy to take care of him, and had closed her eyes to rest, when Xiao Lingzi ran back and told Mama Yuzhi: "Wei promised to hide there alone behind Penglai Pavilion, and now Cherry is guarding." ”

Mama Yuzhi said to the emperor: "I promised to guard the concubine for a few days, and only when the concubine was asleep did I secretly shed tears, and I accompanied her for a lifetime, and the slave maid had already prepared in her heart, but Wei promised that it would be uncomfortable." ”

Hongli's heart was heavy, and he followed Xiao Lingzi to find the place where Hongyan was, she knew that she had been discovered, and she had already walked back with cherries, and met Hongli halfway, the emperor had been guarding her grandmother after coming yesterday, and Hongyan didn't say a few words, and at this moment looked carefully, only to find that the people in the ice and snow looked haggard, probably not sleeping well for several nights.

"The concubine said that if there is a big holiday, don't alarm the palace, and insist on not letting the concubine send someone to tell the emperor." Hongyan said, already choked, "The concubine shouldn't be obedient, just ask the imperial doctor earlier." ”

Xiao Lingzi and Cherry both retreated, the emperor opened his clothes and wrapped his cold body, hugging after a year's absence, but it seemed that he had never been separated, maybe the Forbidden City and Yingtai were not far away, or maybe he could listen to Manager Wu report on Yingtai every day, he was still reluctant to let her shed tears, and the position and weight of his heart did not change in the slightest.

Hongli said gently: "The Tai Doctors here are the best in the Tai Hospital, if they can't do it, it doesn't make a difference if they are earlier or later." Don't blame yourself, the imperial grandmother is old, and many things are barely coming. ”

Hongyan didn't speak, her body trembled, as if she couldn't stand up strong when she found a support, her trembling tugged at Hongli's heart, as if she was back to the little palace maid who kept crying and trembling after the Double Ninth Festival that year.

Hongli was very distressed, and suddenly understood something in his heart, and asked: "Do you think that we are always looking forward to the day of reunion, the day when we will take you back to the Forbidden City, so that the concubine can suffer like this, and let her life ......?"

The emperor's words were not finished, Hongyan's reaction had already given the answer, she couldn't calm her self-blame, as if she was looking forward to that day, that is, looking forward to the concubine leaving. But the concubine is old, and her health was not very good when she first came to Yingtai, and she has been here for a few years and is more energetic than before, but she can't withstand the rush of time, and now I'm afraid that she is really at the end of her life.

Hongli comforted her: "I don't want you to blame yourself, I will always be with you." ”