The night is quiet, the sound of the piano is leisurely, waking up from a drunken dream, the rhythm in the ears is different from the past, the sound is slowly melancholy, Lan Qi opened her eyes, the candlelight in the house is flickering, unknown or not, she opened her mouth to call someone to bring water to drink, and she didn't want to toss them in the middle of the night, so she endured it.

Turning over, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and I thought: Who is stroking the piano tonight?

In the Chengqian Palace, Xuan Ye got up from the piano and said with a smile: "I haven't touched it for a long time, it's very unfamiliar, or you play it well, it's late at night, otherwise you must play a song." ”

"Concubines don't like to play the piano." Concubine Tong sat on the side, just listening to Xuan Ye caressing the qin, and she was determined to say this to him, "Your Majesty, you will come to Chengqian Palace in the future, let's have some other fun." The concubine doesn't like to play the piano, it's Ama who says you like it so that the concubine learns, and let the concubine play it for you, although every time you like it, every sound is not from the bottom of your heart, and the concubine is not happy at all. ”

She got up and left her seat, bent her knees steadily in front of Xuan Ye, and her voice was choked: "Don't be angry, the emperor will never want to play the piano again in the future, if you have to ask the reason, the concubine can't say, it's ...... I don't want to play the piano anymore. ”

Xuan Ye smiled indifferently: "Every time you play the piano, you think that it was your uncle who asked you to do this, and you did it just to please me, only if you please me, I will be good to you, so I am getting more and more uncomfortable." ”

Concubine Tong raised her head, her eyes were already full of tears, and tears rolled down at a glance, and she was about to reach out to wipe her tears, but Xuan Ye's hand reached over, personally helped her up, and held her shoulder steadily, saying: "You still have to play the piano, the sound of the piano spreads, and others will know that I am here with you, and they will know that we are okay." If you don't play the piano, your uncle and they should be in a hurry, and the more troublesome is still to come. I understand that I am good to you, not because you play the piano, so you still have to play the piano. ”

"The Emperor's ......"

"The wine tonight is too strong, and I'm all drunk." Xuan Ye smiled meaningfully, and gently pushed her to the couch together, "Go to bed early, don't think nonsense, just get up tomorrow morning." ”

Concubine Tong was pushed to the side of the bed, the emperor called someone in, here to serve the concubine to take off her clothes, and there to serve the emperor to change clothes, and when the two of them lay side by side on the bed, Xuan Ye was already tired, lazily closed his eyes, and heard the concubine seem to call out to his cousin, he hummed softly, and then made no sound.

The concubine turned over, tears wet the pillow, she stubbornly closed her eyes, her body trembled slightly, but Xuan Ye's hand suddenly put on her waist, her slender body immediately froze, the person behind her did not speak, and she didn't dare to cry anymore, so quietly and silently, she fell into a dream in a daze.

Before dawn the next day, there was a strong wind, and after dawn it snowed, and the wind swept the snow particles into every corner of the imperial city, and the doors and windows of all palaces and courtyards were tightly blocked, and the houses that were not easy to burn charcoal to warm up were blown cold by the wind again.

When Lan Qi woke up from a drunken dream, it was already past the time when she went to Cining Palace on weekdays, she was stupidly stunned on the bed, her head was blank, she felt hot and dry, and her lips were wrinkled with a layer of skin.

The green pearls and jade sunflowers came to serve, washed and washed up, drank water and entered the porridge, the little nobleman who was hangover and did not wake up was relieved, but his body was still soft, so he listened to Huanchun laugh at her: "The master is still very honest when he is drunk, he sleeps quietly, he doesn't cry, he doesn't make trouble or vomit, but he sleeps too steadily, and he almost rolls down from the sedan chair, and the slave and maid are also used once, and you come back in a soft sedan chair." ”

Lan Qi smiled softly: "I must be scolded when I go back to Cining Palace, and when I followed the Empress Dowager to take tonic medicine, the imperial doctor told me not to drink." She moved her body and stretched her muscles lazily, reminiscing about the beauty of last night's elixir and jade dew, "That wine is so delicious, sweet and fragrant, how did I know I would get drunk." ”

Huanchun held the sleeve cage and said: "The master is in good spirits at this time, go to the main hall to sit down, the eldest princess can't stand the pain and cry from time to time, Duan Concubine Niangniang came twice to ask you if you got up, saying that you can't be coquettish." ”

"Then let's go." Lan Qi hurriedly put on her shoes, rolled up her sleeves, Yu Kui took a big coat on her, thought that it would be just a few steps, and trotted a few steps away, but who knew that a thick curtain was raised, and a gust of wind swept the snow particles on her face, and her eyes were lost.

Shivering and retreating, he honestly wore the big coat tightly, and then went to the main hall against the wind and snow, but in the blink of an eye, the road was so cold that he shivered, and he entered the inner hall and hurriedly roasted the fire, Lan Qi stomped his feet and said, "Why is it so cold all of a sudden?" ”

"You are weak when you get hungover, the wind is stronger, but it is not much colder than yesterday." Duan Concubine sat on the kang, Chunxi lay in her arms, and the buttocks were drugged, and the villain saw that the noble man was coming, and tears broke down again.

Lan Qi was very distressed, she warmed her body and came over, lifted the blanket and looked at it, there were several red edges swollen on her white and tender buttocks, she was embarrassed to see Chunxi, she had to cry out at once, and the concubine was angry at Lan Qi: "Don't look at it, don't look at it, how can our eldest princess's ass look so casual." And he said, "Come and change me, I have been grinding for more than an hour, and my legs are numb." ”

Duan Concubine said, there was a palace maid on the side who hugged the princess, she frowned and moved stiffly to the side, Lan Qi changed her position, Chunxi came over softly, and asked delicately: "Noble De, did the great grandmother also scold you?" ”

"No, I didn't hit anyone." Lan Qi gently approached the little princess and kissed her delicate cheek, "Chunxi is the eldest sister of her younger brother and sister, doesn't your great-grandmother hurt you when she beats you, do you understand?" ”

"E-Niang has said it 800 times." The little princess was impatient and whimpered, Lan Qi coaxed her to tease her, and then fed some dim sum soup, and finally fell asleep obediently.

Concubine Duan breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's good to fall asleep, but when you're awake, you only cry out about pain, which is weird and grinding." ”

Lan Qi and her left Chunxi's place, sat down in another warm pavilion, the two of them roasted the fire and drank tea, and the cloth nobles led Duanjing The wind and snow were too big to come over, and Duan Concubine said: "The emperor is still ahead, and when I get up in the morning, I hear playing the piano, and the concubine is really happy. ”

Thinking of yesterday's incident again, she said, "Concubine Rong said that the sun hit the west, I didn't come back to my senses yesterday, now I think about it, the concubine didn't fall into the well yesterday, according to her temper, the two of us have no good fruit to eat." ”

Thinking that not only Rong Concubine would say this, Lan Qi remembered that when she returned to Chengqian Palace to salute the concubine, the people on the side were so quiet that the gongs and drums on the stage stopped, no matter how good the drama on the stage was, it was probably not as interesting as watching the concubine scold herself, but Concubine Tong did not fulfill everyone's wishes, and politely said a few words to herself, as if nothing had happened.

Hearing Concubine Duan mention it at this moment, she also felt strange in her heart, it was inevitable to be grateful to the concubine for not taking the opportunity to make trouble, but it always seemed that there was something else blocked, and she couldn't go down her chest.

"Fang Fujin didn't attend the dinner last night, it seems that her housewife didn't let her show her face in front of others." Duan Concubine took tongs to pluck the charcoal in the charcoal stove, the scarlet charcoal fire stared at it for a long time and squinted her eyes, she said disdainfully, "She has nothing to do with her knees, there is a man and half a woman in the concubine room in the house, she just can't really conceive, it's not that I want to be mean to her, just her heart, God can't give her blessings." The prince kept her, he was already polite, and he always tossed the small one with his head in a commanding manner. ”

Lan Qi doesn't like this kind of chatter, and she doesn't want to say right and wrong behind people's backs, but she always has to entertain the complaints of the concubines, not to mention that yesterday's incident was also her more talking, and she thought that the side Fujin was really pitiful, and said: "What the concubine said yesterday is not polite, although Prince Fujin is noble, but we are still the emperor's concubines." ”

The little nobleman was also angry, and told Duan Concubine about the conversation in Ningshou Palace, mentioned the rumors, and suddenly remembered what Juechan promised, and weighed it in his heart, but he still didn't say it, as for Nala is always there, there will always be a chance to explain it face to face in the future, and if you don't make friends, you shouldn't make enemies.

There was a small chatter without a pair, and the person who woke up with a hangover was also tired, and when the two were gradually about to crook, a little eunuch ran outside, and the sound of stepping on the snow was very urgent, and the concubine was shocked, and looked outside and said, "What is running so quickly?" ”

Not long after, her palace maid came in to tell her, saying that there were two important things, one is that Brother Wan Huang is not good, and the Tai Hospital has sent several imperial doctors to the elder brother's office for consultation, and the other is that the two little county lords in Prince Gong's mansion were found dead this morning.

Duan Concubine was flustered when she heard this, and kicked the tongs on the ground with a kick under her feet, and the tongs pried out a piece of scarlet charcoal and fell to the ground, making the carpet of animal fur sizzle, and several palace maids hurriedly came over to water it, and the carpet was burned black, and the room was even more smoky and burning.

The little eunuch over there came to the door again to pray, saying: "Slave listen, the two little county lords and the nurse girls are sleeping in a room, this morning someone went to call the door, and found that the doors and windows in the house were tightly blocked, the two large pots of charcoal were extinguished, and the nurse girls were crooked everywhere, saying that they were all suffocated, and there was no side Fu Jin Shu Shujue Luo and the two youngest county lords of the Jin family. ”

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, the Jin family is Chunxi's biological mother, the youngest daughter is only three years old, and the side Fu Jin Shu Shujue Luo's is also three years old, and the two children are so young, just like that......

"Long live the Lord knows?" Lan Qi asked the little eunuch.

"It's been reported." The little eunuch said, "It seems that the Zongren Mansion was sent to investigate, and it was Prince Gong who begged the emperor to order a strict investigation, and the prince was very sad." ”

Lan Qi helped the concubine back to sit down in the hall, the warm pavilion over there also cleaned up the mess, and brought the charcoal stove to warm them, the concubine was very nervous, and people must be careful to look at the charcoal fire in Chunxi's house, and let people tell the nobles not to doze off and get into trouble.

"There are a lot of nurses, how can no one notice?" Lan Qi's heart was very tight, and for no reason, she remembered Chang Fujin's fierce and hideous face, and immediately shook her head, not daring to think nonsense, and heard Duan Concubine say on the side, "Patronizing and thinking about those two little county lords, our brother Wan Huang is not good." ”

Lan Qi guessed her thoughts, and the two of them were quiet for a while, and Duan Concubine really said, "Are you good?" Let's go and take a look, I've also hugged Wan Huang, and I can't bear it. I had the luxury of hoping to be able to raise him, but the emperor never cared, and even sent Duanjing to leave the child alone. ”

"The concubines' clothes and hoods are all ready-made, so let's wait for you to wear them first." Lan Qi didn't say that Xuan Ye didn't care, she only pushed the concubine to wrap it tightly, and she also dressed herself well, and the two of them sat together in a soft sedan chair to come to Brother's place, although they were not allowed to enter and leave at will without a holy decree, but at this juncture, I am afraid that no one cares.

Sure enough, the two of them didn't come early, Yi Concubine led Juechan and promised to arrive first, sitting outside waiting for the results of the imperial doctor, and when she saw the two of them coming, she sighed: "Good day, so many things happen." ”

Lan Qi stood beside the concubine, and soon several imperial doctors came out of it, all of them hung their heads and said: "The minister is incompetent, Brother I'm afraid it's only been a few days, the ladies sit down for a while, and the ministers have to go to the emperor to report their lives." ”

"Doctors, the emperor doesn't have to go there." But seeing that the snow that had fallen on Mr. Li came in from outside, and the little eunuch with eyes on the side went up to dust the snow, he pushed it away in disgust, and first came to salute Yi Concubine and Duan Concubine, and said, "Long live Lord has a headache when he gets up in the morning, I am afraid that he will be deceived by the wind and evil, and I want to recuperate in the Chengqian Palace for two days. ”

Lan Qi saw that Concubine Duan's face was gloomy, and her eyes also showed sadness and melancholy, guessing that she missed her little princess, Xuan Ye must have neglected something at that time, so that when she hurried over, the little princess was gone, and it would inevitably arouse her pain at this moment, and listening to what she said when she was in Zhong Cui Palace just now, most of them were a little resentful that the emperor had thrown this son here.

Yi Concubine sighed, and discussed a few words with Duan Concubine, Lan Qi didn't understand why Yi Concubine led Juechan to agree to this matter, on the contrary, Rong Concubine and Hui Concubine, who were now doing things in the main palace, did not move, and just waited for the two to discuss the result, and then sent someone to pick up Nala Changzai.

Lan Qi followed Concubine Duan in to see Wan Huang, a three-year-old child, the little man closed his eyes painfully, his eyebrows on his face were twisted, and he would hum from time to time, she looked at it twice and didn't dare to look more, always hoping that she could remember how he was still alive on the day of the concubine's birthday. Although the elder brother was caused by a hidden disease, he always felt in his heart that if Concubine Wen hadn't calculated that scene, she might not have hooked up the hidden disease, and she would not be able to get rid of it after all.

When Nala was often sent with her stomach up, she heard crying before she entered the door, and Yi Concubine stopped her and said, "Brother is fine, why are you crying, I called you to come, I want you to coax the child, don't go in if you cry again." ”

Nala is often squirming and hooking up, and it took a long time to come in tremblingly, and at a glance I saw Lan Qi following Duan Concubine, glaring at Lan Qi viciously, Duan Concubine was also very inexplicable when she saw it, the two went outside, and still heard Nala often crying and crying, and there was Manager Li and the Imperial Doctor here, Yi Concubine couldn't look at it, so she was put out of the way, so she had to be persuaded, and there were noisy voices outside, only to hear the report: "The concubine Niangniang has arrived." ”

Everyone hurriedly greeted the door, Concubine Tong came in in a mink snow coat and snow hat, graceful and luxurious, and said to Manager Li while undressing: "The palace is not at ease when I see the emperor, so it's better to come and see for him." Seeing that the Nala clan was also in front of him, he said, "Long live Lord has a headache and can't come over for a while, don't think too much about it." The emperor said that if you can't keep it......"

"Mother." As if the Nala clan suddenly collapsed, she knelt down towards the concubine with her stomach up, and everyone on the side was surprised, but she cried and said, "Please be the master." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and then they heard Nala crying and crying about the events of Laba that day, and the words pointed to the noble people, crying and saying: "If it weren't for the noble people who let the slaves curse like that, how could it harm the little elder brother." Regardless of respect and humility, he pointed at Lan Qi with his finger, "Virtuous people, the concubine and you have no grievances, but you were turned over by the emperor when you were pregnant, do you hate the concubine like this?" ”

Lan Qi looked at her in a daze, and only yesterday did she stop Juezen and promised to tell the rumors that the Nala clan had arranged her affair with the prince, and she hadn't calculated the theory, so she came here to take a bite again, and this sentence simply pulled several other people into the water, high or low, and the other ladies and nobles in the palace went to bed, all because she couldn't serve the nobles, so she ate and picked up the rest.

"I don't know what happened that day, but if I do, how can I allow my slaves to be presumptuous?" Lan Qi was upright and unmoved, "Brother's illness has been in October, how can it be counted as Laba?" Nala is always there, you feel uncomfortable, I understand, but if you pour dirty water on me, what can you do? ”

A few people on the side were stunned when they heard the noble man say these words, the little nobleman who was gentle and kind, and polite to everyone, actually had such a powerful side, it can be seen that people are not good-looking, but they don't know, Lan Qi felt that the Nala clan was blaspheming Xuan Ye's liking for her, how Xuan Ye's kindness to her became an evil in the eyes of others, so she couldn't tolerate it.

Concubine Tong sat on the side, watching this scene quietly, today is different from the past, not only the noble people, but also the concubine Niangniang seems to have changed as a person, wherever she walked in the past, she disappeared with a gust of wind, and from the moment she walked into the door gracefully and luxuriously, it seems that she is no longer the little Concubine Tong from before.

Nala was always there but did not give up, regardless of the high bulge of her belly, she blushed and only asked: "How dare the concubine pour dirty water on you, the concubine just wants to ask you, did you hear the slave say this sentence of rushing to reincarnate that day?" ”

Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she didn't expect that Nala was quite smart, biting this sentence, she really couldn't deny it, she was stupid with her big belly, and it was inconvenient for even the concubine to come forward to scold, and besides, the concubine was on top, and it was not easy to trespass.

"Guifei Niangniang, please call the shots for your concubines." Nala is often crying and laughing, once she was also bullied by An Guiren, who was babbling all day long, and in the blink of an eye, she herself was infected with such a temper, Lan Qi looked at it and felt pitiful, and when she was sighing, she saw the little eunuch next to Xuan Ye running over, and whispered a few words to Manager Li, who was smiling bitterly, the wry smile on Manager Li's face turned into embarrassment, frowned, bowed down to the concubine and said: "Niangniang, the Empress Dowager issued an edict, saying that your body is also weak, I am afraid that it is too hard to take care of the emperor, so that your body will not be sick again, That's why I just ordered the emperor to be sent back to the Qianqing Palace. ”

Gonggong Li said, glanced at Lan Qi again, and still smiled embarrassedly: "The Empress Dowager invited the noble people to go to the Qianqing Palace to serve the sick, saying that many important events are waiting to be presided over on the first day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it must be raised in these days, which is a strict order." ”

Lan Qi was stunned when she heard this, but her heart was relieved, knowing that if she was called away in front of the concubine at this moment, no one here would look good on her face, but if she didn't leave, she would resist the order, and she couldn't care about others.

"The concubine retired." She saluted the concubine and Concubine Yi and Concubine Duan in a thoughtful manner, and when she saw the concubine nodded, she retreated and went out, and Gonggong Li also followed her, and smiled bitterly outside, "The noble person has been wronged, and Nala is always messing around." ”

Lan Qi didn't say anything, took a warm sedan chair and hurried to the Qianqing Palace, hearing that Xuan Ye had a headache and brain fever, he was already anxious, and the quarrel just now was even more upset, so he could finally take care of him quietly, and he didn't want to think about anything else.

At this moment, in the elder brother's office, Concubine Tong Guifei went in to look at Wan Huang, and when she came out again, she was ready to leave, and saw that Nala was often losing her soul and was embarrassed on the side, and suddenly snorted and laughed, and said coldly: "Isn't it more unfortunate than the slave's words when you cry like this?" Wan Huang is still alive. ”

Nala often covered his mouth and didn't dare to cry, everyone saluted and sent each other, only waiting for the concubine to leave before he was relieved, Yi Concubine's face was full of frustration, I don't know why, and seeing Nala like this, she said angrily: "Why are you bothering, talking for a long time, you have a dispute with the noble people, how can you drag everyone else into the water?" What do you mean that the emperor turned over the brand while she was pregnant, where did you put the face of the concubine and us? ”

These few words of reproach will be reported by the little eunuch left by Gonggong Li later, but it will be another matter if he can't get in front of Xuan Ye and Lan Qi, at this time, the little nobleman hurried to the Qianqing Palace, and the imperial doctor has already come to see the emperor, saying that the emperor is just catching a cold, don't blow the wind and get cold, and sweat can be fine.

Lan Qi waited for the imperial doctor to leave before entering the dormitory, Xuan Ye lazily crooked on the bed, he worked hard all year round, it was rare to have a few days of leisure, and it was indeed easy to get sick if he loosened the strings, plus he was still staring at the southwest this year, and there was so much bad news early this morning, no wonder he had a headache.

"Does the emperor want the concubine to rub it?" Sitting on the edge of the bed, seeing Xuan Ye rubbing his head, Lan Qi stretched out his hand, Xuan Ye glanced at her, shook a hand in the palm of his hand, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, I'm just upset, pretend to have a headache, so I don't have to pay attention to those trivial things." ”

"Wan Huang is fine, the imperial doctor said he would do his best." Lan Qi lowered her eyes and said these words against her will, regardless of whether Xuan Ye knew that the child had been a few days ago, she only heard Xuan Ye sigh, "It's my negligence." ”

"Your Majesty, don't think about it." Lan Qi still stretched out his hand to rub his forehead, but Xuan Ye smiled, "You go and take a look at your face in the mirror, you have a hangover all night, and you are all blue now, none of us should take care of anyone, sit crooked for a while." ”

Lan Qi leaned next to Xuan Ye, her heart suddenly jumped for no reason, and suddenly remembered the sound of the piano she heard when she was half asleep last night, and she didn't know if she wanted to take the topic away to let him relax, and asked with a smile: "Did the emperor play the piano in Chengqian Palace last night?" ”

Xuan Ye was puzzled, and asked if it was Mr. Li who said it, and the little nobleman shook his head: "I've been listening to the concubine playing the piano, and last night was very different, so I wondered if it would be the emperor." She smiled thickly, she wanted to make Xuan Ye happy, but she had the intention to tell a lie, "I had a headache last night, and I fell asleep listening to the sound of the emperor's piano, it turns out that the emperor can also play the piano?" ”

But Xuan Ye's face was not good-looking, and his face suddenly sank, "Don't mention it again in the future." ”

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