"Mama Yuzhi asked me to send some snacks to my father-in-law." Hongyan stepped into the door with a food box, and when she came to this small courtyard again, her mood was completely different.

"My father-in-law's teeth are not good, so my grandmother should give me food." The little girl took the food box and ran in, and when she and her father-in-law heard the shouting, they came out with a smoking gun.

Hongyan stepped forward to bless her body, but her father-in-law smiled: "Although the girl is just an official girl, she is not an ordinary palace maid, so there is no need to be polite in the future." ”

"Father-in-law, I'm still a palace maid." Hongyan said so. In her opinion, in addition to the slight changes in her body, in addition to not being able to leave the Forbidden City in this life, she is still a palace maid.

He smiled at his father-in-law: "I can't help you say this, so let's spend a while with the concubine, and who knows in the future." Turning around, the little palace maid put the dim sum on the table, and was stealing a piece of milk dumpling to eat, and said angrily to her father-in-law: "You just ate two oranges, and you will have a stomachache later." ”

The little palace maid's name is Cherry, and she is a child picked up under the cherry tree when she and her father-in-law went out on patrol that year, and the emperor allowed him to raise him in the palace to support the elderly in the future. Cherry and princess are generally old, and their bodies are about the same size, but the princess is naturally noble, and her eyebrows are full of the pride of the princess, and this little cherry, her eyebrows are crooked and innocent, and she is very cute.

Cherry came out with a piece of milk dumpling, hid behind Hongyan's skirt and said: "The milk dumplings made by Shoukang Palace are the most delicious, you always like to eat them, you are reluctant to give them to me." ”

And the father-in-law is angry and funny, because of the big rules in the palace, how can he dare to call a slave "master", even the grandfather can't be called, Cherry has been shouting and father-in-law since he learned to speak, but an old and a young have long been grandchildren, and Cherry has long understood what the palace is, even if it is a lively and active age, he also follows his grandfather to live here, and the only place she has been to is Shoukang Palace.

She raised her head and saw Sister Hongyan looking at the milk dumplings in her hand, and after thinking about it, she tore off a small piece and handed it to her: "Sister, you eat it too, you love it too, don't you?" ”

Hongyan shook his head and touched the cherry's head: "You eat it yourself, my sister has eaten it in Shoukang Palace." ”

But what he said was sad to hide. That day, the princess stayed for her early in the morning, waiting for her to go back to eat, but when they met again, the princess actually punched and kicked her, and at a young age, she gritted her teeth and scolded the "slut". It's all her fault, she not only hurt the queen, but also the princess.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Cherry tugged at the sleeve of her red face and said with a smile, "The concubine said that children who love to laugh are likable, I always laugh in front of the concubine, and the concubine especially likes cherries." Sister Hongyan, you can smile too, you look good when you smile. ”

Hongyan looked up at his father-in-law, he had already sat under the eaves, and was leisurely loading cigarettes, when he heard his granddaughter's words, he was disgusted: "You are a little bit, and you are here to teach others?" Your sister Hongyan has been here for a long time, and she still hasn't moved a stool to invite her to sit. ”

"The slave is going back, and the concubine will get up at any time." Hongyan excused himself.

"Sit down, let's talk." and his father-in-law said, "The concubine must also want me to tell you something, originally, we are all slaves, how to survive in the Forbidden City, I know more than the concubine." The concubine is rich and noble, and her old man can save you, but she can't teach you. Sit down, there are still some hours before lunch, and the old lady will not get up at this time. ”

Cherry had moved a rattan chair and placed it beside her grandfather, turned around and ran back, and scolded her father-in-law: "Don't steal it again, when you have a stomachache, I will ask the doctor to prick you with a needle." ”

"You old man, you are so vicious......" There were words from the little girl who were neither big nor small, and she actually made Hongyan laugh.

When his father-in-law saw her smiling, he said, "Look at how good, girl, spend a day with a bitter face and a day with a smiling face, why bother with yourself and yourself?" ”

Hongyan immediately suppressed her smile and nodded: "Father-in-law's words, the slave maid wrote it down." ”

And the father-in-law said: "Let me ask you, how much can you remember about the incident in the Heart Cultivation Hall that night." Seeing Hongyan trembling, he said fairly, "Don't be afraid, if you don't say it, you will always be there, and you can't understand it again and again, it's not you who tortures you?" ”

Today, four or five days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Hongyan has always forced herself not to think about the events of that day, but now that she mentioned it to her father-in-law, she tried to open the memory of that night, and everything was so clear, even when she finally woke up, she felt a slight pain under her body, and she still remembered it vividly.

Hongyan's lips trembled slightly: "I only remember in the end, Niangniang gave me a cup of bird's nest ......"

On the side of Ningshou Palace, Hai Guiren brought a cup of bird's nest, and Mama Hua stepped forward to signal and asked the queen to hand it to the queen mother, but the queen looked at the exact same utensils, remembered that night when she drugged the bird's nest, she only felt her ears buzzing. But she had to do it hard, but when she endured the trembling in her heart and wanted to reach out, Hongli Yue stepped forward to take it for her, and then put it in front of her mother, coaxing the Queen Mother as in the past: "Bird's nest nourishes yin and replenishes qi, Eniang let's go in." ”

The queen mother has just been helped up by her son from the sickbed, what else can she do as a mother, her son has come to grovel and admit her mistake, doesn't she recognize her son, if she doesn't recognize her son, what else will she do. But the anger in her heart is difficult to eliminate, and she is still haunted by the existence of Hongyan, and what she cares about is not that she doesn't like that child, but that she is afraid that the emperor will not forget it in his heart and add trouble in the future.

"The queen naturally doesn't need to say it, but the other people around the emperor should be like Hai Guiren, it's good to advance and retreat in a proper manner, the pure concubine is not good for petty sex, and it's not good for Jia Concubine to be cunning and arrogant, Hai Guiren is such a gentle and demure person, but you are cold." The queen mother suddenly said this, the emperor and queen just listened, but the sea nobles were uneasy, she also understood the emperor's personality, the more the queen mother said this, the more the emperor would stay away from her.

Hongli responded: "The retainer listens to the teachings of the emperor's mother, and only hopes that the mother will really forgive the retainers and forget all the things of that day." ”

The spoon in the queen mother's hand gently stirred the crystal clear bird's nest, and said slowly: "What does the emperor mean, I can still take care of the affairs of this family?" Aren't you afraid that I will interfere and make a fuss? ”

Hongli left the kang and bent his knees on the ground to plead guilty: "My son was lost that day and said such a rebellious word, if Eniang refuses to forgive, my son will have no shame to see his ancestors and ancestors." The affairs of this palace, the affairs of the son and daughter-in-law, and I also ask my mother to work for a few more years and worry about her son. ”

The Queen Mother looked at him, in fact, this child has been with him since he was a child, and after he was born, he was raised by Fujin by his side, and when he was a little older, he was sent to the palace to be raised by Xiao Tong Guifei, and then her husband became the emperor, and her son grew up in Elder Brother, and then started a family and opened a government to build a mansion, and the days by his side were numbered. It's hard for him to be so filial to himself now, but that's exactly the case, if the emperor blushes for the queen and himself, the queen mother also admits it, but for an insignificant little palace maid.

Thinking of this, she shook her head, and while asking the emperor to get up, she said: "It's not that Eniang has to embarrass you, Your Majesty, there are some things you have to face." The royal bloodline is the most important inheritance, and I hope that you and the queen can get out of their sorrows and plan for the future. ”

Hongli and the queen glanced at each other, the queen smiled slightly, she seemed to understand what her mother-in-law was going to say, and that matter had been mentioned before, but the emperor refused.

"Pick a good day, let the women of the Eight Banners enter the palace for the draft, there should be a new atmosphere in the palace, in the blink of an eye, the four years of Qianlong will pass, and the emperor can't care less about the ancestral family law." The queen mother said that she ate bird's nest by herself, and not surprisingly, the emperor immediately agreed, one did not want to disobey his mother again, and the other was the draft, which he had to do sooner or later anyway.

The queen withdrew from Ningshou Palace, and the Hai nobles continued to stay and serve the queen mother, and retreated in front of the door, the queen looked at the back of the Hai nobles leaving, and bowed her head to Hongli and said: "The draft matter, there is still some time, the officials of the ministries will raise, at least wait for next year, this time you have to coax the emperor to be happy, and then do something she likes." Huang Eniang has always valued the nobles of the sea, but you are always indifferent, and Eniang may not be happy in her heart. ”

Hongli responded: "I know." ”

The empress nodded, she wanted to be separated from the emperor here, and when she said goodbye, she heard the emperor whisper: "There is another new person coming, will you feel better?" I once thought that the draft could be avoided, but now I have to agree to Eniang. ”

The queen's long eyelashes covered the helplessness in her eyes: "I only know that you and me are in Changchun Palace, and that is enough." ”

However, Hongyan is a person from Changchun Palace, Changchun Palace was once not only himself and the queen, Hongli's heart sank, not only sad but painful, he gently supported his wife's shoulder and said: "After all, I am sorry for you, let's all let it go." ”

The queen pursed her lips, as if swallowing some of the words she wanted to say, and finally just said: "The emperor will return to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, and the concubines will retire." ”

With the separation of the emperor and queen, the queen mother's decision to draft the matter also spread in the six palaces, this is the worst news for the concubines, who wants to have a younger and more beautiful woman to share the grace, and such a thing will also be passed into the Shoukang Palace, when Hongyan came back from the small courtyard with her father-in-law, the concubine just woke up to get up, she waited to comb the concubine's hair, and the people below came these words, saying that the palace was finally going to be drafted.

Concubine Shouqi looked at her aging face and said with emotion: "When the first emperor was drafted, I suddenly realized that Kangxi Ye was really gone, and in a blink of an eye, the new monarch was also going to be drafted, and the emperor was gone for two generations, but I was still alive, living alone like this, and it was a blessing for others to look at it, and only I understood the taste." ”

The first time Hongyan heard someone say such a thing, she stood behind her and was at a loss, and Mama Yuzhi stepped forward and said angrily: "The master forgot again, didn't we say that it was okay to look at her children and grandchildren for Concubine De and protect them well?" ”