The illness of the imperial concubine is repeated again and again, the Chengqian Palace is filled with the smell of decoction all day long, Lan Qi occasionally sees Xuan Ye, if he smells the smell of decoction on his body, he knows that he is from the imperial concubine, if he mentions it, Xuan Ye always sighs: "It's still not good." ”

At this moment, Lan Qi and Concubine Rong hurriedly came, and saw Qinglian squatting outside the door of the dormitory crying, she covered her mouth and didn't dare to make a sound, but she cried pitifully. Seeing the two ladies coming, they got up in a panic, Concubine Rong frowned and said, "What are you crying about, you are like this, what should the others in the Chengqian Palace do?" ”

Qinglian's face was frightened and sad, and she sobbed and said, "The slave thought that Niangniang would never wake up after that period just now. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, there were hurried footsteps in front of the door, and everyone followed the prestige, but when they saw the fourth elder brother running into the door, he was still wearing a single coat in the study, and he ran back in the cold weather.

The child passed in front of the door like a gust of wind, Lan Qi saw that his face was flushed, he didn't seem to see himself and Concubine Rong, and he didn't ask Qinglian how he was, he rushed into the door all the way, and looked stupid at the people around him.

"The two mothers are invited inside, it's cold outside." A calm palace maid lifted the curtain and invited Lan Qi and Concubine Rong to enter the door, and Concubine Rong came back to her senses and pulled Lan Qi away.

The smell of medicine comes from the inner hall, it is the same every time they come back, the two of them are used to it, although the house is burning with a dragon to raise the sick, but it is refreshing and tidy, although the smell of medicine makes people feel pungent, it will not dislike this place is not clean, all this must be the credit of Qinglian. Think about the Empress Dowager when she sent Qinglian to "monitor" Chengqian Palace, but now the master and servant have a deep friendship, and the relationship between them and the two in Changchun Palace is really different.

When I walked into the inner hall, I heard the imperial concubine asking, "Where is Xiao Hezi?" ”

There was a palace maid who hurriedly came out to look for it, Xiao Hezi came in with a sweat in a hurry, knelt down in front of the door and obeyed, Lan Qi and Concubine Rong stood aside, and the imperial concubine didn't bother to greet them, and when she saw Xiao Hezi, she scolded first: "Bastard thing, no one has given you the skin on your body tightly in recent days, so you don't know how to serve the master, right?" ”

said that he wanted someone to drag Xiao Hezi out to fight, but it was because Xiao Hezi passed on this matter to let the fourth elder brother know, so anxious that the fourth elder brother ran back from the class, it is said that he didn't say hello to the Taifu, and he was dressed so thin on a cold day, it was one thing to be rude in the study, and it was another thing to be sick in case of cold.

If it was a weekday, the fourth elder brother would definitely protect Xiao Hezi, but today the child just took the imperial concubine's hand and didn't speak, according to the imperial concubine's temper, the palace people couldn't disobey her, Xiao Hezi couldn't escape this beating, but fortunately, Concubine Rong and Lan Qi were there, Concubine Rong smiled and persuaded a few words, so let Xiao Hezi go out first.

The two approached the bed, and the imperial concubine said to them impatiently: "I just got out of my seat and got up in a hurry, I was a little dizzy, and I made a fuss one by one, why did I alarm you too?" He also said, "Go out and preach everywhere, and then spread it outside to let the emperor know, disturbing the interest of the emperor's southern tour, can you afford it?" ”

The imperial concubine is still like this, with a knife-like mouth, but the heart is really not so bad, Lan Qi and Concubine Rong have long been used to it, but they can hear her say this, so they feel relieved, at least the spirit is not bad, and the body is not so bad.

"Go back to the study, it's getting more and more unruly, you Ama is not in the palace, you just come nonsense?" The imperial concubine frowned and blamed her son, but the hand that was tightly held by Yinzhen didn't want to struggle away, and she still lost to her son after talking for a long time, so she had to coax him in a good voice, "E-niang is fine, can you rest assured when you see it?" Go back to the study obediently, otherwise E-Niang is not at ease, how can she recuperate? ”

Yin Zhen lowered his head and said, "I can't sit still when I go back, I just want to be by my mother's side." ”

The imperial concubine was a little anxious, Lan Qi stepped forward half a step forward and blessed her body and said, "You let the fourth elder brother stay, the fourth elder brother is here, and the concubines will be at ease." ”

The imperial concubine glared at her and didn't speak, but Lan Qi turned around and said to Concubine Rong: "Sister Rong, let's go back." ”

Concubine Rong didn't have any ideas, but when she saw Lan Qi say this, she was happy to come out, and the two didn't care what the mother and son did, so they left on their own, and Qinglian sent them all the way, saying that she was panicked and sent someone to find Concubine De's mother, causing trouble for Concubine De.

Lan Qi comforted her a few words, and asked her to go to Yonghe Palace to find her if she had something to do, and when she left Chengqian Palace, Concubine Rong leaned over and said softly: "It's really not good, do you see it, Niangniang's eyes are a little scattered, and she doesn't look at people as sharp as before." ”

Lan Qi was still calm and breezy just now, but at this moment, his face tightened, and he couldn't say a word.

After separating with Concubine Rong, when he returned to his dormitory, he felt that his legs were weak when he entered the door, and several people in Huanchun supported the master to the couch, and the good people suddenly covered their faces and sobbed for a while, and it took a long time to calm down, so frightened that they didn't dare to speak, Lan Qi ordered: "Let the people from the Tai Hospital come to see me." ”

After talking to the people from the Tai Hospital for a long time, Huanchun Luzhu and several people were sent out of the door, and Ziyu asked Huanchun softly: "Sister, is the imperial concubine not the mother?" ”

Huan Chun booed: "I can't say this." ”

It took a long time for the people from the hospital to leave, and everyone went in to serve again, but seeing the master behind the screen crooked on the kang, looking out of the window blankly, Huan Chun asked if he wanted to use tea, Lan Qi waved his hand and asked them all to go out.

In such a daze, even the people from the Internal Affairs Office were sent away, only waiting for Princess Wen Chen to cry and ask for Eniang, and everyone dared to hold the little princess to disturb Lan Qi, she coaxed the child, but suddenly wept, frightened the little princess, reached out and touched Eniang's cheek, and cried together.

As a result, everyone had to separate the mother and daughter, Huanchun followed by him and handed the handkerchief, and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Lan Qi finally calmed down again, and said in a deep voice: "I feel sorry for the fourth elder brother, and I also feel sorry for the imperial concubine, the past has long passed, all these years I have only seen her wholeheartedly good to the fourth elder brother, she is a good mother." ”

"If the fourth elder brother is an ignorant doll, he is only a child when he is the most sensible, how can he bear it?"

Huanchun was very calm and comforted, "If there is really that day, Niangniang, you have to cheer up and appease the fourth elder brother, the fourth elder brother still has his own mother." ”

can think of the appearance of Yinzhen holding the hand of the imperial concubine, she, a person who may not be able to cry when she is maliciously bullied, but she can't hold such a thing in her heart, and said bitterly: "But I can't replace the imperial concubine...... The doctor said that he was already getting through the days. ”

Huan Chun was shocked when he heard this, and said softly: "Isn't she still very energetic?" How? ”

Lan Qi's heart sank into the abyss, and he prayed silently on his chest, and said softly: "I hope she can wait until the emperor returns to Beijing." ”

After all, the imperial concubine is the existence of the same deputy queen, Lan Qi and Concubine Rong can't really hide this matter, two days later in Ningshou Palace to discuss with the queen mother, the queen mother sighed: "The emperor can't go back to the house for her, it's not interesting to worry on the road, these days send people back to ask for peace, ask them what the emperor is busy with, saying that he personally inspected the river work, and walked in the fields in the water, he was really busy." ”

The queen mother's meaning is not to disturb the emperor, Lan Qi knows that she has not seen the appearance of the imperial concubine with her own eyes, and she must still feel that nothing can happen, and the feelings are not very deep, such a decision has her reason, but the two of them withdrew from Ningshou Palace, after all, they felt that it was inappropriate, Concubine Rong was a person who was careful in everything, and she agreed with Lan Qi's decision very much, and in the end she carried the queen mother behind her back and sent the news out.

Waiting for the emperor to send someone to reply urgently, two days later, Xuan Ye personally wrote a letter to Lan Qi, telling her to take care of the imperial concubine, and told Lan Qi very clearly that the southern tour was very important, and in two years it was likely that the war would be waged against the Dzungar Ministry, and the emperor must tighten the finances.

"Although the imperial concubine is heavy, she will not be as good as the country, and the emperor will not be able to do anything." Concubine Rong couldn't help but feel sad when she heard Lan Qi tell her these things, "If I am like this in the future, the emperor will probably not even be worried, he has always loved the imperial concubine and treated me very much." ”

Lan Qi said with a straight face: "Why did my sister come to these words, instead of being sad about this nothing, it is better for our sisters to live healthy and cheerful, and accompany him for a lifetime." ”

Concubine Rong looked shocked when she heard this, and nodded heavily.

But after carrying Concubine Rong, Lan Qi is still sad about this, it is one thing to understand Xuan Ye, and it is another thing to feel sorry for the imperial concubine, and more importantly, she is not sure if Yinzhen can figure it out, in case the imperial concubine can't wait for the emperor to return, will this child resent his father in her heart, this is the last thing she wants to see.

Fortunately, God has mercy, or the imperial concubine is reluctant to do too much in the world, the condition did not deteriorate further after that syncope, as the first month passed, when the weather became warmer in February, the spirit was revived with all things, Lan Qi went to visit a few more times, and also saw that the imperial concubine's eyes were a little scattered, and they became sharp and clear, and the fourth elder brother also had a smile on his face.

But Lan Qi's heart has never been steady, the imperial concubine's illness has been going back and forth, sometimes good and sometimes bad, just like Qinglian hiding outside the door and crying that day, maybe the next time she faints, she will really never wake up again.

In the blink of an eye, the emperor has been leaving the palace for more than a month, according to the original itinerary, if he returns to Beijing at the end of February, he should be on the way back, but the news from Jiangnan that the trip will be postponed, and with this news into the palace, another thing that makes the sixth palace uproar breaks the quiet days in the palace when the emperor is not at home.

Sure enough, there were no concubines with him, the emperor couldn't resist the spring in the south of the Yangtze River, the people of Suzhou City were outstanding, and the concubines who accompanied the southern tour that day were all in their eyes, and the girls there were all water-like flowers.

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