On the side of Kyushu Qingyan, the saint drove generously to the palace of the concubine, among the six palaces, no matter how many people the emperor liked, he always remembered the concubine, that is, the queen mother was dissatisfied with the concubine, and he also protected it openly and secretly. The people in the palace have always worshiped the high and the low, only the sick and weak concubine did not dare to bully, and the people supported not only the growing family in the court, but also the emperor. Although I don't know what the emperor likes about this sick beauty, after all, no one dares to disobey the Son of Heaven.

At this time, Hongli rested in the noble concubine's room for a long time, and the noble concubine asked people to set up a small dining table and invite the emperor to use some snacks.

Although the court affairs are busy after the summer, those ministers also have to escape the summer, the first emperor reigned for thirteen years, diligent day and night, and even after the winter seal, he often saw ministers entering and leaving the court, not to mention the day and night in the scorching summer. After Hongli ascended the throne, although he was also diligent in government affairs, he did not follow the example of the first emperor who worked hard and relaxed, in his opinion, the first emperor reigned for thirteen years, even if it was brilliant, it was too short.

Summer and summer, knowing that the voice often urges people's appetite, Hongli diet is a little picky, since he was a child, the pampered emperor brother, since he opened his eyes, he is used to seeing the best things in the world, not so much to give him good, it is better to say that he is in line with the spleen and stomach, today the concubine presented to the emperor and the queen mother in the palace mung bean cake, cool and sweet, the emperor is very useful.

At this time, pieces of jade-like mung bean cakes were placed on a white jade porcelain plate, and Hongli asked, "Where is the Queen Mother, can you send it?" ”

The concubine smiled: "Naturally, I want to send it, is it possible that the concubine still thinks the queen mother ......" She swallowed the words, but the meaning of the words she didn't say, the emperor must understand.

Hongli sighed lightly: "The temper of the Queen Mother, don't go to your heart, it's all in my face, I know what kind of heart and temperament you have." ”

The concubine smiled gently, and she really had to be such a beauty to show a little charm from her sick appearance, which made people feel distressed and pitiful. She invited the emperor to use tea, Hongli took a shallow taste, and said with a smile: "Why is your food here so delicate recently, you have fallen in love with these things recently?" ”

"Where will the concubine make any pastries." The concubine lowered her eyes slightly, and whispered, "It's early in the morning before the sun rises, Sister Hai comes to help Ruizhu knead the dough and boil bean paste, and send it everywhere in time for dawn, adding a snack to the breakfast of the Queen Mother, you, and the Queen Mother." ”

Hongli frowned slightly, but continued to eat half of the mung bean cake, and asked lightly, "Did Hai Guiren make it?" He remembered the tsamba made by Hai Guiren before, but after that incident, he didn't pay much attention to Hai Jia's family.

"Is the emperor going to be angry?" The concubine asked very bluntly, her weak smile looked soft, and she said, "Sister Hai didn't mean to make the emperor happy, it was the concubine who asked her to help, and she didn't mention the concubine to ask for credit for her in front of you." ”

"A few pieces of snack, I don't think about it that much." Hongli said, "But at this moment, every word you say is towards her, and it is the first time I have heard it in so many years." ”

"For so many years, my sister has been considerate of her concubines." The concubine said bluntly, "This mung bean cake, I heard that the queen mother has been thinking about it for the past few days, so the concubine begged her sister to help." Over the years, my sister saw what the Queen Mother liked and hated, and immediately came to tell the concubine, otherwise the concubine was so stupid, and she would even more disgust the Queen Mother. ”

"For her, even the great disrespect to the Queen Mother is on your lips, has the Queen Mother treated you badly?" Hongli's words sounded bluffing, but he took a leisurely sip of tea, and the concubine saw him like this, and her heart was settled.

She knew that the emperor was not just beautiful to herself, she was passionate and impulsive when she was young, and she took herself by her side at a glance, maybe because of this face, but after getting along for a long time, the emperor liked to come to her side, just to listen to a few words in his heart.

The concubine didn't have such courage, she was sick before and thought she was going to die, but after seeing the emperor, she said something heartfelt, and the emperor's moving expression at that time was remembered by her. But that time I was only in the ghost gate once, and I was fortunate to return to the world, and then it was rare to see each other, and the concubine tried to say a word or two of the truth, even if it was not good, and even said that the queen mother was critical of herself, the emperor did not turn his face, but was interested. Naturally, the concubine also held it carefully and carefully, and stopped at one or two points.

This is something she will never tell outsiders, even Hai Guiren doesn't know, in the eyes of everyone, she just needs to be a sick and weak beauty. During the 100-day banquet of the fourth elder brother, Ruizhu once persuaded the master to go to the banquet, saying that the emperor knew what kind of affection he had for her, and the master himself understood it best, and it was not false at all.

Hongli looked at the concubine, but he thought of another person in his mind, he was not disgusted with the concubine inviting favor for the sea nobles, there was this friendship between sisters, it was a rare thing in the deep palace, but the truth of the concubine gradually had a taste of pleasing and catering to himself in his opinion, and then I was afraid that it was the so-called truth, and he had to bother to listen to it.

"A while ago, I was asked if what I did was meaningful and if it could make the person in question really happy." Hongli seemed to be suddenly interested, and said, "I haven't heard that for a long time. ”

The concubine was a little nervous in her heart, and asked with a smile on her face: "Which bold slave is it, or is it the minister of the court?" The concubine didn't dare to say this. ”

The emperor saw that she didn't dare to say it, but it was true, so he smiled and said: "It's just an ignorant villain, you don't have to know who it is, but for me, this sentence is an enlightenment." ”

"Listening to the emperor's words, it seems that the concubines have no chance to meet." The concubine knew in her heart that the emperor had not lost patience with her, but these two sentences were already making it clear that he didn't like what she was doing today. There are people in this world who are more sincere than themselves, but God knows that being sincere to the emperor is to hold his head in his hands, and he can only say that he is not afraid of death.

The emperor's face sank by half a minute, and the concubine thought that she had displeased the emperor, but she didn't know that he had other thoughts, and said: "It's true that I didn't have a chance to meet, after all, there are more important people in my heart to care about." ”

The concubine listened and watched blankly, the emperor's words were quite incomprehensible, he clearly had a great desire to talk, but he suppressed it and didn't explain anything. The concubine asked herself, what is the more important person? The Queen?

The emperor gently knocked on the ink bamboo folding fan in his hand, his face was a quiet and fascinated color, without the bloody impulse of his youth, the noble concubine clearly remembered the promise of the emperor who hugged his mountain alliance and sea oath, although now she is at the end of her life as a noble concubine, although the emperor has never failed her, but he will never hug himself again, and say those heart-pounding words.

"Since the emperor has more important people to care about." The concubine plucked up her courage and had a peaceful look on her face, "The emperor must remember this sentence and don't let down that important person." ”

Hongli loves to listen to this sentence, not only is he not annoyed, but he smiles happily: "I know." ”

The concubine saw that the emperor was holding the ink bamboo folding fan, she knew that this thing was from the hand of the pure concubine, so she said: "The lotus flowers in the courtyard of the pure concubine are about to bloom, why don't the emperor go over and take a look?" ”

Hongli was a little too lazy to move, and at this moment, Manager Wu quietly entered the door and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Concubine Jia is waiting outside, saying that she wants to invite you to see the fourth elder brother." ”

The concubine smiled and said nothing, the emperor looked at her, shook his head and said: "On a hot day, let her go back and rest, go to Shaojingxuan to send the fold, I don't want to move." ”

"Ruizhu, sort out the book case for the emperor." The concubine responded to the orders of the people around her, and looked at the emperor again, smiling at each other.

Outside the door, Concubine Jia and Manager Wu grinded for a while, and when they saw that the people inside really didn't plan to see them, they could only leave angrily. Manager Wu took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and was secretly spitting in his heart, when he saw Jia Concubine in the distance suddenly stopped, as if he was talking to a group of people who were coming, he squinted his eyes and looked carefully, it was the red face next to the queen.

Here, Hongyan took two little eunuchs to give the concubine some things on the order of the queen, and they also saluted respectfully when they met the concubine. But Concubine Jia was in a bad mood, so she shook her face and walked away, although she was not polite, Hongyan still wished not to speak, and as soon as she walked away, she took people to continue to the palace of the concubine.

Manager Wu watched Hongyan approach, calculated how to deal with it, and finally made up his mind, and after seeing Hongyan and listening to her explanation, he didn't wait for the word to be passed on, and brought people in.

The queen is because of the concubine's mung bean cake, and sending something is counted as a return gift, and when Manager Wu entered the door with Hongyan, the emperor had just sat down at the desk. Before the fold was delivered, he flipped through a scripture book casually, and the concubine had not yet walked to the desk with the tea, when someone suddenly came to the door, and the emperor and she both looked at the door.

Hongli saw the red face at first glance, his eyes lit up slightly, and it happened that the concubine put down the tea bowl to deal with it, and the moment she turned around, she seemed to see something, but when she looked back, the emperor was already as usual.

"The mung bean cake given by the concubine Niangniang, the princess likes it very much, and she wants to eat it early tomorrow morning." Hongyan said with a smile, "The master sent a slave to ask, there is still a surplus here for the concubine Niangniang, and the master will exchange this island blood swallow for mung bean cake with you." ”

The concubine was flattered and said with a smile: "The queen is really going to torture me, what is a little mung bean cake worth." The emperor sat quietly behind the desk and watched, waiting for Ruizhu to send the prepared mung bean cake, Hongyan took it and wanted to go back to Changchun Xianguan to resume his life, and was about to retire after making a big gift, when the emperor suddenly opened his mouth.

Hongli said: "This thing is eaten too much and is not digested, and the spleen and stomach are weak, don't just coax her to be happy, the mother will inevitably be negligent when she sees that she loves to eat, you have to remind her." ”

Hongyan hurriedly responded: "The slave has written it down." ”

The concubine's meal a while ago, every day prepared by the queen to send Hongyan to send, once and twice is also familiar, she has always known that this little girl is festive, a smiling face makes people's hearts sweet, at the moment I was in a good mood to watch Hongyan leave, suddenly my heart sighed, remembering that Fang had just glanced at the emperor's eyes, she turned around, but missed something, the emperor obviously hurriedly lowered his head.

The concubine's heart was pounding, there were countless palace maids coming and going in front of the emperor, and it was the first time she had such an uneasy feeling.

Manager Wu sent Hongyan to the door, and said with a smile: "It's hot, you are careful on the road, if there is anything in the future, just come to me." ”

Hongyan happily agreed, took the mung bean cake and left, she responded so simply, but the manager Wu didn't understand, was Hongyan too smart and had seen through everything, or was she really so simple that she didn't understand her intentions at all?