408 Things to do in Wechen (and update.)
The emperor hurried to the mountain house, and learned that it was the queen's inner hall that caught fire, because the autumn wind was impatient tonight, and the fire was violent, and the entire palace was burned clean at once, and the fire was simply controlled and did not spread elsewhere, and the queen was rescued in time and was resting in the side hall.
There was a scorching breath in the air, Hongli approached the door, and saw that the imperial doctor was taking the pulse of the queen, and the queen wanted to get up and salute, Hongli let her sit passively, and then heard the imperial doctor say that the queen's body was fine, but she was frightened, and she had to rest for a few days.
"How did it burn?" Hongli asked casually.
"When the slave found out about the fire, she only cared about rescuing the queen mother, and didn't look carefully where the fire started." Hua Rong curtsied and said, "The slave didn't take care of the queen's mother, and the slave and maid deserved to die." ”
"You are the one who has followed the queen for a long time, where is there any sin." Hongli asked her to get up and told her to continue to take good care of the queen, and it didn't take long for someone to come to tell her, they went deep into the burned palace to check, and found nothing unusual, but the fire was too fierce The furnishings in the hall were almost burned to ashes, and they couldn't find anything, but it was the wind tonight, and the candles lit the curtains to cause the fire.
The queen was quietly on the side, and said gently: "The concubine has worried the emperor, please rest assured, the concubine was half asleep and half awake at that time, and only then did she understand what was going on, and she was not frightened, but if something like this happened, the queen mother and other concubines would panic." ”
Hongli frowned and said: "It's okay if you're fine, but you can't live here anymore, you can be wronged here for half the night, and tomorrow I will ask Concubine Ling to clean up a new place for you." ”
I don't want the queen to say: "There are many houses and palaces in the mountain house, and although the main hall is destroyed, there are still many places for concubines to live." The burned ashes will always be moved out, and after three or five days it will be an open space, and the concubines are used to living here, maybe a fire will disperse all the anger, and it is more suitable for the concubines to raise their babies here, if the emperor allows it, can the concubines continue to live here. ”
The emperor was thinking about whether it was appropriate, and the queen said: "The queen mother's sixtieth birthday is about to begin, and the concubines still have a lot of things to do. The emperor just rest assured, the concubines are fine, this fire may be burned out, and the concubines and children will be safe. ”
60th birthday? Hongli was shocked, he actually forgot his mother's age, although he celebrated his birthday every year, but he did not carefully calculate his mother's age, his fiftieth birthday seemed to be still in front of him, this moment his mother was sixty years old, but think about it, he is forty years old, can his mother not be old?
The emperor went to court the next day, so he hurriedly invited Hongyan to Shaojingxuan, and asked about the birthday of the Queen Mother, Hongyan said that she and Concubine Yu had already arranged, and in those days of the emperor's southern tour, Hongyan was already idle and had nothing to do to sort out the utensils and utensils needed for the birthday banquet, and when the emperor suffered from heat stroke, he saw Hongyan settling accounts, and he was also preparing for the Queen Mother's 60th birthday. Hongyan was strange to the emperor: "The concubines did according to the rules, I thought the emperor knew, but the emperor forgot?" ”
Hongli breathed a sigh of relief, relieved that he was fortunate to have Hongyan by his side, and when he mentioned what the queen said about it last night, he blamed himself even more: "Even the queen remembered everything, I forgot everything." ”
Hongyan smiled: "It's not the concubine who invites merit, the queen mother knows it, it's because the concubine has asked the mother for these things, if the concubine doesn't speak, the queen mother may not know." ”
If it was in the past, how could Hongyan say the queen's "no" in front of the emperor, but now even she clearly feels that this queen is not the other queen, and the master in the Xiushan house really just has an empty title. Taking a step back, if the emperor really gave this title to Hongyan, I am afraid that it will be similar to now, Hongyan feels more and more that she is very good now, she will always be Wei Hongyan, and the concubine has the helplessness of a concubine, so why can't his wife help herself.
"This matter of the concubine and Concubine Yu will be thoughtful, but the emperor has been indifferent, we still think that the emperor has no intention of holding a birthday for the queen mother, and now it is still too late, the emperor should handle it with great fanfare, so that the queen mother has a bright face." Hongyan joked, and then asked about the Xiushan house, saying that today she had arranged for someone to clean up the ruins, and she felt that it was inappropriate for the queen to continue to live there, but she was afraid that outsiders would not speak well.
Hongli didn't care, saying that the queen herself was unwilling to move away, as for what outsiders thought, he said: "I don't treat her badly, you also respect her, as long as the people of the Nala clan don't mess around, others won't care." Once upon a time, ......" The emperor paused, as if he felt that some words were inappropriate, but he still said, "In the past, although I treated the queen wholeheartedly, there was the Fucha clan behind her, and I had to have some scruples, but now the Nala clan is not at all, and I don't have to care too much about them." ”
Hongli evoked a little sadness again: "If An Yi was not from the Fucha family, would she live faster." ”
Hongyan said: "If Niangniang is not a member of the Fucha family, how can she meet the emperor." ”
Hongli bowed: "Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have met her." ”
In the mountain house, the new queen is standing beside the ruins that have been burned to ashes and watching the palace people raze this place to the ground, last night the autumn wind was irritable, this morning it was a light rain, at the moment the wet and dusty was suppressed, but it also brought mud and dirt, from time to time there were palace people to ask the queen to avoid, she just said lightly: "You are busy with you, I will leave after a while." ”
Hua Rong is not by the queen's side, last night's incident made her almost scared out of illness, it was not the wind blowing the curtain and being lit by candles, it was the queen who paid tribute to Fu Erye in the dormitory, burning incense and burning paper and doing everything. At that time, a palace maid suddenly broke in, and as soon as the door opened, the wind blew, and the burning paper money was lifted to the curtain, and it burned all at once. Fortunately, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and those sacrificial things were burned clean, otherwise it would be terrible if it was found that the queen was paying tribute in private, or even to a foreign minister.
But as a result, the queen said to Hua Rong that if the flames flourished during the sacrificial fire, it meant that the heart and wish had been passed on to the other side, and last night it turned into a fire and everyone was flustered, but the queen said happily to Hua Rong: "Brother Fu Qing must know my intentions, he will definitely come to reincarnation, and he also wants to meet me." What did the second lady say that she would never want to see him again in this life, you see, Brother Fu Qing wants to see me, and he knows my intentions. ”
What Hua Rong is most worried about now is that if the queen gives birth to a daughter in this birth, will she feel that it is the second lady who is reincarnated, and will she be ...... to that child Hua Rong thought about it and fell ill.
A fire in the mountain house of Jiexiu made the garden strengthen the guards, and the emperor finally remembered his mother's birthday, and mentioned the birthday of the queen mother in the court for a few days in a row, to celebrate the queen mother and put on the emblem, Ning Chun Tang Hua Mama told the master about these things, but the queen mother said coldly or: "He must have deliberately responded to me, at the time of his fiftieth birthday, he started to do it a year early, and now there are only two months left, he remembered." If you tell me, it must be Concubine Ling who stopped him and deliberately disgusted me. ”
Hua Mama persuaded: "You have to think like this, only you are not happy, the slave maid heard that Concubine Ling has been preparing for your birthday since our southern tour, everything is in order, Concubine Ling is really attentive." ”
The Queen Mother snorted lightly: "She doesn't worry about me, and I can live a few more years." ”
The relationship between this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is like a thousand years of cold ice that can't be dissolved, and Mama Hua feels strange that Concubine Ling is also a bony person, and the other concubines can't wait to grovel to get the Queen Mother's good face, but this one doesn't care at all, she is not even afraid that "disrespect" to the Queen Mother will bring her trouble. But she does her duty beautifully, whether it is the queen mother or the emperor or others, no amount of praise and slander can shake her, sometimes Mama Hua feels that Concubine Ling is a person outside the world, but she is clearly in the red dust.
Before the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, there have been royal family members, ministers' wives, etc. have entered the palace one after another to offer birthday gifts to the Queen Mother, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going in Ningchun Hall all day long.
In Concubine Shu's words, the Queen Mother is to deliberately show off her noble status, and even show off the emperor's filial piety, after all, the time for the birthday banquet this time is a bit rushed, and the Queen Mother must be in a hurry.
Hongyan doesn't often say behind her back that the Queen Mother is not, this is not fun for her, if she can, don't mention this person at all.
On this day, the people of the Fucha family entered the palace to send congratulatory gifts, the third master and Fu Heng led the family to come together, such as Yin An's fetus should not be walked around without seeing it, and Fu Heng had something to do on the way, and separated from his brother and sister-in-law after leaving Ning Chuntang.
Hongyan was checking whether the seats of the banquet were in place in Xifeng, leading the Buddha back from there, and met Fu Heng head-on, and the Buddha stepped forward to greet him very warmly, and asked, "Why didn't my aunt come?" ”
Fu Heng was very respectful to the little girl, explained the reason why Ruyin couldn't come, and said with a smile: "She already knows why, she has to ask it every day, adults don't have to bother to explain, adults are going to Xifeng Xiuse?" ”
Fu Heng said yes, saying that there was a fire in the Xiushan House the day before yesterday, and he should be more careful everywhere in the park, and he was polite: "My lord is not walking in the inner palace now, but the emperor is still used to teaching you some things to do, which is really hard." ”
Fu Heng said that he still had the duties of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and it was his own internal business, and the two politely said a few words before they were going to separate, and Hongyan saw that the Buddha ran away, and the other palace people chased after the princess, so she said to Fu Heng: "The emperor returned from his southern tour to Jing'an Village to pay tribute to the queen, thank you for sending someone to tell me, otherwise the misunderstanding between father and daughter is really unsolvable." ”
Fu Heng bowed his head, not daring to look at Hongyan more, but said, "That's what Weichen should do." ”