"Auntie, does the Queen Mother really care?" Yuan Xi asked again.

"The slave has been with the Queen Mother all her life, but she can never see what she thinks in her heart." Su Mala said, "I can guess some, but it's just a guess, Niangniang, can you see clearly?" ”

Yuan Xi shook his head: "I guessed too, but aunt, this time, I think I guessed eight or nine or ten." ”

The north wind is getting tighter, and it is about to enter winter, and in the harem, the concubines who fell ill due to the heavy rain have recovered one after another, and the first thing Ning Concubine did after recovering from her illness was to go to Brother's place to see her son.

When she entered the door, she saw the fifth princess following the nurse to the door, and the little man saluted her, saying that she was going to see her mother.

When the princess left, the grandmother who was waiting for Fuquan said to her: "Niangniang, I heard that Barya Fujin is dying, what a sin, how old is a person who is so energetic on weekdays." ”

"It was so rainy, so cold." Concubine Ning recalled, like a nightmare, "Now that I think about it, I feel how ridiculous I am, what I was fighting for in those days." ”

In the small courtyard on the edge of Cining Palace, the smell of medicine was strong, and the little princess covered her nose as soon as she entered the door, and the nurse whispered something in her ear, and the little doll put down her hand.

The fifth princess was not raised by Barya herself, and she was not as intimate with Eniang as her third sister, and when she saw her mother, who was sick with sunken cheeks, a dull complexion, and a hoarse speech, she was so frightened that she hid behind the nurse and cried.

But in the end, it was mother and daughter, flesh and blood were connected, she quickly understood what was going on, stood by the bed with teary eyes and held Eniang's hand, asking Eniang to get better quickly.

Barya gently coaxed, and when the two daughters arrived, she told them to love each other, that the elder sister should take care of the younger sister, and that the younger sister should listen to the elder sister.

Yuan Xi was on the side, listening to it sadly, and then sent the two children out, standing in front of the door for a long time, the little palace maid in the door ran to her: "Niangniang, Fujin wants to see you." ”

Yuan Xi immediately rushed back and asked, "What does my sister want me to do?" ”

Barya smiled weakly, "It's nothing, I just can't see you, I'm worried." ”

Yuan Xi breathed a sigh of relief, went to fetch the apples, sat on the edge of the bed, scraped them into a puree with a spoon, and fed Barya some bite by bite.

"Yuan Xi, in your heart, do you blame the emperor?" Barya swallowed the puree slowly and said with a smile, "Hate him?" ”

Yuan Xi nodded: "Hate, hate, if my sister has three long and two short, I will never forgive him for the rest of my life." ”

Barya said: "Yuan Xi, if I really can't escape this catastrophe, promise me, don't hate the emperor, be patient and tolerant, the emperor in the eyes of the world is not in a thousand ways, but we are the people next to his pillow, we should know that he has all kinds of helplessness." Yuan Xi, in fact, you know it in your heart, right? ”

Yuan Xi scraped the puree vigorously, and the flesh was cut off in pieces and rolled to the ground.

Barya said: "Even if the whole world abandons him, we will not abandon him, no matter what, he once treated us well, and those warm and sweet days once existed." ”

Yuan Xi's eyes were moist, and he lowered his head and said, "But he only has Dong Ejiayin now, and I'm afraid he won't be able to allow us to live." ”

"It's your own thoughts, it's someone else's nonsense." Balya said, "Yuan Xi, I hurt the emperor so much, he is too difficult, he has never had a good thing." At that time, you had not yet come, and the regent was still alive at that time, and the ministers, relatives and nobles, did not take him seriously, but he still insisted on going to court every day, and often when he came back, he had to sit for a long time to relieve his strength. But the next day he went again, and even though he couldn't do anything, he couldn't say anything, he went anyway. The emperor has survived such difficult days, and he will definitely be able to survive the ...... now. ”

After talking too much, Balya's anger was about to run out, and she suddenly leaned on the couch and closed her eyes, so frightened that Yuan Xi thought she had fainted, so Balya said with difficulty: "I'm tired, it's okay." ”

Yuan Xi said with tears in her eyes: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today, and if anything happens to you, I will never forgive him." I don't know how great he is, and I don't know what contribution Dong Ejiayin has made to the Qing Dynasty, I only know that it rained so much, and he forced us to see off his beloved woman and make you sick like this. ”

Barya relieved herself before she said with difficulty: "When I helped you, I knew that you were a good girl, and it would never be wrong for someone like you to be by the emperor's side." Yuan Xi, don't leave him, don't leave him. Yuan Xi, I know your duplicity, I know that in this Forbidden City, no one cares about him more than you. ”

Yuan Xi was in tears, his teeth were clenched, and he just refused to agree.

Barya smiled helplessly: "You, are you afraid that if you agree, I'm leaving?" How come, my children, I can't let go, my children, still so young......"

Speaking of sadness, Barya couldn't control her tears, but she couldn't cry now, she coughed even more when she cried, and after such a toss, almost half of her life was gone.

Finally waited for Balya to fall asleep, it was dark, Yuan Xi was exhausted, leaned on the head of the bed hard, reached out to cover her with the quilt, and stood up with the bed frame.

She instructed the palace maid not to be distracted, and to serve by Fujin's side all the time, and then she went outside the door.

The cold wind was blowing, and Pomegranate stepped forward in time to put on a trench coat for her.

"Is this going to be snow?" Yuan Xi asked, "Why is it so cold all of a sudden?" ”

"You haven't eaten well in a day, so naturally you feel cold." Pomegranate covered the young lady's hand with her own hand, "Look at me, my hands are hot and hot." ”

"I'm glad you're good." Yuan Xi said, "Go back, get me something to eat, let's go to bed early, I want to see him tomorrow." ”

Pomegranate was startled and understood who the young lady was talking about: "Can you go?" ”

Yuan Xi bowed his head and resolutely walked into the cold wind: "No one said that they couldn't go." ”

Early the next morning, after Yuan Xi sent Xuan Ye to the study, he left the palace from the north gate, and Tong Guogang arranged a few skilled guards for his sister and simply went to Jingshan.

Naturally, before Yuanxi went out, she had sent someone to inform the Queen Mother, but she didn't plan to wait for the Queen Mother to show her, but just told her mother-in-law that she was going out.

Yu'er held a small bowl, stood under the window and slowly ate bird's nest porridge spoonful, and heard that Yuan Xi went to Jingshan, she asked Su Mala: "What will Yuan Xi be like when he reaches my age in the future?" This kid will be better than me. ”

Su Mala said: "At least Concubine Tong Niangniang and the third elder brother must be better than you." ”

Yu'er glared at Su Mala: "It's mine, isn't it?" ”

Su Mala bowed her head, and she dared to say in the world: "You mother and son, it's not good." ”

Jingshan Palace, now it has become a dharma dojo, Yuan Xi walked all the way, and what he saw the most was not eunuchs or palace maids or guards, but monks.

A few eunuchs who followed the emperor and served saw Concubine Tong, it was like seeing a relative, and greeted him attentively, but just as he was about to speak, he frowned in embarrassment when he saw Concubine Tong's dress.

"Mother, you ......"

"Where is the emperor?"

"Write a memorial to the queen in the temple."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi walked straight to the door, and several fathers-in-law looked at each other behind him, very uneasy.

Fu Lin was writing a memorial for Jiayin, and several scholars and the Ministry of Rites submitted it, but he was not satisfied, so he decided to write it by himself, but he also changed his manuscript several times, and he felt that something was missing.

Hearing the sound of footsteps at this moment, he raised his head, he hadn't shaved his face for several days, making him look a few years older all of a sudden, and what made his eyes widen was that Yuan Xi was actually wearing a red dress, full of pearls and gold and jade, and he was extravagant, and in this quiet and desolate hall, he almost stabbed the blood in his eyes.

"What are you here for, what are you wearing?" Fu Lin put down his pen and glared at Yuan Xi angrily, "Who asked you to come?" ”

"Sister Barya is terminally ill, and the imperial doctor has already asked her to prepare for the afterlife, and it is God's reward to stay up for an extra day." Yuan Xi said calmly, "I'm here to invite the emperor to go back to the palace to take a look at Sister Balya." ”

"She's sick? Why did you get sick? Fu Lin really didn't know anything, for so many days, he had never cared about anything in the Forbidden City.

"She's sick, very sick, I'm afraid the emperor doesn't know, so the concubine came in person." Yuan Xi bowed, "Please ask the emperor to move and go back to the Forbidden City to visit my sister." ”

"Are you trying to trick me back?" Fu Lin was cold, "Why do you have to make this decision, was it Eniang who instructed you?" ”

Yuan Xi looked at Fulin indifferently: "Your Majesty, are you crazy?" ”

Fu Lin's momentum weakened a little, avoiding Yuan Xi's gaze: "Whatever you think, I am here, very comfortable." ”

"You must be crazy." Yuan Xi said, "But if you don't have the slightest idea of going back, why do you suspect that it is the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, are you still looking forward to the Queen Mother coming here in person, coaxing you to comfort you, hugging you and crying, and then taking you back?" ”

"Tong Yuanxi, you can step down, I don't want to see you." Fu Lin's face turned red.

"This is not the first time you have said such things to me, does the emperor think that I want to see you now? If it weren't for Sister Balya's obsession with you and her memory of you, I would never have come here. ”

Yuan Xi looked around, his eyes full of hatred: "Your Majesty, you are standing here, you can see the entire Forbidden City, then please open your eyes and see, in the entire palace, who is crying for your beloved woman, no, not a single one." It was you who made Dong Ejiayin even dead, and she was cursed by others, but fortunately she died, her life is a disaster for everyone, and it is also a disaster for herself. ”

Fu Lin sneered: "You really followed her, you learned mean, you go, I am here, I am not going anywhere." ”

Yuan Xi stepped forward, grabbed the paper on the table and tore it open, and raised it on the ground, Fulin looked at her in horror, Yuan Xi said: "Why should the emperor waste pen and ink to write a sacrificial text, the sacrificial text that has been passed down in the world, every time the descendants read a word, it is to whip her corpse to ashes, is this your love for Dong Ejiayin?" ”

"Presumptuous!" The pieces of paper fell one after another, and a heavy slap hit Yuan Xi's face, and Fu Lin took a few steps back sharply, his palm numb.

"Please, go back and take a look at Balya." Yuan Xi's face quickly became red and swollen with hideous fingerprints, but she didn't care at all, and continued, "Your Majesty, please go and see her." ”