There is a restaurant downstairs in Yueyang, the name is very atmospheric, it is 'Yuezhou Restaurant', according to the experience of Ouyang and Zhiyun who often travel around the world, the restaurants and restaurants that dare to use the name of the place name must be counted in the local area.

Lao Shi is a foodie, and after sitting and listening to the two elder brothers talk for a long time, he became hungry.

The scenery of Yueyang Tower, Ouyang and Yunxi looked interested, but Lao Shi was not interested, Li Bai's famous poem, in his heart, was not as good as a bowl of spicy soup.

So, everyone got up and went to eat.

Miss Xiao Tan is very sensible, and she took a few girls to help clean the dishes and chopsticks, served the soup with her bare hands, and held it in front of these people with both hands.

drank a bowl of hot Hu spicy soup and took a bite of the roasted bun, Ouyang did not avoid the eighth and tenth children, and approved Li Wei's fold sent by the royal postman, asking him to deal with the matter of suppressing bandits, and also issued an order that "the envoy will be subject to his moderation".

The eighth and tenth didn't ask what the long-lived lord was, just with fragrant baked buns, ate a few signature dishes of the restaurant, and waited until they were full, asked for wine, and had a drink, the eighth took Xiao Tan's hand and asked her to sing Jiangnan Minor, don't say, Xiao Tan's voice is good, and he sang the folk slang songs tactfully and lingeringly, and he was stunned to hook up with Zhiyun.

"This little Tan girl is good, she has a good appearance, a good figure, and she has a charming fragrance without makeup, a beauty without makeup, rare."

Zhiyun took a sip of wine, thinking that it was okay, it was not bad wine, so she dipped her lips slightly, the smell of wine was smoky, two blushes appeared on her cheeks, leaned on Ouyang's shoulder, and glanced at him, "I heard that Jiangnan officialdom comes and goes, and you like to give away beautiful maids the most, you followed the master to Jiangnan, and you enjoyed this kind of glamorous blessings, right?" ”

Just looking at the fact that Yun Xi has not yet arrived in Jiangnan, and he is already sitting in the arms of a beauty, he can imagine that when Kangxi took his emperors to Jiangnan, he must have come and gone in the rouge pile, and the beauties were like clouds.

"Well, there is no less, especially the old, and now there are many beautiful concubines in the family who are from Jiangnan. The eighth child is better, but he has a lot of beautiful concubines in his backyard. ”

Ouyang smiled and hugged his daughter-in-law, with a little helplessness in his expression, these emperors are nothing to accept some beauties, as long as they are not daughters of good families, even the concubines in the palace who are not in the jade plate will not take it seriously, those lowly maids are almost the same as objects, and sending a few is the same as sending a few antiques and getting a jade.

Even if he is jealous like Bafujin, he didn't stop others from sending a maid to Yun Xi.

Don't talk about the emperor, ordinary officials have never taken the lowly handmaid seriously, like to see a fresh, don't like to give it away, just say Li Wei, because he has been in Jiangnan for many years, the official to the governor, high power, but still only accept lowly handmaidens, not good concubines, just for this reason, others gave him a thumbs up to praise him for being clean, even Mrs. Li is very happy, it can be seen how low the status of a lowly woman is.

Ouyang lowered his voice and bit his ear with Zhiyun: "Although I ordered the abolition of the lowly status, but the ideology is deep-rooted, and the law cannot interfere, this matter cannot be completely solved in a day or two." ”

"Those women who have been in the lowly nationality, even if they are lucky enough to redeem themselves from the good, there is no good future, seeing the original master, they still have to bow down and be small, the lord wants their lives, it is still very easy, and, once they enter the lowly nationality, their grandchildren will be affected, especially marriage, good and lowly are not married, it has been so ...... since ancient times"

"Hey, a girl like Xiao Tan, I don't think she's young, how can she be eighteen years old, at such an age, being able to follow Yun Xi is a blessing from her elders, that is, the old eight don't accept her, if you move your kindness and point her to someone under your hands, Xiao Tan will be able to get out of the lowly status, and she will marry in the future, without restrictions."

After eating, they traveled around Yueyang Tower with their companions, Ouyang and Zhiyun joined hands with Lao Ba and Lao Shi, the two continued to go south, and Zhiyun and them went north to return to Beijing.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is still green, but the capital in winter is covered in silver.

Zhiyun and Ouyang returned to the capital before the Chinese New Year, and on the first day of entering Beijing, they received the news that Concubine De was seriously ill, and the imperial doctors also said accurately, saying that Concubine De would only be a matter of one or two months.

On the fourteenth, she wanted to send her mother back to Beijing, saying that Concubine De wanted to go back to the Yonghe Palace where she had lived for many years, and wanted to go back to the capital to see and her family.

Ouyang didn't say anything, yes, Concubine De was already dying, the old woman who stepped into the ghost gate with one foot, before she died, there was such a request, whether this request was meant by the side, whether this request was accompanied by fourteen begging in it, he had no reason not to allow it.

Ouyang is not a particularly indifferent man after all, and he has no resentment or hatred towards Concubine De.

So, Ouyang prepared a spacious and comfortable car, and sent two imperial doctors to take Concubine De back to the capital as quickly as possible, and the fourteenth asked to send his mother back to Beijing, but Ouyang temporarily deducted it, and only let the fourteenth Fujin finish the Yan's illness.

The road leading to Shengjing, which began to be built from the first year of Yongzheng, came in handy, but in half a month, Concubine De's car entered Beijing.

There are few women in Ouyang Palace, and they haven't carried people to the Forbidden City for many years, and Yonghe Palace is still empty, so there is no need to make room for Concubine De, she can move in directly when she arrives in the capital.

Yonghe Palace Ouyang has not moved, retaining the appearance of Concubine De when she left. In fact, except for Zhiyun's Chuxiu Palace, since Ouyang ascended the throne, he has not built a lot of construction in other palaces, and most of the entire Forbidden City is still the same as when Kangxi was in the past.

Yonghe Palace

Since Concubine De settled in, Ouyang has not been here once on weekdays except for coming to ask for peace in the morning, but today, the imperial doctor said that Concubine De is not very good. Concubine De sent the palace maids around her to Chuxiu Palace, saying that she invited the emperor and the queen to come over to meet.

Zhiyun thought about it, and was quite curious about what Concubine De wanted to say before she died, Ouyang went down, and the two of them came together.

Inside the hall gate, there were faint coughing sounds, Zhiyun and Ouyang walked in, and at a glance they saw the pale, senile Concubine De, she collapsed on the couch, and there was a strong smell of medicine in the room.

At this time, Concubine De was awake, Wan Yan leaned on the side of the bed and dozed off with her head down, still holding a soaked handkerchief in her hand, obviously helping Concubine De wipe her body all night, she was so tired that the two imperial doctors stood aside.

"How?"

Ouyang glanced at Concubine De, whose eyes were hazy, before turning his head and asking the imperial doctor.

A imperial physician surnamed Lin hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Long live the lord, Concubine De is old...... I'm afraid, I'm afraid there are still a few days to live at most. ”

"Can't think of a way? At least survive this year? Zhiyun frowned, although she had no affection for Concubine De, it was not a pleasant thing to see a dying old man.

"This ......" the imperial doctor hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head with a wry smile, "Concubine De has already run out of oil, and in just a few days, she still has to be recuperated." ”

"Queen...... Empress. ”

Maybe it was because she heard the words of the imperial doctor, Concubine De didn't know where she got the strength, and she struggled to sit up, as soon as she moved, Wan Yan next to her woke up, and hurriedly leaned over to help Concubine De, and stuffed a big pillow behind her back, "Eniang, are you awake?" ”

Wan Yan followed Concubine De's line of sight, and was suddenly startled, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Say hello to the emperor and the queen." ”

"No need to be polite, get up."

Ouyang waved his hand casually, letting Wan Yan stand aside before helping Zhiyun and walking to the couch.

Concubine De's gaze didn't know whether she didn't dare or didn't want to, she never fell on Ouyang's body, but just looked at Zhiyun with a pair of dizzy eyes, a little moist.

After gasping for breath for a while, Concubine De suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhiyun's sleeve, gritted her teeth and said: "Queen Mother, you are a good person, the slave knows that you are a good person, you help the slave persuade the long live master, you persuade him, let him not embarrass my fourteenth ...... No, no, it's not like that, you're Banzai's favorite woman, and you love Banzai too, aren't you? Isn't it? Then you should think about the reputation of Banzai, he can't ...... He can't poison his own brother, otherwise, wouldn't he be as good as a brute, he can't ......"

Zhiyun frowned, and said in her mouth: "Concubine Shenyan, what are you talking about, you are an elder, how can you call yourself a slave in front of the juniors......

Zhiyun spit out the words lightly and heavily, her voice was hoarse, but with an indescribable majesty, the rest of Concubine De's words immediately choked in her throat and could no longer be spit out.

Zhiyun didn't look at her either, but just swept a cold glance at several palace maids and eunuchs in Yonghe Palace, as well as the two imperial doctors.

The people in the palace were startled, and immediately bowed their heads and knelt down, no longer daring to stay to listen to the royal family's secrets, and retreated and exited the door.

Wan Yan was almost stunned, he really didn't expect that Eniang, who had always been rational and calm, would do such a thing. She looked at Concubine De in a daze for a long time before she reacted, rushed up with an arrow step, held Concubine De's thin arm, and stumbled and said: "Eniang, you have a fever, you are hot and confused, my daughter-in-law will wipe your body for you, and it will not be so uncomfortable to wipe it......"

Before Yan's words fell, Concubine De's face suddenly changed, becoming pale, a red light flashed on her face, she struggled to turn her head, and finally stared at Ouyang's face, her lips squirmed, but she didn't speak after all...... Then, with a 'poof' sound, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and Concubine De instantly leaned back and fell.

Wan Yan took a step, hugged Concubine De's body, tears flowed, and cried: "Eniang, Eniang, what's wrong with you, what's wrong with you?" What about the Imperial Doctor, the Imperial Doctor? ”

Ouyang and Zhiyun sighed, called the imperial doctor to enter the door, and the two imperial doctors took turns to rescue, and poured a bowl of prepared ginseng soup, and Concubine De barely breathed a sigh of relief.