The next day, the emperor took care of government affairs and came to Xinghua Village for lunch, and An Lingrong prepared a table of good dishes.

"Rong'er has a heart, this table of dishes has been open for a long time, right?" The emperor took a bite of bamboo shoots, which were sweet and crispy, "You often let people send food to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and I know that it is your craftsmanship when I taste it." ”

An Lingrong smiled and scooped a bowl of soup for the emperor: "It's hot, the emperor has a bad appetite, and the concubines think that the emperor is busy with government affairs, and he is always tired, so it's better to go in more, so he thinks about it, and other concubines don't bother to care about him." She laughed coquettishly and put the soup in the emperor's hand, "This bowl of perch soup and concubines tried for two months before it succeeded, and the emperor should try it well." ”

The emperor ate it with a smile, and it was really fragrant and delicious.

"Yesterday, Concubine Hua came to beg me, saying that Zhen's family was pitiful, and asked me to raise her position, and I promised her the position she promised, title, your sister Wan also mentioned it yesterday, and I also felt good, so I took the word 'Bi', and reminded her from time to time not to forget her identity." The emperor said that Zhen Yuyin came, "I didn't expect that she would be so close to Concubine Hua." ”

An Lingrong smiled at the corner of his mouth, and hesitated: "The concubine has something, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"You say."

An Lingrong pondered and said: "Sister Guan's temperament, the concubine understands it, she loves the emperor and respects the emperor even more, why has she been rude to the emperor one after another recently?" The concubine originally thought that it was Bi's promise that made her sister jealous, so she lost her temper with the emperor, but after her sister came back yesterday, she was full of regret, and said that she was anxious in front of the palace, which made her words and deeds difficult to control and made a big mistake. She only cared about repentance, but the concubine felt strange, in the end, what Bi promised was also given back by her sister, why did my sister hold on to this matter again? But Bi agreed, and she didn't miss her sister and didn't say it, and she ......" seemed to realize that she had said the wrong thing, An Lingrong hurriedly stopped speaking, "The concubine lost her words." ”

The emperor's face changed, and he seriously thought about Zhen Huan's reaction before and after Bi promised to be favored.

Seeing this, An Lingrong knew that he didn't need to say anything more.

Zhen Yu secretly sealed Bi and agreed for a while, and from time to time he went to Bitong Academy to get close to Zhen Huan, although Zhen Huan was angry with her, but because she was surnamed Zhen, she had to give her some face, so she got along like this.

"She's not having a good time lately." Liu Zhu fanned Zhen Huan, looked at Zhen Yuyin's back as she walked away, and whispered, "Yesterday she went to the Qinzheng Palace to ask for peace, but the emperor didn't see her, and I don't know what's wrong." ”

"Leave her alone." Zhen Huan was not kind enough to help Zhen Yu hide her pet, and turned to talk about the recent cases, "In the past few days, the queen has ordered the cutting of routine dishes, and the portions of each palace and courtyard must be halved, you carefully order the portions sent, don't make a mistake." ”

"Yes, the slave knows."

What they don't know is that because of this cutting example, there have already been people who have caused trouble and killed people with knives, and some people have a grudge and are ready to do it.

In the cool hall, Concubine Hua was so angry that her throat was on fire: "Lunch and dinner are all vegetarian dishes, what vinegar cucumbers, cold salad golden needles, I can't wait to see the meat, I don't have a good appetite in summer, I don't have some good things, let alone eat." She snatched the fan from the hand of the palace maid behind her, and fanned herself a few times, hearing Song Zhi say that this was Shen Meizhuang's idea, she suddenly became even more angry, "Before you can take care of the six palaces, you will learn to use chicken feathers as arrows." ”

Her eyes rolled around, and Concubine Hua suddenly had a plan: "Song Zhi, take some silver tickets." All the palaces have suffered hardship, and they subsidize some oil and water for those palace maids and eunuchs. ”

Song Zhi immediately understood what Concubine Hua meant: "Yes." ”

For a while, the direction of the wind in the palace changed and changed, and Shen Meizhuang was in the center of public opinion, but he didn't know it, and he only felt that he was a little powerless to manage things recently.

How did she know that the queen proposed to cut the parts of each palace under her name, but she didn't mention anything about converting money, which caused the whole palace to complain, and Concubine Hua was dotted everywhere to win people's hearts, and Shen Meizhuang was naturally constrained everywhere.

Little did she know that danger was looming at her.

On this day, Zhen Huan and An Lingrong came to Xianyue Pavilion for a small gathering, and Shen Meizhuang asked people to make sour plum soup.

In the middle of summer weather, this soup is the most thirst-quenching and heat-relieving, Zhen Huan doesn't like to eat sour, and he doesn't drink it, An Lingrong drank two sips and felt that it was too cold, so he also put it aside, but Shen Meizhuang couldn't stop it, and drank two bowls in a row, and he was still hungry, and Cai Yue stopped him and didn't drink it again.

"It's hot today, so I love this." Shen Meizhuang smiled embarrassedly.

"It's Poria cocos' sour plum soup that is well done." Cai Yue praised that Poria was a little palace maid in the palace, and was assigned by the queen to take care of Shen Meizhuang's daily life, seeing that Shen Meizhuang was favored, she wanted to stay by her side and please her everywhere, this sour plum soup is her craft.

This matter was skipped, and Shen Meizhuang talked about the next thing: "Princess Wenyi will be nineteen years old next month, and the emperor instructed the queen to have a good life, and I am worried about this matter these days. ”

"The emperor likes Wen Yi, and it is inevitable that he will see Cao Guiren a few more times." Zhen Huan talked about Cao Guiren, "Last time Concubine Hua's incident didn't implicate her, she was even more proud, and made us stumble several times." Last time, that incense was the same, I heard Sister Rong say it, I was shocked, I never thought that her methods were so secret and ruthless. ”

Shen Meizhuang also nodded: "Yes, Rong'er also told me about this later, this person really can't be underestimated." But when it comes to it, it's better to have children by your side. She said abruptly, "The three of us are certainly favored in front of us, but having no heirs is unstable after all, and you will know that Concubine Hua knows that even if she crisscrosses the six palaces, she has no heirs, and the power in this hand is gone." Without a real child, what he says is empty. ”

Speaking of children, An Lingrong was also in a trance for a while. In her previous life, she was never able to have a child of her own until she died, only the hard-working one stayed in her belly for a few months and was not born.

Thinking of this, her heart ached.

"No matter how much the emperor doesn't want to see Concubine Qi, for the sake of the third elder brother, I have to talk to her, although Cao Guiren and Xin Changzai are daughters, the emperor also loves her." Shen Meizhuang stood up, "As long as you remember the child, you will take care of your biological mother, otherwise, the emperor will always put it aside if he is in a moment's interest." ”

An Lingrong came back to her senses, looked at Shen Meizhuang's beautiful face, and only felt that she was really awake.

She knew that the emperor's favor was unreliable, no one could be favored for a long time, and she saw through the essence of the harem's survival at a glance and made the most long-term plan, but unfortunately, she couldn't wait for the day she gave birth to a child to live a stable life, and she was pregnant in October, but died on the night the princess was born.

An Lingrong's eyes showed a sense of guilt.

In the previous life, Shen Meizhuang died after all through her hands, and in this life, no matter what, she has to protect Shen Meizhuang - her father and mother knelt down to beg the Buddha to give her a chance to be reborn, and she can't do evil again.

"If you think about it, Sister Mei has been serving the emperor for almost a year, why haven't you seen good news?" Zhen Huan got up and walked to Shen Meizhuang's side, gently patted Shen Meizhuang's stomach with a fan, and teased.

"The emperor has only been to the harem a few times a month, and now I help the queen mother with trivial matters, and I can't take care of it anymore." Shen Meizhuang glanced at Zhen Huan with a sneer.

An Lingrong also smiled: "Children are fate, Sister Mei, this fate has not yet arrived." ”

"Rong'er has a point, but things can't just ask God, something has to be done." Shen Meizhuang pulled Zhen Huan to sit down, took An Lingrong's hand, and said, "I'm not afraid to say something heart-wrenching to the two of you, although it is said that the birth of the dragon descendant depends on the will of heaven, but it is up to people to make things happen, and it is up to heaven to make things happen, so we can't just wait." ”

Zhen Huan looked puzzled: "This is whether the emperor comes or not, what else can be artificial?" ”

An Lingrong had heard some things: "When I was at home before, I seemed to have heard my aunts talk about that there is a recipe for eating to conceive a child, and you can decide whether to conceive a man or a girl." ”

"Exactly." Shen Meizhuang's eyes lit up, and he asked Caiyue to take a recipe out, "I got a recipe by chance, which Concubine Qi used to eat before she was pregnant, and if you recuperate according to this recipe, you will definitely be able to get a boy." ”

Zhen Huan didn't believe it, so she took it and took a closer look, but she didn't understand medical science: "Liuzhu, you take this recipe and go to Imperial Doctor Wen to take a look." ”

Liu Zhu hurriedly said: "The little master doesn't know, the old man who protects the country is seriously ill, and Imperial Doctor Wen went to see him, saying that he should eat and live in the Sun Mansion, and when the old man Sun recovers, Lord Wen will come back." ”

Zhen Huan couldn't make up her mind for a while.

An Lingrong opened his mouth at this time and said: "Sister, the cardamom beside me is a little good at medicine, so it's better for me to copy a copy of this recipe and bring it back, so that she can see if there is anything wrong." ”

Shen Meizhuang remembered Cardamom's neat movements when she diagnosed her pulse that day, and nodded as well, asking Caiyue to prepare pen and ink.

An Lingrong slowly copied a copy of the recipe.

"A beautiful hand-held hairpin, although the pen is insufficient, but the pen is smooth, and the glyph is neat. Sister Rong, I didn't know that you wrote such a good hand. Zhen Huan looked at An Lingrong's handwriting and couldn't help but praise.

Shen Meizhuang also smiled: "Sister Rong has a lot of hidden skills." She didn't mean anything else, in this palace, she had to have skills.

An Lingrong smiled slightly, and dried the recipe and folded it.

"I've already taken this medicine twice, so I want you two to be cautious." Shen Meizhuang put the recipe away, "I think it's not bad, Rong'er, if you see that it's okay, it's better to eat it according to the recipe, it's always good to adjust it early." ”

An Lingrong responded with a smile.

Instead, Cai Yue came to spread the word, saying that the doctor from the Tai Hospital had come to ask for peace and was waiting in the courtyard.

Zhen Huan and An Lingrong then got up to say goodbye.

When leaving Xianyue Pavilion, An Lingrong saw a tall and thin figure walk in from a distance, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

It's Liu Gan!

An Lingrong suddenly felt that the prescription in the cuffs was hot.

Did Concubine Hua lay out a false pregnancy so early? The action is so fast.

An Lingrong pressed the urge to go in immediately to expose Liu Ji, and returned all the way back to Xinghua Village. She can't act rashly, now Concubine Hua is just a layout, and she hasn't really made any moves, if she jumps out now, wouldn't it be a fire.

She flipped out the recipe, her eyes were slightly deep, and she said to Dill, "Let Cardamom come." ”

Cardamom entered the Fanying Hall after a while.

"Look at this recipe, there's anything wrong with it." An Lingrong handed the recipe to Cardamom.

Cardamom took a closer look and said, "The recipe is harmless, but after taking it, the menstrual obstruction will cause about three months of menstruation, and it will be accompanied by vomiting, acidophilia and other symptoms." ”

An Lingrong compared it before and after, and determined that this was the recipe that made Shen Meizhuang have pregnancy symptoms back then. She thought for a long time before she slowly asked, "Cardamom, is there any kind of medicine that makes people look pregnant?" I mean, the exact kind. ”

Cardamom looked at the recipe, thought about it again, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Good." An Lingrong had already thought of a way, and she slowly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, "You take the time to go outside to find this flavor medicine and replace Shen Guiren's medicinal materials." ”

Cardamom understood: "Yes." ”

After another six or seven days, An Lingrong was embroidering in the house, and suddenly heard Cardamom running in and said: "Little master, Shen Guiren was having dinner in Cao Guiren's Picture Pavilion, and he suddenly vomited during the banquet. ”

An Lingrong put down the needle in his hand, and his eyes flickered.

Concubine Hua, Concubine Hua, this time it can't be as you want.

Three watches~

(End of chapter)