Cao Qinmo couldn't survive this winter after all, and on the day of Dunsu Guifei Sanqi, she also followed. Her death drew an imperfect end to the three years of Yongzheng.

This year is a cold winter, the Queen Mother's illness dragged on and on, the affairs of the remnants of Nian Xianyao's henchmen one after another, and the emperor was too busy to get out, so this year's Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was not large, and even the first birthday banquet with the sixth brother was simplified. The queen invited everyone in the harem to gather in Qingyin Pavilion to watch the play, which was a lively gathering in the New Year.

The queen sat on the main seat, on the left hand side were Concubine Qi, Qi Guiren, Fang Chunyi, and Xin Changzai, and on the right hand side were Concubine Jing, Shen Meizhuang, An Lingrong, Zhen Huan, and Concubine Duan still did not attend.

"It's rare that the sisters are in full order." The queen said with a smile, "I asked the sisters to watch the play together today, one is because it will soon be the end of the year, and I think everyone will inevitably be homesick, and the other is because it is not as constrained as talking in Jingren Palace." ”

"The mother is compassionate, and the concubines are remembered." After the people bowed, they sat down one by one.

The queen smiled and asked everyone to get up, and then asked Jiang Fuhai to arrange for the troupe to sing.

The song "The Story of the Jade Hairpin" was sung lingeringly, and everyone listened to it with relish, and even the queen gradually became fascinated by it. In the past, when the concubine of Dunsu was there, watching the opera was like singing, how could there be such a comfortable time.

The nobles didn't have long eyes, relying on the fact that the queen had taken a lot of importance to her recently, and rushed to curry favor on the ground: "Fortunately, there is a queen mother in the palace, otherwise this year, the concubine's heart is always empty, not to mention, she has to be wronged, look at people's eyes, and the concubine is ...... in her heart."

"When you enter the palace, it's not like you're at home, and you'll be a little aggrieved no matter what." The queen smiled generously and comforted, "But everyone is sisters, and we have to give in to each other." ”

"With the mother's comforting guidance, the concubine's heart is much warmer." The nobles smiled affectionately at the queen, as if they had a good relationship with the queen.

Zhen Huan on the other side whispered to An Lingrong: "Just for the two sentences you said to her that day, she and the emperor cried and cried for a night, and the emperor couldn't bear it in the middle of the night, so he went directly to my room to sleep, and she was settled." She pursed her lips and smiled with crooked eyebrows, "In addition, the emperor refuses to stand up for her, she has been annoyed for several days, and now she mentions it in front of the queen's mother, I'm afraid I want you." ”

An Lingrong raised his hand to cover his lips and whispered to Zhen Huan: "I'm not afraid of her." ”

Zhen Huan crossed a narrow smile in her eyes, nodded An Lingrong's nose, straightened up and sat back.

At this time, Xin Chang said with a smile: "Noble Qi, you are a new upstart who is favored, who is so blind and dares to give you grievances?" The emperor must not be sent immediately? ”

Qi Guiren heard Xin Chang's ridicule outside the words, and his face stiffened: "Sister Xin said that she laughed, they are all her own sisters, even if the emperor wants to fall, the concubines have to be stopped." ”

"Ouch, listen to it, Qi Guiren's mouth is really like honey, and it sounds really good." Xin Chang laughed out loud directly, and he couldn't hear the sarcasm at all, but the words fell on the face of the Qi nobleman like a slap, "Since they are all their own sisters, naturally they will not let the Qi nobles be wronged, let alone throw you white-eyed, isn't the Qi nobles misunderstanding?" Hurry up and say it, don't hold it in your heart, turn around and suffocate yourself! ”

Qi Guiren's face turned blue and white for a while, and An Lingrong almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

In the end, the queen couldn't look at it, and said a few words to make Xin Chang stop talking, but seeing it, the queen's enthusiasm for Qi nobles also faded by three points.

Qi Guiren hurriedly complimented the queen: "When the concubine first entered the palace, she didn't understand anything, but fortunately, with the guidance of the queen's mother, the concubine had the backbone, otherwise the concubine is still like a headless fly, and she doesn't know where to fly." ”

Concubine Qi also took the opportunity to speak: "Qi Guiren is really good at talking, but it seems that we are clumsy and can't say anything." ”

Noble Qi glanced at the queen's warm face, breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled again.

"Listening to you talk like this, it's like talking to your own family, and this palace listens comfortably." The queen smiled slowly.

Qi Guiren followed the conversation and said: "It's good that the queen doesn't dislike the concubines and concubines." She wrinkled her nose in disgust, "The concubine has two sisters in the concubine's family, and the concubine can't talk to them, but when she sees the mother, the concubine has a lot to say in her heart......

As soon as the two words came out, everyone fell silent, and the hall was immediately silent, leaving only the singing on the stage to be subdued and frustrated.

Fang Chunyi deliberately coughed lightly, interrupting Qi Guiren's words.

Qi Guiren's voice paused, and when he looked up, he saw that everyone was looking at him one by one, and his eyes were full of shock, and the nearest Concubine Qi barely wrote the words "Are you crazy" on her face.

She quickly recalled what she had just said, and suddenly realized something, and hurriedly got up and knelt down to ask for guilt: "The concubine lost her words, and the mother forgives the sin." ”

Although the queen still had a smile on her face, there was no smile in her eyes.

Everyone in the palace knows that the queen is a concubine, and the queen Chunyuan is the concubine, and the word concubine is her death hole, and no one can mention half a point in front of her. But Qi Guiren said it so loudly, and directly stepped on the queen's minefield, at this moment she was so frightened that she didn't dare to say more than half a word.

Fang Chunyi looked at the noble Qi who was kneeling on the ground, and then looked at the queen who seemed to be indifferent on her face, and suddenly felt that God had given her a glimmer of life.

Originally, the queen was the new favorite of the Qi nobles, and the queen was no longer so concerned about Fang Chunyi, but now it seems that the Qi nobles are not a very useful chess piece, at least, in today's matter, it reflects that she is not very smart - in contrast, the queen still needs a smart person like Fang Chunyi.

She will never be an outcast.

Fang Chunyi looked at the Qi nobleman who was kneeling down and trembling a little with a smile in his eyes, took a sip of tea slowly, and turned his gaze to An Lingrong and Zhen Huan, who were talking to each other on the other side, and suddenly sank his face again.

I still have to think of a way!

It wasn't until the end of the song "The Story of the Jade Hairpin" on the stage that the queen turned her head to look as if she had just seen the nobles of Qi kneeling: "Okay, what are you doing kneeling here?" Get up and watch the show. ”

The queen's smile was still the same, but the nobles of Qi somehow became more and more frightened in their hearts.

"Thank you for your magnanimity." Qi Guiren held Jingtai's hand and finally stood up and sat back, only to feel that his knees hurt, reached out and rubbed them carefully, and felt regretful in his heart.

After the drama was sung, the queen left the nobles and returned to Jingren Palace, and it was rare to acquiesce to Fang Chunyi's follow, everyone knew that the queen was in a bad mood, so they didn't say anything more, and went back to the palace.

An Lingrong returned to Weiyang Palace, and heard that Concubine Duanniang was waiting in the hall, and hurriedly dispersed the cold air and entered the hall.

Speaking of the matter during the banquet, Concubine Duan smiled: "Queen Wulanala Yixiu, what she values most is her status in the main room, just because she is a concubine, so she hates others to say the word concubine the most in her life, and the noble Qi is hitting the muzzle." I heard that she has been serving the queen very diligently recently, and she ran over to dress the queen early, which made the queen feel excited, but she didn't expect to be too proud and stumble on her feet. ”

"She's too anxious." An Lingrong sat down to warm his hands and feet, and leaned on the soft pillow with the hand stove, "It's rare to see in the beautiful palace of the noble Qi, that face is like a shelled lychee, the emperor loves her a little bit, and when she comes back to it, she is like that, in the final analysis, you can't look too much at it." ”

"That's a straightforward statement, but the truth is not bad." Concubine Duan nodded, "I'll see, in this palace, the emperor still values you and Concubine Guan more." Looking up, he saw Wen Yi hiding at the door timidly, and hurriedly raised his hand to beckon her over, "What's wrong?" ”

"Duan Niangniang, Wen Yi is a little sleepy." Wen Yi rubbed his eyes and walked over.

Concubine Duan took her into her arms with a loving face, coaxed her softly, and after a while, Wen Yi fell asleep in a drowsy manner, that is, she fell asleep, and her two little hands were still tightly holding Concubine Duan's sleeves, which showed her dependence.

"The mother treats Wen Yi like a parent, which is really a princess's luck." An Lingrong asked Cuiyin to hug Wen Yi down and said with a smile.

Concubine Duan rubbed her sore wrist and smiled lightly: "I thought that there would be no children in this life, who knew that God actually sent Wen Yi to me, and I should devote all my efforts to care for her and care for her." Then, she smiled slightly and said in a low voice, "However, I heard that the sixth elder brother has not been doing well recently. ”

An Lingrong raised his eyebrows slightly, looking puzzled: "What's wrong with the sixth elder brother?" ”

Since the sixth elder brother was raised by the queen, the queen has treated him as a baby eyeball, but whenever there is a headache and brain fever, Jingren Palace is not at ease, and it is easy not to be seen on weekdays, An Lingrong has seen it from afar, the powder-like child is held in the arms of the nursing mother, so delicate that it is like a Fuwa on the New Year's painting, and more than a dozen palace people are serving around, each nervous is tense, for fear of bumping the sixth elder brother into a little.

It's been raised so carefully, what else can be bad?

"The sixth elder brother seems to be very late, and he still can't speak." Concubine Duan said slowly, "Generally, after a child reaches the age of one, he will send some tones such as 'Eniang' and 'Amma', but the sixth elder brother has none at all, like a gourd with a sawed mouth." After the diagnosis of the hospital, he didn't dare to draw conclusions, only said that the sixth elder brother might open his mind later, and it might be good to wait for him to be older. She glanced at An Lingrong, raised her eyebrows and smiled softly, "But how can the queen rest assured?" She has been so anxious these days that she can't sleep well at all. ”

"No wonder the queen's face is not very good today." An Lingrong was stunned for a moment, remembering something she had ignored for a long time.

Xia Dongchun was pregnant with the sixth elder brother back then, because An Lingrong had used the secret recipe for conceiving a child given to her by the queen in her previous life, and she had doubted the effectiveness of that prescription, and then Xia Dongchun died of dystocia, so she forgot about it - but thinking about it at this moment, An Lingrong found a detail.

The real cause of death in Xia Dongchun was not dystocia, but the assassination of the maple leaf, although the sixth elder brother was older, he was also born well, so that after taking that prescription to conceive, it would not kill the mother or fetus, but that the child would be born with some kind of defect.

For example, they can't speak.

An Lingrong suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

If this is the case, then the queen will definitely abandon the sixth elder brother, and even be extremely disgusted with the sixth elder brother because of the hard work of more than a year, and at that time, the sixth elder brother will fall from the clouds of the stars holding the moon into the bottomless quagmire, and even be thrown to the Old Summer Palace to raise, just like the fourth elder brother.

Thinking of Xia Dongchun's eyes before he died, An Lingrong sighed heavily.

It snowed heavily overnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, and when I woke up in the morning, the snow reflected the bright paper on the window, and the snow was bright.

An Lingrong got up early in the morning, put on a festive red coat for An Kang, put on a tiger head hat embroidered by Shen Meizhuang, and put on the jade collar given by Concubine Duan and the longevity lock sent by Zhen Huan, and the silver bracelet given by Fang Chunyi was put on his hand, and he was alive with a festive New Year's doll.

"Our princess is so pretty." Dill leaned around Fenruo and teased An Kang, "The skin is white and tender, and the eyes are like stars in the sky, and they are getting better and better every day." ”

As if knowing that Dill was praising her, An Kang fluttered his hands and feet and giggled.

An Lingrong was grooming, and when he suddenly heard this, he immediately got up and walked over in surprise: "An Kang will laugh!" She hugged Ankang, only to see a bright smile on the little person's face, his eyes were as bright as stars, his pink face was piled up, and his smile made people's hearts melt, "Ankang, Eniang's heart and liver baby." ”

Fen Ruo laughed on the side: "Niangniang, how can anyone hang these words on their lips every day, which makes people laugh." Even though he said this, he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

"My aunt has worked hard in the past year, and I will have to worry about my aunt a lot in the future, and I thank my aunt for my health in the future." An Lingrong bowed to Fen Ruo, and then beckoned Cuiyin to prepare for a reward.

Fen Ruo avoided An Lingrong's salute and took over Ankang: "The slave maid has never done anything right in her life, and only after Princess Ankang was born did she feel that her life was much more steady, even if the mother didn't say it, the slave maid would also fight with her life to protect the princess!" ”

An Lingrong smiled, faintly guessing, but did not say it explicitly.

Sitting in the main hall, An Lingrong looked at the group of people under the seat, his eyes swept one by one, and he didn't see that his mind was restless, and he smiled with satisfaction: "Since entering the Weiyang Palace, the palace has never said any rules, and today the palace only says two words." She lowered her eyes slightly, and her momentum suddenly rose, "Loyalty, but if you don't have these two words, leave Weiyang Palace as soon as possible, if you are found by this palace, who dares to betray the master......"

"Slaves/minions don't dare!"