Chapter 23: Desire
Next to the Jinping Mandarin Duck sedan chair, Li Yun held a crescent moon silver satin magnolia embroidered cloak in his arms, and had been guarding outside the Qinzheng Hall in the cold night. ”
"Where is it, this is what a slave should do, Concubine Xian Niangniang walks slowly." Chen Fuhe smiled angrily, watched Concubine Xian bow her head and get into the sedan chair, and watched the Jinping Mandarin Duck sedan chair swaying towards the palace road, the golden bells around the sedan chair rotated with the wind, and a pleasant ringing song was played.
The palace road was empty, only the little eunuchs who kept vigil stood guard at the corner of each palace door, and when they saw the concubines returning, they automatically turned around and put their heads against the damp and cold hard wall tiles, until the golden bells gradually moved away, then silently turned back, and continued to guard their own acres and thirds of land in the silent night.
In Chonghua Palace, there are still candles lit, and there are even a few scattered figures shuttling among them.
Li Yun took the soup stewed by the little palace maid and handed it to Concubine Xian, who took off a piece of beaded jewelry, leaned lazily into the chaise grande, the tip of her nose was suddenly filled with the unpleasant smell of the medicinal juice, her appetite was slightly shallow, and she had already begun to retch before she drank it in her mouth.
Seeing this, Liyun stretched out her hand to stroke Concubine Xian's back, and said softly: "Niangniang, slow down, and don't rush at this time." This decoction is drunk every day, and Niangniang may not have her wishes come true, if it is really useless, Niangniang might as well not drink it, and let it be. ”
The sour taste and tears in her stomach were all forced back by Concubine Xian, and she didn't know that Liyun was for her good and had a sound body, but she had to drink medicine every time she came back from bed, but even if she didn't drink it once, her stomach just didn't react.
Concubine Xian frowned, and there were green tendons on the back of her neck that looked down, like a small blue-green snake, winding up, her hands hanging on the chaise longue couch were slightly white from the force, and she took a deep breath, Concubine Xian took the decoction and drank it up.
Maybe it was too fast, and some of the medicinal juice dripped desperately down the corners of her mouth, staining the white fox fur blanket she hugged on her chest, as if some ink spots were abruptly stained in the clean and pure white snow.
The medicinal juice was still flowing, all the way across the neck, Li Yun looked at Concubine Xian's lifeless decoction medicine distressedly, how bitter this medicine was, Li Yun knew it, just looking at the first half a month of Concubine Xian's adaptation to drink without changing her face, she knew that it was very unacceptable. 𝙢.𝕍𝓞🅳𝙏𝙒.🄲𝕆🄼
"Ahem, ahem." Concubine Xian covered her mouth, bowed her back and handed out an empty bowl with only the residue of the decoction, Liyun hurriedly took it, and changed the water to Concubine Xian, Concubine Xian resisted the urge to vomit, and kept rinsing her mouth, suppressing the bitter taste in her mouth, she hoped that this time she could get what she wanted, instead of failing to hope again and again.
With a long sigh of relief, Concubine Xian stared at Li Yun with the corners of her red eyes that were forced out of tears, she pressed her chest and said, "How long has this medicine been in this palace?" ”
"Back to Niangniang, after entering the palace, every time you come back from bed, this medicine has never been dropped. According to the days, it has been almost two years. Li Yun's eyes rolled, and her hand pressed on Concubine Xian's calf and said, "The slave maid remembers that there was a time in the middle, this medicine was changed once, and the amount of medicine was slightly increased. ”
Concubine Xian sighed and covered her flat lower abdomen with a stunned face: "It's been almost two years, and the dregs of the medicine drunk in this palace can be planted with a peony, but this palace is still not pregnant." ”
Li Yun pressed his hand lightly or heavily, and comforted Concubine Xian and said: "Niangniang, these things still have to go with the flow, don't talk about you, any little master in the palace is not pregnant, you don't have to worry, the more anxious you are, the more you can't get pregnant." ”
"Hongu knows it too." Concubine Xian muttered: "But this palace is afraid of the queen... If Mr. Queen has a son-in-law, it will be useless for the palace to have more sons in the future, so the palace must be a prince than Mr. Queen in order to win the favor of the saint. Liyun, the matter of taking medicine in this palace, you must not let outsiders know, otherwise, neither this palace nor you will be able to please the good fruit to eat. ”
This matter is very important, of course Li Yun clearly understands the stakes, in the palace, for forcibly pregnant concubines are the most disdainful, and the matter of the virtuous concubine drinking medicine, except for the personal servants, others do not know anything, they don't know anything.
Li Yun looked at Concubine Xian and said, "Don't worry, the slave knows the severity." ”
"Well, you are the most trusted person in this palace, and this palace believes in you." Concubine Xian smiled: "This palace is not afraid of Mr. Queen coming down, after all, the concubine is the most beautiful and the most difficult to live."