Ci'an Palace, the queen led everyone to the queen mother to say goodbye, everyone sat in the corresponding position after the ceremony, with the meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion of all kinds of pastries and flower tea sent to the concubines in an endless stream.

The Queen Mother's eyes moved to the first person below, the concubine, and said happily: "Presumably Jiang Guifei is recuperating well after giving birth, and the mourning family was worried about you before, for fear that you would fall into some kind of disease, but now I look at it, but I am recovering very well." ”

"The concubine has just recovered from a serious illness, and today is the first time to come to the Queen Mother to say goodbye, and I also ask the Queen Mother to forgive her sins." Jiang Guifei's eyes were sharp, and then she smiled and bowed her head slightly to the Queen Mother and said: "As for whether there is a root cause of the disease after a miscarriage, the concubine will not be able to have children in the future, isn't it the biggest root of the disease?" ”

Jiang Guifei spit out this sentence between her lips and white teeth, and the Ci'an Palace, which was still lively just now, was quiet for a moment, as if everyone's mouths and noses were all covered, and below, Lu Zhaoyi twisted the handkerchief in her hand to drink tea, and when she heard the words, she blew away the daisies on the tea surface.

Concubine Jiang Guifei's face did not change, and the eyes of the Queen Mother rubbed together in the air, but she did not have the same face as the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother was not only not angry at Jiang Guifei's unreasonable behavior, but sighed: "If the palace concubine can't have children, it will be a lifetime regret." The relationship between you and the Holy One is deeper than that of the Emperor and the Empress, who let you serve the Holy One more? In the early stages of your pregnancy, the mourning family also discussed with the saint that if you give birth to a child safely, you will be the imperial concubine, and the mourning family will be willing to do so. However, the sky is unsatisfactory. Concubine, the most important thing is to serve the saint well in the future, heirs, let others worry about it. ” 𝓜.𝙫🄾𝔻🅃𝙬.ℂ𝕆🄼

The more the Queen Mother spoke, the more these words stabbed Jiang Guifei into the heart like a sharp knife, so that she couldn't help but recall all kinds of pain that day, but no matter how painful it was, time could not be turned back, and only by stabbing the enemy could she relieve the hatred in her heart.

Jiang Guifei restrained the urge to yell at the Queen Mother in her heart, stiffened half of her body and said: "Yes, the concubine is not blessed, she can't keep the first child after the saint inherits the unification, the concubine learned that she couldn't have children after giving birth, and she had nightmares almost every day, and she dreamed that the concubine's child cried to the courtiers and concubines every night, why did the concubine lose him as a mother?" During the days of postpartum maintenance of the concubines, they had to recite the Buddhist scriptures several times in order for the concubines' children to rest in peace. ”

Jiang Guifei was in deep pain, and couldn't help but pick up a brocade handkerchief and press it on her chest, as if only in this way could the deep hatred flowing into her blood be transformed into pain that could be felt by all her limbs and bones.

She continued to be sad: "The concubine asked the saint that day, why didn't Lu Zhaoyi's child be saved when the palace was in the palace, and now it's the concubine's turn to keep the child?" Are the concubines and Lu Zhaoyi both unblessed people? The concubine remembered that the saint sighed, and only said that the concubine chanted the scriptures and prayed for blessings every day, and the gods could sense the concubine's mind in the sky, even if the concubine could not have children in the future, she would also bless the rest of the sisters in the palace. ”

"Queen Mother, the concubines know that you are reciting the Buddha every day. Sometimes, he has to abstain from eating meat and fasting, and he is the most devout person in the palace. The concubine rubbed the corners of her eyes, and the deep water marks on the brocade were blurred, she seemed to have grasped the last straw, trying to make herself feel at ease, and knelt down softly at the queen mother and said: "The concubine wants to ask, should the gods really watch us from the sky?" Do you watch us do something evil or do something good? ”

Jiang Guifei's inky black pupils flashed quickly, she knocked her knees despite the blue bricks and jade on the ground, and almost knelt a few steps forward, only an arm's length away from the queen mother sitting on the top, everyone in the hall was stunned by Jiang Guifei's sudden move, and they quietly glanced at the three most noble women in the world.

Shen Qingjiao was at the front, and she could clearly notice Jiang Guifei's determination to get an answer, the queen's helpless expression, and the queen mother's gasping voice that became heavy in an instant.

The Buddhist beads that the Queen Mother held in her hand every day were missing today, and she seemed to be unable to find the spiritual comfort she needed, so she could only stroke it over and over again on the palace dress embroidered with a heavy phoenix pattern.

After all, the Queen Mother was the Queen Mother, and she quickly calmed down and shouted: "Sanshuang, why don't you help the concubine get up?" You and the queen have come to say goodbye to the mourning family, what are you doing? ”

"Queen Mother, don't you dare to answer the words of your concubine?" Jiang Guifei quickly avoided Sanshuang's action of wanting to help, and there was a hint of questioning in her tone.

The Queen Mother was furious, she quickly glanced at the hall, and saw that Jiang Guifei and Sanshuang were frozen in place, and the ruthlessness of decisively dealing with Jiang Guifei's dragon fetus and Jiang Guifei's desire to force her to face the gods today were completely intertwined.

It was rare for the Queen Mother not to dare to look at others, but closed her eyes and said: "The gods will sense your mind, Jiang Guifei, as long as you are pious enough, God will not let you down." ”

Jiang Guifei immediately burst out laughing, got up with Sanshuang's hand and said: "With the words of the Queen Mother, the concubines will rest assured, the concubines will pray day and night that the sisters in the palace can give birth to a prince or an emperor for the saint, and it is good to fulfill the wishes of the concubines and the queen mother, isn't it?" ”

"That's nature."

The queen mother seemed to have a slight disgust for Jiang Guifei, and didn't want to entangle too much with her on this topic, and said something else, and finally let Sanshuang go to the apse to get the Mid-Autumn Festival reward for the concubines, which can be regarded as a hasty end to today's greeting.

Jiang Guifei made such a fuss, and even took everyone to talk about it, until a little eunuch came to spread that the saint had seen Zhongchen and had gone to the late Qing Dynasty, and the queen mother got up and led the concubines to go with her.

When you go, the sunset and the afterglow of the sunset in the far sky reflect each other, the red wall bricks and tiles seem to be covered with a layer of high-grade gold foil, the beautiful figures left by the concubines when they pass through the oblique long palace road are a scenery line that hooks people's souls, and their various hairpins and hairpins emit the bright light of the stars under the golden sunset, as if the Xuannu of the Nine Heavens fluttered down to earth, making people forget to return.

The moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion hangs high in the western sky, and the sound of silk and bamboo from Taichung in the late Qing Dynasty overlaps with the figures of the palace maids.

In the midst of the staggering, the concubines raised their glasses with Xiao Qi to celebrate today's reunion night, and most of them had decent smiles on their faces, as if the estrangement between the past days no longer existed.

The Queen Mother smiled, drank a cup of warm wine and said, "Today's banquet is very well arranged, what do you think?" ”

The queen sat on Xiao Qi's right side, and tilted her head slightly when she heard the words, her eyes were full of anticipation.

Since Jiang Guifei's miscarriage, it has become even more difficult for the queen to see Xiao Qi, even if it is the fifteenth day of the first month, Xiao Qi will find a reason not to go to Fengluan Palace, so the queen mother reprimanded Xiao Qi for this matter, although Xiao Qi went to Fengluan Palace a few more times in the future, but every night, only the queen knew that she was the only one in the cold quilt and couldn't sleep, and Xiao Qi would not touch her at all.

Such a situation was unexpected by the queen, and she secretly hated Jiang Guifei while inevitably becoming more and more anxious about her heirs.

Fortunately, until now, no eldest son has been born in the palace.

Xiao Qi played with the jade wine glass, raised his head and drank a glass of sake and said: "The banquet is well organized, it is the queen's responsibility, if you can't even take care of this, it is the queen's dereliction of duty, don't blame the queen for what the son said, the son is loyal to the ear, the queen is generous, I guess I won't be angry with me, right?" ”

Xiao Qi seemed to be smiling, and raised a glass to the queen, and the queen was busy clinking glasses with him and said: "What the saint said is extremely true, this."