"You are the only one in the world who dares to say that you have defeated me. My brothers and ministers do not dare to win when playing chess with me. You always talk about it like this and let others listen. You are just being arrogant and have no rules. How can you behave like this?"
After Xuan Ye said this, he leaned down on the pillow, and the person in his arms lay down with him. He ran his hand through her silky hair. The cool feeling between his fingers reminded him of the way Lan Qi fell into the lake just now.
, and said with a cold face, "What's so good about lotus root? Why are you so stupid? When I saw you like that, I thought for a moment whether you would fall, but in the blink of an eye you actually fell. I didn't even know what to do.
Are you angry or worried that you'd drown if there was no one around?"
When she mentioned this, Lan Qi felt that she was still a little frightened. She frowned and said, "At that moment, I thought, I can't even remember what you looked like when I last saw you. My heart almost jumped out of my chest. Fortunately, there were layers of lotus leaves underneath.
, the body was supported and did not sink. Your Majesty, you can rest assured that I will not drown."
Seeing that she was still speaking eloquently, Xuan Ye couldn't help but tap her hard on the forehead with his finger. The pain made Lan Qi scream, she covered her forehead and groaned, and when she let go, a slight tap on her fair forehead.
A red bump swelled up, Xuan Ye smiled, and she stretched out her hand to touch the swollen area. Tears filled her eyes immediately, she turned around and shrank to that end, and actually started sobbing.
"Does it hurt?" Xuan Ye immediately came forward and wanted her to turn around and take a look, but she refused to move. He turned Lan Qi around with force. Lan Qi raised her hand to cover her forehead and said with tears,
"I was already ugly, but now I am even more ugly. Your Majesty, please leave."
When Xuan Ye heard this, he immediately turned into a tiger: "Are you going to drive me away?"
Lan Qi's heart was pounding, but she still nodded and said: "I'm not rushing, I'm asking. Your Majesty, please come back. I'm ugly now, and it's not suitable to serve the Holy Master." When she said these words, she wanted to slap herself hard, but Wu
Ya Lanqi, are you seeking death? But she couldn't hold it back and even continued, "That Jue Chan always looks like a fairy. The emperor must be reluctant to knock her forehead."
Xuan Ye moved his body with a cold look on his face. Lan Qi's heart sank. It was too late to regret. Just as she was thinking about whether to stop him or not, the person in front of him suddenly dragged her over to the kang and stretched out her hand.
He untied the mouth under her neck, rubbed the plump part of her left chest with his big hands, looked at the trembling person under her body, and said bitterly: "Let me touch this place, and touch the obedient and well-behaved Wu Yalanqi."
Let it out and put this smart and talkative person back in, I'm so tired of it."
The heart that was pounding just now suddenly turned into water. Lan Qi smiled stupidly and covered Xuan Ye's hand with both hands and pressed it on her chest, "It's a pity that both of them are sick and cannot serve the emperor."
After saying that, he thought of the big bump on his forehead again, and quickly raised his hand to cover it. Xuan Ye was made angry and funny by her, so he kissed her twice and said: "You are not sick, you are just being pretentious.
I'm here. It's more effective than any medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor. My body is cold, can I rub it for you?"
Lan Qi was just taken out of the water and cleaned. Before she could comb her hair and put on clothes, Aunt Sumala came and called Huan Chun and others out to kneel down. When Xuan Ye saw her, he only had silver silk and satin on him.
The pajamas were untied in a few movements, and very little was left. His big hands were slowly rubbing on the ice and bones, and the cold and bloodless bodies were gradually heating up. They had not had any physical contact for more than a year, and they had already given birth to two children.
After being stirred a little bit, my body felt like clouds and rain, and I couldn't control myself. I couldn't think of any illness. Seeing that the sun was approaching dusk, I didn't even care about the clear sky and daylight.
The Empress Dowager told Xuan Ye not to go there anymore, but he really didn't go to his grandmother again until the next morning when the two of them came to say hello. Seeing Lan Qi's rosy complexion and full of vitality, the old man laughed in his heart, and pulled her in front of him and said:
"You're hiding from me and the child just because you're sick, and you'll be fine as soon as the emperor comes?"
Lan Qi's face turned red with embarrassment. She turned around and hugged Yin Zuo. The emperor came over to see the little guy, who was about four or five months old and seemed to be growing better than his brother. Seeing Lan Qi proudly,
Xuan Ye scolded her: "You have been sick for so long, who is taking care of you? What can you be proud of?"
Lan Qi ignored him and carried her son to the side of the Empress Dowager.
Regarding the departure back to the palace, everyone is asked to make some preparations and prepare to leave in two days.
While talking, Eunuch Li came and said that the zhezi had been delivered. It turned out that the emperor had changed his mind and wanted to stay for a few days, so the zhezi from the palace was sent here and there. Xuan Ye coaxed his sweetheart and visited his grandmother. These were important matters, but national affairs could not be put aside at all times.
, the Empress Dowager did not leave him alone, and asked the Emperor to handle matters in the clean palace. When important matters came up, even the ministers followed him to the palace.
After that, Lan Qi didn't see the emperor the whole afternoon. She heard Eunuch Li telling the Empress Dowager that the emperor was very busy this month. He heard that there were people who didn't rest for days and nights, so she regretted that she shouldn't have acted coquettishly and jealously, and was living a good life.
, who knew his hard work, so he quietly returned to his residence, turned on the stove to stew soup, and brought it warm at dusk.
At that time, Xuan Ye just put down what he was doing and stood up when he saw her coming in. He was immediately in a happy mood and sat hand in hand under the window. The sunset was slanting and he saw her holding the soup in front of her with her slender fingers. He said happily: "I told you earlier.
I wanted to bring you to live in the garden. I said I would come as soon as the seal was sealed, but it didn't happen. Now I am stumbling. Although there are other people here, and I can only stay for two days, I feel very comfortable, like I am in a paradise.
What matters is that you are by my side."
Lan Qi smiled leisurely: "The chicken soup with bamboo fungus stewed by me is not red bean lotus heart. How can the emperor say such sweet things?"
Xuan Ye stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek: "This mouth is the most annoying. You still want to knock a big bump on your forehead?"
Lan Qi shrank back, pointed at the soup and said, "Your Majesty, drink it quickly. I've been simmering it all afternoon."
Xuan Ye drank a bowl leisurely and leisurely. It was indeed delicious and refreshing. He asked for another bowl before he felt satisfied. He was about to lie down lazily, but Lan Qi pulled him up and told him to go for a walk. He also felt that he should relax his muscles and bones and follow him out.
Walking along the Yuanzhong Lake and walking to the water bridge, he saw the place where Lan Qi fell into the water yesterday. Xuan Ye turned around and called people: "Get a big stone and put it here. Empress Debin will be careful if she passes by it in the future."
Lan Qi's face turned red, making Xuan Ye laugh. When he came back to the pavilion in the lake and saw the place where she was playing the piano yesterday, Xuan Ye frowned slightly and said with a tigerish face: "Why are you bothering? I can see it.
Broken, my mind is full of thinking about what I did to you to make you have such a decisive thought, do you think it is wrong?"
"The emperor really wants me to admit my mistakes?" Lan Qi was very frank, "But I feel that I am right. If you hadn't happened upon Shen Qin, I'm afraid you wouldn't have known about it for the rest of your life. It was only when you saw it that you felt angry and sad, and I
The original intention of doing this was not like this. I don’t want to admit my mistake against my will. Anyway, I don’t want to play the piano anymore. I have played the piano in my life. Queen Mother Fujin and the others agreed, and I am satisfied.”
"Then I can't hear you?" Xuan Ye's brows did not relax, so he rubbed them with his soft hands and said with a smile, "Didn't the emperor hear you? It's not like he didn't."
Xuan Ye said: "The voices are full of complaints, which makes me feel upset."
Lan Qi smiled: "But that's my concubine's heart. It has no utilitarian purpose and is the sound of the piano played sincerely. But if I want to play it to you in the future, I won't be sure. In that way, I will learn to play the piano."
It turned out to be something I regretted, and now I am satisfied with it."
Xuan Ye took her into his arms, held her slender waist, and smiled helplessly: "I regret asking you to read and write. You have become smarter and more articulate, and one sentence I say is worth ten."
The man in his arms smiled softly: "The emperor doesn't like to hear it? He doesn't like to hear it, and even half of it is disgusting."
In the distance, Prince Yu Fujin and Prince Gong Fujin came from their residence to arrange dinner for the Empress Dowager. From a distance, they saw the emperor and Concubine De talking in the pavilion. Their intimacy was enviable. Prince Gong Fujin clicked his tongue and said: "De
After all, the concubine is very powerful. This time I go back, I’m afraid I’ll be even more favored than before.”
Having said that, in the Forbidden City, there is a noble concubine in Chengqian Palace who is always favored by the emperor. In Xianfu Palace, Concubine Wen has also been favored by the emperor recently. The newly promoted Jue Chan family is even more beautiful. Concubine De will have to face it when she returns in autumn.
What kind of situation, everything is unknown, but right now in the secluded small courtyard of the palace, there is already something happening that will have an impact on the harem.
Jue Chan Chang Zai seemed to be pregnant. Xiang He persuaded her to inform Concubine Rong that it would be better to hire an imperial doctor. However, she thought twice and refused, calmly saying to Xiang He, "It won't be too late to wait until the Emperor returns to the palace."
However, Xiang He was so impressed in the palace that he thought further and asked if the prince or princess would be sent to his elder brother's home or taken away by some empress after giving birth to a prince or princess. Only then did Jue Chan say: "So we can't do it now.
Let others know that I don't care where my child goes, whether he is a brother or a princess, it doesn't matter, as long as I am alone."
Xianghe's eyes wandered and he asked softly: "Empress Hui Concubine?"
Jue Chan nodded, with a hint of hatred in her eyes, "My child must not call her E Niang. I don't have the face to ask the emperor about this, but there is someone in the palace who can help me, but she hasn't come back yet."
"Empress De's concubine? At the moment, only Empress De's concubine is outside the palace and has not returned." Xianghe was puzzled. In her impression, the concubines of Yonghe Palace had always been cold to their master. It could not be said that they were not harmonious, but they did not have any affection.
She couldn't figure out why she was not a concubine. She thought she was favored because of a concubine. However, Jue Chan repeatedly told her that there was no conclusion about the pregnancy and she must not tell it out easily.
Two days later, the emperor personally welcomed the Empress Dowager back to the palace. A huge procession entered the palace gate. Concubine Tong and the others had been waiting for a long time. Lan Qi had also changed back to her palace clothes and came up to greet the concubine. After Concubine Wen saluted, she helped the concubine.
The Empress Dowager got off the carriage.
Xuan Ye came over at the same time. The two of them looked at each other and smiled as if no one else was around. They helped the old man on the left and the right. But after taking only two steps, Lan Qi looked up and saw the imperial concubine walking over with a cold look on her face. She hurriedly gave up her position in a humorous manner.
The Empress Dowager was too lazy to care, and just listened to the imperial concubine arriving and saying with a smile: "Dai Zhengzheng from Zhongcui Palace is about to give birth now. You came back at the right time. With you at home, I will feel at ease."