"Yinzuo, this is Empress Wen, please let Empress Wen hug her." Seeing her son crying, Lan Qi kept coaxing him, but the little guy hugged Lan Qi's neck and refused to let go. It would be okay for Concubine Wen to touch him, but if Lan Qi When Lan Qi wanted to let go and let her hug him, Yinzuo started yelling and crying, which made Lan Qi's ears hurt.
"Did he think you didn't want him anymore and sent him here?" Concubine Wen was at a loss, but she still smiled happily, "Why don't we go in first? Brother Six must have never seen this place before. ."
It is common for children to cry. When Lan Qi saw Concubine Wen being so generous, she was no longer embarrassed. She smiled and said, "Pi Ri is the most naughty, but today I am more reserved and acquiesce." She patted Yin Zuo's butt to teach her. He was not allowed to cry, and was surrounded by people as he entered the door. However, when the sixth elder brother cried, the baby inside stopped crying. The group entered the house, and Concubine Wen led the mother and son directly to the cradle. The newly born child was stunned for a while. After crying, he fell asleep.
When Yinzuo saw the child in the cradle who was younger than himself and younger than Yinyou he had seen before, he immediately relaxed his guard. After being put down by his mother, he pulled the cradle to look at it and wanted to reach out and touch it, but nothing happened. Her arms were too short, and she couldn't do anything right once or twice, so she whined and pestered the wet nurses around her to hug her. Lan Qi told her son not to wake up the eighth prince, and left the wet nurses to take care of him. She and Concubine Wen retreated. came out.
Dong Yun had already arranged all kinds of refreshments and set up a table ostentatiously. Lan Qi smiled and said, "How can I finish eating so many things?"
"Try everything. As I told you, there is nothing else in Xianfu Palace. There are a lot of delicious food. I will bring Yinzuo out later. He sees that there are so many delicious food in Empress Wen's house. He will definitely eat it often in the future. If you want to come, I won't be able to invite you. It's easy to deceive a child." Concubine Wen was extremely happy and pulled Lan Qi to sit down together and pushed the exquisite snacks on the table to her.
Dong Yun brought a small and exquisite tea stove and opened a can of water in front of her. Lan Qi asked with a smile where the spring water was, but Concubine Wen said: "It's the dew on the flowers I picked last summer. Every evening a thunderstorm would blow away the dust." Rinse them all, and the dew on the flowers will be very clear when you wake up the next morning. I picked them bit by bit, and I only got this one jar in the whole summer. I still want to keep some to trick the emperor, but it is better for you to drink. You smell it smell."
Lan Qi is also good at tea ceremony. She has heard that there are literati who collect dew, but that is the most labor-intensive thing. She has no intention of doing so. She always thinks that it sounds like elegance, but in fact it is only for those who are very idle. I was thinking about this when I smelled the faint fragrance of flowers in the water. I remembered that last summer, she accompanied the Empress Dowager to rest in the palace. She didn't know anything about the things in the palace. At that time, she felt that the Zen family was the only one who loved Concubine Wen. It must be more leisurely, but in the blink of an eye, Zen gave birth to a prince, and he was raised in her name. No one can guess what will happen in the palace in the future.
"This water is too fragrant to make tea. It will wash away the aroma of the tea leaves and make it nondescript. I don't dare to drink tea for fear that I won't sleep well at night. There is nectar here, and it will be the most refreshing when mixed with a bowl of honey tea." Sweet." Lan Qi smiled and returned the jar to Dongyun, and advised Concubine Wen, "Don't waste this rare good water with the tea leaves."
Concubine Wen clicked her tongue: "As expected, you understand. I planned to use the best tea to coax the emperor. Fortunately, I didn't make a joke." Then she told Dongyun, "Bring me the locust nectar that the Queen Mother rewarded me with this year."
At this time, I saw Xiang He next to Jue Chan and saluted, saying thank you to Concubine Wen for the snacks. It turned out that Lan Qi had a table of things here, and Concubine Wen also sent some over. She was very polite and gave the order
Xianghe: "Your master needs to eat more. He hasn't recovered after so long. Don't eat secretly. I'll ask Dongyun to get you some more."
Lan Qi was watching from the side and saw that Xiang He's face was also happy. The relationship between master and slave in Xianfu Palace was not bad. Only after they left did Concubine Wen say to Lan Qi: "When we have a good chat,
If you want to go and see if Zen is always there before you leave, we are just sitting and talking now."
"My concubine, I listen to you." Lan Qi naturally did as she pleased.
"Speaking of which, I myself wonder why I have been so energetic every day in recent years, but on those days of every month I feel so weak that I am too lazy to talk. I suffer from abdominal pain, backache, and general discomfort. But as the days pass, I feel very energetic every day.
Now I heard from the imperial doctor that the blood in my body is too strong. It’s not strange for me to think so." Concubine Wen supported her head with one hand and sighed, "The imperial doctor is currently being held by the Empress Dowager, and I can’t see him either.
, I really want to ask if his medical skills are too mediocre, or if he is deliberately trying to harm me, or if he has been manipulated by others? Debin, tell me, what harm can happen to a person like me?"
Lan Qi said: "I don't know these things. I only know that you are the daughter of the Niu Hulu family and the Queen's biological sister."
"Really?" Concubine Wen's face suddenly dimmed. She picked up her chopsticks to eat some snacks and said slowly, "So no matter how I try to get rid of them, I am destined to be unable to get rid of them for the rest of my life? Do you think it could be..."
A three-fresh steamed dumpling was placed on the plate in front of Lan Qi. Concubine Wen looked at her and said: "What if the emperor ordered the imperial doctor to drug me? I am not going against the emperor by suing the Cining Palace like this.
Is it done?"
"Your Majesty...why do you say that?" Lan Qi was shocked, and even recalled the cold light flashing in the eyes of the Empress Dowager. Did the Empress Dowager also think so, or was she overthinking it?
Concubine Wen smiled bitterly: "That imperial physician was assigned to me by the emperor. I originally asked the emperor not to let A Ling'a's eyeliners stare at me anymore. Although I know that removing one imperial physician cannot remove others, but I don't know
Forget it, you know, I really don’t want to see him every day. The emperor agreed to me, and appointed a new imperial physician the next day, until now."
"Your Majesty, how could he do such a thing?" Lan Qi shook her head.
"My sister has never been a frequent visitor. The emperor doesn't like her in the first place. It's normal for her not to have children." Concubine Wen looked sad, and there was despair in her eyes for no apparent reason. The joy she felt when she saw the guest had faded, she said quietly.
He said, "But the emperor is very kind to me. On days when he is not here, he will occasionally send people to ask me how I am. On days when he is here, he will tell me jokes and is always very nice. Even if I make trouble in Chengqian Palace
After he explained such a big matter to me clearly, he didn't dislike me at all. If I was sick, he would send people to check on me from time to time. I feel that my life is much better than that of my sister. As a concubine, I
In name and in reality, I am a hundred times stronger than her. But today I suddenly heard that the medicine I was taking was wrong, and I felt so cold in my heart that it felt even colder than when I met my sister's cold body."
"What if it's someone else? You shouldn't think like this. What if you have wronged the emperor? The emperor likes children so much. Although there are rules about whether to keep children or not, but in these years, even if he promised to stay, he has never done anything about not keeping them. So it doesn't matter.
Not coming to you."
Lan Qi tried her best to comfort Concubine Wen, but she had no idea in her heart. Xuan Ye in her eyes was so protective that she wanted to hold it in her hand every day. She could not imagine that the emperor would be so cruel, not to mention that low-level concubines had not given birth to children for so many years.
Young Master, even a night's favor was not given away. Bu Guiren and Dai Changzai all had emperors one after another. How could Xuan Ye...
Why? Isn't it just because low-level concubines don't matter, and Concubine Wen is the daughter of the Niu Hulu family, and Concubine Tong is not able to have children herself. Maybe it was really Xuan Ye who did it?
"We can't wrongly accuse the emperor first." Lan Qi said this, and warned herself over and over in her heart, how could she doubt Xuan Ye? Are there not many evil-minded people in this palace? It must not be Xuan Ye.
"If it weren't for the Emperor, I would feel much better." Concubine Wen paused, lowering her eyes and not knowing what to think, then continued for a moment, "I want to wait until the Emperor comes back to ask him personally if he is. As long as the Emperor agrees that I am not
, I will never think nonsense again, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter whether it is known or not, anyway, I have deceived myself and others a lot in my life.”
Lan Qi stared at her and saw something similar to her own in Concubine Wen's eyes. She had always understood that whether she was drafted into the palace or she was a palace maid, not everyone had a true love for the emperor.
Jue Chan is the best example of the love between men and women, and those who are as passionate about Xuan Ye as she is, are probably the Rong concubine and the Duan concubine. But at this moment, she feels that the little Niu Hulu in front of her always keeps talking.
It was said that she entered the palace to give birth to a boy and a half girl for Queen Niu Hulu, but now it seems that she is in love with Xuan Ye.
Women are very sensitive and delicate. The noble people around Lan Qi, Dai Changzai, treat the emperor very differently from themselves. They fear the emperor and have a flattering attitude towards everything, but the Rong concubine and the Duan concubine are different. Here
Lan Qi understood the subtle differences in her head. Every word spoken by Concubine Wen was filled with doubts about her own feelings. She was probably in love with Xuan Ye, so she cared so much about whether the emperor gave it to her.
Drugged.
"I will take good care of myself. I want to have a child of my own. Although the eighth prince is cute, he is not my child after all. Jue Chan is quite pitiful if he is always around. I don't want to deprive her of the right to be a mother." Concubine Wen smiled slightly.
, as if full of daydreams about the future, "I will live better and more magnanimously than my sister. Just looking at you, I feel that I have hope for the future. Don't worry, I won't argue with you, and I've already been with you for a long time."
You said, I won't harm you. I know you are afraid of me in your heart, and people outside also say that I am eccentric, but I don't care, as long as I can live a happy life, that's all."
Lan Qi lowered her head and said softly: "In the past, I was physically weak and cold. I took medicine with the Empress Dowager to recuperate. A year and a half later, I had the fourth and sixth elder brothers. The empress is still so young. If you take good care of yourself, you will be fine."
Get up. Now the Empress Dowager knows about this matter, and I also know about it. No matter who did it, the Cining Palace will not ignore it. It’s best for you to take care of yourself."
Concubine Wen asked, "Concubine De, tell me, should I ask the emperor personally about this matter?"