Concubine Hui was suspicious and could not see Concubine Yi gloating about her misfortune and underestimating her enemy. She frowned and said, "How can a small promise bring out the truth? Juechan is a noble person no matter how bad she is. What qualifications does she have to make trouble? Besides, people like Concubine De will Let them be jealous?"
Concubine Yi was disdainful and snorted: "Sister also knows that the Wu Ya family has been taking great care of Noble Jue Chan recently. There are rumors in the palace that the reason why Noble Jue Chan was moved to Yanxi Palace while she was dying was because the imperial concubine abused her. For what reason could the imperial concubine abuse her? I guess it must have something to do with Concubine De. We all know what happened that night. After the emperor left Xianfu Palace, Concubine De was already waiting at Qianqing Palace. It shows that they had an agreement. Got it."
"What does this have to do with anything?" Concubine Hui was still doubtful about the situation in Changchun Garden.
But Concubine Yi laughed: "It turns out that Yonghe Palace had a Zhang promised to replace Concubine De and humiliate the emperor. As far as Zhang promised himself, no matter how he got into the dragon bed in the first place, now that he has tasted so many sweet things, how could he give it up so easily? But now that Concubine De has recruited an unparalleled beauty from the Jue Chan family, she will need to take another share of the little favor left by Concubine De. Can I accept my promise? Sister, you have your own reasons. I have my reasons too, is it possible that you still hope for them to be good? I do hope that they will fall apart and fight among themselves."
Concubine Hui listened quietly, thinking over and over again in her mind. Concubine Yi's opinion was not impossible, but she couldn't take it lightly. After all, Concubine Yi didn't know about the matter, and she was still waiting for the outcome of the matter. At the moment, the matter has not been resolved. However, Zhang Zhang agreed to compete for favors. Where can there be so many coincidences in the world? It just made it up, and it makes sense.
"Sister, be careful. The Juechan clan may hold a grudge against you for taking away her eighth brother. If she joins forces with De Fei to deal with us in the future, it will be difficult. They have been in contact with each other in the past. Ever since the Juechan clan has Didn't the palace maid hook up with her at that time?" Concubine Yi said and touched the tea bowl in front of her. She no longer warmed her hands. She raised her face and wanted to call the palace maid to serve tea. Suddenly she saw the eighth prince standing in front of the door. , she was startled, and Concubine Hui also saw it and said awkwardly, "Yinhu, why are you here?"
"My son wants to go and play with his ninth brother." Yinhu ran in cheerfully, as if he had not heard what Concubine Yi said just now, and asked him obediently if he could go to Changchun Palace. Concubine Yi hurriedly coaxed him to go, saying that Concubine Jiu My elder brother was taking a nap at home and asked him to wake Yinzhen up.
The child jumped away and ran away. Concubine Yi asked Concubine Hui with a guilty look on her face: "Did sister tell the child? What happened to his mother?"
Concubine Hui had a cold face, but she didn't want to really blame Concubine Yi for speaking inappropriately, so she just sighed: "I probably heard it from the mouth of some palace maid and eunuch. I think this child knows it, but I feel that Master Chan is not in the palace at the moment. Otherwise, I want to let this child see with his own eyes that it was not me who robbed him, but his own mother who did not want him. Our mother-son relationship is very good, so don’t get into trouble over this matter."
Concubine Yi said perfunctorily: "I see that Yinsu is very well-behaved. Sister, there is no need to worry."
Concubine Hui knew that she had no good intentions, but when she mentioned it, she was really worried. She raised Ba Age in the hope that the child could help Yin Ti in the future. If there was a quarrel between mother and son now, or what the child had in mind, she would I don’t know, it’s okay if I don’t help Yinti in the future, but instead I become a stumbling block or even an enemy. How can I do that?
When this thought came to mind, Concubine Hui suddenly remembered the day when Jue Chan's mother and son were driven out of Xianfu Palace by the imperial concubine. She had requested an order from Ningshou Palace to go to a nearby palace to take away the children in person. In that cold palace, Jue Chan
He once said to her: "My dearest lady, be careful of raising tigers."
Thinking about it now, I was really frightened. Concubine Hui couldn't help but cover the door of her heart. Seeing something strange in her, Concubine Yi hurriedly poked her head around and asked, "What's wrong with sister?"
Concubine Hui was angry and said: "From now on, don't talk about his biological mother in front of your child."
The eighth elder brother brought the wet nurses to Yikun Palace. The ninth elder brother was not taking a nap. Instead, he was riding on the little eunuchs and letting them crawl on the ground. He was waving a wicker as a riding whip. Look.
When the eighth elder brother arrived, he smiled and shouted: "Brother Eight, come and play too."
Yinhu stood aside with his hands behind his hands, shook his head and said, "It's still cold on the ground. Stop tormenting people and come down quickly."
Next to her, Princess Kejing was sitting and basking in the sun. She called Yinsu over to eat some fruit and said, "What are they afraid of as slaves? How much weight can Yinzhen's small stature carry? It made us happy and rewarded."
Their silver ingots are still snickering when they turn around, they are just slaves."
Yinzhen disagreed. Instead of sitting down next to the emperor's sister, he came over and said to Yinzhen: "How about we go to the study room? After the prince's brother gives lectures in April, I will also go into the study room to show you the way. In the future, you will
Come find me."
Brother Ninth happened to be tired of riding a horse, so he threw away the wicker in his hand and turned over. The maids helped to tidy up the brother's clothes and wipe his sweat. The two brothers said goodbye to Ke Jing and walked to the study together.
As a result, they arrived by chance and met the little eunuch next to the fifth elder brother who was being beaten for his master. When a bench was placed in the courtyard, two or three people were beating him with a board as thick as their arms. The little eunuch cried and howled, which frightened the ninth elder brother.
Hiding behind myna, I was shivering.
Let us say that the fifth elder brother has been raised in Ningshou Palace. The Empress Dowager originally asked the queen mother not to have any enlightenment education for the children. The fifth elder brother did not know Chinese characters before entering the study, but the other brothers are the seventh elder brother who is in the elder brother's house.
He also memorized the Three-Character Classic of the Thousand-Character Classic with the literate old eunuch, and most of them could already read when they entered the study. Only the fifth elder brother started from scratch, and he was inferior to his brothers in everything. But even if he can't memorize the book now, the Queen Mother will not restrain him.
He had no choice but to be beaten by the little eunuch who followed him.
At this scene, all the elder brothers also stood in the door to watch. The fifth elder brother stood in front with a cold expression. This kind of thing happened so many times that he didn't care anymore. Anyway, when he went back, the imperial grandmother would comfort him and give rewards to these little eunuchs.
, a beating is nothing.
After finishing typing the board, they had to go back and continue studying. Someone saw the eighth and ninth elder brothers here. They couldn't disturb the elder brother's study, but just watched from a distance. When the brothers sat down, they talked about seeing the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother.
When the elder brother came, the third elder brother said to Yinqi: "You must study hard. In the future, when Yinzhen enters the study and sees that your brother, who is from the same mother, is not good enough, he will also study hard."
The fifth elder brother did not dare to refute his elder brother, but he looked unconvinced and said dullly: "Who has the same mother as him? I was raised by the imperial grandmother."
Brother Eight and Brother Nine outside saw the eunuch being slapped, so they didn't dare to stay any longer and quietly left the study. Brother Nine was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he followed Brother Eight and asked, "Are you going to get beaten if you go to the study?"
"We won't be beaten. The ones who will be beaten are the little eunuchs. However, if we make a big mistake, we will be sent to the emperor. The emperor will either punish us personally or hand us over to E Niang for disposal." Ba Age said.
Without studying, he already knew a lot of the rules in the study room, and was not frightened by the scene just now. He said calmly, "Don't be afraid. I will teach you in the future. We must read better than the imperial brothers."
Brother Jiu was still frightened. He held Bage's hand tightly and said, "Bago, I will learn from you, but don't let me get beaten."
Yinzhen told this matter in front of E Niang at night. This was not the first time that Yi Fei heard that the fifth elder brother was not doing well in his studies in the study. There were several eunuchs around him, but there was nothing she could do.
. Not to mention that the Queen Mother did not give her the opportunity to get close to her eldest son. Even if she accidentally bumped into the child, the fifth elder brother was a stranger to her. After the due etiquette, he did not regard her as his biological mother at all, but the child actually knew that she was from childhood.
Who crawled out of his belly to be so cold-hearted and hard-hearted? Concubine Yi's patience and love are gradually being worn away.
Concubine Yi originally planned to go to Changchun Garden with the Empress Dowager. There were fewer guards at Ningshou Palace. She could go there and take a look when she had the chance. If the fifth elder brother had a headache and a fever, it would be okay for her as her own mother to take care of him.
Wrong, of course I am not hoping that the child will be sick, but I can take care of him even if he is not sick. But the people in Ningshou Palace are really superior to others. Even she, the concubine Yi, dared to stop her. After biting the Queen Mother to death, she ordered no one to disturb the fifth elder brother's daily life.
, not even a biological mother.
Every time Taohong met her master who was sad about this, she would advise her to forget it. Gradually, Concubine Yi herself said: "Why should I worry about him? I can just take good care of my ninth and eleventh elder brothers, and just pretend I never gave birth to this child."
There are all kinds of relationships between mothers and children in the palace, some are estranged between biological mothers and children, and some are close to adoptive mothers and adopted children. Lan Qi once watched the imperial concubine's deep affection for the fourth elder brother, and lamented that maybe it didn't matter whether she was her biological child or not. Now she is raising thirteen by herself.
Brother, I feel the same way.
At first, I just thought it was unbelievable. To take a child from somewhere else and treat it as my own from now on, I had to first identify him as Xuan Ye's child, and then gradually get used to it. But even if I decided to love this child wholeheartedly, in my heart, I didn't want to force it.
You have to identify yourself as "your own child". As for what will happen in the future, just take things as they come.
However, these days, there are also disturbances in the pure Changchun Garden. Somehow there are rumors that Zhang Zhengxing is not on good terms with the noble Jue Chan. Lan Qi is busy with the affairs of Ningchun Hall every day and has never seen it with her own eyes, but the emperor sometimes gets lucky.
Everyone in the Zhang Jia family knows about it, but they don't even understand. They are obviously very lovable, so how can they compete for favor?
But because everything was just a rumor, Lan Qi didn't pursue it too much. Pursuing the fight for favor is very sensitive and embarrassing. Although she is temporarily in charge of everything in Changchun Garden, she doesn't necessarily have the qualifications to stand tall and give advice on such things. Don't end up doing this.
On the contrary, it made people feel as if she was jealous. Even when the Empress Dowager asked, she just said that someone was talking nonsense and didn't care.
At the beginning of April, the emperor was scheduled to return to the Forbidden City to listen to the prince's lectures. These days, the prince and his eldest brother occasionally came to Changchun Garden. The eldest brother Fujin would also come to pay his respects to the empress dowager and the empress dowager. The empress dowager asked the emperor.
Why not bring all the children here to study? Xuan Ye said that the scenery of Changchun Garden is beautiful and much more interesting than the palace. It would be easy for the children to enter the garden without studying and having fun. It will not be too late in a few years.
Privately, Lan Qi was joking that Xuan Ye didn't want anyone to disturb his rare peace. The two would laugh and laugh together, and Xuan Ye would ask her ambiguously, who didn't want to be disturbed? Naturally, they could say anything between the sheets.
What matters is dedication and comfort.
But the emperor was in Ruijingxuan during those days, so no one disturbed him at night, but during the day Shizhang promised to always come over to join in the fun. Most of the other concubines would not run over to bother the emperor when he was in a palace somewhere, but she did it two times in a row.
Tiandu comes. Xuan Ye criticizes papers or rests during the day and does not talk to Zhang Xu, so he doesn't care much. But Lan Qi has some selfish motives. She stays with the Empress Dowager all day long, and now she has less and less time to be alone with the emperor.
Time, it was so easy to be in such a situation, but she still had to deal with a chirping little promise. It was too embarrassing for her to say goodbye to the guests if they didn't leave.
On this day, Eunuch Liang came to report the affairs in the palace to Lan Qi. The poisoning incident was stuck on the palace maid. No suspicious person could be found at all. Even if a few people were targeted to suspect, since they are cunning, no matter what
Regardless of whether there is something wrong in your heart, you cannot let others pry into private and important matters. Eunuch Liang said that I am afraid it will be up to the queen to deal with several queens herself in the future to see if she can get anything out of her.
Lan Qi asked about the source of arsenic, and Eunuch Liang also carefully checked the places he could reach. There was nothing suspicious inside or outside the palace. This incident seemed to make the palace maid remember who was looking for her in order to find out the clues.
Even so, Lan Qi insisted not to torture the palace maid to extract a confession and continued to keep her alive.
Eunuch Liang mentioned another thing and said strangely: "I have been keeping an eye on the comings and goings between the palace and the garden recently. A few days ago, Zhang promised to send people to deliver things from the garden to the palace, including the concubines and concubines of the six palaces."
"What did you give me?" Lan Qi was also surprised.
Liang Gonggong said: "It's not surprising. The flowers blooming in the garden were picked early in the morning, and the fresh ones were sent to the palace before the sun came up. I heard from people in the palace that it was Zhang who promised to show filial piety.
Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look at the scenery of Changchun Garden."
Lan Qi frowned: "She is so frivolous? There are people who appreciate such things, but if you don't appreciate it, wouldn't you misunderstand that she is deliberately showing off and mocking others for not being able to follow her?"
Eunuch Liang said: "That's why I find it strange, so I came to report it to you. So you don't know about it?"
Lan Qi shook her head and sighed: "I follow the Empress Dowager every day. Now the Emperor has ordered that no messy things should be sent to the old grandmother. I follow you, so naturally I am a lot more isolated. Besides, picking some flowers is not that important.
, it’s normal not to mention it.”
When Eunuch Liang saw that Empress De Fei was thinking this way, he said nothing more, but when he was about to leave, the empress suddenly told him: "Keep an eye on me and see if there is anything else that Zhang promised to do."
In the next few days, Zhang promised nothing new, and the garden remained quiet as usual. On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Lan Qi was about to go to bed at night. Someone suddenly came from the emperor's side and asked Empress De Fei to pack some valuables.
, leaving the garden with the emperor tomorrow morning, Lan Qi thought he wanted her to go back to the palace with him, but when he met Xuan Ye early the next morning, he had no intention of letting her go back.