"Yin Zhen..." Her son's words made Lan Qi panic. Her fourth brother actually said that he was scared. He had never said such a thing when he was a child. Now that he is a big boy, he came to cry to his mother and said
He is afraid.
The fourth elder brother raised his hand to wipe away his tears, trying not to cry stubbornly, but the tears couldn't help but come out. The grief of his great-grandmother who was crying in Cining Palace seemed to have not dissipated. I don't know what happened to the brothers, but he still expressed his sincerity every day.
The sadness in my heart couldn't stop at this moment. I originally wanted to wipe away my tears, but now I covered my mouth and cried.
Lan Qi's heart was broken when she saw the child trembling moment by moment. She opened her arms cautiously, fearing that her fourth brother would resent her overly intimate behavior, but the child did not reject it. When she fully took her son into her arms,
Along with Yinzhen's sobs, his body trembled and seemed to gradually wake up.
"Brother Si, be good. Nothing will happen to me, and nothing will happen to the Imperial Concubine. How can we make you afraid? As long as we are here and the Emperor is here, Brother Si, don't be afraid of anything." Lan Qi said softly.
She didn't want to cry, she wanted to be a strong mother in front of her son, but why did the tears keep pouring out? Why did she think of her sitting on the steps crying on Yinzhen's first birthday? Why did she think of him in Cining Palace?
The first time she called her Niang, why did she suddenly understand what the Empress Dowager meant when she said "It sounds so nice".
"Eniang, you all need to be well." Yinzhen sobbed and struggled a little to raise his head. Seeing his mother with tears streaming down her face, he stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears, but his "Eniang" calls made Lan Qi stop even more.
Unable to hold back his tears, Yinzhen looked at her uneasily and finally said, "If you cry again, I will leave."
Lan Qi was stunned and looked down at her son with a pitiful look of grievance. She told Yinzhen to soften her heart again and quickly coaxed her: "Let's not cry, Mother. My great-grandmother doesn't want us to cry all the time. She
It will hurt."
Huan Chun and others were standing outside the door, vaguely hearing a few conversations. Gradually it became quieter and quieter inside. She was about to lean forward to take a look at the scene, when the fourth brother suddenly came out and said to them: "You guys bring hot water for the queen."
Wash your face."
When the maid outside the door heard this, she quickly fetched hot water. Huanchun and Yukui came in together, and together with the fourth elder brother, they helped the empress wash her face. The fourth elder brother also washed her face. On this day, the northwest wind was still blowing.
, if you cry a lot and go out to get some air, the skin on your face will become chapped immediately.
Both mother and son had tidied up. Lan Qi was dying and leaned tiredly on the big pillow. Yinzhen stood by the couch and took her hand and said, "Mom, I have to go. I can't stay too long. I'll do it tomorrow."
I will come to see you again, please take good care of yourself."
Lan Qi's eyes were wet again, but she was afraid that her son would be angry, so she couldn't hold back the tears. She nodded and watched her son leave. Huanchun sent the fourth brother back, and sure enough, she saw her master crying again, and she complained: "Master is disobedient.
You promised Si Age not to cry."
"I just thought...if Yinzuo was still here, would he comfort me or I would coax him." When he is sad, all the sad things will come to his mind. For Lan Qi, although the past ten years have been
She was so glorious and envied by everyone, but the pain she experienced had never been less or less. At this moment, she had lost her biggest support. She had spent most of her more than ten years in Cining Palace, and she suddenly didn't know what the future of her life would be like.
, how should she cope with the long days day after day?
Huan Chun did not dare to offend his master and stayed with him quietly for a long time. Lan Qi finally calmed down, breathed a long sigh of relief, drank the anti-fetal medicine, rested for a long time, and then said to Huan Chun: "Brother Si is here.
Please ask the people below not to talk about it outside, especially the Imperial Concubine. If she brings it up, we will just nod and deal with it. If not, you can’t talk about it. The child cares about the feelings of the Imperial Concubine and me.
Chun, guess what Yinzhen said to me?"
Seeing his master's calm expression, Huan Chun felt relieved and laughed softly: "What are you talking about? This slave can't guess."
A slight smile appeared on Lan Qi's face, and she said with relief and happiness: "Yin Zhen said that he didn't think it was strange that he had an adoptive mother and a biological mother. On the contrary, compared to his brothers, he had two mothers to love, and he also felt pain in his heart.
A mother. But he said, I have the pain of the Empress Dowager, the pain of the emperor, and so many children under my knees, but the imperial concubine does not have so many people to love me, so he wants to love my adoptive mother more. He knows that I have been hurt by others.
He is very relieved to be cared for."
Huan Chun's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he choked with sobs: "But now that Fourth Brother knows that you have lost the Empress Dowager, you have one less person to hurt."
Lan Qi nodded with tears in her eyes, but this time, she really didn't want to cry anymore, and said firmly: "He is still a child after all. The imperial concubine and I were lingering on the sickbed, scaring him. I can't do this again, too much
The Queen Mother has left me, and I cannot leave the children too. Even if I go with the Queen Mother, she will be unhappy when she sees me."
Huan Chun said angrily: "I'm so speechless that I'm so tired. You didn't even raise your eyelids. Brother Si just said a few words. How come my thoughts don't count?"
Lan Qi pulled her pitifully and said coquettishly: "Don't puke on me, why don't I do well? You must also do well and follow me. It's really hard work."
Huan Chun sighed: "I am a great palace maid, and I am not tired of any rough or heavy work. I am following you in Cining Palace. You are also responsible for handling the affairs in front of the Empress Dowager. Others who have their own Cining Palace are taking care of it. I am there every day."
Just looking at it, it’s really not hard at all, it’s you who are doing the hard work.”
Lan Qi thought about the past of Cining Palace again, felt sad for a while, and remained silent.
Huan Chun said again: "Does your Majesty know? On the day when the Empress Dowager died, the imperial doctor once said to Aunt Sumala that your body is in terrible condition. I don't know where you got the energy to accompany the Empress Dowager every day. But
If you don't get a good rest, the lives of both the fetus and the mother will be in danger. But on that day, the Queen Mother passed away. Do you know, old man? No one cares about you more than the Queen Mother. How could she let you have a baby?
There are three long points and two shortcomings. For the sake of the Queen Mother's wishes, you have to do it well."
Lan Qi had tears in her eyes and was speechless, so she just nodded in agreement.
"Your Majesty, keep your spirits up. The Empress Dowager's Zi Palace will be moved out of the palace. I would like to ask you to go and see the Emperor before he goes out." Huanchun said worriedly, "Eunuch Liang said that the Emperor has been here for several days.
I don’t eat or drink anymore, and I feel completely numb. Compared to when Queen Hesheli passed away, it was nothing.”
Lan Qi's heart tightened, and she suddenly remembered Xuan Ye's sad figure in the rain. If that was nothing, how sad and decadent should Xuan Ye be now?
But her body was not allowed to leave the bed. Even Huan Chun felt that if the master could go to Cining Palace to visit the emperor, even if it was against the rules, it would always be a comfort to the emperor. However, the pregnant woman was too weak, even in the next few days
Even though my mood was stable, I couldn't bear the imperial doctor's instructions over and over again: "My queen, you must not get out of bed, you must lie still."
Everyone is waiting for the moment when the little life will come out on its own. Before that, the weak mother can do nothing. Seeing that the day when the Empress Dowager Zi's palace will be moved is just around the corner, Lan Qi knows that she will be there when Xuan Ye comes back.
I couldn't see him before.
It doesn't matter if we can't see each other, we don't want to see each other's decadence and haggardness. When this period of time passes, there will be plenty of time to be by his side. After calming down, the two of them are not anxious about it at all. She understands that only by safely giving birth to the child in her belly can she
Plan for the future.
Before the Empress Dowager's Zi Palace was moved, the emperor issued a decree. As the Empress Dowager had wished during her lifetime, the Empress Dowager's mausoleum would not be buried together with Taizong, but would be temporarily placed in the Qingdong Tomb in Jingdong. The Emperor even moved the Empress Dowager's residence there during her lifetime.
The five rooms of the East Palace of Cining Palace were dismantled and built at the foot of Changrui Mountain. They were called "Temporary Anfeng Palace" and were buried in one of them.
The five pavilions of Cining Palace were demolished and placed at the foot of Changrui Mountain as they were. There had never been such a grand gesture in a funeral since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. The emperor did not want his grandmother to be lonely at the foot of Changrui Mountain, so he not only left the palace where she lived intact
After moving there, Eunuch Li asked Eunuch Li to count all the eunuchs and maids who had served the Empress Dowager in Cining Palace and send them to the temporary enshrinement hall to guard the mausoleum.
The eunuchs and maids who did not want to grudge my grandmother and did not want to be forced to go to guard the mausoleum cursed day and night. This trip was all of their own free will, and Eunuch Li was the first to request an order to guard the mausoleum of the Empress Dowager. Cining Palace
There were so many people there that the Empress Dowager took care of her, and most of them were willing to go.
Only Aunt Sumala was not allowed to spend the rest of her life in the Temporary Anfeng Palace. The emperor promised his grandmother that he would take care of this old nanny who was so kind to the Qing royal family, and temporarily placed her in Ningshou Palace with the Queen Mother.
Companion, make it clear again and again that all concubines, concubines and princes must respect grandma.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner. The night before the Empress Dowager Zi Gong was moved out of the palace, Lan Qi wanted to cheer up and go to Cining Palace, but as soon as she sat up, she couldn't bear it. For the long-term plan, she decided to
gave up.
There was a strong wind and snow in the second half of the night, as if God was crying for the last time for this great woman who had gone through three dynasties and supported two generations of young masters. The wind and snow lasted for two hours, and the snow in the garden of Yonghe Palace was only cleared during the day.
, another thick layer of snow accumulated.
Because all the palaces were closed at night these days, Huan Chun only noticed someone coming through the door when she heard the sound of crunching snow. Since the little eunuch outside the door didn't hurry to report, she wondered who it was.
One person, but this situation should not happen now, ran out nervously to take a look. Sure enough, she saw the emperor walking up the stairs under the eaves. She hurriedly knelt down and said, "Long live Lord, why are you here?"
Under the dim light, the emperor's face could not be seen clearly, but in the dim figure, the emperor's figure had obviously lost weight. Huan Chun did not dare to say anything more. He stood up and lifted the thick curtain and said softly: "Your Majesty, your Majesty