There was a heavy snowfall at the beginning of November, and the palace became pale again after Empress Daxing took office. In the Nuan Pavilion of Yonghe Palace, Lan Qi was teaching Yinxiang how to read while holding a brocade quilt. The thirteenth prince was cute and cute.
People, Lan Qi likes this child more and more, and she misses his biological mother even more. She is planning to take the child to Xing'er in a few days, and even wants Xing'er to move to the lively palace, Lily of the Valley
Although it's nice there, it's too secluded.
A faint gust of cold wind blew in. It must have been someone coming from outside. After a while of whispering, Huan Chun opened the curtain and came in again. He leaned over the kang and said to her: "Master Suo'etu is back, and the prince is also coming from Changchun."
Yuan is back."
Lan Qi nodded and said, "It's the end of the year, and the prince should be back." She sighed again, "But as soon as New Year's Day is over, the emperor will probably go to the garden. Queen Daxing wanted to go before she fell ill, but it's a pity that the queen is too ill.
It’s not advisable to move.”
Huan Chun asked: "Shall we go?"
Lan Qi shook her head and said, "Let's see how the emperor arranges it."
Huan Chun smiled and said: "Long Live Master must want you to go. Where can I go without you?"
In his arms, Yinxiang made a milky voice and said, "Huang Ama, take Eniang with you."
Lan Qi happily k
The thirteenth elder brother took her away and then said to her: "The Empress Dowager is in great mourning, the Queen is in great mourning. The Emperor has not had much close contact with the harem in the past two years. The sadness in anyone's heart is limited, not to mention that he has to continue to bear this burden."
In the world, he always goes to relax, and now the newcomers are waiting for him. What should I do with the past? Do they still want to see my face when they do anything? "
Huan Chun said with a smile: "It's just what others say. Your Majesty can't say it. The Emperor loves no one as much as you."
"You are frivolous." Lan Qi scolded her, "I am already thirty years old, and I can't compare to the fresh and lovely people in their teens and twenties. He is in his prime and has one or two good people to serve him, so I can't
It’s a worry-free thing, isn’t it?”
Huan Chun said with a smile: "Your Majesty is really big-hearted. If you look back, you will be jealous again. Why are you so polite to me?"
Lan Qi smiled: "You are not young anymore, and you still make trouble with me with these words." She sighed deeply, as if she was feeling sad about Queen Xiaoyi's life, and sighed: "Maybe it's because she has experienced too many life and death, but at the end of the year
At the end of the year, I feel that I have somehow lost a bit of the temperament I used to have. Although I still don't want him to have a new love or new favorite next to him, my dislike is not as strong as before. What I think about when I open my eyes every day now is
Whether he is in good health or not depends on whether something important happened in the palace, whether the children are crying or not. Sure enough, beauty is meant to be raised in the clouds. Once it is contaminated with the smoke of fireworks, it will be different."
Huan Chun also felt that compared to other concubines, her mistress had too many things on her mind. She did everything wholeheartedly, whether it was trivial matters in the Sixth Palace or the daily life of the elder brothers and princesses, she cared more about the emperor and the queen mother.
She never neglects, and fills her up every day. It really gives her time to be jealous, and she would rather sleep crookedly with her soft little brother and princess in her arms. It’s really too hard.
"The Queen Mother has said that she wants you to stay out of the palace affairs for the past two months and take good care of your health." Huan Chun walked over and opened the window a little to get some air. He felt a little cold while waiting, so he quickly closed it again and came back to give it to her.
The master moved another pot of charcoal in front of him and warned, "The emperor sends people three times a day to ask how you are. Even the servants are annoyed, but the emperor is not annoyed."
Lan Qi lazily tilted her head and said, "What's bothering him? It's because the father-in-law below is so attentive and ready for him to ask questions anytime and anywhere. I guess he doesn't want to know all the time. At most, he remembers it, so casually.
Just ask."
Huan Chun waved his hands and smiled: "Your Majesty, you can't say that. I asked them before and said that the Long Live Lord really asked them three times a day."
Lan Qi hummed coquettishly: "He has me in his heart, I know."
At this time, someone else seemed to be coming outside. Huan Chunying went out to obey, and then came in with a strange expression on his face and said: "Changchun Palace just went to Ningshou Palace to report the good news, saying that the concubine in the eldest brother's house is pregnant, and it seems that she wants to report to Ningshou Palace."
The Queen Mother asked for a favor to give that concubine a special title."
Lan Qi knew that the Chou Fujin in her elder brother's house were also of high status, and most of them came from famous families. The prince's Chou Fujin was personally selected by the Empress Dowager, so the favored girl in the elder brother's house would at most be given a princess.
It is impossible for the concubine to give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson. However, if the concubine can give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, the son may have a better future depending on the mother's nobleness. But in this way, according to Concubine Hui's preference, someone else will give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson.
The days to come for Dafujin were even more difficult.
"She's just a concubine. When she really gives birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, it won't be too late to express her happiness." Lan Qi told Huan Chun, and then remembered the potbellied man in the palace, and then told her, "Let someone go and see Yuan promised, she will be here again."
She’s due to give birth in a month.”
In the Changchun Palace, Concubine Hui came back in a warm sedan. She took off her thick cloak when she entered and stood by the stove to warm herself. Yanzhu brought hot tea for her to drink, but she pushed her hand away, her face expressionless and wrinkled.
Brows said: "She has given birth to two daughters. I was waiting for her to recover and live a good life before I have any good news. Unexpectedly, a concubine got there first. She is also very powerful. She helped hide it for so long. Now she is three
Months pregnant."
Yanzhu stood aside with a cup of tea, lowering his head and waiting to be scolded. Sure enough, Concubine Hui scolded her: "Didn't I ask you to send people to keep an eye on my brother's house? Why didn't you know about it until now?"
Yanzhu whispered: "Your Majesty, I don't know. Dafujin seems to be on guard against you. She tried her best to replace the people in the elder brother's house with hers, little by little, and waited until the slave returned.
God, there is no one in the mansion who can speak. I have been preparing to stuff people into the mansion these days."
"This little bitch is really capable." Concubine Hui became angry, kicked the stove and sat down beside it angrily, "Does she think I can't do anything to her? Does she?"
I feel that I really care about her as my daughter-in-law. Without her, there will be others, so she is nothing."
Yanzhu put down the tea bowl and persuaded: "Your Majesty, you must calm down. If you do anything to Da Fujin now, it happens to be during the Queen's funeral. Even if you choose a new Fujin, you won't be able to catch up with the prince's side Fujin to enter the palace."
Concubine Hui frowned and said nothing, and then heard Yan Zhu whisper: "After all, he is of royal blood. If he is really the emperor's eldest grandson, it is always a happy event. Many noble daughters have only a special status in the palace of Baylor, not to mention there will be more in the future.
The opportunity is here for Fujin."
Concubine Hui frowned and said, "You don't understand the difference here. It doesn't matter if you are a concubine. What matters is your mother's background." She raised her hand and pointed to the east, "If she hadn't been of such a humble background, she would have been a noble concubine or even a noble concubine.
Now that she is the imperial concubine, this is the difference."
Yan Zhu sneered: "So it is destined that she will never be able to get past you."
"So what if I can't get past it?" Concubine Hui snorted coldly. She didn't say the sad words in her heart. She thought that if her eldest brother hadn't been able to live up to his ambition, she would have been unable to even agree to Chang Zai. But then she thought again, maybe
This was her destiny. She was destined to share wealth and honor with these women. It was as if the emperor owed her in his previous life. Even if he didn't like her anymore, she would be tied down by a son, and nothing would happen to her.
"It's a pity that you still don't have any real power now. Master Suo'etu is back." Yanzhu sighed softly and reminded his master, "Our eldest brother has been enjoying all the glory in the past few months, while the prince is hiding in Changchun Garden.
Even if you don’t reveal it, Master Suo’etu is back now, will he help the prince to fight back?”
Evil thoughts flashed through Concubine Hui's mind, and Fu Er whispered to Yanzhu: "He has been alone in the garden for so long, why doesn't he want to cause some trouble?"
Yan Zhu was stunned, remembering that the concubine's pregnancy in the eldest brother's house had been hidden for so long, and he immediately understood his master's thoughts, with a cold smile between his eyebrows: "I understand, this slave."
Three or five days later, because the prince came back from Changchun Garden, the emperor took the prince to give lectures to the elder brothers in the upper study room. On that day, he selected the masters of the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother. They will also enter after the New Year's Day of the first month.
In the study, all the brothers have grown up in the blink of an eye.
The same princesses have also grown up. Princess Chunxi is almost 20 years old. She is still unmarried, and there is quite a bit of criticism in the royal family. But of course the emperor has the final say on the daughter of the emperor. On the contrary, the courtiers know that the emperor is
Waiting for the best chance to get married.
This day's lecture ended in the afternoon. Lan Qi didn't let Huanchun and the others inquire about the situation in the study, but many things were delivered in the evening. The accompanying young father-in-law diligently kowtowed to Concubine De and said that the fourth elder brother had recovered today.
For the first place, these are rewards from the emperor. Si Age asked them all to be sent to Yonghe Palace, and let Concubine De choose the ones she liked to keep.
Everyone was happy for Lan Qi. Although Lan Qi was also happy, she didn't know what was wrong in her heart. She randomly selected a few items and asked them to send them to Chengqian Palace. After a while, the fourth elder brother came back.
Nuange greets his mother.
Lan Qi asked a few questions about today's events, and the little guy kept talking in high spirits. He was no longer heartbroken for Queen Xiaoyi. Lan Qi was very relieved, but the child had been studying harder and harder recently, and she couldn't care less about it even though he was two palaces away.
No, I just often heard Xiao Hezi say that the fourth elder brother had been studying and writing for half the night. He thought that he did not get the first place casually.
It is a good thing for children to study hard and make progress, and Queen Xiaoyi will be comforted by her knowledge. However, Lan Qi has been thoroughly immersed in the sophistication of the harem, and the thoughts that pop up in her heart are like a tree.
"A tree as beautiful as the forest wind will destroy it." Lan Qi made up her mind. Now that there is no Queen Xiaoyi, she must bravely protect her son. She cannot always be afraid that he will dislike her, and she cannot be too cautious.
At this moment, he warned him seriously, "As a brother, you don't want the fifth elder brother and the seventh elder brother to surpass you, right? In the same way, what will the eldest elder brother, the prince, and the third elder brother think? Yinzhen, you are not small.