Lan Qi learned from the crying Tong Pin that Xuan Ye's uncle, her uncle Tong Guogang, had been killed in the battle. It was probably because she was afraid of shaking the morale of the army that she did not publicize it. Lan Qi did not mention this in the way she learned about the news from the front line every day.
, I was shocked when I heard this, and I couldn’t calm down for a while.
Tong Guogang was a powerful general in the Qing army. He made countless military exploits throughout his life. He created a glorious record that the emperor's maternal ancestors could look down upon other noble families. He was the backbone of the Tong Jia family. Now that a beam is missing from the building, the future is uncertain and worrying.
But Tong Bin told Lan Qi that her father, Tong Guowei, wanted her to deal with Ping Guiren.
The concubine's position is only one step away. She can't let Ping Gui pass her. They are both of similar origins, and the emperor's favor towards Tong Bin has always been sparse. Tong Bin herself has no intention of favoring the Holy Heart. Since she can't win over her,
The emperor had no choice but to contain the little Hershey.
"Then why did you start to deal with her only in the past few days?" Lan Qi was confused.
"She is pregnant. Amma said that adultery is the easiest and most damaging thing to do. Now that he is pregnant, some things are even more unclear. I want to stop her from having sex in the house first.
Uncle, wait until Amma comes back to make further plans." Tong Bin lowered her head and said in a sob voice, "And she really came to bully me. If I continue to be weak, she will definitely get worse."
Lan Qi said softly: "According to what you said, do you want to get rid of the child in Ping Guiren's belly as well?"
Tong Bi raised her head with tears in her eyes. She bit her red lips and trembled slightly. She let go of her teeth and cried: "Mother, my uncle came back from the news and said that my eldest uncle was killed by Suo'etu.
My uncle."
Lan Qi's heart trembled. The hatred in Tong Bin's eyes made her tremble. She stretched out her arms to hold Tong Bin in her arms. After she calmed down, she persuaded: "Good sister, if you treat me as a sister, can you listen to me?"
Say a few words?"
Tong Bin nodded silently, Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "You are not the person who can do these things. This road is not suitable for you. Maybe you can go on, but this road is destined to be doomed and doomed."
There will be good results. Fighting evil with evil is not a long-term solution, not to mention that the evil you force yourself to do will only come back to bite your own heart in the end. Eventually, you will collapse first before the nobles and others can do anything about it.
Good sister, please stop and don’t be manipulated by the family. That’s something you can’t do and it’s something the emperor doesn’t want to see.”
Lan Qi gently pushed Tong Bin away, wiped the tears from her face, and said solemnly: "Unless it is something the emperor asked you to do, otherwise don't let yourself go on such a twisted path easily, your life in the harem is destined.
I can't calm down, but it's not difficult to find a pure world for myself. Sister, although the Queen has never asked me, my feelings for you are different from others. I will take good care of you. Let's not go astray.
Just keep walking on the right path for a long time, okay?"
Tong Bin cried so hard that her whole body convulsed. The pain of losing her sister never left her body. The emperor's feelings for her were not enough to make up for the pain. Although her sister had always been harsh and harsh to her or even unkind, she knew that she was her sister.
There is another kind of love and care for her that only biological sisters can appreciate each other. No matter what, her sister is her biggest support in the palace. At this moment, she collapsed and cried loudly: "Empress, I don't want to do these things. I
I really don’t want to…”
The person in her arms cried for a long time before she calmed down. Lan Qi summoned the imperial doctor to prescribe a soothing medicine for her to take. After taking care of her and falling asleep, it was already late at night when she heard that the eunuch and the palace maid escorted her back to Yonghe Palace in a grand manner.
, she was so tired that she didn't want to move as soon as she entered the house. She leaned softly on the kang. Huan Chun brought her hot water to wash her. She waved her hand and said, "I don't want to move. Let me be quiet."
What Lan Qi was thinking about was not the entanglement between women, but thinking that the Tong family still supported the fourth brother, and Yinzhen would occasionally come to tell him what his grandfathers said, regardless of whether they would last forever.
Support the fourth elder brother. After all, the Tong family is the emperor's ancestral family and is the largest family of relatives in the court. But if one day the prince ascends the throne, the Hesheli family will become the new most powerful family. The benefits brought by the replacement
, is not something Lan Qi can imagine.
And by that time, under the instigation of his relatives, the new emperor will definitely not be able to tolerate the glorious Tong Jia clan in the past. What awaits them is that the building will inevitably collapse. Now that Tong Guogang has been killed in battle, one of the pillars has suddenly collapsed.
Lan Qi's brows raised uncontrollably, which made her very uncomfortable. Although she had said those righteous words to Tong Bin, many incomprehensible thoughts were floating in her heart. She stayed like this quietly for two whole days.
At one hour, it was past midnight, and the candles in the room were extinguished one after another, and no one outside seemed to dare to bother them by lighting candles again. The room was getting darker and darker, but Lan Qi's heart became brighter.
She knew that she was worried about the future of her fourth brother, and what disturbed her heartstrings the most this time were those words hinted by the Queen Mother, and those words explicitly said by Concubine Hui in the Concubine Rong Temple. The Queen Mother said repeatedly in the past
She kept her words in mind. Even if Xuan Ye returned triumphantly and the prince and all the elder brothers were safe and sound, more than ten or twenty years later, it would be inevitable for the brothers to fight against each other. One day, she would face the most tragic situation of the royal family.
matter, and her son will definitely be involved in the turmoil.
But all this cannot be stopped by her like she persuaded Tong Bi to give up today. She can guide her sons not to go astray, but the general trend in the future and her sons' vision for life are beyond her imagination and speculation now, and even
Deep in her heart, she also had thoughts that she could not express to anyone.
Naturally, there is one person who has talked about everything for a long time. In the eyes of Queen Xiaoyi, their son will be the emperor in the future.
When Huan Chun came in, he saw his mistress clutching her heart tightly and asked her worriedly if she felt uncomfortable. However, Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief, sighed longly and said, "Let's talk about the future in the future."
Huan Chun couldn't understand the meaningless words, but after that, the master's expression softened, and she finally felt more relieved. They spent the night together, and the next day she and Concubine Rong dealt with the matter in Ping Guiren's yard. Later, due to the war ahead,
It was tight, and frightening news came every day. The palace finally continued to be peaceful and peaceful, and no one dared to make trouble again.
But unexpectedly, at the end of July, the prince and the third elder brother suddenly returned to Beijing. It was a good thing that they escaped unharmed. However, with the return of the prince, some unpleasant rumors also spread into the palace, and everyone in the palace was confused.
Rumor has it that the emperor got angry for some unknown reason, scolded the prince angrily, and drove him back to the capital.
Regarding this matter, even Concubine Rong said to Lan Qi: "Yinzhi told me that the emperor and the prince did have a conflict, and the emperor sent someone to send them back the next day."
Lan Qi didn't care about these things. She kept asking everyone: "Where is the emperor's illness? Is he cured?"
Concubine Rong, like everyone else, shook her head and said, "Yinzhi said that he only saw the emperor once, and his face was very bad. There is no accurate explanation of what the disease is."
Since the prince returned to Beijing, he has been staying in the Yuqing Palace. Even the fourth elder brother is not allowed to accompany him in reading. He has no choice but to return to the study to continue to be with his brothers. From time to time, he listens to what the third elder brother says.
Occasionally I will come back and tell Lan Qi.
It was already August in the blink of an eye, and the scorching heat had long dissipated. After a gloomy autumn rain in early August, when the rain passed and the sky cleared, as the golden sunshine shone into the Forbidden City, a piece of exciting good news finally reached the palace, and Prince Yu opened the door.
After winning the battle, Galdan was defeated and fled.
That day, the fourth elder brother came out of the study and ran back excitedly. He said with great momentum and excitement: "Mother, do you know? After Uzhumuqin's defeat, Huang Ama urgently ordered Chang Ning and Huang Bo to join forces and gather together.
He ordered Prince Kang Jieshu to lead his troops from Sunit to Guihua City, cutting off Galdan's retreat. After Galdan went deep into Ulanbutong, he discovered that the terrain where he was was not suitable for fighting without cover.
, they had to tie up thousands of camels and lie on the ground at the foot of Dahong Mountain. They put boxes on the camels’ backs and wrapped them in wet felt blankets to form a long camel city. They shot arrows and fired guns in the middle of the boxes.
, to prevent our army from attacking."
The fourth elder brother became more and more enthusiastic as he talked. He grabbed a bowl of tea and drank it all, and continued: "But we have artillery. Uncle Fuquan used artillery guns to focus on a section of Tuocheng. The sound of the artillery rumbled and the sound shook the sky.
On the ground, a gap was quickly opened in Camel City. Our infantry and cavalry rushed over together, and the emperor sent troops to circle out of the mountain to attack with Prince Kang. The rebels were killed in pieces, and they all abandoned their camps and fled.
Mom, just listening to what Third Brother and the others said makes my blood boil."
Lan Qi had long known the news of the army's victory, and now hearing Yinzhen's vivid words, she couldn't help but laugh at him: "Why are the cannons rumbling so loudly that it shook the sky and the earth? Did you see it or hear it?"
Yinzhen's face showed a naive expression that can only be seen when facing his mother. He sat next to her affectionately and said excitedly: "Mother, it's a pity that Galdan was not wiped out this time and let him run away. Mother, please
Wait, Huang Ama will not let him go, next time I will go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and bring back the thief's head to Huang Ama."
"Don't shout and kill, the world will be peaceful. I don't understand. I just hope that you and my sons will be safe." Lan Qi said softly, and the joy in her heart was indescribable. She heard that the Holy Spirit
She was already on her way back to Beijing, and what she was looking forward to most was to see the emperor one day earlier.
Five days later, the emperor returned triumphantly. Prince Yu and Prince Gong still stayed in Ulanbutong. Shengjia entered the palace in the early morning because he knew that the emperor had arrived outside the capital. Lan Qi stayed up all night waiting for the news. Sure enough, Xuan Ye entered the palace all night.
city, and entered the palace early in the morning.
At this moment, Huan Chun was saying: "Long live the Lord, I must go to report the victory to the Queen Mother first. Why don't you go to Ningshou Palace and wait so that you can see the Emperor earlier?"
Before Huanchun finished speaking, the little eunuch at the door rushed in to announce that the Holy Driver was coming to Yonghe Palace. Lan Qi, regardless of the haggardness of a sleepless night, immediately walked out the door, but at first glance she saw Xuan Ye, her husband's thin figure.
To her surprise, when she stepped forward to salute, Xuan Ye suddenly approached, put his hands on her shoulders and said, "Lan Qi, I'm back."
"Your Majesty...Xuan Ye!"
But Lan Qi saw Xuan Ye rushing towards her, but instead of hugging her, Xuan Ye fell down towards her. Although he had lost a lot of weight, his still tall body was not the weight that she could bear, and the two of them fell down together.
, she felt that Xuan Ye had lost consciousness, and the surroundings were also in panic.