Lan Qi calmed down and thought that she couldn't rush to tell Tong Bin to realize her enlightenment immediately. It must be the death of the imperial concubine that stimulated her. It doesn't mean that she would be fine if she was quiet on weekdays. Maybe she was trying to endure it deliberately. Once something happened, she couldn't hold on.
If it goes down, it might collapse.
At this moment, he said softly: "You told me that the Queen was smiling when she died. I believe that apart from the regret that her life could not last long, she had given up on everything in the world. Sister, please go back first. I will finish my work here.
Just come and stay with you more. Once the emperor gives the decree on the concubine, someone should come to give you gifts and congratulate you. I will teach you step by step how to do those complicated things."
The weak man nodded with tears in his eyes: "Sister De Fei, I will be fine."
Lan Qi asked the servants of Chu Xiu Palace to take good care of Empress Tong Bin. After seeing her leave safely with her own eyes, she breathed a sigh of relief. Lan Ying, who had been standing beside her, walked up and took out her handkerchief to remove the hair that fell on her sister's bun.
The snowflakes shook off and she said distressedly: "Sister, it's really hard to be the mistress of the house."
Lan Qi was startled and scolded: "Sister is just a concubine. How dare you claim to be the mistress of the house? You have to be careful about your words and deeds in the palace."
Lan Ying looked at her sister, not knowing what to think, and sighed with regret, holding her arm and walking towards the gate of Xianfu Palace. Everything in Xianfu Palace was removed, and most of the things used by the imperial concubine were put away.
When you get up, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will write down a list of valuables and store them, and leave them to the tenth prince in the future.
After the Niu Hulu family came to collect a few small and scattered things and brought them home, they let the servants below dispose of them. I guess Zuo just took them in exchange for money. The imperial concubine was acting crazy in front of her, so she kept her things.
The palace maids and eunuchs were also afraid of scaring people.
Lan Ying carefully collected a few items, made a list and reported it to the House of Internal Affairs, and then asked her servants to take it out of the palace. Turning around, she saw her sister standing in front of the imperial concubine's bed in a daze, so she came up and asked, "Sister, what's wrong?"
There was something glistening in Lan Qi's eyes, and she covered it with a handkerchief, "I'm fine. I feel a little sad when I think about the past. Looking at Tong Bi's appearance, and what Huan Chun said these days about concubines being abused in the palace, it's like
I think in this palace, status is only superficial, whether you can live well depends on whether the master gives you a chance."
"The Emperor treats my sister sincerely." Lan Ying was afraid that her sister would have random thoughts, so she gently shook her and said, "Even my sister-in-law treats her like a real sister. What else can my sister be dissatisfied with?"
Lan Qi smiled and said: "How dare you not be satisfied, just looking at their situation and life? The emperor treats me sincerely. I know that I am very happy and satisfied, but these things are really real to these people."
It’s impossible for me to pretend that I can’t see it before my eyes, and I am somewhat involved in it, so it will inevitably touch my heart.”
Lan Ying smiled and said: "Now I can rest assured. The emperor always tells me to make my sister happy. I said how can I coax her? Doesn't it work unless the emperor coaxes her? The emperor said that I don't love you, and that his pain is in vain.
Me."
Lan Qi said disgustedly: "What did you two say in private?"
Seeing that there was nothing going on here, the two of them were about to leave together while talking, but the little palace maid ran out of the backyard, holding a bundle in her hand and said: "Ms. De Fei, Fujin, this is what Aunt Dongyun has in front of her. What's the matter?"
Not taken away."
"Didn't the person who came to collect her take her away?" Lan Ying asked and ordered her servants to pick her up, but Lan Qi said, "After all, it is something from the palace. Let the Jingshifang send someone to record it, and then I will call someone
Take it for you and give it back to her family."
Lan Ying had no objection and went out with her sister. She said that Aling'a had found Dongyun's family and wanted to send her back to her hometown for burial. She gave all the silver reward she got from her sister to her family because she was afraid that her family would be greedy for money and mistreat her.
, and sent someone from the house to send him all the way. He was just greedy for money, but he had to ensure that Dongyun's soul could return to his hometown.
On the way back to Yonghe Palace, Lan Qi asked her sister: "You said Dongyun was loyal. Does she want to return to her hometown or be buried beside her master?"
Lan Ying smiled bitterly: "Who knows? I want to send her back to her hometown, reincarnate in the next life and find a good family, and stop being a slave. If she is buried with the master, will she still be a master's servant in the next life?"
Lan Qi just listened, but her sister said regretfully: "Why did she have to be buried? It was so easy to live a comfortable life for a few days."
"Perhaps she feels that she has nowhere to go away from the Forbidden City." Lan Qi pointed to Huan Chun behind her and said to her sister, "Huan Chun said that she missed home in the palace, but she never went home to visit relatives for more than two days.
I want to go back to the palace every day. After spending the first ten or twenty years here, once I leave the imperial city gate, I don’t know how to live my life."
Lan Ying nodded and said: "Dongyun has been serving his master in the palace all his life. He doesn't know what to do anymore. It's not about staying in the palace or leaving the palace. He just..." She sighed longly, "What a pity.
Good people.”
Afterwards, the two sisters returned to Yonghe Palace to talk, and Lan Ying left the palace before the snowstorm. This winter was particularly cold, with no clear skies for several days. It had been gloomy, windy and snowy. In time for the funeral of the imperial concubine, the fourth prince died in infancy in the palace.
After having a child, everyone in Yonghe Palace couldn't cheer up. It was Lan Ying who came and sat there for a long time before it became a little lively.
In the evening, a message came from the study, saying that the emperor had summoned all the elder brothers to go to Qianqing Palace for dinner, so the 134th elder brother would not come back. Princess Wen Chen was also in Ningshou Palace, and the Queen Mother would not let her out because of the heavy snow.
Tianzhu lived there with her sister. The Yonghe Palace was deserted, so Lan Qi told Huanchun not to prepare too many meals for her, but to just eat a few bites. She didn't have much appetite.
It was getting dark, so she put away her pen in front of her desk and copied a Buddhist scripture. After praying with her hands together, she waited for the ink to dry, then put the scripture away. She calmed down and did these things, and her mood gradually became peaceful and stable.
Not long after, Huan Chun came in, holding an unsigned letter in his hand, and told the master: "The people in the Jingshi Room checked the things Dongyun left and found this letter in the secret compartment of a jewelry box."
Lan Qi took it and sat under the lamp to look at it. The envelope was sealed and had become brittle and yellowed. She didn't know how many years it had been there. She looked at Huan Chun, and Huan Chun said softly: "The person in the respect room said, Mr.
You have to ask your Majesty to read it before you can confirm whether it can be taken out of the palace together with those things. If there are any inappropriate words in the letter, it will be bad if it gets spread."
"It is precisely because I know this rule that I didn't let Lan Ying take the things away directly." Lan Qi said solemnly, "I am also cruel. The emperor said that Dongyun knew too much, so he could not keep her alive. I felt so sad in my heart.
With this extra vigilance, she won’t even let go of the things behind her.”
Huan Chun reassured: "This is your responsibility."
"Right." Lan Qi sighed softly, then picked up the scissors and cut open the envelope. When she touched the inside, it was not very thick. When she opened it, it turned out that there were only two thin pages. The handwriting was beautiful and it was from a woman's hand, and the letter started with "Long live
Respectfully, my concubine, Niu Hulu, bows her head..." Lan Qi was frightened.
She hurriedly closed the letter, without reading the content, and said to Huan Chun: "Go and tell the people in the Jingsi Room that they can't believe it. Send other things to Aling'a's house about this letter. You are not allowed to let others know, otherwise you will not be leniently spared."
Huan Chun cautiously agreed and immediately went to give the order. Lan Qi held the letter in her hand and was full of curiosity to read it, but she still put it away solemnly and pressed it on the table with a jade ruler. Then she put the green beads and purple When Yu called and asked them to pick up Brother Thirty-Four, he sent a message to Eunuch Liang, saying that the ground dragon in Yonghe Palace was newly renovated and was very warm, so the emperor could come and warm himself up.
And this night, because the emperor summoned his sons to have a meal together in Qianqing Palace, the prince and the eldest elder brother were also there, and the fourth elder brother would not be absent. The emperor also knew that the fourth elder brother had just lost a daughter, so after a few words of comfort, he was gone. I asked him more about his family affairs, but it was obvious that Yinzhen was a little absent-minded. He looked out at the sky from time to time, as if he wanted to leave the palace early.
Just as Xuan Ye thought, Yinzhen wanted to return home early. Drugs to induce labor were found in Song's house. The doctor said it was those things that caused Song Gege to give birth prematurely. Song insisted that Li Ze and Fujin harmed her, and Li Ze Fujin was frightened and had a fetal contamination and was in very bad health. Yuxi was so troubled by them that he contracted an old illness and the whole family was uneasy.
At present, the family affairs are still kept behind closed doors, but if this continues, outsiders will find out sooner or later. Yinzhen has had such an incident less than a year since he started his own business. He himself feels that he cannot hold his head high and does not dare to confront him. Mom said, she didn’t even dare to tell Huang Ama.
At this time, all the rooms and courtyards in Si Age's house were brightly lit, and it was dinner time. Si Fujin only had a few porridge and side dishes here. She had no appetite and couldn't eat at all. Her mother felt that Luo Shi had been invited by Si Age to take care of her daughter. I just walked over from Li Zifujin in the snow, shook off the cold air in front of the door, and walked to my daughter's bed holding the hand stove handed over by the girl. She was half-reclining and eating porridge from the wet nurse's hand when she saw her mother. When he came, he said: "Mother, please go and have a meal too."
However, Jueluoshi went to wash her hands and came to replace the wet nurse. She continued to feed her daughter porridge and comforted her: "You have to eat no matter what. How can you deal with them jumping up and down if you are not in good health? I shouldn't be here to ask. Please don't call E Niang here for this kind of thing, outsiders will gossip, and Empress De Fei may not be happy."
Yuxi said weakly: "It's just that Yinzhen asked you to take care of me, otherwise he would not be able to feel at ease in the court."
Jueluo Shi said: "Brother Si really cares about you."
Yuxi was fed a few more mouthfuls of porridge by her mother. She was really tired of it, shook her head and refused to use it anymore. She felt that Luo didn't force her. She was about to call the girl to help her rinse her mouth, but she heard her daughter saying to herself: "Who would have thought that this would happen?" They can't save the child. If I knew they couldn't save the child, I wouldn't let them fight. Now I can have a daughter."
Jue Luo was shocked when he heard this. He calmed down and asked the girl to wash his mouth. Then he excused Fujin to take a rest and asked all the other people to withdraw. Then he returned to his daughter and asked anxiously: "Yuxi, what did you just say? You can’t say this casually.”