Lan Qi took a look and saw that Wang Changzai had a slumped face. She sighed softly: "It's the festival tonight. She shows such an expression to no one. She is not afraid that the emperor and the queen mother will be unhappy."
Concubine Rong sneered: "I heard that a few days ago, she carried Brother Sixteen to Qianqing Palace. The Queen Mother has long been dissatisfied with the fact that the two brothers are being raised in Qixiang Palace. She does not cherish the face given to her by the emperor, and she still I rushed out to find someone to arrest her. Poor Xi concubine is now devoted to taking care of the child and can't care about her so much. She even told me that day that she was afraid that one day the Wang family would leave Qixiang Palace and the child would also leave with her. .In the past twenty years, how often have I seen her so timid? In the past, she was someone who dared to say a word or two in front of Queen Xiaoyi. If she hadn't had children, I think she wouldn't be able to bear it anymore and wanted to marry the Wang family. It's like a fight to the death."
Lan Qi worriedly said: "What kind of evil has she possessed? If this continues, what good results will it have?"
While we were talking, several children were clamoring to see their little brother. The fifteenth elder brother had been sitting in Xibin's arms, and the sixteenth elder brother was being held by the wet nurse. The fifteenth elder brother saw the older children coming around to play with the baby. , he also followed suit, and the children of one or two years old love to scream when they are excited. When the fifteenth brother screamed, the concubine was afraid of disturbing the queen mother and the emperor, and showing that she was incapable of discipline, so she hugged the excited child and left. .
Retreating to a quiet place, the fifteenth brother gradually became quiet. Xi Pin gently coaxed him and asked him to stop shouting. The little guy agreed in a daze, but suddenly he felt sleepy and lay on E Niang's shoulder. The maid next to him said ten The fifth elder brother seemed to be about to sleep, so Xibin said: "I will hold her, and you can find someone to get a blanket."
In this way, the concubine Xi was left holding the child alone. As soon as the palace maid left, she coaxed the child to wander aimlessly in the corridor. A cold wind blew past. She was afraid that the child would catch cold, so she hugged the fifteenth elder brother. I wanted to avoid the empty palace next to me. Then I walked closer to the window and suddenly heard a soft voice inside saying: "Prince, why did you find yourself here? If anyone sees it, we can't get over it." .”
Xi Bin was frightened, and quickly pulled out, covered Brother Fifteen's mouth and ran away, but the voice of that sentence was very familiar, lingering in her ears. Xi Bin always felt that she had heard it somewhere, and when she returned As expected, there was no one around the Crown Princess at the table, and there was no sign of the Crown Prince.
Her heart was pounding, and she hugged the child to hide her uneasiness. Soon the prince came back with a happy face and talked to the queen mother. Soon after, the concubine looked up inadvertently and saw Chen Changzai coming back from nowhere. She didn't know what she was doing just now. He noticed that Mrs. Chen was not at the table, but at this moment, he suddenly became excited and realized that the delicate and soft voice just now should belong to Chen Changzai.
Xi Bin felt like there was something stuck in her throat. She couldn't spit it out or swallow it. She felt uncomfortable all over. How could such a fatal event happen to her? It's okay not to know. But now that it happened to her, how should she deal with it? Was she discovered by the prince just now? Will the prince cause trouble for her?
After being so anxious all night, the dinner ended smoothly. The emperor and the queen mother were very happy, and Concubine Rong and Lan Qi were happy.
After the relatives and nobles left the palace one after another, the emperor and the prince also left Ningshou Palace after serving the Queen Mother to sleep. But at that time, the sixteenth prince was crying as if he was hungry, so he borrowed a place in Ningshou Palace for the wet nurse. Breastfeeding the child. But Wang Changzai waited impatiently, fearing that the emperor would look at Chen's name tonight, thinking that even if he could not stay in bed, he would still hinder her good deeds, so he left his concubine and the child to leave. step.
When she arrived outside the door, there were still a few people left. Although the Wang family was not as good as before, she was still more than good enough compared to others. Several people promised Chang Zai to be very polite to her. Looking at her posture, someone said: "Wang Chang Zai is here." We're going to Qianqing Palace again, right? You must be at the Emperor's side."
Another person said: "Sister Wang is very lucky to have two brothers in a row."
This sentence was nothing at all, but someone pulled it out and said: "It's because Wang Changzai's little elder brother and the little princess in the fourth elder brother's house have not brought him. After all, the grandson is precious. The fourth elder brother finally had a child, but She’s still a daughter.”
Wang glanced at them faintly, her words were meaningless, but they hit her mark. When she saw a soft sedan coming by, she thought it was her own sedan, and as she walked towards it, she sneered: " It is destiny to have a boy or a girl. If you don't give birth to a son, you will be less lucky. But having a daughter is better than never having a daughter. Those who can't give birth are pitiful, right? I don't know who caused the evil."
Everyone in the palace and outside the palace knew that Si Fujin seemed to have no children. Since he mentioned Si Age's daughter just now, Wang Changzai's words were clearly mocking Sifujin. However, Wang Changzai approached the sedan and found that it was not his own, so he turned around. When I asked her where her sedan chair was, I saw Concubine De standing inside the door. The palace maids and eunuchs accompanying her ignored her. They ran to press the sedan and lift the curtain first. The people behind them gathered Concubine De and came out. Someone on the side reminded the king. Chang Zai: "Chang Zai, please give way. My Majesty is about to get on the sedan chair."
Lan Qi heard what she said just now, and although she felt resentful in her heart, she would not argue about it in front of the Ningshou Palace. It was a full moon night tonight, and there was no need to be angry with such a person. Fortunately, Yuxi left the palace early and could not hear such words. If Yuxi When Xi heard it from her side, she was not so patient and would definitely get angry for her daughter-in-law.
Coincidentally, someone from Qianqing Palace came and said that the emperor had transferred to Yonghe Palace and asked Concubine De to go back quickly. Lan Qi said nothing and sat on the sedan safely, but she heard someone whisper from outside: "It turns out that the emperor Wang Changzai was not summoned."
The people from Yonghe Palace meandered away, and then Wang Changzai's sedan rushed over. The whispers of the people nearby seemed to her like they were laughing at her, so she left full of resentment and returned to Qixiang Palace full of anger.
The palace was quiet when he entered. Since he had a child, the concubines did not allow the palace people to light lamps and make noise at night, for fear of disturbing the little brothers' sleep. However, it was so dark and lifeless that Wang Changzai felt that this also caused the emperor to be unable to remember. For his own reasons, now the emperor must be thinking of Qixiang Palace, just like two crying dolls, how can he think of his own beauty and gentleness.
The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. I had already walked to the door of my house. Suddenly I became unwilling. I left the people around me and rushed to Xi concubine's palace, hoping to talk to her about the truth. But when I walked to the door, I heard Xi concubine. The concubine, who was getting close to her, said: "You said she is so favored now, how can she do such a conciliatory thing?"
The palace maid then asked: "Where did you meet me, my dear lady? Could it be that you saw it wrong?"
Concubine Xi lamented: "In the deserted Cunxin Pavilion to the west of Ningshou Palace, I really heard the voice of Chen Changzai. How could I have heard so many words in such a beautiful mood today? Well. You said she is young, and the Emperor is not old. How could she cause such a thing, and why I bumped into her? It is really unlucky..."
When Wang Changzai heard these words outside, his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He hurriedly left the Xi concubine's house, thinking in his mind that Mrs. Chen was so bold as to dare to seduce people in Ningshou Palace. There were so many royal relatives tonight. Attending the banquet, it might be some prince or Baylor. They were sent to the capital together and stayed outside the palace, so they might have been merciful.
She went back to the room and sat down, secretly rejoicing in her heart. She had no idea at first. She didn't know how to get back her seat next to the emperor, but who knew that Chen would commit suicide. Thinking that since Chen was just hanging around with the wild man tonight, , she might have dropped something, so she would rush to look for it tomorrow and use it as evidence. Even if she couldn't find it, she might as well wait patiently for her to do it again.
Because of this incident, Wang Changzai, who was depressed, suddenly became enlightened, and the clouds on his face disappeared. Even the maid serving her didn't know why. She only knew that since she was happy, it was better than being unhappy.
But this night was destined to be uneventful. The prince and the princess once again had a dispute in the Yuqing Palace. All because after they returned, the princess blamed Wen Fujin for being unsteady and losing the prince's face at the family banquet. Wen Fujin was delicate and blind. She finally admitted her mistake, but the Crown Princess was too aggressive and refused to let her go easily, so she needed to be punished as a warning.
The prince couldn't stand it anymore, and after a few words, the princess actually said: "I am the mistress of Yuqing Palace, and the concubine of Fujin is my slave. These are all household matters, and I will teach my slave. There is no need to take care of the prince. Huang Ama also said, let the prince concentrate on court affairs and learning, and let your concubines share the trivial matters at home for you. That day in Qianqing Palace, Huang Ama said to you personally, Huang Ama Ma also said..."
"Huang Ama! Huang Ama! They are all Huang Ama!" At that time, the prince was furious, but he was calling his father, but he did not dare to say anything disobedient. He glared at the princess and left them behind. Regardless, I made the maid from Yuqing Palace sleep with her all night, and took her as a concubine the next day. Although she slapped the Crown Princess on the face invisibly, it was the Crown Prince who suffered the most.
In the eyes of the prince, Yuqing Palace has always been a prison. It has separated him from his brothers and his father since he was a child. Nowadays, there are more and more people. He has wives, concubines and children. He should have found his own happiness and sustenance. But day by day, the life in Yuqing Palace became more and more depressing. In the world outside Yuqing Palace, anything that could make him feel relieved stimulated his desire for freedom.
Besides, Wang Changzai originally planned to go to Ningshou Palace the next day to look for the items that Chen Changzai might have left behind, but that day, relatives still entered the palace to pay their respects to the Queen Mother. She waited for a whole day but had no chance. She stayed up until the next day, thinking If he didn't go, he was afraid that the eunuchs and palace maids would clean up and take away the things that might be left behind, so he just took the fifteenth brother from the concubine, and finally entered the gate of Ningshou Palace on the pretext that the fifteenth brother wanted to see the imperial grandmother.
But just because she knew that the Queen Mother was not happy to see her, she took the opportunity to send the child in and waited for the nuns to pick up the child. As a cover, a group of people were waiting at the door to pick up Brother Fifteen. She waited and ducked into the garden, heading all the way to Cunxin Pavilion in the west.
The garden of Ningshou Palace is very large, and all the palaces and pavilions are vacant. In the early years, some concubines and concubines lived here. After they passed away in recent years, there is no one here. Wang Chang was groping for the words he heard from the concubines in the air. In Cunxin Pavilion, he suppressed his excitement and rushed in, trying to find clues in every corner.
At this moment, she was about to lift the tablecloth and take a look underneath, when a woman's charming giggle suddenly came from inside. However, she saw a palace maid running out, shouting: "It's broad daylight, please spare this slave."
Immediately after, a man in eunuch clothes flashed out from inside. Wang Changzai was stunned, and the people there were also stunned. They both froze in place. Even though he was wearing eunuch clothes, Wang Changzai also recognized that the man was the prince, and
The prince also knew who he had met. Before the two of them could react, the maid next to him had already screamed, pulling the prince and saying, "Your Majesty, it's terrible, it's terrible."
Wang Chang turned around subconsciously and was about to walk out. Suddenly he was pulled hard by someone, and he heard the prince yelling angrily: "Where are you going?"