"Was she fine before the news of her pregnancy came out?" Duan Bi couldn't remember clearly. She didn't like to talk to Ms. Chen these days. She just happened to be bored in the house and didn't go out, so she gradually forgot about the things in the backyard. I forgot, but when I brought it up now, I remembered that Chen seemed to have fallen out of favor for a while.
Bu Guiren smiled and said: "After the pregnancy, the emperor's treatment of her was not as good as before. When you, the empress, were pregnant, and when Sister Dai and I were pregnant, the emperor would not come to see her, but would come every few days to see her. Heaven will send someone to say hello or send a few things. Even if the emperor is busy and can’t think of anything, Eunuch Li will be around to help the emperor. It’s not necessarily that Eunuch Liang doesn’t have this thought now.”
Duan concubine was thoughtful and said softly: "According to this, it means she has fallen out of favor. What did she say in Qianqing Palace that day?"
As expected, only the emperor and Chen Changzai knew what was going on here. After being left out in the cold these days, Chen Changzai gradually figured out that her desire to win the emperor's favor had been misunderstood, or that she was wrong in the first place. .
People's minds can indeed change. She had never served the Holy Emperor before, so she felt that favors and other things were not important. As long as she lived well in the palace and her family was in peace, it would be fine. But she saw the king's daughter Xiang Xiaoyu. After his death, she was the only one who came with him. The sisters in Zhongcui Palace were so different in age that they often couldn't talk to each other. The gnawing loneliness and helplessness could only be relieved by being by the emperor's side. .
She felt that she had fallen in love with the emperor and wanted to stay by his side wholeheartedly, but she was not qualified to receive such favor, and she did not dare to be as ostentatious as the Migui people once did, so she just spent some time and effort to make the emperor happy. , her usual attentiveness and gentleness were indeed appreciated by the emperor, but this time she concealed her pregnancy. When she happily told the emperor, she fully thought that the emperor would be happy with her, but she felt the emperor's anger at that moment. Obviously. The emperor didn't like scheming women, and even his intention of making him happy and giving him a surprise was rejected.
Only when you fall in love do you realize that emperors are the most ruthless.
At this time, the palace maids were replacing their previous clothes with the newly sent clothes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Dai Guiren was still making noises on the side and said with a smile: "My sister's stature has not changed much. I have to be careful in the future, otherwise I will get too fat." , it’s very hard to clear the house after giving birth to a child, and the emperor still needs you to serve him.”
But when Dai Guiren said these words, he didn't hear the answer. He turned around to look at Chen Changzai. She was staring blankly in a daze. Dai Guiren called her sister again. Chen Changzai still didn't respond. She just waited for her palace maid to get anxious and come over. After pushing her master, Mrs. Chen regained her composure and looked at Dai Guiren in surprise: "Is Sister Guiren still there?"
"Do you think I left with Sister Bu?" Dai Guiren sat aside, looked at Chen Changzai's cheek carefully, and said with a smile, "It's getting prettier these days. A beauty is a beauty. Before you were pregnant, you still looked like I am a child, and now my eyebrows are more open, adding a bit of charm."
But Chen Changzai lowered his eyes, covered his belly that had begun to swell with his hands, smiled lightly and said, "Sisters are all stunningly beautiful. It is not unusual for the palace to be good-looking."
Dai Guiren touched his hair and said with a smile: "I am already old. When you are older now, you can still look good."
But out of the blue, Chen Changzai suddenly asked: "Sister Guiren, do you like the emperor?"
"Like it?" How could Dai Guiren usually put such words on his lips? Suddenly he was asked this question, and his face turned red. Several of the concubines in Zhongcui Palace, Empress Duan, and their early relationship with the emperor
Fen, like Concubine Rong, was the first woman to be with the emperor, but she and Noble Bu were in love overnight, and what she said to the emperor in her whole life was probably not as good as what she said in one day in Yonghe Palace. When it comes to feelings,
Even they themselves don't know what they like and what they don't like. Maybe women who think they are the emperor should like the emperor.
"I'm just curious." Chen Changzai tried her best to smile, but the tears in the corners of her eyes deceived her inner thoughts, and her voice choked up, "Even now when I think of the Emperor, my heart hurts so much that I want to cry. I am obviously
How can someone who likes the emperor be so miserable?"
Dai Guiren was dumbfounded and didn't know how to answer. She was not a eloquent person, and she was not as good as Bu Guiren. He could only advise her: "Are you pregnant with the child and your thoughts are crazy? Silly sister, you can live here safely, we can
I will always take care of you."
As he said this, he couldn't help but feel pity for her. What happened before was nothing special. After living together for so long, Chen Changzai was a peaceful person. It was good for the Duan concubine to be annoyed by her for deceiving her, but it would be a shame if they grouped together and ignored her.
Bully people.
After that, Dai Guiren told Duan Bin these words, and Duan Bin sighed: "Don't say that I am biased against her now. I will think more about anything she says, but who knows whether she is taking advantage of your kindness."
, said it in front of me, and went back to Yonghe Palace to tell her that Concubine De was soft-hearted. If she felt sorry for Chen Changzai and persuaded the emperor to pay more attention to her, wouldn't she have achieved her goal?"
Dai Guiren felt heavy in his heart when he heard this: "If she plots against me like this, my good intentions will be in vain."
The next day, the three of them chatted with Concubine Rong in Yonghe Palace. Lan Qi saw that Bu Guiren and Dai Guiren were whispering to each other from time to time. She didn't ask what they were doing. She only waited for the sisters to disperse, leaving Sister Bu to ask what happened.
Bu Guiren then talked about what happened last night and smiled bitterly: "Empress Duanbi was not happy and said she did it on purpose. Anyway, because she hid her pregnancy this time, Empress Duanbi cannot treat her like before. What do you think about it now?"
It’s not pleasing to the eye.”
Lan Qi said nonchalantly: "It's right that she likes the emperor. It's better than betraying the emperor and doing something treasonous. If a young man comes in in two years, he will have to be more careful when he comes in and out. The brothers may not
It would be ridiculous, and there might be some young ones who can't bear to seduce him, so it's a good thing that she is so dedicated to the emperor."
Bu Guiren smiled and said: "I have never felt pain at the door of my heart when I think of the emperor. After all, she is someone from Jiangnan, and everything she says is so nice and interesting."
Lan Qi smiled and said nothing, but understood in her heart that if what Chen said was true, then she was indeed attracted to the emperor. When she thought of Xuan Ye earlier, her heart ached unbearably, even though she liked him so much,
What she got was unbearable heartache. Lan Qi had personally experienced the torture of worrying about gains and losses. But she couldn't say this to Sister Bu. After all, it was an embarrassing thing between herself and Sister Bu.
But no matter what Chen thought, this matter came to Lan Qi's ears several times, and it really made her interested. She never paid much attention to the fact that Chen Changzai was pregnant, because she was from Zhongcuigong, Duan concubine.
She was the one who made the decision for Chen. Since Duan Concubine was annoyed by her deception, she should stand on Duan Concubine's side, but she would also be curious about how the emperor could leave someone so quickly.
Before Wang's comeback, she fell out of favor and was thrown into Qixiang Palace and tortured because she betrayed the emperor through secret letters. Could it be that Chen did something similar this time and offended Xuan Ye? But even Lan Qi didn't
I know that Chen Chang’s letters at home were all written by his father in a memorial and presented to the emperor for inspection before being shown to her. At first, news about Wang Changzai was somewhat spread back to Jiangnan. The people there are now more and more cautious, and they should not do it for the sake of it.
This kind of thing.
Lan Qi's face might be able to hide things in front of others, but when facing Xuan Ye, she could probably tell him. In early November, the third elder brother Fu Jin successfully gave birth to a little brother, and the third elder brother finally had a baby in his house.
The first of the children was the eldest son, which made Concubine Rong very happy. Thinking of their affection, Xuan Ye personally came to Jingyang Palace to give gifts to his grandson and share the joy with her.
Lan Qi was also at the side at that time, and while she was happy, she was thinking about the other children to be born. Yuxi and Seventh Brother's side Fujin were both fine, but it was the one in Zhongcui Palace that made her a little worried, fearing that Mrs. Chen would worry about it.
Thoughts made him sick, and he turned around and hurt the child.
Xuan Ye saw how she was in a daze, and when she rested in Yonghe Palace, he asked Lan Qi: "Is there anything wrong with Yuxi? When I congratulated Concubine Xirong in Jingyang Palace that day, you didn't seem to be happy.
Very happy."
Lan Qi secretly felt ashamed that she could not restrain her expression in front of others. Maybe the emperor saw it and others could see it. While urging herself to be more cautious in the future, she said with a smile: "Yuxi is very good. I don't need to worry, I'm so worried. Yinzhen is so
He loves his wife and does many things more diligently than his concubine, so the emperor can just wait and see his grandson with peace of mind."
When Xuan Ye heard that his daughter-in-law was well, he no longer worried. Instead, he smiled and said, "I'm happy to have a grandson, but it sounds really old to have a grandson." On the other hand, Monkey Shang said, "I am the most rare.
You gave me those years when I had children."
Lan Qi nudged him and smiled: "Even if I don't think I'm old, I'm still cruel thinking about that time. It's so hard for me to give birth to a child."
"That's right, there is a way to have both in this world." Xuan Ye laughed it off, but when he looked back, he saw strange emotions flashing through Lan Qi's eyes, pinched her waist, and asked, "Why are you so dishonest? There is something on your mind?
"
Lan Qi saw that he looked relaxed and had no worries recently, so she said: "I have something on my mind, but I am a little nosy. I would like to ask, even if I am angry, can I just forget about it tomorrow?" She didn't say anything.
When Xuan Ye responded, he already asked, "Why did the emperor abandon Chen Changzai? I'm afraid it's the same thing as before. Could it be that like Wang Changzai, she also exchanged letters with Jiangnan to leak royal affairs?"
Xuan Ye shook his head: "No, she is very honest here."
"Then why..."
"I don't like people around me. They plot against me all the time." Xuan Ye said impatiently, "Her pregnancy was hidden for four months. Even if she didn't know about it for long, there was always one or two months, right? When you
When you were pregnant with Yinzhen, you knew you were pregnant, but in order to take care of Queen Xiaozhao, you endured it. Is it the same as her being fine now and hiding it for so long? Four months or two months, she watched everyone come.