Xuan Ye came in with a chill all over his body. Concubine Wen stepped forward to take off her cloak and handed over the stove. The emperor held it in his hand and asked with a smile: "You have been here these days? Thank you for your hard work."
"As a concubine, you should serve your sister." Concubine Wen stepped aside and asked the emperor to go inside. She gave Dongyun her cloak and took the maid to sit elsewhere.
Xuan Ye walked in casually. When the western bell rang, he and the queen both looked at the big clock. The queen spoke first: "I heard that the emperor has a new one and got a new one? I also want to broaden my horizons." Then she sat on the couch and bowed. , claiming to be ill and unable to get out of bed to salute.
Xuan Ye smiled and said: "It's in the Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace. If you feel better, just go over and have a look." He sat aside and looked at her carefully, "You look very bad. The weather is getting colder, but It needs to be well maintained for the winter.”
"My concubine is feeling better. Thank you for your concern. Why is the emperor here on such a snowy day?" The queen was worried. She expected to see an angry emperor coming to ask her why she was tormenting his beloved noble man. She thought she was in vain. Yashi turned around and went to complain to the emperor. Was she really wrong?
"I have something happy, so I thought I should tell the queen first." Xuan Ye smiled deeply. In comparison, the queen looked even weaker and haggard. But when she heard the emperor's words, her eyes couldn't help but shine. She just listened to the emperor. He said, "Shang Zhixin has also surrendered. Now in San Francisco, only the old fox Wu Sangui is left. My hard work and that of the ministers and soldiers over the years have not been in vain."
"Really?" The queen was overjoyed when she heard this. She knew the importance of San Francisco to the emperor. What surprised her might not be who surrendered, but that the emperor was so happy that he was the first to tell her that he would accompany the emperor for ten years. In several years, I had never received such treatment. For a moment, my whole body was filled with enthusiasm, as if most of the disease had gone away. After I recovered, I smiled and said, "Concubine, congratulations to the emperor. Wu Sangui must be lingering on. It will be just around the corner for the emperor to pacify San Francisco."
Xuan Ye was overjoyed and said to her: "Then take good care of your health. I have ministers of civil and military affairs in the previous dynasty, and the harem is all yours."
The queen's eyes filled with tears and she leaned forward to agree, but then she remembered that the noble man had knelt here for a long time in the morning. Although the emperor didn't mention it and maybe he didn't know about it yet, she knew in her heart that she did it on purpose and deliberately wanted to torment Wu Yashi. , but how could she have thought that the emperor would really respect her as the queen.
"The court is always busy with things. After all, I have neglected to discipline the prince. Now he is about to develop a lifelong temperament. I thought that when you get better, I will send the prince to the palace and let you take care of him. You now With my biological sister by my side and a trustworthy person helping me with everything, I am not afraid of burdening you." Xuan Ye continued slowly, "You are my queen, and it is natural for you to raise the prince."
The queen looked at him blankly, secretly swallowing the breath that was stuck in her chest. Everything she had ever asked for, including raising a child, a position in the palace, the emperor's concern...now she had it all, but why was her heart still empty? It's far better than just holding that breath. What else does she want?
Xuan Ye didn't seem to care about the awkward look on her face, and said to himself: "Your sister has a very good temper, and both the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother like her. She just looks weak. You know Concubine Tong's temper. Don't let her bully her. Your sister."
The queen's eyes were moist, she lowered her head and rubbed her eyes with a smile: "Your Majesty, you can't say such things. Your concubine will feel aggrieved when she hears this. She is a good person, so why did she bully my concubine's sister?"
Xuan Ye also laughed: "I'm just joking. As for her temper, you also understand that it's better to do less than to do more. Your sister is too weak."
The Queen leaned forward and said, "You feel sorry for her so much. I would like to thank the Emperor for my sister."
"I have to tell the Queen the good news. If I don't sit with you for a long time, I have to take care of myself." Xuan Ye gave her the hand stove, smiled slightly and turned around to leave. The Queen held the hand stove and stared at his back, and just covered her face.
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn't understand why she was crying.
Hearing outside that the emperor was about to drive away, Concubine Wen hurried over to wait on her, but Xuan Ye had already gathered her cloak. When he saw her coming, he smiled slightly and told her not to see her off. Without saying anything else, she went straight out the door.
Concubine Wen knelt down in front of the door to see her off, and waited until the emperor left Kunning Palace before she got up. When she turned around and came in, she saw her sister holding the heater she had just handed to the emperor and crying. She was so frightened that she was at a loss. She leaned on the kang and kept asking what was wrong.
It took a long time before the queen said with a smile in her tears: "Sister is very happy. The emperor came here to tell her that Shang Zhixin has surrendered. The emperor also said that the Empress Dowager likes you very much. Good sister, you have brought many blessings to my sister."
Concubine Wen was confused and didn't understand, so she just tried to comfort her: "Since it's a happy event, sister, please don't cry. Crying will break your body."
On this side, Xuan Ye braved the wind and snow to return to Cining Palace. Although he was sitting in a warm sedan, the wind was enough to cool his body after walking a short distance from the door. As soon as he entered the door, he was pulled by the nanny to grill him by the stove.
He also changed his clothes into clean ones. When he approached Nuan Pavilion, he saw the prince writing with his great-grandmother. When the prince saw him coming, he climbed down from the kang and kowtowed. Xuan Ye picked up his son, sat down together and asked
Grandma: "Is this child disturbing your rest?"
"Among the brothers, the prince is the quietest. Do you think he is noisy?" The Queen Mother said with a smile, and asked the wet nurse to carry the prince away. She showed her grandson the words written by the prince's hand, "The prince is very smart.
It’s just that his temper is too dull. At this age, he should be lively and lively. How naughty my eldest brother was at that time, I even beat him once in anger, but shouldn’t children be lively and lively? "
Xuan Ye said: "My grandson thought that if he were to follow me, he would inevitably learn to be obedient and too cautious. Now I can see that the prince should have the demeanor and demeanor of a prince. This will not be a good thing in the long run, so I discussed with the queen and thought
When she recovers from her illness, she will be sent to Kunning Palace for her upbringing. It is always better for a child to be taken care of by your mother."
"Since you have already made up your mind, what else can I say?" The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "There was news that Shang Zhixin had surrendered. That year Geng Jingzhong surrendered, and you came excitedly to tell me, but this time you just sent someone
Let me put it another way, ask them where the emperor has gone, and it turns out that he went to tell the empress in person."
"It's my grandson's fault for neglecting the imperial grandmother. Don't be angry." Xuan Ye blamed himself with a smile, and saw his grandmother smiling happily, "I have nothing to be angry about. The grandson I raised with my own hands is so accomplished.
The royal grandmother is so happy."
Xuan Ye was actually a little embarrassed to be said. He also understood the changes in himself in the past two years. Only then did he truly understand what the aura of an emperor meant. How could a rich emperor care about women? What they only want is the length and breadth of love.
The person who is close and distant, and can't hold a bowl of water flat is me. I should be more tolerant and generous, and be as carefree as before, without looking like an emperor.
As for what happened today, he had no intention of running to tell the palace in person. Naturally, he should come and report the good news to his grandmother first, but he heard that Lan Qi had been kneeling in Kunning Palace all morning, quietly and without any reason.
, how could Xuan Ye not feel distressed when she had to kneel like that all morning for no reason. But he was no longer the young and impulsive emperor before, so he decided to go to Kunning Palace in person, hoping that his generosity could weaken the queen.
Despite the resentment in his heart, what he longed for was long-lasting peace in the harem.
"In this way, you can keep that girl Lan Qi by your side for a long time. I didn't like that grandson in the past." The Empress Dowager was full of love and pity. Now she is truly caring and said with a smile, "Who said that the country and the country are harmonious?
Beauty cannot be valued equally, and a foolish king naturally does not deserve to have anything. But my grandson is a wise king. How can an emperor who wants to be a wise king like the ancients not be surrounded by beauties?"
Xuan Ye joked: "Lan Qi is not a beauty. The longer she looks, the more ugly she becomes. She also has a bad temper. There is nothing lovable about her."
The Empress Dowager was overjoyed. She pointed at her and said, "Su Mala, hurry up and send someone to tell the noble people that the emperor dislikes her..."
The grandfather and grandson were joking and having a good time. What might have been a storm was resolved by Lan Qi's forbearance, the emperor's generosity, and the empress dowager's love. No one was harmed, and no one was troubled.
There is only one person who, in the dead of night, is terrified and restless.
When everything she once dreamed of was at her fingertips, her life fell into extreme confusion, and she felt emptier and more confused than ever before. She couldn't sleep at night and had restless days. Queen Niu Hulu stayed on the bed since then. Fortunately, she finally got better in the twelfth lunar month.
When he and his concubines paid their respects to the Empress Dowager in Cining Palace, they looked much better.
The emperor sealed the seal very early this year, on the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month. In the first few days, he personally led the prince to Kunning Palace, and also stayed in the middle palace at night, so that the prince could gradually adapt to the care of the emperor, and the queen had a young son.
On his knees, he had no time to think about anything else. His mood improved and his body recovered day by day. In this way, he lived up to the emperor's hard work. The relationship between the emperor and the empress was more harmonious than at any time in the past ten years.
In the blink of an eye, the New Year is approaching, but it has been snowing continuously for several days. It is not as good as the first snow. In the cold and deep winter, snow accumulates solidly every day. By the day before the New Year, it is said that the deepest snow is in the palace.
It almost goes past a person's knees.
There are also young eunuchs sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to shovel snow and clear roads every day in Zhongcui Palace. This is a very hard job, but the nobles and nobles reward them generously and are polite and generous. They can be sent to work in Zhongcui Palace.
Suddenly he became a fat man.
Someone came to sweep the snow as usual that day, and the snow in the yard had accumulated up to ankles overnight, and it was spread on the ground as thick as a velvet blanket. Lan Qi lay at the window every day, looking forward to going out for a walk, but starting from the beginning of winter
After it was snowing and she came back from Kunning Palace on the day she was beaten, the emperor sent someone to order Huanchun to take a good look at his master, saying that she was weak and not to run around on snowy days, so Fanfan did not go to Cining Palace to serve the queen.
During her days as the empress dowager, she was "under house arrest" in her dormitory. She just lay at the window to satisfy her cravings every day, watching Yu Kui and Jin He build a big snowman in front of her window.
But today Huan Chun went to the House of Internal Affairs, and Bu Guiren went to see Duan Concubine because of Duanjing, so Yu Kui and Xiang Yue were left in Zhongcui Palace. She managed to coax them into relenting and not allow the eunuch from the House of Internal Affairs to clean up.
Snow, Lan Qi came out wrapped up tightly, and built a snowman with the two of them. One half-sized snowman was built, and Lan Qi was already sweating from the heat.
Xiangyue and Yukui went to the back to find coal radishes to make eyes and nose for the snowman, leaving her alone in the front, looking at the carpet-like snow on the floor. Lan Qi, who was playing so hot, suddenly took off her shoes and socks on a whim,
She jumped into the yard. The snow was soft and soft, and unexpectedly it was not so cold that it made her shiver. Lan Qi had a great time, but soon Xiangyue came back and saw her yelling.
"Don't yell, come and step on it. It'll feel good." Lan Qi said as she walked back, her bare feet slipping into her shoes randomly. When she looked up, she saw Xiangyue Yukui kneeling down.
She wanted to ask inexplicably, so she heard Xuan Ye's voice behind her asking her: "What are you doing?"