Chapter 5 Chapter Five Three Sculptures
The emperor looked at Concubine Hui with a little indifference and distance: "Okay. I have already dealt with Wang Qin, so you don't have to cry. Go back to the palace first."
Concubine Hui was full of grievances, and wanted to say something more, but the emperor just waved his hands in such an indifferent and alienated tone: "I will visit you again, you go back."
Concubine Hui had no choice but to resign.Ruyi looked at Lian Xin who looked sad and said: "Your Majesty, Wang Qin has committed a serious crime in this matter, but Lian Xin was just an innocent victim. No matter who is married to Wang Qin as a counterfeeder, they will not be able to escape such a fate. Please take a look at it, Your Majesty." For the sake of Lian Xin serving the empress for many years, don't punish Lian Xin again."
The emperor nodded slightly: "I know, I won't blame Lian Xin." There was a little pity in his eyes, "I will solve the confrontation between you and Wang Qin, you should serve by the queen's side."
Ruyi shook her head pityingly: "The empress was also kind back then, and wanted to let the eunuchs and maids in the palace rely on each other. Wang Qin is not a heinous villain at all, but why other eunuchs have never done such a thing. Did Qin have it? Presumably, he had a wife after facing the food, and felt that he was incomplete, so he had this greedy and filthy heart. According to the concubines, Wang Qin is certainly unforgivable, and the wind of the food is also unforgivable. Long, so that there will be no such terrible things in the palace."
The emperor took a sip of tea slowly: "Your words are also reasonable, I will think about it when I get back." He got up and said: "It's getting late, and I have to go to the nobleman. You should rest earlier."
Ruyi sent the emperor to the corridor, knelt down and said: "The concubine is caught in rumors, and her feet are confined. It is not appropriate to send each other too far. Here, I respectfully send the emperor off."
Lian Xinben went out behind the emperor, and upon hearing this sentence, she couldn't help but turn her head and said, "Is what the empress Xian said about Meigui giving birth to a child?"
Ruyi's faint smile is like a trembling pear blossom blooming in the wind: "There are so many rumors, I can only wait for the truth to come out."
Lian Xin knelt down with a "plop", bent down and crawled to Ruyi's feet, and couldn't help crying bitterly: "Concubine Xian, please forgive me...the crime of concealment."
Ruyi looked puzzled: "Did you ever hide anything from me?"
"My servant... this servant knows that the rumors about Mei Gui giving birth to a child were not spread by you, but by Wang Qin who drank a few sips of yellow soup after finishing his errands that day, and then he was drunk. Wang Qin's suffering, so I have never dared to speak out. Please forgive me..." After Lian Xin finished speaking, she kowtowed like pounding rice.
The emperor immediately stopped in his tracks, turned around and said, "Wang Qin? Then why do the palace people say that it was first reported in the Yanxi Palace?"
Lian Xin looked sincere: "The Palace of Yanxi Palace is the only way for Wang Qin to go back to his room. He was drunk and lying on the side of the corridor outside the Palace of Yanxi Palace talking nonsense. When the slaves found him, he was still drunk. I’m afraid that’s exactly the case, so people passing by heard it and thought it was a rumor from Yanxi Palace.”
The emperor seemed to believe it, and asked, "Is this true?"
Lian Xin hurriedly kowtowed and said: "I dare not speak nonsense. Your Majesty, not many people know about this matter. Naturally, the Emperor and Empress would not tell your servants, and your servants have never had any contact with Yanxi Palace. If it weren't for Wang Qin's nonsense, let me know." The servant knows, who else will tell the servant to hear it?"
The emperor immediately stopped Li Yu: "There is no need to pass on the chariot and sedan chair. I will stay in Yanxi Palace tonight and will not go to Jiaguiren's Palace."
Lian Xin and Li Yu knew what was going on, and immediately withdrew.
Guilt appeared in the emperor's eyes, and he held Ruyi's hand: "Ruyi, I misunderstood you."
Ruyi smiled sweetly, the water in her bright eyes was full of tears, and there were already a few clear tears: "Should the concubine sing "Snow in June" to show that she is more wronged than Dou E?"
The emperor clung to her hand: "I don't doubt myself, nor the empress. Before I even had time to doubt Wang Qin, he brought someone here to make sure I can only be suspicious of you. So I can only ground you."
So what about being wronged?What about resentment?Ruyi knows very well that when Jun'en returns, her excessive grievances and complaints are just a dead leaf in the spring breeze, which is out of season.
Ruyi suppressed the grievance in her heart to the end, revealing a smile as light as Chulei. The smile was thin, as if the spring god Dongjun's sleeve could be blown off easily: "The emperor once I told my concubines that I want them to rest assured. Even if the emperor didn't say anything about it this time, the concubines would think that the emperor would let the concubines rest assured. Therefore, the concubines also know that there will be no shortage of supplies for the concubines during these days of confinement. It's only a matter of time before the truth of the matter comes to light. Chenqie believes that even if it comes to the day when everyone and everything is pointed at Chenqie, the emperor will protect Chenqie comprehensively."
The emperor hugged her gently: "What you said is what I thought. If there is a day, I will protect you completely."
The night is like a dark ocean, endless as far as the eye can see.After the clouds dissipated, a new moon became brighter and brighter, and the stars in the sky were more like broken diamonds scattered in the sky. The brilliance of the stars and the moon in the sky intertwined with the lights in Qionglou Yuyuan, as if they were reflections of each other.Dazzling, confusing to the eyes.The moonlight sprinkled on the emperor's ocher brown brocade dragon robe, slowly creating a hazy halo.
Ruyi leaned on the emperor's chest, watching the wind blowing in the corridor, blowing the branches and shadows, she didn't want to think about the cause and effect, and she knew she shouldn't think about it.Then he simply showed a smile that got his wish.
After Ruyi's confinement was lifted, she gradually gained the momentum to outshine others.After Wang Qin was executed for offending Concubine Hui, the emperor not only seldom went to Xianfu Palace, but even the Queen's Palace seldom set foot.
This day Ruyi was sitting under the window, seeing the sun as bright as gold, she couldn't help but smile and said: "Spring comes so fast, there are flowers on the peach branches so soon."
Sing Xin came in holding the dried silk thread, and smiled coquettishly: "Isn't it? Everyone said that spring is only in Yanxi Palace. If you want to relax, so is Jingyang Palace. So everyone is counting on Dong Liu The favor of the palace."
Ruyi smiled and said: "What kind of favor from the Sixth East Palace? The emperor only comes to our place a few more times. You tell the people below, don't be arrogant."
Qiao Xin piled a large amount of silk thread on the red sandalwood desk and slowly straightened it, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This slave girl naturally knows. It's just that Concubine Hui was the most favored in the past, and now the emperor doesn't go to her place anymore."
"This time I dyed all the fragrance in, and it can finally be used." Ruyi stretched out her hand and pulled the silk thread, gently sniffing the smell of her fingertips, and said slowly, "Concubine Hui is clever but she was mistaken by cleverness. If she is really Smart, after being offended by Wang Qin that day, you should not say a word, don't shed a single tear, and wait for the emperor to deal with it."
Placing his chin in his heart, he asked curiously, "Why does my lord say that? Whenever a woman is humiliated, don't she have to cry?"
"Yes. The more she was aggrieved and shed tears in front of the emperor, the emperor would think of Concubine Hui's tears when she heard Lian Xin talk about Wang Qin's ravages, and remembered that she was almost offended by Wang Qin that day. As a Man, how can you bear it?"
Tong Xin pursed her lips, as if she couldn't hide her smile: "That's why the young master chose that day when the noble concubine would pass by our palace gate to ridicule him, so he chose such an opportunity. Originally, the servants still thought that it was the empress For those who give marriage and food, such a thing falls on the empress, and it makes her feel frightened, so it will be happy."
Ruyi smiled and shook her head: "The queen is not as restless as Concubine Hui, and only when this matter falls on Concubine Hui, will the emperor anger the queen, and feel that all the right and wrong are caused by the queen's gift of marriage and food, the emperor Only then will the Changchun Palace be left out in the cold."
Shou Xin smiled knowingly, and said in a low voice: "Only in this way can the noble concubine and the queen be brought down, Wang Qin punished, and the young master himself saved, killing three birds with one stone."
Ruyi said coldly: "My original intention was never just to help save Lian Xin, and by the way get rid of Wang Qin's hidden danger, but also to put an end to the rivalry in the palace. Back then, the empress wanted to save me when the rumors arose , asking the emperor to just ground me, actually put me in a place where I can't save myself. In this case, I will punish me with a small punishment, not only to protect myself, but also to prevent people from trampling Yanxi Palace to the end."
Ji Xin nodded secretly: "Only when this muddy water is cleared up, the emperor will believe that the empress has nothing to do with the rumors, and he will be truly at ease."
Ruyi slowly picked out the silk thread to compare the colors, and said with a smile: "Look at this handful of silk thread, there are tens of hundreds of shades of red alone. If you grab it, you can't tell which is carmine and which is coral." Red. You have to put it on the white raw silk to see it at a glance."
Sing Xin smiled knowingly: "So the young master has to leave some room for the emperor to distinguish between colors before making a decision."
Ruyi smiled slightly, and the colorful silk threads slid through her fingertips like flowing water, and they were lightly twisted into a handful, hanging on the red sandalwood shelf, letting it flow down like a fine spring. "It doesn't matter if you're grounded or claustrophobic. Since there are so many rumors outside and they're directed at me, then I'll go with the flow, and avoiding it a little is naturally the best policy."
"But is the young master really never worried? If the young master is grounded, they will naturally let them go outside. In case the young master is subject to their arrangement and schemes, it will be confirmed that the rumor that Meigui gave birth to a monster will disturb the palace. Source, even if the emperor wants to protect you, he will not be able to protect you."
Ruyi twitched her slender fingers slightly, pulling out a strand of bright red and holding it between her snow-white fingers: "They want to arrange such a thing, and it won't take just a day or two. I just need to stay in Yanxi Palace obediently, Then even if they have something to do, they won't do my business anymore. Think about it carefully, it must be their fault that something happened to me, but it must have nothing to do with me if they have something to do. If it were you, would you be willing to take a gamble on such a good thing? "
Qiao Xin pursed her lips and smiled, holding a handful of green silk thread for Ruyi and slowly picking it out: "I don't dare to gamble, I just follow my mother at ease."
Ruyi's thin eyebrows flutter like stretched wings: "It's also thanks to Lian Xin's obedience that he not only reported Wang Qin's promiscuity in the palace and offended Concubine Hui. He also said that he always talked nonsense after drinking, and the rumors came from him." What's more, whether it is true or not, the emperor has already disliked this person in his heart, so he will believe that he did it."
Xin frowned slightly: "The only people who know about Meigui are the emperor and the empress, the young master and Wang Qin. Could it be that the young master has never suspected that it is the queen..."
Ruyi smiled coldly, stretched the silk thread on her fingers, and said solemnly: "Why haven't I ever doubted it? It's just that the queen is not someone I can touch. Regardless of whether the person who uses rumors to harm me is her or not, I will only Can break his arm first!"
"But Lianxin..."
"Lian Xin only wants to get rid of Wang Qin. She is the queen's maidservant and a dowry. She has her parents and family members around. She dare not betray the queen for a while. That's okay, as long as people don't offend me, I will not offend. Let's keep her as a precaution."
On this day, the emperor and the empress took the concubines of the six palaces to pay their respects to the empress dowager.The Empress Dowager tried to comfort Mrs. Yigui, and ordered Fu Jia to bring a mahogany lacquer plate covered with red embroidered velvet from inside. Yun: The Ai family will send you a golden unicorn lock, and I hope you will add an elder brother to the emperor as soon as possible."
Yigui couldn't help but stand up and thank you.
The emperor was also quite happy, saying: "Kirin, full of faith and righteousness, behaves according to the rules, behaves gracefully and gracefully, and is a divine beast for giving children. The gift of the emperor's mother is really unique."
Concubine Hui smiled and stroked the emerald jade tassels on her neckline: "The Empress Dowager's heart must be appreciated by you. In fact, it doesn't matter if you are a princess. As long as the mother and child are safe, don't be as lucky as the nobleman Mei."
The Empress Dowager reached out and touched the newly bloomed clusters of winter jasmine on the table at hand. The golden calyx and the branches are comfortable, which already brought the warm and cool atmosphere of early spring.The smile on the Empress Dowager's lips is also like this: "The Empress has always disliked luxury. Aijia sees that the jewelry used by these concubines is mostly silver and gilded. Aijia gave the nobleman a red gold unicorn lock. Don't feel sorry for being old and confused."
The queen quickly got up and said respectfully: "The emperor's mother is full of heart, how dare my ministers think like this. What's more, Yigui is pregnant, and the emperor's mother loves Yigui, which is equivalent to caring for my concubines."
The queen mother smiled slightly: "The peace and security in the palace is due to the queen's virtue. I heard that the queen made a lot of birth control medicines in the imperial hospital to make the concubines in the harem have more children. It is also intentional. " She turned her head to the emperor and said: "A few days ago was the day when the dragon raised its head on the second day of February. Ai's family ordered people to observe the sky at night and pray for auspiciousness. I wonder if Qin Tianjian will tell the emperor the result?"
The emperor showed some joy, and said: "Qin Tianjian said that the astronomical phenomena are peaceful, especially the female star in the northern sky with a small star at the tail, which is particularly bright for several months. It means that the harem woman is pregnant with a noble baby. It’s also very comforting.”
The Empress Dowager smiled and said: "The female Pleiades are originally shaped like bats, and they are a sign of good fortune and good luck. And only Yigui is the only woman in the harem who is pregnant. It seems that this child is indeed a sign of great fortune."
In this way, Mrs. Yigui was overjoyed, and Concubine Hui curled her lips in disdain, keeping her face cold and silent.The queen said with a look of relief: "In this case, the concubine will ask the queen mother and the emperor for grace. Mrs. Yigui has served the emperor for many years, and her status..."
The emperor smiled heartily and said, "After Lady Yi gives birth, regardless of gender, I will definitely give her the title of concubine, as the head of Jingyang Palace, how about it?"
The queen mother smiled and said: "It's so good. The Ai family also hopes that the concubines in the harem will have more children, so that they can spread their branches and leaves for the royal family."
After exchanging pleasantries like this, the Empress Dowager specially instructed Mrs. Yigui to protect her pregnancy, and they also left.
Just after leaving the gate of Cining Palace, the emperor said to Ruyi in a low voice: "Yesterday Jiangnan paid tribute to some good tea, and I gave it to you. While you are free now, how about you cook tea for me to taste?"
Ruyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled slightly: "I am not afraid that the emperor will not come to taste tea, but you have not been to the Changchun Palace for a few days. A few days ago was the first day of February, and you were supposed to spend the night in the Queen's Palace, but it was just Go and sit for a while and then go back."
The emperor was about to speak when he heard the empress come up quickly and greeted An Dao: "All blessings, Your Majesty."
The emperor's smile faded, and he said lightly: "The spring is cold, the empress is not going back to her palace?"
The queen was quite embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, you haven't been to the concubine's palace for many days. The concubine is ignorant, I wonder if the emperor blames the concubine for Lian Xin being abused by Wang Qin?"
Lian Xin followed the queen, knelt down quickly and said: "The emperor is wise, the servants suffer all these sufferings because of their own fate, and the servants dare not tell the queen that she is worried. Only after Wang Qin's accident did the queen know the sufferings of the slaves, I felt sorry for myself, and I even gave medicine to my servant, and my servant was very grateful. So Wang Qin's fact is that this servant's own life is suffering, so don't do the empress's business!"
The emperor looked at the empress with a more warm expression, and he said gently: "Empress, you were just kind at the beginning, sympathizing with the palace people's loneliness, but you failed to observe them well. Lian Xin has been by your side for many years, and if you neglected it for a while, not only It caused Lianxin to suffer a lot, and the unhealthy trend in the palace also caused it. I can't help but think that this is the Queen's fault."
The queen stood at the air outlet, and the cold wind passing through the aisle disturbed her delicately combed hair. A few strands of dark green silk brushed against her bloodless face, like a cold lotus withered in early autumn.
The queen bowed and blessed her, and turned the cold tears in her eyes into self-sustained calmness: "It is true that the concubine was negligent, and the concubine will face the wall and think about it, and reflect on herself again and again." She knelt down: "Then, the concubine will send you respectfully The emperor."
After drinking tea at Ruyi's place, the emperor returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to handle government affairs.Ruyi has nothing to do, so she takes the silk thread dyed with fragrance and embroiders the sky and spring colors one by one.
A Ruo came in with a freshly lit incense stick in her hand and said, "My lord also embroidered when she fell out of favor, but now that she is in favor, it's not enough to be busy with the emperor, why do you start embroidering again?"
Ruyi smiled slightly, picked up the needle and thread, and said, "When you lose favor, you must teach yourself to be calm, and when you are favored, you must also warn yourself not to be impetuous. Embroidery is like this. One wrong eye can ruin the whole situation; If a needle is slanted, I am afraid that I will be injured. Therefore, if you are tempted and patient, you must not miss a single step."
A Ruo smiled thoughtfully, took a baked lotus flower cake and put it in the oven, covered it with a mica partition to separate the cake from the charcoal fire, and dripped a drop or two of honey in the form of dew: " Now that it is spring, the weather is dry, and when you burn incense, add honey, which can clear away heat and moisten dryness, do you think it is good?"
"Now that your mind is quieter and your actions are more appropriate, there is nothing wrong with it." Ruyi smiled slightly, and after thinking about it, she said, "Mr. Yigui likes to burn sandalwood after she is pregnant. Although I talked about sandalwood this morning Okay, but after burning incense, I always feel dry and hot, and she has a gluttonous sweet tooth. I remember that there is acacia flower honey prepared last year in the small kitchen. It is the best for clearing away heat and cooling blood. You can give me some later Go give it to her."
A Ruo smiled and said: "It's nothing else. The pagoda tree honey was specially sent to the suburbs of Beijing to find a large pagoda tree forest last year, and the white and clean blooming flowers were picked and cleaned, and an appropriate amount of young mulberry leaves was added. Sophora japonica dew that was steamed. The maidservant remembers that Sophora japonica is the most delicate, and the flowers plucked from hundreds of trees could not withstand the steaming. In the end, only two small urns of Sophora japonica dew were obtained, and then wild flowers from Changbai Mountain were used. The honey in the hive has been smelted, and it is only because the little master had blood fever in the past, so he made it so painstakingly. It’s all that idea, and the little master still wants to give it away.”
Ruyi said angrily: "Ren Yigui is the emperor's darling now, and even the queen mother thinks highly of her. I also thought that if Mrs. Yigui's pregnancy is safe this time, the emperor will also be relieved of the knot that Mrs. Mei gave birth to last time." , and that is good."
A Ruo said with a smile: "What's so good about other people being pregnant. In the past, Mrs. Yi was not favored at all, but now the emperor is so flattering when she is pregnant. If the young master also takes advantage of the prosperity of the holy family now, and quickly conceives a child, that is true." It really makes the emperor happy. I don't know how the emperor will hold love like an eyeball, and it's too late."
Ruyi smiled and cast a glance at her: "I love talking nonsense even more."
Just as he was talking, the little maid Luhen came in with a soup and said: "The medicine that has just been brewed, my master, drink it quickly."
Ruyi sniffed lightly, frowned, and said, "You'll know the smell once you smell it, it's the smell of birth control medicine."
A Ruo took a few sweet and sour fruits and put them in Ruyi's hand, and said in a good voice: "This anti-birth medicine is for inducing pregnancy, no matter how bitter it is, we have to drink it. Look, the servant even has carved kumquats and candied milk. The pears are all ready, so let’s drink it quickly, my lord.”
Ruyi took the bowl and drank it with her face up, rinsed her mouth with clear water, quickly took the candied fruit and put it in her mouth for a while, then said: "Drinking this fertility medicine in a bowl, even the bottom of the tongue is bitter. , I really don’t know when I will get pregnant?”
A Ruo said with a smile: "As long as the emperor comes often, that kind of luck will come sooner or later. The young master drank the medicine, let's go to Jingyang Palace to get pregnant. I heard that although Concubine Hui is dissatisfied with the sky, she said that Yigui is a nobleman. She is pregnant, but in order to get pregnant, she often goes to Jingyang Palace."
Ruyi helped A Ruo's hand and said with a smile: "In this case, you can take the urn of locust tree nectar and accompany me to Jingyang Palace."
Jingyang Palace is just behind Yanxi Palace and Yonghe Palace. Ruyi saw the beautiful sky, so she led the palace people to walk there.Because Mrs. Yigui was pregnant, the Jingyang Palace was specially refurbished. When I walked outside the palace wall, I saw the vermilion palace wall standing upright, and even the glazed tiles looked as blue as clean.
Ruyi took a closer look and said, "It's such a festive color. This wall is painted in a new color, it seems to be particularly bright."
The little eunuch who greeted him smiled brightly: "No, the queen ordered that the color should be festive, which is auspicious." Ruyi held A Ruo's hand and entered the rich gates, only to see the colorful railings, painted red and covered with gold , Xianhua is abnormal.
Ruyi nodded secretly and said: "Sure enough, Mrs. Yigui is pregnant, and Jingyang Palace is different from the past." She turned her head and asked the little eunuch, "What is Mrs. Yigui doing at this time?"
The little eunuch said: "The nobleman is tired, and he is resting in the Nuan Pavilion at the moment. Please, Concubine Xian."
Ruyi was about to enter the main hall, when she suddenly heard a frightened scream from inside, it was Yigui's voice.
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