Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Volatility
The smell of aloes from the palace was heavy in the nostrils, Ruyi was slightly taken aback, and before she had time to wake up, she pressed them firmly down: "Yong Lian is a descendant of the main palace, so it is reasonable for the emperor to make him the crown prince." .”
The emperor took a sip of the porridge, and unconsciously said, "I have known since I was a child that I am not a concubine, but a child of a concubine has a different status. Even now that I am the emperor, I still feel shocked and wronged when I dream back in the middle of the night. Since the founding of our dynasty, from Lord Shunzhi, Lord Kangxi, and the first emperor to me, they are all sons of concubine. I really want my son to be the son of legitimate son of concubine. His status is precious and impeccable. Just treat it as my own , to fulfill a childhood wish."
Ruyi was filled with emotions when he heard him, and she could tell the loss and melancholy in the emperor's words.The emperor is such a sensitive person, with a lot of thoughts by nature, and all kinds of sad shortcomings in his childhood life, even if he is now rich, he cannot make up for it.That's why he cared so much, was so persistent, and wanted to fulfill his little wish back then.
Then, how could she go against his thoughts.She bent down, lay on the emperor's lap, and said softly: "What the emperor wants to do, then he must do it. It is good for the second elder brother, and it is also to appease the emperor's own mind."
The emperor caressed her newly combed blue hair, and said slowly: "Ruyi, I know that you love elder brother, and elder brother strives for pride, but he is not your own after all. Concubine Zhe's status cannot be compared with that of empress. Although the third elder brother is also cute, but he is always stupid. He was raised too squeamish, and he can only be a wealthy and idle clan in the future. Whether Yigui's birth is a princess or an elder brother, I don't even want to think about it. I just hope their mother and child are safe."
Ruyi answered "yes" in a low voice, just quietly laying on his knees, listening to his leisurely and long breathing, and feeling the rush of his thoughts.
The emperor whispered in her ear: "I know it's unfair, you and I don't have children yet. But I really don't know how to say it, let you understand my wish for so many years."
Ruyi turned over the emperor's hand, put it on her cheek, and said softly, "Your Majesty, all my concubines understand. After I have a child with you, all I want is for him to be prosperous and safe for the rest of his life."
The emperor's eyes were filled with wave-like emotion and emotion, like meteors passing across the deep blue sky, with such bright light and shadow: "Ruyi, thank you for understanding me so well. I also know that this is wronging you, but sometimes Where the name is, I have to feel wronged."
Ruyi nodded and said, "Will the emperor tell the queen about the establishment of a crown prince? If the queen knows, she will be very happy."
The emperor shook his head and said: "When Lord Kangxi was here, it was because he announced the crown prince too early that made the princes want to seize the throne. Like the previous emperor, I will hide the name of the prince behind an upright plaque and wait for me for a hundred years. Afterwards, the officials will naturally follow this to establish the crown prince. This will also prevent the crown prince from being arrogant and the mother's family from monopolizing power. Therefore, I don't plan to tell the queen, Ruyi, and you don't want to mention it to anyone."
Ruyi looked into the emperor's eyes, nodded, and said, "The courtiers will remember what the emperor said. But there is one thing, the courtiers have to ask the emperor. Wang Qin is dead, can the people who serve the emperor be handy now? Don't you want to choose some good ones from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to serve?"
The emperor took a sip of porridge with some side dishes and said, "Li Yu is careful in everything, and he is modest and not arrogant. I plan to see him for another two months, and then I will give him the position of deputy chief eunuch."
Ruyi said softly: "Li Yuren is clever and loyal, but he is young, the emperor has to practice hard before he can be reused."
The emperor gave a "hmm" and heard voices from outside, and asked, "Who is there?"
Ruyi looked up and said, "It's the fresh fish and shrimp sent to Mrs. Yigui by the imperial dining room. They were all delivered early in the morning and cooked by themselves in the small kitchen."
The emperor said: "The imperial doctor said that after pregnancy, you should eat more fish and shrimp. I remember that Meigui liked it very much at that time. I went to see Yigui yesterday and found that she always complained of dizziness and headaches these days, and restless nights." , I don’t know what’s going on, I’m very worried.”
Ruyi said: "The imperial physician has already visited and said that people who are pregnant for the first time will indeed be like this. And because Mrs. Yigui can't sleep at night, there are ulcers on her mouth. Fortunately, the imperial physician has already prescribed a decoction that is refreshing. Your servant My concubine will tell the small kitchen to use more chrysanthemum tea and mung bean soup, hoping that Mrs. Yi will feel more comfortable after taking it."
The emperor frowned and said: "When Lady Mei was pregnant, she also had a lot of anger and ulcers in her mouth. Now that I see Lady Yi, I really have lingering fears. Now the Queen has no time for a clone. Ruyi, everything needs to be taken care of by you."
Ruyi said with a smile: "Since the emperor is at ease, since Mr. Yigui lives in Yanxi Palace, he can rest assured that his concubines will be at ease."
The emperor took a long sniff leisurely: "Of course I don't worry. It's like every time I smell the aloe incense that is only found in your palace, I feel calm and clear."
Ruyi smiled slightly: "That is also the emperor's permission, and it is only allowed to be used by courtiers and concubines."
After the meal, the emperor got up and went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.Ruyi thought about the prince, and also thought about Yigui's body, with mixed feelings.Just as she was thinking about it, Hailan came over in a hurry and said, "Sister, I just came from Mrs. Yigui, and it seems that something is wrong. Go over and have a look."
Ruyi hurriedly got up, ordered the imperial physician repeatedly, and immediately followed Hailan to Dongnuange.Because Mrs. Yigui was always afraid of the cold, even though it was March, there was still a charcoal basin heater in her hall.As soon as Ruyi brought Hailan in, she felt the warmth rushing over her head and face, and she felt a layer of sweat unknowingly.
Yigui was wrapped in a dark purple brocade woven flower quilt, and lay on the bed weakly, as if breathing was a bit difficult, and her face also turned dark purple, just like the brocade quilt.Sandalwood was burned in the hall, and even a handful of bergamot was thrown in the charcoal basin. After being heated by the heater, all kinds of aromas were woven together. The incense was fragrant, but it made people smell a little cloudy and stuffy.
Ruyi hurriedly ordered: "The fragrance inside is too strong, quickly open the window to let the nobleman breathe."
Yigui hugged the quilt tightly, shrank into the bed and said, "Concubine Xian, don't open the window, someone is going to kill me!"
Ruyi hurriedly laughed and said, "My good sister, this is in the Palace of Yanxi Palace, no one dares to harm you!" She stretched out her hand to touch Yi Guiren's face, her face was hot, and she was sweating profusely. She hurriedly took out the silk and wiped it lightly for Mrs. Yi, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, tell me, did you have a nightmare just now?"
Yigui huddled at the corner of the bed in fear, pointed to the ground in panic and said, "There are so many snakes, so many snakes want to bite me!"
Hailan hurriedly took off a sachet hanging from the hook of the silver tent, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, there are many sachets hanging in Yanxi Palace to repel snakes, as soon as the snake smells the smell, it will run away, you can live in peace that is."
Hailan looked at Yigui, and said worriedly: "Yigui seems to have a fever, you go and get some hot water for you to drink." She looked at the ulcer at the corner of Yigui's mouth, which seemed to be bigger than yesterday, Quickly said: "Did you drink all the medicines prescribed by the imperial physician for clearing away heat and eliminating fire? Why does the gash on your mouth grow even worse?"
Huanxin, who was serving Mr. Yi, said: "As for Mr. Huihai, my master ate some fish and shrimp for dinner last night. It was made from hair. It is probably because of this that the thing on his mouth grew bigger. The servant also I persuaded, but the little master said that eating more fish and shrimp can make the child in the belly smart, so I would rather have some ulcers."
Hailan said helplessly: "That's all. You should follow my instructions and replace the tea you usually take with Yigui with fetal chrysanthemum tea."
While talking, Imperial Physician Xu arrived, and Ruyi hurriedly asked Imperial Physician Xu to check Yigui's pulse.Imperial Physician Xu just shook his head: "My lord has been having a lot of nightmares these past few days, hasn't he?"
Yigui nodded weakly: "Since the last time I met a snake on the day of Waking of Insects, I have dreamed back at midnight, and I am often uneasy."
Imperial Physician Xu understood: "Once you wake up, you will feel hot all over, weak and weak, with palpitations, and trembling all over due to nightmares, and faint pain in your abdomen. Do you have such symptoms?"
A gleam of light flashed in Yigui's eyes: "The imperial physician has hit everything. Although I feel so uneasy every night and morning, I feel better during the day. Dare I ask the imperial physician, why am I like this?"
Doctor Xu stroked his beard and said slowly: "The young master was pregnant for the first time, and she was frightened when she was pregnant for three months, which caused her heart palpitations and disturbance. If you are uneasy, my internal fire will rise and the corners of my mouth will ulcerate. I can prescribe some soothing decoctions and external application of medicine for ulcers, as long as you take them on time, you should be fine."
Hailan was still a little worried: "But Mrs. Yigui has abdominal pain?"
Imperial Physician Xu waved his hand and said: "When you are pregnant, you will indeed have a faint abdominal pain. It's because the baby in the womb is growing slowly and it involves the mother's body. It doesn't matter."
Ruyi hurriedly asked: "Mr. Yigui always has a fever, is it okay?"
Imperial Physician Xu said with a smile: "It's common to have body heat during pregnancy. I don't believe that I can put a hand on Yigui at any time, and it will definitely be hotter than everyone else at any time. So when some women are just pregnant, they often think that I had a cold and a fever, and I took some decoction by mistake, so I lost my child. In fact, as long as I see a doctor, everything will be fine."
Ruyi couldn't help laughing, and also expressed a bit of emotion: "Yes, it is inevitable that two prenatal bodies like Bengong and Hailan are not thoughtful to take care of Yigui, and I would like to thank Imperial Physician Xu for pointing it out. "
Lady Yi hurriedly said: "With Concubine Xian here, the concubine's heart is much more secure. If she stays in Jingyang Palace, then she will be really afraid."
Hailan patted her hand and said, "I passed by Jingyang Palace a few days ago, and I saw that it was being redecorated inside. Probably because I was afraid that snakes and insects would have stayed there, and you would be afraid to live there. When everything is decorated, you will After Ping'an gave birth to a child, you can live in Jingyang Palace with peace of mind and be your master."
Mrs. Yi was slightly startled, stroked her stomach and said with a smile: "How dare I expect to be the lord of the first palace. When I was in the hidden residence, I was just a little maid beside the empress. It is already a special favor from God to be able to serve the emperor." Right now. Now I just hope that I can sleep soundly and peacefully, and that the child will be born safely in the future."
Imperial Physician Xu prepared the prescription beside him, and said, "I would like to inform you, nobleman, that because your nobleman is pregnant, I dare not prescribe too strong medicine, so as not to damage the fetus. Therefore, tranquilizing decoction is also good, it can be used externally to treat mouth ulcers." Whether it is medicine or not, the properties of the medicine are extremely mild, and the priority is to protect the health of the noble and the fetus, and the effect will be slower, but please don't be anxious, noble."
Yigui's smile is as gentle as a pink cherry blossom on the branch of Sanchun: "The imperial physician can put me and the fetus in my womb as the most important thing, so how can I blame the imperial physician?"
In this way, Ruyi and Hailan chatted with Yigui until lunch time.Mrs. Yigui was very enthusiastic, so she simply took Ruyi and Hailan to have dinner together.The two couldn't refuse, so they sat down together.
Because Yigui was pregnant, all the dishes were delivered with fresh ingredients from the imperial dining room, and then cooked by Yigui's own cook in the small kitchen of Yanxi Palace.The lunch delivered on this day includes roasted melon tenderloin, pipa prawns, hydrangea scallops, fried pearl duck, fish fillets with milk sauce, sweet-scented osmanthus fish sticks, eight-treasure chicken, sesame oil meal paste, braised fish bones, fresh mushrooms and cabbage hearts, Jade shoots and bracken, simmered deer tendon in a casserole, diced shrimp stuffed with arhats, roasted fish balls with golden legs and pheasant chicken soup.
Ruyi looked at the dazzling array of dishes, and smiled unconsciously: "No wonder sister, the ulcer on the corner of your mouth heals so slowly. You eat so many fish and shrimp every meal, and you hurt your mouth when you are full of appetite."
Lady Yi said embarrassingly: "Concubine Xian doesn't know something, concubines don't like the smell of fish and shrimp, but the empress has been eating a lot when she was pregnant, and never left, so the second elder brother is so smart. And pure concubine When the empress was pregnant, she always thought it was fishy and ate less, so that the third elder brother..."
Mrs. Yigui didn't say any more, but speaking of it, this is really a heart trouble for the pure concubine.The third elder brother is spoiled and spoiled. He learns to walk slower than other children, and also learns to speak. Although he is round and round-headed and very cute, he is indeed not as smart as the eldest brother and the second elder brother.For this reason, the emperor even neglected the pure concubine a lot, and kept seldom going to her Zhongcui Palace, which made Wanyue even less favored.It is said that Xiuyue, who originally lived in Jingyang Palace with Yigui, hardly saw the emperor because he moved to Zhongcui Palace.
If such a child is born, not only will the mother not be as expensive as the child, but it will also be a lifelong drag.
Thinking of it this way, each other was also quite depressed.On the contrary, Mrs. Yigui has a very good appetite, and she eats a lot in a row, but she is also happy.
After a few days of silence, the emperor often stayed in the Changchun Palace because he was concerned about Yonglian's illness, so he inevitably neglected the Yanxi Palace.Since Ruyi knew what the emperor was thinking, she just took care of Yigui with peace of mind and didn't want to think otherwise.
That night Yonghuang stayed in Ruyi's room after school and had dinner together.Ruyi was already elegant and good at brush and ink, and she was very pleased to see that Yonghuang's calligraphy improved a lot, so she personally watched him practice calligraphy and recite.
Yonghuang recited what he had learned today to Ruyi, and suddenly felt a little depressed: "Mother, my son is studying hard in the minister's study every day, and I only hope that when Huang Ama comes to ask questions, he can ask Huang Ama for help." Happy. But, but, Huang Ama has not come to ask her son about his homework for many days."
Ruyi stroked his forehead with a smile and said, "Then why don't you study hard?"
Yong Huang shook his head and said: "That's not true either. Whether Huang Ama asks or not, my son will study hard."
Ruyi smiled lovingly: "That's it. It doesn't matter whether others ask or not, just do your own thing well. Because you are living for yourself and striving for yourself, not just for others."
Yong Huang seemed to understand a little bit, and nodded vigorously: "My son understands."
Ruyi smiled slightly, took his hand and said, "However, it's better to be able to please others besides your own care. Mother remembers that Huang Ama asked you a few days ago if you were reading "Historical Records"? You Did you say you've read it?"
Yong Huang said: "Yes, I have learned most of it."
"That's good. Mother will teach you an imperial poem of your Huang Ama's. You should memorize it and recite it well. When one day sees your Huang Ama recite it to him, he will be very happy."
Yong Huang immediately laughed and said: "Then mother, hurry up and teach your son."
Ruyi took his hand and took the pen, and wrote together with his hand: ""
Yong Huang asked curiously: "Mother, whose poem is this?"
Ruyi had a sweet smile on her face unconsciously: "It's your Huang Ama who wrote the poem after reading "Xiang Yu Ji". Your Huang Ama lamented that Xiang Yu was a hero at the end of his life and committed suicide in Wujiang, so she wrote this poem. Did you read it?" If "Historical Records" can familiarize you with your imperial poems, Huang Ama will definitely be very happy."
Yong Huang nodded solemnly, and he said it again, and finally said: "Mother, my son has been with you for many days, and now I know that mother can write. My son's mother can't even read."
Ruyi hissed lightly, and took a piece of Ning silk material with lake blue and dark Ruyi cloud patterns and sewed it up: "If you have any skills, don't take them out all at once. Others don't know, maybe one day it will be your sidekick." It’s a skill of the body. If everything is shown to others, it won’t be obvious to others.”
Yong Huang's eyeballs turned cleverly: "My son understands." He looked at the material in Ruyi's hands and asked, "It's already dark, why is mother still sewing clothes? It hurt my eyes to look carefully."
Ruyi smiled and said: "My good boy, go and recite your poems. The weather is getting warmer, and mother wants to sew a thinner clothes for you. Those slaves have too thick hands and feet, and the stitches are left on the back of the clothes. I’m afraid that it will make you uncomfortable. My mother will make it herself, and she will pay special attention to stuffing all the stitches into the interlayer, so that you can wear it comfortably.”
Yong Huang's face was full of gratitude, with thin tears in his eyes: "Mother treats her son so well..."
Ruyi's smile is gentle and loving: "A mother should treat her son well, shouldn't she? Be good, go and read your book."
Yong Huang sat at the side and recited silently, Ruyi took the needle and thread and began to sew slowly, the candlelight was flickering, the slender branches and leaves of peach blossoms were reflected on the screen window, and the fragrance of the burning flowers and Ye Zhenzhen could be faintly smelled.
The mother and son were facing each other warmly, when suddenly there was a loud noise outside, and Huan Xin, who was beside Mrs. Yigui, rushed in with a bloodless face, crying, "Concubine Xian, it's not good, it's not good! Our nobleman is very popular! "
Ruyi shuddered suddenly, her heart fell straight down, as if she had fallen into a bottomless abyss.She heard her own voice change: "how could this be?"
Huanxin was trembling all over, as if she was sifting chaff, she had to lean against the wall to stand firm: "I don't know. After dinner, the young master started to have abdominal pain, because the young master is only four months pregnant, and she often has abdominal pain I thought it was nothing serious. But tonight the abdominal pain came on too quickly, and I saw Dahong immediately after the onset of the attack."
"Then what about the imperial physician? Have you gone to ask for it?"
Huanxin said with a crying voice: "I have already gone to invite you, the empress should go and have a look."
Ruyi instinctively put down the things in her hand, ran a few steps outside, turned around and remembered that Yonghuang was still there, and hurriedly said: "Yonghuang, no matter what happens or what noise you hear, you are not allowed to go to Mrs. Yi's place." ,understand?"
When she rushed into Mrs. Yigui's room, the room was already filled with the smell of blood.Yigui was curled up in the bed and passed out.Ruyi was just about to hug her body and call her, when the blanket was warm with her hand, her heart instantly became cold, as if a large piece of ice had been forced into it, and she couldn't help shivering because of the cold Come.She hesitated for a moment before she dared to lift her hands from the mattress.
Her entire palm was covered with hot and fishy blood.
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