Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Obtaining a Son (Part 1)
This night's change soon became the laughing stock of the palace.When Jin Yuyan saw Hailan, she couldn't help asking her in a low voice: "When the emperor came to your place last night, was he very angry?"
Hai Lan hurriedly laughed and said: "Master Jiagui has always known me, I didn't even dare to raise my head when I saw the emperor, how dare I look at the emperor's face."
Yuyan smiled mysteriously: "Did the emperor talk to you to relieve boredom? You are not bad. Since living in Yanxi Palace, the emperor has visited Concubine Xian, and he has always stopped by to see you a few times."
Hailan's expression was humble and cautious, with the timid nervousness after being humiliated last time: "My sister still doesn't know me? You are clumsy, and the emperor doesn't talk to me much. It's just the same as usual."
Yuyan seemed not to believe it, her charming and clear phoenix eyes raised her desire to fly: "It's really the same as usual?"
Hailan's expression seemed honest and credible: "Really."
Yuyan seemed a little discouraged, she took Yigui's hand and left boringly.
After returning, Hai Lan truthfully told Ruyi what she had seen today. Ruyi just embroidered an identical embroidery on a sandalwood embroidery frame with her head down, compared to Li Zhaodao's "Traveling in the Spring Mountains" in the Tang Dynasty.
Hai Lan said: "It's such a mess outside, everyone is eager to see my sister's jokes, why is my sister so calm and embroidering this?"
Ruyi smiled lightly and said, "It's so easy for someone to find out this picture, if you don't calm down and embroider it, why don't you go outside to let people see right and wrong?"
Hailan looked at the scroll carefully and said: "This color painting is precipitous, with winding stone steps. The vines are lingering among the trees, and pedestrians ride up the mountain. Among the majestic mountains, the trees and vines blind people's eyes, which always makes people feel a kind of Mountains and rivers are full of doubts and no way out."
Ruyi stretched out her hand to stroke her drooping temple hair: "It's fine to paint, I like the poems under the picture scroll best." Ruyi whispered, "The cliffs are overhanging and confusing, and the trees are dark and dark. The clouds and light The shadows of the mist are gone, why not rest your shoulders when you are tired. Look up and drink and talk about Lun Yi, and Ju Poping's palms are also at ease."
Hai Lan's eyes were clear, and she already had a somewhat understanding smile: "Jupo Ping's palm is also safe. Could it be that my sister already has a solution?"
Ruyi embroidered a few stitches, then stopped to take the silk thread and compared it with the dark green and emerald colors on the scroll, choosing one by one.Hailan laughed and said, "Dozens of greens are needed to embroider a single tree on this mountain peak, isn't my sister afraid of being dazzled?"
Ruyi pointed to the budding peach blossoms in the courtyard: "Look at the pink buds, which reflect the green beaded curtains of the lake, don't they look like random flowers that are gradually becoming charming? In this case, we just need to be calm and guard ourselves. will get lost."
Hailan didn't say much, she washed her hands in the copper basin, took a silver needle and said, "Since this is the case, my younger sister is afraid of being blinded by flowers outside, so let's embroider with my older sister."
The days of indulging in the fluttering of silk threads are quiet and swift.It seems to be silk threads of various colors that cannot be clearly sorted out on the embroidery frame, bright green, emerald green, deep green, light yellow, red purple, fu powder, shrimp green, fu red... Slowly selected and passed through the holes of the silver needles, one by one. It was embroidered on the snow-white silk ground, as if the identity was clear, and the mind was gradually settled down.
After Zi Ruyi's birthday, the emperor did not set foot in Yanxi Palace for a whole month.The green-headed license plates of the six palaces are routinely flipped between fingers, Xianfu Palace, Yonghe Palace, Qixiang Palace, Changchun Palace, Zhongcui Palace, and Jingyang Palace, as if the emperor brought the spring spirit wherever he went.Only in Yanxi Palace, even if there are a few peach blossoms in the courtyard, they are thin and timid cold carmine.
The emperor suddenly turned Yanxi Palace cold, and Ruyi and Hailan's life gradually became difficult.At first, the materials for the clothes they should have in the spring were not delivered, so they had to pick out the clothes from the old year.Fortunately, the queen was sympathetic, and gave some rewards, so she reluctantly helped make up for it.It's just that she and Hailan's clothes are available, and the servants don't take care of them, so there are inevitably complaints.Gradually, the food delivered by the imperial dining room was no longer considered fresh.There are no modern dishes, and several main dishes are boiled and re-cooked. If they are delivered today and not eaten, they will still be the same dish tomorrow.Ruyi can't report everything to the queen, which is not only a joke, but also offends the imperial dining room, so she has to take out money to supplement the meals in the small kitchen, but everything is not well thought out.Gradually, even the moon silver sent was not complete.Ah Ruo counted the wrong amount, so she yelled at Qin Li, the eunuch in charge of the House of Internal Affairs, "Why don't you yell because our money is wrong?"
Qin Li is not very old, but he has been working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time. He sneered and said: "There are two young masters living in the Palace of Yanxi Palace, and the expenses are high. When the next year, it is the Ministry of Internal Affairs who use this and that. I took out the extra money from my pocket. Now that it’s spring, don’t you want to make up the money? I’ve done the calculations. According to this method of deducting the monthly silver, the amount owed by Yanxi Palace should be around this year next year. It's time to pay off."
A Ruo was shaking with anger, pointing at his nose and cursing: "When will the Palace of Yanxi Palace want this or that money owed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs? What about the IOU? What about the money? Let me see them all!"
Qin Li shook his head and said with a smile: "How can the master not pay back the money owed to the slave? What's more, it's the young master's wife. It's a joke to say that it is not money to take the slave's money like this."
Seeing him swaggering away, Ah Ruo was too angry to speak.After entering the Nuan Pavilion, seeing Ruyi only focused on embroidering the "Picture of Journey in the Spring Mountains", she became more and more annoyed, her eyes turned red and she said, "Listen, my lord, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are just humiliating us like this!"
Ruyi calmly straightened the silk thread, and said: "I have wronged you. I don't have enough money, so I will send some of my old clothes to exchange for some money. If it is not enough, we will work harder and do more embroidery work for Xiaofuzi and the others to give away." Just go out and exchange money."
Ah Ruo thought for a while and said, "Where do you not use silver in the palace? The servant thinks, instead of being so difficult and depending on people's faces, the young master should discuss it with his mother's family..."
Before she finished speaking, Ruyi's expression darkened: "It's enough to know the embarrassing things in the palace. Do you still have to tell your natal family to make them worry? Besides, the Ulanala family is no better than before. They still count on me. How can I make them worry?"
Ah Ruo was so choked that she couldn't say a word, so she could only say embarrassingly: "Your maidservant is thinking, after all, it is the flesh and blood of the closest relative..."
Ruyi waved her hand and said, "It's because of my close relatives that I can't drag them down."
Ah Ruo was speechless, so she had to hold back her anger.Ruyi's hands holding the silver needles were soaked in cold sweat and became astringent, so she simply threw away the embroidery stand to wash her hands.
It was dusk at that time, the slanting light in the courtyard slanted into the warm pavilion, and the light was obscured by the heavy embroidered curtains, making it a bit dimmer.The afterglow of the setting sun was a thin golden red. After looking at it for a long time, it didn't have the warmth brought by the warm color, but it was cold like falling in the autumn coolness.Even the swallows flying in mid-air seemed to have their wings wet by Yehan, and they couldn't fly high.For no reason, she thought of a poem she had learned when she was a child, but she had completely forgotten the previous ones, only one line she remembered clearly: .
But Xin didn't say a word, she held two white sarongs and placed the cloisonné enamel table lamp beside the embroidery stand, and quietly waited on her: "My lord, this servant just tidied up her clothes and found a few pieces of old year's material. It's out of fashion, but the material is very good, why don't you cut it first and make spring shirts for the servants, so as to avoid troubles in the palace."
Ruyi said: "Alright. It's just that I told you something else, have you done it?"
Pin Xin said softly: "Brother, the slaves know that those nuns are unreliable, so according to the order of the young master, they will quietly send some food every few days, avoiding people and giving it to the elder brother."
"That's good. That's all I can take care of." Ruyi wiped her hands with clear water, and said helplessly, "It turned out that I was reckless, and my military actions were dangerous, and I hurt you."
Qiao Xin smiled faintly: "In this palace, ups and downs are also common. Others look down on us, it's just that they don't have enough eyesight."
Ruyi shook her head, feeling quite emotional: "It's fine for others, but Ah Ruo is so impatient..."
The two of them were talking, when Sanbao opened the curtain and came in, "My lord, I just met Li Yu on the long street outside, and he was about to deliver an edict, which is quite a new thing."
Ruyi said, "What?"
Sanbao said: "For some reason, the emperor had a whim, and said that he had informed the empress dowager that he wanted to reward the empress dowagers left behind by the late emperor."
Ruyi barely reacted, so she asked, "Be more careful, what is it?"
Sanbao didn't want Ruyi to be so interested, so he said in detail: "The emperor went to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors a few days ago, and when he came back, he was very sad, and told the queen mother that he had not done his filial piety well. The queen mother comforted the emperor a few words, and the emperor said, Raising the empress dowager with the world has increased the monthly silver allowances of the concubines and concubines of the Shoukang Palace. In addition, the emperor also wants to posthumously enshrine the late emperor's concubines and move them into the concubine's mausoleum to be with the late emperor."
The boulder that Ruyi had been pressing on her heart for dozens of days suddenly scattered like sand and loosened.She couldn't help but smile knowingly: "The late emperor passed away, so naturally he couldn't be without someone to accompany him to serve him underground. There were too few people buried with him in the concubine's mausoleum, and they didn't look good. Naturally, the empress dowager would not refuse such filial piety from the emperor. "
Sanbao said with a smile: "The young master has a vision, and the queen mother also said so. So first the late Emperor Dunsu's noble concubine was buried in the Tailing Mausoleum, and then the nobles who served in the Old Summer Palace and Rehe Palace, and often died. All the official daughters who lived, agreed to or served the late emperor were posthumously made concubines and moved to Tailing to accompany them."
Silent joy flooded Ruyi's heart, gradually fascinated her eyes and turned into thin tears.Xing Xin hurriedly handed over the silk, and said at the opportunity: "My little master's eyes are tired from embroidering, so let's take a rest. Sanbao, you can go down too."
Sanbao agreed to retreat, and Ruyi couldn't help crying with joy: "The emperor did this, and he still did it." The tears were hot, falling from the bottom of his eyes to his cheeks, and the warm moistness reminded the emperor of his care and love. Filial piety.Her joy was mixed with sadness and relief.For so many years, the emperor kept taboo about his own life experience, why didn't he also remember his biological mother in his heart like ordinary people?She knew in her heart that at this point, even if her identity was unknown, having a posthumous title would finally settle one of the emperor's concerns.Over the years, his thoughts have gradually become hers.Even if she was thinking about honor and favor, and about how to settle down, she was extremely relieved at the moment.
Xin Xin smiled, and couldn't help but shed tears of relief: "My lord, the emperor has complied with your wishes. The emperor...he will come soon."
However, the emperor did not come to Yanxi Palace.Although there were always times when we saw her in daily court meetings, the emperor only spoke a few words to her lightly, no different from other people.Although Ruyi was anxious, she didn't know why.Called Li Yu several times to ask questions, even though he was as smart as Li Yu, he couldn't tell why.It is useless for Ruyi to know that there is no need to be anxious, so she can only barely survive.I just vaguely heard that the emperor hired a new court lady as a promise, and she has already sealed the show and promised to live in the Jingyang Palace of the Yigui.Even so, Mei Changzai was still favored, even though the emperor had a newcomer, he couldn't take away her favor.Ruyi felt a little sad when she heard such things in her heart.She was only nineteen years old, and when she was in her prime, other people could only watch the emperor's favor, thanking Tumi for the rest of the spring.The only consolation in ordinary days is Hailan, who often comes to keep her company, from morning to night, and never gets tired of it.Next, it is Chun Concubine, although her favor is also weak, but at least she has an elder brother who can help Ruyi overtly and secretly.
It was already in May when I saw the emperor again, and Ruyi clearly remembered that it was lightly raining that day, the color of the rain was green, and I could faintly smell the fragrance of tea in the courtyard in the rain .Ruyi sighed, most of the "Spring Mountain Journey Picture" in her hand was embroidered, and she was still confused in the shadow of the mountains, but the spring was coming to an end.
It was Li Yu, who was in front of the emperor, who came to deliver the decree. He slapped Qian'er and said happily: "Here is the emperor's oral order, and I ask the concubine Xian to meet you in the empress's palace as soon as possible."
Ruyi hurriedly stood up and said, "At this time, hurry up and pass it on to the palace, does Eunuch Li know what's going on?"
Li Yu hurriedly said: "The slave doesn't know either. It's just that the prince and the slave came out together. He went to Xianfu Palace and passed the same oral order to Concubine Hui. Hurry up, my lord, the sedan chair is already here Waiting outside."
Ruyi immediately changed her clothes and made up, and when the rain hit her face when she was going out, she felt that the rain was no longer cool, and it carried the sweet fragrance of flowers and the warmth of the summer.
Arriving in the Changchun Palace, Lian Xin had already lifted the curtain and waited aside, seeing Ruyi, she smiled and said, "The concubine Xian is here, and the concubine Gui has just arrived."
Ruyi saw Concubine Hui and the Queen accompanying the Emperor, one on the left and one on the right, seeming to be talking and laughing, very harmonious.She and the emperor hadn't seen such a lively scene for a long time, and she felt a heat in her eyes as she lowered her head and came in to see them one by one.
The emperor waved to her, told her to sit down, and said, "Come here in such a hurry, isn't it raining?"
Ruyi agreed casually.Concubine Hui said with a coquettish smile: "Last time I saw a coir raincoat in the emperor's palace, and my concubine liked it. The emperor rewarded my concubine."
The emperor laughed and said: "It was obtained from outside, and it is said to be a folk shelter from the rain. It was something your father Gao Bin found. Who knows that he is so eccentric that he didn't leave one for you."
Concubine Hui pouted her cherry lips and said: "Father is the most eccentric. He only has eyes for the emperor and no daughter." She was originally wearing a cherry-colored silver-threaded jade hairpin jacket, with a thin pale pink pipa lapel on the outside. The small waistcoat with gold dots looks extraordinarily charming.The white jade tassel butterfly adornment on the neckline followed her every frown and smile, shaking like white snow beads.
The emperor smiled and said: "Your father is partial to me, so I will favor you. If you like it, you can take it. The only thing is, you are not allowed to wear it everywhere."
Concubine Hui thanked her with a smile, glanced at Ruyi, triumphantly took a fragrant plum and ate it.
The emperor said seriously: "I am so anxious to call you to the Queen's Palace today because I have something to discuss with you."
Everyone answered "yes", and the emperor said again: "Today I checked Yong Huang's homework and saw that he was a little thinner, but he looked refreshed after wearing new clothes. Who knows that I just ordered him to write a few words." , but that child is not very up-to-date, just staring at the melons and fruits on my case absent-mindedly."
The empress shivered slightly, got up quickly and said: "Your Majesty, don't blame me. Yong Huang is still young, and sometimes he gets distracted when reading and writing. The concubine will definitely let the master discipline and restrain him, and such things will definitely not happen again. .”
The emperor slowly sipped his tea and said, "I thought so too. Children always have fun when they are young. But when I saw him flipping out his cuffs when he was writing, his arm was wounded. I asked again and again. I know it was Yong Huang who knocked on the rockery today when he was playing in the Imperial Garden." His face darkened, and then he calmly said, "But none of the dozens of people serving Yong Huang knew about it."
Concubine Hui said "Ouch", and then said: "The servants are too careless, even changing the clothes for Yong Huang, how can they not see the scars? Either they are too careless, or they didn't change the clothes for Yong Huang at all. "
After the noble concubine finished speaking, the queen silently gave her a sideways glance, but the noble concubine hadn't noticed it yet, and it all fell into Ruyi's eyes.Ruyi calmly took a piece of hibiscus cake and ate it slowly, only to see the emperor nodding his head and saying: "Your concubine's words are correct. Because I found out that Yonghuang's new clothes were put on temporarily, and the clothes inside were probably worn. It hasn’t been changed for three or four days, and the oil stains have turned black.”
The empress was full of guilt and uneasiness: "It's all because of my concubines. It is said that Yonghuang is the child who lost his mother, and my concubines love him very much, and even specially assigned some people to take care of him. Who knows that there are too many people, On the contrary, it’s not good. Don’t worry, the emperor, wait for the concubine to personally go to elder brother’s place to punish those slaves, so as to make a warning to others.”
The emperor said coldly: "I will punish those slaves. It's not that you are careless, it's just that the subordinates are bullying Yonghuang and you are a motherless child. So after much deliberation, I still have to find Yonghuang who can take care of him." mother."
The queen was stunned, but before she could react, Concubine Hui was already smiling: "Your Majesty, my concubine has no children, and I will be lonely for a long time. Please let the emperor fulfill my concubine's longing for a child, and give Yonghuang to my concubine to raise him. The concubine will definitely fulfill her responsibilities as a mother and take care of her wholeheartedly."
The emperor glanced at Ruyi, and said slowly, "Does Concubine Xian have such thoughts?"
Ruyi thought for a while, then said with a smile: "If the emperor is relieved, the ministers and concubines will be very happy."
The queen said: "Since both the noble concubine and the concubine Xian like Yonghuang, what the emperor means is..." The queen smiled quietly, "Actually, the concubine has given birth at least once, if the emperor is at ease..."
The emperor sighed and said: "You all like children, I know this. But the children have to be friends with you. I have already asked someone to bring Yong Huang, whoever he is willing to choose as a foster mother, whoever has this blessing will be my mother." Eldest brother is the son, let Yong Huang decide for himself."
After speaking, someone brought Yong Huang in.Yong Huang was already eight years old, although his stature was taller than children of the same age, he looked thin and delicate, his complexion was a little yellow, and he seemed to have no energy.Ruyi saw that although he lowered his head, he had a clear understanding of the world that children of this age did not have.
The emperor beckoned gently, beckoning Yonghuang to approach, pointing at the concubines, and lovingly said to him: "Yonghuang, these are your Empress Empress, Empress Hui, and Empress Xian. Tell Huang Ama, which one of them do you like?" Your mother-in-law?"
Yonghuang looked at them one by one, and said for a moment: "Huang Ama, my son has a mother. The son's mother is Fucha Zhuying, Huang Ama's concubine Zhe."
The emperor caressed his hair lovingly: "Good boy, your mother-in-law has gone, but no one can replace your mother-in-law. Huang Ama just wants to find someone to take good care of you and love you like your mother-in-law."
Yong Huang nodded sensiblely, stretched out his hands to press his stomach, the noble concubine laughed softly, and stretched out her hands as if to hug him: "Yong Huang, come, come to Empress Hui! Let Empress Hui hug you."
Ruyi also smiled, took a piece of hibiscus pastry and said, "Good boy, let's eat something before going over."
Yonghuang looked left and right, smiled suddenly, took the hibiscus cake and threw it into Ruyi's arms, just looked at her and didn't speak.
Concubine Hui's expression darkened, she seemed to be infinitely lost, and she became a little lazy.The queen was amiable, Zhanyan smiled at Ruyi and said, "Congratulations to Concubine Xian, you are blessed with a son."
Ruyi held Yong Huang's hand, fed him hibiscus cakes, and quickly took water to prevent him from choking, Fang smiled and said: "If the emperor can rest assured that the child will be brought up by the concubine, it will be the concubine's blessing."
The emperor's gaze was as warm as a spring sun: "This kind of fate between mother and child was cultivated in the previous life. Since Yonghuang chose you, you will be his mother-in-law from now on."
Concubine Hui was still a little unconvinced: "Your Majesty, Yonghuang only went there because he liked that piece of hibiscus cake. That doesn't count, you let Yonghuang choose again, and my concubine will also take a piece of pastry in her hand."
The emperor's gaze was as gentle as spring water: "Okay. You are not in good health and can't stand the child's naughtiness. Besides, you always have to be with me. Concubine Xian is much more leisurely than you. It is good for Yonghuang to be taken care of by Concubine Xian." .”
Ruyi had suffered enough grievances in the past two months, but when she heard the emperor's words, her heart skipped a beat, as if she understood something.She raised her head and met the emperor's gaze, unconsciously filled with warm and clear joy.
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