Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Drunken Dreams

Although no one responded, the singing was accompanied by the sound of rain, like springs and flowers flowing down streams, very pleasant to hear. Ruyi's face darkened, and she said coldly: "Brother Ten's new funeral, the Emperor and Concubine Shu are both unhappy, who is singing such a provocative tune here?" Three Treasures stepped forward and said, "My Majesty, Wanchun Xuan is the residence of Concubine Ling. I heard that the emperor seldom recruits Concubine Ling these days, so she is learning Kunqu opera libretto from kabukis in Nanfu in her free time."

Ruyi has no expression on her face: "Sambo, go to Wanchun Hall to check, no matter who sings these happy words and melodies at the funeral of the tenth elder brother, they will all slap their mouths fifty times, let her go to kneel in front of the tenth elder brother's palace." punish day and night." On the second day, when Ruyi offered incense to Elder Brother Ten, she saw Yan Wan with red and swollen eyes and swollen cheeks with red marks. Yan Wan felt a little timid when she saw Ruyi, she curled up and fell on the ground: "My concubine welcomes the empress."

Ruyi didn't pay attention to her, and only offered incense to her.After a long time, she slowly said: "I punish you, it is considered light." Yan Wan mourned and wept, very respectful: "The concubine forgets her feelings for a moment, and knows that she should not sing during the funeral of Elder Brother Shi. No matter how the empress punishes her, the concubine will bear it willingly. It's just the concubine..." She looked up at the ink Tears filled the jade-colored eyes, "I don't know why, the concubine always feels that the concubine is not as good as before. Whether the concubine is reckless and accidentally did something to offend the concubine, I ask the concubine to say clearly that the concubine is willing to bear it." All consequences, but please treat your mother as before." Her lovely and pitiful expression instantly aroused Ruyi's deepest disdain and contempt, and then, she didn't think it was necessary to talk to him, but said indifferently: "The things you have done in the past two years, when this palace is not do you know?" Yan Wan lowered her body, like a frightened little beast bowing her knees, bowed her head and lowered her eyebrows, and said: "If what the Queen Mother said refers to the fact that my concubine failed to persuade the emperor to drink the blood of the deer that day, I really know my mistake. If the empress is still not relieved, the concubine will be punished." Ruyi looked at her beautiful face that was somewhat similar to her own, shook her head and said: "The punishment I have done to you is only on the surface, and you should be very clear about what you do in private .If you live in peace in the future, I don't have to care about you; if you want to use any tricks, I won't tolerate you." She said and left with a flick of her sleeves. After she left, Yan Wan immediately raised her body.Chunchan hurriedly supported Yan Wan to stand up and said, "My lord, kneel hurts from kneeling carefully." Yan Wan sneered a few times: "What a powerful queen! What a big tone!" She was a little uneasy after all. "Chunchan, tell me, what does the queen know?" Chunchan said softly: "The Queen's move is probably just because she has a good relationship with Concubine Shu and sympathizes with her for the loss of her son. If you really know something, with the Queen's attitude today, how can you tolerate the young master?" The gentle face is like the thick cloudy sky before the cold wave is approaching, looking at Ruyi's background, there is a hint of unruly gloom, like a lone owl and vulture in the cold night forest, frightened by the cold, scattered in silence A ray of resentment and viciousness. Rather than being heartbroken, Ruyi is more worried about Yihuan's complete numbness.Yihuan seems to have lost all perception of the world, she can't cry, she can't laugh, and she doesn't listen to anyone's words.After a few days, when Yi Huan could barely get up, she only put all her thoughts and energy into copying the emperor's imperial poems. The emperor also came to visit her several times, and even took away the pen and ink from her hand as a last resort.However, she just stared blankly at the emperor, stretched out her hand and said, "Give it back to me, give it back to me!" The emperor couldn't help hugging her and weeping: "Yihuan, you are still young and will have children." She just hugged the child's clothes tightly in her arms, and murmured: "I only want this child, I only want this!" Then, in addition to grief, I immerse myself even more crazily in paper and pen and ink. At the beginning, no one dared to understand Yi Huan's painstakingly handwritten imperial poems. Until the end, everyone gradually understood that she was looking for the traces of her love and survival in the imperial poems written by the emperor in the early years, and the traces of those loves. Short and bitter results. Yi Huan quickly withered away, like a dry flower that had lost its moisture, just waiting for the day when it withered completely. A few times, Ruyi and Hailan stayed by her side to keep her company, and they couldn't feel other traces of her being alive while she was copying.Even every time she went to Elder Brother's Zi Palace to burn relics and scriptures, she did not shed a single tear, and she was not allowed to accompany her. She was the only one guarding the child's coffin, confiding in a low voice. The palace people discussed in private that Concubine Shu was like a madman because of the death of Elder Brother Shi, and even ignored the empress dowager's persuasion and turned a deaf ear to it.Only Hailan whispered to Ruyi sadly that it was a mother's biggest heartbreak and it was irreparable. On this day, Yihuan went to the tenth elder brother's Zi Palace, and saw Yan Wan wearing a silver-white plain gauze dotted peach cloak, dressed very neatly, kneeling in front of the tenth elder brother's coffin, slowly going to the brazier A scroll of prayer flags was burning inside, and weeping endlessly. Yi Huan quietly knelt down beside her, opened a long black carved lacquer drawer, and took out the folded ingots and colored papers one by one, with a very cold expression: "It's not your child, what are you doing here?" Tender tears fell into the sizzling flames, sparks splashed suddenly, and said sadly: "Sister is here to cry for Elder Brother Shi, and I am here to cry for my own child." Since the Yongshou Palace, Yi Huan didn't like Yan Wan's charming charmer very much, and she is a person who shows emotions and anger and doesn't like to hide it, so when she sees Yan Wan, she doesn't respond to her lightly.However, seeing Yan Wan so heartbroken at this moment, she felt her heart was touched, and she slowed down her voice: "What children do you have?" Yan Wan stretched out her hand and stroked Yi Huan's belly tentatively.Yi Huan retreated an inch subconsciously, and saw that Yan Wan was bewildered, without any malice, and didn't know what she was going to do, so she froze there without moving.Yan Wan's gestures are very gentle, like the spring breeze blowing on the face, light and warm, with careful cherishment, and softly said: "Sister, my good sister, you are sad for Elder Brother Ten, so sad that you don't even want yourself Actually. Thinking about it carefully, you are much better than me. Your baby is in your womb anyway, you have enjoyed the expectation of being pregnant for ten months, the joy of being born once, you have seen him smile, and cried with him, Sorrow and joy with him. But, where is my child?" She stared at Yihuan with her eyes wide open in distress, and murmured, "Where is my child?" Yan Wan's hands were cold, and she could feel the damp chill from her fingertips through her clothes. Yi Huan couldn't bear it, and was also surprised: "Your child?" The meandering smile was not a smile, a cry was not a cry, as if in a daze, "Yes, sister, at least your child has lived in your womb, and at least she has shown her face in this world to accompany you But what about my child?" She held her empty stomach tightly, weeping in panic, "My child doesn't even have the luck to stay in my stomach for a moment. I look forward and hope until my eyes are blind Straightforward, my child can't come either! He can't come into my womb, let alone this world." She opened her tear-smeared eyes, almost madly sad, "Do you know why?" Yi Huan asked in a daze, "Why?" Yan Wan looked up to the sky and smiled bitterly, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, opened the ebony lacquer four-color chrysanthemum holding box at hand, and brought out a bowl of black ink soup. .Yan Wan held it to the tip of Yi Huan's nose, and said with tears in her eyes, "Sister must feel the taste of this bowl of soup very familiar, right?" Yihuan was very surprised, and a deep puzzlement flashed in her eyes for a moment: "Why do you have my birth control medicine?" The tender tears are like scattered pearls, rolling down into the bowl, dizzying the ripples of black ink: "Sister, I am stupid, I am greedy. I envy the emperor's favor of giving you the birth control medicine, and I also want to conceive as soon as possible." I gave birth to my own child, so I secretly picked up the dregs of the medicine you drank and mixed it with the same fetal medicine, and drank it secretly. Even I drank more diligently than you, and I drank it every time after going to bed, even the medicine There is no scum left!" Yi Huan was shocked: "Then you...have no children yet?" Yan Wan wiped away the tears from her cheeks, and said foolishly: "Yes! I drank more diligently than you, but I didn't have a child. My sister missed a few drinks, but she had a child instead." She looked at her closely, her eyes burning There was a sharp light, "So, sister, don't you think it's strange? This is the medicine prepared by Qi Lu, the imperial physician!" Yi Huan took a step back tremblingly, and leaned tightly on the edge of Brother Ten's coffin: "Strange? What's so strange?" "Isn't it strange that the birth control medicine didn't let us get pregnant quickly? So, I went to the imperial hospital and consulted a lot of imperial doctors privately. They all said it was the best birth control medicine with the same mouth and the same tongue. I believed it. But sister, it was you who told me that you were pregnant because you missed the drink many times. So, I asked someone to go outside the uterus, and asked about the medicine dregs and prescriptions, and then I found out... ..." She dragged out her tone and refused to speak for a long time, she just rolled her clear and innocent eyes sideways, she was about to speak, and she burst into tears. Yi Huan seemed to realize something, her voice trembling: "What do you know?" Yan Wan's tears rolled down violently, and she stared at her intently, relentlessly: "Sister, don't you really know what that is? Otherwise, why don't you drink it?" Yi Huan calmed down a little: "I don't drink it, it's just because I haven't had any movement after drinking it for many years, and I'm discouraged. Even the empress said, it's just God's will, why should I rely on medicine so hard, so my desire for a child is also gone. Faded." Yan Wan frowned: "Could it be that the Empress didn't tell you what it is?" Yi Huan said calmly: "The empress seldom drinks birth control medicine, so of course she never told me." Yan Wan's shock was only momentary, and she calmly said in an instant: "Then, I'll tell you." There was a resolute and sad smile on the corner of her lips, "My sister and I have been drinking for many years, and it has never been a birth control drug. The emperor hates it." You are a woman of the Yehenala family, and I suspect that you will give birth to the seeds of the Aixinjueluo family, so I gave you medicine to prevent pregnancy." Yi Huan was shocked, her face turned white, and her tongue trembled: "I don't believe it!" Yan Wan took out the prescription in her sleeve and shook it in front of her eyes: "Sister, don't you believe it? Sister, let's see if there is anything wrong with the medicine on this prescription. The medicine written on it is to prevent pregnancy, but it came from several people in Beijing. What’s wrong with the hand of a famous doctor?” She watched Yi Huan’s eyes dim like burnt ashes when they touched Fang Zi, and continued: “The Empress is right, it’s Yao San It’s poisonous, so I stopped taking the medicine after I learned the truth, and I still can’t conceive a child. So when my sister was pregnant with Elder Brother Shi, she had kidney deficiency and brought it into Elder Brother Ten’s womb, which made Elder Brother Ten born weak and died. And die!" Her knees gave way, and she knelt down in front of the brazier, loosely grasping a handful of paper money in her hands and raising it up like snow, crying and laughing, "My child, my poor child, where did you die? Bad hands, but your Ama killed you. Any kindness, any kindness, are all fake! My poor child!" Yan Wan wept uncontrollably, until the sound of violent running behind her died away, then she slowly stood up, caressing the coffin of Elder Brother Ten, showing a venomous and happy smile. When Yi Huan rushed straight into Fangbi Cong, the Emperor was holding a snow-white scroll in his hand, and was looking closely at the window.Wisps of pale golden sunlight penetrated into the room, rolling up dust like broken gold, like a faint dream.The light sprinkled on the whole body of the emperor, dyeing and outlining the clear outline, against the twelve carved ancient sandalwood, black wood, curly grass and branch screens behind the emperor, there is a misty fairy-like artistic conception in the luxuriance and magnificence. Yihuan's breathing froze for a moment, and tears flooded her eyes.With tears in her eyes, she vaguely saw the emperor when she first met more than ten years ago. He was so graceful, full of jade trees, and in front of her, he showed a smile as bright as the early sun. It was the most beautiful smile she had ever seen in her life. The young court lady half squatted and half knelt to serve and played a lupine by her side.The hall was extremely quiet, only his slow breathing and the crackling sound of the incense sticks burning in the small copper furnace with eight precious beast horns hollowed out.That is the best Longdan incense, it only takes one star, and the fragrance will stain the skirt of the clothes and penetrate into the skin, often lasting for several days. This kind of smell has been her peace of mind all these years, but at this moment, it feels strange and alien. The emperor was not very surprised at her sudden rudeness, and smiled like a warm June morning light: "Why did you come here in such a hurry? Your head is covered in sweat!" He looked at Li Yu who followed up to stop him, and waved his hand. : "Go and get a warm towel to wipe Concubine Shu, don't use cold ones, one is hot and the other is cold, it is easy to get cold." This kind of tenderness and tenderness is what Yihuan has cherished and enjoyed for decades, but at this moment, it sounds like a thin sharp knife scraping the eardrum, causing severe pain. Li Yu retreated quietly, even the maids beside the emperor could see the strange expression on her face, and unconsciously slowed down the feather fan in her hand, for fear of being alarmed in the slightest. Yi Huan felt that her body was a little stiff, so she reluctantly blessed her and said, "Your Majesty, my concubine has something to say to you."