Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty Seven

The emperor waved his hand and signaled the people around him to go out, just as Li Yu came up with a warm towel, the emperor went himself to wipe off her sweat.Yi Huan avoided his hand unconsciously, the emperor was a little embarrassed, so he stretched out his hand to wipe it for her, and said in a warm voice, "It's a hot day, why is it a cold sweat instead?" Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Yu hurriedly withdrew.Yi Huan's hands trembled a little, and when he wanted to speak, his eyes turned red first: "Your Majesty, are you sincere in treating your concubine like this?"

There was a thin mist in the emperor's eyes, making it difficult to see the background: "Why do you ask such a question properly?" His tone was as warm as usual, without a trace of strangeness, even Yi Huan was puzzled, could it be that what she knew was not true?So he simply asked: "Your Majesty, what is the lowest level of fertility medicine you have given to your concubines over the years?" The emperor took a folding fan from the table, shook it slowly and said, "Of course the antifertility medicine is the medicine to make you pregnant, otherwise how could you have a child with me?"

Yi Huan's heart softened, and she immediately said: "But the concubine asked someone to ask in private. Those medicines are not birth control medicines, but medicines that make people unable to conceive after going to bed." She opened her puzzled eyes wide, Tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, otherwise, how could the concubine get pregnant after stopping the medicine intermittently, but every time she took it before, she couldn't get pregnant?" The emperor lost his mind for a moment, and Fang said lightly: "The words of doctors outside the world are not trustworthy. There are all imperial doctors in the palace. Could it be that the medical skills of the imperial doctors are not as good as them?"

It was just a moment of speechless stagnation, which had already fallen into Yi Huan's eyes.She shook her head desperately, and the tears could no longer hold back: "Your Majesty, my concubine also wants to know. The doctors outside the palace are also famous doctors. Why do their mouthpieces differ from those of the imperial hospital? I have always been puzzled, why did the birth control pills fail to work before, but after stopping the pills, I had a child? And why did Elder Brother Shi suffer from kidney deficiency and weakness, and when the concubines were pregnant, they were also kidney deficiency and weakness? An Zhi is not like this Is it because taking the birth control medicine for a long time hurts the body?"

It was as if a roll of icy waves had suddenly surged down. Shocked and chilled, the emperor was speechless.After a while, his sigh was like the autumn wind sweeping over fallen leaves: "Concubine Shu, why bother to get to the bottom of things, thinking too much will only increase my pain suddenly." Yi Huan staggered, as if she was extremely shocked, but also extremely unbelievable. "Get to the bottom of it? It turns out that the emperor is also afraid of his concubines to get to the bottom of it!" Her tears rolled down silently, mixed with deep sadness and unspeakable hatred, "Then allow the concubine to get to the bottom of it one more time. Is it because the concubine is from the Yehenala family that he is hypocritical to his concubine and repeatedly refuses to conceive his concubine?"

The emperor put away the folding fan, and it fell heavily on the table, his expression became a little more stern: "Concubine Shu, who ordered you to be by my side, do you really not know if you are me? Even if the empress dowager recommended you that day Serving me, I can treat you as ignorant, but for the sake of respect and gentleness, the words you persuaded me about who married Mongolia, you and the people behind you, the thoughts are clearly revealed." The pain in Yihuan's eyes is like shattered ice floating in the waves, before hurting anyone else, she hurt herself first. "The emperor has determined that the concubine is the daughter of the Yehenara clan and is the enemy of the Aixinjueluo clan, so he will be manipulated by others to murder the emperor? So guard against the concubine's jealousy to such an extent?"

The emperor said in a deep voice: "It's all about the Yehenala family, I don't know, you are the one chosen by the Queen Mother, and you have been by my side all the time. What is your intention?" The sun's light and shadow sparsely leaked in through the window lattice.The emperor's originally long back was stretched to be very long, and it was reflected obliquely on the golden bricks all over the floor.Her heart suddenly ached, and the pain was even worse than the moment the child died in her arms.It was as if all the accumulated wounds had been completely opened and fresh salt had been sprinkled heavily.

Yi Huan hugged her arm tightly, as if she couldn't support it, and said in a sad voice: "Although the concubine was chosen by the queen mother to send to the emperor, the queen mother has to carefully advise the emperor's likes and dislikes. To be able to accompany the emperor's body On the other hand, the concubine is sincerely grateful to the queen mother. But even so, it does not mean that the concubine will be criticized by the queen mother. The concubine's heart for the emperor is true! Didn't the emperor know about it all these years?" A trace of suspicion flashed in the emperor's eyes, and the smile on his lips was like a sharp sword that scraped the bones, making people extremely cold.He laughed lightly and said: "The queen mother has been in the deep palace for many years, how can she train a woman who is sincere to me to accompany me, so how can she do things for her and speak for her? Not only you, but also concubine Qing and concubine Mei. , even the Jin concubine sent by the Fucha family is nothing more than that."

Yi Huan's tears pooled on her cheeks, she wiped them away fiercely, not caring about the makeup, and a smear of lip fat condensed on her chin, like a beautiful bloodstain.She said bitterly: "What a powerful emperor, such a calculating empress dowager! You mother and son compete with each other, why did you drag me in? I am a daughter's family innocently. I thought that I was recommended by the empress dowager. Therefore, sometimes I am willing to speak for the Empress Dowager. But I am only by your side wholeheartedly, but I have become a pawn in the dispute between your mother and son for nothing, ruining my life, and even my child cannot be saved!" She stared at it firmly. Looking at the emperor, it seemed that he wanted to find out something from the bottom of his heart, "then, since you are so suspicious of the queen mother, you can abandon people like us like trash. !"

"Disgusting?" The emperor's face changed suddenly, and he simply said calmly, "Don't you also enjoy it and enjoy my favor? The queen mother likes me to dote on you, so I will dote on you! Tell her to rest assured!" He said coldly , "Life is like a play, and controlling everyone is just an actor who plays on the spot." Yi Huan was silent for a moment, and finally Qi Ran sneered, that laughter was like frost and snow covering the icy lake, piercingly cold: "It turns out that all these years have been wrong! Only I was still in the dark, thinking that I was devoted to the emperor, the emperor You always treat me with some kind of sincerity. It turns out that I was wrong, it was all wrong!"

In the snow-white and blurred light of tears, she looked at the twelve carved ancient sandalwood and black wood scroll-grass screens, with large clusters of peonies surrounding the auspicious beasts spitting out pearls. Carved and hollowed out, branches and flowers, one flower and one leaf, are all lifelike. There is a couplet at each end of the screen, which is dark ink mixed with gold powder.What a good congratulatory speech that is, as if everything in this world is going well, and it takes a long time for people to spend a long time, but it turns out that it is just a dream in the heart, and it is just a cold and empty dream. The emperor's gaze was like a cold pool, like an abyss, with a bottomless coldness: "Concubine Shu, you are wrong. Your fault is that you shouldn't seek the so-called truth. There are many beautiful things that you don't know. Why do you need to ask me? Since you ask me and don't want me to lie to you, you are asking for trouble." Yi Huan only felt that her body was light and floating, and the emperor's voice seemed to be far away, but faintly approaching again, drifting up and down and sinking into her ears.Yi Huan trembled all over, as if she was greedy for the whiteness of the snowflakes when she was young, and insisted on holding it in her hands for a long time.When the snow melted, I grabbed it again, but it was cold to the apex of my heart.She forced herself to be blessed, and said with a sad smile: "The emperor is right, it is the fault of the concubine, the concubine is guilty, it is the concubine's fault, when the emperor came back from offering sacrifices to the mausoleum, he fell in love at first sight. It's the concubine...it's all the concubine's fault." She turned around numbly, and left with vain footsteps.Li Yuhou stood by the door, looked at the emperor with some worry, and said tentatively, "Your Majesty..." The emperor didn't take it seriously: "Forget it, this is what Concubine Shu wants to hear, so don't pay attention to it. Just look at her, don't talk nonsense to others." Yihuan doesn't know how she returned to Chunyu Shuhe.It seems that the soul is still in Fangbi Cong, but the body is cruising back unconsciously.She dismissed the accompanying maids, locked herself in the palace, and dug out the emperor's imperial poems copied over the years one by one. Having been by the emperor's side for many years, he has always received kindness and special treatment.Yihuan is not a woman who is good at inviting pets. Although she knows she is beautiful, perhaps the emperor only loves her beauty.But after so many years of being together day and night, he tolerated his frankness and arrogance, and always thought it was a little sincere. Because of these sincerity, she also deeply loved him, admired his handsomeness, he His talent, his demeanor, the man above ten thousand people, the deep concern for her, what she can repay is to transcribe the poems and essays he has written for many years behind him, and treat them as treasures. But it turned out that he was just living in lies and deceit, which tired himself and his children. She smiled idiotically, lit a candle in the clear day, lit the stack of poems and essays that had been carefully sorted out for many years, and had to re-transcribe even if there was a slight irregularity, and lit them on the candle one by one.She lit one, and then threw one, no matter whether it was thrown on the gauze curtain or the table curtain. Tears slid down violently and dripped on the burning paper, fueling a more prosperous flame.She completely ignored the flames burning onto her fingers, which looked like spring greens. She only looked at the black flames of fire butterflies flying all over the hall, with crystal tears all over her face, and said sadly: "Now I just said that I was wrong at the time, and my mood is desolate. Red tears are streaming down , full of spring breeze and nothing wrong. Love knows that there will be no plan from now on, and insists on a happy date, and it’s not like this, the flowers and the moon are gone." She smiled foolishly, "Now I know that I was wrong at the time... It was all wrong ! It's all wrong!" She sang it over and over again, as if she was sang about her life in a drunken dream, and it was a joy to be alone. When Ruyi rushed to hear the news of the fire, Chunyu Shuhe's palace had already been burned into a sea of ​​flames.The palace people yelled desperately and poured water into it with all available utensils. However, the fire was too big and it was midsummer, so even the water dragon seemed insignificant. Li Yu commanded a group of palace people, sweating all over his face, stamping his feet anxiously, seeing Ruyi, couldn't help sobbing: "Empress, how can this be good?" Ruyi hurriedly asked, "Is there anything wrong? Where's Concubine Shu?" Li Yu said with a mournful face: "It was too late when I found out that my ear was on fire. Concubine Shu drove everyone outside early in the morning. When she rushed to put out the fire, there was no sound at all inside. I'm afraid it's..." Ruyi was heartbroken, staggered, barely supported Rong Pei's hand and stood firm: "Save people! Save people!" Li Yu knelt down and said, "Empress, I'm afraid it won't happen. The fire is too strong, no one can rush in. Moreover, this fire may have been started by Concubine Shu herself. She wants to die with all her heart!" Youqing tears meandered down wantonly, Ruyi said sadly: "Why did she suddenly seek death? Why?" Li Yuqiqi Ai Ai said: "Before Concubine Shu set herself on fire, she rushed into the Fangbi Cong like a madman to find the emperor, and the servants were guarding outside, vaguely hearing about some kind of birth control medicine, and about some kind of empress dowager's order, and others don't know. " Ruyi suddenly understood, and her heart ached like ice. Such a fierce woman, if she knew the truth behind that bowl of fertility medicine, how would she be willing to live and stay by that man's side. Rong Pei said anxiously: "No matter what, we still have to save Concubine Shu. Madam, don't you think so?" Ruyi watched the fire engulfing the palace, her heart was pounding like heavy rain, and finally she was as sad as ashes, she turned her head sadly and said, "No need." Yi Huan, this woman who is as clear as chalcedony ice soul, just like this turned herself into a raging fire, burning her heart with fire, leaving no room for herself and others. In this world, is there any girl who does not have the most beautiful heart of spring?The Yihuan when she first entered the palace, the young and beautiful Yihuan, and the Yihuan who inherited Enlu alone, must have infinitely beautiful longings for the future life in the deep palace.The ninety-five-year-old who stands in the middle of thousands of people with tens of thousands of glory will hold her hand and have a lifetime of love with her.I thought the city was full of fragrance, but it was already spring and smokey, and the flowers were falling and the ground was cool. Ruyi was thinking in a daze, every step was hurt, and there seemed to be thousands of things rushing out of her heart, endless sorrow, Fang Fei's runaway wild horses slammed into her chest, the pain Fang Fei swam down from her heart, straight Falling into the belly, like a cold little snake spitting out a bright red core, hissing and gnawing.She bent down in pain and held down her lower abdomen, but she didn't realize that there was already blood dripping on the ground behind her.Until Rong Pei's exclamation suddenly sounded, she finally lost her last consciousness in shock and pain. It was already dusk when she woke up, and Ruyi had been in a deep slumber. She felt pain in every limb, and it seemed that countless people were calling for her. Apart from the cramping pain in her stomach, she felt pain. Can't make any effort. In the end, it was the crying of the newborn that gradually woke her up.When he woke up, Hai Lan was already by his side, happy and worried, hugging the pink swaddling baby, revealing a red face, weeping with joy: "The empress is a princess." On June 23rd of the eighteenth year of Qianlong, Ruyi gave birth to the fifth daughter of the emperor.This is also the only princess born under the emperor's knees after Princess Hejing.Xu is that the emperor's daughters are rare, and Xu is the emperor's ten sons who died half a month before the fifth princess was born. The emperor cherishes the fifth princess very much, so he decided on the title "Heyi" very early, taking its meaning of "everything is suitable", and took the baby name "Jing Si". "兕" refers to the little female rhinoceros.Every time the emperor talked to Ruyi, he hoped that this young and delicate daughter would be as healthy as a little rhinoceros, able to resist all accidents and diseases. Although Ruyi said it with a smile, she felt vaguely ominous, and said: "Tang Taizong loves Princess Jinyang, the youngest daughter born to the eldest grandson Empress. The princess's baby name is also Sizi, but it's a pity that she couldn't raise it." The emperor waved his hand and said with a hearty smile: "So, our daughter is Jing Si. Jing is the brilliance of jade, both beautiful and clear, strong and healthy." After he finished speaking, he picked up Jing Si and kissed again and again. Like this kind of intimate behavior, he smiled straight at the emperor. The emperor was very happy: "I have so many children, only Jing Si, she will smile so sweetly when I hug her." The emperor was so happy that he completely forgot Chun Yushu and Yi Huan who set herself on fire in the fire. Such a staunch woman could not leave a deep imprint on the emperor's heart even if she died. I always feel the sadness of dying lips and teeth cold in the gap between the joy of giving birth to my daughter.Because of the successive deaths of Elder Brother Shi and Concubine Shu, Ruyi also halved the silver rewards that should be given to the servants and midwives for Jing Si's birth.Although the leader, Nanny Tian, ​​also brought up the matter of halving the reward to Ruyi with a smile on her face, Ruyi only said: "Brother Shi and Concubine Shu have passed away, and the happy event that should have been rewarded to you should not be publicized. I have wronged you, and next time a concubine gives birth, I will definitely make up for you." Nanny Tian couldn't bear it, she smiled for a while and said, "Concubine Shu is no more than a concubine, how can she be more honored than the Empress Empress. Even if she is gone, the empress's celebration of giving birth to a little princess can't be spoiled." Ruyi was lamenting the death of Concubine Shu, so impatient to hear this, she lowered her face and remained silent. In this way, Nanny Tian tried to figure out what to do cleverly, but seeing Ruyi's unhesitating expression, she had no choice but to hide the resentment between her brows, and said nothing more. Taking advantage of the emperor's happiness, Ruyi gently mentioned: "The emperor loves the princess so much, the concubines are naturally happy. It's just that the day the princess is born is the day when Concubine Shu passes away. Please let the emperor take care of the princess and don't blame Concubine Shu." suicide." The emperor only cared about the little man in his arms, frowned slightly and said, "Since the queen begs for mercy, I'll let it go. It's just that such an insolent woman, burning the palace with fire, is really abominable." Ruyi's heart twitched, and she managed to maintain a smile on her face: "The death of Concubine Shu must have been too desperate." The emperor's smile condensed on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately glanced at her, his eyes were slightly cold: "What does the empress mean by this?" Ruyi's calm expression was impeccable under the scorching sun, and she said, "Concubine Shu lost her beloved son, isn't she hopeless?" The emperor's smile became a bit sad: "Brother Shi, it's a pity." He lowered his head, seeing Jing Si's cute smile, he couldn't help stretching out his hand to tease, "It's just that if you can't keep it, then it's no fate. Don't think too much about it." Ruyi looked at the emperor's loving smile towards Jingsi, but also remained silent.The emperor wanted to spend more time with Ruyi and Jingsi, but Li Yu invited them outside, and all the ministers were already waiting in the imperial study to discuss the flooding of Hongze Lake. Ruyi vaguely knew that the water in Hongze Lake was overflowing, the second gate of Xibo Canal was breached, Gaoyou and Baoying counties were severely flooded, and he didn't dare to stop him at the moment, so he had to send the emperor out eagerly. After the emperor left, Rong Pei put a rainbow cloak of snow veil on Ruyi's body, and quietly persuaded: "The emperor is in high spirits, you see how much the emperor loves the little princess, why bother to spoil the fun at this time, mention Shu Where is the concubine?" A little spark flashed in Ruyi's eyes, and then she was very sad: "If I don't mention it, no one in the harem will dare to mention it. After you watched Concubine Shu pass away, why did the emperor mention her? Just pretend that there is no such thing." It’s just a person.” Her brows were filled with doubts, “It’s just that this palace has always been puzzled. Li Yu said that before Concubine Shu broke into Fangbi Cong to mention the matter of birth control medicine to the emperor before she set herself on fire, this palace also happened by accident. You know, obviously the emperor doesn't want people to make public all the time, so how does Concubine Shu know?" Rong Pei's eyes turned, and then she lowered her eyebrows and followed her eyes: "This servant accidentally learned that before Concubine Shu went to Fangbi Cong that day, she went to the Tenth Prince's Palace. What she said..." Her voice became even lower, " Concubine Ling has also been there." Ruyi's finely drawn eyebrows twitched, like curled snails, she immediately became alert: "What is she going to do?" Rong Pei pursed her lips and said, "Your Majesty thinks the same way? The slaves always feel that the concubine and the young master are uncertain and difficult to grasp. Many things may not be caught by her, but there is always a shadow of doubt, which makes people feel uneasy. .” Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It turns out that you think the same as Bengong. Then, after dinner, you can go to Wanchun Pavilion to have a look, don't make it public, and ask Concubine Ling to come over." Rong Pei hurriedly responded: "Yes. The servants will do a little bit more secretive work. It's just that the empress doesn't have to worry about anything. Now that the empress has both children and the emperor treats you like this, your position in the middle palace is as solid as a rock. You can deal with whoever you want. Whoever it is." In the gilt Boshan furnace on the table, the fragrance is thin and thin, as thin as the floating clouds in the sky.Many things seem to be right in front of our eyes, but they are really unpredictable and difficult to grasp.Ruyi's smile is like the waves scooped up from the bottom of a well, not clear enough, with the greasy moss and shattering shadows: "Rong Pei, do you also think the emperor treats me well?" Rong Pei smiled and said, "Isn't it? Our place is where the emperor comes the most." Ruyi smiled lightly and said: "This kind of thought, once upon a time, Empress Xiaoxian turned around, Concubine Jia turned around, and Concubine Shu also turned around. But later, they all turned into mirrors. I always thought, what I thought I got , beautiful, is it just Yimeng Wuhen? Or is it just like this, Rong Pei, this palace has got the case. It is hard to calm down in my heart." Rong Pei frowned, puzzled and said: "Is it hard to get over it? What's wrong with your empress?" If Ruyi wanted to speak, she could just think about it, and just smiled: "You don't understand, but it's okay if you don't understand. Concubine Shu knows too much, so she can't tolerate her heart in this filthy world."