This day was the joy of Yihuan's pregnancy for three months. Because the fetus was stable and the empress dowager was quite happy, so she held a small family banquet in Chuxiu Palace to celebrate.

During the meal, he was smiling and laughing. Even the emperor came back early to accompany him. The empress dowager was quite happy. After drinking for three rounds, she asked: "I have been not very angry in recent days. The emperor should pay attention to adjusting food and clothing."

The emperor sat beside Yihuan and hurriedly smiled and said, "Please rest assured, my son must be careful at any time." He turned to Yihuan and said with concern: "You have a body now, so be more careful when you add clothes and clothes."

Yi Huan's face was flushed, and he just looked at the emperor in a daze, smiled shyly, and thanked him one by one.

The Empress Dowager's youth is gradually fading into the turbulent whirlwinds, as if the red walls and majestic green tiles in the Forbidden City were eroded by wind and frost for too long, and a pale and heavy aura was faintly felt. However, the years of soaking in the deep palace gave her another kind of peaceful and peaceful demeanor. Her expression was as bright as jade, and her voice was soft. Kind: "Seeing that Shu Fei finally got pregnant after so many years, the Ai family was happy. But Shu Fei can't accompany the emperor now, so the emperor must be careful."

The emperor was extremely respectful: "Yes. I returned from the tour, and there were many things in the previous dynasty. Most of my sons were placed in the Yangxin Hall."

The empress dowager picked up a chopstick and ate the phoenix tail and shark fins, and said slowly: "The emperor will pass through the Chongsi Gate when he goes back and forth to the Yangxin Palace, right?"

The emperor was surprised that the empress dowager asked this and smiled and said, "Yes, my son goes back and forth in the harem and often passes through the Chongsi Gate."

The empress dowager stopped the silver-tipped auspicious cloud chopsticks in her hand and said solemnly: "Does the emperor know the origin of the Chongsi Gate?"

The emperor looked leisurely and chanted slowly: "Chongsi Yu, the secret is the secret, it is suitable for the descendants to be vibrant." He stopped, looked around the hall, and saw the admiration of the concubines, and felt a little proud. "The allusion of the Chongsi Gate originated from "The Book of Songs·Zhou Nan·Zhongsi", and his son remembered it."

Ruyi accompanied the emperor, slightly tilted her head, and the exquisite red jade flowers and exquisite flower branches and jadeites swayed slowly with the ups and downs of her tone: "The emperor is knowledgeable, this poem means that insects gather in one place and have many descendants." She smiled at the emperor, and then said to the empress dowager: "The Linzhi Gate in the western six palaces in the inner court corresponds to the auspicious meaning, which is also to pray that the royal family will have many descendants and the emperor's fortune will last forever."

The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "The emperor and the queen are knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and the piano and zither are harmonious. The Ai family is so happy to see it. When the late emperor was there, he often talked about the allusions of the Cumsi Gate with the Ai family. It is said that the Cumsi Gate was the old name of the Ming Dynasty. After the ancestors entered the pass, they changed the old name of the Ming Palace and wanted to eliminate the old aura, but when they saw the Cumsi Gate, they felt something. They said that this name was very good, which meant that our descendants were prosperous, so they stayed. In addition, when the male insects flapped their wings and shouted, the female insects flocked to them, and each gave birth to ninety-nine children, which was really prosperous!"

The originally vague heart fell down at this moment. How could Ruyi not understand what the Empress Dowager said, so she had to stand up uneasy and lower her hands respectfully and listen. The emperor's face gradually became solemn. He quietly shook Ruyi's hand below, and stood up and smiled: "My son understands the teachings of the emperor. It is precisely because the emperor's mother remembers the ancestors and the grandchildren to her, that her son can have the grand scene of today's children."

The emperor said this, Lu Yun, Yu Yan, Yi Huan, Hai Lan and other concubines who had children stood up and toasted to the Empress Dowager: "Our ancestors are blessed, the empress dowagers, and the concubines are the descendants of the Qing Dynasty."

The Empress Dowager had a faint smile on her face, but she did not raise her glass to accept the toast from everyone. The emperor glanced at her, and the other concubines stopped smiling, stood up tremblingly, with a look of awe and anxiety: "I am ashamed of not being able to spread the branches and leaves for the royal family."

The Empress Dowager still said nothing, but slowly swept across Ruyi's face with the light from the corner of her eyes. Ruyi felt a soreness in her heart, as if someone's hand was squeezing her heart. The pain was so painful that even the back of her ears became hot, and she couldn't help but blush. She walked to the Empress Dowager and knelt down and said, "As the Empress, I have not been able to give birth to a son and half a daughter for the Emperor. I am really ashamed of being in the position of the Empress Dowager."

The Empress Dowager didn't look at her, and she had a smile on her face, but said lightly: "The empress is a great man, knowledgeable and polite, and has a good understanding of the Chongsi Sect. However, it cannot be limited to speaking without action." Her eyes swept across Ruyi's flat abdomen and lowered her eyes with worries. "Empress Xiaoci Gao and Empress Xiaoliewu of Taizu Nurhaci, both of which were born; Empress Xiaozhuang Wen of Taizong gave birth to Shizu Fulin, and Empress Xiaoduanwen also had a princess; Needless to say, Empress Kangxi's empress; Empress Xiaojingxian of the late emperor, your aunt had given birth to; even Empress Xiaoxian, who died, gave birth to two sons and two daughters. Who are missing from the people mentioned by the Ai family? Do you know?"

Ruyi's heart shrank violently, but she did not dare to show any expression. She could only say in a more humble manner: "Among the ancestors of all generations, the only two Mongolian empresses of Shizu Fulin, the deposed empress Jing Concubine and the Empress Xiaohuizhang Borjijit did not give birth and died without children."

The queen mother's eyebrows and eyes drooped slightly, and she said with a serious face: "Two Queens of Borjigit, once deposed and fell out of favor, will be like this. But the queen, you are deeply favored by the emperor, but you shouldn't!"

It seemed like a heavy palm was being hit on Ruyi. Ruyi felt that her face was burning hot, like a pot of boiling water hitting her face. She could only bear it and squeeze out and smiled: "The emperor's teachings are right, and I am the one who is blessed."

Hailan saw Ruyi’s grievance, and somehow she felt courage in her heart, and said sincerely: “Empress Dowager, the Empress, took care of Yongqi for many years and did her best. Yongqi would also be filial to the Empress.”

The Queen Mother sneered and said coldly, "Is that right?"

The emperor stepped forward and toasted the wine to the empress dowager. He smiled repeatedly: "Son understands that the son knows his guilt. I have made the emperor worry about the emperor over the years, but the empress has not given up, and it is also the fact that the son has not accompanied the empress for too many times. Please forgive me. Moreover, the son has other concubines to give birth to children. Now Shu Fei is happy, so the emperor does not have to worry about his son's children."

The empress dowager's long sigh seemed to fall like autumn leaves: "Emperor, do you think the Ai family is just worried about your descendants? The queen has no children and the six palaces are uneasy. Who is the Ai family for?"

The emperor hurriedly said, "The emperor's mother is naturally concerned about the queen, but the queen is the central palace. No matter who has a son, the queen is the legitimate mother, and the same is true."

With warm touch like a spring breeze, Ruyi unconsciously looked at the emperor, and her humiliation and embarrassment were slightly reduced. After all, he was taking care of himself.

Seeing each other stalemate, Yi Huan hurriedly bowed and smiled: "The Empress Dowager cares about the Empress, everyone knows. But I have served the Emperor for many years before I became pregnant, and the Empress will have such blessings."

Perhaps because of the pregnancy of Yihuan, the Queen Mother still smiled and raised her glass and said, "Okay, you all get up. The Ai family only said a few words when they look at Shu Fei's pregnancy. Queen, don't take it to heart. But when you have time, go to the gate of Chongsi more and think about the painstaking efforts of their ancestors."

Ruyinnuo agreed, holding her sore knees to support her body. In a blink of an eye, she saw Yuyan's sarcastic smile, and her heart was even heavier. She returned to her seat silently, and then she realized that there was a thin sweat on her forehead and her back. It seemed that she had struggled and fluttered violently, but she had to smile on her face, with a calm face, and perfunctory look of the emperor's concern. After all, this meal was tasteless.

Since Chu Xiu Palace returned, it was already the moon in the middle of the sky. Ruyi returned to the palace, took off her evening makeup, looked at the slightly drunk herself in the bronze mirror of Ivory Flowers and Jing Ming, and stroked her face unconsciously and said, "I really drank too much today, and her face is so red."

Rong Pei disbanded Ruyi's hair and combed it finely and said, "The Empress is happy for Concubine Shu and the Emperor today. So after drinking these wines, she has to comb her hair and spread it."

After Rong Pei said that, he combed Ruyi's hair with more care, and then put the jade branches and Yunzhi into the lotus gilt scent balls at the head of Ruyi's bed to wake up the drunken fragrance. It is a fragrant cake specially used to help drunk people get rid of their drunkenness. The palace maids of Yikun Palace will pick the peony stamens in the spring, put them together with the peony flowers, pour sake into full soaking the peony stamens and peony petals, then place them in a cool place overnight, then use a pestle to pound the stamens and petals into flower mud, twist the flower mud into small cakes, brush a layer of dragon brain powder, and use the natural flower fragrance it emits to gently get rid of the drunken discomfort in sleep.

Ruyi was always good at spices, especially the fragrant bait made of flowers. At this moment, I smelled the palace's depressed heart and said unconsciously: "Shu Fei is pregnant, so I am naturally happy. But..." She pondered, "The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that I had sent a few jars of roses and osmanthus wines, saying that they were like honey, so I could try it for me."

Rong Pei knew that she was sad and wronged, so she advised: "Empress, although the wine is sweet, it has a little energy. Empress has already drunk today, so why don't you drink it?"

Ruyi smiled: "Drinking is the most important thing in interest. Why can't you taste it when you get excited? Go quickly!"

Rong Pei couldn't help her urging, so she had to go and get it: "The Empress drinks less so that she won't get drunk."

Ruyi poured a cup in her hand, looked at the golden liquid in the white cup, and smiled and said, "It's better to hurt your body than to be sad!"

Rong Pei knew her feelings, and when she saw her printing a cup, she added another cup: "The Empress is sad today." Her voice was even lower, sympathizing but dissatisfied, "There are so many people today, and the Queen Mother is also wronged you."

Ruyi raised her face and poured the wine into her throat, rubbed the wine flowing from her lips, and chuckled, "It's not that the Queen Mother gave me aggrieved me, but that I was not good at it. The Queen Mother asked me to stand at the door of Chongsi, and I didn't think it was a punishment at all! If I could have a child of my own and let me stand as a stone under the door of Chongsi, I would be willing!" She looked at Rong Pei with a long look, and the shiny light flashed in her eyes, "Really, I am willing! Shu Fei has been in the palace for so many years and has been drinking the pills for so many years. Now that I have heard it a few more times, I am pregnant. After all, it is God's favor and never stopped her thoughts. But what about me? I am already thirty-three years old. A thirty-three-year-old woman has never had her own child. What kind of woman is that?!"

Rong Pei said sadly: "Empress, you are still young! If you don't believe me, you look in the mirror and look like Shu Fei and Concubine Qing and others."

Ruyi touched her face with a little drunkenness, and she cried sadly: "Is that right? Women who have never given birth may look younger. But what's the use of young?! Over the years, I have been dreaming of having my own children." She took Rong Pei's hand and pressed it on her lower abdomen, "Touch it, my belly is flat, it has never bulged. Rong Pei, I really don't like Concubine Jia, but I also envy her from the bottom of my heart. Her belly bulged again and again, so beautifully, and full like a pomegranate. They all said that pregnant women were blindly looking at it, but in my eyes, it was the best!"

Tears oozed in Rong Pei's eyes: "Empress, since I saw you for the first time, I have been convinced by you from my heart. There are so many little ladies in the palace, but your eyes are different from others. People's eyes are crying, and your eyes are holding back tears. I admire your toughness and worry about your toughness. People who don't like to cry are heartbroken. The same is true for my mother. She gave birth to so many children, but she was beaten by my Ama. My Ama hit her like a sandbag, and I didn't know how to feel sorry for her. In the end, my Ama's mother was beaten to death by my drunken Ama. At that time, I thought, be tougher, why should I suffer from such a person's torture? But now, I see you crying, but I still feel sorry for me. I beg God, let a child come to your stomach!"

Ruyi leaned on the table, and the eight treasure auspicious beast embroidered with pretty lotus pods tied up on her face, and she stretched out her hand and rubbed blankly: "There is also the pure concubine. Her favor has faded in this life, but she is not afraid of anything, with both children, and she can still enjoy her grandchildren in the future. The person who lives the most free and stable is her."

Rong Pei had never seen Ruyi so sad, so she had to put a crimson 200-gold cloak on her: "Empress, you are the queen. No matter who your child is, you are your legitimate mother, and their descendants are also your descendants."

Ruyi shook her head sadly: "Rong Pei, that's different. People shed the same blood, the flesh and blood. And you are just a statue of the god in the temple, and you are worshipped by incense and worship, but you are perfunctory."

Rong Pei was really unable to do so, so she could only say, "Empress, you still have the fifth prince. The fifth prince is so successful. You have been trained by you. You have learned the three languages ​​of Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese at a young age. The emperor doesn't know how much he likes him! If the fifth prince is valued by the emperor in the future, you are certainly the Empress Dowager of the Mother, and Empress Yu is the Empress Dowager of the Holy Mother, it would be great to be together."

Ruyi's face with tears showed a pale beauty under the bright and bright candlelight, like a white Youtan at night, blooming alone with the dew in her mouth: "Yongqi is naturally a filial child. But Rong Pei, after every hope, I hate her very much. She was so stupid and dull back then, and she didn't know that she was plotted for many years, and she hated Empress Xiaoxian's evil thoughts. Therefore, I don't regret it at all. How others have caused me to lose my hope for children, I will also lose all her hopes. But Rong Pei, no matter what, my children can't come!"

In the hazy tears, Yikun Palace is so lively. The newly enfeoffed queen, the life depicted by gold powder, is full of colorful flowers, and it is prosperous all the way. But only Ruyi herself knows how lonely she is after the love and glory. After the night is quiet, she is only left in the palace. The vast red sandalwood lotus carved bed is covered with a pair of mandarin duck soft pillows with fragrant flowers pattern, and two beds of golden red and silver green Su Zhihua silk phoenix quilts. When the emperor was there, it was naturally a happy rejoice like a pair.

Ideal. But when the emperor was away, she clearly realized that it was the real day for her future. She would grow old, fall out of favor, and there would be days when "the beauty broke before she was old, and she leaned against the cage and sat until bright". In that loneliness of the day, she didn't even have any bones and blood to rely on and hold. She could only smell the old and precious ancient utensils that emitted the old and rich utensils, faintly, like old silk immersed in water, wrapping herself in strands, until she was old and until she died.

That is her future, the future of a queen, and one agrees and one stays forever.

Rong Pei knew she could not persuade her. She could only let Ruyi vent the sorrow and pain she had never been willing to say so, and let the wine pour into her sorrow and comfort her instead of all the words and actions.

After a while, Yunzhi came in and whispered: "Sister Rong, the little master Ling is here, I want to ask for the Empress."

Rong Pei looked at Ruyi who was drunk and unconscious, and said softly: "Empress is drunk, I'm afraid she can't see anyone anymore. Let's do this. Go and return to Concubine Ling, please go back first."

Yunzhi agreed to go outside and saw Yan Wan and said, "Princess Ling, the Empress, just returned from Chuxiu Palace. She is drunk at this moment, and I am afraid she will not be able to see the little master."

Yan Wan looked at the direction of the warm pavilion and said, "I just saw that the Empress was a little drunk when she came back from Chu Xiu Palace, so she went back to the palace and got some sobering soup. Why are she drunk at this moment?"

Yunzhi smiled and said, "The Empress has also drunk some wine when she comes back. It's so good to drink today!"

Yan Wan's heart burst and she quickly laughed: "Yes. Concubine Shu is happy. The Empress and Concubine Shu are naturally happy, so she is so happy to drink!"

As he was talking, Lingzhi took a bowl of sober soup and walked outside the hall. Rong Pei opened the door: "The Empress is so drunk that she vomits so much that she is all over her body. Go and bring hot water. I'll feed the sober soup to my mother!"

Lingzhi hurriedly agreed. Yan Wan saw it for a moment and said unconsciously: "The Empress is so drunk. I won't stop you from serving you. Take good care of you."

Yunzhi respectfully sent Yanwan out. Chunchan waited outside Yimen. Seeing Yanwan coming out so quickly, she was surprised and said, "The little master came out so quickly, has the Empress fallen asleep?"

Lan Cuiben followed Yan Wan in and said quickly: "What are you going to sleep? You're drunk."

Chunchan joked: "Oh! It's okay for the imperial concubine to be drunk, why is the queen also drunk?"

Yan Wan held a sneer on her lips and said, "Whether the imperial concubine is drunk or the queen is drunk, they are just sad. I thought the queen was so generous, so I reminded Shu Fei about the fetal medicine. It turned out that she still couldn't pass the woman's level, and she was just a jealous and petty mind."

Chunchan smiled and said, "What the little master said is that women are women, and even queens cannot avoid the vulgarity."

Yan Wan raised her long eyelashes and lightly lacquered her eyes and turned her eyes slightly: "So, even if something happens to Shu Fei's fetus in the future, it will be the sin of a petty person, and it has nothing to do with us."

Chunchan smiled knowingly and helped Yan Wan to return to the palace leisurely.

In the 16th year of Qianlong's reign, the previous dynasty was quiet and the riots in Tibet had long been quelled. The emperor paid more attention to the river and coastal defense of Jiangnan and the official military affairs. In the first month, the emperor visited his mother on the grounds of understanding the sufferings of the people and visited Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the first time.

At first, several officials from the court met, thinking that they had traveled a thousand miles to the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which alarmed the officials and people along the way and welcomed them, which was a waste of money. The emperor was a little displeased: "Now you all call the world stable and prosperous. I have seen this stable and prosperous in memorials, but I have never seen it. The Holy Ancestor Kangxi also visited the south of the Yangtze River and enjoyed the people's livelihood and suffering. I am the descendants of the Holy Ancestor, so I should follow my example."

In this way, no one dared to give advice. When he returned to the palace, the emperor saw that Ruyi was waiting for him to come to court in the warm hall of Yangxin Palace, and his smile overflowed from his lips, and his eyebrows were shining brightly.

Ruyi couldn't help laughing: "Although the emperor loves the scenery of Jiangnan, he doesn't have to be so happy about his appearance."

The emperor held her hand, and nearby her ear whispered in her ear: "You have been to Suzhou when you were young. Whenever you talk to me, I really yearn for you to go again. I was just a cover that day and could not take you out of Beijing without authorization. Now, I will realize my wish with you. Go to the place we want to go the most." There was a bright light in his eyes, and the stars as bright as diamonds flashed in the dark blue night sky. "I am so big that you, not only this time, but we still have many days to go in the future. I will always accompany you to the mountains and rivers."

The warm color in her heart was like peach blossoms embroidered with brocade, blooming to the extreme in the spring breeze, so light and fragrant, filling her heart. She leaned against the emperor's chest and said quietly: "As long as it is the place the emperor wants to go, I will definitely accompany you and never leave you easily."

There was still thin snow outside the window, like willow catkins rising lightly, and his eyes blended with her, and there was only infinite joy and tranquility.

According to the empress dowager's intention, because she was visiting Yanrou, Jiangnan, the concubines who accompanied her were accompanied by Chun Guifei Concubine Meipin, Lingpin, Wanpin Qing, and Jia Guifei, who was born in the Han army flag.

The emperor was very satisfied with the arrangement of the empress dowager, so he asked Concubine Yu Hailan to take care of all the affairs in the six palaces. Before leaving, Ruyi went to visit Yihuan again. At that time, Yihuan had been pregnant for more than five months, and her gradually raised abdomen showed that she had a special roundness and happiness as a first mother. Ruyi smiled and stroked her belly and said, "Is everything okay?"

The light green magnolia under her body sat on her bed as soft as a pile of cotton, and she put her hands on her abdomen with care: "Everything is fine. I just always feel like she is in a dream, not very real."

Ruyi couldn't help but make fun of her: "My belly is so big, and the child will kick you, is it still like she is in a dream?"

The snow outside the window shone through the bright paper, and the blushing face was full of unspeakable tenderness, as if it was infinitely affectionate: "Does the empress know? When I first met the emperor, the year before entering the palace, the emperor came back from the tomb. The street was crowded with people watching the fun in the teahouse. I followed Ama and watched the fun in the teahouse. A distance of such a distance, I could actually see the emperor's face. Before that, I was a candidate girl and read the emperor's imperial poems, but I never thought that this person would have such a beautiful face. From then on, this person was stuck in the

I was so sad that I knew that when the emperor was not in the imperial examination that year, I cried very sadly, but I didn't expect that the empress dowager would be selected to enter the palace to serve. With the empress dowager's life, the empress dowager treated me very well. He told me that the emperor liked calligraphy, poetry, and painting. We were full of people and won the world, but the emperor was proficient in the style of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and there was almost nothing he could do. Sometimes when the emperor came to Cining Palace, I hid behind the screen and looked at him quietly. At that time, I was so happy. It turned out that I was a human being and read poetry and books all my life to get to this person."

Seeing her delusional joy, Ruyi slid into her heart with inexplicable sorrow, she could only smile and said, "My sister has a child again, so she should be happy."

Yihuan's eyes were bright, as if the Milky Way could not show the joy and happiness in her heart: "I have always felt that being by the emperor is the greatest blessing. Because this blessing is too great, it has damaged my descendants. Empress, I will not understand anyone who says this, but the empress will definitely understand that there are so many people in the palace who look at the emperor and their smiles are all naked desires. Only Empress is the same as you, and the eyes of the emperor are the same as those of you."

Is it true? She thought in her heart melancholy, but even she herself doubted. How many things were left after the rough and rough years of time? The more she saw and the more she heard, the more she questioned and distrusted. Such pure love may be the biggest reason why she cherished Yihuan and was willing to interact with her. That is because when she saw Deyihuan, she suddenly realized that she had lost her former self. But what could she get with such self and such Yihuan?

Such thoughts traveled freely in her mind until He Xi stepped forward worriedly and persuaded: "The little master has been so happy. Now, he still vomits badly when he smells something bad. After saying so many words, he will feel uncomfortable again later."

Ruyi forced her thoughts and said with concern: "You are the first child, and it is inevitable that you will have more difficulty in pregnancy. However, I have also heard that the more you feel, the smarter the child in your belly will be. You can be at ease." After that, he instructed He Xi, who served, to not touch or smell those things, and even be careful of tea.

He Xi smiled and said, "The Empress has given instructions many times, I will definitely be careful."

Ruyi sighed: "It's not that I am worried. I should have kept Jiang Yubin to serve you, but now he is quite qualified in the Imperial Hospital and has the trust of the emperor. He has to follow the southern tour all the way, so you should pay extra attention here."

Yihuan nodded and said, "I am very concerned about the Queen's concern for this child. Fortunately, Sister Yufei is a careful person. With her here, the Queen can rest assured."

Ruyi smiled and said, "No, I just saw that you are pregnant and happy, so I can't put my left or right. But then again, I followed the emperor to the south this time. Yongqi could not be with me when I was young. Hailan had to take care of Yongqi and handle the affairs of the harem. I'm afraid it's hard to be careful. You should be careful."
Chapter completed!