Since Yonghuang arrived, Ruyi gradually savored the difference in life. With a child, she had a new sustenance and support. In the past, she always wanted to stay forever. Now she was devoted to Yonghuang. Even Hailan, who had always been quiet, was willing to come over to chat and laugh with her children. Every day, Yonghuang got up to study in the morning, and Ruyi sent him to the palace gate. During dinner, she waited under the dripping water to look forward to him coming back. After dinner, she was the time when the mother and son were closest. Sometimes Hailan accompanied her to embroider the flowers and painted flowers together. Sometimes, Ruyi was reading books alone, and Yonghuang had endless words to say, lingering around her knees, telling Ruyi about everything she saw and heard in the day. Or memorized a passage from the Protestantism of the Taifu. In the palace, which has always been remote and cold, there were also many laughter and joy because of the childish voice of the child.

Because of Yonghuang, the emperor came to Yanxi Palace more than before. After two or three days, even if he didn't spend the night at Ruyi, he would definitely come to accompany him for dinner and ask about Yonghuang's homework. Even Hailan, who had not been lucky for a long time, was promoted to the noble because she raised Yonghuang together.

Ruyi always thought that even if Yonghuang was not his biological child, perhaps this would be what the Empress Dowager called "beautiful and wishful".

In this way, the people in the palace did not dare to be more despised by Ruyi. They all thought that she had a son for no reason, and even the fortune changed. Gradually, not only the people in the harem, but even the Xianfu Palace became particularly polite. Even Concubine Hui was so jealous of the children behind her back, and went to Baohua Palace to pray to Gods and Buddhas for children repeatedly, and no longer treated Ruyi in person as she did in the past.

On this day, Yonghuang was a little depressed after schooling, not as lively as before. Ruyi asked him in front of many people. After using up dinner, she took Yonghuang to the Imperial Garden.

In the middle of summer, the phoenix tails in the imperial garden are covered with pine trees, and the vast and sparse sycamore trees and bamboos are filled with cool and quiet tranquility. At that time, the sunset was setting, the night was low, and the spring in the north was late, but most of the tung flowers that were once bright purple and white were blooming and falling on the lush grass, and withering the remaining red and dust. Such red and purple prosperity is just a dream in spring, and the ground is also depressed? Ruyi looked at the sky with bright stars, as if it was reachable, and so far away. Only Yonghuang's small hands can be held in the palm of his hand.

She took Yonghuang in the imperial garden and looked at the scarlet goldfish swimming around under the fresh and green lotus in the clear water. The clear waves were as clear as green as the red fish were swimming. Ruyi asked Yonghuang to break the willows in her hand and threw the twisted willow leaves into the pond, causing the red fish to jump up and feast together.

Yonghuang was young and was happy after playing for a while. Ruyi signaled the person who followed him to retreat and looked at him with a smile: "Yonghuang, are you feeling more relieved?"

Yonghuang fiddled with the willow branches and dipped them in the water and played: "Mother, my son is more comfortable."

Ruyi sits down on the white stone railing by the pond, looks into his eyes and says, "Since you feel more comfortable, you can tell your mother if you think you are. Why are you unhappy today?"

Yonghuang's eyes shrank slightly, and he looked at the tip of his shoes rubbing: "Mother..."

He wanted to speak but stopped, as if he was hesitating. Ruyi said gently: "When he came back, there were clean everywhere on the newly made brocade robe, only traces of dust fell on his knees. Did the Grand Tutor punish you to kneel?"

Yonghuang nodded sadly and shook his head again: "Mother, Yonglian is here to Shangshu's room today."

Ruyi was slightly shocked, but she smiled and said, "The second prince is only six years old, did she get confused so early?"

Yonghuang said: "The emperor's mother is here too. The emperor's mother said that Yonglian is not young anymore and wants to study with me. So today, two new tutors, Chen and Bai, came to Shangshufang. The emperor's mother said that the two new tutors are grand sages and we must be obedient."

Ruyi smiled and said, "This is a good thing. My mother will accompany you to meet the new Grand Tutor tomorrow."

Yonghuang dropped Liu Zhi in his hand and said aggrievedly: "But the new tutors are not good to their sons! It is obvious that Yonglian couldn't sit still on his first day of studying, but the new tutors actually punished me and knelt outside the Shangshu room for half an hour. Even the Huang tutor who taught me dared to stop me. Chen said that the prince next time..."

Ruyi immediately became alert: "What prince?"

Yonghuang shook his head blankly: "Mother, what is the prince? Grand Tutor Chen called out the prince and was stopped by Grand Tutor Bai."

Ruyi's heart tightened for no reason, and her face still smiled as usual: "Mother doesn't know what the prince is. But a good child, most of the words said by the Grand Tutor have profound meanings. Don't ask anyone, you can't ask these words. What else did Grand Tutor Chen say?"

Yonghuang nodded obediently and cried again: "Teacher Chen said that Yonglian would be disobedient next time, he would keep his son in a dark room to destroy the fire." He was very afraid, "My son knew what it is to destroy the fire. Last year, when his son was in a cold state, Madam Su did not call the doctor to see me, but instead locked me in a dark room and didn't give me food. At that time, I was very scared!" He hugged Ruyi tightly, "Mother, I don't want to destroy the fire anymore!"

Ruyi was full of sadness, but there was a deeper helplessness like Chongyun pressing her heart. She hugged Yonghuang tightly and said softly: "Good child, mother and your mother are both concubines, so your identity is not as valuable as the second prince. Studying in Shangshu Room will inevitably suffer some grievances." Her gentle tone was determined to be inflexible, "But you have to remember that you are the child of your Emperor Ama. With the care of your mother, you can't bully you. Next time, if you have such a thing, you will tell the Grand Tutor, do you know if they punish you like this?"

Yonghuang opened his eyes wide and said, "Mother, can I say this?"

Ruyi hugged him with encouragement: "You are the eldest son of Emperor Ama, and it is necessary to take care of your younger brother, but you can't be wronged. No matter who you are, your wet nurse or your tutor, your mother will not allow them to bully you."

While the two were talking, they saw Chunpin coming over worriedly and called out from behind: "Empress Xian..."

Seeing that her expression was not as usual, Ruyi hurriedly picked up the willow branches on the ground and handed them to Yonghuang's hand, and told him to play well. Chunpin hurriedly asked for peace, then stepped forward to hold Ruyi's hand and was about to shed tears. Ruyi hurriedly whispered: "What's wrong?"

Chunpin looked at Yonghuang who was teasing the fish with tears in her eyes: "I heard that the eldest prince was punished to kneel in Shangshu's room today?"

Ruyi looked at her in surprise, pulled her away and walked under the sycamore tree and said, "How do you know?"

"Xiao Lizi, who served in Shangshu Room, was originally a person who went out of my palace. She wanted to send him to Shangshu Room as soon as possible. In the future, my Yongzhang went to Shangshu Room to study and took care of him. I didn't expect that I just met him in the corridor, but heard him say such a thing." She glanced at Yonghuang quietly, "Is the eldest prince wronged?"

Ruyi sighed: "We are all concubines, and we are not as noble as the queen's direct child, so there are also people."

This sentence aroused the sad things about Chunpin. Her eyes were slightly red and she couldn't help but whimper: "The eldest brother is like this, then my Yongzhang in the future..."

Ruyi hurriedly comforted him: "The queen loves Yongzhang so much, and the person who cares for him is the most exquisite. Even Yonghuang is envious."

Chunpin didn't dare to cry, so she had to wipe her tears, lower her head and attach herself to Ruyi and said, "I am sad about this. The emperor used lunch here today, and he actually said that Yongzhang was not very smart." She was so anxious that she was speechless, "How could my Yongzhang not be smart?"

Ruyi hesitated slightly and said, "I heard from Yonghuang that Yongzhang didn't crawl very well when he was one year old. The wet nurses and nannies either hugged or carried them, and never let them land. Is it fourteen months now that they will leave?"

Chunpin couldn't help but cry: "It's because she can't walk that the nannies are always afraid that he will bump into each other, so the emperor feels so. Yongzhang is slow to learn and speaks slowly, and he doesn't look smart. This child is still so young. If he loses the favor of his emperor, what should I do?"

The glimmer of Xingzi shook off a slight halo from the gap between the leaves. Ruyi said, "You told me several times that the nanny of the Prince's office took good care of the children. Now it seems that this carefulness has spoiled him."

Chunpin was both anxious and helpless: "How dare I say this? If I put it on the emperor, wouldn't it ruin the queen's painstaking efforts? She didn't care so much about her second prince and third princess."

Ruyi's heart moved and suddenly felt a little doubtful, but this way he could not tell Chunpin, what else could she do besides deepening her worries and anxiety? Ruyi had to persuade: "The emperor was just angry for a moment and said that he would say that. Next time he saw the emperor, you said that we are the world on the back of a horse. Children should not be spoiled, and they should also take the emperor to see the prince more. If the emperor often asks about it, it might be better. Besides, father-son family affection is nature. As long as you see it a few times, Yongzhang is so cute, and the emperor will like it."

Chunpin nodded, her sorrow was as deep as a practice, wrapping herself up layer by layer: "I originally thought that if Yongzhang was lucky, he could foster her to the ladder of the empress, and I could see her often. Now it seems that there is no hope."

Ruyi calmed down and said, "Don't even move this idea. Now the only concubine Hui who is in the palace has a high position and has no children, you will naturally refuse. Moreover, Yonghuang was taken care of by the prince and sent it to me, but Yongzhang had nothing like this. If you know this idea, not only the queen, but I am afraid that the emperor will blame you too."

Chunpin had to keep silent, and Ruyi hurriedly said, "Wait and wipe your tears quickly and go back, don't let people gossip."

Chunpin pressed the corner of her eyes with silk: "My sister now has a child. I have to ask you more if you have anything to say and make an idea together."

Ruyi smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as I don't cry like this, I promised you."

Chunpin had no choice but to leave. Ruyi looked at her lonely and thin back and felt pity in her heart. She was just a mother and wanted her child to be good. But in this deep palace, she couldn't even get it. And what about herself? If one day she had her own child, would she be so sad and crying without tears?

Seeing that it was getting late, Ruyi waved over Yonghuang and walked slowly back to the palace together. Along the way, fish occasionally jumped out of the water and splashed a few water splashes. Lotus leaves and green duckweeds grew, and two or three water lilies that had bloomed early blooming were blooming, and several pink ones were perched by the dark red and light green calamus reeds, combing each other's feathers. Yonghuang was happy when he saw everything, and smiled and held Ruyi's hand and said this and that. Ruyi agreed, but the doubts in her heart were hard to fall into the mouth, but they were like dense silk threads, passing by ink. She tried her best to put aside those thoughts, but it seemed that the sky that would definitely darken, and the ink-like color scattered in the clear water and could not be blocked.

Ruyi was thinking intently, but she heard a sob crying from behind the rockery. The sound was too slight, and she just thought it was the long chirping of summer insects. Ruyi didn't move and just acted casually, and said aloud: "Yonghuang, come back quickly, don't go to the rockery to catch crickets!"

The crying there stopped immediately, and Ruyi signaled Yonghuang to silence. But for a moment, she saw a woman who looked like a palace maid walking around the rockery. Ruyi scattered Yonghuang's hand, and Yonghuang immediately understood and pretended to run to catch crickets, and hit the woman. The palace maid looked up and was about to curse. When she saw Ruyi following Yonghuang, she quickly restrained her temper and asked Shuang'an and said, "Empress Xian, Wanfu Jin'an."

Ruyi smiled and said, "I am naturally lucky to be Jinan. But Lianxin, why are you uneasy?" The wind lamp in Yongxin's hand shone out Lianxin's crying face, "The eyes are crying like Tao'er. What's wrong?"

Lianxin subconsciously touched her face, smiled, and said loudly: "What's the upset about me serving the Empress? I just miss homesickness, and I just cried occasionally."

Ruyi knew that she was unwilling to tell the truth and was unwilling to talk to her. She said, "You serve the Queen, be careful in everything, don't let tears fall back." She smiled slightly, "But when you say that, the Queen loves you and Su Xin so much, so naturally she won't be unhappy when she sees your tears."

Lian Xin was tilted with her face without fear. After hearing this, she somehow lowered her face, with a thin darkness as if she was gloomy, but she said stubbornly: "The Empress naturally loves us. She is not as good as those mean people, even the wet nurses who have been with her since childhood have been driven out of the palace."

This was directed at Ruyi, and A Ruo couldn't help it and said, "Who are you talking about?"

Lian Xinying smiled: "I have someone I want to talk about. A Ruo, why are you anxious? What are you talking about? Why do you have to follow this heart?"

A Ruo was never told by someone, and sneered, "Of course I don't want to eat this heart. I just thought that Miss Lianxin would be overjoyed, so why don't you accumulate some blessings in your mouth, so as not to let people listen to the joke. The good family you want to marry will never be mean to you."

Lian Xin's face immediately turned red, but there was a faint ugly iron-green color, and she said with hatred: "You..."

A Ruo smiled and said, "I... I am naturally not as blessed as the Queen Mother's marriage personally. Congratulations to my sister first, and congratulations to you."

Lianxin was embarrassed and annoyed, and immediately ran away with a stomp in her feet.

A Ruo looked at her back and sneered repeatedly. Ruyi said, "If you sneer like this, Ye Xiao's laughter is no longer as good as you. It sounds weird and terrifying."

A Ruo bent over with a smile: "Little master, I am Xiao Lianxin. Do you know that this morning, I went to Piku of the Interior Department to ask them to keep some of the good skins that I have tributed this autumn to make clothes for the eldest prince. Who knew that I saw the people from the Interior Department busy choosing big hair materials next to Piku. I asked curiously, and it was said that what big hair materials were found in summer, but they said that the Empress prepared a dowry for Lianxin."

Ruyi said, "Lianxin is already twenty-four years old. She should have been released from the palace, but she is the queen's maid and has no place to go back. Since she has to serve her in the palace for the rest of her life, it is better to get married. The queen is willing to point out her marriage, so she can give her face."

A Ruo spat with a smile, and the lantern in her hand also swayed and said, "The little master doesn't know who the queen has pointed at her, right?"

Ruyi glanced at Wang Xin, and Wang Xin hurriedly coaxed Yong Huang. Ruyi asked, "I heard that she was close to Wang Qin in front of the emperor, and the queen said this, but this is a joke. Wang Qin is a father-in-law and not a man, how can he be worthy of him?"

A Ruo was so proud that her eyebrows flew up and said, "Young Master, don't say it, it's really Wang Qin. The dowry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been prepared. He said that the emperor knew it, and he would just point out the marriage after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The queen said in the harem that Lianxin has been with her for so many years and she wants to marry half a daughter."

Ruyi was stunned for a long time, then she returned to her spirit for a while and said, "It's such a pity that she is a good girl."

A Ruo was furious and frowning: "What a pity! The eunuchs in the palace are counted as Wang Qin has the highest status. How many people want to be flirted with but can't be flirted with. Lian Xin is worthy of him, and Lian Xin is cheap!"

Ruyi looked at her unhappily: "Okay, don't say such things! It's a pity for a palace maid to be a matchmaker. No matter how bad Lianxin is, don't make fun of her in person."

A Ruo responded reluctantly, blushed half his face, and hugged to Ruyi and said, "My master, will you point me a good family to me in the future?"

Ruyi smiled and reached out to shave her face: "Don't worry, you released a foreign official last year. I have always heard that it is very good. Then I will point you to a good family with a glorious look."

A Ruo was both shy and happy: "What kind of good family can I choose from is all based on the grace of the little master."

Ruyi said: "We don't know how the people outside are. We can choose a guard in front of the imperial court and make a good future by ourselves."

A Ruo couldn't help but stick to Ruyi for a long time. Just as Ye Xin brought Yonghuang over, A Ruo waved and smiled: "Young master is happy today. Please beg her and give you a good family to marry, so that you can also raise your family and save people from knowing your two hundred-month background!"

Ruyi slapped A Ruo with a angrily slap, and acted to hit her in the mouth. A Ruo smiled and avoided: "I am so familiar with Yoko Soon, just a joke."

Wang Xin said calmly: "I am not a better family than Sister A Ruo. I just want to guard the little master for the rest of my life and never go anywhere."

A Ruo picked the corners of her eyes, as if she was dissatisfied, and muttered: "Such great grace is in front of her, don't pretend to be hypocritical!"

Wang Xin cleaned Yonghuang's clothes and smiled faintly, "There is nothing to be hypocritical. Sister A Ruo wants to marry a good family, and the little master cannot be served without a person. When the slave was sold, he forgot where his hometown was, and he just stayed to serve the little master for the rest of his life."

Ruyi stroked the slightly cool gilded tassel on her temples and said with a smile: "It is naturally good for you to have this heart, but girls must not marry. Even if they get closer, they will marry a guard or an imperial physician."

My heart was red and bit my lip, but I just didn't say anything.

Ruyi held their hands and was about to get up and leave, but suddenly she saw the lights in front of her, and dozens of lanterns lit up the stars like dark red and light yellow, illuminating in a hazy way.
Chapter completed!