The emperor looked at Concubine Hui and felt a little distant: "Okay. I have dealt with Wang Qin, so you don't have to cry. Go back to the palace first."

Concubine Hui felt aggrieved and wanted to say something else. The emperor just gave such a indifferent and distant tone and waved his hand and said, "I will go see you again, go back."

Concubine Hui had to take her back Yiyi. Ruyi looked at Lianxin with a sad look and said, "Emperor, Wang Qin is a serious crime in this matter, but Lianxin is only innocently victimized. No matter who was given to Wang Qin as a match for food, she could not escape such a fate. Please don't punish Lianxin for her sake for Lianxin's years of serving the Empress."

The emperor nodded slightly: "I know, I will not blame Lian Xin." There was a slight mercy in his eyes, "I will resolve your food with Wang Qin, so you should serve the queen."

Ruyi shook her head compassionately: "The Empress was kind-hearted back then, and wanted the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to have a support for each other. Wang Qin was not a bad person who was unforgivable, but why did other eunuchs never have such a thing, but Wang Qin had it? It was because he had a wife after eating, and felt that he was incompetent, so he had such a greedy and filthy heart. In my opinion, although Wang Qin's crimes are unforgivable, he should not have the tendency to eat. So that there would be such a horrible thing in the palace."

The emperor took the tea and took a sip: "Your words make sense, I will think about it again when I go back." He stood up and said: "It's not early, I still have to go to the noble family of Jia. You can rest early."

Ruyi sent the emperor to the corridor and said with a knee: "I am in trouble with rumors, so I am confined to you. It is not appropriate to send you too far away. I am here to send you to the emperor."

Lian Xinben followed the emperor and couldn't help but turn back and said, "Is the words of Concubine Xian about the birth of a son of Concubine Mei?"

Ruyi's indifferent smile is like a trembling pear blossom in the wind: "The rumors are chaotic, and I can only wait for the truth to come out."

Lian Xin knelt down with a "thump", leaned down and crawled to Ruyi's feet, and couldn't help crying: "Empress Xian, please forgive me... for my concealment."

Ruyi looked puzzled: "Have you ever hidden something from this palace?"

"I... I know that the rumors about Mei Guiren's child's birth were indeed not spread, but Wang Qin finished his errand and drank a few sips of yellow soup that day, and he was drunk and said nonsense. It's just that I was suffering from Wang Qin in the past, so I never dared to say it out. Please forgive me..." Lian Xin kowtowed like pounding rice.

The emperor immediately stopped and turned around and said, "It was Wang Qin? Then why do people in the palace say that it was first reported in the Yanxi Palace?"

Lianxin looked sincere: "Yanxi Palace is the only way for Wang Qin to return to his house. He was drunk that day and lay on the corridor outside the Yanxi Palace and talked nonsense. When I found him, he was drunk. I was afraid that this was the case, so when others heard it, they thought it was a rumor that came from Yanxi Palace."

The emperor seemed to believe it and asked, "Be serious?"

Lian Xin kowtowed quickly and said, "I dare not speak nonsense. The emperor, the sage, not many people know about this, so the emperor and the empress naturally would not tell me. I have never had any contact with the Yanxi Palace. If Wang Qin had not told me nonsense, who would have heard from me?"

The emperor immediately reached out to stop Li Yu: "There is no need to pass on the sedan chair. I will stay in Yanxi Palace tonight and will not go to the Jia Guiren Palace."

Lianxin and Li Yu were tactful and immediately stepped down.

The guilt in the emperor's eyes arose in Qingcheng, and he held Ruyi's hand: "Ruyi, I misunderstood you."

Ruyi smiled sweetly, and the waves in her bright eyes were filled with clear tears: "Should I sing a song "June Snow" to make me seem more unfair than Dou E?"

The emperor held her hand: "I don't doubt myself, nor did I doubt the queen. Before I could even doubt Wang Qin, he brought someone to the scene with confidence, so I could only doubt you. So I could only confine you."

So what if you feel wronged? So what if you feel wronged? Ruyi knows very well, but when Jun Xiang comes again, her too much grievance and sorrow are all a dead leaf in the spring breeze, which is inappropriate.

Ruyi suppressed the grievance in her heart to the end, showing a faint smile as light as Chulei. The smile was as thin as the sleeves of the Spring God Dongjun could easily blow it down: "The emperor once said to me, "I want me to be relieved. Even if the emperor didn't say anything this time, I will believe that the emperor would make me relieved. So I also know that during these days of confinement, I will not be short of supplies. It is only a matter of time to come. I believe that even if it is the day when everyone and everything is pointed at me, the emperor will protect me."

The emperor hugged her gently: "What you said is what I think. If there really is that day, I will protect your vitality."

The night is like a dark ocean, endless. After the floating clouds dissipated, a new moon became brighter and brighter, and the stars in the sky were like broken diamonds that scattered away. The lights of the stars and moon in the sky were intertwined with the lights in the jade garden of Qionglou, as if they were reflections of each other. They were dazzling and confusing. The moonlight shone on the emperor's ochre-brown brocade dragon robe, and slowly gave birth to a hazy halo.

Ruyi leaned on the emperor's chest, watching the bleak wind in the corridor, blowing the shadows of branches. She had no intention of thinking about the causes and consequences, and knew that she shouldn't think about it. So she simply showed a smile that got what she wanted.

After Ruyi's confinement was lifted, she gradually gained a unique momentum. After Wang Qin offended Concubine Hui and was executed, the emperor not only went to Xianfu Palace at all, but also rarely set foot in the Queen's Palace.

On that day, Ruyi was sitting under the window, looking at the sunshine as bright as gold, and laughed unconsciously: "Spring is coming so fast, so fast there are buds on the peach branches."

Wang Xin came in with the sun-dried silk thread and smiled cutely: "No? Everyone says that spring is only in Yanxi Palace. If you want to relax, Jingyang Palace is the same. So everyone is counting on the favor of the East Six Palaces."

Ruyi smiled and said, "What kind of favor is the East Six Palaces? The emperor has only come here a few times. Tell me, don't be arrogant."

Wang Xin piled a large handful of silk threads on the tables of the red sandalwood and slowly adjusted them, pursing her lips and smiling: "This servant naturally knows. But Concubine Hui was the most favored in the past, and now the emperor doesn't go to her anymore."

"This time I dyed the fragrance in, and I can finally use it." Ruyi reached out and plucked the thread, gently sniffed the smell of her fingertips, and slowly said, "Concubine Hui was smart but was mistaken for intelligence. If she was really smart, she would not say a word after being offended by Wang Qin that day, and she would not shed a single tear. She was waiting for the emperor to deal with it."

Wang Xin held his cheek and said curiously: "Why did the little master say that? If a woman is humiliated, she will cry?"

"Yes. The more she cried in grievance in front of the emperor, the more the emperor heard Lianxin talk about how Wang Qin was rampant, he would think of Concubine Hui's tears, and remembered that she almost got offended by Wang Qin that day. How could she bear it as a man?"

Wangxin pursed her lips and couldn't hide her smile: "So that day, the little master chose the right concubine who would ridicule her in front of our palace gate, so he chose that opportunity. Originally, I thought that it was the queen who gave her marriage and food. It would be a pleasure to fall on the queen and make her frightened."

Ruyi smiled and shook her head: "The queen is not as restless as Concubine Hui. Moreover, only when it comes to Concubine Hui, will the emperor vent his anger on the queen, and feel that all kinds of right and wrong are caused by the queen's marriage and food, and the emperor will be neglected from Changchun Palace."

Wang Xin smiled knowingly and said softly: "Only in this way can we pull down the imperial concubine and the queen, punish Wang Qin, rescue the little master himself, and kill three birds with one stone."

Ruyi said coldly: "My original intention was never just to help save Lianxin. By the way, in addition to Wang Qin's hidden danger, it was to eliminate the food in the palace. In the first rumor, the queen wanted to save me on the surface, but asked the emperor to just confine me, but actually put me in a place where I could not save myself. Since this is the case, I punished myself to protect myself, and I could not let anyone trample on the Yanxi Palace to the end."

Wang Xin nodded secretly: "Only by clearing this muddy water can the emperor believe that the empress and the rumors are in trouble, and can she be truly at ease."

Ruyi slowly picked up the silk thread and compared it to the color, and smiled and said, "Look at this silk thread, just one red has dozens or hundreds of colors. If you grab it, you can tell which one is rouge red and which one is coral red. You have to put it on the snow-white raw silk to see it at a glance."

Wang Xin smiled knowingly: "So the little master has to leave room for the emperor to distinguish the color so that he can make a decision."

Ruyi smiled slightly, and the colorful silk threads slid across the fingertips like flowing water, gently slid into a handful, hanging on the rosewood rack, letting it drift like a fine spring. "Whether it is to be confined or closed-minded, since rumors outside are chaotic and pointing directly at me, then I will follow the flow and avoiding it a little is naturally the best way."

"But the little master is really never worried? The little master is confined, so they will naturally be allowed to do so. If the little master is subject to their arrangement and confirms the source of the rumors that the noble man Mei gave birth to a monster, even if the emperor wants to protect you, it will not be able to save you."

Ruyi raised his slender fingers slightly, and pulled out a bright red ray between his snow-white fingers: "They want to arrange such things, but it will not be possible for one or two days. As long as I stay in Yanxi Palace obediently, even if they have something to do, they will not do my business. If you think about it carefully, it must be their harm to me. If they have something to do, they must have nothing to do with me. If you don't want to bet such a good thing, would you be willing to bet?"

Wang Xin pursed her lips and smiled, holding a handful of green silk thread for Ruyi and slowly chose: "I dare not gamble, I just follow the Empress with peace of mind."

Ruyi described the delicate eyebrows as bright as stretched wings: "It's also a blessing for Lian Xin to be obedient. Not only did she inform Wang Qin of the palace and offend Concubine Hui. She also said that he always talked nonsense after drinking and boasted randomly, and the rumors came from him. Moreover, whether it was right or wrong, the emperor had already disliked this person in his heart, so he would think that he did it."

Wang Xin frowned slightly: "In the matter of Concubine Mei, the people who know about the emperor and the queen are the little master and Wang Qin. Has the little master never suspected that he was the queen..."

Ruyi smiled coldly, tied the silk thread on her fingers, and said in a sequel: "Have you ever doubted it? It's just that the queen is not someone I can move. No matter whether the person who uses rumors to harm me is her or not, I can only cut off her arms first!"

"But Lianxin..."

"Lianxin only wants to get rid of Wang Qin. She is the queen's maid and a dowry. With her parents and tribesmen, she dare not betray the queen for a while. Well, as long as people don't offend me, I will not offend others. Let's keep her first and take it as a precaution."

On this day, the emperor and the empress took the concubines of the six palaces to pay their respects to the empress dowager. The empress dowager carefully comforted the nobleman Yi, and ordered Fujia to bring a red wood lacquer plate with red embroidered velvet from it. On it was placed a golden lock for the Qilin to send a child, and held it in front of the nobleman Yi and said, "The Book of Songs says: The toe of the Lin, the Prince Zhenzhen 1. The Ai family will give you a golden lock for the Qilin to you. I hope you will add a prince to the emperor as soon as possible."

Guiren Yi couldn't help but get up and thanked him.

The emperor was also quite happy and said, "Qilin, with faith and righteousness, and with a rule, being polite, being kind and kind, and being a divine beast to give birth to children. The gift from the emperor's mother is really unique."

Concubine Hui smiled and stroked the Cuiyu Liusu Pei at the collar: "The Empress Dowager Yi must have appreciated the feelings of nobles. In fact, what's wrong with Princess Princess? As long as the mother and son are safe, don't be as blessed as nobles Mei."

The Empress Dowager reached out and pulled out the newly opened clusters of spring on the tables beside her hand. The golden wings and green calyxes and branches were already filled with a warm and cool atmosphere of early spring. The smile on the empress dowager's lips was also so warm and cool: "The Empress has always disliked luxury. The Ai family saw that the jewelry used by these concubines was mostly silver gilded. The Ai family gave Yi nobleman the Kirin lock, so the Empress would not think that the Ai family was too confused."

The queen hurriedly stood up and said respectfully: "The emperor's mother is full of thought, how dare I think so? What's more, the nobleman Yi is pregnant. The emperor's mother loves nobleman Yi, which is equivalent to caring for his concubines."

The Empress Dowager smiled slightly: "The peace and peace in the palace is due to the queen's virtue. I heard that in order to make the concubines in the harem have many children, the Empress asked the Imperial Hospital to cook more fetal medicines and send them to each palace every day, and she was also determined." She turned to the emperor and said, "The previous few days were the day when the dragon raised its head on the second day of the second month. The Ai family ordered people to observe the celestial phenomena at night and pray for auspiciousness. I wonder if the Imperial Heaven Supervision could tell the emperor about the result?"

The emperor raised a hint of joy and said, "The Imperial Heavenly Supervisor said that the celestial phenomena are peaceful, especially the northern heavenly girl Su Xingxing tail with a small star. It is particularly bright for several months, which means that the woman in the harem has a noble fetus. The son is also very comforted."

The queen mother smiled and said, "The female star is originally shaped like a bat, which is a blessing and auspicious sign. But the only one who is pregnant in the harem is Yi. It seems that this baby is indeed a great blessing."

In this way, Concubine Yi was even more happy. Concubine Hui curled her lips disdainfully, and said coldly. The queen said with a look of relief: "In this way, I will ask the Empress Dowager and the Emperor for grace. Concubine Yi has served the Emperor for many years, and her position is... "

The emperor smiled heartily and said, "After Yi Gui's childbirth, no matter whether she is a man or a woman, I will definitely give her a concubine and be in the position of the lord of Jingyang Palace. How about it?"

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "It's so great. The Ai family also hopes that the concubines in the harem can have more birth and nurture the royal family."

After a few greetings, the Empress Dowager specially reminded Yi Guiren to protect her fetus, and she also disbanded.

As soon as he left the Yimen Gate of Cining Palace, the emperor said to Ruyi: "I gave you some good tea yesterday. I have given you all. I'm not going to have time to cook tea for me to taste, how about you?"

Ruyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled slightly: "I am not afraid that the emperor will not come to taste tea. It's just that you haven't been to Changchun Palace for a few days. The previous day was the first day of the second month. You should have spent the night in the Queen's Palace, but you just went to sit down and went back."

The emperor was about to speak, but the queen rushed up and asked Anduang: "The emperor has thousands of blessings."

The emperor smiled and said lightly: "The spring is chilly, won't the queen return to her palace yet?"

The queen was quite embarrassed and hesitated for a moment, but said, "Your Majesty, you have not been to my palace for many days. I am ignorant. I wonder if the emperor blamed me for being abused by Wang Qin because of Lianxin?"

Lianxin followed the queen and hurriedly knelt down and said, "The emperor is wise. I am just a poor life for me. Moreover, I dare not tell the queen that I am afraid of her worry. After Wang Qin's accident, the queen realized that the hardships I suffered were very pity and blamed myself. She also personally applied medicine for her. I was very grateful. Therefore, Wang Qin's fact is that my life is miserable and I will not do the Queen's business!"

The emperor looked at the queen with a hint of tenderness. He said gently: "Queen, you were just kind-hearted at the beginning, and you were compassionate with the lonely people of the palace, but you did not know that others were good at observing. Lianxin was by your side for many years, and you failed to observe for a while, which not only caused Lianxin to suffer a lot, but also caused unhealthy trends in the palace. I must not help but think that this was the queen's mistake."

The queen stood at the wind, and the cold wind passing through the passage blew her delicate bun that was combed in a trace of uncluttered manner. A few strands of ink-colored black hair brushed her blood-free face, like a cold lotus withered in early autumn.

The queen bowed and turned the cold tears in her eyes into a calm and calm state: "It is indeed because I am not obsessed with me. I will face the wall and think about my mistakes and reflect on myself again and again." She bent down: "Then, I am honored to send me to the emperor."

After the emperor had a tea at Ruyi's place, he returned to the Yangxin Palace to handle government affairs. When Ruyi was idle, she took the fragrant silk thread and embroidered the spring scenery one by one.

A Ruo came in with a newly ignited incense burner and said, "The little master also embroidered when he was out of favor. Now he is so favored that he is not enough to be busy with the emperor. Why are you embroidering again?"

Ruyi smiled slightly, took the needle and thread and said, "When you are out of favor, you should learn to calm down. When you are favored, you should also warn yourself not to be impatient. This is the case with embroidery. If one eye is wrong, the whole situation will be destroyed; if one needle is oblique, it will be the one who hurts himself. Therefore, you should not make any mistake in any step."

A Ruo smiled thoughtfully, took a baked lotus fragrance cake and put it in the stove, covered it with mica partitions to separate the charcoal fire from the fragrant cake, and dripped one or two drops of condensed honey: "Now it is spring, and the air is dry, and when burning incense, it can clear the heat and moisten the dryness. Do you think it's good?"

"Now your mind is quieter and more appropriate, so naturally there is nothing wrong with it." Ruyi smiled slightly, thought for a while and said, "Guy Yi likes to burn sandalwood after she is pregnant. This morning, although sandalwood is good, she always feels dry and hot after burning incense. She is also a greedy sweet food. I remember that there is a locust flower honey prepared in the kitchen last year, and it is best to clear heat and cool blood. Then you can send her a jar later."

A Ruo smiled and said, "It's okay. The locust flower honey was specially found in the suburbs of Beijing last year. I picked up the snow-white and clean blooming flowers, and added a moderate amount of locust flower dew steamed from tender mulberry leaves. I remember that the locust flower flowers are the most delicate. The hundreds of flowers picked from the trees can't withstand the steaming. In the end, I only got two small jars of locust flower dew, and then used honey from the wild beehive produced in Changbai Mountain. It was just because the little master had blood heat before, so I was so worried that he would not be afraid of trouble. The whole party had just thought, and the little master had to give it to someone."

Ruyi said angrily: "Now that Concubine Yi is the emperor's flesh, and even the empress dowager looks more respectful to her. I also thought that if Concubine Yi's child is safe, the emperor would also untie the knot of Concubine Mei's child last time, this would be good."

A Ruo smiled and said, "What's the point of getting pregnant? In the past, nobleman Yi was not favored at all, but now he is pregnant. If the little master takes advantage of the fact that the Holy Family is in a prime position and gets pregnant quickly, that would really make the emperor happy. I don't know how the emperor will hold love like a bead."

Ruyi smiled and angrily looked at her: "I love talking nonsense more and more."

As he was talking, the little palace maid Luhen came in with the medicine and said, "You have just boiled medicine, please drink it soon."

Ruyi sniffed gently, frowned and said, "You will know as soon as you smell the smell, it is the smell of fetal medicine."

A Ruo took a few sweet and sour candied fruits and put them at Ruyi's hand, and said with a good voice: "This fetal medicine is used to induce pregnancy. We have to drink it no matter how bitter it is. Look, I have prepared even carved kumquats and candied milk pears. Please drink it quickly."

Ruyi took the bowl and drank it upside down, rinsed her mouth with clean water, quickly took the candied fruit and put it in her mouth for a while, and said, "If you drink this fetal medicine in one bowl, it will make you feel bitter under your tongue. I really don't know when you will get pregnant?"

A Ruo smiled and said, "As long as the emperor comes often, his luck will come sooner or later. After taking the medicine, let's go to Jingyang Palace to get pregnant. I heard that although Concubine Hui is not satisfied with the celestial phenomena, she often goes to Jingyang Palace to get pregnant."

Ruyi held A Ruo's hand and smiled and said, "Since that's the case, you should bring the urn of locust flower honey and accompany me to Jingyang Palace to take a look."

Jingyang Palace was behind Yanxi Palace and Yonghe Palace. Seeing that the sky was very beautiful, Ruyi took the palace servants to walk over. Because Concubine Yi was pregnant, Jingyang Palace was also specially arranged. When she walked outside the palace wall, she saw the vermilion palace walls standing tall, and even the glazed tiles looked blue.

Ruyi looked carefully and said, "What a festive color, this wall is a new pink color, it seems to be a bit brighter."

The eunuch who came up to him laughed brightly: "No, the queen told me that the color should be festive, so that it is auspicious." Ruyi held A Ruo's hand and entered the rich doors. She saw the carved railings, red and gold paintings, and the freshness was extremely bright.

Ruyi nodded secretly and said, "As soon as possible, the nobleman Yi is pregnant, and Jingyang Palace is different from the past." She turned around and asked the little eunuch: "What is nobleman Yi doing at this time?"

The little eunuch said, "The noble man is tired and is resting in the warm trunk at this moment. Please, Empress Xian."

Ruyi was about to enter the main hall when she suddenly heard a scream of fear inside, which was the voice of Concubine Yi.

Notes:

1 Selected from "National Style·Zhou Nan·Lin's Toe", the full text is: "The toe of Lin is to shake the princess, and the determination of Lin is to shake the surname of Lin, and the horn of Lin is to shake the princes, and the horn of Lin is to shake the princes and clans, and clans!" This is a poem praising the princes.
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