That night, Ruyi stayed in the Hall of Yangxin. The emperor slept very well, but she tossed and turned and fell asleep, just letting him hold his hand and sleeping heavily. Haha, she was really sleeping. She stared at the sleeping face of the person beside the pillow, with a slightly raised curve of her mouth that had a warm and seductive posture, and the fine lines in the corners of her eyes could not hide his majestic appearance as jade mountain. She was really a handsome man, not disappointed by the years.

Her hands were tightly clenched with him, and silently perceived the passing of each other's years in his familiar palm lines. In the end, they had changed. He was no longer a handsome young man, but a cunning emperor; and he was no longer a arrogant and willful lady, but a palace concubine who was good at plotting. But no matter what, they were still a perfect match. Because of this perfect match, they would not be separated from each other for too long.

Ruyi thought in a daze, and suddenly felt a little cold. She reached out to grab Jin Quilt tightly wrapped around her body, but at that moment she realized that it would be a better choice if she approached the man with warm body beside her. However, he still chose to protect herself, even by the man who had dated her skin.

This subconsciousness almost instantly made her sweat. Yes, perhaps in her heart, this man might not be able to protect herself, so who would be able to protect herself in a dangerous situation without hesitation. She thought and searched carefully, and the only person she could remember was Ling Yunche.

That little guard had the eyes as bright as stars in the black sky. Even if you know, he had a desire to be upward, but his eyes were not like the eyes of the men she had always looked at, but were blindfolded by the power of desire.

Such a secret and unspeakable thought made her storm in the warm bedding with the chill of coldness. Suddenly, the emperor's moans recalled in his sleep, and he murmured gently: "Lang Ya, Lang Ya..."

Ruyi carefully distinguished for a moment before she remembered the boudoir name of Empress Xiaoxian at that time. In her memory, the emperor had never called the boudoir name of the queen like this. He always called her "Faojin" or "Queen" by his identity.

She watched the emperor shake his head in pain in his sleep, and fine beads of sweat emerged from his forehead. Finally, she couldn't help but push the emperor to wake him up and gently wiped his sweat: "Master, what's wrong with you?"

The emperor sat up in shock, feeling confused for a moment, looking at everything that could be seen by the faint candlelight outside the tent, his breath fluctuated.

Ruyi asked softly: "Your Majesty, are you a nightmare?"

The emperor recovered, leaned on the pillow tiredly, shook his head and said, "Ruyi, I dreamed of Empress Xiaoxian. She stood in front of my bed and asked me with tears on her face, who would replace her in Changchun Palace in the future. She also asked me: Emperor, why haven't you called me the name of my concubine for so long? Are you still suspicious and resentful to me?" The emperor lowered his head dejectedly, "In this case, the queen also asked me before her death. But I remembered her past mistakes and refused to call her "Langya", so she chased me into my dream and pestered me to let go."

Ruyi looked at the emperor with a gentle expression, with a calming power: "No one is perfect. Although Empress Xiaoxian has made her mistakes, her heart for the emperor cannot be replaced by anyone."

The candle shadow shook Dark Red Ye Ye. The emperor's steep face was not real in the dark bedroom. His deep eyes seemed like a pool of deep pool water. After a long time, the emperor let out a long sigh and called Yuhu and said, "Go and tell Li Yu that my will. Changchun Palace is the bedroom of Empress Xiaoxian during his lifetime. I will keep all the furnishings when Empress Xiaoxian lived. All the boxes and clothes she used were placed as it was. Then, the Dongzhu crown and Dongzhu court beads used by Empress Xiaoxian during his lifetime were enshrined in Changchun Palace." He thought for a moment and said, "Wait, go, let's go there, the portrait of Empress Huixian's imperial concubine is also offered. And. Every year on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month and the death day of the death day, I will come to pay tribute in person. Changchun Palace, I will not let other concubines live."

Yu Hu agreed to retreat. Ruyi listened silently to the emperor's instructions, and looked quiet as usual. "If the emperor does this, Empress Xiaoxian will be comforted if she knows it underground. The emperor can feel at ease."

The emperor sighed calmly: "I wrote a "Fu of Sadness" to memorize Empress Xiaoxian. In a few days, I will personally copy and burn with the Queen's spirit. I hope she can get a little relieved when she reunited with Yonglian and Yongcong and his son in the nine springs."

The night breeze blew the veil like snow-stuffed tents, the hollow silver thread on the tent was beaded with crystal embroidered patterns, and the red gold nine dragon tent hook at the head of the bed made a slight sound in the swaying, and even the pearls in the dragon's mouth radiated out a wandering light. The emperor lay down again and fell asleep. Ruyi looked at him, feeling countless emotions lingering in his heart. In the end, he could only close his eyes and struggle to fall asleep.

This sleep was light. When Ruyi woke up, the emperor was about to wear it and went to court. Ruyi was no longer sleepy, so she got up and served the emperor and put on a dragon robe and buttoned up the golden button. The emperor had a faint ink blue at the moment. Ruyi stood in front of him and just reached his chin. She felt that the warm breath of his breath also made a stagnation of the cheeks. She said softly: "The emperor did not sleep well last night. When I come back later, I will cook Eucommia Snow Ginseng and Red Date Soup for the Emperor."

The emperor said quietly: "Let's leave these things to the servants to do. You didn't sleep very well last night, so go and have a sleep later."

Ruyi responded softly, served the emperor and left, and then sat in a sedan chair to go to Yikun Palace. The sky was only exposed in the distant sky in the east, and the rest of the vast sky was nothing but black, making it difficult for people, gods and ghosts to distinguish. Her heart was with her and asked quietly: "Little Lord, why did Empress Xiaoxian treat her only to her? After her death, the emperor was so affectionate and never forget it?"

Ruyi smiled faintly and said, "Sometimes, people's deep love is not only for others to see, but also for themselves. If you are too deeply involved in the show, you will even believe in yourself."

Wangxin was a little confused: "I don't understand what the little master said."

Ruyi sighed: "Why do you need to understand? As long as you know, it is really good to treat you well when you are alive." She focused for a moment, "You are almost thirty, are you almost thirty? You always say that you asked you to leave the palace at the age of 25, but as you drag, you are almost thirty. September is your birthday, so you can let you out of the palace."

Wang Xin smiled and said, "Yes. Life is so fast. I could have left the palace when I was twenty-five, but I always felt that I could not live without the little master. Now I am almost thirty."

"When I first left the cold palace, you always said you would spend more time with me. Now that I am thirty, you can leave the palace and marry well. Jiang Yubin is a very good candidate. I will tell the emperor to marry you to her."

With a blush on his face, he said sincerely: "But I want to serve the little master for a few more years."

Ruyi smiled: "Age doesn't wait for anyone. A woman's good years are just a few years. Don't let her down easily. If you don't marry you, I don't know how much Jiang and Bin hate me behind me. But then again, even if you get married, you will go to the palace to serve in the daytime and go out of the palace at night. It's okay. I hope you can leave the palace well and live a stable life."

Wang Xin was so excited that his eyes were filled with tears. The two of them were talking. When the sedan chair stopped, it turned out that it had arrived at the gate of Yikun Palace. Ruyi held Wang Xin's hand and got the sedan chair. Sanbao hurriedly greeted him: "Young Master, you are back. The news from Yanxi Palace, Yu Concubine Yu entered the empress dowager's harem last night, and he has not come out until now. Following the people who served him, Yu Concubine Yu kneeled in the courtyard of Cining Palace for a night, and the empress dowager refused to allow her to get up until now."

Ruyi felt a chill and asked immediately: "Does anyone else know about this news?"

Sanbao shook his head and said, "The people in Yanxi Palace were trained by Concubine Yu himself. They know how to be sensible and dare to deliver the news to us, and no one else knows it."

Ruyi thought for a moment and walked a few steps forward: "I'm so worried, I'm tired, go to sleep for a while."

Wang Xin agreed to take the untied Yunsi Yinluo cloak for her and said, "Yes. The slave tick is waiting for the little master to fall asleep, and then go to ask the fifth prince to get up. It's time to go to Shangshu's room."

Ruyi took two steps, sighed slightly, and finally couldn't help but turn around: "Go to Cining Palace!"

When Ruyi arrived outside the Cining Palace, the sky was bright. The dim morning light shone from the thick clouds, covering the magnificent Cining Palace with an ambiguous and dim color. Ruyi stood for a moment and took a deep breath. No matter how many times she came to this place, she always had indescribable fear and stayed away from it.

Yes, the Queen Mother once saved her and was her benefactor. But for the entire Uranara clan, the Queen Mother also destroyed all their glory and reliance on their enemies.

The grudges and hatreds are intertwined, but I can’t help the Queen Mother. This is the real awe.

However, at this moment, Hai Lan was inside. Although she didn't know what it was for, Ruyi felt uneasy. Although the Empress Dowager was in charge of the matters of the Six Palaces, she never interfered in trivial matters. Moreover, she was extremely gentle in control and rarely had any punishment for kneeling for a night.

So the more you walked into Ciningfu, Ruyi's anxiety became more and more serious. The little palace maids outside reported in layer by layer, and Fujia was welcomed. She was not surprised when she saw Ruyi, but said calmly as usual: "The Empress Dowager has stood up, and after dressing up, you can see the Empress Dowager."

The Queen Mother simply loved flowers in time, and the emperor was extremely filial, so the Queen Mother planted precious flowers and trees in Cining to make the Queen Mother smile. Begonia, peony, magnolia, and welcoming spring are all the best, and they also have the kindness of "Yutang Fugui Spring". The flower house also specially appointed ten old gardeners to concentrate on taking care of the Queen Mother's favorite acacia flowers. Therefore, the flowers in Cining Palace are full of flowers and will never bloom. The night dew is also clear, dyed with flowers and plants, and it reveals a different kind of beauty.

Ruyi looked at the yard. Apart from the flowers and plants, there were only two cranes dozing under the banana tree, quietly around, and no one was kneeling. Ruyi became more and more worried and asked in a low voice: "Aunt, where is Concubine Yu?"

Fujia smiled and said, "Empress Yu has a family with children. How could the empress dowager ask her to be so embarrassed? She would not kneel here even if she had to kneel. Otherwise, if it was spread, how could Empress Yu be a human being?"

Ruyi couldn't guess the Queen Mother's plan, so she followed Fujia into the warmhouse and sat down. Fujia pointed to a plate of lotus heart sauce and a bowl of walnut cheese on the desk and said, "This is the late-night snack that the Queen Mother prepared for the Queen Mother last night. The Queen Mother was useless and it was already cold. I asked someone to withdraw and change to some breakfast snacks."

Ruyi was surprised, but could only smile quietly and said, "How did you know that this palace does not have breakfast?"

Fujia smiled and said, "How can I know? I just do things according to the Queen Mother's instructions. But the Empress did not come last night, so it must be because she was serving the bed. If she returned to wealth immediately after serving the bed, then she would come when she knew about it. The Empress has always been like a sister with Concubine Yu, right?"

Ruyi was secretly shocked. An aunt beside the queen mother lived as crystal glass and transparent, let alone the queen mother herself. Seeing the breakfast coming, she simply calmed down, used some milk tea and horseshoe cakes, and a small bowl of chestnut porridge. Fujia smiled beside her and said, "The Queen Mother told me before going to bed that if the Queen Mother had no energy to use things, she would be too lazy to talk to the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother could still eat it, she would still have the heart to speak."

Ruyi's heart was slightly heavy, as if something heavy was falling. She still smiled: "Aunt Fujia, I am already full. Even if the Empress Dowager wants to pull me and Concubine Yu to be punished, I will have the strength to support it. But Concubine Yu..."

Fujia didn't understand, and smiled and said, "Don't worry, Empress Dowager. If the Empress Dowager punishes him, she will not be hungry. If Empress Dowager can, she will be sleepy when she kneels."

After answering this, Ruyi could only remain silent. After waiting for an incense stick, she could only hear the swaying sound of the pearl curtains being pulled up, as if it was gurgling with drizzle. Through the broken jade bead curtain, a woman's voice as clear as water came, as if it was stained with the exquisiteness and transparency of broken jade. The Empress Dowager walked out from behind the curtain: "I knew that Concubine Yu was punished to kneel down, and you would come sooner or later, because of this matter, you must be implicated."

Ruyi hurriedly got up and bowed, fearing and trepidation: "The Empress Dowager is blessed with great blessings and prosperity, and prosperity is prosperous and prosperous."

The Empress Dowager waved her hand and said, "What's the blessing of the Ai family? She suddenly broke two emperor grandchildren in your hands, and implicated Concubine Chun so that you could dominate the world. Such a good plan is under the nose of the Ai family. The Ai family wants to close their eyes and be unable to see it."

Ruyi kept the smile respectfully: "I don't understand the Queen Mother's words."

The empress dowager watched the palace maids set up breakfast and left. She smiled and took tea from Fujia's hand, then slowly scooped a bowl of bird's nest porridge and drank a few sips: "Don't understand? The Ai family only needs to see who benefits the most in this matter, so they can guess who did it. Why? Chun Guifei was originally a concubine with you, but now she can't come out of sickness. You are the only one who can do it. Is there anything else to say? Fortunately, Chun Guifei has many descendants. In addition to Yongzhang's ignorance, the emperor did not like Yongzhang, and there are always Yongyan and Jingyan. People with both children are always blessed than Ai's family, and even more blessed than you."

Ruyi couldn't listen to the things that children were the most. She suddenly stabbed her heart, as if a needle was caught off guard, and she forced out fine blood beads. She tried her best to support the smile on her face: "The Queen Mother's blessing is naturally no match for anyone. But what the Queen Mother said was nothing more than thinking that I had planned Yonghuang and Yongzhang."

The empress dowager put down the bird's nest porridge and waved her hand and said, "Fujia, this porridge is too light. Let's mix some milk for Ai's family."

Fujia agreed and led the palace maids to retreat, but only Yu Ruyi and the Empress Dowager were facing each other quietly.

The Empress Dowager wiped the corners of her lips with silk, then put it down, and turned her cold face: "Now your mind is getting stronger and stronger, just Yongzhang, even Yonghuang, whom you raised, can be used. Even the tiger poison is not enough to eat the baby!" The Empress Dowager looked dark and smiled suddenly, "I forgot that the Ai family has never had any children in your stomach? As for adopting a child, naturally there is no need to be too concerned."

Even though Ruyi has been practicing for many years, she can't stand such stinging words. She only feels her face is hot and she raises her head and says, "The Empress Dowager is wrong. This time, even if I have plotted against the two princes, they will be scolded at most. I can only say that I have plotted against the beginning but not the end. The emperor's thunder and anger can cut off the path of the two princes as the prince. Even if the Empress Dowager raises the emperor for many years, she will be surprised. How can I calculate it?"

The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes slightly, with a gloomy expression: "You mean, you and Concubine Yu are not wrong, is it because the emperor punished too much?"

"I dare not say this. But the empress dowager is as clear as a mirror. The emperor ascended the throne for twelve years, and it is no longer the new king who asked the ministers of the late emperor in everything before. He has his own ideas and opinions, and others can only obey and not violate them. Even old ministers like Zhang Tingyu and Gao Bin are like this, let alone others." Ruyi looked at the empress dowager with a long meaning, "Maybe in the eyes of the emperor, the father-son love, the father-son friendship, and the husband-wife's friendship are not as important as the word "monarch and minister!"

The queen mother's eyes were on her: "Is this your own speculation, or is it the emperor told you?"

Seeing that the Empress Dowager stopped eating, Ruyi served a bowl of beef bone marrow soup and respectfully handed it to the empress dowager: "The emperor is unpredictable. How can I know, and the emperor will not tell me anything. It's just that the empress dowager has raised the emperor for many years and is concerned about the emperor's affairs. Can't you see it? If I really have any plans, I will just put the word "coincidence". If I have any involvement with Concubine Yu, it would be accidental. The empress dowager knew that Concubine Yu could no longer favor him after giving birth to Yongqi, so she didn't need to compete for favor."

The faint sky light penetrated thinly from behind the heavy veil curtains. The Queen Mother sat on the couch with a wide light on her back, and her clothes were spreading in an elegant curve under her feet. No matter how beautiful the April 1990s were behind her, the fragrance of flowers was filled with light, her face seemed to be soaked in the darkness, and the golden pearls and jade gazes on her body, Zhu Luocan embroidery became a cold dead color. The Queen Mother looked at Ruyi's expression, and after a moment, she reached out to take the soup she handed over and sipped slowly: "You are more and more aware of the emperor. It's also your tactfulness. She has admitted to the plot against Yonghuang and Yongzhang. Concubine Yu knelt all night and refused to ask for it. "

Ruyi looked at the Empress Dowager and felt a sense of fear in her heart, but she still said, "This matter has nothing to do with Concubine Yu. Moreover, the Empress Dowager is a person who has experienced it. When encountering such a thing, she naturally understands how terrible the person who does not blame the plot is, but why the person who is plotted is so easy to be plotted."

The smile on the corner of the empress dowager's lips became deeper and deeper, but her eyes were extremely faint and distant, as if she was always unattainable and elusive: "Your thoughts are becoming more and more like your aunt." After she glanced at her, "Concubine Yu knelt outside the Ai family's bedroom, you can go and take a look."

Ruyi was worried about Hailan, but after hearing this, she hurriedly walked to the empress dowager's bedroom and saw Hailan kneeling on the ground. Although her expression was pale and exhausted, she could not suffer much.

When Hailan saw Ruyi, she couldn't help but burst into tears: "I heard everything my sister said. Why do you need to clear things from me? I did everything originally, and my sister has never done it before."

Ruyi signaled her to silence, helped her stand up with difficulty, rubbed her knees and said, "You sit down first, and I will help you out later. Remember not to move around, kneel all night, your knees can't stand it."

Hailan nodded with tears and sat down obediently. Ruyi turned to the warm pavilion outside the hall and knelt down and said, "The Queen Mother has mercy, I have compassion for you. Of course, everything is for you. But you can put many things in your heart, so there is no need to be foolish."

Ruyi listened quietly, her eyes only on the red sandalwood screen behind the empress dowager, which was embroidered with mud gold and flying fairies scattered flowers. Such dazzling mud gold and jade marks, gorgeous embroidery, and the clothes were lingering. After watching for a long time, a blurry halo appeared in front of her, as if she had left the world. Ruyi lowered her head calmly: "Everything is decided by the emperor and the empress dowager, I dare not think about it."

The Empress Dowager smiled confidently and sighed, "Although these words are honest, they are not respectful. Can the Ai family not be the one who can decide the matter in the harem? "

When Ruyi heard this, her fear decreased a little, and she chuckled and said, "The Queen Mother knows the reason better than me."

The Empress Dowager restrained her smile and said lightly: "Are you not afraid that the Ai family will tell the emperor about your plot against Yonghuang and Yongzhang? If you harm his biological son, he will not be able to tolerate you."

Ruyi's expression was as light as a cloud of smoke: "If you say calculating, who has never planned to be calculating in Hou Fuli? The empress dowager told the emperor one by one, which would make him a lonely man. The empress dowager couldn't bear to leave him."

The Empress Dowager sneered coldly: "It is the Ai family who is willing to give up or not. Since you are here, the Ai family cannot help but punish you, but why is the Ai family not open to the public? It is not for you, but for the royal face. The Ai family will keep this in mind, and you can leave."

Ruyi felt relieved and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Empress Dowager. So Concubine Yu..."

The empress dowager didn't raise her eyelids: "You're gone, what else can the Ai family keep her to do? Let's go together."

Ruyi, as if she had been amnesty, hurriedly helped Hailan out of Cining Palace with Ye Xin. Hailan held her hand tightly and walked very slowly step by step. She stood on the wind, letting tears fall on Tianshuibi's brocade clothes, and bright little flowers emerged: "I thought my sister hated me for being cruel and wouldn't pay attention to me anymore."

Ruyi stared at her: "I said earlier, what is the difference between doing and doing me? If I don't forgive you, I won't forgive myself. The thoughts were caused by myself, but you stretched out your hand to do it. Whether you do it or not is not you or me, but the emperor."

Hailan's sigh was like a wind blowing through her ears: "The year when my sister came out of the cold palace, she told me that she would become more determined and cruel and leave no room for anything. But now it seems that my sister is still tied. I have always thought that the emperor can abandon the love between father and son, why can't my sister do it?"

Ruyi's tone was deep: "Because I have never walked to the place where the emperor stood. The heights are so cold that the emperor is naturally different from what we see and feel."

Hailan looked at Ruyi and brushed the golden jade steps shaking on the falling jade butterfly winged fluorite beads for her: "So I hope my sister can stand side by side with the emperor, and look down on all directions like the emperor, and make decisions in her chest."

Ruyi's smile was fixed on her lips, and she refused to retreat for a long time: "This is my wish, and it is also the wish of Ulanara. Although I know it is still a bit difficult, I will try my best to do it."

Ye Xin hurriedly said, "Concubine Xian is busy with the affairs of the Six Palaces these days and rarely interacts with our little master. Although our little master does not say it, he is unhappy. I can see that it is."

Hailan looked at Ye Xin angrily, and smiled in tears: "Actually, I have been thinking these days, if my sister keeps having sex with me, how much will our sisters have sex?"

Ruyi smiled and said, "Do you still think so now?"

Hailan thought for a moment: "Now I think, if our sisters didn't even get along with this kind of thing, what would they get along with it in the future?"

Ruyi smiled slightly and said, "Think more and think more, why don't you go back to the palace and treat your knees!"

Ruyi helped Hailan and walked slowly on the long street. In the distance, there was a bright yellow sedan chair gradually approaching and walked towards Cining Officer quickly. Ruyi was a little surprised and hurriedly squatted down to welcome him: "The emperor has thousands of blessings and Jin'an."

The emperor had deep concern and concern on his face: "Have you come out of Cining Palace? Did the Empress Dowager make things difficult for you?"

Ruyi didn't know what was going on, so she hurriedly said, "Didn't the emperor just go to court at this time? How did you know that my concubine and Concubine Yu are in Cining Palace?"

The emperor said: "The palace servants around the Empress Dowager came to pass on the message, saying that you and Concubine Yu were punished. I just came to see you when I left the court." The emperor held her hand and said with a gentle voice, "It doesn't matter, right?"

The emperor's sun base was like a dark jade-colored lake, only her reflection was slight. Ruyi's heart warmed: "Don't worry, your elders, it's okay."

The emperor nodded slightly and said softly: "You and Concubine Yu go back first. I am about to pay my respects to the emperor's mother." The two retreated aside, and as they watched the emperor go, they returned to the palace without mentioning it.
Chapter completed!