The darkness of spring comes early, and the night is as hazy as gauze. Combined with the last bright purple glow, the prince is brushed under the dark gold color of the sand board. The pear blossoms outside the window bloom to the peak, and only a spring rain can destroy the last prosperity. Occasionally, the wind blows by, blowing the trees with snow and fragrance, and the shadows of flowers are about to fall.

Yuyan wandered outside the prince's house for a long time, and was unable to enter the hall. Lu Yun happened to pass by, and she ignored her and said nothing. She turned her face away and said nothing.

However, Lu Yun was just in love and called out first: "How is Guiren Jia here?"

Yuyan bowed promptly and said stubbornly: "Would the concubine Chun be accused her concubine of leaving the palace without authorization? The emperor scolded her concubine, so that she would not leave the palace without any trouble. But the ninth prince of the concubine was weak and uneasy, so could the concubine come to the prince's house to see her?"

Ke Xin said angrily: "Guru Jia has also been a concubine and assisted in the six palaces, so he naturally knows the rules of his ancestors. Sometimes visiting the prince is arranged, and it is not something that anyone can enter the prince's house."

Lu Yun hurriedly held down Kexin and said, "Guy Jia, the nanny who serves the Ninth Prince has always followed you. I think I will take good care of the Ninth Prince, so you can rest assured."

"As a servant, all are cheap!" Yuyan glanced at Kexin and said, "It would be a big deal if you don't beat or scold me for a day. If you leave Qixiang Palace, you can't take good care of your children without me." Then, Yuyan sneered: "Concubine Chun is also a person with children. Although her children are not well-educated, she doesn't have to treat other people's children like this. You must know that if you don't care enough about your children, you won't know what kind of seeds of black heart will be raised in the future."

Lu Yun is very good at everything, but she can't listen to the words of criticizing her children the most. How can she bear it for a while? She said cleverly: "Guru Jia is right! If you are not upright for your mother, you will indeed be punished on your children. At this time, the Ninth Prince should have been with you, so it's better to suffer like this!"

Yuyan was so angry that her face turned red and was about to argue, but the eunuch in the chief of the antique room sent something over. When she saw Lu Yun, she hurriedly said, "The Concubine Chun is blessed with Jin'an, and the Concubine Jia is happy."

Kexin said, "Gui Ren Jia is only able to ridicule others, but he can't help anything. If it weren't for the little master's management, Prince Ninth would have to not even have some jade tools to put on his pillows. What can he expect, Gui Ren Jia, to do?"

Seeing that there were too many people coming, Yuyan was not inconvenient to stay for a long time, so she angrily said, "Don't be hypocritical! Do you really think I don't know what you did?" After that, she left with her sleeves.

Lu Yun smiled bitterly: "I know how to restrain my nature and keep my own composure for the sake of my children. How can the hero Jia end up with such a temperament?"

Kexin said, "People are doing it, God is watching, let her go. The little master should tell the emperor that Concubine Jia left the palace without authorization and contradicted the little master."

Lu Yun stroked his temples and shook his head and said, "It's better to have less than more things. Why should I make things difficult for others? I'm sorry for his mother's heart." As he said that, he also helped him.

The eunuch in charge of the antique room brought the jade bottles and jars into the Ninth Prince's room, arranged them on the long table of red sandalwood beside his pillow, and instructed the wet nurse: "This is what Concubine Chun ordered. All jade should be placed near to the Ninth Prince for use as a calming pillow, so don't make the wrong place."

Because Yu Yan fell out of favor, the wet nurses were not so concerned about the Ninth Prince. They agreed, but they were lazy. At night, the wet nurses became more and more lazy. One of the Madam Chen said, "The imperial physician said that the Ninth Prince could not drink the medicine. The medicine was too bitter. The Ninth Prince vomited as soon as he drank it, so he let us drink it and turned into milk and feed it to the Ninth Prince."

Another Madam Li said, "The medicine is even more bitter than Coptis chinensis. The Ninth Prince's tongue is afraid that it will not be able to drink it. Is our tongue no longer a human tongue? I took a sip and poured it quietly. Amitabha Buddha, even if I drink a bowl of honey, I can't help it."

Madam Chen smiled and said, "It turns out that my sister is the same as me. In fact, it's not just a cold. Just cover it tightly. It's useless to take so many medicines." As she said, Prince Ninth started to cry again. Madam Chen said, "I cried early and late, and there was no time to rest. He was not tired of crying, so let's listen first."

Madam Li waved her hand and said, "Forget it, let's watch it. Guiren Jia is so angry that he thought we treated Prince Ninth when he heard it. Yesterday morning, I saw Prince Ninth lose weight and scolded us again."

Madam Chen sneered, "She still thinks she is Concubine Jia, now she is Concubine Jia. The word "is different" is the difference. Every time she comes, she scolds her. I think the Ninth Prince is so arrogant that she has reached this point." As she said that, she yawned, "I can't sleep well at noon. I'll go and sleep for a while. You can watch it first."

Madam Li agreed, untied her clothes and fed her to Prince Ninth and drank a few sips of milk. Seeing that Prince Ninth was so depressed that she had no appetite, she frowned and said, "I can't drink milk." She hugged her on the bed, patted her a few randomly to coax him to sleep, and she also lay beside the bed and started to doze.

It was late at night, and the red candles shone high, emitting a faint fire. The Ninth Prince was so tired that he finally fell asleep. The jade bottle on the table was shining with a shiny light, and a rustling squeak, which sounded particularly strange in the quiet night. Suddenly, the jade bottle shook a few times, and tilted over with a gust, rolling around on the table, knocking down the two green jade double-eared flower pots next to it. The bottles and jars were polished very round, and they fell off the long table that was one person tall, smashing and smashing loudly.

The Ninth Prince suddenly heard the huge knock and fell, and started crying heart-wrenchingly. Madam Li was also awakened. She rubbed her eyes and saw a gray mouse crawling over the ground. She raised her broom and rushed: "It's so unlucky, a mouse came out and hit something." After that, it was a pity again, "Such a good jade bottle was broken like this, but it's worth a lot of money."

She glanced a little and impatiently went to pat Prince Ninth to coax her. She then patted her a few times. The Ninth Prince looked as if she was ashen, rolled her eyes, her stomach twitched, and her body was covered in sweat beads as big as beans, and her crying became weaker and weaker. She was a little panicked and hurriedly called Madam Chen out. When the two looked at each other, the Ninth Prince had already turned pale and her hands and feet would not move, so she could only vent her anger and not inhale. The two looked at each other and rushed out in a panic and shouted: "Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor, Prince Ninth is not good!"

The Ninth Prince stopped breathing before the Imperial Doctor arrived. When the emperor came to visit the prince, Yuyan was already crying and hugged the ninth Prince's cold body and refused to let go. She sat on the ground with disheveled hair, as if she was awakened from her sleep. She looked even more yellow and pitiful. Seeing her like this, the emperor couldn't help but feel a little pity and hurriedly asked Jinzhong and Yuhu to help Yuyan up.

The emperor said angrily to the wet nurse: "Okay, how did you take care of the prince?"

The imperial physician kneeling on the ground was the magistrate of Qilu of the hospital. He hurriedly said, "Emperor, the ninth prince is already crying in the cold and has a fragile heart and lungs. He suddenly heard the loud noise of the jade bottle falling and shattered, and died of convulsions."

The emperor looked at the jade fragments all over the ground: "How come the good jade bottle falls down? Are you not careful?"

Madam Li was frightened and hurriedly replied: "The emperor forgives his crimes, and the emperor forgives his crimes. These jade bottles were sent from the antique room at dusk, saying that Concubine Chun asked him to send Ning Shen An Pillow. I was guarding the ninth prince to sleep. Somehow, a mouse slipped into the room and smashed the bottle to scare the prince."

Madam Chen also kowtowed desperately and said, "Master, I dare not lie. I really dare to keep my brother and never dare to walk away. I originally had breastfeeded my ninth prince, and my ninth prince was sleeping soundly. No one knew how the beast slipped in and did it hurt."

Qi Lu said: "The Ninth Prince has a cold disease, and the weakness brought by the mother's womb is not very loud. The Imperial Hospital has given the right medicine to the Ninth Prince these days, but just after the Weichen checks the Ninth Prince, he didn't drink much of these medicines. He was seriously ill and frightened, so he could not wait for the imperial physician to come and pass away."

The emperor was frightened and angry and shouted, "Why did the Ninth Prince have cold but didn't take medicine? Where did he go to his medicine?"

Madam Chen and Madam Li looked at each other in fear: "The medicine is too bitter, and the little brother can't drink it, so, so..."

Qilu said: "The prince is young and can't drink medicine. The wet nurse can drink it by himself and turn it into milk for the prince. But judging from the last look of the ninth prince, these medicines are not in the mouths of the wet nurses. I'm afraid the medicine is too bitter, so the wet nurses refuse to drink it."

When Yuyan heard this, her dull eyes turned around twice, and she handed the Ninth Prince in the cup to Yu Hu, rushed up like crazy and grabbed the two wet nurses and tore them and beat them: "You dark-hearted women, you don't usually take good care of the Ninth Prince, and you are lazy and lazy! Now, you are so good, you will kill me!" She hated her extreme and took extremely fierce action, pulling and scrambling like a crazy mother beast. The wet nurses dare not avoid it. Her face was covered with bloodstains and was in a mess.

The emperor couldn't stand it and waved his hand to pull Yuyan. Madam Chen couldn't help saying, "Guy Jia is here to blame me now, and I dare not tell me! But if the noble man had not had the idea of ​​harming others, the Ninth Prince would still keep you well. You wouldn't be able to curse me every time you go to the prince to beat me and scold me. You can't get into your palace!"

Yuyan cried so hard that her eyes were straightened. The emperor said coldly: "You dare to be stubborn when doing something wrong! Li Yu, these two sluts are not good at taking care of the prince, which leads to premature death. He immediately dragged it out to break his hands and feet before being sentenced to death."

Seeing that the wet nurse was dragged out, Yuyan hugged the emperor's leg and cried: "Emperor, Emperor! Concubine Chun has no kindness. She has always suspected that it was me who sowed the eldest prince and the third prince to fall out of favor for you, so she sent Yu Ping to harm the ninth prince. My ninth prince died so unjustly!"

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Okay. I have seen this jade bottle. It is a tribute sent by Li Dynasty. Concubine Chun can't do anything. If Concubine Chun is wrong, it's just that she cares about your son too much. Seeing the appearance of the two wet nurses just now, I think you are not good to them in normal times, so they dare to neglect the Ninth Prince. Don't cry like this, at least you still have Yongshang and Yongxuan."

Yuyan cried so hard that she was so angry that she fell to the ground: "Your Majesty, even if I am wrong, my love for my son is not wrong! I have followed you for so many years, serving you wholeheartedly and raising the royal heir for you. Now I have lost even my youngest son. If you are not by your side, what's the point of living!" After she said that, she got up in a daze and bumped into the wall.

Fortunately, Li Yu was quick-witted and grabbed her. Seeing that she was like this, the emperor was angry and sympathetic, so he ordered Qi Lu, "Guy Jia is too sad, give her some sanitary medicine." Qi Lu agreed, and the emperor said again, "Li Yu, send Guiren Jia back to the palace later, and notify the Ministry of Internal Affairs to handle the affairs of the Ninth Prince." After that, he kept his last warmth in his palm, stroked the Ninth Prince's cold face, a trace of tears flashed across the corner of his eyes, and went out with tired steps.

The sudden death of the Ninth Prince made Yuyan so sad. Because of Yuyan's fall from favor, the Ninth Prince never named him. At this time, the emperor was also sad and ordered the Ninth Prince to be buried in the garden of the Prince Duanhui, and to mourn everything according to the status of the prince. Every time Yuyan saw the emperor, she must have suspected that it was Lu Yun who was murdered. The emperor would have to ignore Lu Yun and rarely go to Zhongcui Palace.

Lu Yun complained that he had no way to complain, so he had to pull Ruyi and cry, "The Imperial Concubine must make the decision for me. Although I gave the jade bottle, who knew that the beast would crawl in. The emperor felt sorry for the Ninth Prince, and he could not let me suffer this unjust injustice."

Although Ruyi didn't believe that Lu Yun would harm the Ninth Prince, she had no idea. She had to comfort her with kind words: "Concubine Chun, don't be sad. The emperor also felt sorry for the Ninth Prince. She was afraid that Concubine Jia would make trouble again, so let's get cold and avoid suspicion."

Lu Yun cried and told him: "Now I know. The emperor is half-believing and half-doubting about such a shadowless thing, which shows that he never believed us. I have served the emperor for more than ten years and gave birth to children for him, but I can't even get this little trust. How do I want me to gain a foothold in the future? No wonder I can't even protect my children."

Lu Yun spoke sadly, but it was not Ruyi's heart-wrenching pain. It turned out that she was no different from others.

However, Yan Wan dissuaded from the side: "Concubine Chun can see through it, but don't be too sad. The emperor is like this to you, and not to treat Guiren Jia." She sighed continuously, "Maybe no one except Empress Xiaoxian can leave and get the emperor's heart."

Lu Yun became even more sad when she heard this: "So what is my life for? My children cannot be protected, and my kindness cannot last long. I am the only one who has the position of the imperial concubine, but I am alone. Why should I come here for a walk?"

The lips are gone and the teeth are cold, the rabbit is gone and the fox is sad. Ruyi's heart is sad and confused, but she is like Lu Yun. What did she ask for after working hard and struggling in this life?

Although the emperor did not like Yuyan's framed Ruyi, she did not feel pity for her beloved son. Just as Li Chao heard that the ninth prince died, he wrote a letter to express his condolences, and the emperor could not ignore Li Chao's face too much. Even Ruyi advised: "For the past relationship, there are Yongsheng and Yongxuan, and the emperor should go and comfort the nobles."

Li Yu also said: "Guru Jia is thirty-seven years old. Seeing his youngest son passes away, I am afraid that he will not be able to give birth to a prince again in the future. How can he not be so sad that he will be crazy?"

At that time, Jiang and Bin were asking Ruyi for peace. After hearing this, they watched the emperor leave and sneered: "Eunuch Li's words are the most perfect. They are both good people and remind the emperor of the old age and desolation."

Ruyi smiled slightly, lowered her head to embroider the picture of the spring branches tensed on the red sandalwood embroidery frame: "So tell me, what have you done?"

Jiang Yubin smiled and said, "Nothing can be hidden from the imperial concubine. Weichen cannot do cruel things that harm people, but he only added a bit of coptis chinensis to the Ninth Prince's cold medicine. In this way, the Ninth Prince couldn't drink it, and the wet nurses who were beaten and scolded by Concubine Jia refused to drink it. The Ninth Prince's disease will naturally be difficult to cure. However, Coptis chinensis has the effects of clearing heat, drying dampness, purging fire and detoxifying, and treating high fever, confusion, restlessness and insomnia. Weichen did not give the wrong medicine."

Ruyi smiled slightly, Ruyan: "Use Yiyin Coptis chinensis, let the nobleman Jia taste the pain of Coptis chinensis and you and the youngest."

Jiang Yubin said with a heartache: "When I think that Huang Xin's legs can no longer walk like an ordinary person, I feel very sad. I originally wanted to let the Ninth Prince suffer some illness, but I didn't expect that he would be frightened and died." He sneered, "Probably this is the so-called unhappy retribution. But now the emperor is willing to go to Qixiang Palace to see her, which is a blessing in disguise."

Seeing the Emperor's bright Huang Yu entered Qixiang Palace, Yanwan stood under the moonlight, experiencing the gentle night wind in April with the fragrance of Mulan, happily brushing her cheeks. A cloud covers the sky, covering half of the crescent moon. The half moon shines on the red wall, floating in the rippling light and shadow of the glazed tiles that are shattered like brocade. It gradually becomes a fragmented momentum, and the beautiful face also shows a bit of broken jade-like shadows.

Lan Cui said worriedly: "The emperor has been visiting Guiren Jia every day. He listened to Zhong's words. The emperor is afraid that he will be promoted to her position. Little master, will we make wedding clothes for others for nothing?"

Yan Wan smiled with a shallow smile: "As soon as you get promoted, you can visit. The faces of the emperor are for Li Chao to see, not only one of Jia Guiren. Besides, he is thirty-seven. A woman, after 40, it will be like a flower that blooms and has no flower red for a hundred days. How many days can she have? This palace is young and can tolerate the emperor's temporary pity for her."

Lan Cui said "yes". Yan Wan smiled and held her hand and pushed a string of red gold eight treasure bracelets on her hand onto her wrist. Lan Cui hurriedly wanted to retreat and said anxiously: "I dare not accept the reward from the little master."

Yan Wan smiled and said, "You did a good job this time, and I should reward you."

Lan Cui smiled and said, "I just caught a very hungry mouse and stuffed it into the jade bottle. When it was late at night, the beast smelled the milk fragrance and was in a hurry to come out. The jade bottle had a slender hole and a big belly. Once it was stuffed, it could not crawl out of the bottle, so it could only knock over the jade bottle and escape."

Yan Wan smiled and said, "The so-called big mouse shocked Yu Ping'er, that's the case. You did a good job. This is the emperor who wants to blame, and he can only blame Concubine Chun for being too busy and dedicated."

The next day, the emperor issued an order to restore Yuyan to the position of concubine. Then he wrote back to Li Chao to express his gratitude to the Li Chao for his concern for Jiapin and the imperial heir.

Hailan smiled at Ruyi and said, "On the surface, the emperor comforted Jiapin's pain of losing his son. In fact, it was a favorable price for Lingpin and an equal position with Jiapin."

Yan Wan smiled and said to Ruyi: "My sister has always been receiving Jiapin's face. Even if she is the same concubine position as her, it is different for a prince." She stroked her stomach and said, "My sister has always been pregnant for so long, so I really don't know..."

When Yan Wan was halfway through her speech, she remembered that Ruyi had been empty-handed and quickly stood up: "Imperial Concubine forgives her sins, but my sister is not meant to do so."

Ruyi smiled indifferently: "Sister doesn't have to worry about it. You are still young, and sooner or later there will be children." She looked at Yihuan, who was sitting aside with a slightly red look, and said warmly: "Shu Fei is the same. Many things are in God's will, not only in humans, but as long as you have a heart, there will always be something."

Yihuan wiped the corners of her eyes, but she forced herself to say: "Thank you for your care in the Imperial Concubine."

Ruyi said gently: "Actually, the emperor is particularly considerate to Shufei's sister and Jin Guiren. He also wants you to get pregnant early, so he has been rewarding for fetal medicine. I heard that even Jiapin has been asking for fetal medicine from the Imperial Hospital recently, in order to add another prince to the emperor."

Yan Wan's face turned bad when she heard the word "Jiapin": "I'm so old that I'm not giving up. What's the point of giving birth to a prince? If I don't work hard, what's the use of saving me more?" After she said angrily, she didn't care about Ruyi, and she hurriedly smiled and said tentatively: "The Imperial Concubine is in her prime, so she should drink some fetal medicine to give birth to a prince as soon as possible."

Ruyi smiled and said with a smile: "When I was young, I and Imperial Concubine Huixian were anxious to have no children. Seeing other people's children landed on the ground one by one and grew up, there was no need to be anxious. Drinking bowls of fetal medicines, the tongue I drank was not my own. But later I realized that no matter how good the medicine in the Imperial Hospital was, it was three parts poisonous after all. Besides, the matter of offspring was destined, so I didn't force it."

Yan Wan looked at Ruyi's expression and saw that she didn't seem to be fake, she also smiled and said, "What the Empress said is that the sisters have been taught."

Yihuan also said: "Yes, after drinking these fetal pills over the years, my heart that I wanted to have a child was weak at the beginning. In short, let it be left to fate."

In addition to Yikun Palace, Yan Wan looked a little sad. Chunchan knew that she was sad about her children again, so she said, "My master, it's fifteenth day. It's the most effective way to go to Baohua Palace to incense. I'll accompany you to the little master."

Yan Wan was a little stunned: "Chunchan, you said that I have been taking those fetal medicines for so many years, but there is still no movement at all. Otherwise, I will stop the medicines, which makes me feel annoyed."

Chunchan said: "This medicine was rewarded by the emperor to Concubine Shu. It is not easy for us to secretly get it. If we don't drink it, it will be even more difficult to get pregnant."

Yan Wan thought for a moment and hesitated, "Yes, I'll just ask for comfort from this palace. By the way, Jiapin also asked the Imperial Hospital for fetal medicine. Carefully take care of our prescription and don't learn it by her."

Chunchan hurriedly said, "That's. The Imperial Hospital's fetal medicine is better than the one given by the emperor. The medicine the little master took in the past few years was all the prescriptions he had cooked by himself, and Jiapin couldn't know."

Yan Wan stroked her heart, and the jade beaded armor on her fingers reflected her jaws with bright green color: "But Jiapin was sad that way without the ninth prince, I am so happy! And the slap and beating made Concubine Chun neglect, which can be considered a killing of two birds with one stone."

Chunchan smiled and said, "Not. At the beginning, Concubine Chun thought she was going to be the queen, so proud. Later, her eldest and third princes fell out of favor. Everyone believed that she would harm Jiapin's children."

The two were smiling and just seeing Ling Yunche leading two guards to come from the front. Lin Diao performed a ritual: "Let the concubine be safe."

Yan Wan raised her chin reservedly: "Hello, Lord Ling."

Ling Yunche glanced at the two guards behind him, and the two guards retreated on their own. Yunche said, "Princess Ling seems very happy."

Yan Wan was a little uncomfortable: "I have nothing to be unhappy with."

Yun Che pondered for a moment, looked at her and said, "Is there something I'm sorry for being bold. Do you know the ninth prince's death? "

Yan Wan raised her eyebrows: "Everyone in the palace knows it."

He stepped forward and whispered, "Is it related to you?"

Yan Wan lowered her face: "Bold! The thing was sent by Concubine Chun. How dare you doubt this palace at will?"

Yun Che smiled meaningfully: "Everyone thought that this matter was inseparable from Concubine Chun. The speculation of Weichen was not about suspicion, but about understanding. Empress Ling, Weichen had just gone to the antique room and heard that the jade bottle in the Ninth Prince's room had met Lan Cui beside the Queen on the way to deliver it, and Lan Cui had touched those jade bottles. Weichen thought, why did the Prince's house suddenly get into the mouse and then hit the jade bottle and scare the Ninth Prince?"

Yan Wan's expression changed slightly, and she was slightly panicked: "What are you going to do?"

Yun Che said neither humble nor arrogantly: "If the Wei-me minister intends to report to the emperor truthfully, the emperor will decide what the emperor thinks?"

Yan Wan was so shocked that she took a step back: "You dare!"

Yun Che concentrated for a long time and bowed, "I know that I am the one who knows that Lan Cui had met with an antique room. As for whether Lan Cui had encountered a jade bottle, even the people in the antique room themselves were just joking and didn't see clearly. But your reaction told me that Wei Chen's speculation was facts."

Yan Wan was shocked and angry: "Dare you dare to test me?"

"I dare to murder the emperor, why don't I dare to test the emperor?" He stood up and walked straight forward. Yan Wan panicked and shouted: "Ling Yunche!"

Yun Che did not look back. Yan Wan hurried a few steps and stopped him and said, "Brother Yun Che, for our years of friendship-"
Chapter completed!