Chunman Palace

Chapter 102
"Seeing that the empress is about to give birth, why doesn't the emperor come to care about our empress? In the past, the emperor would go to Xuanji Palace every morning and evening, and he would stay for most of the day! Now, alas." A court lady cleaned the courtyard while Xu Xu said.

Another court lady beside her stepped forward and said mysteriously: "Didn't you hear that the emperor has named a new nobleman? The nobleman is from Lefang. Don't mention the emperor's unique skills in konghou, even I can Get drunk!"

The court lady was disdainful: "Tch, it seems that you have heard it with your own ears."

"I've heard of it! Last time, the ice jar in the main hall melted a little. I happened to pass by the Shujing Hall when I went to the icehouse at night. The harp player was playing, tsk, it's even worse than our mother's Xiaoqu. What!" The court lady stopped moving, and raised the corners of her lips longingly.

"What you just said is true? Is Linggui's konghou music better than my palace's Xiaoqu?" Mu Pingting's voice came lightly behind the two, and they jumped up immediately as if struck by lightning. Kneeling down towards Mu Pingting, she hastily said, "The slaves are talking nonsense just now! Nonsense!"

Mu Pingting said with a gentle smile, "I just heard what you said so vividly, why didn't you continue talking?"

The two maids hurriedly said: "It's all the servants talking nonsense, disturbing the mother's hearing, the servants will not dare anymore."

"You two lowly maidservants, have you ever heard of the master's Xiaoqu? You're just chewing your tongue here!" Lingqiao frowned, staring at the two of them and said: "You really eat things that are inside out, I think you really don't know what it means to be cautious. Be cautious in your words and deeds."

Lingqiao rushed forward and slapped the two maids forcefully, only to hear the two maids screaming incessantly, tearing from the slaps, the scarlet slap marks were particularly eye-catching.

Mu Pingting frowned and turned her gaze aside: "Okay."

Only then did Lingqiao stop, and approached courteously with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's hot in summer, you can't get angry with these two lowly servant girls, it's really not worth it."

"Okay, I don't want to argue with them, let's go." Mu Pingting turned around and moved.

Lingqiao was still on the sidelines complaining: "It's such a beautiful day, it's really unlucky for these two lowly maids to spoil your mother's interest."

Mu Pingting said indifferently: "They are ignorant, so are you ignorant? Now that you know how to be cautious in your words and deeds, don't keep making noises in my ears."

"Yes, the servant will stop talking." Ling Qiao obediently closed her lips, and walked behind her silently.

Mu Pingting enjoyed the summer scenery along the way, admiring the rich and colorful green waves, she was quite contented.

Suddenly, a burst of sweet laughter broke the tranquility of enjoying the scenery. Looking up, I saw Lin Qingyu and Yuchang eating cakes and enjoying the cool in the Chengxing Pavilion, chatting and laughing, making a lively scene.

Mu Pingting slowly moved her body forward: "The two sisters are really in a good mood. This summer is scorching, are you in the mood to go out and walk?"

Yu Changzai got up when he heard the words, and immediately said hello to the people: "My concubine Jin is blessed and safe."

"Sister is here." Lin Qingyu stopped laughing when she heard the words, looked up at Humanity and said, "Sister Jin is not the same, the sun is so hot these days, why don't you stay in the palace and take good care of yourself? Dragon fetus, it’s not good.”

Mu Pingting sat on the stone bench, took a piece of pastry and looked at it carefully, "My sister can really joke, I have a healthy baby in my womb, so my sister's worries are probably unnecessary." She opened her lips and bit a bite, Said: "This pastry tastes good, it seems that my sister made it by herself."

Lin Qingyu shook her fan and said with a smile: "This pastry is made by Yuchang, my sister thinks it is delicious, why don't you eat more?"

Mu Pingting pretended to be surprised: "Yu Changzai is so ingenious? I didn't notice it before." She put down the pastry and wiped her lips with a handkerchief. Do you have a name?"

Yuchang smiled and introduced to others: "Empress Jin, this pastry is called Wufu Chengxiang. It has five colors and five flavors." She pointed to the other colors of the pastry: "There are mung bean fillings in it. Sesame stuffed ones, and halva stuffed ones..."

Lingqiao couldn't help laughing out loud: "Knead a few glutinous rice balls, then wrap them with common fillings like mung beans and sesame seeds and steam them. Such a simple pastry servant doesn't even need to learn."

Hearing Lingqiao's ridicule, Yuchang's smile froze instantly.

Mu Pingting said lightly: "Lingqiao, you are getting more and more wanton."

Lingqiao saluted slightly: "I know my mistake."

"You should admit your mistake to Yu Changzai."

Yu Chang waved her hands again and again, "No, no need. The cakes made by concubines are too vulgar and not novel enough..." She said in a low voice and lowered her head.

Lin Qingyu smoothed things over with a smile: "Actually, the taste of cakes does not lie in whether the steps are cumbersome, but in whether they are made with care. As long as they are made with care, even a piece of sesame sugar cake will be very delicious." She picked up a piece of dough cake, took a bite and said: " It's very fragrant."

Mu Pingting smiled lightly, looked at Lin Qingyu intently, and said, "I haven't seen my concubine for two years, but she has become so knowledgeable, and there are so many truths when she speaks, it really makes me, a sister, feel ashamed. "

"My younger sister has little knowledge, how can I be compared with my elder sister, my elder sister is flattering me."

"Hmm." Mu Pingting replied in a vague way, rubbing her abdomen with her hand and said, "I heard that Concubine Chang's illness has almost recovered. Has the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital developed a new medicine so quickly?"

Lin Qingyu took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Where is Sister Chang's illness? It is clearly caused by poisoning. As long as it is poisonous, there will be an antidote. The imperial doctors who want to come to the Imperial Hospital work day and night, so that Sister Chang can be so well." Hurry up."

Lin Qingyu caressed the teacup lightly, and the smooth texture of the cup was delicate. She knew what Mu Pingting said and what she was thinking in her heart. They have become extremely strange, and she can't help but wonder, can the harem really corrode such a good person into such a appearance?
The Concubine Jin in front of her is no longer the former Sister Mu.

And she is no longer the cautious and humble Lin Qingyu from before, but a distinguished concubine.

"I don't know if sister Jin is in better health after drinking her medicine?"

Mu Pingting felt nauseous when she thought of the bowl of medicine that Lin Qingyu gave her. Now that she heard this, she immediately felt the fishy-sweet taste in her mouth. She wrinkled her face and vomited, causing Yuchang to say in surprise, "Concubine Jin What's wrong with my sister? The fetus is already eight months old, so it stands to reason that you shouldn't be embarrassed."

Mu Pingting was so sick with nausea that she leaned on the ground and retched for a long time, blushing and feeling depressed, she even helped Huayue and Lingqiao to leave.

Lin Qingyu and Yuchang Zailian saluted and sent them off afterward.

Seeing Mu Pingting's swaying figure, Lin Qingyu suddenly felt like laughing.

In the past, it was just pretending to be weak, but now it has become real.

Medicines are three-point poisonous, and she knew from the time Mu Pingting invited her to use medicines to avoid pets since she entered the palace, Mu Pingting only knew the benefits of medicines, but not the harms, and abusing medicines like this, thinking she was smart, would only let her reap the consequences.

If she had gone to deliver the medicine earlier, Mu Pingting would have hit her back immediately on the grounds that she was unwell, but the dragon fetus is growing up, and if she continues to use methods to weaken her body and fetus, it will only cause trouble Mu Pingting dared not do such a risky method.

It's just that she was also curious why Mu Pingting didn't frame her with physical discomfort beforehand, but waited for two full months, and didn't set up a trap when the dragon fetus was about to land.

What exactly happened in this, she never knew, but if she thought about it carefully, maybe she was coerced and lured by Xuan Yin again?After all, there are only two princesses in the palace now, from the eldest prince to the fourth prince, and none of them are left behind. If Mu Pingting's child is a prince...

She stopped her movements and looked at the scorching sun hanging high in the distance, "Yu Chang is here, I have to go to pay my respects to the Queen Mother, and we will meet again next time."

"Okay." Yu Changzai nodded, blushing and said, "I would like to thank my concubine for speaking for my concubine."

Lin Qingyu said flatly: "It's nothing. After all, you are the emperor's concubine. How can you allow a court lady to humiliate you at will? I just can't see it, it's just a matter of little effort." She stood up slowly, and left a sentence: "If you want to be strong , you must first make your heart strong, and if your heart is diligently tempered, it can be used as a sword."

Yu Chang saluted respectfully: "Concubine, I would like to thank my concubine for your advice."

Lin Qingyu smiled, looked at the people in front of her cautiously, but remembered the way she faced Concubine Min before... Now her honor is not earned by herself, but is used as a spare medicine to attract disciples to increase her honor The gorgeous appearance is useless now, but it still retains its status by accident.

It's kind of ridiculous.

She slowly lost her mind and walked towards the Ganquan Hall.

Meeting the Empress Dowager in the Ganquan Hall, and then going to greet and greet, everything seems to be repeating the scene of the previous few days. Since she returned to the palace to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager, she has to go to the Ganquan Hall to express her heart every few days. for shelter.

Because she clearly knew that in this harem, apart from the emperor, the most honorable person was the empress dowager.

She walked forward absent-mindedly, thinking about how to arrange the next chess game and how to make a move, when Mo'er gently grabbed her and whispered in her ear: "Your Majesty, if you are a guard."

She came back to her senses, and said humanely: "I'm a little thirsty, you go back to the palace to get a pot of sour plum soup, and wait for me at the Chengyue Pavilion."

The people below dispersed, she raised her head to speak, but was dragged forward by Ze Zu, and went straight into an abandoned palace.

Lin Qingyu couldn't help frowning: "Why are you getting bolder? If others saw you and me alone here, wouldn't it be..."

Before she finished speaking, she was hugged tightly by Ze Zu, and the soft words melted away from her ears with ambiguous meaning: "I'm sorry."

"What's the matter with you this time?"

"Nothing, just love."

She pushed Zezu away lightly, "I understand what you mean, but if we often meet like this, it's really dangerous... There are so many people in the palace, and if I want to avoid all these eyes and ears, I'm afraid I will end up like a concubine." fate."

Zeyu pursed his lips in aggrieved eyes, nodded and said, "...OK."

Lin Qingyu looked at him, and couldn't help feeling a little unbearable and distressed: "I don't blame you for saying this, it's just that my father and elder brother have not been completely cleared of their crimes, and the official who killed my eldest sister has not been punished either. , children love each other... I'm afraid it will be difficult for a while."

"Okay, then I'll help you investigate." Zezu's eyes stretched, as if they understood something, they brightened up.

Lin Qingyu said again: "I didn't want to lie to others about this matter..." Unexpectedly, after she had only said half a sentence, Zeyu's eyes immediately shrugged, looking very disappointed, she changed her words again and again: "But you and I I have been in love for a long time, if you are willing to help with this matter, I will be happy."

Ze Fu raised his smiling eyes, and said in a brisk and firm tone, "Okay, then I'll go now, give me a while." He took out a pack of lotus seeds from his arms and handed it to Lin Qingyu, and left with gusts of wind.

Lin Qingyu looked down, the lotus seeds in this pack were huge and round and white, all the lotus hearts had been removed, and there was no mark of half nail peeling, which shows that they were carefully peeled and selected.

She pinched one and put it in her mouth, the taste was sweet, and the faint fragrance lingered in her throat.

Then it seems that the way I met her from the beginning... has become different?In her memory, Ze Yu was always a cold-faced and quiet boy who did things very simply and neatly. She thought that such a lonely and cold person would cherish his words like gold when he was tempted.

Looking at it now, Zeyu seems to be extremely soft. Everything he carefully showed to outsiders, and his real and fragile appearance now, made her feel very strange.

If we could meet earlier, earlier than in the palace, and farther away, maybe everything would be different.

She sighed softly, looking at the long palace road in front of her, the red light was shining all over the ground, like a blooming twig.

Standing in it, you can't see the way ahead, and you can't see the way back.

There is no half-reliability.

The front is hard to know, and the back road is unpredictable. Even if they have the best hands and eyes, it is difficult to escape from this carefully crafted "cage". They are like birds raised by rich and noble children, singing in this gorgeous and exquisite cage, composing "Fan Cage Song" "Come to worship the Lord for fun, never know what freedom is like, and have already numb the heart of wanting to escape.

Now the jade hairpins in her hands and the pearls and emeralds she wears are nothingness for decoration. She thinks that she is shining brightly under the brilliant light, but in fact they are just the insignificant glow of firefly candles in this enclosure.

Even if she is a queen, so what if she is as bright as the sky and the moon?

People in the world don't worship the brilliance of the bright moon, but because this illusory and cold light is full of hope.

Sometimes she really doesn't want to continue this false and illusory life, wants to push away this identity, and fantasizes about waking up to see a different world, but there are many voices telling her that leaving the palace will only get worse.

Now her father and elder brother's grievances, her elder sister's grievances all need her identity to clear up, and the person who harmed others behind the scenes, she can only feel at ease after seeing that person put to justice.

If all this is not completed, she can only continue to stay in this harem and continue to swim upwards.

Even if you are bruised and bruised and exhausted, you have to wait until the day when the dawn falls.

(End of this chapter)