Chunman Palace

Chapter 49
In Qingxin Hall, Xuan Yin was reviewing the memorials as usual.

Following a burst of hurried footsteps, a shadow walked into the hall, eyes full of anxiety and uneasiness, "Is the emperor safe? I heard that there was an assassin in Shanglinyuan. Take a look at the emperor."

Xuan Yin looked up at the person, "I'm fine, the queen can rest assured."

The queen said worriedly: "Where did the assassin come in from? The gate of the palace is heavily guarded, and the palace is often patrolled by guards. If we can't find out how the assassin entered, I'm afraid the entire harem will be in panic."

"...Don't guess, the assassin is the Bai family." Xuan Yin put down his pen and asked Li Qiao to grind his ink.

The queen's brows were full of anger: "Master Bai is so bold that she dared to come out and assassinate the emperor! This Mrs. Bai has only been in the palace for less than two months, and has killed four concubines one after another. Now that she is like this, she is reaping the consequences."

She frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "It's just...the place where Mrs. Bai was imprisoned was not unguarded, why did Mrs. Bai escape from it? And by such a coincidence, she found the emperor in Shanglin Garden?"

This sentence reminded Xuan Yin.

The two eunuchs who guarded the Bai family had also died. If it was said that they were all done by the Bai family, he would never believe it. At that time, the Bai family suffered a great loss in body, and there was no medicine stone to recuperate. How could it be possible to fight the two eunuchs?At that time, it could also be seen that Bai's body was newly injured, but if there was no medicine to stop the bleeding, how could she have walked so far.

Seeing that Xuan Yin was deep in thought, the queen said as if she wanted to stir up the topic: "I heard that Princess Hui Rui has returned to the palace. The emperor has seen it today?"

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Could it be that Hui Rui arranged for Bai's escape and assassination today?Does she really hate me that much?

Xuan Yin's body trembled slightly, and he said: "The imperial sister married far away in the Western Regions, and she hasn't seen each other for several years, so they must have grown up. It's normal that they are not as close as they were when they were young."

The queen said calmly: "The emperor and the eldest princess haven't seen each other for about four years, right? Speaking of which, the eldest princess has not given birth to a son and a daughter. She has been alone for the past four years, and ordinary people can't bear it. The emperor should not be with the eldest princess." It’s better to be unfamiliar.”

"What the empress said is very true. Naturally, I will not be estranged with the imperial sister, but I really don't know whether the imperial sister is willing to reunite with me. I planned to let the eldest princess live in Shengjing, but the empress begged in every possible way..." Xuan Yin Speaking of this, he sighed helplessly and frowned slightly.

"In fact, the emperor can let the eldest princess live in the Ganquan Palace. Firstly, the mother can take good care of the eldest princess. Second, when the concubines pay their respects to the mother, they can also talk to the eldest princess. There are relatives and friends. There are so many people. It can warm the princess from the bitter cold she endured in those four years."

Can more people warm people's hearts?Xuan Yin felt that the second half of the Queen's sentence was a little childish.

But now, there is no better arrangement than this.

"Then let the empress arrange this matter. I haven't finished reviewing the memorial, so I will go to see the empress and the emperor's sister later."

"Yes." The queen bowed and stepped back.

The night dew was heavy, the frost on the eaves gathered into ice, and the frozen water kept seeping.

Outside Ganquan Hall, Princess Huirui was wearing a thick silk snow rabbit dress, looking at the waning moon, the black night sky was soaked in white haze, from a distance it looked like a lake covered with ice and snow, and the stars in the sky were as bright as Jane is far more beautiful than the waning moon.

After looking at it for a while, she looked again at the dark palace road, but there was no star or fire, and no one came.

"Go back." She lowered her eyes unhappily, her snow-white face was pitiful and cute under the cold wind, like a bunny hiding in the snow, her eyelashes were charming.

The Empress Dowager is afraid of the cold all the year round, these few days there have been heavy frosts and strong winds, and some silver charcoal has grown in the Nuan Pavilion. Seeing the flushed face of the eldest princess, Yu Dai hurriedly took the hand stove to warm her hands and tucked her into her arms.

The Eldest Princess looked slightly calm, exhaled a puff of white mist lightly, lowered her head and put her face on the hand stove covered by flower-colored brocade cotton in her arms, dispelling the "frost" that had frozen on her cheeks, the hot air hit the front door, and it was as if she was frozen when she went out. In the ice cellar, it is like being in the stove.

Yu Dai said: "The eldest princess, the empress dowager is waiting for you, go in quickly."

The eldest princess nodded, then reluctantly withdrew her face from the stove in her hand, and walked slowly towards the back room. The queen mother smiled happily when she heard the sound, but some crystals appeared in her eyes.

"Queen Mother, why are you crying?" She stepped forward and stretched out warm fingers to help someone wipe away the tears that were about to fall. This action made the Queen Mother cry even more. up.

The Queen Mother pulled Ren to her side with concern, looked at Human carefully and said: "The Queen Mother looks at you, and always feels that it is different from before. Why do you always look so preoccupied."

The eldest princess just smiled helplessly, and said: "The identity is different, and the state of mind is also different. The queen mother will not think that her daughter is the carefree Princess Hui Rui in the past, right? After four years, people will change, daughter also the same."

The queen mother caressed the face of the eldest princess distressedly, and said sadly: "My child, you have suffered all these years. Fortunately, it is fortunate that you are back now! The queen mother will help you find another good son-in-law. In this way, even if the queen mother is gone, you will be able to take care of yourself." Can give you something to rely on."

"No, queen mother, I don't want to remarry."

The queen mother said earnestly: "Why is this? Hui'er, you are now in the prime of life, with a noble status, how many good men in the world, if you don't marry again in the future, how many regrets will you have?"

"No, my daughter's life has been full of regrets since the day my brother sent me to the Western Regions to get married! My daughter doesn't want to be separated from her mother, let alone contact with those stinky men! Stinky things! My daughter just wants to be with her forever. By the queen mother's side!" After speaking, the eldest princess immediately fell into the queen mother's arms and began to cry.

The queen mother stroked the man's back and comforted her: "Hui Er, you have suffered, but you shouldn't resent your elder brother, he also put the state affairs first before he had to marry you away, you know, your elder brother The prince and the second prince died early, and now there is only one eldest princess who is under three years old, so it was really helpless at that time."

The eldest princess straightened up immediately, with decisive eyes and said: "I don't blame the emperor for marrying me far away, but he sent someone to give me a bowl of medicine on the grounds that Princess Shengchao couldn't leave the blood of a barbarian...which caused me to Being tortured for four full years would be worse than death! If my daughter hadn't exhausted all means, it might not be possible to survive!" After the words, she almost shouted out at the top of her lungs.

The queen mother stared blankly at the man, unable to speak for a long time.

The eldest princess also immediately realized that she had lost her composure, and apologized to the queen mother.

This is a good time for mother and daughter to talk about themselves and ease their feelings, but they are so stiff and cold.

The queen mother sighed and asked Yu Dai to take the people back to the room to rest.

The cold wind was blowing, Mu Pingting's mind was sore and she couldn't sleep, she tossed all night, and she didn't have a good appetite for several days.

Hearing that Mu Pingting was getting thinner day by day, Chang Xiuru specially brought the best ginseng and peach blossom tears to visit.

The temperature inside the house is warm, probably because of the planting of a lot of flowers and plants, it always feels much fresher than the side view, Chang Xiuru went straight to the house, and saw Mu Pingting wearing a water-blue flowing dress with tug-of-sleeves, her skin was whiter than snow, her eyes were bright and beautiful The stars move, seeming to be in a trance.

Chang Xiuru stepped forward and said: "Sister Mu, has the Emperor visited you? Why do you look so fascinated?"

Mu Pingting came back to her senses, got up, came over to hold the hand and said, "My good sister, you are here. These days I always feel dizzy and my head is swollen. I don't know why."

"Sister, why are you so confused, didn't you go to ask for the imperial physician?" Chang Xiuru shook hands and asked Shuang'er to put down the things she brought.

"Ru'er, to be honest..." Mu Pingting sat down with them, sighed sadly, and said, "I have asked Imperial Physician Liu to diagnose my pulse, but Imperial Physician Liu said that the disease was caused by medicine stones , asked me if I had taken any medicine recently, but..."

Chang Xiuru immediately became vigilant: "But my sister has never taken other medicines at all. Is my sister suspecting that someone secretly drugged my sister's diet?"

Mu Pingting nodded, "I haven't told the emperor about it yet. There have been a lot of affairs in the court recently. I shouldn't bother the emperor with such a trivial matter."

Chang Xiuru said without hesitation: "Then sister should go and tell the empress, and let the empress investigate carefully to see if it is Fu Jingxuan Palace's dirty hands and feet, doing stupid things secretly to please both sides."

"No, we can't let the Empress know about this matter." She had thought about it from the beginning, and she must not reveal this matter to others. In a place like the harem, where there are intrigues, even the empress cannot be easily trusted, let alone her. Not allied with the Queen.

Chang Xiuru didn't understand the meaning of this, and asked doubtfully: "Sister, what does it mean that you can't trust the empress?"

"That's not what I meant. The empress will help us investigate this matter, but whether someone has tampered with the diet is just our guess. I plan to tell you and Qingyu first, the three of us Let's discuss it first." Mu Pingting said thoughtfully, but suddenly frowned and fell down.

Chang Xiuru's eyes were quick and her hands were quick, she hurriedly stepped forward to caress the person's body, and shouted outside: "Go and ask the imperial doctor! Shuang'er, go!"

Doctor Li hurried to Fu Jingxuan, and after taking the pulse again and again, he said with a smile on his face: "Congratulations, young master, this is a happy pulse, it's been more than a month!"

Mu Pingting opened her eyes weakly, grinned her pale lips and asked, "However, I've been feeling dizzy for the past few days, and I still have a headache from time to time, making it difficult to sleep, and my appetite has also deteriorated."

"This... After the young masters of each palace are pregnant, the pregnancy symptoms are different. Some will be sweet, some will be sour, and the first pregnancy will show some symptoms due to the different constitution of each person. In fact, it is just the fetus. Insufficient nutrition in the abdomen, the mother only needs to be nourished." Li Taiyi explained.

"I see. This is the first time for Sister Mu to experience such a thing. No wonder it happened! It made me worry for a long time." Chang Xiuru happily sat beside Mu Pingting, holding her hand.

Doctor Li bowed to the person and said: "Then I will take my leave first, and I will prescribe a few prescriptions to nourish the body later, take it every day, it can strengthen the body and maintain the fetal gas."

"Thank you, Doctor Li." Mu Pingting smiled faintly.

"You don't need to say thank you for what you're doing." Li Taiyi said, left the prescription and left.

Chang Xiuru happily said: "Sister Mu, do you think your child is a boy or a girl? If the emperor knows that my sister is pregnant, then my sister will be favored even more, maybe I can make her a concubine in one fell swoop!"

Mu Pingting's eyes were soft, and she smiled and said: "The position is not very important, if this child is really born safely, regardless of gender, Ru'er, you will come to be this child's godmother, okay?"

Chang Xiuru's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she nodded frequently: "Of course, sister Mu, I will definitely treat this child as my own, and teach him all the skills of swords, guns, swords and halberds in our Changfu. Sister Mu, you can teach poetry Books and the like, when the time comes, this child will be able to write and perform martial arts! Tell me, okay?"

Mu Pingting couldn't hold back a snort, and said, "The more you talk, the less serious you are. It's fine if this is a prince, but if it's a princess, you also teach her swords, spears, swords and halberds, and let her lead the army?"

"What's the matter, my father has taught me and my brothers martial arts since we were young, regardless of gender, just to keep fit and protect ourselves, if it's a princess, wouldn't it be great to hold a lively martial arts competition to recruit relatives?"

Mu Pingting joked: "Okay, okay, since Ru'er knows so much, she will be pregnant with a younger brother and sister sometime, so it will be even more exciting if they study together."

The two chatted happily, forgetting to call Huayue to invite Lin Qingyu to discuss matters early in the morning. Lin Qingyu heard the two people laughing and laughing from a distance from the door, and approached the door with a little embarrassment.

"My sister greets the two sisters."

Mu Pingting took a look at the person and hurriedly said, "Qingyu is here? Sit down quickly."

"Yeah." Lin Qingyu nodded, and sat down on the stool closest to Mu Pingting with some restraint, and smiled gently: "My younger sister heard that sister Mu's body seems to be unwell, so I came here specially with Huayue, because Imperial Doctor Li I was taking my sister's pulse in the house, so I couldn't disturb her, so I waited outside, and only waited for Doctor Li to come out before I asked. I thought my sister was sick, but I didn't expect it to be such good news."

Mu Pingting smiled lightly, lowered her head and put her hands on her belly to caress, and said: "Yeah, I didn't expect that I was pregnant with a dragon fetus. Now, the three of us can raise this child together. Would Yu also come to be the godmother of my sister's child?"

Before Lin Qingyu could speak, Chang Xiuru rushed to say: "Although they are all the mothers-in-law of the children in my sister's womb, they must be ranked in order of high and low. It stands to reason that sister Qingyu is the last, and she is the second mother-in-law of the child. "

Mu Pingting asked in surprise, "Is the godmother still in order...?"

Chang Xiuru Xuxu said: "Naturally, sister Mu has such a distinguished status now, and her concubine is just around the corner. At that time, I don't know how many people will be eager to be this child's godmother. Maybe three times in a row." Godmother, there will be four godmothers! This order must be determined in advance."

Lin Qingyu lowered her eyes, looked at the embroidered handkerchief with lotus leaves embroidered in her hand, and said dully: "Sister Chang said..."

Mu Pingting saw that people were suddenly depressed, so she smiled and said concernedly: "By the way, Ru'er brought a lot of peach blossom tears today, and I have already ordered someone to soak them. Let Qing Yu stay and have dinner together. Drink a bowl of it hot later, it can nourish the face and nourish the face, harmonize the blood and nourish Qi."

Lin Qingyu laughed hard: "My sister invited me kindly, but Qingyu is really disrespectful."

(End of this chapter)