Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 1941: The Pain Comes First (Six Thousand Bis)

July is here.

Wanxi has already started to crack her bones, and she is so painful that she can't sit still every day.

In the end, her first child was too old, and her body was always inferior to those mothers who gave birth to children in their teens and twenties.Even opening a bone seam is more difficult than those young ones.

What's more, like Nala and others, although the age of giving birth is also late, but Nala is the daughter of an old Manchu family, and she has been able to ride a horse since she was a child, and she also does a lot of exercise in the lower limbs.After all, Wanxi is a woman with a Han surname, and she carries the Han people's upbringing for women in her bones, that is, she does not bind her feet, but she is still not as good as those old Manchurians.

But this kind of pain, but no one can help.Whether it's mother Yang, or the imperial doctor, or even the emperor's arrival... all can only sweat on the forehead, hold her hand, and suffer together with her, but it really can't replace her.

Wanxi didn't even dare to sit down afterwards, and had to stand with the chair on all day long.As soon as he sat down, his lower limbs hurt as if they were about to be split by a sharp axe.

The emperor really couldn't see it that day, and didn't dare to get angry in front of Wanxi, so he went back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and called Guiyun to ask questions.

Gui Yunsampan could only reply in a low voice, "...the first birth is a little bit more difficult. If the pain is over this time, master, it won't be so painful next time."

The emperor was so annoyed that he threw a teacup on the imperial case at Gui Yunsan's head.

"I asked this time! Who told you to answer the next time?!"

The imperial palace was annoyed, but as the emperor who was good at bowing horses, he was very accurate in his hands, so the tea cup fell to the ground about a foot in front of Guiyun sampan and broke.Just in time, the tea dregs, tea soup, and a lot of broken porcelain foam were sprayed all over Guiyun's body.

Gui Yunsang naturally understood that the emperor was really in pain.

"This humble minister deserves to die... But, Your Majesty, Rong Chen said truthfully: this is a mother after all, for the sake of the child, she should bear the pain and suffer the crime."

"Although it hurts, there is no mother in this world who has experienced it, and there is nothing she can't endure. If the emperor is in a hurry, I can think of some medicine or acupuncture to help the concubine."

"However, the medicine is three-point poisonous, which is not good for the fetus; even acupuncture, if you manipulate the meridians, it may be not good for the fetus. Therefore, this humble minister has the courage to ask the emperor: Is your concubine really afraid of this pain? Do you want to use medicine to control the pain, and take the risk of hurting the emperor's heir?"

Gui Yunjie took a deep breath, "Although I entered the palace late, I heard Gui Hezheng, the elder at home, talk about Lingfei Niangniang. The elder said, if anyone in the harem has the most tenacious heart, then the first It must be the concubine Ling."

"Besides, I think, Lingfei has been waiting for this child for so many years. Even if it hurts a little bit more, but it is the pain of joy. I think Lingfei will not be afraid It hurts."

The emperor squinted his eyes and listened, and when he heard the back, his long eyebrows could not help but slightly stretched.

After Gui Yunjie finished speaking, he kowtowed to the ground and said no more.

The emperor snorted and turned back to call Li Yu, "The teacup on my table imitating Ru kiln is very well made. It is used to drink tea in midsummer and July, it is like holding the blue sky in your hand, and it is like a lotus leaf. It refreshes the heart.”

Li Yu laughed, "No, it's most like the lotus leaves in Master Ling's "Natural Picture" in "Bamboo Deep and Lotus Quiet". I want Master to use those lotus leaves that used to cost money to be served by others, but now Not only has the garden saved this expense, but it has added a lot of income. Even the daily maintenance expenses of the garden now don’t need to be allocated additional money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs..."

The emperor couldn't help laughing, raised his hand and pointed at Li Yu, "You old bastard..."

But the emperor held back a word and said nothing: "...if you leave, who else will be around me who can be like you, and let you say what it is inconvenient for me to say directly?"

Li Yu smiled calmly, "The old slave is getting old, and this head often can't remember important things clearly. The old slave vaguely remembers that this cup was originally a set of four, together with a teapot...but today it's a set of four. One is broken, and there are three cups and one pot left. Oops, the order has been placed."

The emperor couldn't help a low smile, and raised his eyes to give Li Yu a hard look.

He stared at Gui Gui, but his thin red lips curled slightly, "...the tea cups on the left and right were broken, and this little Gui was responsible for it too! The remaining tea cups are on the order, so I don't mind asking for them. Just give it to Xiao Gui!"

Li Yu slapped his hands, and greeted Guiyun with a smile, "Ouch! The imperial physician Xiaogui is overjoyed, overjoyed! The eunuch congratulates the imperial physician Xiaogui. Ru kiln is the first of the five famous kilns, and the emperor loves it so much." Tight. The emperor ordered the Neizao Office and the Imperial Kiln Factory to imitate the Ru kiln, which took a lot of thought."

"Let's talk about this, Xiaogui imperial doctor, look at the inscription under the teacup - it's 'made by Ouchi, recommended for firing in the imperial kiln'! Ouchi made a sample-Xiaogui imperial doctor , you understand, this is what the emperor himself did!"

"Your majesty, I love this teacup the most, but Ru porcelain is always expensive and fragile. The emperor is afraid that it will be damaged in daily use, so I specially asked Neizaoban to put a brass edge on the rim of the teacup. Nah!"

Gui Yunsan hastily looked at it carefully, and kowtowed repeatedly.

The emperor snorted, "You don't need to thank you, you can just use this kindness to serve your master and little master!"

Guiyun Ship kowtowed even more, "This humble minister is so heartbroken...Using the head of my humble minister as a guarantee will surely make the imperial concubine and the emperor's heir safe and sound."
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At this moment, Wanxi herself has reached the last days before she gives birth, and when she feels restless every day, she has already made preparations to call Wu Niu out of the palace immediately.As the owner, she has already prepared the silver taels and items that should be rewarded. She wished that Wu Niu could leave the palace happily, so that she could feel at ease.

But the matter of Wu Niu leaving the palace was suddenly shelved like this.

Both Yuye and Yurui knew something was wrong, but they didn't dare to speak in front of Wanxi anymore, so they quietly spoke in front of Yang Shi.

There was also worry in Yang's eyes, "...Of course it's not a good thing. It's just that the person in charge at this moment has to be concerned about Ling Master's body, so he won't say anything for now. Wait until Master Ling gives birth to a royal heir, then People get into trouble again."

Both Yuye and Yurui were taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "According to Fujin... who is this person?"

Yang narrowed her eyes lightly, "It was originally the queen's idea to call Wu Niu out of the palace. In this harem, the only one who can change the queen's will is the queen herself, or the empress dowager. "

"What should we do?" Yuye and Yurui looked at each other, their faces turned pale.

Mrs. Yang grabbed the hands of the two girls, "No matter what, it's inappropriate to mention this matter in front of Master Ling at this moment, and the two girls are eager to bury this matter in their hearts for the time being. The safety of the master and son, mother and child is the most important thing."

"As for the person who will make trouble after the master gives birth - that is after all the master and son mother and child are safe. There is still time, she has time to prepare, and we also have time to defend."

Yuye and Yurui looked at each other and nodded vigorously.
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July is here, and the day of concubine Ling's delivery is approaching, and I had hoped that Wu Niu would have a good time going back.However, Wu Niu didn't leave.This news reached Concubine Xin's ears, and Concubine Xin was also very surprised.

She was a little upset and impatient, and carried the sixth princess to greet the emperor, but she did not meet the emperor in Jiuzhou Qingyan.People in front of the imperial court said that the emperor was busy and was not in Jiuzhou Qingyan.

It has been like this for many days.

She was inexplicably anxious, and she got angry at Le Rong and Le Yi.

Le Rong and Le Yi could only persuade, "After all, the Northwest is still using troops. The emperor has been busy for more than a few days? It is clear that since the 19th year of Qianlong, when Dawaqi was first pacified, he has been busy until now." Son."

Concubine Xin didn't believe it.

Concubine Xin stared at Le Rong today and asked, "... I told you to ask the emperor what he is busy with these days, but did you find out?"

Le Rong and Le Yi looked at each other, both hesitated.

Concubine Xin knew something was wrong, so she slapped the table and said sharply, "Don't tell me?!"

Both Le Rong and Yue Yi shuddered, and hurriedly both knelt down.

Le Rong reluctantly responded, "...Back to the master, the matter of flattening Junggar in the northwest is indeed something extra. This time, not only Amur Sana of Junggar was not settled, but Qinggun Zabu, the king of Khalkha Mongolia It's the other way around."

Mongolia is divided into several major parts according to the region.

Junggar belongs to Moxi Mongolia, which is called "Elut Mongolia" in this dynasty; Khalkha Mongolia belongs to Mobei Mongolia.Because Khalkha Mongols and Junggar had a family feud when they were in Galdan, the emperor conquered Junggar in the northwest, and the Khalkha tribes were important forces that the court relied on.

But now the Amur Sana rebellion has not yet been settled, and the leader of the Khalkha Mongols is in rebellion again. It is called this war of rebellion for a while, with many variables and difficulties.

Concubine Xin narrowed her eyes, "I didn't ask you about the affairs of the previous court, I only asked about the affairs of your harem! Your Majesty has not seen anyone these days, so you really just went to court?"

Yue Yi didn't dare to hide anymore, so she had to bow her head deeply, and replied in a low voice, "... Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he burns incense and worships Buddha everywhere."
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Concubine Xin was taken aback.

"What did you say?"

——In this July, Qing Gun’s miscellaneous cloth turned, and the emperor couldn’t take care of the previous court with all his heart, but he spared so much time and thought to burn incense and worship Buddha, what else could he be doing for, and for whom? !

Both Le Rong and Yue Yi bowed their heads deeply, not daring to speak.

Concubine Xin took a deep breath, and after a long while, she said slowly, "Tell me, where will the emperor go to burn incense?"

After she said this, she felt sad in her heart.

This is a woman, it is always difficult for a woman to escape such narrow-mindedness, and she cannot ignore it.Obviously he doesn't want to hear such a thing, but since it has already happened, he can't stop asking about it.

Even if he knew that the result of inquiring would only make him feel more uncomfortable, but he still wanted to inquire clearly.

I can only comfort myself and say: even if I feel uncomfortable, I have to make myself feel uncomfortable clearly.You can't just be kept in the dark like that!

Le Rong and Le Yi's heads were so drooping that they could no longer hang down.

Always can't hide.

Yue Yi's voice was as low as a gnat, "...Master, do you want to hear the ones in July, or the ones in the past few months?"

Concubine Xin was startled again, "Isn't it just July?"

Yue Yi could only nod vigorously, "Actually, in June, the emperor's schedule included many arrangements for incense burning. And those arrangements are not routine sacrifices, but are related to the birth of the harem..."

Concubine Xin clenched her teeth, "Say!"
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Leyi bowed her head deeply, held her breath nervously, and answered in one breath: "On the first day of June, after the emperor has breakfast, after finishing his work, he will go to Shravasti City and Guangyu Palace to worship Buddha."

Le Yi looked at Concubine Xin cautiously.

"In fact, the emperor also burned incense and worshiped Buddha in the past few months, but from the first month to April, he never went to Guangyu Palace; but from April [-]th, on the occasion of Bixia Yuanjun's birthday, this was the first official visit to the palace. Go to Guangyu Palace to worship Buddha..."

Concubine Xin sneered, "Didn't the emperor publicly make the concubine happy in April?! In this world, there are no such coincidences!"

Le Yi lowered her head, "Originally, it seemed that it was just because of Yuanjun's birthday, but the emperor started from April, and went to May, June, and July..."

"I went once on the first day of May; but in June, I went to both the first and fifteenth day of the new year..."

Concubine Xin gritted her teeth tightly, "Understood! In April, the concubine's happy event is made public; and in June, the concubine's delivery date is approaching, so this becomes twice a month!"

Yue Yi bowed her head, her shoulders fluttering, "...the slave doesn't understand this either, and just told the master the truth about the information he inquired about."

Concubine Xin took a deep breath and suppressed her emotions, "Go on, what else?"

"On the third day of June, the emperor kowtows to the fighting altar."

Concubine Xin couldn't help but sneered when she heard the words, "Dou Tan? Your Majesty even went to the Dou Tan?"

The fighting altar in the Yuanmingyuan is located in the "Ritian Linyu", commonly known as the Buddha Tower, which was originally built after the Buddha Tower in the Lama Temple.And since kowtowing here, it is inevitable to think of the special meaning of Lama Temple in the lineage of Emperor Yongzheng-Emperor Qianlong.

And the fighting altar itself is Taoist. The emperor not only worshiped Buddha, but also worshiped Taoist gods.

Yue Yi didn't dare to respond, so he could only pour beans into a bamboo tube, and outlined the emperor's next itinerary for holding incense and offering sacrifices:

"On June [-]th, I went to Buddha Tower and Guangyu Palace to worship Buddha again."

"On the first day of the seventh lunar month, I still worship Buddha in Buddha City and Guangyu Palace..."

Concubine Xin closed her eyes, "Enough!"
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She doesn't care about worshiping Buddha in Savatthi City and kowtowing in Dou Tan, but she can't ignore the matter of worshiping Buddha in Guangyu Palace.Because the name of Guangyu Palace clearly shows its function of praying.Besides, the one enshrined in Guangyu Palace is Lord Bixia Yuan.

Bixia Yuanjun is the famous goddess of Mount Tai. Taoism believes that she is in charge of fertility.Even after the death of Yong Cong back then, Empress Xiaoxian desperately wanted to follow the emperor to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, and refused to stay in the palace despite the emperor's persuasion. The reason she gave was "dreamed of Bixia Yuanjun's call" .

It’s just that Bixia Yuanjun is a Taoist god after all, and the Manchurian royal family originally believed in polytheistic shamanism. In shamanism, there were already various goddesses who gave birth; after the Qing Dynasty, they believed in Buddhism, so the royal family worshiped this Taoist goddess. Originally, it was related to the Taishan sacrifice, but it was not a separate sacrifice to Bixia Yuanjun for the sake of blessing birth.

But this time the emperor went to Guangyu Palace to burn incense on the first and fifteenth consecutive day, and it was the same day as Buddha Tower and Shravasti City. The family weighs the same.

What's more, this meeting is just when Junggar and Khalkha are rebelling, and the Mongolian tribes believe in the red religion and the yellow religion. If the emperor wants to maintain the relationship with the Mongolian tribes, he should only pay attention to Buddhism. How can we pay so much attention to this Taoist goddess?
——The emperor is like this, who else can it be for? !

The more Concubine Xin thought about it, the angrier she became, and the more she thought about it, the more anxious she felt. She felt like a handful of needles stuck in her heart, unable to go up or down.
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Tiredly, she raised her hand and waved Le Rong and Le Yi away, while Xin Concubine sat alone under the window, sadly looking at Sixth Princess who fell asleep on the kang.

Her sixth princess was born on the seventeenth day of July last year, and it was July again, her daughter's first birthday.

It is said that the first birthday is the first and most important birthday of a child, even if it is a princess, the palace will celebrate it seriously.Besides, there is only such a little princess beside the emperor at this time~~ The emperor can even treat Hongzhou's daughter and Princess Wan as his own, so it can be seen how much the emperor likes his daughter, so the emperor should have done it for her in this July. Her six princesses, have a good time.

But until now, she hasn't received any special notice from the emperor or the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

——It turns out that the emperor is not only concerned about the use of troops in the northwest, and temporarily ignores the sixth princess's first birthday; but the emperor is concerned about Lingfei and Lingfei's child who is about to give birth, so he can't take care of her sixth princess!

She was supposed to be the only little princess in the womb, and she was supposed to be the emperor's favorite... But how did it become like this?
Concubine Ling, Concubine Ling again!
Concubine Xin felt like being bitten by a poisonous snake in her heart, because she could endure her own pain, but she couldn't bear it because of her daughter's pain.

She stood up abruptly, "July? Why did you have to be born in July? Why did you want to steal my daughter's limelight?"

She turned her eyes sharply, and suddenly smiled, "July...July is a good month, there are still good days in July!"

Before she entered the palace, the family had invited so many nuns and grandmas who had worked as servants in the palace to teach her everything in the palace.She knew each concubine one by one, and knew the stories before and after the birth of each emperor's heir.

The most "mysterious" among the princes is the eighth elder brother Yongxuan.As the son of Concubine Jia, and also a prince, outside the palace, there is very little heard of this prince's appearance.She was curious, so she asked about the eighth elder brother, and only then heard that the eighth elder brother had other illnesses besides his legs and feet... and this illness was said to be pinched by a ghost, because this eighth elder brother was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. , when the gate of hell is wide open.

What's more, those nuns even said seriously, "Not only may it be pinched by a ghost, but it is even possible that this elder brother is a living ghost himself! After all, the door of hell is open that day, who knows what kind of ghost in the underworld Come out, just use the child's body to support the birth..."

Because she knew the story of the eighth elder brother, when she gave birth to the sixth princess last year, she was very frightened, for fear that the sixth princess would also be born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.She resorted to many methods for this, even resorting to medication, just to delay the birth of the child by a little bit.

In the end, her wish came true, and the sixth princess was born on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, avoiding that day when the gate of hell was wide open.

But... Maybe it really is the reincarnation of heaven, Lingfei's child happens to be born in July.

She smiled, looked at herself in the mirror, and said leisurely, "July [-]th is really a good day. Such a good day should be reserved for her children!"

A child born on July [-]th is a prince, and the emperor doesn't want to see it; so what if it's Lingfei's child, as long as it is born on July [-]th, the emperor will like it! .
After the tenth day of July, the island of "Natural Picture" suddenly became tense.Even when talking, no one dared to make a loud voice, or even dare to breathe heavily.

Wanxi's pain became more and more intense.

At the most uncomfortable time, she couldn't help crying out every hour or two.

Although I still can't tell exactly when she will give birth, the signs of giving birth have become more and more obvious.

In the herbal tea dining room that was temporarily added on the island in the past few days, Doctor Shouyue, Guiyun Sampan, Grandma Shouyue, and the eunuchs from the Royal Pharmacy sat on stools day and night, and no one dared to move the place.

Even the errands of serving Wanxi's tea and meals are done by Yuye and Yurui themselves, and they will never leave the hands of others.

At this time, we must not make any mistakes in this regard.

But this day, Wu Niu still twisted her waist and swayed in.Seeing that only Yurui was preparing rice porridge, she approached with a smile, "Yurui, are you busy?"

Yu Rui frowned, and subconsciously blocked the porridge pot with her body.

"How did you come?"

Wu Niu shrugged and smiled, "Look at what you said, how fresh! I am also a woman under the master's position, or a first-class woman. If you want to serve the master, don't I need it?"

Yu Rui took a careful breath, not wanting to quarrel with Wu Niu at this juncture, so she tried her best to calmly say, "Yu Ye and I will take care of the errands here. Fifth sister doesn't have to take the time to come here."

"Besides, Fifth Sister is about to leave the palace. Let alone the master, even me, I don't want to make Fifth Sister work harder."

Wu Niu couldn't hear the defense in Yurui's words, she pinched her waist, shrugged her willow shoulders and smiled, "I'm going out of the palace, but isn't that 'once'? Since I haven't been out for a day If you are in the palace, then I will still be the master's slave for a day, and I will still have to take on the errand of a first-class woman like me."

She glanced at Yurui Le up and down, "How can I ask you, a second-class woman who was supposed to wait outside the threshold, to step into the threshold every day and serve in front of the master? That would be too tiring for you."

"Besides, you said that you are going out of the palace. I am not the only one in our palace who is going out of the palace. Yuye is also going out of the palace. How can she walk around in this medicinal tea room as usual, but I can't. ?”

"Is this the distance between the master and the master, or is there someone pretending to be a tiger and blocking me on purpose?"

(End of this chapter)