In the twilight, the evening sun seems to have coated the glazed tiles of Yongxi Palace with a golden glow, and the black-winged Xiyan also flew obliquely past the red palace wall.
If it was a few years ago, Rong Xi would not have dared to think that one day she would regard this Forbidden City as her home, and even this huge Yongxi Forbidden City would have a sense of belonging to her.
She was originally an orphan from a poor family. She struggled for so many years and had no one to rely on. In order to make a living in the Forbidden City, she once swallowed her anger and depended on the face of the people above her all day long. However, Mu Huai gave her a family, and she gave birth to two children for Mu Huai. Mu Huai promoted her to her current position, and has been pampering her in his way for the past few years.
When the car drove to Yujie, Rong Xi's heart was moved and warm. After she lifted the curtain of the car, she saw merchants gathering around her and people's heads moving.
Just now, after she unintentionally provoked Mu Huai, he has been sleeping in the car with his eyes closed.
— "Your Majesty..."
Rong Xi called him softly.
Mu Huai's voice was a little lazy, and he asked, "What's the matter?"
Rong Xi replied in a waxy voice: "Husband... My concubine wants to get out of the car first, and return to the palace from Changning Gate to take a bath."
At this moment, Mu Huai raised his eyes, looked at her, and asked again in puzzlement: "Is it just this moment?"
Rong Xi lowered her eyes and replied: "Jue'er... Jue'er will be waiting for you and my concubine at the gate of the palace. I want to be clean, see you again."
Before leaving that day, Mu Jue once mentioned to Rong Xi that on the day the two of them returned to Bian, he would personally welcome them at Xuanhua Building.
Mu Huai thought that Rong Xi wanted to soak in the fragrant soup earlier because of him, but he didn't expect that it was for Mu Jue.
Forget it, if she finished her bath earlier, he could also love this delicate woman earlier.
Mu Huai complied with Rong Xi's request.
Xuanhua Gate.
Although Mu Jue seems to be precocious on weekdays, he is still a child at a certain age. It is also the first time he has been away from his parents for so long. After learning that his parents are about to return to the palace, he waited at the Xuanhua Gate an hour ago up.
The vermilion palace door was wide open, and the golden lacquer nails on it were shining brightly. The eunuch of the Eastern Palace saw the little prince walking around with his hands behind his back. Half an hour ago, the eunuch persuaded: "Your Highness, the emperor needs a day to return home." You know kung fu, why don't you go back to the East Palace and wait for a while, and when the emperor is about to enter the city gate, the slaves will look for you."
Mu Jue refused with a straight face.
Yan Juxu also left Bian yesterday, today he is not the same as before, studying with Taishi Yan, in the huge Forbidden City, only a younger brother who can't speak is with him. Although there are also nurses in the East Palace who have taken care of him since he was a child, and some young Huangmen and eunuchs, but Mu Jue still eagerly wants to see his mother, queen and father.
Mu Jue looked at it for a long time, and finally saw the figure of the luxurious chariot. The royal coachman drove two parallel horses, and soon parked it not far from Xuanhua Building.
The first person to come out was his father Mu Huai. He didn't seem to have changed much, he was still tall and handsome with a long waist and long legs. The emperor's expression is always cold, and he rarely smiles.
Recently, when Mu Jue was being served by the palace people to tie her hair, those palace people always said that the little prince looked more and more like the emperor, especially when he frowned.
But Mu Jue looked in the direction of the cart again, but saw that no one came out of it, so the driver drove the cart away again.
Why didn't the mother come out with the father
When Mu Huai strode towards Mu Jue, the palace servants behind him had already knelt down.
Mu Jue saluted Mu Huai in a dignified way.
The child at this time was growing very fast, and after seeing him for more than ten days, Mu Huai felt that Mu Jue had grown a little taller.
Mu Huai looked down at the little son, and asked in a serious tone: "During the days when Zhen and your mother were away, did you study hard with the grand master?"
Mu Jue whispered, and replied: "Didn't Grand Master Yan go to Yejing, is it rare that the father didn't ask him about his son's performance?"
Good boy, dare to ask him back now.
Mu Huai's voice was pretending to be low, and he said again: "Your Grand Master Yan has always been partial to and protecting you, even if you are stubborn and lazy, he would not tell me the truth."
Mu Juefu bowed again, and replied: "If the emperor is worried about my son's studies, he can check and check his son's homework."
Mu Huai pointed at Mu Jue's small head with his finger, and said, "I've traveled thousands of miles, and I'm very tired. I'll check you up tomorrow, and I'll give you one night to prepare well."
The father and son didn't want to linger at the gate of the palace, so they walked side by side into the palace.
The two of them were one tall and the other short, and the shadows falling on the bluestone floor were stretched obliquely.
At this moment, Mu Jue asked: "Father, where did the mother go?"
Mu Huai's face was slightly embarrassing, but his tone was still calm and he replied: "Your mother returned to Jiaofang Palace first."
Mu Jue was full of doubts, and asked Mu Huai: "Why doesn't the mother enter the palace with the father?"
Mu Huai clasped his son's head with his big palm, pushed him towards the eunuch of the East Palace, and ordered: "Don't ask so many questions...you go to Jiaofang Palace to find your mother first, and I will be there in a while."
- "My son obeys the order."
Mu Huai looked at the small figure of Mu Jue going away, and shook his head helplessly.
Both Rong Xi and Mu Jue regard each other as the most important thing. Since she gave birth to two children for him, his position in Rong Xi must be separated by those two cubs.
***
After Mu Huai returned to the palace, he immediately went to the Qianyuan Hall. The waiter Cheng Song had already sorted out the folded papers that had been piled up recently, and placed them on the imperial case.
After Mu Huai sat down, Cheng Song respectfully said: "The five weavers brought by Your Majesty from Ye have already been arranged by the minister, but I just heard from the soldiers who detained them along the way that they refused to eat any food."
After the country was broken, the surviving weavers were unwilling to return to the new owner, but they also forgot how cruel the Lord Ye who committed suicide was to his subjects.
Thinking of this, Mu Huai squinted his eyes, and said to Cheng Song: "Take care of these people, don't let them die, since they don't eat, force them to eat porridge, and force them to eat."
Cheng Song should be.
***
After Mu Huai went to Jiaofang Palace, Rong Xi had already finished bathing, and changed into a smoky purple long-sleeved blouse embroidered with treasure-faced flowers, with a cloud cape on his arms, and his long black hair like silk was tied up. Updo, skin as greasy as snow, appearance as beautiful as a fairy.
After she showered and made up, she hugged Mu Chen first, and Mu Jue looked up beside Rong Xi eagerly, looking a little pitiful.
Mu Huai's heart was actually a little refreshed, and now this kid Mu Jue can finally understand what it's like for someone to compete with him for the queen mother.
Seeing Mu Huai coming to Jiaofang Palace, Rong Xi called the wet nurse to carry Mu Chen down.
When Mu Jue was as old as Mu Chen, he could already speak, but now Mu Chen can only babble monophonic words, but the wet nurse told Rong Xi that Mu Chen's behavior is normal, and Mu Chen's behavior is normal. Jue was able to speak very early because he was smarter than ordinary children.
After Rong Xi became a mother, she exuded a kind of intoxicating tenderness from the inside out. Compared with the youthful appearance a few years ago, she now has more charm.
Mu Jue was still young, so Rong Xi specially told the chef in the small kitchen of Jiaofang Palace to cook some sweet dishes. During the dinner, Rong Xi took good care of Mu Jue, shaved fishbone for him, and used silk Pa wiped Mu Jue's small mouth from time to time.
Mu Huai's complexion has not been very good-looking.
Seeing that the bowl in front of Mu Jue was finally empty, Mu Huai asked, "Are you full?"
Mu Jue nodded, his eyes were dark and bright.
Mu Huai put down the chopsticks in his hand, and after ordering the palace staff to remove the dishes, he said to Mu Jue, "Hurry back to the East Palace after eating, don't forget that I will check your homework tomorrow."
"My son knows."
Mu Jue's expression was a little disappointed, and he didn't dare to show his dissatisfaction with Mu Huai in front of Rong Xi. He was really puzzled, since the queen mother had already gone out with the emperor father, how could he continue to occupy his queen mother when he returned to the palace
Waiting for Rong Xi to be reluctantly outside Jiaofang Palace, watching the eunuch carry the chariot and carry his son to the direction of the East Palace, he still couldn't help but softly complained to the man: "The concubine hasn't seen Jue'er for a long time. Now, can't my husband let him spend more time with my concubines?"
Mu Huai replied coldly: "As a man, you can't always cling to his mother."
Excuses are all excuses.
Rong Xi said helplessly in her heart.
The moonlight is like frost, the peach blossoms are about to fade, and the night wind in full spring always carries a heady aroma.
When Rong Xi waited for the man to take a bath, he found a freshly scabbed scar on the man's right shoulder, which should have been left on the battlefield many days ago.
When they were in the military camp that day, although the two passed by, the candles were extinguished, and she did not see the new wound on Mu Huai's body.
Looking at the injury on Mu Huai's shoulder, Rong Xi suddenly felt as if someone had gouged out her heart, and she asked in a trembling voice: "Husband, you..."
Seeing her peach blossom eyes staring straight at the scar on her shoulder, Mu Huai said indifferently: "It's not a serious injury, so it's not worth paying attention to."
Rong Xi pursed her soft lips slightly, but said nothing.
This is not a serious injury? She was going to die of distress.
When the silk gauze curtains fell behind, the two hugged each other in the tent, Rong Xi gently stroked his scabbed wound with her lips, and her soft hair brushed the back of Mu Huai's hand.
Mu Huai lifted the beauty's chin lightly, and kissed her lightly on her lips. He raised his eyes to meet her eyes, and asked in a low voice, "You are so good tonight, why are you so obedient?"
After that, I have to pick the string of the water red heart dress with my fingers.
Rong Xi closed his eyes and smiled, and said softly: "The concubine is not like your majesty, the concubine always speaks for what she says."
Mu Huai's eyes were soft, but he pretended to reprimand: "Dare you deliberately mock me?"
Rong Xi put her face on the man's shoulder, and murmured back: "The emperor has been pampering my concubine, what dare not my concubine do?"
Mu Huai's tone was pretending to be quiet, and he said: "Then I will punish you well..."
As soon as the words fell, like a fierce lion pouncing on its prey, it quickly turned the prey that fell into its palm.
The little sparrow exclaimed loudly, but the lion stopped all its movements.
Rong Xi was puzzled, and asked softly, "Husband... what's wrong?"
Mu Huai looked at her snow white obscene pants, which were soaked in a large area of bright red.
While adjusting his uneven breathing, he hugged the little man to his body, and asked warmly, "Why didn't you tell me about the menstruation? It almost hurt you..."
He caressed her soft long hair with his slightly tender hands, and kissed her cheek.
Rong Xi was also taken aback.
She has been well taken care of by Mu Huai in the past few years, taking all kinds of expensive tonics, and at this time, the man will be extra gentle to her, as if he wants to pamper her to heaven, although she thinks Mu Huai is right She was a little too concerned about this matter, but she has been enjoying his care sweetly.
So in recent years, she seldom has the problem of menstrual irregularities again, Rong Xi thought about the days, it seems to be these few days.
Rong Xi put her hands on her lower abdomen with a little embarrassment, and replied softly: "Yes...the concubine was negligent..."
But when the menstrual incident happened suddenly, she didn't notice it at all, but after taking a bath, she felt warm and tired.
Fortunately, whenever London was in London, the palace people would spread a layer of Chinese mattresses on the bed in advance, so she didn't dirty other places.
Mu Huai changed the palace servants to serve Rong Xi, Dan Xiang and the little palace maid waited on their mothers and changed their menstrual belts, and they all knew that the emperor pampered the queen mother like a treasure, and this time of the month is even more precious. , It’s no surprise that it’s long gone.
When Rong Xi returned to the bedroom, her ears were red.
Mu Huai carried her to the side hall, and according to his instructions, the palace staff prepared brown sugar water and small balls boiled with red bean paste in the morning, and fed her with a porcelain spoon in front of the palace staff.
Rong Xi's face was as red as clouds, and while biting the porcelain spoon, she felt that according to Mu Huai's raising method, it would be strange for her not to be delicate.
She knew that Mu Huai would come according to her wishes in the past few days, so she had to make an inch and begged: "Husband, Jue'er also likes to eat red bean dumplings, can you call him over and let him eat some too? "
After hearing this, Mu Huai's eyebrows darkened slightly.
If you really want to let Mu Jue eat, you can just send a servant to the East Palace, but this woman still wants to see the boy, so she found an excuse.
Thinking like this, Mu Huai still said: "Okay."
Mu Jue was happily carried back to this part of Jiaofang Palace by the eunuch, but when he entered the side hall, he couldn't be happy anymore.
On Luohan's bed, his young and matched parents were like Siamese twins, the father encircled the queen mother with one hand, and pawed her belly with his big palm.
Mu Huai saw that Mu Jue didn't eat Yuanzi well, instead he always secretly looked at him and Rong Xi, so he ordered in a deep voice, "Hurry up and go back after eating."
But Mu Jue asked puzzledly: "Why did the father give the empress a stomach? Is the empress feeling unwell?"
After hearing this, Rong Xi's cheeks became redder, and she struggled, but her strength was not as strong as Mu Huai's, so she had to let Mu Huai continue to surround her.
Mu Huai explained to Mu Jue in a serious tone: "Remember, if you marry the Crown Princess in the future, you have to take good care of her like your father did during her menstrual days."
-"emperor!"
Rong Xi was a little sullen, Mu Jue was still so young, why did Mu Huai tell him everything
Mu Jue naturally doesn't know what menstruation is all about, although he sometimes seems to like to confront Mu Huai, but when Mu Huai solemnly teaches him or tells him, he will seriously remember it.
Mu Huai raised his eyebrows at this moment, and said to Mu Jue: "If you don't take good care of her, her temper will be as big as your mother's now, and if you coax her, she won't be able to coax her well."
At this time, Mu Jue bowed to Mu Huai, and replied solemnly in a milky voice: "Your servant must keep this in mind."
Taking advantage of Mu Jue's ignorance, Rong Xi glared at Mu Huai with those peach blossom eyes, and lowered her voice, "How can you say such things to Jue'er?"
Mu Huai also whispered back to her: "Is what I said wrong?"
Rong Xi fell silent angrily.
She only hoped that when Jue'er grew up, she would never be as shameless as his father.
***
A few days later, Rong Xi's menstrual affairs ended.
It was night, and Bianjing encountered a patter of spring rain, accompanied by startling bursts of spring thunder from time to time, and the accumulated rain dripped down the bluestone floor along the gutter.
After the clouds gathered and the rain rested, Rong Xi clearly felt that Mu Huai was not as satisfied as usual after this time, instead, his whole body exuded a sullen aura, and his eyebrows were covered with gloom.
Rong Xi knew clearly that the reason for Mu Huai's anger should be caused by those weavers from Yejing.
Suddenly, a dazzling crack flashed outside the grille window.
Then, thunder suddenly sounded.
After Mu Huai sat up from the dragon bed, his expression was a little sullen.
— "I'm going to kill them."
Rong Xi's heart was beating like a drum, and she gently ran her slender hands along the man's back. She knew that although Mu Huai had treated her tenderly and considerately in recent years, he was still an emperor with a violent personality in his bones.
He has never been able to rub the sand in his eyes, and it is not easy to bear those weavers until now.
Rong Xi comforted her in a soft voice: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty is not in a hurry, don't be in a hurry to kill them first... My concubine will think of a way for you."
Mu Huai said coldly: "I've made up my mind, these Ye people really don't know good from bad."
Rong Xi covered the man's tough and handsome face, and kissed him gently, trying to calm the anger in his heart.
After the man rubbed the inch of Wen Tian and spent a long time with her, Rong Xi just said with foggy eyes: "The emperor should sleep well tonight, and he will be energetic tomorrow. The concubine will go to the meeting for the emperor tomorrow." If the courtiers and concubines can’t persuade those weavers from Ye, the emperor will kill them again, okay?”
Mu Huai closed his red eyes, and rubbed the center of his brows for himself. He suppressed the killing intent rising in his heart, and finally replied in a hoarse voice: "Okay."