Zhang Wanyi stroked her abdomen lightly, it was still flat, but a life had been bred in it.
If it's a boy... She couldn't help but glance at Yunyi with a bit of resentment, but her gaze was so fast that no one in the room noticed. No one would have guessed what she was thinking.
Yunling and Yunqing came to Fengyi Palace one after the other, and concubines from other palaces also came one after another. Not long after meeting each other, Emperor Jing took the empress into the Hall of Fengyi.
After everyone saluted, Emperor Jing looked very happy. All the palaces and mansions were rewarded. Yunluo got a lot of money by playing tricks.
Emperor Jing talked to everyone for a while, then took the queen away, and let everyone walk around in the palace at will, and eat together in the evening.
Yun Ke just took Gu Yuqi and Yunluo back, and was summoned by Emperor Jing to go away. Yunluo was taken out to play, and Gu Yuqi took a sleep in the room, and she slept until noon before waking up. , Yun Ke sent someone to tell Gu Yuqi to eat something at noon. He was still talking with Emperor Jing in the study, and it was probably time to talk about dinner.
Yunluo had already eaten, and was taken to a lunch break by the nanny, and Gu Yuqi also used some casually, so she thought about getting up and walking.
Seeing a purse on the table, she asked Daimei where it came from. Daimei said that it was sent by the eunuch in the palace, and that it was given by the empress.
Gu Yuqi picked up the purse and smelled it lightly. A strong plant aroma permeated her heart. It was not musk, but another plant aroma. Gu Yuqi felt a little familiar, but she didn't think of it for a while.
"Do you want to wear it?" Daimei asked.
"Since it was given by the Empress, then take it with you." Gu Yuqi said. Daimei hung the purse on Gu Yuqi's waist.
Gu Yuqi got up and wanted to go for a walk in the yard. She only took a few steps before she remembered what the spices were in her purse.
Catnip!
In the previous life, there were people in the palace who mixed catnip with other spices and stuffed it into purses. There were many cats in the palace. From time to time, there would be cats wandering in the garden. The taste, I am afraid that I will pounce on it and scratch and bite.
She was tricked only once, and that time she made a big mistake, and it happened that Yun Ke was passing by, so she couldn't get off the stage immediately. Later, she firmly remembered the smell of this purse. She never thought that after so many years, she would smell this kind of thing again in the palace.
Fate would really play a joke on her.
"Is this really sent by the empress?" Gu Yuqi stopped, took off the sachet hanging from her waist, and asked Daimei.
"The eunuch said yes." Dai Mei nodded.
She didn't recognize the eunuch either. Just remember what he looked like.
"Follow me to Fengyi Palace." Gu Yuqi put away the purse with catnip hidden in it, and walked towards Fengyi Palace with her eyebrows.
And the eunuch guarding the gate at the gate of the palace said that Concubine Gu of Prince An's Mansion asked to see the Empress.
As soon as she entered Fengyi Palace, Dai Mei looked around, looking all the way, but she didn't see any eunuch who was sending a purse there.
Gu Yuqi already knew something in her heart.
If the empress wanted to send someone to deliver things, she would probably send someone close to her. After all, she had been in the palace for so many years, and she would trust herself in everything she did, so as not to make any mistakes in the middle.
Although it is not a big deal to give something to the juniors, but there are also grades among the juniors, if the gift is wrong, or mixed up, it is not good.
The queen is a person who pays great attention to these things. For so many years, the things that have been distributed to the various palaces have always been delivered by the people around the queen in person, and they have never been given by the ministers of the palace. If Daimei didn't see the eunuch who went to deliver the purse in Fengyi Palace, either the eunuch hadn't come back yet, or the eunuch was not someone close to the queen at all.
If it was the latter, then the purse was naturally not sent by the Queen's messenger.
The reason why Gu Yuqi dared to make such a bold assumption. It's because she doesn't actually have any conflict with the queen.
Although the queen is Zhang Wanyi's aunt, in her last life, she didn't care about the matter of seizing the throne until the end. Sure enough, when Yun Ke became the emperor, she was respected as the empress dowager, and she was treated like a bodhisattva in Yongshou Palace By the way, the empress herself is also a sensible person. She only shows up when she needs to show off during the holidays. On weekdays, she is either in the Yongshou Palace or in the Summer Resort. I heard that there are a few blue-faced confidants around her. , Of course, this is just a legend, the Queen does things beautifully, but not out of the ordinary, Yun Ke naturally turns a blind eye and never cares about her business.
Anyway, when Gu Yuqi died, the empress dowager was at ease.
So when Gu Yuqi was in the cold palace, when she thought of the Empress Dowager, she really felt that the Empress Dowager was a transparent person, the big winner in the harem, she couldn't even catch up with her.
It is absolutely impossible for such a person who doesn't care about Duo Di Guan to attack her.
It would be of no benefit to the queen to attack her.
The queen was quite warm to Gu Yuqi. After Gu Yuqi saluted, she asked someone to give her a seat. She didn't neglect Gu Yuqi just because she was a side concubine.
Although Dai Mei lowered her eyebrows and looked at her eyes, she looked at the eunuch standing in the hall from the corner of her eye, but she didn't see the person who was going to deliver the purse, so she lightly touched Gu Yuqi's sleeve with her hand Three times.
Gu Yuqi understood.
"Ke'er is a bit colder, Concubine Rou, take care of me." The empress said. She used the name His Majesty bestowed upon Gu Yuqi.
"Your Majesty, the daughter-in-law has already married into Prince An's mansion, so naturally His Royal Highness Prince An should be the first. If you talk about taking care of her, it's really a disgrace to the daughter-in-law." Gu Yuqi laughed.
"I heard that you have good martial arts." The empress looked at Gu Yuqi with interest, "Even Princess Pinghu praised you in front of me, and you were the one who protected her during the Gengzi Rebellion." His Royal Highness He Fu, it is also Ke'er's blessing that Ke'er can marry you back to the mansion."
"That's an absurd compliment from His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess." Gu Yuqi said modestly, "My daughter-in-law's two skills were taught by my mother, so it's not even on the table. It's just vulgar skills."
"Hehe, you don't need to be modest." The queen smiled, and being able to beat up Dingyuan Hou is still called vulgar kung fu
"By the way, my daughter-in-law is here to ask the Empress about something." Gu Yuqi said. On the Wooden Sausage.
"Let's talk." The empress smiled and asked Gu Yuqi to serve tea.
"The empress just gave me a purse." Gu Yuqi said with a smile, "My daughter-in-law saw it and really liked it. The spices inside are also fragrant, which is something my daughter-in-law has never smelled before, so my daughter-in-law thought twice and decided to buy it." Boldly come to Empress Empress and ask, is there a recipe for the spices in this purse? If so, can you give a copy to my daughter-in-law? As time goes by, the taste of the spices will become weaker, so my daughter-in-law can follow the recipe Go to match some and put on again."
When the queen heard this, she frowned slightly, "I didn't give Concubine Rou any purse?"
Gu Yuqi immediately raised her hand to cover her lips, pretending to be surprised, "My daughter-in-law received a purse, which is very exquisitely crafted. The eunuch who came to deliver the purse said it was given by the empress."
The queen's eyes flickered slightly, and her brows were slightly frowned, "You show me the purse."
Gu Yuqi gave Daimei a wink, and Daimei immediately married the purse, and held it in both hands and sent it to the empress.
The queen asked the nanny beside her to pick it up, and then she took the purse from the nanny's hand, and looked at it over and over in the palm of her hand.
"The workmanship is very fine, and it is the work of the Shangyi Department in the palace." The queen recognized the making and stitching of the purse, as well as the thread and material used. "It's just that the Ai family really didn't send any purse to Concubine Rou. Could it be that the people on Concubine Rou's side heard wrong?" The queen asked tentatively.
"Return to the empress." Dai Mei knelt down on one side, "When the father-in-law came to deliver the purse, the concubine Rou had already fallen asleep, it was the servant who was on duty, and the purse was picked up by the servant, which father-in-law said clearly , saying that it was given by the empress, and the concubines and other masters of all the palaces have it."
Daimei speaks softly, with a soft voice and articulate words, which made the queen feel very comfortable when she heard it. Besides, it was the first time she entered the palace to see herself, and she was able to be so neither humble nor overbearing. It seems that Gu Yuqi taught her very well on weekdays .
"En." The queen nodded slowly after hearing this, and then laughed lightly, "I don't know that there are people in this palace who are getting more and more courageous."
She flipped through the purse again, and then looked at Gu Yuqi with burning eyes, carefully looked Gu Yuqi from head to toe, and then smiled slowly, "Come, come here, let me take a good look at you. "
Gu Yuqi got up when she heard the words, lowered her head and walked to the queen's side, the queen took Gu Yuqi's hand, and frowned again, "What's wrong with your hand?"
As soon as she shook it, she knew there was something wrong with Gu Yuqi's hand.
It hangs down softly, you can't use force, and you can't see it from a distance, but it is impossible not to notice it when you hold it in your hand.
Gu Yuqi's heart trembled slightly, and her mind was thinking quickly. Finally, she lowered her head and made a look like she was about to cry, "If you go back to your mother, your daughter-in-law's hand will be useless."
The queen was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly rolled up Gu Yuqi's sleeves, only to see that there were still two hideous scars on her wrists, both on both wrists.
"What's going on here?" the queen asked in a low voice.
Gu Yuqi pursed her lips, but she still told the empress what happened that day, but she concealed some things, such as why she left the house and why she placed orders, she had vaguely mentioned all of these.