A little eunuch stepped into Yanxi Hall, walked beside Concubine Huigui, and whispered to her.
"The emperor smiled."
Concubine Huigui nodded and nodded to the maid next to her, who then led the little eunuch down to receive the reward.
Not only Li Yu has ears and eyes, but Concubine Huigui also has ears and eyes beside the emperor. If she can bring back valuable information for her, she will reward her generously.
For example, this time, although the other party brought only four words, the words were precious.
"Since the emperor smiled, I must be in a good mood tonight." Concubine Huigui thought to herself, "Maybe..."
"Niangniang, but what's the happy event?" Jiabi asked with a smile.
Concubine Huigui glanced at her calmly and smiled, "It's nothing."
In addition to her in Yanxi Hall, there are Concubine Xian, Concubine Yi, nobleman Wan and so on. All the concubines are sitting in their chairs according to their positions. They are not talking about family affairs at night, but waiting for the emperor's summons. .
It was like this tonight, and it was like this every night. The green-headed plaques with the names of the concubines were sent to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Everyone was eagerly waiting for the emperor to pick up their plaques.
"The emperor has not been serving the bed for several days." Seeing that she was unwilling to answer, Jia Concubine changed the subject wisely and sighed, "Should I rest alone tonight?"
This statement made everyone worried, even Concubine Hui Gui felt a little heavy.
Regardless of her high status, in the harem, one is one, and two is two. Even the queen sometimes has to look at her face and act. In fact, she has a heart problem—no children under her knees.
The beauty is like a flower and she will grow old one day, and the most important thing in the palace is a beautiful girl who is a beautiful woman. At that time, will the emperor still pick up her green head card? Not anymore.
"I really want to have a child..." Concubine Huigui couldn't help thinking.
Raising children to prevent old age is like this among the people, and even more so in the palace. When the face is old, there is nothing left to rely on, naturally only the lin’er under the knee. Even if this child is a little stupid, he is still a prince, enough to be the backing of an elderly mother. If he is lucky, he is born smart, has both talents and virtues, and is liked by the emperor, then in the future... even the position of the empress dowager can make a lot of money. of.
Concubine Huigui stroked her unsatisfactory stomach, and was even more reluctant to share the news she had obtained earlier with everyone. If she could have the final say in everything, she wished that Li Yu could only hand her green head card to the emperor. Waiting was frustrating, she stroked her fake tortoiseshell nails and asked casually, "By the way, why don't you see Concubine Chun?"
"Niangniang, Concubine Chun has suffered from the cold and her health is still not good. She can't come tonight." Jiabi replied, she always seemed to know a lot of things.
Concubine Huigui gave her one more look and said lazily: "Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, more than half of the children are sick. This is really a sickness."
"What Niangniang said." Ying Guiren hurriedly found an excuse to get closer to her: "Sister Chunfei's body and bones are a little weaker, and she has been ill for three days. Yesterday, the few of us discussed going to visit the doctor."
"What are you going to do?" Concubine Huigui said with a half-smile, "Concubine Chun is ill, and she has the Queen's care, what are you and me worrying about?"
Ying Guiren was choked by her words, and immediately did not know how to answer, and it took a long time for her to respond weakly: "Yes."
The rest of the palace concubine saw that she had hit a wall, and they were even more stunned. Everyone wanted a backer, and everyone wanted to climb on the high branch of Concubine Huigui. However, she was moody, and it was difficult for ordinary people to guess her preferences. In the future, the days in the harem will be sad.
Concubine Hui Gui played with her fingernails for a while, and then suddenly said, "Where's your noble person?"
The room was silent, and no one answered for a long time.
Concubine Huigui raised her gaze and landed on a green-clothed beauty: "Yi Concubine, what about you, where is your good sister Yuguiren?"
Not everyone in the harem is against each other. Occasionally, there are people like Yu Guiren and Yi Concubine. Although they are not biological sisters, they are better than sisters. They always support and comfort each other.
Yi Concubine calmed down, got up and replied to her words: "Returning to the words of the concubine, the noble person is unwell and has taken leave..."
"Oh?" Concubine Huigui supported her temple with one hand, "Another unwell..."
She was just asking casually to pass the time, but unexpectedly, there was a trace of nervousness on Yi Concubine's face.
Before waiting for Concubine Hui to reveal the deep meaning, Jia Concubine smiled and said, "I don't know what evil wind has been blowing in the Forbidden City recently, and everyone has fallen ill. It seems that I need to ask the imperial doctor to prescribe some medicine for everyone to prevent it from happening in the future. "
"What about Lady Yu?" Concubine Huigui stared at Yi Concubine's face, "Have the imperial doctor seen it?"
Xu Shi knew that her previous nervousness had caught her attention, and Yi Concubine calmly said: "Concubine originally wanted to ask the imperial doctor to see, but A Rong was afraid of taking medicine since she was a child, and she only had a slight cough. , I must lie down for a few days and I will be fine..."
When she replied, Concubine Hui Gui kept staring at her face, her eyes were like a saw, and the cold light was stern, as if she was going to cut open her brain in the next second to see what thoughts were hidden in it.
But at this moment, as soon as the door opened, the great eunuch Li Yu walked in from outside.
Concubine Hui Gui's attention was immediately attracted by him, and together with all the concubines present, they cast their eager eyes on Li Yu.
Li Yuqing was dressed in plain clothes, with a whisk on her elbow, bowed to the concubines, and then said the two words they least wanted to hear in the eager eyes of the concubines: "Call away!"
These two words shattered the thirst in the eyes of the concubine. There is a saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, so Concubine Huigui is the most disappointed among them, she couldn't help asking: "Why did the emperor rest alone again? "
Li Yu said with a smile: "The noble concubine, madam, the memorials are piled up like a mountain, and the emperor will correct it overnight. Today, the maidens will not be asked to wait in vain."
Concubine Hui Gui smiled coldly, and immediately got up and walked towards the door. It was a common thing to put such rude behavior on her. Looking at the back of her leaving, Yi Concubine breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, and joined the rest of the concubines. Together, the concubine respectfully shouted to her back: "The concubine and concubine respectfully send the noble concubine!"
The night fell, and as the concubines returned to the palace to sleep one by one, a heavy ruler suddenly fell from the palace maid's place.
"what!"
"It hurts!"
"who is it?"
The screams came one after another, and the little palace maids woke up one by one from their sleep, and were about to attack each other, but when they opened their eyes, they saw Aunt Fang's frosty face. Immediately, their anger melted like snow, and one by one, they climbed out of bed like quails. Respectfully shouted: "Auntie."
Aunt Fang was holding a ruler in her right hand. The ruler was thick and long, like a chair leg. She slowly tapped the ruler on her left hand, her eyes swept across the face of the palace maid, and finally fell on Jixiang's face, cold and cold. Coldly: "How did you sleep?"
Jixiang was stunned, raised his hand to wipe the saliva remaining on his mouth, and said with a smirk, "How can I sleep, just lie down and sleep."
"Who allowed you to lie down and sleep?" Aunt Fang scolded, "Sleeping up to the sky is to curse the gods and be punished by the gods. There are no such unruly servants in the palace! Put me in bed and start over again. slept!"
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, until Aunt Fang swiped Jixiang's ruler: "Hurry up!"
There was a lot of chicken flying and dogs jumping, and all the maids hurried back to the kang. There was Aunt Fang’s foreword here, and none of them dared to lie down to sleep, either on their side or on their backs. In the end, they were beaten by Aunt Fang for a while.
"Leg, you have to stretch out to Shenwumen!"
"And you, put your left hand on your waist!"
"You can't even sleep, it's time to fight!"
The heavy ruler fell like raindrops. This knocking on the hand, that knocking on the leg, and some of the younger ones had tears in their eyes, but they didn't dare to cry out in pain. They could only bite their lower lip and follow her words. to do it.
It wasn't until everyone lay sideways on the kang, and at first glance, they looked like figurines burned out of the same batch of molds, and Aunt Fang took back the ruler in her hand and said coldly, "Remember this posture, I fell asleep. Don't forget! Go!"
After speaking, Aunt Fang led the two maids beside her to leave.
After she left, there were low-pitched crying sounds in the room, covertly, for fear of being heard by Aunt Fang, and one by one seemed to leak out from between her fingers.
"Yingluo." Jixiang rolled up his sleeves and said to Wei Yingluo with tears in his eyes, "Auntie hurts me so much. Help me to see if the back of my hand is purple?"
There was no light in the room, and through the thin moonlight that came in through the window, Wei Yingluo couldn't see whether the back of her hand was blue or purple, so what if it was purple? The hierarchy in the palace is strict, and it is only natural for a big palace maid to beat a small palace maid like them, and there is nowhere to seek justice.
"Yingluo." Jixiang quietly moved his quilt towards Wei Yingluo, like a child who was beaten outside, seeking comfort and warmth from his family, "Can you hold me to sleep?"
Wei Yingluo stroked her cheek and smiled softly at her: "No."
When he saw her smile, Jixiang Man thought she would promise him, how could he know that he would get the exact opposite answer, so he was stunned and asked, "Why?"
Wei Yingluo's eyes were cold and bright, she said to Jixiang with certainty, "Because my aunt will come again."