Sometimes, Wei Yingluo couldn't help thinking that Jiang was still old and hot, and she couldn't see her own heart clearly, but the queen mother saw it clearly, so she used the order as an excuse to ask her to write to Hongli.
But that's it, Hongli can't forgive her, and she can't forgive herself. The only communication between the two in this life is entrusted to this letter from the family.
But the queen mother would not let her do so.
Before the end of the month, the Empress Dowager suddenly called her away and lay in the rocking chair with her eyes closed. Aunt Liu knelt down and beat her legs. She suddenly said, "Concubine Ling, how long has it been since the emperor replied to you?"
Wei Yingluo was taken aback.
Empress Dowager: "Mingyu, you say."
Mingyu is an honest person, so she replied honestly: "Three months ago, Concubine Ling ordered someone to send a letter to the palace, and I haven't received a reply since."
"Concubine Ling, your life is too happy." The Empress Dowager pointed out, "You have to think about it, why the emperor doesn't reply to you anymore."
On the way back from the empress dowager's bedroom, Mingyu comforted: "Don't worry, it must be because the emperor has been too busy recently..."
"What am I worried about?" Wei Yingluo said softly, "He won't wait for me all the time, as expected, there must be a younger and better looking girl to fill my place..."
Saying so, I feel a little sad in my heart.
Returning to her place, the snow-white letter paper was spread on the table until the wax torch turned to ashes. From night to dawn, Wei Yingluo put down the dry brush and said, "Let's go."
Mingyu, who stayed with her all night, asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go to the Queen Mother and say goodbye." After a pause, Wei Yingluo turned around and looked at Mingyu with a complicated expression, "Will you blame me? I promised the Queen Mother that I would not become his concubine..."
Mingyu shook her head, held her hand, and said softly, "I believe in you, if the empress was still alive, you would never have become the emperor's concubine anyway."
Wei Yingluo lowered her head, tears streaming down her face.
The queen mother is old, but she got up very early. When Wei Yingluo came to say good morning to her, she was having breakfast. On the table were ducks with bird's nest hanging on the stove, chicken with bamboo shoots and fat in the groove, a product of Huizhou tofu, a can of red bean porridge, etc. , the fragrance and color are all available, but unfortunately the queen mother doesn't seem to have a good appetite in the future, most of them didn't move, just picked up an orange and ate slowly, after listening to Wei Yingluo's intention, she said lightly: "You should have come a long time ago, fortunately. , it's not too late to bring it up, it didn't disappoint me too much."
Wei Yingluo was stunned when she heard the words.
"Concubine Ling, you do have some ability to make the emperor care about you and never forget it." The queen mother looked at her with piercing eyes, "but starting from today, you have to prepare, you are no longer the most special. In the past three months, the emperor has never thought of you as a person! Maybe the days in Yuanmingyuan were too comfortable and paralyzed your sensitivity, or maybe you were too confident, so confident that you completely forgot a word, there are people outside people, there are heavens outside! "
Wei Yingluo froze in her heart and asked in a deep voice, "Dare to ask the Queen Mother, who is this outsider, who is outside the sky?"
"And Zhuo's Iparhan." The Empress Dowager said lightly, "The Emperor himself gave her the Chinese name, Shen Bi."
The long smoke is empty, the bright moon is a thousand miles away, the floating light leaps to gold, the still shadow sinks into the jade, the fisherman's song answers each other, what a joy.
"Shen Bi..." Wei Yingluo slowly repeated the name.
A man would give a woman such a name, presumably, she really brought him great joy, so that he... loved her extremely.
So there was no sleep all night, and the next day was bright, so Wei Yingluo got up to wash and took Mingyu back to the Forbidden City.
I thought I would spend a day tidying up the long-abandoned Yanxi Palace. Unexpectedly, I came in and saw that the windows were bright and clean, and everything was neat and tidy.
Even the palace maids and eunuchs were used in the past, and they respectfully saluted Wei Yingluo one by one, as if she had never left, had never fallen out of favor, and was still the concubine who was in full swing back then.
"Xiao Quanzi, you did a good job this time." Mingyu patted Xiao Quanzi's back, "I asked you to rush back to the arrangement in advance, so I'll pack it up so soon!"
Xiao Quanzi said with an apologetic smile, "This servant does not dare to take credit. When they returned to Yanxi Palace, they had already prepared it!"
Wei Yingluo frowned when she heard this, but Mingyu couldn't hide her joy, grabbed her and said, "Yingluo, the emperor is thinking of you after all, you haven't come back, everything is in order..."
Before she could finish speaking, a cold and cold voice came from outside: "Is your concubine still satisfied with the layout of Yanxi Palace?"
Everyone looked at the sound, and saw a beautiful eunuch standing in front of the door, even better than many concubines. His eyes crossed the crowd and smiled at Wei Yingluo: "The servant greets the concubine Ling."
—It was Yuan Chunwang.
Wei Yingluo smiled back, and the same coldness and coldness: "Mr. Yuan, it's been a long time."
Yuan Chunwang lowered his head, hiding the complicated look in his eyes, and said respectfully, "The queen has been waiting for a long time, please order the concubine to move away."
In the pavilion of the Imperial Garden, the enemies of the past gathered again now.
Wei Yingluo swept the eye stone table, hibiscus cake, rose cake, grape stuffed, and fresh seasonal fruits, all of which she likes to eat, how would the queen know? Wei Yingluo looked at Yuan Chunwang who was standing behind her. With this person here, the Empress certainly knew her like the back of her hand.
Then he smiled: "As soon as Ben Gong heard that you are going back to the palace, he immediately sent someone to take care of it, but I don't know if you like it or not. If you have other needs, you can directly tell Director Yuan."
Wei Yingluo looked at her successor with strange eyes.
She thought that after she left, the people of Yanxi Palace would go to the empty building, and it would soon be abandoned, but when she came back, there was no dust in the house, and no weeds in the courtyard. It seemed that someone had cleaned it specially. but why
"What's wrong?" Then he asked with a smile, "But you're not satisfied with this palace's arrangement?"
Wei Yingluo shook her head and said, "No, the concubine is just thinking, as the queen, as the lord of the six palaces, Qianlong gave birth to twelve elder brothers in the seventeenth year, and this year added thirteen elder brothers, the entire harem is under your control. Among them, what kind of woman is she, who has only been in the palace for three months, and the Empress cannot sit still."
He was stunned at first, then laughed, took a glass of grape wine and took a sip, and then said with a deep meaning, "If you see her, you will be as apprehensive as Ben Gong. No, it's not fear, it's fear."
Wei Yingluo was a little surprised by these words. After that, she was the most terrifying hunter she had ever seen, an opponent that even she was afraid of. What should it look like? Wei Yingluo couldn't help but ask: "There is such a beauty in the world, how is it compared to Concubine Huigui back then?"
Concubine Huigui is known as the beauty of the country and the beauty of the country. Whether it was before or after her death, Wei Yingluo had never seen a second person who could compare with her in beauty, but after that she just smiled softly and seemed to be completely Don't take the other person in the eye: "The real beauty is not in the skin, the emperor has read countless beauty, how can he be confused by a face? In the eyes of this palace, ten Huigui concubines are not as good as one Ronggui. "
Wei Yingluo frowned lightly: "Empress Empress, even if Rong Guiren is a peerless beauty and is deeply favored by the emperor, it will not threaten your status. The concubines still don't understand, what is the reason for you to downgrade your honor and ask for it? Your concubine is good to you."
Yuan Chunwang, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up: "Concubine Ling, now Rong Guiren has been promoted to Rong Concubine."
Yingluo was stunned.
After that, I stood up, and outside the pavilion, the flowers were blooming like brocade, clumps of flowers blooming one by one, like a beautiful woman in a harem, especially a wisteria. Hua, twirling around her fingertips, said slowly: "She is the daughter of Huibu Taiji and Zamai, and her brother Turdu has made great contributions to the suppression of the rebellion. For the sake of permanent repair, she specially sent her sister Ipar Khan to her. Entering the palace, the emperor himself gave him the name—Shen Bi, he loves him deeply, far better than you were at the beginning!”
She turned around suddenly, handed the wisteria flower in her hand to Wei Yingluo, and said solemnly, "So, we need to join forces to fight the enemy!"
Wei Yingluo looked at the flowers she handed over, and after a while, she shook her head: "The Queen's concubine's kindness has already been taught by the concubine, so this cooperation should be avoided."
Cooperating with the successor is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger. Even if Wei Yingluo wants to compete with Shen Bi, she will not lend her hand. The fruit on the table didn't move, Wei Yingluo said goodbye, and just turned to leave, when she heard her successor shouting behind her: "She was twenty-seven years old when she entered the palace!"
Wei Yingluo paused.