The next day, Hongli visited Yongjing in Chengqian Hall.
Yongjing was born with a head and a head, and his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Hongli. He babbled in his infancy, and kept extending his little fat hand to Hongli. Hongli loved him very much, carried him over personally, held a rattle to make him happy, and when Yongjing got tired and started to doze off, he carefully put him back into the cradle.
Yong Jing turned over and fell asleep holding a delicately made cloth tiger.
"This cloth tiger is the Dragon Boat Festival gift given to Yongjing by Concubine Ling." The following voice sounded in his ear, "Everyone else gave some gold and silver ingots and bracelet locks, but she is more appropriate."
Hongli glanced at her and pretended not to hear.
Afterwards, he didn't care much, and ordered the court judge Zhang beside him: "Send judge Zhang, you will go to the Yanxi Palace later, and ask for the pulse of peace for the concubine. She has been taking care of the queen mother in Yuanmingyuan, and she is not even sick. I don’t care, since I can’t sleep at night and eat less food, I have to ask an imperial doctor to take care of it.”
Hongli still turned a blind eye.
Zhang Yuan sentenced to follow the instructions of his successors. After leaving the Chengqian Palace, he immediately went to the Yanxi Palace to diagnose the concubine Ling, and left a doctor's order. Just two steps out of the palace gate, he was suddenly grabbed by someone.
who? So unruly! Zhang Yuanjuan was about to scold the other party, when he turned his head, his face turned pale: "Emperor, emperor?"
"How is your concubine's situation?" Hongli asked with a cold face.
The court sentenced Zhang hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, in addition to being unable to sleep at night, the concubine also suffers from a deficiency in the liver and stomach. This minister prescribes Xiangsu and Stomach Soup to help the concubine slowly adjust it."
Hongli frowned: "The liver and stomach are not in harmony?"
"My lady's diet is unpredictable, so my stomach hurts..." Zhang Yuan said, but he stopped for a moment, "Also, I heard that the concubine was ordered to copy the "Huayan Sutra" with blood, even if I went to Yuanmingyuan, it would not be a day's work. Stop, accumulate over time, lose blood and qi, suffer from the disease of food injury, and only then will the stomach lose its nourishment…”
Hongli's face changed as he turned his head and walked towards Yanxi Palace.
The eunuch at the door was going to report, but he stopped him by raising his hand, walking all the way to the bedroom, and then looked at the man on the bed with bated breath.
It's like we haven't seen each other for years, and it's like we only saw each other yesterday. Separation for a long time did not increase the estrangement between the two. On the contrary, the past that he had deliberately forgotten, like the sea at high tide, slapped his heart one after another.
"Mingyu?" Even though it was broad daylight, Wei Yingluo looked very tired. She closed her eyes, leaned on the couch, and propped her temple with her left hand, and ordered, "Organize the twenty volumes and send someone to the Yuanmingyuan."
No one answered for a long time.
Wei Yingluo slowly opened her eyes, saw Hongli, and sat up in shock: "Why is the emperor here!"
Hongli's eyes were fixed on her left wrist.
She supported her head on her left wrist, her sleeves naturally slipped in half, and a piece of white cloth was wrapped around her wrist, and blood seeped out, dyeing the white cloth half white and half red.
Hongli wanted to pretend he didn't care, but he couldn't bear it anymore and grabbed her hand: "What's going on?"
Wei Yingluo hurriedly pulled her hand back, put down her sleeve, and said nonchalantly, "It's not in the way, it's just a bloodletting scar."
Hongli was annoyed: "Are you going to die! I ordered you not to write any more!"
Wei Yingluo: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to obey."
Hongli caught fire: "You—"
Wei Yingluo: "Since the Queen Mother has promised to complete the eighty-one volumes, you can't give up halfway. Please forgive the emperor."
Hongli was dumbfounded, held back for a long time, and sat on the side: "I originally wanted to let you live and die, but for the sake of your careful service to the Queen Mother, I will remind you that if you insist on not listening, there is nothing I can do, but all the As a result, you have to bear it yourself. If the queen mother is to blame in the future, it will be fine with others."
Wei Yingluo: "I understand."
The more Hongli looked at her, the more angry he got, he stood up and walked out.
"Does the emperor still remember the promise to his concubine?" Wei Yingluo suddenly shouted behind him.
Hongli took a step.
"The emperor said that he will not let his concubines be bullied." Wei Yingluo sighed, "Tonight the emperor came to Yanxi Palace, and everyone in the harem saw it. If you leave, how will your concubines stand in the harem? I'm afraid In this Forbidden City, the concubines can't stay for a day."
Hongli: "Tonight, I will stay in Yanxi Palace and take all your face. As for the rest, don't be delusional!"
After speaking, he instructed Li Yu to clean up the side hall, and would rather sleep in the side hall alone than share a bed with Wei Yingluo. Li Yu handled things neatly, and quickly cleaned up the side hall. After serving Hongli, he went to the door alone.
At night, Hongli tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, not because he was not used to sleeping alone, but when he closed his eyes, he saw the wound on Wei Yingluo's wrist.
Turning over again, he suddenly opened his eyes, there were no candles in the room, he couldn't reach his fingers, and he couldn't see the face of the person in front of him, but he still recognized her, recognized her breathing, recognized her skin. temperature, recognize the fragrance on her hair.
Hongli said coldly, "Go out."
Wei Yingluo, who was lying next to him at some point, shook her head and said pitifully, "Your Majesty, there are mice in my bedroom, I'm afraid."
This is really a ridiculous reason, Hongli repeated: "Get out!"
"Your Majesty, I forgot to put on my shoes when I came here." She made another excuse, "It's so cold on the ground, I can't go back."
Hongli still did not accept this reason, and shouted: "Go out!"
After a long silence, Wei Yingluo suddenly sighed and said softly, "Your Majesty, I'm taking the medicine to avoid children because I'm afraid!"
The word "go out" has reached Hongli's mouth, but the last one blurted out was: "...What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid of losing you." Wei Yingluo smiled bitterly, "After I get pregnant, I will become a big fat man, I will become more and more ugly, and my body will smell bad. You will soon hate me and go to other women. "
Hongli listened carefully: "...I'm not such a person."
"Also, I'm very afraid of death." Wei Yingluo pressed her forehead to his heart, and said with some lingering fears, "When the Empress was difficult to give birth, I was always by her side to accompany her, giving birth to a child was like crossing the gate of hell, I am not like her. Courage, sorry, sorry…”
Hearing her say sorry, Hongli was silent for a long time, and said softly: "Don't say it, I don't blame you."
"Really?" Wei Yingluo raised her hand and touched his cheek, looking at him with wet eyes.
Hongli's body stiffened for a while, but he didn't push her away in the end, and didn't shout at her sharply.
His acquiescence made Wei Yingluo take an inch. She moved her face cautiously and tentatively pecked his lips, like a bird stealing grain, and she retreated as soon as she pecked. After a while, she saw that no one stopped her, He pecked again, and again...
Hongli's big hand suddenly pressed on the back of her head, aggravating the kiss.
The Furong tent was warm for the spring night. Inside the translucent tent, two bodies were entangled together until Wei Yingluo fainted from exhaustion. A pair of strong arms hugged her from behind, and she heard Hongli whisper in her ear: " You should have told me earlier... As long as you don't want to, I won't force you."
The corners of Wei Yingluo's lips were about to rise, but tears began to flow from the corners of her eyes.
At night and dawn, people go to bed empty.
In the warm tent, Wei Yingluo woke up faintly and reached out to touch it. The bed next to her was empty and the bedding was already cold.
"Niangniang, you're awake." Mingyu came in with a water basin, ready to scrub her body.
"It's not the same after all." Wei Yingluo looked at the ceiling and murmured, "In the past he would wait for me to wake up, then get up together and eat together... Now who is he eating with?"
Mingyu twisted the towel for a while before replying: "Your Majesty... went to Baoyuelou, and had breakfast with Empress Rong Rong."
"...Really?" Wei Yingluo felt a sense of emptiness in her heart, she stopped talking and just stared at the ceiling.
Seeing her like this, Mingyu felt sour in her heart and almost persuaded her to give up, but then she thought about it, after giving up, where should she go back? Yingluo is now at the age when the flowers are blooming. Is it possible for her to go to the Yuanmingyuan to retire like the Queen Mother? In the end, he could only swallow the words of consolation back into his stomach, and stepped forward to wipe her body and put on new clothes.
As soon as the clothes were put on, Xiao Quanzi rushed in: "Niangniang, the emperor asked you to go to Baoyuelou to serve meals."
The Baoyue Building was built near the water. From a distance, it looked like the vast and cold moon in the middle of the moon. There were also Huihui Camp and a mosque opposite the building. When Rong Concubines met upstairs, it was as if he had seen the scenery of his hometown.
When I entered the building, I found that Hongli's favor for Concubine Rong was not only that, but the building was resplendent, and the palace servants were all dressed up. Even the dishes on the table were all hand-picked rice. Mutton and other Hui dishes have a very strong sandalwood flavor, which is completely inconsistent with Hongli's usual taste, but he is very happy to eat it.
... In other words, as long as Concubine Rong is happy, he feels happy.
Wei Yingluo stood by for a long time before he noticed her and said with a smile, "Are you here?"
Concubine Rong turned to look at her, her eyes full of curiosity: "Is she the concubine Ling?"
"Yeah." Hongli wiped off the oil stains on her face with a handkerchief, and said indulgently, "Aren't you a stern mama who preaches the rules, don't you like it? When a newcomer enters the palace, most of the rules are learned from high-ranking concubines. For example, Concubine Ling, she used to learn the rules from the first empress, I want to send you to Yanxi Palace to learn from Concubine Ling, would you like to?"
Rong Concubin tilted her head to look at Wei Yingluo, then smiled innocently: "Okay, I like her."
Wei Yingluo couldn't like her.
Hongli ordered her to sit down and asked someone to serve her a dish. He knew that she had a bad stomach and could only eat plain porridge and side dishes, but he still put a pot of mutton soup in front of her. The mutton soup was very good. But she couldn't eat.
The heat was rising from the pot, and she looked at the two people on the opposite side through a layer of mist. She didn't understand in her heart. If he said that he didn't care about her, the sweet words from last night were especially in his ears. If he said that he cared about her, why would he torture her like this? I don't even care if I talk to other women, and I specially ask her to watch.
"In the past, he only had me in his heart, but now his heart has been divided into two halves... I only occupy the smaller half." Wei Yingluo thought to herself, then she couldn't stay any longer, she wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Your Majesty , the concubine is full, so I will retire first."
Hongli waved his hand indifferently, as if he didn't care whether she left or stayed. When she was halfway there, she heard Shen Bi say something behind her: "Does Concubine Ling really not like mutton soup? In fact, you can tell after one bite, it's delicious."
Hongli immediately ordered: "Li Yu, send this pot of mutton soup back to Concubine Ling and watch her finish drinking."
Wei Yingluo's heart was even more unpleasant, her eyes were sore for a while, fearing that she would make a fool of herself in front of Concubine Rong, she hurriedly stepped out of Baoyuelou and returned to Yanxi Palace, only to find that Yongqi was waiting for her. Running over: "Mother Ling, please save the sixth brother!"