"Niangniang." Xiaoquanzi reported back, "The fifth elder brother is here."
"Really?" Wei Yingluo walked slowly to a box, opened the box, and got in.
Xiao Quanzi: "… "
"Why don't you help me cover the box?" Wei Yingluo urged from inside, "Then tell Fifth Brother that I'm not here!"
As soon as the box was closed, Yong Qi walked in, looked around, and asked, "Where's Concubine Ling?"
With the master at his feet, Xiao Quanzi could only laugh apologetically, "Niangniang lay in the yard for a while, screaming with a headache, and went to the dormitory to rest."
Hearing this, Yong Qi frowned: "When I was young, my mother-in-law sent someone to take care of my brother's food. She was very thoughtful. How could she not take care of herself when it was her turn?"
When he was seven or eight years old, he was already like a seventy or eighty-year-old person, a young adult, and he was very fond of nagging people, so that Wei Yingluo was a little afraid of him.
"Amitabha, hurry up and hurry up." Wei Yingluo put her hands together in the box and began to pray.
It was useless to crawl temporarily, Yong Qi started to nag again: "Look, but in early summer, all the ice in the ice storage was delivered to the Yanxi Palace, and these ice grapes and ice watermelons are all she can use. Is it? It's almost all received."
"When will the mother-in-law wake up?"
"Today I received a letter from E-niang, I want to read it to Concubine Ling, just sit here and wait for her to wake up."
The box was a little small, so it was okay to hide for a while, but after a long time, Wei Yingluo felt a little suffocated. After hearing this, she almost couldn't get up.
"Sanqing is on top, Mazu bless you, go fast." She simply changed a few gods to pray.
It’s okay to cradle the Buddha’s feet temporarily, and the prayer objects are still changing, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m not sincere, or if I annoy God, so the next moment, Hongli’s voice suddenly sounded outside the box: “Yongqi, I guess you are here. , what, another trip in vain?"
"I can't hide anything from Huang Ama's eyes. The servants said that the mother and concubine did not wake up after a nap in the afternoon."
Hongli is not as easy to fool as he is, or he has been a husband and wife for decades. He really understands that person's temperament too well. He glanced at the house and understood everything.
"Have you bitten half of the grapes and throw them here, so let's take a nap?" Hongli sat down on the chair, "Okay, let's wait for her here... Yongqi, the chess has not been finished that day, come on. Bar."
Xiao Quanzi hurriedly said: "The servant will prepare the chessboard, please move the emperor to the main hall."
"No need, it's right here." Hongli raised a finger and pointed at the box beside his leg with a smile, "Come here!"
As soon as Chrysostom opened, the box was moved between the two.
A chessboard was placed on top, and the two started a game of one piece and one piece. I don't know how long it took. Just as Hongli put down a piece, the chessboard was suddenly lifted to the side, and the whole board fell to the ground. Wei Yingluo struggled to climb out of the box. Come out: "You guys are finished!"
Yong Qi was stunned, but Hong Li folded his arms and said with a funny smile: "You are already a mother, and you do such a thing. Do you want the whole Forbidden City to see a joke? It's disrespectful to your mother!"
Wei Yingluo said angrily: "Your Majesty, you know that your concubine is in the box, but you deliberately tossed your concubine and you are disrespectful to the king!"
The two were like an ordinary couple, and they fought for a while. Finally, Hongli personally stepped forward and helped her out of the box. As soon as she came out, Yongqi's dissatisfied face met her face: "Mr. Concubine, A bowl of mutton soup every morning, did you drink it today?"
Wei Yingluo faltered, and not far away was a table of melons, fruits and grape skins scattered around.
"When Zhaohua was born, you suffered from postpartum illness, and you had a headache when you were exposed to the wind. Did you just sit on the tuyere?" Yongqi asked again.
Xiao Quanzi hurriedly moved towards the window, blocking the wind blowing in from the window with his back.
"Why don't you take care of your body at all?" Yongqi's expression was serious, even a little disappointed, "If you are healthy, Zhaohua and the others can stay in Yanxi Palace to raise them, why should mother and son be separated?"
Wei Yingluo was his elder, but she couldn't hold her head up in front of him now, and after being reprimanded by him, she sighed at the back of his leaving: "I don't know who this kid looks like, he talks all day. Nagging, it wasn't like that when I was a kid."
"He just cares about you too much, otherwise who cares whether you eat sheep soup or grapes today." Hongli smiled, held her hand, and sat down, "Besides, he is still young and doesn't understand, But...I understand."
Wei Yingluo looked up at him and seemed to ask: What do you understand
"In the past ten years, we have had two sons and two daughters, but it's a pity that Yonglu couldn't stay. On the night Yonglu died, you were alone with him and stayed up all night. I saw it all." Hongli said slowly, " A month later, you sent Zhaoyu to Shoukang Palace to accompany Zhaohua, and then handed Yongyan to Concubine Qing to raise him. Everyone said that you were cruel and selfish, that you were courting the Queen Mother and consort Qing. Only I know that Zhaohua It's your eldest daughter. You sent her to Shoukang Palace to comfort the Queen Mother. Yingluo, after Shen Bi, you have always been deeply sorry to the Queen Mother, aren't you?"
Wei Yingluo shook her head resolutely: "Your Majesty, Zhaohua is alone, and the concubine will not use her to make up for her guilt."
After her denial, Hongli confirmed one more thing: "So, are you worried about your poor health and want to find new backers for them?"
Wei Yingluo couldn't help being stunned when she was suddenly exposed.
"I warn you, Wei Yingluo, you are not allowed to have such unlucky thoughts, not even the slightest bit!" Hongli said sternly, "You just hurt your body while giving birth to Yongyan, didn't the imperial doctor say so? I hope you can stay with me for a long time, if you leave halfway like Rong Yin, I will never forgive you!"
He seems stern, but between the lines, there is tenderness that cannot be removed.
Wei Yingluo couldn't help holding his hand, pretending to be relaxed and smiling: "Your Majesty, didn't you say that the scourge will be left behind for thousands of years, the concubines must work hard and live a long life!"
The world is looking for something that lasts, but life has its end.
Ga—
An ear-piercing scream resounded through the Chengqian Hall, and then came quickly, seeing an empty parrot stand, Zhener's hand suddenly stretched out from behind her, blocking her in front of her: "Niangniang, don't look... "
Then she pulled her hand off, and what she saw was a cold bird corpse lying on the ground.
After closing my eyes, I suddenly felt a little dizzy, I couldn't help shaking it a few times, and fell into Jane's arms.
It was night, and Chengqian Palace invited an imperial physician.
Yuan Chunwang was not the eunuch on duty tonight. When he got the news, he dressed in a hurry, got up, and rushed to the bedroom, when he heard the queen furious there: "Get out!"
The palace gate opened, and Zhang Yuanjuan rushed out in a tumultuous manner.
Yuan Chunwang stood at the door for a while before walking in. He saw his long hair loose and sitting on the bed, holding a bronze mirror in his arms, staring at himself in the mirror and asking, "What did he just call me?"
Zhen'er looked at her worriedly: "Niangniang..."
"Old woman." Then he gritted his teeth, "He said I was an old woman!"
"Niangniang!" Zhen'er said hurriedly, "Zhang Yuan sentenced it not like that..."
"Listen to what he said." In the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, it is said that women will arrive every two or seven days, and the gods will be perfect in seven or seven years. Empress is forty-eight this year, and her age is almost the same. Bleeding—', huh..." Then he sneered, turned his head slowly, and stared at Jane with slightly red eyes, "I'm already an old woman, isn't it?"
Zhen'er felt both fear and pity in her heart, and for a while she didn't know how to comfort her. At this moment, Yuan Chunwang came over with a horn comb in his hand, and said softly, "Niangniang, your hair is messy, this servant will comb it for you. ."
The movement of his hair was as gentle and slow as his voice.
Comb teeth scraped across the scalp, and then the mood gradually calmed down.
Zhen'er dragged a tray full of pearl hairpins and phoenix hairpins over, Yuan Chunwang chose a hanging pearl phoenix hairpin and put it on the next bun: "Look, you are still the most beloved queen of the emperor."
After looking at himself in the mirror for a long time, he suddenly said: "Zhen'er, change for Ben Gong, Ben Gong is going to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."
In order to get a "respect and love" evaluation, she almost exhausted her efforts. What Hongli noticed, she noticed, and what Hongli didn't notice, she also noticed that the entire harem was well-organized by her. The palace food and clothing costs all pointed at her.
Even the empress dowager who hated her to the bone couldn't pick out her fault on the bright side.
A hundred years later, there must be a Duan or a Xian character in her posthumous title.
… No, no, what she wants is not Duan or Xian, what she desperately wants now is a husband’s embrace and a husband’s comfort.
The group rushed to the Hall of Mental Cultivation in a hurry, and then held a bowl of iced lotus seed soup in their hands.
"I feel lately... the queen is much older than before."