Qi Sheng has been staying in my palace for a while now, but today, six hundred li came from Yunxi to report urgently. He has been summoning a few important officials to discuss matters in Daming Palace, and he even sent a message back before dinner. I won't be here tonight, who would have thought that I would have to give birth tonight!
Lvli was already so scared that his face turned pale, but he forced himself to calm down and whispered in my ear: "Niangniang, while the emperor is away, can you ask the family to send the child in first? Let's just stay at home. The mother Wen who was sent over is in the delivery room, and when the time comes, whether the mother is a boy or a girl, she will say that it is a twin!"
I wipe, you girl is too dedicated, I am like this, you still have the heart to play tricks! Can twins be born at will? Seven or eight stable wives in this palace have never figured out that I am a twin. You asked me to give birth to two suddenly, what do others think
Well, even if they can't figure it out, it's because the business is not good enough, and it's not related to me. But you also have to think about the reality. If someone gives birth to two or three babies at a time, how big can that baby be? And how old am I born here? How big is the one you brought in from outside? You said that I took two dolls that add up to 20 pounds and sent them to Qi Sheng. Am I too embarrassed to say that they all came out of my stomach
Do you really think Qi Sheng is a fool? My stomach is standing here, it's not like he hasn't seen it before, can he believe it
I hurriedly shook my head, "Come on! There are eight stable wives in this palace. You only keep the two from the Zhang family. You're afraid that others won't know that you're going to make trouble, right?"
Lu Li's eyes widened and asked, "What should I do then?"
I thought about it and replied, "Let's just leave it to fate. You call someone in and help me to the delivery room first."
Lu Li nodded in agreement, took a deep breath and brewed his emotions, and then suddenly panicked and shouted: "Come on, the lady is going to give birth, the lady is going to give birth!"
It doesn't matter if he shouted, it was like pouring water into a frying pan, and the Xingsheng Palace immediately exploded.
Wen Po's palace maids were running around everywhere, and several Wen Po rolled up their sleeves and went into battle together, and they surrounded me in groups. Several palace maids such as Shuyi were instructed by them to cover their heads, and they didn't know who to listen to for a while.
Your uncle, I finally understand what it means to "many people don't work, chickens don't lay eggs"! After a while of pain, I pointed at the stable women around me and scolded angrily, "Shut me up, motherfucker!"
These stable mothers probably have never seen such a hot-tempered mother like me, and they immediately fell silent.
Since ancient times, childbirth has been extremely dangerous for women, and there is even a saying that "one step into the gate of hell", I don't want to be secretly pushed from behind at the gate of this gate of hell.
I turned my head to look at the green hedge that had been standing by my side, and saw that although there was still a little panic on her face, her eyes were very calm, so I squeezed her palm secretly, and ordered: "Stay. Two or three old maids came down, and the rest told them to wait outside."
Lu Li understood my suggestion, nodded lightly at me, and then looked up at the few stable women, seemingly casually pointing at three of them, saying, "You three stay, and everyone else goes out. !"
The few women who were not named seemed to be greatly relieved, looked at each other, and quickly retreated with their heads lowered.
The hall suddenly became quiet, I asked Lv Li to help me sit up, carefully looked at the three women who were left behind, and suddenly shouted in a cold voice: "All raise your heads for me!"
The three men shivered in unison and looked up at me hesitantly.
Of these three people, two of them were sent by Qi Sheng. They have been in my palace for more than half a year and have long known each other. The other one was sent to the palace by the Zhang family some time ago.
I stared at a few of them and threatened nakedly: "I don't talk nonsense, if my mother and son are safe, the glory and wealth of the three of you will naturally be indispensable, but if I have good or bad, there will be someone who will take revenge for me. Don't think that you can be safe with someone backing you up, he can protect you for a while, but he can't protect you for the rest of your life, he can protect you alone, but he can't protect your whole family!"
Halfway through the words, the three of them knelt down in unison, kept kowtowing, and said in a trembling voice, "Madame, spare your life, Niangniang, spare your life."
I finished those harsh words with a bang, bang, bang, and saw that the three of them were kowtowing so hard, and they didn't mean to stop. I was afraid that they would all faint again, so I quickly gave the green hedge. With a wink, she asked her to come out and sing a white face to appease these people.
Lvli hurriedly said to the three of them: "The three maids, hurry up, as long as the empress can safely give birth to the emperor's heir, all of you will be meritorious ministers, and you will be rich and rich in the future."
The three of them got up from the ground in fear, and before they could stand up straight, they heard Lu Li continue to say: "Is that right? It's clear. Don't be afraid, the lady is very generous to others. Last time, the hair comb in the palace tore off several strands of the lady's hair, and the lady just asked someone to beat her forty sticks, nothing..."
I quickly pinched the hedge and stopped her words.
Girl, if you lose a few hairs, you can hit someone with forty sticks, and forty sticks can kill a strong man! Is this called being generous? Ledge, are you so comforting
Sure enough, the three women's legs were weak, and they all knelt down again, and their bodies trembled with fright.
When I saw that I couldn't go down, I had to go out and comfort them myself: "Okay, let's all get up, it's useless to be afraid now, since everyone's lives are tied up in one boat, let's all work together to help each other. Let's go!" Then he pointed to the most capable woman in the middle and said, "Mother Wu, you are the main, the two of them are the supplements, hurry up!"
As soon as the words fell, a burst of pain struck again, but this time it was even worse than the last time. It rushed over like a tidal wave, and even spread downward. The pain was so painful that I couldn't help but fall back. past.
Lu Li was busy and grabbed my hand again, and shouted in a hurry: "Niangniang, Niangniang, hold on, hold on."
I wipe, I stand by your head, I can't stand it, but I have to live! It's useful to talk nonsense!
At the critical moment, the old comrade showed his superb professional qualities, so Mrs. Wu Wen guessed that she had figured out everything and jumped up from the ground. After a while, she heard her say in a deep voice, "Miss, don't panic, this is just the beginning of labor pains, and you have to work hard before you are alive. You must save some energy first."
As she spoke, she turned her head and explained to Lvli: "Miss Lvli, after a while, the maiden will pass the pain. Let's help her get out of bed and walk around, so that the birth will be faster."
The other two women also came back to their senses, and responded: "That's right, that's right, come down and walk around, the palace mouth will open quickly."
I've been in pain here for a long time. If it wasn't for my face, I would have wanted to cry my father and my mother. How could I still have time to think about the palace gate? I just felt that after a while, the pain was gone. After going down, they were carried off the delivery bed by a few of them, and walked around the hall.
Just as he was walking around with his teeth gritted, he heard Xie Yi shouting in surprise from outside the hall: "My lady, my lady, the queen mother is here, the queen mother is here."
I was full of resentment and had nowhere to put it, when I heard the words, I shouted angrily: "Please go to the main hall and rest!"
After a while, Freehand was full of joy and shouted: "Niangniang, Niangniang, the Queen Mother is late, the Queen Mother is late."
I gritted my teeth, resisted my anger, and commanded: "Please also go to the main hall and rest!"
Who would have guessed that a short while later, a freehand excited and high voice came from outside, "Madame, madam, the emperor is back, the emperor is back!"
rub it! Did I say you are so excited? Isn't that Qi Sheng here? I heard your voice and thought it was the Jade Emperor who was going down to earth!
I have more frequent labor pains here, and I can't bear my temper, so I raised my voice and cursed: "Go, go, all sit in the main hall, you set up a table for them, get together on horses and hang them together. It's gone!"
Seeing me getting angry, Lu Li hurriedly persuaded me, "Don't worry, Niangniang, don't worry, the emperor and the others also value Niangniang, and they can't be relieved."
Madam Wu Wen, who was beside her, didn't think it was messy enough, so she explained to me tightly: "Miss, don't open your mouth to breathe like this, it's easy to get abdominal pain, you have to do this..." She said, and gave me an example.
I struggled for a whole night like this, and I didn't know how long I walked on the ground, when I got on the delivery bed, and a few meals were added in between. By the time it was getting brighter outside, my pains continued, and I started to lose consciousness from the pain.
In a groggy state, it was like a green hedge whispering in my ear: "Niangniang, Niangniang, the emperor has been guarding outside, don't hold back, let go of your voice and cry a few times, so as to make the emperor anxious."
What's the use of his anxiety? Can he come in and give birth to a baby for Laozi
The pain was so bad that I didn't even have the energy to shout. I just wish that the commander-in-chief could lift my soul and go, even if it was to take a bath in a frying pan in the underworld, it would be more comfortable than this time. .
Someone came over and forcibly opened my mouth, and I don't know what spicy things were stuffed into my mouth.
Some people were pushing my stomach down hard, shouting sharply: "Force! Follow the slave's hand and use force!"
Alright, I used all my strength to suckle and used all my strength, and then I heard Mrs. Wu Wen exclaim in surprise: "It's out, the head is out, Niangniang will slow down and exert more force, good, good..."
I felt an empty stomach, as if something slipped out of my body, and the tearing pain disappeared immediately.
After a while, I heard a few crisp slaps, followed by the cry of a baby, and someone shouted happily: "It's a little princess, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to the goddess."
Somehow, the words of the three vulgar masters suddenly flashed in my mind - a litter of a princess, a litter of a princess, and the last litter of two princesses... I wipe! God, do you really want to play with me like this
I just felt dark in front of my eyes, and suddenly lost consciousness.
When I woke up again, it was dark outside, and I didn't know how long I had been in a coma, but I felt like my body had been taken apart and reassembled, and the joints everywhere were extremely stiff.
Qi Sheng was sitting beside the bed holding my hand. When he saw me awake, he leaned forward and asked softly, "Awake? Do you feel better?"
My mind was still a little chaotic, and I was stunned for a moment before asking, "Have the child been born?"
Qi Sheng smiled and nodded, and replied, "It's a little princess who looks a lot like you."
When I mentioned the word "princess", I immediately woke up. Seeing that Qi Sheng was still holding my hand, I pulled it back subconsciously, and said to him casually, "Oh, princess?"
The smile on Qi Sheng's face was a little stiff, and he was silent for a while before he said, "The nurse has already been carried down to breastfeed. I asked them to carry it over to show you?"
As he was talking, Lu Li came in from outside with a bowl of steaming noodle soup. He was also very pleasantly surprised to see me awake, so he hurried forward and called, "Miss, are you awake? But you feel hungry? This servant will make it for you. If you have chicken noodles, you can eat some."
Qi Sheng was still looking at me, waiting for my answer. Lvli didn't know the reason, and asked me again if I wanted to eat chicken noodles. I hesitated for a while, and finally decided between eating and watching the children. Choose, "Let's have something to eat first."
A trace of loss flashed across Qi Sheng's brows, but he didn't say anything, just got up and moved away from the bed.
Hedgerow helped me up from the bed first and put a thick cushion behind me before feeding me with a bowl.
After a bowl of hot noodle soup, I felt like I was alive again.
Lvli picked up the dishes and went out, and there were only me and Qi Sheng left in the hall. Qi Sheng stood in front of the bed and looked at me for a moment, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Pengpeng, I'm very happy, I'm really happy. "
I felt tired at first, and I really had no interest in arguing with him, so I simply said: "I still feel tired and unbearable, and I want to sleep for a while. The emperor should go back and rest earlier."
After he finished speaking, he lay down on the bed and saw Qi Sheng standing silently for a while before turning around and leaving.
For several days after that, people from the harem came to my palace to congratulate me on the princess.
Immediately afterwards, the princesses, county masters, princesses, and wives outside the palace all came to report to me like a lantern. Even the two kings of Zhao and Chu, who were still lonely and widowed, also asked people to bring congratulations to me. .
In this way, Xingsheng Palace had been lively for half a month before it was cleaned up. At this time, people suddenly discovered that the figure of Emperor Qi Sheng had never appeared in the Queen's Palace these days.
There are all kinds of rumors in the palace. After sorting and summarizing the hedges, they can be divided into two categories:
It is said that because of the urgent reports from Yunxi in the past few days, Qi Sheng really couldn't tell from the harem.
Second, it was because the queen gave birth to a princess, which greatly disappointed Qi Sheng, who had always been looking forward to a child, so he turned his disappointment into power, and devoted himself to the government and politics, not even a woman's lust!
Lvli tied a bellyband to me and said, "My lord, don't listen to those gossips, when I learned that my niece had given birth to a princess, the emperor was so happy that he smiled and named the little princess on the spot. I've been so happy as the emperor! Look at the slaves, it must be that the imperial affairs are too busy, and the emperor can't take time to come and see the empress."
I don't care whether Qi Sheng came to see me or not, but when I heard that he was diligent in government affairs in Daming Palace recently, I was moved, and after thinking about it, I explained to Lu Li: "No matter what the reason is, he is always in a bad mood. It's a little bit, you want to use the hands of the Empress Dowager to secretly arrange a few beautiful and gentle maids to go to Daming Palace, and then you will definitely have unexpected joy!"
The hedge was wrapping my waist around me, and when I heard the words, my hand tightened suddenly, and I almost didn't catch my breath.
I hurriedly shouted: "Take it, take it easy! This is my waist, not Jiang's neck!"
Lvli ignored my question and just asked, "Niangniang, we sent beauties to the emperor a while ago. I heard that the emperor didn't touch any of them. Why do we still send beauties at this time?"
Alas, green hedges, green hedges, you don't understand men anymore!
Qi Sheng didn't touch those beauties before because they were all sent from me. In order to prevent my eyeliner from being buried around him, he naturally didn't touch those beauties. But if it was a maid sent by the empress dowager, naturally there would not be so many concerns.
Once this man has irrelevant beauties around him, who would want to always bother his five girls!
What's more, he has been busy with court affairs recently, and he has to review numerous memorials every day, which will inevitably feel boring and depressing, and he must find a way to decompress.
The green hedge was still waiting eagerly for my answer, but I couldn't tell the little girl the dirty thoughts of these men.
As I loosened the ribbon around my waist by myself, I smiled and said, "It's time to time, don't ask, just do as I say."
Lvli hesitated for a while, but said, "Look at the slave maid, the emperor doesn't seem to like the empress to be virtuous and virtuous, the empress might as well change the method, learn from the Jiang family, and ask the emperor for a special favor. Maybe the emperor can really disperse the harem for the empress!"
I thought, let’s pull it down. For Qi Sheng’s sake, Jiang’s family abandoned her husband and didn’t care about life and death, and they couldn’t get “one pair for a lifetime”. In the end, they just ended up as a pensioner in the Orchid Palace, that’s all. Still relying on Qi Sheng's guilt.
When my mind is exhausted, I will leave a good queen not to do it, crying and begging to be a pet that lives only by the love of men!
Seeing that I didn't speak here, Lu Li opened his mouth and wanted to persuade him again.
I hurriedly stopped her and asked: "Hey? I said the green hedge, can we not always focus on the man's three-thirds of the acre? You are also the Queen's confidant, you also care about the court, thinking Thinking about political affairs. The Yunxi side has been sending urgent reports these days. What is the situation? Is the DPRK going to send troops to suppress the rebellion? Going south to weaken the military power of the Zhang family? But what about the situation in the northern Xinjiang? Once Qi Sheng insists on asking the Zhang family to lead the troops south to quell the rebellion, it will inevitably lead to the emptiness of the troops in the northern Xinjiang. Will the northern desert be like decades ago? Taking the opportunity to go south? If the northern border is in an emergency, who can guard Jingyang? Is it the Mo clan in Yuzhou, the Xue clan in Qingzhou, or the Yang clan in Taixing? Mo clan and Xue clan are less capable, but Yang Yu is more suitable. , but his son Yang Yan is on a boat with the King of Chu, can Qi Sheng trust him?"
"Wait!" Lu Li hurriedly shouted, "Wait, Niangniang, this servant is confused, please speak slowly."
I was delighted and smiled: "Look, this is just a rebellion in Yunxi, you are confused about the matter between the generals, if you add the intricate relationship between the court and Chinese officials, you Aren't your brains going to be mushy?"
Lu Li nodded in agreement and sighed: "No need to add any more, the slave's head can't move now. It turns out that things in the previous dynasty were so complicated, the slave thought that our harem was the most sinister in the world. The place."
I shook my head, "What can a group of women do? Who can accompany Qi Sheng to sleep twice? But is this useful? If there is no strong father and brother outside to support you, you are just a plaything of the royal family. In the end, the harem is just a silhouette of the various forces in the court! Unless the emperor is stupid and weak, this will give the women in the harem the opportunity to take over part of the imperial power in his name. Otherwise, there will only be a woman in the harem without the support of courtiers. Even if you can beat all three thousand beauties in the harem, what can you do?"
Lu Li was already dumbfounded, looked at me blankly, and asked after a long while, "Niang Niang, if that's the case, then what else do we have to fight for? It doesn't matter what Jiang's or Jiang's is, as long as Zhang No matter at home, no one can move your queen!"
When I heard her say this, I couldn't help feeling relieved and sighed, "Girl, you finally figured it out!"
Lu Li took the ribbon in my hand and carefully helped me tie my waist. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Madame, if it is as you said, the harem is just a silhouette of the forces of the previous dynasty, but the palace The families of the Huang family, Chen family and others are only middle-class families, and Li family's father is only a small prefect. How can they represent the power of the court? According to what you said, the palace There should be women from the He family, Yang family, Xue family and others!"
I was a little surprised that Lu Li could ask such a question. At the same time, I couldn't help but glance at her. I didn't expect this girl to be young, but she is a good student who is good at thinking! If she can really jump out of the circle of love between men and women, she will be a talent!
I thought about it for a moment and replied, "It can be seen that Qi Sheng is a very strong person. When he was the prince, he was helpless. Once the imperial power was in his hands, he would never allow himself to be controlled by others, let alone himself. His harem has become a tool for balancing the power between the DPRK and China. Therefore, he would rather manage the thorns carefully in the previous dynasty than bring the women of the other big families into the harem, so as to divide the power of the Zhang family."
I turned around, looked at Ledge solemnly, and said softly, "Lvli, you have to remember, we are never fighting against Yingyingyanyan in the palace, but Qi Sheng."
Lvliguo is really a good girl. She did not avoid my sight, but looked up at me and asked earnestly, "Then we have to rely on Zhang Jiacai, why does Niangniang contact the King of Chu?"
"Check and balance!" I replied in a low voice, "The way of a monarch is to check and balance, even we can't see the Zhang family as the only one, because we are married daughters. Going to the step of abandoning Qi Sheng and becoming self-reliant, the benefits will not fall on me, the Queen of Qi Shi. Therefore, if we want to live well, we can only check and balance now!"
The hedgerow listened and nodded thoughtfully.
I looked up and down this girl, and found that she has become more and more handsome in the past two years.
I moved in my heart and suddenly asked her, "Lvli, how old are you this year?"
The idea of Ledge seems to be still based on the concept of "check and balance". Hearing my sudden question, I couldn't help but be taken aback for a moment. After reacting, I replied, "This slave is nineteen this year."
I couldn't help but be surprised, ah, are all nineteen? This is a big girl in ancient times. If you don't marry again, you will be in my hands forever!
Lu Li asked, "Why did the niangniang ask this all of a sudden?"
After a little calculation, I asked her, "Do you have someone you like?"
Lu Li was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what I meant, and his face flushed with shame, he lowered his head, grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, "Niangniang!"
With this three tremors, I couldn't help shivering, "Is this true or not?"
Lu Li glanced at me quickly, and said very faithfully: "The slave does not marry, the slave will serve the empress for the rest of her life."
I was moved and nodded, "Okay, if you really want to stay by my side for the rest of your life, I'll do it for you too!"
Hearing the words, Lvli didn't hesitate, and immediately changed his words: "The slave does not have the person he likes! It's all up to the empress to decide for the slave."