Today, except He Lianzheng, who is recuperating, everyone is very busy, entertaining the patriarch, preparing for tomorrow's ceremony, and arranging guests. Early in the morning, the two generations of concubines went to the vestibule to preside over various affairs. Even Mei Duo was called by Peony to help , only He Lianzheng and the two pregnant women were left in the apse.
Nata came out of her room. She lived between Zong Chen and Gu Nanyi. She was pinched and unable to move for the past few days, so she finally came out today to breathe a sigh of relief.
There is a kitchen in the apse. She went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of buttered tea and some medicine for trauma, and walked towards the hall where He Lianzheng was. When she passed a corridor, she suddenly felt that the ground was a little slippery. She was afraid of falling, so she subconsciously stretched out her hand to support the wall. , tilted his body, and the buttered tea spilled out.
Then I heard someone say "Ouch".
The man came from the garden under the corridor just now, when the thing was suddenly spilled on the corridor, he hurriedly dodged and his clothes were still stained, the butter tea was boiling hot, the man hurriedly took off his coat.
Nata recognized that it was the pregnant Han woman next to Feng Zhiwei, and felt a little wary instinctively, but it seemed unreasonable to let her go after soiling her clothes, so she had to support her while summoning a female slave, preparing for someone to take over and leave immediately.
Hua Qiong ignored her, and only cared about tidying up her clothes, and carefully untied something and put it on the railing, as if afraid of getting it dirty.
Nata glanced and found that it was an amulet, but it was not an ordinary amulet. It had the seal of the Huyin Temple on it, and it was yellow and black.
"Where did you come from?" She picked up the amulet.
"Don't move!" Hua Qiong snatched it away, "The concubine invited Dama Rinpoche for me last night, and wished me a smooth delivery and healthy children, so don't mess with it."
Nata knew that Feng Zhiwei had indeed gone to Dama's place last night, her eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said, "The concubine is very face-saving, the Living Buddha seldom bestows amulets in person."
"I asked for it." Hua Qiong curled his lips, "Dama Allah is a just person, and he will not anger me because of the princess. My child came... difficult. I asked the princess to tell Dama Allah, Dama Allah gave me this."
Nata glanced at her belly. She also knows the customs of the Central Plains. Pregnant women like Hua Qiong follow Feng Zhiwei to the grassland for no reason, and there is no man around. Maybe it is the abandoned wife of a wealthy family in the Central Plains or something. The reason is unknown, Dama Living Buddha is merciful, and it is indeed possible that because of this Han woman's life experience, he has another love for her.
She glanced at the kit containing the talisman, and felt itchy in her heart, ah, such a precious thing that everyone in the grassland wanted, why was it given to this Han woman.
"This is the Yanfu talisman." Hua Qiong held the talisman and narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Protect all the children who live here. If I have children in the future, I can do the same."
Nata was thinking about whether to ask the Living Buddha for one, thinking that she was not allowed to leave the apse, and she was a little depressed. When she heard this sentence, her eyes lit up, "Bless all the children who are born here?"
Hua Qiong glanced at her and put the talisman away, "Why?"
Nata hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Then my child, who was born here, must also be protected?"
"He Lianzheng's child?" Hua Qiong looked at her stomach hesitantly, "I'm not sure, that's what the Living Buddha said at the time, to protect all the children born here, otherwise you'd better ask for one yourself .”
Nata shook her head, asking for Dama's talisman depends on fate, besides, she asked someone to signal to Dama as soon as Dama came, and she was rejected long ago.
"How do you know the birthday before the child is born?"
"Just a month or so, and write the name you want to give him." Hua Qiong said, "A mother doesn't even know when she was born, does she?"
Nata hesitated again, and said, "Wait for me." She hurried back to her room, took a folded paper and sealed it, and handed it to Hua Qiong.
Hua Qiong didn't even look at it, just wrapped the paper in it, and muttered, "I don't guarantee whether it will be useful, I think you should ask yourself..."
"It doesn't matter, it's best if it's useful, and it doesn't matter if it's useless." The more she rejected Nata, the more determined she became. Seeing her reluctance, she was afraid that she would be more verbose, so she quickly changed the subject and laughed, "Your robe is dirty, give it to me." Let's wash."
"I have a female slave." Hua Qiong said, "Why do you have to wash it?"
"This kind of camellia oil marks are not easy to deal with." Nata said, "I have a solution."
"Then you go back to the room with me and wait for me to change my clothes." Hua Qiong took her hand and walked back. Nata stared at the small amulet bag and said, "Miss Hua, don't take such a precious thing with you." On the body, it was dirty, lost, and blasphemous. The people of our Huzhuo Department all put the amulets we invited under the shrine in the house."
"Really." Hua Qiong nodded, arranged for her to sit in the outer room, pressed the little kit under the shrine according to her words, and went into the inner room to change clothes.
As soon as she entered, Nata immediately stood up, took out a small kit with a similar color from her bosom, pressed it under the shrine, and took out the original one and stuffed it into her bosom.
She pressed the stolen amulet tightly, with a sneer on her face.
How can I write you the month of my child's birth...
Immediately she sat back and drank tea slowly, Hua Qiong came out from the room, handed her the robe, and said with a smile: "Please."
"I'll bring it to you when it's done washing." Nata held the robe in her hand, being careful not to touch the stains, and left in a hurry.
Hua Qiong watched her leaving quickly, with a smile on her face, exactly the same as Nata's smile when she stole the amulet just now.
Not long after, Feng Zhiwei and others came back together, and at the same time strengthened the defense of the apse, which can be said to be completely surrounded. Feng Zhiwei's explanation to Mudanhua was that He Lianzheng was injured, and tomorrow he will die again. There can be no mistakes in the succession ceremony.
Everyone ate together at dinner, Nata ate very little and seemed a little restless, Zhiwei immediately said after the meal: "Go to bed early tonight, you don't have to attend the ceremony tomorrow, Nata. Take good care of the fetus in the palace."
Then he said to He Lianzheng, "Which servant will Wang Zhang sleep with tonight?"