"Have you heard that the courtiers are discussing about choosing a concubine for the emperor?"
Man Yue's fingers froze, a thorn stuck in her hand and she still didn't know it.
"Yeah, I heard that, tell me, is the empress incapable of giving birth? The emperor has been resting in the queen's palace every night for more than a year, and the queen's stomach has not moved at all..."
"Who knows, I heard that the courtiers have selected many beauties for the emperor, and both Dongling and Western Chu have the intention of marrying each other. Princess Dongling is here today, and it is said that she has been in the imperial study for a long time."
"I took a look from a distance. Princess Tangling is really beautiful and generous. I heard that she is the number one beauty in Tangling. To be honest, although the queen has a better temper, she is really far behind Princess Tangling."
"Of course, the princess is so honorable. After all, our empress is still from the people."
"It seems that the palace is really about to change."
The two little maids said a word each, and walked away slowly, completely oblivious to the full moon squatting in the rose garden.
It's midsummer, but the full moon is like being behind an ice bucket, the surroundings are cold, and the heart hurts even more. Yes, for a year, except for her inconvenient days, they are almost every night...
Why, my stomach has not moved, it's rare that I really can't give birth...
Thoughts flashed by, Man Yue's face turned pale, if she really couldn't give birth, she would definitely accept a concubine, she is not an ignorant woman, she understands, the emperor should not belong to only one woman, she is not like Xiao Qi People who are generally capable have never dared to hope to get so much, but after people get it, they suddenly think that they are about to lose it, and their heart still hurts badly.
His eyes went dark, and he passed out in the rose garden.
In the imperial study room, Beigong Yinuo's handsome eyebrows were slightly frowned, and he glanced coolly at the eloquent Dongling envoy, as well as the Dongling princess, Dongfang Prajna, who secretly glanced at him affectionately from time to time.
"The envoy and the princess have worked hard all the way. I have arranged a post house. You two should go and rest first."
Beigong Yinuo spoke lightly, interrupting the envoy's words.
"Northern Moon Emperor, Banruo heard that there are hundreds of exotic flowers and plants in the Beiyue Palace. I wonder if we can keep Banruo in the palace to enjoy." Dongfang Banruo's beautiful eyes drooped softly, with a faint pink color on her cheeks. , The shy appearance makes people unbearable to refuse.
"If the princess wants to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden, I will arrange someone to accompany her tomorrow morning, but staying in the palace, no! My harem will only have the queen as the master." Beigong Yinuo said slowly.
The implication is that I don't know how to accept concubines, it's best if I don't have any thoughts, if I have any, just stop.
Dongfang Banruo froze for a moment. She was born in the royal family. She was noble, intelligent and beautiful since she was a child and has always been held in the palm of Dongling Emperor. This time, Dongfang Banruo proposed to come to Beiyue. Looking at the four countries, Beigong Yinuo is the youngest emperor. , he ascended the throne for only one year, and under his rule Beiyue became more and more powerful, catching up with Nanye.
Empress Nanye is the biological elder sister of Emperor Beiyue. She is tricky and eccentric and is favored by Emperor Nanye. Coupled with her status, no one dares to lay their minds on Nan Fengchen.
But Beiyue is different. Everyone knows that the full moon was brought back by Beigong Yinuo from outside the palace. There was a voice to ask Beigong Yinuo to accept the concubine, but Beigong Yinuo strongly rejected them.
Therefore, not only Dongling, but also Xichu had the idea of getting married.
"The princess on behalf of the minister thanked Bei Yuehuang, and I will come to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers tomorrow." The envoy was a smart man, seeing that his princess was so beaten that he forgot to react, so he hurriedly said.
"Please, both." Beigong Yinuo didn't bother to talk to Dongfang Banruo, and waved his hand to signal them to leave.
The envoy gave Dongfang Prajna a hand, Dongfang Prajna came back to his senses, bowed to salute, and the moment he lowered his eyes, his eyes were full of unwillingness and coldness.
When the person finally left, Beigong Yinuo breathed a sigh of relief, "Come here, tell Prime Minister Cui to have an audience."
Prime Minister Cui, Cui Dongcheng, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, is also the tutor of Beigong Yinuo.
Not long after, Cui Dongcheng arrived at the imperial study, and the two talked about some state affairs.
"Teacher, I would like to trouble you to deal with it yourself." Beigong Yinuo said seriously.
"Please order from the emperor." Cui Dongcheng hastily bowed in response.
"Recently, the court is eager to make me accept a concubine. I don't know how to accept a concubine, and I don't want to hear these voices again. Please tell the grand master clearly what I mean. Dongling and Xichu also intend to marry each other. I also agree. Among the unmarried royal children, you can see who is suitable for marriage, and you can make arrangements." Beigong Yinuo said.
"Yes, I obey the order." Cui Dongcheng didn't ask, nor did he object. He knew almost everything about Xiao Qi and Bei Gongyan back then, so he naturally understood Xiao Qi's attitude towards feelings. He is monogamous, and his emperor also loves the queen, so he won't make fun of that.
After Cui Dongcheng left, Beigong Yinuo saw Eunuch Zhou standing in the corridor.
"Call Eunuch Zhou in."
Eunuch Zhou walked into the imperial study room quickly, bowed and saluted, and told the story of Man Yue asking Beigong Yinuo to come over.
Beigong Yinuo stood up with a smile, Man Yue would never take the initiative to ask people to come to her, unless Xiao Qi sent a letter.
Qifeng Palace.
As soon as Bei Gong Yinuo entered the gate, he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere inside.
"What happened?"
"Back, back to the emperor, empress, empress empress..." the maid Xiaolian was so frightened that her speech was broken.
"What's wrong with the queen?" Beigong Yinuo asked anxiously.
"The empress is missing." Xiaoshan said hastily.
They were all left behind by Xiao Qi to take care of Man Yue, and Man Yue was soft-tempered and had no pretensions towards the people in the palace. During this year's relationship, they have already regarded her as a relative.
"How could it be missing! When did he disappear? Bai Yi took people to look for it, and even turned the palace over to find the queen." Bei Gong Yinuo was stern.
"Yes." Bai Yi, Bai Tie's son, is now Beigong Yinuo's personal bodyguard.
"Xiaoshan, tell me, what happened this afternoon?" Beigong Yinuo asked in a deep voice.
"After receiving the letter from the queen mother in the afternoon, the empress sent someone to go to the emperor. Seeing that the emperor had not come back, she went out with Miss Luluo with a basket. The servants thought that the empress was going to step on flowers, so they were not worried, but it was getting late, empress. Still did not come back, the servants went to the imperial garden to look for the empress, but there was no trace at all, and the guards also said that they only saw the empress entering the garden, and then they did not know where the empress went... "
Bei Gong Yinuo got up quickly.
"Go invite Aunt Luluo into the palace." She walked quickly towards the imperial garden.
Going out with Luluo, Luluo should know where Yue'er is going.
The Imperial Garden is very large, and Beigong Yinuo and Bai Yi led people to search carefully.
When Luluo heard that the queen was missing, she was in a hurry, and Hei Li personally sent her into the palace, so she naturally asked the guards to bring the message to Beigong Yinuo, and the queen said to go to the rose garden.
The rose garden is located in the inner part of the imperial garden, and Beigong Yinuo and others have not searched it yet.
Upon receiving the news, Beigong Yinuo flew to the rose garden.
In the corner of the rose garden, there was a person lying quietly.
At that moment, Beigong Yinuo's heart ached, "Yue'er... Yue'er..."
The side face of Man Yue was punctured by a flower branch, and the blood had dried up, which meant that her fainting did not happen for a moment, and before she had time to think about it, Bei Gong Yinuo hurried back to Qifeng Palace with Man Yue in her arms.
Don't wait for the imperial physicians to arrive, and diagnose the pulse in person.
Blood surges...
It was obvious that he had been stimulated by something, and he had been in a coma for a long time, and some of them caught cold and had a fever.
Bei Gong Yinuo frowned, what exactly stimulated Yue'er? Picking up a pen and writing down, Zi ordered someone to decoct the medicine, "Bai Yi."
"emperor."
"Check it out for me. After the Queen went to the Royal Garden, no one should miss anything that passed through the Rose Garden. I want to know what happened today."
"yes."
Bai Yi took the order to leave.
Luluo hurried to Qifeng Palace.
"Your majesty, how is your empress?" Luluo asked anxiously as soon as she entered the door, ignoring the salute.
"Auntie Xiong ran and found Yue'er. When I went out today, what happened to Yue'er?" Beigong Yinuo asked. After arriving in Beiyue, Beigong Yinuo's life was basically taken care of by Luluo. So he has a lot of respect for her.
"No, we are all fine when we go out." Luluo thought carefully and replied.
"Auntie has worked so hard for the past few days to temporarily stay in the palace to take care of Yue'er." Beigong Yinuo said with a slight frown.
"Yes." Luluo replied.
At night, the sky is full of stars.
Full Moon woke up slowly, frowning slightly, looking at the familiar environment in front of her, she knew that she had returned to Qifeng Palace, but she didn't know when she came back, "Ahem..." was about to get up, pulling her lungs , coughed.
"Slow down." When Bei Gong Yinuo's voice sounded, a pair of big hands supported her.
Full Moon raised her eyes, looked at Beigong Yinuo who was like a heavenly man, and remembered how she first met him more than a year ago, and her loving life this year, but she couldn't even give him a child, her heart was so bitter, His eyes were sore, and tears fell silently down his cheeks, soaking Beigong Yinuo's heart.
"Silly girl, don't cry." Beigong Yinuo held the full moon tightly in his arms. When he heard that she was missing and saw her lying in the flowers, his heart was almost torn apart. After she had merged into his blood, He can't lose her.
Man Yue cried for a long time before she stabilized her emotions.
"Enough crying, drink some water." Beigong Yinuo said softly, raised her hand, and Xiaoshan hurriedly brought warm water.
After drinking a little water, my throat felt better.
"You go down and prepare the meal."
"Yes, the slaves are leaving." The maids retreated one after another.
"Now can you tell me what happened to make you so sad?" Beigong Yinuo gently raised Man Yue's jaw and asked.
Instinctively, Man Yue's eyes flickered, "It's okay, I just thought of my parents." Her voice was very low, a little sad, as if she was really sad because of her parents.
It's just, who is Beigong Yinuo, why can't she see what's on her mind, she's lying.
A soft kiss fell on her lips, "If I miss you, I'll ask someone to build a tomb for you to worship at any time, okay?"
Man Yue thought that Beigong Yinuo believed her words, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and shook her head, "Don't bother, I enshrined a memorial tablet in Ling Temple."