Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

Hearing Zhao's words, Baoqin became more and more anxious, and hid the dead body of a large living person under the bed for three days, anyone who bent down and put on a shoe could see it, what would happen then!

"Nurse Yunrong is a member of the Empress Dowager. She watched the emperor grow up. If the emperor tells you about his childhood, if he misses the Empress Dowager, how can you answer! There are thousands of people in the palace, big and small. There is no maid and eunuch who doesn't know her, what do you do?" Baoqin became more and more anxious as she spoke, she was so angry that tears were about to fall, she took a deep breath, grabbed Zhao Shi and said: " Mom, I have a stomachache, help me go back and lie down."

Mrs. Zhao finally put her daughter first, and when she heard her stomach ache, she immediately helped her back.

Baoqin was half leaning on the bed, holding Zhao Shi's hand tightly, for fear of running away if she didn't pay attention, she calmed down for a moment, and she said: "Think about it, how old is my brother this year, if you come here like this, Will he still have to wait for three years; and Xiaobao, His Majesty told me about him last time, saying that next year when he is old, he will be released to serve as an official."

Mrs. Zhao patted her head and said, "Look at my brain, it's not working well."

Even with Mrs. Zhao's words, the heart of Baoqin still hangs in her throat. She pulled Mrs. Zhao and said, "Mom, come up and lie down with me."

It has been a few months since the queen mother became seriously ill, and she was so exhausted that she almost fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow while holding the piano, but she still held onto Zhao's hand, and she heard it faintly in her ears. The movement next door must have been the discovery of the death of Sister Yunrong, so she finally felt relieved and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Baoqin was called up by the palace maid, and after packing up, she went to see Shulan first.

Shulan was having breakfast, when she saw Baoqin approaching, she immediately asked the maid to bring her a bowl of rice porridge, and said: "It's cold, fill your stomach first."

Baoqin smiled, took a small sip from the bowl, and said, "My mother came yesterday."

Shulan nodded her head, indicating that this matter has been brought back to her.

"Yesterday, there were a lot of things in my room, and it was a mess. I missed the time to leave, so I let her stay in my room overnight, and I will send her back later." After saying this, she took another sip of rice porridge.

Shulan asked Huiyan to take the waist card and came over, looked at Baoqin's face and said, "Your eyelids are swollen again. Cough, anyway, you're going back to the palace tomorrow, and then let the imperial doctor take a good look at it."

Baoqin touched his stomach, "Don't worry, he's fine."

Shulan added a piece of chopsticks that cut out some thin green silk, and sighed: "Your Majesty was very angry when Sister Yunrong went away yesterday."

"I heard it faintly when I was sleeping at night." Baoqin also sighed, "Oh, actually, it's not a bad thing. I remember talking to Sister Yunrong once, and there is no half of her family left. , and will be old and homeless in the future. Now that he can be buried with the Queen Mother, it is good that the incense will not be cut off."

"That's what I persuaded His Majesty too." Shulan looked a little helpless, "I also said that maybe the queen mother was short of servants, so I picked the person I cared about the most, and finally persuaded him gone."

After the three-day memorial ceremony was over, the empress dowager's coffin was left in the ice palace, waiting to enter the mausoleum on the first day, and the emperor, empress and others returned to the palace after a journey of more than ten days.

After the empress dowager left, the palace became more and more deserted, and the concubines didn't even leave the house. Even if the concubines and the empress were added, there were only seven of them, and three of them had lost their sacred hearts. , The draft is bound to win.

On this topic, Shulan has talked to Baoqin more than once or twice.

"I'm really embarrassed." Shulan began with these words, "This year is supposed to be drafted, but Ruicheng still looks deserted." Shulan lowered her voice. For the sacrifice on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, he didn't even enter the harem."

"I don't want to be selected. Foreign ministers will say that I am incompetent and jealous as a queen. If the draft is carried out according to the original plan, if Ruicheng doesn't turn around, it's still my fault."

"I don't really care. Look at these two or three kittens in the harem. Cough, I'm ashamed if I don't draft them." Shulan didn't know what to think, so she laughed, "The emperor's life is hard."

It has been seven months since she held Qin's stomach, and it caused her sciatica pain, and she couldn't stand up after sitting for a long time. She was almost half lying and half leaning beside Shulan, with her eyes half closed, and said, "Then push back "Xiu Nu can't celebrate the New Year in the palace, so it will be counted on the basis of leaving the palace on the New Year's Eve. If it takes three months, she can only enter the palace on September 23 at the latest. Anyway, just prepare a Jingyang Palace, and it will be ready in three to five days."

She put her hand on her stomach, "Just talk to the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and let them do it quietly when they sort out the list. According to the old practice, there is nothing in it for His Majesty to nod. After August [-]th, His Majesty If he’s in a good mood, just say it, if he’s in a bad mood, let’s postpone it for a year.”

"I think so too." Shulan agreed, "The child in your womb will be a hundred days old at that time, and you can come out and take care of things."

The two were talking, when the nanny hugged him and came out.Shulan showed a brilliant smile on her face, and reached out to take her son over.

"His Majesty grows really fast." Baoqin praised, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and I've grown a lot, just like my belly."

These words sounded a little strange, but Shulan hugged her son and smiled very contentedly, and said: "Do you see if He is a prince or a princess in his belly?"

"Brother." Chong Yan stared blankly for a long time and said, "I want a younger brother."

Shulan heard the words and patted Qin's stomach lightly, "Let me see if it's familiar." After speaking, she laughed first, "If you give birth to a son, I will promote you to the imperial concubine position."

"Then the concubine can thank the empress first!" Turning her face and hugging Qin, she said sadly: "Your Highness has several younger brothers, why don't I give birth to a younger sister?"

"Second brother doesn't play with me, and the other two can only drool, and they are so dirty." Chong Xie said slowly, word by word, very cute, "I keep yelling all day long, can't you hear me?" I understand." A little sad expression appeared on Chong's swollen face, very troubled.

Not two days later, the decree of moving the palace came down.

The queen mother has passed away, but there is still a second prince who has just turned two years old in the queen mother's palace. Although the mothers, maids and eunuchs are very dedicated to taking care of them, and no matter who they change to, they are the ones who take care of the second prince. , but he had to have a guardian in name.

Shulan was the nominal mother of all the children, so she took over to take care of her for a while, but the queen had her own son, and it was a bit unreasonable to raise a child for a noble person who was still a nobleman and had no family background at all.If someone else becomes the queen, maybe she will do it, but Shulan can't wait to push all the troubles away, so she won't ask for it.

As for the other emperor who had the right to speak, he didn't say anything. He still remembered that his mother once said: If Liu Gui gave birth to a son, she couldn't be promoted to the throne, and the son couldn't be raised by her.Although the emperor didn't understand if the queen mother had any profound meaning in it, he still trusted professionals in Gongdou's three-acre field.

So Ruicheng had another plan. He also had a sixth brother who didn't have a son.After reading a lot of history books, I know that the emperor's brother having no heirs is not a good reputation for the emperor. No matter what the truth is, someone will always involve this in the struggle for the throne, or the emperor's narrow-mindedness.Ruicheng didn't want to bear such a reputation, and the sixth brother was not involved in the battle for the throne, not to mention his biggest opponent, Prince Yizhong, he adopted a more tactful method of raising his son, So for Sixth Brother, Ruicheng has always planned to adopt a son for him.

Adopting her own son naturally benefits more, so when Shulan came to her to discuss the second prince's whereabouts, he didn't mention his plans at all, but asked first: "What do you think?"

"Now the only ones in the palace who can raise children are Concubines He, Concubine Chang and Concubine Dong. Concubine He is about to give birth, and the palace is still taking care of Liu Guiren's son, and Concubine Chang's son is not yet a year old, so it seems , only Concubine Dong."

Ruicheng nodded, and it's better to hand it over to Bin Dong. Dong Bin has given birth to a lot these days, and he is also close to Liu Guiren. Before the child is adopted, let's see him a few more times.Ruicheng felt that he also had a heart of compassion, "I know about this, I will pack up my things in the past two days, and let them move when I make a decree."

But when Ruicheng's order came down, even Shulan wanted to stare, what the hell is going on with the emperor!

First let’s talk about the two people related to the second prince, Concubine Dong and Concubine Liu. Concubine Dong has not moved, and is still in Chuxiu Palace, the northernmost part of the West Sixth Palace, which is farthest from the emperor, while Guiren Liu has been moved to the back of Chuxiu Palace. The palace, and the second prince Chong also moved there together, and lived in the side hall of Chuxiu Palace.As for Ling Changzai who originally lived in the side hall of Chuxiu Palace, he moved to the side hall of Chengqian Palace.

Chengqian Palace, that represents the Eastern Sixth Palace that is faintly out of favor, there is not even a main empress in the palace, and because Ling Changzai is close to Concubine Wu who has already gone, it seems that Ruicheng has completely given up on her .

There is also a Chang concubine who gave birth to a son. Although the emperor did not promote her status, he moved her from the East Sixth Palace to the West Sixth Palace, and lived in the main hall of Yikun Palace where Liu Guiren originally lived.

It is said that only three people were moved, but who made the emperor's harem total six? Shulan was not counted this time, because she is the empress, and she can't move in Kunning Palace. On average, there are half of the concubines They all moved, this is a big move.

But Baoqin was pregnant, and she didn't move at all in the palace.

She still went to burn incense in the Empress Dowager's Palace every three days, sat in the Shulan Palace from time to time, and walked around the imperial garden with her big belly, but she must have a natural delivery!