Feng Laiyi

After Jingyang Palace and his party, Qianlong quietly released Yongqi from the ban, and for some reason, sent Little Yanzi and Xia Ziwei back to Shufangzhai, but ordered people to guard them strictly, saying that Even "a mouse" is not allowed to come out of Shufangzhai, so the current Shufangzhai is almost a prison without a prison door. Among the court ladies and eunuchs, only Jin Suo saw the returning little Yanzi and Xia Tears welled up in Ziwei's excited eyes, and the rest of them hid as far as they could.

Little Swallow, who had not been beheaded and was not deprived of the title of "Huanzhugege", kept shouting "Bengege survived a catastrophe, there must be future blessings", but Xia Ziwei remained silent in a trance, thinking of her The two of them, Xiao Yanzi and Xiao Yanzi, came out of the prison of the clan's mansion, but Fu Erkang was still locked there, and he felt a little pain in his heart.

However, after suffering all this time in prison, little Yanzi no longer had the arrogance she used to. When she wanted to go out but was stopped by the guards at the door, for the first time, she didn't get angry or make a move. He walked back honestly, sulking all by himself, which can be regarded as some progress.

Two days later, the gates of the Forbidden City opened wide, and Qianlong brought the empress, concubines, brothers, princesses, princes and nobles who were pot-bellied early in the morning to wait in front of the main hall, and the whole hall of Supreme Harmony was crowded with princes The grandson of the emperor, the noble lady of the palace.

Not long after, I saw the canopy like a cloud. Under the heavy protection of the guards and surrounded by the court ladies and eunuchs, the queen mother's phoenix chariot came slowly, followed by a small sedan chair, and only heard the eunuch walking in front. Announcement: "The Empress Dowager has arrived..."

The empress dowager's phoenix chariot stopped when the crowd approached, and the small sedan chairs behind it also stopped. Mother Qin, who was waiting in front of the main hall, and Nanny Gui, who accompanied the empress dowager, lifted the curtain of the phoenix chariot from left to right. , and then the queen mother walked down with the support of all the maids, and the other maids went to the small sedan chair and helped out a pretty girl with bright eyes and bright teeth, who could it be if it wasn't Qing'er?

"Respectfully, the Empress Dowager is safe, and the Empress Dowager is a thousand years old." Seeing the Empress Dowager getting out of the sedan chair and standing still, everyone knelt down, kowtowed to the ground, and shouted in unison.

"Get up." The queen mother seemed to be in good spirits, her complexion was very rosy, and her voice was as majestic as ever.

Qianlong went up to meet him, bowed his body, and said respectfully: "The Queen's Mother prayed for blessings and returned, but her son failed to go out of the city to welcome her. It is really unfilial. Please forgive me."

"What is the emperor talking about? You are so busy with state affairs, and I have so many people waiting for you, do you still need you to greet me in person?" The queen mother said with a slight smile, and glanced behind Qianlong a few times.

Seeing the Queen Mother's eyes, He Chun and Lan Xin immediately understood, hurriedly walked up to the left and right, helped the Empress Dowager for Nanny Gui and Nanny Qin respectively, and said with a smile: "Madam Huang, you You can be regarded as coming back, Lan Xin and I miss you very much these days." The tone of the last word rose slightly, with a hint of coquettishness.

"It's your sweet mouth." The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and patted Hechun's hand and said, holding her hand, with a feeling of satisfaction.

"Huang Mama went to Mount Wutai to fast for so long, she must have worked very hard, how could He Chun not worry about it?" He Chun said with a light smile.

"Well, it looks more and more like honey." The Queen Mother straightened her expression on purpose, and said a little seriously.

"Huang Mama, what He Chun said is the truth." He Chun shook the Queen Mother's arm lightly twice.

The Empress Dowager smiled without saying a word, and turned her head to see the Empress who was being supported by Nanny Rong, and saw the almost round belly, her eyes narrowed even more with a smile, and she said straightly: "The Empress is in good health. Ai Jia remembers that the month is about to end, right? You should be resting in Kunning Palace today, but you came out to greet him anyway."

The empress, who was carefully supported and protected by Nanny Rong and the maids, stroked her stomach, with a soft smile on her face, and said: "The emperor's empress is driving back to the palace, there is no reason for a daughter-in-law not to welcome her."

The Empress Dowager felt very relieved when she heard this, she nodded her head slightly, and glanced at the concubine Ling who was standing among the concubines. She also had a belly of four or five months, and she was already showing signs of dew. The Empress Dowager frowned slightly The "True and False Gege" incident Qianlong was pretty good, the queen mother didn't know about it yet, so she was a little puzzled about the current identity of the concubine Ling, but it was inappropriate to ask Qianlong about "family affairs" in front of everyone, and the queen mother always He didn't like Ling concubine either, so he just glanced at her lightly, then turned his eyes away.

It was the nth time that Ling concubine had her mouthful of silver teeth broken. Today she purposely wore a slightly tighter flag dress in order to highlight her belly so that Qianlong and the queen mother would notice. How could Qianlong not look at her at all? Well, the queen mother is acting like this now, she deliberately wants to go forward to show her face, but the current occasion is not suitable, so she has to swallow all kinds of annoyance in her stomach.

At this time, Qing'er had already walked to the side of the Queen Mother, and bowed her knees to Qianlong and said, "Give your respect to the emperor, your majesty is auspicious."

Qianlong looked at Qing'er and saw that she hadn't seen her for more than half a year. She looked more and more fresh and refined, with an elegant temperament. It's not bad at all, I was quite proud in my heart, laughed out loud, and said to Qing'er: "Qing'er, thanks to having you with Lafayette these days, I feel a lot more at ease, and I should reward you well." right."

"It's a servant's blessing to be able to serve Lafayette." Qinger said, looked at Hechun Lanxin and smiled knowingly.

Seeing such a warm and harmonious scene, the Empress Dowager and Qianlong felt quite happy in their hearts. After looking around with a smile for a week, the Empress Dowager suddenly frowned slightly, looked at Qianlong and said, "Emperor, Aijia heard that you I took in a foster daughter and sealed her as 'Huanzhugege', why didn't I see her come to greet Aijia today?"

Hearing the Queen Mother's question about Little Swallow, Qianlong's face froze for a moment, and he didn't know how to respond for a moment. Seeing this, He Chun hurriedly interjected: "Imperial Mama, you must be tired after traveling all the way? Why don't you go back to the charity first?" How about going to Ning Palace and chatting while resting?"

Seeing the look on Qianlong's face, the Empress Dowager already knew that something happened that she didn't know about, so she didn't ask any more questions, nodded and said: "What He Chun said is that the wind is strong here, and the Queen's body is heavy. Don't just stand here, the emperor and empress will accompany Ai's family back to the Compassionate Ning Palace, and the rest of the people will disperse after waiting."

Everyone agreed, He Chun and Lan Xin helped the Queen Mother, Qing'er stepped forward to help the Queen Mother together with the maid of honor, and went to the Palace of Compassion with Qianlong, and the rest knelt down to see each other off. After Qianlong, the Empress Dowager and others walked away, they stood up one after another and dispersed.

Yong Qi stood alone at the scene for a long while, and just now when he heard the Queen Mother say "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", he almost couldn't hold back, and wanted to run forward and kneel in front of the Queen Mother to "speak sincerely", but in the end he held back Well, it's not that he has made any progress, but because Qianlong told him before coming here, if something goes wrong when he greets the Queen Mother today, and he says something that shouldn't be said, then Little Swallow will... For Yong Qi now, Little Swallow is his Achilles heel, so Yong Qi can only let herself bear it, for the sake of Little Swallow, and for their future happiness.

Thinking of this, Yongqi looked at the backs of Qianlong and others who had long been invisible, clenched his fists, stomped his feet, turned around and went out of the palace gate. He didn't know what happened to Fu Erkang and what was going on at Fu's house, so now he thought about going to Fu's house to have a look.

"Huang Mama, if you come back a few days later, He Chun can't help but miss you, so I will go to Wutai Mountain to find you." The Compassionate Ning Palace is now a harmonious scene, without so many "outsiders." "'s staring, and pure "sweet words" are more and more able to say a lot.

The Queen Mother was already being coaxed into laughing all the time, she couldn't even close her mouth, she put her arms around He Chun and said straightly: "Sure enough, she can talk, and the Ai family is becoming more and more inseparable from He Chun, how can this be good?" ? Why don't you just stay by Mama Mama's side all the time."

"He Chun is really looking forward to it." He Chun hugged the Queen Mother's arm and said with a smile.

"But the Ai family is afraid that someone in Fucha's mansion will disobey." The queen mother pointed out Hechun's forehead with her index finger and said, she already knew what happened when Qianlong and others went on tour in disguise, and the queen was also in contact. The letter mentioned that Qianlong intended to marry Hechun to Fukang'an, and he was quite satisfied with the Queen Mother Fukang'an, so he actually made a joke of Hechun.

"Why does Huang Mamo make fun of him as soon as she comes back?" He Chun blushed, pouted and said coquettishly, and the whole room burst into laughter again.

"Emperor." After laughing for a while, the Empress Dowager restrained her smile, looked at Qianlong with a worried expression, and said, "After hearing the news about your assassination on tour, the Ai family couldn't sleep well for a few days. He is the king of a country, if something happens, what face will the Ai family have when they go to meet their ancestors?"

"The Pope's mother is worried, it's her son's unfilial piety." Qianlong was a little moved, but he was a little annoyed and embarrassed when he thought of the tour.

"Also." The Empress Dowager looked at Qianlong's face, and said again: "That 'Huanzhugege' who came out of nowhere, is really not small, you should tell Aijia whether she is a What's the history?"

Hearing that the Empress Dowager finally asked about Little Swallow, Qianlong's expression of embarrassment and annoyance deepened, he waved his hands away from the surrounding court ladies and eunuchs, took a few sips from his teacup, and then told the Empress Dowager , including the "true and false princess" matter, he did not intend to hide it from the Queen Mother.

When Qianlong was talking about everything that passed by, the expression on the Empress Dowager's face changed several times, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple almost all turned around once. After Qianlong's last word landed, her face was already colorless and mixed. , It took a while to digest everything Qianlong said, then patted the table angrily and reprimanded: "Emperor, you are so confused!"

"Son is really confused." Qianlong also let out a long sigh with a look of despair.

The room that was full of laughter just now fell silent, everyone was thinking about their own thoughts, and no one could speak. After a while, the queen mother said quietly: "Royal blood is a big deal, and there is no room for contamination and adulteration. With a fan, a picture, and that little swallow's one-sided words, you believe the emperor? So hastily sealed Gege? The emperor is confused, and the queen doesn't understand? Why don't you persuade me? ? Now that there is such a big joke, if it gets out, what face will the royal family have?"

"The emperor forgives the sin, but the daughter-in-law is negligent." The queen took the hat from the queen mother without a word of refutation. You must know that when Qianlong recognized the little swallow, she was very scared. She still had a high fever, so she didn't have time to take care of little Yanzi's affairs. In addition, even if she tried to persuade her, Qianlong's temper would probably not listen to her. Why bother to do such a thankless thing?

Hearing the queen's words of acknowledging the fault without the slightest complaint, Qianlong felt mixed feelings. Seeing the queen standing up and wanting to kneel down to the queen mother, he stood up with a thud and supported the queen's body, full of emotion. Glancing at the Queen with a guilty expression on his face, Qianlong raised his head and said to the Queen Mother: "Mother Huang, you are wrong to blame Jing Xian. In fact, she didn't know when she recognized Little Swallow. Everything was because of my son's fault. At that time... "

Qianlong carefully supported the queen to sit down, and at the same time explained the situation of recognizing women in the Yanxi Palace again, which was much more detailed than when he just said a few words. After the queen mother listened patiently, there was light in her eyes After a flash, he said in a cold voice: "So, it was Ling Fei who urged you to recognize Little Swallow?"

The Queen Mother's words were really like enlightenment. Qianlong, who was full of remorse and annoyance, suddenly sobered up for a while, and murmured in his heart: "Yes? Why didn't I think of it? It was I who wanted to recognize Little Swallow in the first place. Is it true? If it wasn't for Ling Fei who kept teasing and saying how little Yanzi looks like me, I would have made such a mistake? If she hadn't ordered the servants to call Little Yanzi "Gege" without authorization, I would have easily A title? And it’s a nondescript title of ‘Huan Zhu Ge Ge’.”

The Empress Dowager looked at Qianlong whose eyes were twinkling, sneered twice, and continued: "Emperor, after this, you must be able to see some things more clearly, right? As for some people..."

The Empress Dowager didn't finish her words, but Qianlong understood it clearly, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Empress Dowager, my son understands."

So on the afternoon when the Queen Mother returned to the palace, the concubine Ling, who seemed to have been forgotten in a corner for some days, received a decree inexplicably-"From now on, the concubine Ling will be reduced to a noble person, this is what I do."

With just one sentence, without any reason, the concubine Ling became a nobleman. Now she couldn't even live in the Chuxiu Palace, and moved to the Lingkun Palace, which was almost nobody's care.

The author has something to say: == I found out that there was a serious mistake, I had to correct the typo to catch bugs, it’s not a fake update, it’s really not... TT