[Qing Chuan] No pet little promise

Hearing the word "Youxi", Song Qing'er almost gritted her silver teeth, and turned her head to look, Wei Rong looked calm.

Li Jiagui was full of ambition, but her face was soft and wronged, "This... I don't know either."

Concubine Rong, who had given birth to five or six children, asked, "Is there any such thing as loss of appetite, laziness and sleepiness, vomiting and nausea these days."

Li Jiagui nodded, "It is indeed as your mother said."

"Then it's probably a happy event." Concubine Rong sighed, "You are also pregnant, why haven't you counted them yet. Why don't you call the imperial physician to see it sooner."

Li Jiagui took a cautious look at Concubine Xi, "This... I think it's just a minor illness, so I dare not alarm the imperial physician."

That coquettish and timid appearance, although she didn't say it directly, made everyone who saw it think that it was Xi Concubine who was strict and treated her harshly, so she didn't dare to invite the imperial physician.

Xi Concubine was furious.

At this time, the little eunuch outside shouted: "The emperor is here!"

Everyone quickly restrained their spirits and knelt down towards the gate of Yongshou Palace.

When Kangxi came in, he saw this scene.

Seeing Concubine Rong, Concubine Xi and Noble Li Jia gathered together, he stopped in his tracks and asked, "What's wrong?"

Concubine Rong has the highest qualifications, she got up and told the story.

Li Jiagui is pregnant!This news was not a big surprise for Kangxi, he already had quite a few children under his knees, and Wang Guiren still had one in his stomach.

But it is good news after all, he has always been a person who values ​​his heirs, so he immediately stepped forward and helped Li Jiagui up: "It's cold on the ground, don't need to kneel any more."

The emperor's tone was gentle, and Li Jiagui's heart was full of joy, and he stared deeply at Kangxi with bright eyes.

Kangxi smiled and said: "You have a pregnancy letter, why don't you tell me?"

Li Jiagui was shy and timid: "Your Majesty..."

"Your Majesty!" Before she could finish speaking, Concubine Xi suddenly interjected, "Your Majesty, Li Jia's pregnancy has not yet been verified by the imperial physician. What's more, she didn't want to guard the coffin for the imperial concubine, and she was blamed by her concubine, so she suddenly brought up this matter. No It's too strange for the ministers and concubines to be suspicious."

Now it's Li Jiagui's turn to be furious.

What Concubine Xi meant was that she suspected that she lied about being pregnant in order to avoid the drudgery of keeping the coffin.Did she think she was out of her mind?

Kangxi was noncommittal, and ordered: "Let the imperial physician come over to have a look first."

Concubine Xi bowed upright and said, "The emperor is wise."

Two little maids stepped forward and helped Li Jiagui to the side hall to rest and wait for the imperial doctor.

When turning around, looking at Xi Concubine's calm and reserved expression, Mrs. Li Jiagui suddenly felt a little uneasy.

Waited in the side hall for a long time.The doctor is here.It is Lao De'an, the most skilled gynecologist in Taiyuan Hospital.

Li Jiagui leaned on the soft edge.Doctor Lao pressed her wrist for a moment through a thin silk handkerchief, and gradually frowned.

After repeating it several times, he said in a deep voice: "Your pulse seems slippery but not slippery, plausible but not real, according to my careful diagnosis and treatment, it should not be a pregnancy letter..."

Like a thunderbolt, Li Jiagui's face turned pale, "This is impossible!"

Doctor Lao stroked his long gray beard, bowed to the emperor, and said, "Forgive me, I have been seeing the doctor for 50 years, and I should not be misdiagnosed. The pulse of the nobleman should be due to food accumulation recently, and the weather has turned cold. Divergence does not go away, silting into moisture, circling and lingering, resulting in slow menstruation..."

Yan Wen said a lot, but everyone understood the main point, that is, Mrs. Li Jia was not pregnant at all.

Li Jiagui's face was pale, she couldn't believe it.

The emperor sullenly asked, "What's going on?"

Concubine Rong was embarrassing, she was the first to mention Li Jiagui's pregnancy, she quickly said: "It's my concubine's negligence, I only heard Li Jiagui said that she has a loss of appetite these days, is lazy and sleepy, and vomits." Nausea, as if there were symptoms of pregnancy, so I believed it."

Concubine Xi calmly bowed her knees, "It's all the concubines who are not strict in discipline. Li Jiashi has always been affectation, preferring the easy and fearing the heavy. The concubine only thought that she was too pampered at home since she was a child, and felt sorry for her miscarriage a few years ago. I have the heart to strictly control, I didn't expect it to become like this now..."

This is to nail Li Jiagui's charge of intentionally fabricating her pregnancy in order to avoid guarding the spirit.

Li Jiagui turned over and got off the collapse, kneeling on the ground.

"Your majesty, this servant is wronged. This servant has absolutely no intention of shirking responsibility. I really thought I was pregnant, so... By the way, Dr. Xue gave a diagnosis and said that this servant is pregnant!" At the straw, Mrs. Li Jiagui hastily stated Dr. Xue's diagnosis.

Concubine Xi interrupted her, and asked sharply, "You said just now that you never called the imperial physician to see a doctor, why did some doctor Xue come here again, and so many times, which statement is true?"

Li Jiagui was flustered: "I..."

"And if you're not trying to shirk, why did you bring up the pregnancy at this time? You deliberately concealed it before."

"Because...the servant girl is afraid that the joy will be for nothing, and even more afraid that the child will be gone before she knows it like it was the first time."

Concubine Xi sneered: "You're talking nonsense! Asking an imperial doctor to see you is not going up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of ​​fire."

Her sentences pointed to the point, Li Jiagui tried her best to refute, but in vain, her face was full of panic.

He could only hold on to the last straw, "The emperor can summon Dr. Xue, she said that the servant is pregnant, and the servant really believed it."

Kangxi nodded, and a little eunuch hurried out.

Soon, she returned and reported: "Dr. Xue asked to go out of the palace and return to her hometown last month because of a chronic illness. The substitute imperial physician looked through her pulse record and has not seen a doctor for Mrs. Li Jia in the past six months. record of."

There was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Mrs. Li Jiagui slumped on the ground.

Disgust appeared in Kangxi's eyes, he was worried about the Galdan matter, and such jokes were made in the harem.

Concubine Rong cast a contemptuous glance at Li Jiagui.She knew that this favor was over.

In the final analysis, it was because she had no food in her stomach. If the pregnancy was real, she would be right no matter what she did, but if the pregnancy was fake, everything would be beyond debate.

Li Jiagui was confused, looked up at Kangxi's bored expression, and blurted out in horror, "Your Majesty, I have been wronged! The reason why I am afraid is because of the child I lost before, and because of this poisonous woman!"

She turned her head and pointed at Xi Concubine: "It's you, a vicious woman, who can't give birth to a child by yourself, so you attack my child!"

In the hall, everyone changed color.Kangxi looked solemnly.

Together with Wei Rong and the others who were kneeling in the small square outside, they all pricked up their ears.

Concubine Xi immediately knelt down, with a correct expression: "The emperor knows that, I swear to heaven that I will never murder the emperor's heir."

Li Jiagui opened the opening, and the grievances accumulated over the years poured out.Pointing at Xi Concubine, she cursed: "Back then, it was because you deliberately let the imperial physician delay my child's miscarriage, yet you pretended to be a good person here."

Nanny Zhou, who was standing behind her, knelt down together, "Your Majesty, Mrs. Li Jia has suffered from hysteria since the miscarriage. She resented our empress and cursed and insulted her in the room every day. The empress has heard about it a long time ago, but she just pities her for losing her child." , I don't care about it. After she returned to favor this time, she insulted our empress several times, and everyone saw it..."

"Shut up!" Xi Concubine cut off.

Nanny Zhou stopped talking.

Only then did she continue to say to the emperor: "The concubine acts upright and is not afraid of the rumors. Please send someone to investigate this matter thoroughly, and return the concubine's innocence."

She has a straight face and pure eyes.

Kangxi's eyes lingered over the faces of the two, stepped forward, and took Concubine Xi's hand.

"I believe you are not such a person."

The top leader spoke, and the final word was finalized.

Li Jiagui panicked, she quickly stepped forward and hugged Kangxi's leg.

"Your Majesty, this servant really did not lie, this servant was wronged!"

Kangxi was expressionless, and the eunuch behind him immediately stepped forward and dragged Li Jiagui away.

After pondering for a while, Kangxi said slowly: "Li Jia is ignorant and lazy, disrespecting the imperial concubine, and has been demoted to be a permanent presence. She will be confined for a month and reflect on herself."

Li Jiagui sat paralyzed on the ground as if struck by lightning.

Kangxi walked away, Concubine Rong and Concubine Xi quickly followed.

In the side hall, soon there were only two or three kittens left.

Mother Zhou looked at Li Jiachang on the ground, and sneered, "You have heard the emperor's will, send Li Jiachang back to Changchun Palace quickly, don't show yourself here!"

Two little maids stepped forward and half dragged and half helped Li Jiashi up.

Li Jiashi still wanted to struggle, so Nanny Zhou stepped forward and stuffed her mouth with a silk handkerchief, urging the little maid with a cold face, "Hurry up." While spitting on the ground, "Damn you bitch!" Maid, the empress is magnanimous enough to treat you, but she is so heartless. What a fool you are!"

Wei Rong and the others were still kneeling outside, watching helplessly as a few young maids dragged Li Jiachang out of the side hall, all the way backwards, with rough movements.

There was joy in Song Qing'er's eyes, and she said in a low voice, "It's what I deserve..."

Wei Rong lowered his gaze.In this round, it was obviously Xi Concubine who made the move, so Dr. Xue must have been bribed by her long ago.

***

After finishing the vigil, it was already afternoon to return to Changchun Palace.

During the half-day vigil, Wei Rong only felt pain in her legs and chills all over her body.The rest were dressed thinly, worse than her, and Song Qing'er was already sneezing non-stop on the way back.

After returning to the residence, Yufu hurriedly served warm ginger soup and helped her take off her outer clothes.

Yulian brought boiling hot water for washing her feet.

After eating a bowl of ginger soup, Wei Rong's feet and calves were soaked in the hot footwashing water, and only then did she feel alive.

Yulian knelt on the ground, wiped her feet with a soft towel, and changed into loose and thick clothes.

Little Lizi brought the dinner back.

Knowing that the masters had endured the cold all day, hot chicken soup and pasta were prepared in the small kitchen of Changchun Palace.

The chicken soup has been simmered for a whole day, and as soon as the lid of the food box is opened, the fresh aroma comes out.The soup is transparent and whitish, with a smear of oil on it reflecting the light, emerald green onion dotted in it, full of color, fragrance and taste.In addition, there is a plate of shredded chicken in sesame oil, a plate of fried crispy pork, a plate of candied winter melon sticks and a bowl of couscous with white radish, served with two kinds of dim sum.

Wei Rong asked Yufu to bring all the snacks and dishes down, leaving only the chicken noodle soup, and Yulian took dozens of dollars, asked the small kitchen for a small dish of pickled cucumbers, served with delicious chicken soup, and started eating .

The noodles are chewy, the chicken broth is rich, and there are strips of chicken thigh meat inside, which melts in your mouth.Served with crispy and delicious pickled cucumbers, it is delicious.

After eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup, Wei Rong felt a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

After eating, Wei Rong got up and walked slowly to digest.

Yulian came in and cleaned up the small table, and took out the oil lamp and books.

After wandering outside for two laps, Wei Rong was just about to turn the pages of the book when he suddenly heard whimpering from outside. The sound was vague, mixed in the cold north wind, like a ghost screaming, very shrill.

"What movement?"

Yulian shrank her neck, and said in a low voice: "It must be at the Dongpian Hall, Mrs. Li Jia... ah, I'm not here often, she's crying."

From Yulian's mouth, Wei Rong knew that after Mrs. Li Jia was dragged back in the morning, Nanny Zhou made people kneel outside the side hall.

He said it was because he was lazy and rude today, and he wanted to apologize to the noble concubine below. He was not worthy to kneel in Yongshou Palace, but he had to kneel in Changchun Palace to mourn, and he had to kneel for a whole month of confinement.

At the end, Yulian shivered.

The cold wind beat against the window, Wei Rong looked at the dark night outside, and sighed: "Go down."

I read the book on the couch for a long time, but didn't read a word.

There was still a faint whimpering sound outside the window, as if the mouth was gagged and could only come from the nasal cavity.

Xi Consort is going to kill them all!

She doesn't have the mercy of the Holy Mother for Mrs. Li Jia, she just hurts others.

I remember Song Qing'er once mentioned that there used to be a Wang Changzai and a Jiang promised in this Changchun Palace, but now they are gone.

Now Li Jiagui is also going to disappear.

Who will be next?