[Qing Chuan] No pet little promise

Wei Rong followed the eunuch all the way backwards to a side hall.

The furnishings in the hall are exquisite and the furniture is soft, obviously it is a resting place for the guests who can't drink.

Concubine De was sitting in front of the window.

Wei Rong bowed down profusely, "Slaves and maidservants see the queen mother, the queen mother is blessed and safe."

The queen mother raised her hand, "Sit down."

Wei Rong got up and sat on the round stool brought by the little eunuch.

The little eunuch leading the way bowed and retreated, closing the door.

The light in the hall immediately dimmed.

Wei Rong looked up, and it seemed that the Queen Mother had just stepped back from the banquet in front, wearing a flag dress in the color of a sunny day after rain, with pearl flowers made of white jade beads on her jet-black hair bun.

She still looks calm and beautiful, but she has an extra string of black sandalwood beads in her hand than when she was a concubine, twirling them calmly.

This made Wei Rong a little surprised. Although there is a habit of worshiping Buddha in the palace, usually only the old concubines would worship Buddha in this way.

The queen mother noticed her gaze and asked with a smile, "Do you believe in Buddhism?"

When she turned her head, Wei Rong found that there was a little silver light on her temples.It seemed that the years had finally begun to show their marks on this man.

After a flash of thought, Wei Rong said respectfully: "Gods and Buddhas are far away in the sky, and ordinary people like slaves and maidservants are naturally respected."

"Respect ghosts and gods and stay away, that is unbelief." The Queen Mother chuckled.

"Do you not believe in gods and Buddhas with such supernatural skills?"

Wei Rong was dumbfounded, how should I put it, she has been trying to explain her golden finger from a scientific point of view.Such as radiation, such as magnetic field, such as quantum mechanics or something.

"Do you know how the Ai family knew your secret?" The queen mother continued to ask.

Wei Rong had thought about this question a long time ago, "It's the news from Big Brother."

Concubine De put up a finger, pressed it to her lips, and said with a smile: "This is just one of the reasons, your unusualness, Aijia has already noticed."

Wei Rong blinked.

The queen mother did not intend to explain her doubts, but just watched with a smile.

Wei Rong's thoughts flashed, and she immediately understood, "The emperor has seen me on the bridge a few times before, and the empress must have noticed."

"I'm afraid it will be more than a few times." Concubine De smiled, this was indeed one of the reasons.

Wei Rong once again lamented that they were too careless when they met on the bridge.Originally, he thought that he was still an inconspicuous elder brother, so he would not be noticed by so many people.But Concubine De actually paid attention.Didn't it mean that the relationship between mother and child is weak?

However, according to the Queen Mother, this is only one of the reasons. Could there be another reason?

The queen mother looked at her, no matter how smart she was, I'm afraid she couldn't imagine that another reason why I paid attention to her was that her appearance was too abrupt.

After reliving the whole life, everything is done step by step, just like repeating the previous life, only she is an anomaly, she appeared in the palace suddenly, which attracted the emperor's attention.

Everything has changed since her appearance.The elder brother plotted rebellion, the prince killed the king, and even the first emperor died earlier than in his previous life.

On the surface, these things have nothing to do with her.But after careful investigation, they all have inextricable connections with her.It seems that the Qing court, as long as there is a difference, it will affect the whole situation to turn a corner.

Concubine De had never heard of the allusion that a butterfly flapping its wings would cause a storm in later generations, but she came to a similar conclusion.

"You are truly an anomaly in this palace." Concubine De smiled, "If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't have gotten to that position so early."

Originally thought that it was a disaster for him to meet her, so he gave himself a handle for nothing.Now it seems that it is an opportunity.

Nanny Guan came in, holding a tray in her hand, and put the tea on the small table beside the Queen Mother.

By the way, I also served one for Wei Rong.

Wei Rong took it, bowed and said, "Thank you, Ma'am, for the reward."

"This is Taihu White, a new tribute from Jiangnan. Listen to them, you like this taste."

Wei Rong actually doesn't like drinking tea. During the days when she hid behind the Yonghe Palace, she only started drinking tea in order to keep herself awake at night.

The tea was fragrant, and Wei Rong took a sip politely.

The queen mother continued to ask: "Did he go out of the palace to see you these days?"

Knowing that these things cannot be hidden from her, Wei Rong nodded.

"When are you going to enter the palace?"

Wei Rong was a little embarrassed, as if she had arrived at the scene of a blind date in later generations.

Seeing her hesitation, the Empress Dowager smiled and said, "Haven't you guys discussed this matter yet?"

Wei Rong's eyes lowered, "This servant is bold and wants to ask your mother something, I don't know if it's presumptuous."

"Go ahead."

"When the first emperor returned to the capital, why didn't the empress think about sending the servants back to the Changchun Palace directly. Didn't she have to hand them over when the emperor asked?"

Concubine De smiled subtly, "What do you think?"

Wei Rong: ...

"You are so smart, if you don't believe Aijia, you can't guess it, and you dare not say it. Is it because you are afraid that Aijia will be angry?"

Wei Rong gritted her teeth, "The servant thinks that it is because the status of a servant can be used, that's why the empress is allowed to live with rare goods."

"That's right, just like Lu Buwei regards strangers as rare goods, you are indeed of great use to Aijia."

She didn't say where the great use was, and the two of them had a tacit understanding.

Wei Rong was silent.

Concubine De suddenly sneered, "Is that why you don't want to enter the palace? Are you afraid that you will hurt him?"

"At this time and at that time, your current identity was created by the late emperor. If it is revealed one day, the first one will slap the face of the late emperor. It is not his turn to bear it." Concubine De put down the teacup, calmly Authentic: "So whether it's me or anyone else, it's impossible to use this matter to cause trouble again. You'd better forget about your past identity and be the daughter of Guo Luoluo."

Wei Rong woke up instantly, so Concubine Yi recognized her and wanted to continue the play.

Just as he was talking, suddenly the palace door was pushed open, and Yinzhen walked in quickly.

Wei Rong stood up in surprise.

Yinzhen's eyes fell on the teacup in her hand, he tightened his grip instantly, turned to the queen mother, and asked coldly, "Why is the queen mother drinking tea here? There are still people waiting to greet you in the front hall."

Wei Rong's eyes straightened, why did he call Concubine De and directly called Empress Dowager, this is his own mother!Shouldn't it be called Queen Mother?Also, is this the attitude of talking to your own mother?

The queen mother did not show any abnormality. She wiped the corners of her lips with a silk handkerchief, and said calmly, "When old friends meet, they always have to say a few more words. The idlers just let them wait."

Yinzhen looked at the tea cup in Wei Rong's hand, lowered his eyes and said, "You should go back earlier."

Wei Rong nodded.

Before she could leave, the Queen Mother suddenly sneered.

"Are you worried that I will poison this tea?" Her smile remained unchanged, but her words were piercing.

Yinzhen's expression was cold, "The empress dowager misunderstood, but she just heard that the person she cares about is here, so she is worried and wants to meet."

Wei Rong's eyes widened, not because of Yinzhen's frank confession of their love for each other, but because of the unceremonious tone of voice.

It is obvious that the queen mother has misunderstood, but this attitude is completely admitting that he suspects that the tea is poisonous!

The Empress Dowager nodded, "You are a sensible person. Aijia really added ingredients to the tea. Although it will not harm her body, it will make it difficult for her to conceive."

The voice fell, and the surroundings were silent and cold.

Yinzhen's face turned pale and he was furious. With a wave of his sleeves, all the teapots and cups on the small table flew out and smashed all over the floor.

The violent cracking sound startled the maids and eunuchs outside the door.

After a while, a cautious voice came: "Your Majesty..."

It's Xiao Shengzi.

"Get out!" Yinzhen shouted in a low voice.

He stared at Concubine De with cold eyes.

The Empress Dowager didn't seem to realize it, she was indifferent.

The tense atmosphere forced Wei Rong to speak, "Well, the emperor doesn't need to be angry, the queen mother is just joking."

Yinzhen was choked with anger, and turned to look at Wei Rong.

Wei Rong cast her eyes on the queen mother: "The empress said she wanted to give me medicine to cut off the offspring, but cutting off me alone will not cut off thousands of women in the world."

How can the queen mother be sure that Yinzhen will only have her as a woman in the future, even she herself does not have the confidence.

There was another reason Wei Rong didn't say.Don't you see that on the barrage of "XX Biography", there are a lot of Qiqi muscle pills, this kind of colorless, odorless, contraceptive medicine that does not hurt the body, will not be available in future generations, let alone in this era.

Of course, the most important thing is that she basically didn't drink this cup of tea, so she is not afraid of adding more ingredients.

The queen mother laughed softly, looked at Yinzhen, "Don't worry, if you want to poison, I will eat it for you."

Her words were very rude, but Yinzhen relaxed instead.

The Empress Dowager turned to Wei Rong, "Forget it, since something bad has happened, the Ai Family will not hold you back anymore, go."

Yinzhen kept a straight face, without looking at the Queen Mother, turned around and took Wei Rong's hand, and left the side hall.

***

"Between you and the Queen Mother..."

Walking in the imperial garden, Wei Rong didn't know what to ask. After thinking about it, she said, "You told me that someone has been trying to assassinate you all these years. Could it be..."

Yinzhen didn't answer, but his extremely ugly face clearly told her the answer.

Wei Rong was dumbfounded, "Why?"

"I also want to know." Yinzhen's tone was bitter.

He really wanted to know what he did wrong.He asked himself that he was not a particularly caring son, but he never disobeyed her wishes.

Wei Rong couldn't help asking, "Now that you are in charge, does she still want..."

Yinzhen shook his head, in fact, the assassination against him stopped after he fell into the water on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.Presumably she also knew that this method was useless.It is even more impossible to ascend the throne now.

That's not necessarily the case, Wei Rong quietly recalled the harsh accusations of the queen mother after Yinzhen ascended the throne recorded in the annals of her previous life.

Even if the physical damage is impossible, what about the mental one?

Thinking of the day when he went to find himself in a breakdown.It is because of the discovery of the truth.

Being hated by those close and trusted is an unbearable pain for anyone.

He is not a ruthless person, but he is used to suppressing his emotions and no longer expresses them.

Wei Rong suddenly thought, during these years, Yinzhen investigated the murderer behind the scenes, did he really never suspect Concubine De at all?

It is impossible for ordinary people to attack a prince several times.It must be someone close to him, but there are very few people close to him.

He was in danger several times, but he never disclosed it to anyone, and even after falling into the water, he covered it up quietly.

He had guessed it a long time ago, but he just couldn't believe it.

Thinking of this, Wei Rong felt a little distressed.

She held his hand tightly. At this moment, any words of comfort were futile and pale.

Standing under the tree, Yinzhen felt her gentle strength, and after a while, his face slowly recovered.

With a wry smile, "Maybe it's because we really don't have the fate of mother and child."

She also said, "All her feelings are given to the fourteenth brother. She even proposed that she wants the fourteenth brother to inherit the Datong in the future."

Wei Rong paused, not the first Concubine De who doted on her young son so much that she thought of this. Back then, Emperor Jing's birth mother, Empress Dowager Dou, wanted to let Emperor Jing pass on to his younger brother, King Liang.

But how can Concubine De be sure that the fourteenth elder brother will definitely become a talent in the future and can inherit the great rule?Not to mention the premature death rate of children these days, there is a high possibility of crooked growth.

Thinking of the conversation with Concubine De just now, Wei Rong suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Concubine De, could it be that she knows about the future generations?

Especially when she talked about Yinzhen's succession, her tone was not that she was surprised that he was the last person to ascend the throne, but that she was surprised that he would ascend to the throne so early.

It is early for Yinzhen to ascend the throne, but it is definitely not too early compared to Shunzhi and Kangxi who ascended the throne at a young age.

The more I think about it, the more likely it is.

Their mother and son fell apart in the last few years, and even Concubine De refused to recognize Yinzhen's qualifications to succeed the throne after he succeeded to the throne, and she also refused to be the queen mother, making it extremely ugly.

"What are you thinking?" Yinzhen's voice interrupted her thoughts.

"...No." Wei Rong didn't know how to tell Yinzhen about this matter.Unless one confesses the secret of one's travel, it is impossible to explain how to know that future.

Seeing that she had something on her mind, Yin Zhen didn't ask any further questions, but just warned, "You don't have to worry about me, it's you instead, don't see her again for now, it's very dangerous."

Wei Rong nodded, now that Yinzhen succeeded to the throne more than 20 years earlier, the situation is actually better than in the previous life.The grown-up princes either died or were abolished, but the eighth princes didn't grow up at all.He was the only one left.Orthodox could not be more orthodox.

Under the political structure of the Qing Dynasty, where imperial power was extremely concentrated, the queen mother was powerless even if she wanted to do anything.

***

Yinzhen sent her all the way to the corridor outside the side hall before letting go.

Wei Rong returned to the table, and the sisters around looked at her with some strange eyes.Wei Rong didn't bother to explain.Anyway, the Queen Mother's people have explained it before, and they got it right when they were teaching in the palace.

In such a delicate atmosphere, the Asahi of the day came to an end.

Apart from Wei Rong and Yu Xin, all the sisters were also called to the main hall to meet the Queen Mother.But it's not alone, it's with several other honorable ladies.

At the time of parting, the Queen Mother's reward was given out.

Yuxin and the other young ladies who came in to have an audience were rewarded generously, each with two pairs of gold hairpins, two pairs of jade bracelets, and a set of 24 inner-made velvet flowers.

The remaining ladies are just ordinary little golden peanuts and silk flowers made inside.

Only Wei Rong's was the only one, there were no such things as gold and jade hairpins, only a box of white tea.

"Miss Six likes this taste, so the queen mother will reward it." The eunuch in charge smiled submissively, which inevitably made everyone look sideways.

After leaving the palace gate, Yu Wan relied on getting acquainted with Wei Rong, so she couldn't wait to inquire: "The Queen Mother really treats Sixth Sister differently."

"It's nothing, it's just that when I was studying in the palace, I used to plant flowers to pass the time. I happened to meet the Queen Mother and talked a few times."

Yu Wan had no doubts, and asked enthusiastically, "I heard that the emperor has also come to celebrate the queen mother's birthday, can the sixth sister see you?"

"Before we left, we met each other." Wei Rong said simply.In terms of process, she was telling the truth.

Yu Xin, who was walking in front, also smiled and said, "I saw it too. The emperor toasted the queen mother, and said a few words to the grandmother, praising the dedication of the wives in preparing the birthday gift for the queen mother."

Yu Zhen praised: "The emperor came to the Queen Mother's side just after he was busy with government affairs. He is really kind, kind and filial. The Queen Mother must be very happy."

Wei Rong: ...