Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

The emperor's imperial decree quickly spread throughout the six palaces, saying that because the noble lady was pregnant, she was promoted to be the concubine of Jia;

But regarding Concubine Gao's whereabouts, there was no decree for a long time.Later, when I went to pay my respects to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, Fujia's words revealed a faint meaning, and it turned out that the empress dowager and the emperor had different opinions.The empress dowager felt sorry for the emperor's grandson, but the emperor thought that the previous dynasty still relied heavily on Gao Bin. No matter how sinful Concubine Gao was, it was not good to be too guilty.

What's more, Ruyi's word really came true.For the sake of Amaguiduo and his brothers, Ah Ruo really took all the blame on himself.She only said that she was dissatisfied with concubine Xian's oppression, that's why she murdered the emperor's heir and blamed others.The bag of cinnabar was because Concubine Gao happened to be on her body when she was drawn to her, so it smelled like honey.Although Shuangxi acknowledged the matter of Jingyang Palace, they only said that it was to move the nobleman to Xianfu Palace, so as to invite favor for Concubine Gao, and did not hurt the emperor's heir.

After these two people finished speaking, they were drugged with dumb drugs by the emperor, and then they were sent to Ruyi for disposal.It was a noon in mid-April, followed by the emperor's oral order: The noble concubine Gao bought the maids with bad intentions, and even drove snakes to disturb the pregnant concubines to invite favors, and descended to be a nobleman.

In Yikun Palace, Li Yu escorted Shuangxi and A Ruo back to the Punishment Department, where they were punished as cats as in the book.Ruyi picked up a little peppermint paste in the enamel jar with her armor and sniffed it lightly, then handed the jar to Qiao Xin, only watching Hailan and Concubine Mei not speak.Sing Xin took it over, took the mint cream and rubbed her temples little by little.

Concubine Mei pondered over the words of the Holy One, lowered her eyelids, hiding the sadness in her eyes, and said softly: "It's the first time I heard that a concubine was deposed for a crime and was given a title. How fresh."

Hailan nodded slightly, sighed and said: "My sister reminded me earlier, but I really have to get such a result, I am still disappointed."

"Demotion to nobleman is due to the only two remaining crimes that can fall on her head. Rewarding her with a title is a way to appease her father." Ruyi caressed the lotus bracelet on her wrist and said leisurely, "Mei Concubine, if I were you, I would only be glad that Gao Bin is not Nian Gengyao from the previous dynasty. Otherwise, even if all the crimes fall on her, it is not necessary to take her life."

Concubine Mei gave a soft "hmm", stood up and walked under the long window, the crimson skirt on her body flashed, and her ripples were as bright as clouds.In the blazing light and shadow, her voice sounded so cold that it was almost bloody: "Gao Bin is just a courtier who is reused by the emperor. What about the one who hides behind the scenes? She is the daughter of a nobleman in North Korea. Xiangguan raises a baby. With the emperor by his side, this baby will definitely be fine. After losing my two children and that of Concubine Yi, no matter whether her baby is a boy or a girl, there is no doubt that mothers are more expensive than children. .When the time comes, how should I..."

"Already know who the enemy is, so don't be in a hurry." Ruyi said solemnly, "The heights get heavier when you fall. If you are smart enough, you should take advantage of the emperor's guilt at this time and stick to your favor. It is useless to rush to equalize the love in the harem." Yes, the most important thing is to keep your life and learn to gain a foothold."

Concubine Mei turned her head to look at her, "Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty the Imperial Concubine." She immediately bowed her knees, saluted hastily and said goodbye.

After she walked away, Hai Lanfang showed a little puzzled, and asked, "Sister knows that she belongs to the Queen Mother, why bother to tell her to fight for favor?"

"We know she belongs to the Empress Dowager, doesn't the Emperor know?" Ruyi and Yi smiled, as if there was a glimmer of light on the bottom of the sea, "No matter what, she will never have children again in this life, so she might as well sell the Empress Dowager's favor." The queen mother values ​​the balance of the harem most, and will not let our family dominate. After helping Concubine Mei, she can also be used to deal with that one in the Zhenxiang Pavilion in the future—that one is the chief culprit who killed her child. "

Hailan's eyebrows twitched, thoughtful: "But Concubine Mei and her elder sister had a relationship before, so I'm afraid she won't be willing to use it for us."

Ruyi smiled noncommittally, "It has nothing to do with Meimei going to avenge her. The reason why I didn't try to win her over was to let her understand that she and I are purely interested in the relationship, and we don't talk about false feelings." False. Concubine Mei knows that I am prepared for her, so she dare not act lightly."

Hailan thought for a moment, and suddenly her heart became clear: "I understand what my sister said."

"You really need to understand." Ruyi sighed softly, "What I said to Concubine Mei just now was also for you. Hai Lan, have you ever thought that if I were really framed that day, would you How should I deal with myself?"

Hailan looked up at her, with slight puzzlement and hesitation in her eyes.Ruyi held her hand, her voice was steady without any hesitation: "Hailan, I was pregnant with Yongjin before, and you were still willing to listen to my words to fight for favor. Now you have seen it too, the queen, the concubine, and now Huigui , They will never let us go for a moment. I want you to be a happy concubine who can take care of herself, not just an ordinary concubine following me."

Hailan nodded vigorously, her voice firm as a rock: "Sister, I understand. In the past, we just endured blindly. Now, it's time for us to fight back fiercely."

Concubine Gao Gui became a wise person once she was down and out, so many people were waiting to see the joke.She has always had a strong temperament, and after several failed requests to see the emperor, she lingered on the sick bed.Even so, when the emperor found out, he only told her to rest and not allow others to disturb her, and ordered the imperial physician to take a look.For several months, everyone in the palace lived their own lives, and no one cared about the affairs of Xianfu Palace anymore.

When the autumn wind gradually picked up, the queen would have no time to take care of Mrs. Hui.Since Concubine Jia was pregnant and could not be favored, Concubines Ruyi, Hailan and Concubine Mei served the most in the palace.Even though the concubine is precious and rewarded with honor and favor, the emperor cannot be made to be a vegetarian every day, right?At most, it's just pretending to have a headache when other people are sleeping, and it's just uncomfortable.

If you can't compete for favor, then you can only fight for the child.Ever since the second elder brother entered the Shang's study, the queen hoped that her son would become a dragon, and asked about her homework day and night, pressing very hard, in order to stand out in front of the emperor.How much energy does a small child have, and his body is weak, and he has been sick intermittently.In the spring, the queen hugged the second elder brother by her side for a while, and immediately sent her back to the elder brother's place. However, as long as the weather changed a little bit, the wind and cold would keep breaking out, which made people worry.

This layer of autumn cool down, Yong Lian became weak again, the wind and cold turned into lung fever, the empress put all her attention on the child, even more careless about meeting Ruyi and others.

So when it came to the Double Ninth Festival night banquet, Hailan, like Ruyi, became the emperor's favorite woman, and because she was extraordinarily thoughtful and ingenious in the Longevity Ruyi quilt that the emperor gave to the empress dowager, she also won a lot of praise from the empress dowager .In addition, Concubine Mei also relied on the emperor's mercy to skyrocket, and was greatly favored—although, it was only for the Empress Dowager to see.

At the end of September, the weather gradually cools down.In the warm pavilion of Yikun Palace, the charcoal basin was warmed up early, and the windows were opened every once in a while to prevent Yongjin from feeling stuffy.He is more than two years old, he can speak and recognize people, and he can walk, run and jump steadily. Every day, Ruyi and Hailan will spend half an hour reading to him some stories from books such as the Three Character Classic and the Thousand Character Classic.After Yonghuang finishes the homework assigned by his master after school, he will also tirelessly teach Yongjin how to write and draw, so as to cultivate his interest in learning.This time is the quietest time in Yikun Palace, only the sound of Yonghuang's reading and Yongjin's babbling are heard, occasionally mixed with the crackling sound of Ruyi and Hailan's needle and thread piercing through the fabric.

The best Hangzhou silk and satin are piled up there one by one, with a complete range of colors and patterns.Hailan was wearing a brand-new magnolia purple embroidered silver aster flower palace gown, with jasper beads of the same color on her hair, and the pearls were hanging down, like a vein of green orchid leaves.With swift fingers, she outlined delicate lines of longevity on the quilt.

"When you went to Zhongcui Palace that day, you said everything you had to say. About two days after tomorrow, what elder brother said will reach the pure concubine's ears." Ruyi smiled peacefully, stretched out her hand and caressed Qingci's ears casually A few sprigs of reed flowers in a vase.

Hailan said without raising her head: "That's why I hurried to the ground. When the first pure concubine went to visit the third elder brother, I had time to bring our hearts over."

"Huigui said he was sick, but he hasn't grounded his feet yet. When this matter comes to an end, it's time for those of us in Xianfu Palace to contribute." Ruyi flicked it lightly, and the reed flowers scattered freely Kailai said, "For a while, the emperor won't deal with Huigui, so the empress can only do it. Speaking of which, the empress is not as good as the concubine Jia. She has come to this day, probably because her dowry maid Su Lian is behind the scenes. We cannot take it lightly."

The Fushou pillow was embroidered, and the Chuxiu Palace happened to welcome a pure concubine.Ruyi didn't know what Hailan had said to Concubine Chun, but when Yizheng came back and said that Concubine Chun had brought the pillow with her when she left Chuxiu Palace, she was relieved.In the next few days, the imperial physician continued to take heavy medicine and took turns to accompany him carefully. The second elder brother's condition improved slightly.

Concubine Chun is worried, but Ruyi says there is no need to worry.The knife is already hanging over the head, not in a day or two.

The emperor stayed in the Yikun Palace that night, after the lingering body, only the strength of being dependent on each other remained.The cloud brocade tents are fringed with colorful tassels, sporadically embroidered with auspicious patterns of dark red and silver threads, winding quietly on the ground, and even the bright red candles outside the tent can only reflect a little reddish and hazy light.

The emperor closed his eyes wearily and comfortably, and took a light breath: "Ruyi, I always feel that you have a unique fragrance even in the pillowcase, and you can't find it anywhere else."

Ruyi curled her black and blue silk into a gentle and graceful arc between the emperor's arms, and said with a light smile, "Where did the emperor find it? The queen? Or the concubine? The sisters in the harem each have their own advantages, so how can you find them easily?" .”

The emperor sighed silently: "The queen is devoted to Yong Lian, and she is restless day and night. Because of this, I haven't stayed with the queen for a long time."

Ruyi frowned and said, "Didn't the Empress always beg the emperor to move the second elder brother to the Changchun Palace for treatment? The emperor might as well agree, it will be more convenient if you do it twice."

The emperor was a little embarrassed: "The empress begged me so much. I thought that although Yong Lian's illness was better, he would catch a cold easily while moving, and the imperial doctor thought it was inappropriate, so I just let it go. Besides, the empress has such a strong temper. Yong Lian was raised in the Changchun Palace, and when his illness improved a little, the empress urged him to read and write, a good child, but he was forced to be like that." The emperor couldn't help feeling a little emotional when talking about the princes: "My four sons , the second elder brother is too strict in discipline, and the third elder brother is too indulgent. Only Yong Huang and Yong Jin are by your side for education. But stronger than the Queen."

Ruyi lay on the emperor's arm, she was not used to the sticky flesh and sweat, she moved quietly, but her lips were still smiling like a flower, like a little daughter coquettishly: "How can a concubine compare to the queen?" What about the empress? The empress's mother is the mother of all the subjects in the world, and the concubines are just imitating how their mother taught their brothers when they were young. The second elder brother is smart, which is beyond the reach of Yong Huang and Yong Jin."

The emperor sighed silently: "Yong Lian is indeed intelligent, but the empress..." He stopped subconsciously, took a deep breath, and smiled lightly: "It smells so good. It seems to be on you, it seems to be in the curtain again, after all What is the aroma?"

Ruyi's heart trembled slightly, as if she was being gently scratched by someone's little finger, she faintly understood.The emperor is not stupid, so it can be seen that the queen's painstaking efforts to force Yong Lian to study are just for the crown prince's position.Although the emperor also favored Yonglian, the meaning of the crown prince was different whether he gave it up himself or was taken away by others.

She smiled sweetly, pressed the soft pillow under the emperor's neck, and said softly: "It's just like the so-called tea leaves are fragrant after sleep. This is the tea collected just after spring, crushed together with calamus leaves The flower pillow made of rolled silk floss, the fragrance is light but long-lasting, so that the quilt and even the bed curtain are filled with the scent of tea, people will be soaked in flower fragrance in their sleep, and even the concubines in their dreams They all dreamed that they were transformed into butterflies among the flowers."

The emperor scratched her nose, and said: "The embroidered quilt is fragrant and fragrant in the pillow, and the pillow is very fragrant tonight. You are so delicate in your thoughts, you are clearly an old person, but you always make me feel like a new love, full of surprises and strangeness, It's like you're not the same as you used to be."

Such an intimate behavior made Ruyi inevitably recall some old things.She twisted a strand of black hair, smiled foolishly, and said faintly: "I hope Xin Huan will become an old man again, and be forgotten by the emperor."

"It's been a long time, and it's also an old love. How can I forget it." The emperor smiled and hugged her, leaning his face on the rose-colored soft pillow, and his voice was deep and tired: "Among the concubines, the concubine only thinks about giving birth to the prince." She doesn't like the princess; Huigui made a big mistake, and I don't want to see her again; the pure concubine only thinks about the child and seldom thinks about me; the queen, her thoughts are all on Yonglian. I can only see When it comes to you, I feel a little more relaxed. Because, although you also have Yonghuang and Yongjin, you always put me at the forefront. Only in front of you, I feel that I am the husband of a concubine, not just an emperor... ..."

When it came to the last few sentences, the emperor was already vague.Ruyi reached out and stroked his arm, trying to get used to leaning on him, but still felt unfamiliar and hesitated.The emperor said that only in front of her did he feel that he was the concubine's husband and not the emperor, but why didn't Ruyi in the book regard him as her husband?In the end, he had had enough of being a husband, and came to reprimand Ruyi for failing to respect him as an emperor.

An emperor's love, a man's love, is never reliable.The emperor's love is too cheap, but he still thinks that such a cheap love is the grace of Yulu Jun, which is enough to make his women feel grateful. Just thinking about it makes her feel disgusting.

This night's dreams were long and trivial. She tossed and turned and dreamed about many things from her previous life. When she woke up, the sky was still dark.She quietly got up and put on her coat, wanting to drink a cup of tea to relieve the thirst caused by excessive fatigue before going to bed last night.The red candle in front of the bed was flickering with twilight, and the candle's tears were pouring down, filling the copper flower candlestick, really like tears stained with a woman's rouge.

While he was concentrating, suddenly there was a violent cry.Ruyi evoked a cruel smile knowingly, that cry seemed to tear apart the tranquility of the Forbidden City in the dead of night, and more tragic cries came from afar.

The emperor woke up a little confused and asked her, "What's the sound?"

Ruyi shook her head, and heard Li Yu knocking on the door hastily outside.She put on her cloak and opened the palace door. Li Yu's feet softened, and she almost crawled up to the emperor, crying, "Your majesty, your majesty...something has happened..."

The emperor sat up alertly: "What's the matter with the crying outside?"

Li Yufu wailed on the ground, "It's my brother's place...it's my brother's place..."

The emperor stood up in fear, and after a pause, he subconsciously rushed to the window, opened the window and looked in the direction of elder brother.A cold wind pierced through the window, and the emperor shivered unconsciously.Ruyi hurriedly hugged the cloak and put it on for him: "Your Majesty, take care, don't catch the cold."

The emperor shook his shoulders as if crying, and his voice was full of doubts and lack of confidence: "Could it be... something happened to the third elder brother? Li Yu, it's the third elder brother, right?"

Li Yu knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly: "Your majesty, your condolences. It's the second elder brother, the second elder brother is dead."

The emperor turned his face in disbelief, stumbled step by step, sat down on the edge of the bed almost exhausted, and murmured, "How could it be the second elder brother? How could it be?" The beast looked up to the sky and said: "Yong Lian is my son, my son! I am the son of heaven, and heaven will not take my son away! He is only nine years old, and he will inherit my descendant in the future. He..." The emperor was choked by the choking in his throat, gasping for breath and unable to speak.

Ruyi hurriedly poured water and handed it to the emperor's lips, stroking his back for him.She listened intently to the grief in the cry, listened to the emperor's roar and Li Yu's persuasion, and accompanied the emperor with a mournful look on her face, and even the tears in her eyes fell with her heart .

But only she knows, only she knows.At that moment, secret joy and gratification spread to her heart at the same time, tightly grasping her trembling soul.

This is the emperor, this is a father and a husband. When the bad news came, she was only glad that she was not a pure concubine.Otherwise, how could she be chilled to see the emperor subconsciously expecting that the accident would be his other son for the sake of his son's well-being?No matter what the third elder brother is, it is also his blood!The people in the harem are cold, but it started with the emperor!