Chapter 095 Chapter 95
[Chapter 95]
The queen's smile did not fade, and she leaned a little further on the pillow, "Let her in."
When Concubine Xian entered the inner hall, her face looked a little bad, and there was a lot of fear hidden in it.
Ruan Yun and Jipin paid their respects to Concubine Xian, but Concubine Xian did not react at all, or perhaps her mind was not on this at all.
"Hello, Queen. Is she feeling better?"
The Queen ordered someone to bring a stool to Concubine Xian, "This palace has an old problem."
Concubine Xian didn't get the answer she wanted, so she continued, "The Second Prince was making a big fuss at that time, and I was busy, so I forgot to send someone to your place. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
After saying this, Concubine Xian stood up respectfully and saluted the Empress again, her hands tightly grasping her skirt, revealing that she was not as calm as she appeared.
The Empress did not support Concubine Xian. The Emperor asked Concubine Xian to come to Fengyi Palace to take care of him. If she supported Concubine Xian, where would the Emperor's face be?
Seeing Concubine Xian standing there after kneeling down to pay respect, the Queen closed her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, do you have a headache? How about I give you a massage?"
The Queen placed her slender fingers on her forehead but said nothing.
At this time, Concubine Xian bit her lower lip, not caring that Ying Chongrong and Concubine Ji were right there. She stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty's headache is an old problem. When I was in Mount Putuo, I learned some massage methods. After I massaged your Majesty, your headache was relieved a lot. Why don't you give it a try?"
Ran Xia raised her hand in the air and looked at the Empress in front of her.
The Queen opened her eyes, raised her hand slightly and shook it, and Ran Xia immediately stood up from the bed and made room for Concubine Xian.
Concubine Xian walked to the couch, took off her own armor and handed it to Yinli behind her, then sat behind the Queen and pressed her fingertips on the Queen's forehead.
For a moment, the Fengyi Palace was extremely quiet.
Ruan Yun and Ji Bin just sat there quietly without saying a word.
After a while, the Queen took the initiative to hold down Concubine Xian's hand, looked at the dark sky outside, and said softly: "Okay, I'm fine now, you can go back."
Concubine Xian shook her sore wrist, not knowing what she was thinking about, which made her inexplicably nervous.
"I will come again tomorrow to pay my respects to Her Majesty the Queen."
The queen nodded, and Ran Xia personally sent Concubine Xian out.
Ruan Yun stood up and said in a sweet voice, "Madam, would you like to have dinner?"
The queen shook her head. "It's fine, it's getting late, you should go back earlier. You haven't recovered yet, don't tire yourself out."
Ruan Yun handed the teacup to the empress and said, "I am not in the way, but it is the empress who is in the way."
The queen laughed at her behavior, and when she saw Ruan Jun's appearance, a gleam of tears flashed in her extremely gentle eyes for no reason.
She patted Ruan Yun's hand and said, "Okay, the kitchen made some pea yellow today, you can take some back."
Ruan Yun stood up to thank the Queen, and the Queen would not miss out on Jipin's share. When Jipin was about to leave, she said softly, "The little princess is young and needs someone to accompany her. You don't have to come tomorrow."
Jipin thought about it and agreed to the Queen's words, "Thank you, Her Majesty."
The Queen waved her hand to signal them both to go down. When Ruan Jun walked out of the inner hall, she couldn't help but look back. She saw the Queen leaning on the pillow, looking weak, with her brows slightly furrowed, and she didn't know what to do.
After leaving Fengyi Palace, Concubine Ji said softly, "Sister, would you like to sit with me first?"
Ruan Yun clapped her hands, "You and I are worried that we won't have a chance to talk. Go back and take care of the little princess."
Jipin thought that the little princess's temperament would not change overnight, so she could only nod and say, "Sister Ying doesn't look well, please don't be too tired."
Ruan Yun bent her lips, and then the two of them stepped onto the ceremonial platform.
On the way back to the palace, Ruan Yun supported her forehead with her hand and leaned against the edge of the ceremonial guard.
Ying Ning told the Empress everything that happened in the harem today, "After the Emperor came out of Fengyi Palace in the afternoon, he went directly to Shoukang Palace. I heard that Shoukang Palace invited the imperial physician not long after, and Empress Xianfei also arrived at Fengyi Palace."
The Empress was in a bad mood after coming out of Shoukang Palace. I'm afraid the Queen Mother said something.
Thinking of the look in the Queen's eyes today, Ruan Jun always felt that what happened today was probably related to her.
Slowly opening his eyes, Ruan Jun asked again: "Is there anything else?"
Ying Ning glanced around and said cautiously, "The Emperor did not turn over the cards today."
It was common for the emperor not to enter the harem, but at this time, it was a little unusual.
The dinner was useless, and Ruan Yun felt uncomfortable and her chest was stuffy.
He looked at the dinner on the table and took a few bites before asking someone to clear it away.
"It's getting colder."
Tingxu was making the bed for the queen. When she heard this, she looked outside and said, "In ten days, we can have more pots. The queen has always loved this. I will talk to the kitchen and ask them to prepare it for the queen every day."
Ruan Yun was wearing an apricot-white nightgown. After she came over, Tingxu helped her to the bed. Ruan Yun touched Tingxu's forehead and said, "You, I think it's you who wants to eat."
Tingxu stuck out the tip of his tongue and said, "It's good enough that the queen knows, why would you tell her?"
Ruan Jun fell asleep with a smile. She was very tired today, but she had no desire to sleep. As she tossed and turned, she thought of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, the mother and son. The relationship between them was not like usual. In fact, the Queen Mother was too cold towards the Emperor.
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Purple Palace
Yan Shiyu finished reading all the files on the case with a cold face, and knocked on the table, his hand just falling on:
"Collaborate with foreign nations and punish all your clans."
Wei Maoyuan carefully watched the emperor's face, and seeing that it was becoming increasingly gloomy, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Ying Chongrong has returned to the palace and is now resting."
Yan Shiyu didn't move at all. Wei Maoyuan really couldn't figure out what the emperor meant.
Just when Wei Maoyuan wanted to speak again, Yan Shiyu said in a clear voice, waved his sleeves and stood up, "Put it away."
Wei Maoyuan hurriedly ordered people to do it, and then hurried to follow the emperor's footsteps.
At this moment, the emperor's words were heard:
"Let Young Master Yu enter the palace and wait for me in Yunling Pavilion."
Wei Maoyuan did not dare to delay, let alone say that the palace gates had been locked, for fear of alarming everyone inside and outside the palace.
If you want to do it more covertly, that's not impossible.
What's more, this matter is extremely difficult. The emperor ordered people to investigate, and the people who went to Qingzhou were only sent out now, but these files had been stored in the Dali Temple earlier.
It was only just now that it was dug out by someone.
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For seven consecutive days, the emperor did not enter the harem.
The concubines began to get restless, but the Empress was ill, and had only shown up for the past few days to pay her respects, before being sent back. All the affairs of the six palaces fell on Concubine De.
Ying Ning placed the lotus seeds that had been dried in late summer in front of Ruan Yun, opened the lid of the pot, put four of them in and boiled them with the tea. The sweet water flowed slowly from the spout of the pot into the cups.
He picked up the round fan, let the tea cool down, and then handed it to the queen:
"Madam, please taste it. Does it taste right?"
Ruan Jun took a sip and breathed a sigh of relief, "This is the taste."
Ying Ning was puzzled and said, "Your Highness wanted to eat these lotus seeds, but she picked too many and couldn't use them all, so I dried them and put them in a jar. Why did Your Highness suddenly want to use the lotus seeds to make tea?"
Ruan Yun picked up a lotus seed and crushed it unconsciously, then said softly: "The heart of the lotus seed is bitter, it won't be so bitter if you remove it."
"Just take the jar with you and follow me to the front."
Ying Ning was surprised, "Your Majesty thinks..."
Ruan Yun glanced at Ying Ning and said, "You told me that Yunling Pavilion is very close to the Queen Mother's bedroom. Standing on the high point of Yunling Pavilion, you can see the entire palace. Here, the relationship between the Emperor and the Queen Mother is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface."
The Empress Dowager was the favorite concubine of the previous emperor. The Concubine Tao who suddenly appeared later was definitely not an ordinary person. The Emperor ascended the throne as Tianlong, but the Empress Dowager never returned to the palace and waited until this moment.
Either the empress dowager's body couldn't bear it, and she was inevitably tired after the long journey. Ruan Yun's almond-shaped eyes were clear, but she felt that the empress dowager seemed to have some resentment towards the emperor, and the emperor was even more so towards the empress dowager.
Yingning understood what the queen meant, and hurriedly took the clay pot and put the lotus seeds in it.
Tingxu was also holding the snacks that had just been prepared by the kitchen, and she was extremely happy and said, "My queen, everything is ready."
Ruan Yun knew what she was thinking, but at this juncture, the empress was ill, and it might be closely related to her. If the emperor came to her palace, it would be too embarrassing.
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Purple Palace
When Xiao Muzi saw that it was Ying Chongrong, the gloom he had been feeling for the past few days seemed to have dissipated a lot, and he was incredibly attentive:
"The Queen is here! Are you here to bring food to the Emperor?"
Ruan Yun felt something was wrong when she heard what he said, and swung her handkerchief and said, "Why? Could it be that you are short of food in front of me? I heard that recently, concubines from various palaces have sent a lot of soups and cakes to me."
Little Muzi touched his greasy face, and said with embarrassment, "No one in the palace can compare to the one in the Empress's palace."
Ying Ning stepped forward and said, "Go, you are such a smooth talker. My queen is here to bring some food to the emperor."
After saying this, the palace maid holding the food box at the back opened the lid and handed it to the person in front of him for inspection.
Little Muzi smiled happily, thinking that with Ying Chongrong's arrival today, the emperor's mood would probably be much better. He always felt a chill on his neck as he endured the emperor's icy gaze every day.
"Your Majesty, please go in directly. Young Master Yu is talking to the Emperor in the front hall right now."
When she first heard the name of Young Prince Yu, Ruan Yun subconsciously wanted to leave.
But she hadn't done anything with Prince Yu, and if she left now, wouldn't it seem like she was feeling guilty?
As usual, Ruan Yun went into the side hall to rest.
She came to the side hall more often, and she had never noticed before that there were so many of her things.
The little daughter's belongings seemed out of place in the solemn and dignified palace, but it was rare that the emperor did not throw the things away in anger.
There was a storybook on the table next to her. Ruan Yun picked it up to have a look, then blushed and stuffed the storybook somewhere else.
Ruan Jun looked around. It was getting colder today, so she went out less often. She actually felt comfortable walking in the inner hall.
Seeing that there was a book on the bookshelf that had not been put away properly, Ruan Yun walked over, took it down, and prepared to put it back.
However, this place was closest to the front hall, and the low voices of the emperor and the young prince inside were transmitted directly into Ruan Yun's ears without any error.
At first, Ruan Yun didn't care about these things and thought they were important matters of state.
But the moment I turned around, I heard a long-lost, familiar yet unfamiliar name.
Li Siyin.
That is her mother's name.
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