Chapter 16 The Grand Wedding
Jialuo's heart pounded like a drum, and for a moment she was so frightened that her legs went weak.
"host…"
Just as Agate behind her uttered a single word, Jialuo abruptly pulled her back, preventing her from moving.
No one is allowed to go out.
"Does it mean I have to come and invite you in person?"
The boy's voice sounded so cold in the desolate night.
Meanwhile, the eunuch security guard who had been standing quietly behind the boy walked over.
Upon hearing this, Jialuo closed her eyes, preparing to step out and decisively face the emperor's wrath, when suddenly a rather large black cat rushed out from opposite her and ran towards the opposite intersection.
The eunuch suddenly stopped in his tracks.
The entire courtyard fell silent. Jialuo dared not look up, her gaze fixed on a small, protruding stone in front of her.
Let's go.
The boy's voice regained its former gentleness.
Then came the sound of footsteps, but Jialuo dared not move. It wasn't until half an hour later that she got up and helped Emerald up. Her legs were numb and weak.
At this point, it was clearly no longer the right time to deliver the medicinal food.
She strolled around the Imperial Garden with two maids, and then, under the watchful eyes of many palace maids and eunuchs, twisted her ankle.
Therefore, the original procedure of paying respects to the Empress Dowager in the early morning was omitted.
Jialuo lay on the bed, feeling that everything red in front of her was so dazzling.
Meanwhile, Fulin, who had gone alone to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, sat on the other side of the couch, speechless with his mother.
He raised his eyes and glanced at his mother, whose face he had seen since he could remember.
Her expression was always so calm, and her eyes were always full of thought.
Huang E'niang and he never had a normal mother-son relationship.
They all say that the Empress Dowager devoted a great deal of effort to supporting him to become emperor and to raising him with all her heart.
“Empress Mother, I truly do not like that Borjigit clan.”
Fu Lin's eyes, which were remarkably similar to those of the woman before him, narrowed slightly.
The extremely thin eyelids are lifted up, forming a distinct arc from the inner corner of the eye to the outer corner.
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang looked at her son.
Fu Lin was very handsome, with a refined and elegant face, and long, narrow eyes as dark as the finest ink in the world.
What Fulin was referring to was whether he liked or disliked Jialuo.
He probably meant that he didn't like her controlling him.
He also disliked Dorgon; Fulin disliked everything Dorgon did.
The beads in her hands clinked gently and rhythmically.
"Since you don't like her, it just so happens that Jialuo has now entered the inner palace, and the position of concubine is vacant. If Your Majesty has a woman you like, you can certainly bring her into the palace."
"Only by producing offspring for the royal family can one be considered legitimate."
The woman's voice was slow and gentle, as if the wind were blowing and the clouds were floating.
It's as if they're talking about something very simple and easy.
Fulin silently looked at the woman before him and said with a strong sense of sarcasm, "Empress Mother seems to really like Borjigit."
He was so fond of Jialuo that he immediately wanted to expand his harem after making her empress.
And this happened on the night of the Emperor's wedding, when he went to the Qianqing Palace.
Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang smiled and shook her head, then said to Emperor Fulin, "Your Majesty, Jialuo is only eleven years old, but she already understands the responsibilities of a Borjigit woman."
"As for the others,"
She said meaningfully, "Even Galo can't have everything go her way."
For women in the imperial harem, love was a luxury.
However, no matter what, it was too callous of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to suggest that the emperor take concubines at this time.
"Since the Empress Dowager has granted such permission, how can I refuse?"
Fu Lin readily agreed.
However, this put the newly appointed empress in a very awkward situation.
………
Jialuo was unaware of this terrible news. She was lying on the bed, clutching the blanket in her hand, her brows furrowed as she watched Agate massage her swollen ankle.
"hiss……"
Agate applied a fine ointment to clear blood stasis to her hands, supporting her feet with one hand while vigorously rubbing them with the other.
"Your Majesty, please bear with it. The blood clots inside need to be softened for it to heal quickly."
Jialuo is not a gentle person. When she was learning to shoot arrows on horseback as a child, how could she not get injured?
She nodded and said in a low voice, "Just massage it."
Emerald, standing to the side, looked displeased and muttered, "Your Majesty, back in Khorchin, everyone was afraid you would fall, but now that we've come to the capital, you've already injured yourself on your very first day in the palace!"
"If the prince and the other gentlemen knew, I don't know how heartbroken they would be."
Be careful what you say!
Jialu gently stopped her, then said, "You can't just stay around Abu Eji's brothers like a child, can you?"
Galo's vision went black from the pain. He took a breath and then remembered the dangerous scene from this morning.
By the time she emerged from the wilderness, which was crisscrossed by paths, it was already dawn.
Under the pale light of dawn, countless palace maids and eunuchs walked through the palace.
She was caught in a dilemma.
If we were to exit through the side path now and return to the East Warm Pavilion...
The people inside the East Warm Pavilion are either the Empress Dowager's spies or the Emperor's spies.
By simply calculating the time difference, one could know what had happened to her that prevented her from delivering the medicinal food.
However, if the medicinal food were delivered as originally planned, it would have already gone cold.
This stretch of road will keep the medicinal cuisine warm.
Unless there are delays along the way.
With the Emperor's keen perception, a little investigation would be enough to discover that she was the one spying.
Jialuo had no choice but to twist her ankle.
This way, there's no need to deliver the medicinal food, and it's also a natural way to return to the East Warm Pavilion.
But the more she thought about it, the more unlucky she felt.
Fortunately, her mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager, was her own aunt, which prevented her from being mistreated by both sides.
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