The Queen Mother didn't seem to hear what I said, and still stared at the bowl of rice soup. After a while, she slowly said: "You also like to drink this stuff?"

Also?

When I heard this word, my heart moved. When I raised my eyes, I saw the expression and eyes of the Queen Mother, and I immediately understood.

She always looks indifferent on weekdays and treats no one with any extra warmth, but only when she mentions someone will she break her calmness and reveal an aura that is almost full of hatred.

That person is Queen Zhaolie.

I don’t know what happened between the Queen Mother and Queen Zhaolie. She has been fasting for so many years and praying to Buddha for so many years, but she can’t calm down the hatred in her heart. However, maybe this is the endless life in the harem.

The grievances and grudges of each woman in the harem are originally unlucky beauties, but they happen to be enemies with each other, fighting for the man who will never belong to them.

How sad and ridiculous.

The Queen Mother was silent for a while, and then she slowly came back to her senses from the past. She glanced at me, and her indifferent eyes slowly softened.

She stretched out her hand and gently wiped away the tears on my face with her thumb, and said, "Don't be too sad."

"..."

"You are not the only woman in the palace who has suffered this kind of pain."

"..."

"At least you know that your child will reach heaven early and will not have to suffer the hardships of the world. But some people don't know where their child is, or whether they are alive or dead. They hold one heart all their lives until they arrive.

I won’t let go until I die.”

I felt her skinny fingers gently caressing my cheek, and after wiping away the tears, I gradually saw clearly that her pale and silent face revealed an indescribable sadness——

Who is she talking about?

Could it be Queen Zhaolie? The emperor once decreed that the throne should be passed to the eldest son of the emperor, Pei Yuanchen. This eldest son of the emperor is the child of Queen Zhaolie, but he has never appeared in the palace. Could this be what he is talking about?
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But why does she look so sad, as if every word is like a knife cutting through her heart?

I said softly: "Queen Mother..."

Upon hearing my voice, the Queen Mother seemed to wake up suddenly, retracting her hand and looking a little unnatural.

"Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?"

"Aijia, it's okay."

She shook her head, looked at me again, and said, "You should have a good rest. The Aijia will come to see you again. The Aijia will also recite the death mantra day and night in the Buddhist hall, praying that the child will be reborn in a poor family and be happy in the next life."

for a lifetime."

Join a poor family and live a happy life.

This sentence is really ironic!

After saying this, she got up and walked out. I sat on the bedside and watched her thin and old figure slowly disappear into the morning light at the door.

After a while, Grandma Wu walked in again.

Her eyes were a little red, and she was holding a box of soothing incense in her hand. She said that the Queen Mother had told me to light it every day so that I could sleep more peacefully at night.

With that soothing fragrance, I really sleep better at night. I often sleep until dawn without even dreaming. But when I wake up in the morning, Shuixiu and others will always see some residual residue on the corners of my lips.

There are blood stains. I'm afraid I coughed up blood again at night.

Shuixiu and the others were all very nervous. They were only worried about the root causes of my coughing up blood every night, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, the cold symptoms in my body were much better.

Winter is slowly coming to an end.

Although my body was getting better, the imperial doctor still asked me to stay in the house to rest. It was still cold outside, and Shuixiu and the others kept persuading me to lie in bed and do everything for me.

In fact, I know that there is another reason why they don't let me go out.

Although Shuixiu and the others had been hiding it from me, every time she came back from going out, she could always faintly hear her muttering curses with Xiaoyu in the yard. I didn't care at all, until this evening, I just sat down

I took a sip of the soup at the table and saw a familiar figure walking in from the corner of my eye.

When I looked up, it was Yuwen.

Yuwen walked in proudly and gave me a casual look: "I've met Yue Cairen."

I frowned slightly and said nothing. Shuixiu usually looked down on her the most, so she immediately went up to her and said stiffly: "What are you doing here?"

"This slave is here to deliver something." Yuwen glanced at me, put the box in her hand on the table, and said loudly: "This is what we Jieyu rewarded Yue Cairen."

Jieyu?

When I heard this, I immediately realized—Xu Youling has been promoted to Jieyu.

Speaking of which, she was already about to give birth, and it was already too late for her promotion. I only responded lightly, and then I saw Yuwen snorted coldly, turned around and walked out.

As soon as she went out, Shui Xiu ran over, picked up the things on the table and smashed them on the ground: "What the hell!"

It didn't matter to her at this moment, Nanny Wu immediately started scolding: "What are you doing! The talented person is still here, it's your turn to lose your temper!"

Shuixiu was so angry that her eyes were red, and she turned to look at me: "Talent!"

I wasn't angry, it was just that she startled me just now, and I waved my hand lightly: "I'm tired."

Aunt Wu, who had been standing nearby, sighed and came over, saying softly: "Since you are tired, you should go to bed early." She made my bed and helped me sleep, and lit some soothing incense.

, then turned around and pulled Shui Xiu and the others out. Shui Xiu struggled twice, with an unconvinced look on her face, but was still dragged out by Granny Wu with a fierce look on her face.

All the candles in the room were extinguished, leaving only a small candle beside the bed, swaying in the dark night.

The candlelight was so weak that it seemed to be extinguished at any time. I opened my empty eyes wide and looked at the candlelight, trying to see when it would go out. But after a while, my eyelids became heavy and I fell asleep unconsciously.<

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When I woke up the next morning, there was a joke from Jingren Palace.

I heard that a few mice escaped from Yuwen's house for some reason. She was so frightened that she ran out without even putting on her clothes. She also knocked down the nun who was serving the queen, causing a great fuss and being beaten.

Xu Jieyu scolded her and knelt in the yard, and she still hasn't gotten up until now.

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This word came from the little eunuch who was working in the yard. Shuixiu and Xiaoyu came in to help me get up, and then told me the exact words, as if they were celebrating a festival.

I glanced at them and shook my head lightly.

After all, it’s the nature of a child’s mind.

Thinking back to when I was this age, I didn’t have such a temperament, so I preferred to see them laughing happily and making wild noises, although sometimes Grandma Wu always said that I spoiled them to the point of being lawless.

After I got up and tidied the bed, Nanny Wu went down to order the medicinal food. Shuixiu was still smiling, but when she saw the corners of my mouth, she pouted again, wiped the corners of my mouth with a wet towel, and said

: "Cairen, why are you still coughing up blood? Do those imperial doctors' medicines work? Xiaoyu is the same. She doesn't even know that you are coughing like this. You are really a bastard."

I looked down and saw another patch of pink on the snow-white towel.

She wiped it for me carefully, and suddenly she seemed to remember something, lowered her head and said to me: "Talent, I want to tell you something."

"Huh?"

"This morning, it's Yinshi time, and I seem to have seen the emperor come up."

I looked up at her and frowned slightly.

Yinshi, that was when the palace doors opened every morning, and someone would come to collect the toilets in each palace. Only the eunuchs who were doing chores would get up. At that time, the real owners of each palace should still be sleeping. How could she see that?

Pei Yuanhao?

Moreover, shouldn’t Pei Yuanhao be in Jingren Palace last night?

Shui Xiu added: "But the sky was too dark, and the servants couldn't see clearly. There was only the emperor, and he disappeared in a flash."

"..."

I didn't speak, but subconsciously reached out and touched the corners of my lips.

"Cai Ren, you said, Your Majesty, he——"

I shook my head lightly, interrupted her, and asked: "Yinshi, why did you get up?"

"Huh?" She was stunned, her eyes widened, and hesitantly said: "Slave--slave--, I have to get up and go to the toilet."

I glanced at her again, and she lowered her head guiltily.

I looked at her, and then at the dazzling pink on the snow-white towel, and suddenly felt very tired. I felt like I didn’t even want to continue breathing, so I just waved my hand: "Forget it, go ahead if you have nothing to do."
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"Oh." She nodded, and was about to turn around and leave, but seemed a little unwilling to do so. She turned around and said, "Talent, Your Majesty, he——"

"You saw it wrong."

She looked at my indifferent expression and couldn't say anything else, so she could only turn around and leave.

I have been sitting on the bedside, looking silently at the incense burner at the other end of the room. The soothing incense inside has been burned out, leaving only a curl of light smoke struggling to rise from it, which was immediately blown away by a breeze.

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For the people in Fangcaotang, the day passes quickly, without anything happening, and it becomes another day of confusion.
To be continued...