Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 117

Seeing An Rui's nervous look, Zhao Qingze couldn't help laughing, and waved his hand to signal An Rui not to be polite.

"Just sit down."

Zhao Qingze said something in a gentle voice, which made Anrui couldn't help being startled. For a moment, he really didn't know what to do.

"Ignore him, let's have some snacks!"

Ruyi saw Anrui's discomfort, and quickly comforted Anrui.

But I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, if it was in an ordinary family, the younger sister should be close to the elder brother, and it is true that she is uncomfortable seeing her sister-in-law, but in this royal family, it is the other way around.

Thinking of this, Ruyi felt a little sorry for Anrui. She reached out to grab a piece of snack and put it on Anrui's plate, then smiled and said, "Let's eat quickly!"

An Rui glanced at Zhao Qingze anxiously, and then carefully took a bite of the dessert.

When Ruyi was about to pick up a bowl to drink porridge, suddenly, Aman, who was held in Zhao Qingze's arms, suddenly yelled.

Ruyi turned her head to look, but saw Aman's little hand stretched towards her, as if she also wanted to eat something on the table.

"Didn't you feed Aman and the others when you picked them up?"

Ruyi looked at Aman and asked, she remembered that when the nanny took the child away at noon, she told her to feed the child early in the afternoon.

"It's over." Zhao Qingze pointed at Aman's mouth with a finger, and said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's because you are hungry after eating!"

"Then don't feed it, children eat without restraint. It will be bad if they are full."

Ruyi shook her head with a smile, and signaled Zhao Qingze to carry Aman to the side. Don't let Aman see him eating, so Zhao Qingze put Aman and Tianyou on the couch. After a while, Aman started to fuss again, pointing his little finger outside, yelling "Go! Go!"

Zhao Qingze and Ruyi ignored him, but Aman shouted angrily: "Father, go! Liang, go!"

The little guy is small, but his voice is powerful.

With such a fuss, Ruyi can't eat well, so she can only walk up to Aman and see what's going on with him!
Zhao Qingze knew his son well, and when he saw Ruyi coming, he smiled and said, "I guess I want to go out to play, and I didn't take him out of the house all day today."

"This child..."

Ruyi couldn't help but shook her head, and looked at Tianyou who was lying quietly beside her. The two children's personalities were simply two extremes.

"Cool, let's go!"

When Ruyi first arrived, Aman looked at her for a long time before she recognized her mother, but she quickly reached out to hug her.

Zhao Qingze also smiled when he saw it: "The little guy still recognizes your mother. When I first came in, I was taken aback when I saw your outfit."

"Look at what you said, maybe you can't recognize it!" Ruyi smiled, her face with makeup looked extremely beautiful.

Zhao Qingze smiled faintly, and was about to say something when the little troublemaker, Aman, started shouting again.I had no choice but to change the words that came to my lips: "That's why, let's take him out for a walk!"

"Forget it, I'm like this today, but I can't walk anymore!"

Ruyi waved her hands again and again, pushed Zhao Qingze and said with a smile: "You take him out for a walk, An Rui and I will have some snacks first."

"Lazy again!"

Zhao Qingze pinched Ruyi's nose, but he didn't object. He reached out to hug Aman and walked out slowly.

Ruyi watched the father and son walk out of the bedroom with a smile, and when she turned around and sat back at the table, she saw An Rui staring blankly at the door.She couldn't help but asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

"nothing!"

An Rui came back to his senses, smiled, but said, "I just feel that Brother Huang is a little different from what I remembered. It seems that he is not a high-ranking emperor anymore."

Ruyi smiled, but did not speak.

Seeing this, An Rui didn't say anything more, but she couldn't help being a little dazed in her heart. She always thought that the relationship between her and the son-in-law was already the way for ordinary couples to get along.Before she got married, she thought about not putting on airs of a princess, but now, compared with the most honorable couple in the world, it seems that she and her son-in-law are still not so good.

After Ruyi and Anrui finished their snacks, Zhao Qingze came back with Aman in his arms, and the sky had already darkened. Ruyi and Anrui simply put on their makeup, and went to the palace banquet together with Zhao Qingze.

This time, Ruyi did not ride with Zhao Qingze, but let Anrui ride with her in her own car, and the two children were taken by the nanny.

The car stopped at the place of the palace banquet, which was in the same place as the palace where the Aman's hundred-day banquet was held in reality. The form used was also that the family members were at the back and the officials were at the front.

However, Zhao Qingze personally sent Ruyi to the back. At this time, the inside was already full of people. After hearing the announcement from the servants, it might as well be that Zhao Qingze would come to the back, and they all stood up and saluted quickly.

Zhao Qingze dismissed the ceremony with a light smile, sent Ruyi and Anrui to the front seat, and summoned Mrs. Cao, her daughter-in-law and the two old ladies from the Ninghou Mansion to accompany Ruyi, and then left in peace .

Mrs. Cao's stomach is already very big, when she followed Mrs. Cao to Ruyi's side and sat down, Ruyi couldn't help but look at her a few times, but warned her carefully.

Although Mrs. Cao has some inconvenience in her movements, she has a good look on her face, and she must be living a good life.When Ruyi turned her head to look at Shaoyao, she found that the smile on her face was nothing else, so she was relieved.

Concubine Xian sat next to Ruyi, and as soon as Ruyi sat down, she got up and arranged for the servants to bring things to Ruyi, which made her busy. Ruyi saw that her clothes were not simpler than hers, but felt tired Panicked, he quickly greeted her and sat down.

Concubine Xian took a look at Ruyi's clothes, then lowered her head, said with a faint smile, "Thank you, Empress, for your concern, my concubine is not tired."

Just as he was talking, there was another announcement from outside the door.

This sound made Ruyi stand up quickly, she was too late.

Ruyi asked Shaoyao to help her out of the seat, and walked to the middle, only to see the Empress Dowager walked in from the outside supported by Concubine Li.

Both the Empress Dowager and Concubine Li were dressed very luxuriously, when they walked in, they could only feel the sound of rings clanging and jade touching, but it was very pleasant.

Ruyi squatted down and led the crowd to meet the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager smiled and excused herself. When her eyes fell on the clothes on Ruyi's body, the expression on her face froze slightly, but she soon smiled, as if there was nothing unusual about it.

Ruyi was supported by Shaoyao and Fangcao, and watched the queen mother sit on the top, when she was about to take her seat, she heard the queen mother suddenly smiled and said: "You girl, why are you so unruly?"

Ruyi raised her head, her face was a little puzzled, but she saw the Queen Mother smiling at her, stretched out her hand to pull Concubine Li beside her, and said with a smile: "The imperial concubine don't care about concubine Li, this girl is spoiled by me and has no rules. , I even forgot to say hello to you."

Concubine Li, who was standing beside the queen mother, also said with a coquettish smile: "It's all the concubine's fault. The concubine only cared about the empress dowager, but forgot to pay her respects to the imperial concubine. Don't care about the imperial concubine with the concubine."

Ruyi looked at Concubine Li, although she said she was embarrassed, but she didn't have the slightest intention to salute her, and she also knew that the Empress Dowager pointed out that Concubine Li didn't salute, just to save her face.

She smiled faintly, and said: "Concubine Li is naturally serving the Empress Dowager most important, it doesn't matter if she forgets to salute me, but Concubine Li is not so forgetful, next time you see the emperor, just don't forget."

Concubine Li continued to smile with no pain on her face, and said: "The imperial concubine really likes to joke, how can I forget to salute the emperor!"

"Yes, Concubine Li will not forget to salute the emperor, it seems that Concubine Li's memory is different from person to person."

Ruyi originally didn't want to care about the ceremony, but Li Fei's words got to this point, but she couldn't care less, otherwise she really doesn't have much majesty as an imperial concubine.

"Okay, this is Concubine Li's fault. Concubine Li will make up for the imperial concubine and then apologize." The smile on the queen mother's face fell slightly, she looked at Ruyi, and said softly: "This is a small matter, the empress dowager The imperial concubine doesn't care about it either."

"Yes."

Ruyi bowed slightly, and responded obediently.

She didn't intend that the queen mother would have any kind words for her, but now she was only being talked about, which was much better than what she had originally imagined. However, the palace banquet has not started yet, so what the queen mother said is probably just an appetizer.

Ruyi sat in her seat, and talked with Mrs. Cao and the two old ladies in Ninghou's mansion with a normal expression.The two old ladies in Ninghou Mansion, Ruyi, don't know each other very well, but with An Rui in there, the atmosphere is not awkward at all.

Although Ruyi was talking about the meaning of the conversation, she still focused a lot on the queen mother.

Aman and Tianyou Ruyi were not worried, the two children fell asleep when they came, and now they are being hugged by the nanny, and Zhao Qingze also sent someone to protect them.It saves Ruyi a lot of things.

Concubine Li's seat was arranged on the opposite side of Ruyi, on the right hand side of the queen mother, but the seat was slightly in front of the queen mother, and the two seemed very close to the queen mother. After talking for a while, the two of them got together. Suddenly, the Queen Mother sat up straight and attracted a young woman.

The young woman was holding a baby slightly bigger than Tianyou, the Empress Dowager's face seemed a little excited, when she saw the young woman approaching, she couldn't help stretching out her hand, and couldn't wait to hug the baby in the young woman's hands.

"Is that the former Princess Rong, the current concubine in Prince Shen's mansion?"

Mrs. Cao explained softly in Ruyi's ear.Ruyi also somewhat understood the Queen Mother's attitude. She had heard that the Queen Mother preferred her youngest son, Prince Rong, and she would naturally love Prince Rong's heirs more.

However, there was a little doubt on Ruyi's face.

She seemed to have only heard that the former Princess Rong clearly only gave birth to one daughter, so why did she suddenly have a son who became Prince Shen.And Chunlan...

At this moment, Ruyi remembered Chunlan, she seemed to remember that Chunlan was pregnant earlier than herself, and the child should be born by now.

Ruyi had too many doubts in her heart, and she didn't hold back, she asked Mrs. Cao strangely: "Is this Prince Shen the child of the former Prince Rong, was it born by the former Prince Rong?"

"It is the heir of the former Prince Rong, but not the son of the former Prince Rong. It seems that he was born of a concubine who was imprisoned together, but the concubine did not survive after giving birth. Prince Shen, let the former Princess Rong take the little Princess to live outside the palace."

Mrs. Cao thought that Ruyi was just curious, so she told Ruyi everything.When Ruyi was pregnant, the news spread in Beijing, and Mrs. Cao also knew about it, but it sounds unknown, so naturally she wouldn't tell Ruyi.Now there is no taboo.

However, she didn't expect that Ruyi's hands trembled as soon as she said her words.

From Mrs. Cao's information, it is actually not difficult to deduce that this child should have been born by Chunlan, but Chunlan died of dystocia.

She looked at the child in the arms of the queen mother with a little absentmindedness, but Chunlan's voice and appearance appeared in her mind.It has been too long, and Ruyi suddenly remembered that when she was in the summer palace, she once dreamed of Chunlan.

She can't remember the dream clearly, but now her mind is full of the days when she was with Chunlan when she was a palace maid.

The news was too sudden, such a young life disappeared into this deep palace again.

She didn't know what it was like.

At this moment, Ruyi was still thinking about Chunlan, but the Empress Dowager turned her attention to Ruyi.

Ruyi was secretly pushed by Shao Yao in time, but she didn't lose her composure.

"People in the harem, only the imperial concubine has given birth to a child, and only the imperial concubine can take care of the child. Come and hug this nephew!"

Ruyi put down the wine glass in her hand, but she was a little puzzled by what the Queen Mother meant.

What is the purpose of letting her hold this child.In her heart, Ruyi was willing and wanted to hold this child, after all, he was Chunlan's child, but she was a little worried, whether the queen mother would do anything to the child.

Although this child is the heir of the empress dowager's beloved son, Ruyi doesn't think that the empress dowager will not do anything to the child.

Ruyi smiled and declined, "I also really want to hug this child, but I'm wearing too much jewelry now, when I came here, even Aman and Tianyou didn't dare to hug this child, I'm afraid it will be careless Hit the child."

"is it?"

After hearing Ruyi's words, the Queen Mother's smile faded slightly, but she insisted: "In this case, let the child come over and have a look with you!"

Although Ruyi didn't understand what the queen mother meant, but just looking at it was much better than holding it in her hands, and it was hard for her to refuse the queen mother's words when it came to this point.

When Prince Shen and Concubine Shen came over with Prince Shen in their arms, the smile on her face seemed to be somewhat gloomy, but she still smiled and hugged the child to Ruyi and looked at her.

The child is very small, Ruyi thought he was a little bigger than Tianyou at first, but now when he hugs him, he feels that the child looks thinner than Tianyou.

The eyes are tightly closed, and the exposed skin on the face looks a little thin and yellow, and it doesn't look cute like a baby.

But she didn't show it on her face, she just smiled and said: "This child has really good facial features."

After hearing Ruyi's good words, the queen mother also laughed, but she didn't have the previous indifference towards Ruyi. She smiled and asked Prince Shen and Concubine Shen to hold the child back into her hands, and said with a smile: "This child and the imperial concubine's two The two children are about the same age, so they can play together, Royal Concubine, are you right?"

Ruyi's heart skipped a beat, but she smiled and said, "The children are about the same age, but the prince is too naughty and active, and God Bless is not in good health. If Prince Shen plays with the prince and the others, I'm afraid that Prince Shen will be wronged."

"Look at what the imperial concubine said, how could the prince bully his younger brother?"

The queen mother smiled, looked behind Ruyi, and said with a strange face: "Where are the two children, didn't the imperial concubine bring them here?"

"I brought them here, but the two children fell asleep on the way, so the emperor let them be carried inside, so as not to disturb the children outside." Ruyi replied with a smile.

The queen mother laughed when she heard the words, and nodded as if she was in agreement: "The child is sleepy, and the outside is noisy, and he really wants to be hugged to a quiet place to sleep. It just so happens that Shen'er is also asleep. How about Let someone take him to sleep with the prince and the others!"

(End of this chapter)