Long Harem Road

Chapter 35

On the second day of the first lunar month, it was the day when women from outside the palace entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the empress and queen dowager. Baozhu tossed and turned excitedly all night, unable to fall asleep for a long time, and got up early in the morning to prepare. After half a year away from home, she was finally going to see her family again. How could Baozhu not be excited.

She hurriedly directed the palace staff to set up the room, pack the gifts, and kept their feet on the ground without touching the ground. Joy and joy followed behind her. Seeing the master busy, her eyes were red. The master has never been really happy since entering the palace. .

"Why haven't you come yet, Huanxi, go and have a look at the door again." Baozhu anxiously paced up and down the room, it was almost noon, why didn't she come, don't let anything happen.

"Master, don't worry, the maidservants have just visited, and Huanxi and Liu Quan are guarding at the gate of the hall. Madam enters the palace, and she needs to meet the queen and queen mother first, so she should be on her way here." Huanxi said comfortingly.

"Yes, that's what you said, I was too anxious." Baozhu turned her face away in embarrassment, and patted her chest to ease her emotions.

"Master, here we come, madam, she is here." Joy ran all the way through the door and notified Bao Zhu immediately.

"Quick, quick, let's go out to greet her." Baozhu didn't care about the rules in the palace at this time, and hurriedly helped Huanxi and Huanxi to go out. Ji Mu Wang was being led by Liu Quan, and walked into the gate of Cuiluxuan.

Mother Ji was also excited when she saw the daughter she was thinking about, her lips were trembling, her eyes were red, but she didn't dare to forget the rules, fearing to cause trouble for her daughter, she hurriedly leaned over to salute.

Baozhu looked bitterly, her throat was sore, she resisted the tears in her eyes, she was not willing to let her mother salute herself, and hurriedly pulled Ji's mother's arm forward, "Mother, let's go into the house quickly, everyone here They are their own people, and there are not so many rules.”

Mother Ji looked around quietly, all the servants in the palace lowered their heads dutifully, relieved, secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of their eyes with brocade handkerchiefs, and let their daughters help them into the inner room.

Ji's mother carefully looked at the exquisite and expensive furniture and porcelain in the palace, and she finally let go of her hanging heart. Although she heard outside the palace that her daughter was still favored, she still couldn't let go.

Now, seeing the decorations and rewards in the palace, all of them are high-quality products, and looking at her daughter's rosy complexion and her stature is a bit taller, I think what I heard outside the palace is the truth, and my daughter has not been wronged.

"Mother, my daughter misses you so much." As soon as Baozhu entered the inner room, she hugged Ji's mother and nestled in her arms, tears dripping down involuntarily, and Huanxi led the servants to retreat tactfully. , go to the imperial dining room to prepare lunch.

"My son." Mother Ji also hugged her daughter tightly, filled with emotions for a moment, but in just half a year, she felt that more than ten or twenty years had passed, and she was afraid every day, afraid that she would suddenly hear her daughter coming from the palace. bad news.

Baozhu hugged her mother and cried all the time, but fortunately, Joy turned everyone away and guarded the door, otherwise there might be some news.

After Baozhu finished crying, she raised her head resentfully, picked up a brocade handkerchief and wiped the tears off her face, looked at the wet area on her mother's chest, wiped it embarrassedly, and took her own stove to dry it.

Said embarrassingly: "Hey, mother, don't you think your daughter is well? I just miss you, how is your father? And elder brother, elder sister-in-law, second elder brother and little nephew, are they all alright?"

"It's all good, all is good." Mother Ji held her daughter's hand, refusing to let go, not paying attention to the piece of her chest that was drenched with tears and snot.

"Hey, mother, why didn't sister-in-law come?" Baozhu realized that sister-in-law hadn't followed, and coyly asked.

"You, you are still such a child. Your sister-in-law is pregnant again, and mother let her rest at home." Ji's mother saw her daughter showing her little daughter's tenderness, and couldn't help "puchi" smile.

"Really, it's really great. I'm going to have a nephew again." Baozhu was sincerely happy for her sister-in-law. Before she entered the palace, she had a very good relationship with her sister-in-law. She is very happy.

"Yeah, your sister-in-law is also a blessing. Although your elder brother was a little cold when we first got married, but since we got Zheng'er, the relationship between the two has become better and better in the past two years." Mother Ji sighed.

"That's not because mother is good, mother is the best mother-in-law." Baozhu pulled Ji's mother to act like a baby.

"You, hey, you and your second brother really don't want my mother to worry. I worry about you all day long, and your second brother even ran to the battlefield without saying a word. If something happens to this, it will really be serious. Your mother and your father's old life."

When Ji's mother mentioned Ji Xu, she was worried again, and nagged her daughter bitterly.

"Mother, don't worry, the second brother is good at martial arts, and he will definitely earn you a great general back."

"Just make your mother happy, as long as he can come back safely, mother.

Hey, daughter, you have been in the palace for half a year now, you want to take advantage of the emperor's favor and give birth to a child as soon as possible, the palace depends on heirs. "Ji's mother is earnest.

"Mother, my daughter knows, it's just that women here are destined, there will always be, besides, my daughter is still young."

Baozhu didn't tell Ji's mother that she might be pregnant. After a while, the family will know about it.

Ji's mother had lunch with Baozhu at Cuiluxuan, and the emperor gave him a symbolic gift of some dishes. In the afternoon, Baozhu kept chatting with Ji's mother in a coquettish manner, and the hours passed in a flash.

"Mother." Baozhu pulled Ji's mother, with red eyes, reached out and handed the prepared gift to mother, "Mother, these ginseng supplements are rewarded by the emperor, you and father must not be reluctant to eat them.

And these fabrics, you take them back and make a few sets of clothes for your nephew, your daughter can't be filial in front of you, you and your father must take good care of them. ".

"My son, don't cry, you are safe and sound in the palace, mother can rest assured, your father and I are old bones, you don't have to worry, your sister-in-law and elder brother are very filial to us."

"Yeah." Baozhu was sent outside the hall, and stood at the door, watching Ji's mother stepping back and forth and walking away, until she could no longer see anyone, then turned back in a lonely way.

"Master, you have to relax, just for the little master, you have to be happy." Knowing that the master was reluctant, Huanxi comforted her.

"Well, it's okay, I know, you all go to work, I want to be alone for a while."

"Yes, master." The two retreated with worried expressions.

For the next few days, Baozhu kept looking sluggish and listless. She thought she was living a good life, but found that she seemed to be the lonely and struggling Li Yao in her previous life.

Now that her beloved parents are close at hand, but they can't see each other, Baozhu once again feels resentful towards the evil imperial power. As the emperor, Zhao Zhen is also shot while lying down, and Baozhu angers her.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the emperor opened the treasure, and Li Mingzhong led the eunuchs to set up confessions in the Guangming Temple, set up wine and fruit, light incense candles, kneel down three times and kowtow nine times.

The emperor saluted with incense, and after the salute, he put the jade seal back into the treasure box. The emperor's busy new year officially began, and after a few days of government affairs, the emperor was so busy that he didn't touch the ground and stayed in the Qianqing Palace all the time.

It was not until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that the palace held the annual lantern festival of the Lantern Festival in the imperial garden. The emperor stepped into the harem again. Exquisite lanterns to attract the attention of the emperor.

Flower lights, birds and animals lights, lights of historical figures, lights of myths and stories..., colorful lights are clustered together, competing for splendor, the imperial garden is brightly lit, and there are constant laughter.

Baozhu didn't want to attract the emperor's attention during this time, before the pregnancy broke out, she was not suitable for bedtime, so she hung out a very ordinary palace lantern in a very low-key way, accompanied by joy and joy, and tried to avoid the crowd , stood cautiously in the open space.

Today's Baozhu is wearing a warm-colored gold-colored embroidered cotton dress, with a graceful figure and a brocade-trimmed wool cloak, revealing a fair and delicate face, a pair of big watery eyes looking forward and shining, looking back and smiling, full of charm.

Zhao Zhen boredly resisted the concubines' winking eyes, and saw the charming scene of a woman in the distance the moment he looked up, his heartbeat seemed to miss a beat, he hurriedly lowered his head and poured down a glass of strong wine in his hand to cover up The shock in my heart.

A sentence suddenly flashed in Zhao Zhen's mind: "I searched for it thousands of times in the crowd, but when I looked back at dusk, that person was in a dimly lit place."

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the imperial doctor asked for pulse once every ten days in the palace. This time it was the doctor Wang who came to Cuiluxuan. Since the incident with Concubine Wei, the empress changed the pulse-taking system in the palace.

Which main womb the imperial doctor will go to is determined by a temporary draw before departure, which prevents them from being bribed in advance.

Physician Wang lightly placed her fingers on Baozhu's wrist, Baozhu stared at his face nervously, although she had already confirmed it, she was extremely nervous at this moment, afraid that the joy would be empty.

Physician Wang withdrew his hand and smiled, "The pulse is smooth and smooth, congratulations to Mrs. Zhaoyuan. You have a happy pulse. It is estimated that it has been about forty days. The mother and fetus are healthy."

Baozhu's heart was finally relieved, and she rubbed her lower abdomen in a daze, for she really had a baby.Joy, joy, and even everyone in Cui Lu Xuan was even more joyful.

Baozhu took the purse that Huanxi handed over, and placed it in the hands of Imperial Physician Wang, "Thank you, Imperial Physician Wang."

The wrinkles on Imperial Physician Wang's face turned into chrysanthemums with a smile, "Your Majesty, you are being polite, this is the duty of an official." No wonder everyone likes to be a magpie to announce good news, "My Majesty, I have to report to the emperor, you Look?"

"Liu Quan, you go with Imperial Physician Wang." Only then did Baozhu understand that the concubine was pregnant, of course she had to report it to the emperor first.

"Yes." "Resignation." Doctor Wang left lightly.

Baozhu leaned on the bed in a daze, gently stroking her still flat abdomen, a baby connected with her blood was being conceived, and in this palace, she was no longer alone.

Zhao Zhen waved the palace servants who were about to salute, telling them to step back, strode into the inner room, and saw Baozhu leaning on the bed, with his hands on his abdomen, his eyes drooping gently, and a faint smile on his mouth I feel more at ease.

"Bao'er." Zhao Zhen strode forward and sat on the edge of the bed. Even he himself didn't realize how gentle his voice was, as if he was afraid of frightening the elf on the bed.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?" Bao Zhu hurriedly got up and saluted, Zhao Zhen stretched out his arms to hug her, and put his warm palms on her lower abdomen, and said domineeringly, "Don't move, take a good rest, I am very happy."

Baozhu leaned obediently in Zhao Zhen's arms, and was suddenly in a trance for a moment, as if Zhao Zhen was just a tender husband, but in an instant, she regained her senses, "The concubine is also very happy to have the emperor's baby."

Zhao Zhen hooked the corners of his mouth, obviously benefiting from Baozhu's dependence and joy, "I came here as soon as I heard the news, does Bao'er have any requests? I will send someone to do it right away."

Baozhu twitched the corner of her mouth, what do you mean, is it another test from the emperor?To test myself, will I become overwhelmed when I have a child, and Xiao thinks about other things?
(End of this chapter)