At noon, a carriage from the Su Mansion was driving on the sunny Yanyang City Street, hurriedly heading towards the Su Mansion.
"Xu~"
At the driver's shout, the carriage stopped in front of the Su Mansion.
"Master, be careful." The coachman stepped forward to help Master Su.
Just when Su Yunqi got off the carriage and raised his head to say hello, he found that no one was greeting him in front of the Su Mansion.
Su Yunqi patted his sleeves and walked towards Su Mansion.
"Yanzhi! Jinfan! Qingli!" Su Yunqi called out to his children who thought they were at home.
But no one came. After a while, he saw someone hurriedly approaching. It was Su Yunqi's assistant Lu Huan, Butler Lu.
"Master, I'm back." Butler Lu said with a smile on his face.
Looking at Butler Lu's loyal eyes, Su Yunqi smiled slightly: "Yes. Where are Yanzhi and the others?"
Butler Lu thought for a while and answered honestly: "Several young masters went shopping on the street early in the morning and have not come back yet."
"Where's Qingli?" Su Yunqi asked about his second daughter.
"The lady also followed."
"Those ladies should be here, right?" Su Yunqi felt a little angry.
"Yes. A few ladies are playing leaf cards in the backyard."
"I know, you can continue your work." After saying that, Su Yunqi walked towards the backyard.
In the backyard, there are flowers and birds singing everywhere, and a clear stream of water flows out from the cracks in the stones.
"Turn it over." Lan urged.
I saw that the third lady Liu looked at the many cards on the table and hesitated. Under the urging of the second lady Lan, the eldest lady Fan, and Yanzhi's daughter-in-law Cen Yinzhu, Mrs. Liu just turned over the cards, and the result was different from the cards in her hand. Same.
Mr. Su stood not far behind, watching quietly.
"Win! Win!" Lan shouted with a smile.
At this time, Su Yunqi just stepped forward: "Guys, you are in a good mood. It's such a happy life like this."
"Master!" After Lan's words, several people stood up, like children who realized their mistake.
"If I'm not around, will Yanzhi and the others be like this every day?" Mr. Su asked.
Perhaps they were confused because they had been playing leaf cards for too long, and they all asked questions one by one.
"Okay, I asked Butler Lu just now. They went out to play. It's okay to play, but the rules must be taught to them. It won't be the same next time." Su Yunqi said.
"Master, is the disaster relief going well?" Cen Yinzhu asked with concern.
Seeing that his second son's daughter-in-law could be so sensible, Su Yunqi was very pleased. He smiled slightly and said, "It went well. You continue, continue." After that, Su Yunqi went to work.
After watching Mr. Su leave, the second lady Lan, who was already addicted to playing, smiled and said: "Keep going."
"Who was the second winner just now?" Lan asked.
Thinking that I was not the first person to win, the ladies shook their heads together and refused to tell the truth.
"Just now, I asked you, but I didn't have time to see it," said the third lady Liu.
After playing for so long, the first person to win has always been the Lan family. According to the regulations, the money will be divided among the winners in different proportions. The losers will not get any silver. Since Liu is the loser, this is why he firmly rejected it. have no idea.
"That's it, come back! Come again!" Lan said.
Seeing that they could do it again, the ladies became interested again. . .
In the palace at this time, the young Emperor Dechang was sitting in the Wind and Rain Pavilion reviewing memorials, while the concubines in the harem were either gathering together to play or scheming.
The queen lived in Kunning Palace, lying on a golden nanmu bench, watching the opera, and sometimes she smiled.
She is probably the only harem woman who can consider the royal family as her home.
The queen in front of her was eating fresh and fine fruits such as cherries, loquats, and green dates. Suddenly, she felt a deep pain in her lower abdomen.
Seeing the queen put down the fruit in her hand and tightly covering her belly with both hands, the slaves on the side began to ask questions.
"Empress, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing that the queen looked in pain and was unwilling to speak, the queen's personal servant Xiangyue hurriedly called the imperial doctor.
When the imperial doctor arrived, he hurriedly diagnosed the noble queen.
"Mr. Zhao, what's wrong with the Queen?" Xiangjie asked hurriedly.
Suddenly, Doctor Zhao stopped taking his pulse, stood up, and congratulated: "Congratulations to the Queen!"
The queen who still didn't understand endured the pain and asked: "Congratulations for what?"
"Returning to your Majesty, judging from the pulse, it is as smooth as a pearl. I think this is a happy pulse. Could you please ask me if your Majesty has experienced retching, loss of appetite, lower abdominal pain, etc. in recent days?" Doctor Zhao asked.
After hearing this, the Queen thought about it carefully: "It has happened recently."
"Then the queen must be pregnant." Doctor Zhao said with a slight smile.
At this time, the queen, who was in pain, suddenly smiled.
"Xiangjie, please reward Imperial Physician Zhao." the queen said.
"yes."
"Thank you, my dearest lady." After saying this, Imperial Doctor Zhao followed his servant Xiangjie to receive the reward.
The queen, who had been complaining of abdominal pain just now, now had a happy face.
Soon, the news of the queen's pregnancy spread throughout the palace. Even the emperor, who was busy reviewing memorials, hurriedly put down his imperial pen and hurried to Kunning Palace.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
The doctor's words caused the queen who was lying on the couch to get up quickly and greet the emperor.
"I, my concubine, see you, Your Majesty."
"The queen is free of all etiquette in the future." She said while supporting the emperor.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Seeing that the queen was pregnant with a dragon species, the emperor looked happy and kept looking at the queen's belly, as if he hoped that the prince would be born soon.
After looking at it, the emperor looked at the eunuch Li Zi with a look of joy: "I will summon a few more servants later to guard the queen every day to protect my emperor."
"yes."
"The Queen can ask me for anything she wants. No need to be polite. Your Majesty is more important." The Emperor held the Queen's hand tightly.
After hearing this, the queen smiled slightly: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Looking at such a beauty, the emperor always had a comforting smile on his face: "Queen, I have something to do and will come to see you later."
"Okay, state affairs are important." The queen said with a smile on her face.
After the emperor left, the queen looked at the emperor and then she straightened her head, lay on the couch, and raised the fetus with peace of mind. . .
"Your Majesty, can you please tell me about Su Yunqi?" Gui Yuanwei, Minister of War, said.
Not long after the start of the dynasty, Gui Yuanwei, the Minister of War, asked about it. It seemed that he had been looking forward to Su Yunqi's resignation as soon as possible.
After many days of disaster relief, today is the first day that Su Yunqi, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, returned to Beijing to attend court. When he saw the minister of the Ministry of War speaking, his mind was at a loss and he didn't know what was going on.
Seeing that his ministers were obsessed with this matter and he wanted to know it, the emperor asked Su Yunqi.
"Su Aiqing, I heard that you mixed food into porridge during disaster relief. Is this possible?" the emperor asked.
"Reporting to your Majesty, this happened." Su Yunqi replied.
Before Su Yunqi could finish speaking, the Minister of War had already anxiously thought about how to deal with Su Yunqi: "Your Majesty, regarding Su Yunqi's adulteration of porridge, I believe that he should be removed from his post and demoted. level, and be fined half a year's salary."
Seeing the Minister of War behaving like this, Su Yunqi smiled slightly and looked at the Minister of War: "Shang Shu Gui, I have done nothing wrong, right?"
"Then why do you add adulteration to the disaster relief porridge? Aren't you just despising the imperial power and bullying the people?" Gui Yuanwei said confidently.
Su Yunqi smiled: "It seems that your ministers have misunderstood me. There is a reason for adulterating the porridge."
"What's the reason?" Gui Yuanwei, Minister of War, asked.
Su Yunqi smiled calmly, looked sideways at the Minister of War, and then respectfully explained to the emperor: "Back to the emperor, during the disaster relief, I found some strong and strong people who did not look like hungry people. In order to use the food provided by the court for disaster relief, I just mixed the porridge with impurities. In this way, those who are really hungry people will insist on receiving the porridge, while those who are not hungry people will definitely give up the porridge with impurities. .”
After listening to the words of Su Yunqi, the minister of household affairs, the emperor praised Su Yunqi's method, but Gui Yuanwei, the minister of war, who was standing among the ministers, had nothing to say.
"My dear friends, I have good news for you."
"Yesterday, the Queen was diagnosed by the imperial physician to be pregnant." The Emperor said with a happy face.
"Congratulations to the Emperor! Congratulations to the Queen!" The ministers knelt down and congratulated.
At this time, Su Yunqi, the right minister of Hube, the father of the queen, who was among the ministers, was very happy, but his face could not tell how happy he was, and seemed to be very calm.
"My dear friends, no courtesy!" After saying that, the emperor looked at Su Yunqi, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and said: "A few days ago, Wan Hongmao, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, mentioned to me the resignation. I have not agreed. The Queen was pregnant yesterday, and Su Aiqing, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, has contributed to the disaster relief. Therefore, I am determined to agree to the resignation of Wan Hongmao, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Su Aiqing will take up the post of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel from tomorrow."
After hearing the emperor's promise, Wan Hongmao, the Minister of Civil Affairs, stood up, knelt down and thanked: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Wan Hongmao has experienced three dynasties since he became an official. Today is the third dynasty. Now he is old and has gray hair on his temples.
"I love you so much."
"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty." Su Yunqi thanked him with a smile on his face.
After the court meeting, the queen received many gifts from Kunning Palace.
"The emperor has decreed that the queen is pregnant because of her merits, and will be given a special reward of twenty pieces of Jiangnan silk and satin, a pair of golden walking earrings, a pair of purple pitying rain earrings, and a picture of a peacock from the south of the Yangtze River..." Eunuch Li Zi read.
I saw many chamberlains placing the items rewarded by the emperor one after another towards Kunning Palace.
The entire Kunning Palace was extremely busy.