Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

The atmosphere in the main hall of the Compassion Ning Palace was heavy, Lan Qi stood aside after serving tea, the Empress Dowager looked dignified, Lan Qi silently looked at the old man, knowing that she had experienced countless storms with three generations of emperors in her life, and endured the pain of losing a child , resolutely supporting the young grandson to ascend the throne, how much hard work and helplessness in the past ten years, only she knows best in her heart.

When the emperor wanted to withdraw the domain, the empress dowager strongly opposed it, but her grandson was full of enthusiasm. After more than three years, she survived the hardest time and saw victory in sight. Naturally, any disturbance would make one's heart tremble.

Unknowingly, half an hour passed, and no one spoke in the hall, but the Empress Dowager suddenly came to her senses, touched the tea at hand, and said to Lan Qi: "It's cold, I want to drink Pu'er, it should be stronger .”

On weekdays, Lan Qi would persuade her to drink strong tea when it was getting late so that she would not be able to sleep at night, but in today's situation, she did not dare to disobey the old man's wishes. The little palace maid inside said: "No wonder everyone said that Princess Gongxi is an ominous person. You see, you just came back today, and something happened in the palace. It's really bad luck."

Lan Qi coughed dryly, and several palace maids rushed over to greet her. She didn't want to scold anyone coldly, but just reminded: "Mama doesn't like to hear these words, so don't say any more in the future."

Several people agreed repeatedly and helped to boil water and make tea. When Lan Qi was young, she came out carrying the Pu'er that the Empress Dowager wanted, but there were applause getting closer outside. She knew that the emperor must be coming, and her feet stopped involuntarily.Not long after, he saw the young emperor coming in like a gust of wind, but he suddenly saw Lan Qi standing in the corridor, he stopped for a while, gave her a reassuring smile, and then ran to the main hall again.

Seeing this smile, Lan Qi's tense face suddenly bloomed like a flower, and hurriedly followed a few steps, and saw the emperor kneeling in front of the empress dowager, and said excitedly: "Grandmother, Geng Jingzhong has surrendered."

The empress dowager sitting on the seat let out a long sigh of relief. Lan Qi saw that the corners of the old man's eyes seemed to be glistening with tears, so she helped her grandson to get up. The grandson and grandson went to the Buddhist hall to offer incense. Lan Qi followed the mother and waited outside the door. Mammy looked back and saw that she was smiling so happily, she lightly shook Lan Qi's hand and said, "Our Wu Chang is a lucky person."

Lan Qi smiled with her eyebrows crooked, and the joy in her heart was indescribable. She really wanted to remember Xuan Ye's smile just now for the rest of her life. That high-spirited and heroic figure was dazzling even in the dark night. The emperor won such a bright smile on her.

The Palace of Compassion and Ning, which had a heavy atmosphere, finally became lively again. When the Empress Dowager heard that her grandson hadn’t eaten dinner, she immediately asked Chuan Shan to give him a bite before putting it back. Lan Qi waited on her, but she couldn’t help it He would look at Xuan Ye's smiling face, and Xuan Ye was in such a good mood, so naturally he would look at her and talk to her from time to time. Aunt Su Mala saw it, helped her master and joked: "The slave's eyeballs will follow after a while. The emperor flew to Wu Chang, and after a while, he stayed on the emperor with Wu Chang, so tired that he was dizzy."

Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager co-authored and said: "You say you are stupid and you always deny it, I just see their eyebrows flirting, and I don't even look at them, so as not to turn around and get dizzy."

Lan Qi rushed to the Empress Dowager's side, her face full of cuteness and cuteness, the old man pushed her to Xuan Ye with distress: "You have finished eating, then take her away, now think about it, you came here to report in person, Who knows whether to tell it to me or to my sweetheart."

Xuan Ye only smiled cheerfully, and then said that he had finished eating, and then saluted and said goodbye to his grandmother. Lan Qi didn't really follow her, and finally pushed her out and said: "I was frightened just now, hurry up!" Disperse with the emperor."

Outside the palace gate, Lan Qi walked out slowly, and sure enough, she saw Xuan Ye waiting there. The young emperor stretched out his hand towards him in high spirits, and suddenly the ruby ​​hairpin appeared on his fingertips, and asked, "Wu Chang may not be able to accompany me today. Take a walk?"

Lan Qi stretched out her hand to get the hairpin, but the emperor suddenly withdrew it, frowned and said, "I want it right? I took the things for a while, but I don't want to accompany you anymore. I don't want to do business at a loss."

"Then if the concubine accompanied you for a walk, and you don't give it up, who will the concubine be in charge of the loss-making business?" Lan Qi said with a smile, but her feet had already walked over, and she was grabbed by Xuan Ye just in front of her. With one hand, the other hand put the hairpin on her bun, stopped to look around, frowned and said, "People are ugly, and they don't look good in anything, and I even despise the ugly jewelry I gave you."

Lan Qi pouted and touched the hairpin on the back of her head, muttering: "No matter how ugly you are, you are not afraid. Anyway, the emperor doesn't dislike it, and my concubine is so ugly."

Xuan Ye laughed, twisted her face lightly, then held hands and walked into the night, chattering excitedly about government affairs on the way, Lan Qi couldn't understand anyway, so she had the right to listen to the book. Halfway through, Xuanye suddenly thought of it and said, "I'm counting the days, and I'm going to hold a lecture on the Sutra banquet in October, and I will give a lecture on "Zhizheng Tongjian". Do you want to come and listen to it then?"

Lan Qi waved her hand and said: "The emperor made fun of the courtiers and concubines again, how can such a serious matter be accompanied by courtiers and concubines, and I have read a lot of books by courtiers and concubines, but I can't understand what they are talking about after reading many times. I can’t even read all the characters in the book, but those idle books are the most interesting, and I remember them in my mind after reading them.”

She was talking excitedly, but seeing the emperor's brows getting tighter and tighter, she felt a little timid in her heart, but she still said softly: "Besides, I always wait in front of the Empress Dowager now, and I haven't had time to read and write for a long time."

Xuan Ye slapped her forehead hard, causing her to frown in pain, but she still held hands and refused to rub it, and said fiercely: "Don't waste it, you think you don't understand what those books say, but the principles are natural. It will run into your head, learn to read and write with great difficulty, no matter how wasteful it is, how can you pay for the painstaking efforts I taught you?"

Lan Qi broke free and rubbed her forehead with her hands, puffed her cheeks and didn't speak. Xuan Ye felt distressed, and stretched out her hand to touch: "Does it hurt? Who told you not to study hard." But she laughed again and said, "On that day, You are serving my tea in the apse, of course you will not be allowed to go to the front, and you can hear what is said in the apse, listen to my ministers, they are all very learned people."

"The concubine remembers it, the emperor must not forget it when the time comes." Lan Qi finally agreed, although she still felt that it was inappropriate, but after all, it was the emperor's invitation, so if others are not convinced, they can only gossip a few times, it doesn't hurt anything .

But this night, when Xuanye and Lan Qi walked slowly to Zhongcui Palace, Lan Qi saw the Chengqian Palace in front of which the lights had already been turned off, remembering how she saw Concubine Tong during the day, she didn't know why such a feeling came up in her heart Thinking about it, he actually asked Xuan Ye: "Isn't the emperor going to visit Concubine Tong? Today is a good day."

Xuan Ye's eyes flickered slightly, he wondered why Lan Qi guessed his own thoughts, wanted to take a walk with her tonight, but also wanted to go to Chengqian Palace, naturally not for Concubine Tong, but to give Niu Hulu saw it.But these things can't be said, he can't even talk about Lan Qi, he was worried that Lan Qi would be jealous, but this little girl wanted to push himself over.

"If I stay with you well, you won't be afraid that I won't be happy? You won't be afraid that I will think you're hypocritical and a good person?" Xuan Ye frowned, deliberately showing her anger.

The person in front of him was full of dissatisfaction, as if you were angry but not angry, and said seriously, "The emperor can't spend the night in Zhongcui Palace, and the concubine will not keep you, but Concubine Tong, seeing her thin today It’s better, the concubines are not hypocritical, they just don’t want the emperor to have a rift with the ancestor’s family, this is also the reason the empress dowager taught the concubines.”

Xuan Ye smiled happily: "I accept your wish. I will be there in a while, but you go back first, and I will leave after you close the door. Don't be like the last time. Go back and cry secretly."

"No way." Lan Qi snorted proudly, but the expression in her eyes was that she couldn't bear to part with the person in front of her, but she knew the trade-offs best, blessed Xuan Ye, turned around and left.

Seeing the gate of Zhongcui Palace closing slowly, the smile on Xuan Ye's face still did not fade away, and he ordered the little eunuch to report to Chengqian Palace as soon as possible, and came to Concubine Tong in a good mood.

In Chengqian Palace, Concubine Tong went to bed early, and these days she went to bed early every day, because she didn't have to look at the faces of those people in the palace anymore when she was lying on the bed. Just feel uncomfortable all over.Although she didn't know when such days would end, Ama sent a message to tell her to be patient.

Tonight I went to bed early as usual, but before I went to bed, I heard that the emperor summoned the ministers, and I was also thinking about what would happen. At this moment, I was thinking wildly, when the maid suddenly ran in and said: "My lady, get up quickly, the emperor is here."

After Mrs. Yigui's miscarriage, although Xuanye never treated Chengqian Palace badly, and sent people to greet him more often, he never came in person, and Concubine Tong didn't expect it herself, but she came here suddenly tonight, and she just said that the court Concubine Tong was very worried about something important.

But the meeting was good, and the emperor was also very happy to tell her about Geng Jingzhong's surrender. Concubine Tong was happy for him, while thinking in her heart, she finally couldn't hold back and said in person: "Your majesty, my concubine did not harm Yigui's miscarriage." , do you believe it?"

Xuanye said indifferently: "Xin, you have a bad temper, but you won't be so vicious as to harm others, I know."

Hearing the words, Concubine Tong was heartbroken, and Concubine Tong's eyes immediately burst into tears, all kinds of grievances welled up in her heart, and soon she burst into tears, Xuan Ye didn't care, and just said: "Don't cry, today is the happiest day for me."

Concubine Tong hurriedly wiped away her tears, sniffed her nose and tried to laugh. Xuan Ye said that she wanted to hear her play the guqin, so she called the palace maid Zhang Luolai, and the two sat opposite each other. Float into the night.

When Lan Qi was about to lie down, she heard the sound of the zither. Huanchun smoked the mosquito net and asked, "Master, why are you not sad tonight? The emperor is going to Chengqian Palace after leaving us. Xiangyue said that the emperor will send you there." It's the door."

Lan Qi longed for the melodious guqin, and she also wanted to learn it herself. When Huan Chun asked her this way, there was a touch of wisdom in her quiet and gentle eyes, "The Forbidden City has never been just the Zhongcui Palace."