Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Concubine Hui shook her head: "Sister-in-law doesn't know, she is an idiot, no matter how much I tease her, she won't be tempted, and she even kept saying to Concubine Yi Guogui that I can't use her. Since that's the case, I was kind enough to give her a future, but instead I became Beg her in a low voice, why did I come here? Sister-in-law should be relieved."

While speaking, Jue Chan agreed to come in. Seeing that she is not dressed plainly during the New Year's Eve, the coral-colored palace dress is bright but not gaudy, and the bright red color reveals a sense of freshness. She is also the best at needlework , I changed it a few times casually, and there is a uniqueness that stands out from the crowd, and there is a beautiful face that is enough to make people wonder why it has been unknown so far.

Mrs. Mingzhu was even more stunned, and secretly recited Buddha in her heart. It is no wonder that her son misses this cousin. No man would be tempted to see such a woman. Now, all the wives and concubines in the family are being compared. I don't know if his soul will be taken away again.So she was full of thoughts about going home and discussing with her husband, so as not to give her son another chance to enter the harem.

After thinking about this, Jue Chan had already bowed to Concubine Hui, Yingying stood in front of the two of them, the maid had brought a stool, she sat down, lowered her eyes and said nothing.

Concubine Hui glanced at Mrs. Mingzhu, she didn't say anything, but it was written on her face: Look, this is the virtue.

Mrs. Mingzhu signaled Concubine Hui to stay away, and asked her to chat with Mrs. Jue Chan herself. Concubine Hui gave up the space sleepily and went out to talk to other female relatives who were playing elsewhere. Only one old and one young were left in the warm pavilion. Mrs. Mingzhu turned the words back and forth in her heart, and then she smiled and said, "Would you like to promise to be in the palace? Before entering the palace today, if Rong asks me to say hello and promise, I will leave the palace and return home later, and I will tell him Woolen cloth."

Only then did Jue Chan raise his head a little, and said calmly, "I'm fine, I don't dare to bother you."

Mrs. Mingzhu said bluntly: "Although I understand the promise, but the concern in his heart cannot be persuaded with a single sentence. When you were not good in the palace, he also haggarded, but now he is better. "

"I'm fine." Jue Chan still had these three words, whether it was because he didn't want to start a conversation, or because he had nothing else to say, whether his heart was calm or overwhelmed, he couldn't see it at all on his face.

"Jue Chan agreed, some words are not pleasant to say, but since we are relatives, and you are with Rong Ruo's childhood sweetheart, you don't have to worry so much." Mrs. Mingzhu helped the hairpin on her bun, as if she was hiding some embarrassment , Seeing that Jue Chan was not moved, he continued, "We don't understand the affairs of the court, but one thing is clear. The influence of the harem on the court cannot be underestimated. Listen to what my master said to Rong Ruo. Prince Nian and elder brothers have grown up, and the power in the court will also be clearly differentiated. Our Mingzhu Mansion has a constant relationship with Concubine Hui and Eldest Brother. If this is the case, of course I hope Empress Hui and Eldest Brother will be well. But you have also seen that there are more and more concubines in the palace, the concubine is tireless in her favor, and the noble concubine has won a fourth elder brother. It is really hard to predict what will happen in the future. In this way, the future of our family Rongruo... It’s hard to estimate.”

Mrs. Ming Zhu didn't know whether she was thirsty or wanted Jue Chan to think about it. She took a few sips of tea, but she kept staring at her. Seeing her expressionless face, she couldn't help but feel a little angry. , but I still endured it, put down the tea bowl and continued: "Mrs. If I can say a few words in front of the emperor, I can help Concubine Hui and elder brother, that is to say, I can help Rongruo."

"But son, he won't ask for a woman's help." Jue Chan finally spoke, and smiled at Mrs. Mingzhu. With such a smile on her beautiful face, there was an inexplicable sense of coldness and aloofness. But she didn't realize it, and continued, "I came from a criminal background, and I really dare not speak highly of Concubine Hui, let alone help, Madam has spent so much time talking, these few words must have disappointed you to the extreme, and I can only I can say sorry."

Mrs. Mingzhu was originally a proud person, and it was rare that she was willing to lower her eyebrows, but she was blocked back into her stomach by Jue Chan. She was so angry that her eyes were red, and she sneered: "No wonder the good temper of the concubine Hui has been wiped out by you." .”

Jue Chan lowered his brows and smiled: "Speaking of which, I don't remember what kind of temperament I used to be. The deep palace is the most annoying, Madam just doesn't know."

Mrs. Mingzhu couldn't be bothered with her, so she held back her breath and said, "Please think about it carefully, don't talk about Concubine Hui and elder brother, just think about Rong Ruo of my family, no matter whether he is willing to let a woman help, Do you have a heart that is not all yours?"

But Jue Chan left his seat slowly, leaned behind him to leave, and only left a gentle sentence: "Then Madam, just pretend that I don't have this heart."

Mrs. Mingzhu was dumbfounded, watching her walk out of the door quietly, she just sat there for a long time, waiting for Concubine Hui to come back, seeing her like this, she knew that it didn't make sense, she was a bit of a joke Hehe smiled: "Sister-in-law, why bother? She really doesn't like meat and vegetables, and she is going to die in this palace for the rest of her life. You don't know, she has a very difficult life in Yikun Palace, and the concubine Yi is okay, but My younger sister, Guo Guiren, has a bad temper, and if things don't go her way, she will take it out on her, beating and scolding like a slave, she can bear it, so I'm convinced."

Mrs. Mingzhu cursed in a low voice, "It deserves it."

Jue Chan agreed to leave Concubine Hui's place, and a gust of cold wind rushed towards her, refreshing her.It was too hot in the Nuan Pavilion, and it was so hot that my heart was lost. At this moment, I felt refreshed. For some reason, I was in a good mood after saying those words, so I took the maid's hand and went all the way back to Yikun Palace, but how could she know what happened today? This road is destined to be different from before.

Halfway on the way back, I met a group of people on the palace road. There are many people coming and going in the palace during the New Year Festival, and the guards are stricter than usual. But he never expected to meet him, and Nalan Rongruo didn't expect to meet his cousin at this moment.

As soon as the guards stood at the side and bowed their heads, they waited until Jue Chan agreed to walk over. The two passed by. She thought she would be sad, but she was unexpectedly calm, as if seeing him in a stately and healthy spirit. And An Xin, calmly walked over with the maid until Rong Ruo's figure completely disappeared from her eyes.

"You guys, come here!" But suddenly hearing the familiar voice of the maid, Jue Chan looked back, and it turned out to be the maid next to Guo Guiren, who was saying to Rong Ruo and the others, "Guo Guiren's sedan chair is crooked, come and help .”

Rong Ruo and the others hurriedly followed, Jue Chan frowned slightly, and only heard the maid beside her say: "Before I promised to go out, Guo Guiren had already gone to the Empress Dowager's place first, saying that the Palace of Compassionate Ning wanted to see the little princess, I guess Come back now."

"Let's go and have a look." Jue Chan raised her foot and walked away, but the maid held her back and said, "Mr. Guo Gui is not sure how to lose his temper, why bother?"

"Didn't her court lady also see us just now, and she will definitely tell Guo Guiren that if she knows we are here and does not go over, she will be even angrier." Jue Chan responded to these words, but she was actually thinking about Rong Ruo in her heart.She kept telling Mrs. Mingzhu that she didn't have that heart, but only she knew that there was still a heart in her blood, and she could only accommodate him alone.

It's not that Mrs. Mingzhu and Concubine Hui's teasing was useless, but because they didn't see it, but if they saw it, everything was different.

Hurriedly followed, and sure enough, Guo Guiren's sedan chair was crooked by the side of the road. Said that a guard had come, so he ordered: "You send someone to get me another sedan chair. The princess and I will wait here. It can't be too long, the princess can't be cold."

Rong Ruo took someone to look at the sedan chair, and found that the sedan chair was not broken, it must be that the little eunuch has bad legs and feet, as long as there is another person to carry the sedan chair, there is no need to replace the sedan chair, so he ordered one of his subordinates to say: "Help me Bring Guo Guiren's sedan chair back to Yikun Palace."

Unexpectedly, Guo Guiren was furious: "The princess is sitting in the sedan chair. The sedan chair is obviously broken. If it falls again and the princess is broken, can you bear it?"

A court lady reminded her: "Master, there is Lord Nalan outside." Guo Guiren asked impatiently, "What Lord Nalan?"

"Nalan Rongruo kowtowed to Guo Guiren." Rong Ruo saluted.

"So it's the eldest son of the Mingzhu family?" Guo Guiren also knew it, and for a moment he was not as arrogant as before, and said politely, "It's not that I am embarrassing Lord Nalan, the princess is precious, I dare not make mistakes, but Is it that difficult to change a sedan chair?"

"I still have to patrol the customs with other guards. It's not to neglect the nobleman and the princess. It doesn't matter if a guard is left to carry the sedan chair, but..."

Before Rong Ruo finished speaking, Guo Guiren lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, but before he saw Nalan Rongruo, he saw Jue Chan's figure in his eyes. It was the first time she had seen that coral-colored dress. Knowing what she was doing and running out dressed so nicely, she immediately frowned, pointed at Jue Chan and scolded: "No wonder you are unlucky, I met you, why did you come out of Yikun Palace when you are so good? Madam Yipin doesn't want anyone in front of her." Waiting?"

Rong Ruo heard every word on the side, he was so startled that his heart trembled, he didn't dare to look at his cousin a few more times, but this time he simply looked over and saw her lowered her eyes, and said with an embarrassed expression: "It's just because Concubine Hui summoned you , Empress Yipin will let my concubines sit down."

This is the first time Rong Ruo has seen her humble, and Guo Guiren's attitude towards her cousin can be seen in a few words. Since the cousin went to Yikun Palace, it is even more difficult to know the things inside. Now it seems that she has passed It must be very bad, just now when I saw a glamorous person approaching, I thought it was better than before.

"I said you..." Guo Guiren was about to attack again, but was suddenly interrupted.

"Mr. Guo Gui, the guards still have to patrol the customs. There are rules when and where to go. You can't delay the time. I am willing to carry the sedan chair for you. The Yikun Palace is ahead." Rong Ruo didn't know what to think, turned around and ordered His subordinates continued to go where they needed to go, while he raised his hand and tied the hem of his robe around his waist. Without waiting for Guo Guiren's consent, he directed the remaining three young eunuchs to carry the sedan chair.

Seeing his posture, Guo Guiren was stunned for a moment. The sedan chair was lifted up, and she quickly hugged the princess tightly. As expected, the sedan chair was not broken, and she moved forward steadily, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Jue Chan agreed to follow behind step by step, and the people in the sedan chair didn't have any further incidents until they reached the gate of Yikun Palace. With a sneer, he turned and entered the door without waiting for a thank you. Jue Chan couldn't stay outside, so he followed him, and when Jing Rongruo passed by, he heard a soft voice: "Take care."

Just two words weighed heavily in her heart, she almost tore her chest, she bit her lip and walked in the door, she knew why he did this, only he would feel sorry for being bullied.

The gate of Yikun Palace closed behind him, separating Jue Chan and Rong Ruo in two worlds. She looked up at the sky, but only saw the oppression of the four high walls. Just now, seeing Rong Ruo's painstaking efforts to lift the sedan chair, her heart ached. I can't go away.

"Promise, we should go and talk to Madam Yipin. After we answer, let's go back to the backyard and don't sway in front of Guo Guiren." The maid kindly reminded her and helped her to the main hall.

Jue Chan put her mind away and walked towards Yipin's bedroom. The maid in front of the door drew up a thick curtain. Before she could go in, she heard Guo Guiren's sharp laughter and said one after another: "Sister, I really didn't see it. Nalan Rongruo was sweating profusely. I'm afraid that even the emperor has never seen him in such a state of embarrassment. The dignified first-class guard actually came to carry the sedan chair for me. No one would believe me when I said it. But I am really relieved, the kind of concubine Hui When people see that we are not doing well, they don’t even come in. When they saw us proud, they could even get rid of Concubine Rong, who was a good friend in the past. Sister, don’t get close to her in the future.”

He also heard Yipin say: "You have done too much, he is someone who is highly valued by the emperor, if it gets out, Lord Long Live will be unhappy."

But Guo Guiren sneered loudly: "What kind of valued person is just a slave. He was wronged for carrying the sedan chair for me and the princess once. Don't ask me to run into him again next time, otherwise such a useful slave..."

"You are enough, there is no second chance, what's wrong with you..."

Inside, the two sisters started arguing. The maid in front of the door asked Jue Chan if he could still come in. Jue Chan held his chest and said, "I have a cough, so I don't dare to infect my mother. I'll go back first." The maid walked away, and rushed back to her room in one breath. The room was warm with charcoal, and the alternation of cold and heat didn't slow down all of a sudden, and she really started coughing.

"Promise you're okay? You can't get sick. If you get sick, you'll need to call the imperial physician, and Mrs. Guo is going to curse again." The maid was worried.

Jue Chan put his hands on the kang, and when he heard this sentence, he clenched his fists suddenly, the mattress on the kang was grabbed, and even the table on the kang was twitched, the sound of slaves lingered in his ears, just now Rong Ruo seemed to be struggling It was also imprinted in front of my eyes, and the anger that was about to come out was sinking bit by bit, Jue Chan's beautiful eyes shot a cold light, and he couldn't help saying something that made the maids around him have hope in vain: "I won't let her bully again."

Although this incident caused another dispute between Yipin and Guo Guiren, and also aroused the hatred in Jue Chan's heart, it was just a trivial matter in the Forbidden City. Speaking of it, there is no difference between knowing and not knowing. During the first lunar month, while celebrating the festivities, what everyone is looking forward to is to see De Concubine give birth to a boy and a girl.

The imperial doctor counted the date and said that De Concubine would give birth in the middle of February, but when she gave birth to Yinzhen, she had delayed it for several days, thinking that she must wait until the end of February, so she said the same to Xuan Ye, and Xuan Ye saw that she was in good spirits Well, counting the days and there are still a few more days, she was allowed to attend several banquets in the first month.

Lan Qi herself never felt bad. Who knew that her stomach would fall off as soon as the first month passed, and she would have a stomachache for a few days afterward but there was no movement. He said something serious and excused himself after the good thing, but it scared the empress dowager and Xuan Ye, and it was hard to wait until the early morning of the fifth day of February, when the baby was finally really going to be born.

Aunt Su Mala came to accompany her again. Although she had a stomach ache a few days ago, the delivery went smoothly today. The pain of contractions tormented her. Compared with when she gave birth to the fourth elder brother, she was inexperienced. This time Lan Qi Apparently she could bear it a lot, so Mammy accompanied her, and the two gossiped all over the world, just waiting for the opening of the finger to go to the "battlefield".

When talking about the child's name and asking what would be a good name for a girl, Wen Po said that Concubine De was about to give birth, and the greatest pain was coming, and she didn't have the heart to say these words anymore, when Lan Qi was fully prepared to accept life When she was in pain, Granny Wen reported the terrible thing to the nanny. The child might fall from the ground, and Empress Debi might have dystocia.

When the news reached the Qianqing Palace, Director Li was frightened to death, but the emperor was still listening to the government outside the Qianqing Gate, and it was impossible to report to him. It's gone, but there's no good news over there.Another half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, Xuan Ye broke up the court meeting, hurried back, and the first thing he said when he saw Mr. Li was to ask: "How is Concubine De?"

Mr. Li knelt on the ground with weak legs and said: "The news was sent an hour ago, saying that Empress Debi had a difficult labor and said that the baby's feet fell first."

Xuan Ye was like five thunderbolts, when Empress Hesheli had a difficult childbirth, and the prince also fell to the ground. The moment he fell to the ground, Empress Hesheli passed away.

"Bastard, why didn't you come to report?" Xuan Ye went crazy, turned around and walked to the Yonghe Palace. In front of him, Eunuch Li's apprentice rushed over, threw himself on the ground and gasped, and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, the concubine De concubine gave birth to a baby boy!" Brother, little brother..."

"Where's Lan Qi?" Xuan Ye grabbed the eunuch by the collar and asked with red eyes, "How is she?"

Eunuch Li also came up and gave a push and said, "The emperor asked how the empress Debi is doing."

"Slave, I don't know..." Before he finished speaking, Xuan Ye threw him to the ground. He strode straight to the Yonghe Palace. When he arrived at the gate of Chengqian Palace, the imperial concubine just came out and saw the emperor walking over without looking away. Feeling heavy in the heart, I wanted to see Debi's mood, but it disappeared immediately.

Madam Su Ma took care of the little elder brother. When she heard that the emperor was coming, she hurried out to stop her and advised Xuan Ye not to go in. Symptoms are exhausted after suffering a lot. Don't worry, the emperor, God is blessing you."

Hearing that Lan Qi was fine, Xuan Ye felt his whole body go limp.