Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"Jue Chan is really beautiful when he is always there. I have never seen such beauty in the palace these years. If Concubine Dong E was there, she would be inferior." Su Mala said, "When I saw it before, I was still a girl. I haven’t noticed such a change for a few years.”

The Empress Dowager disdainfully said: "Ms. Dong E is a sick person. She can be regarded as a beauty. My sister is a beauty, but looking at it now, she is not as good as her." When she was speaking, her eyes still fell on Jue Chan's body for a long time. Then he took it back and said, "A beautiful woman is like a poisonous flower, the more coquettish she is, the more malicious she is. You send someone to watch her, and don't allow her to seduce Xuan Ye."

Although Aunt Su Mala agreed, she still persuaded: "The emperor has his own plans, if a trivial Changzai can reverse or quell the turmoil of jealousy and jealousy in the palace, why would the emperor not do it, don't you think? "

The old man loosened his brows slightly, and sighed: "No, my Xuan Ye is no longer a young man."

After these few words, it was a lively festival after all. The Empress Dowager did not show her face, and together with the Empress Dowager, in order to feel that Zen was pregnant, they rewarded some things, and took care of Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui, after all, it is low The imperial concubines are not favored at the moment, and they are no better than others who can work hard.

The six palaces under her seat are all there, although Guo Guiren is still confined, Yipin has long been free, and since her younger sister offended the emperor, she has become more cautious, and the emperor is not too indifferent to her, but it is not as good as before, but Yipin I can bear it, the patience cultivated by Concubine Zhao in the early years has finally come in handy now.

On Guifei Tong's side, Concubine Wen was sitting next to her. When the opera was lively, she pointed to Jue Chan in the distance and said, "Your Majesty, you should be careful. You beat her up once. Not everyone will You can repay grievances with virtue like Wu Yashi, but be careful that she seduces the emperor to trip you up."

"You don't leave the gate of Xianfu Palace every day. You know the things in the palace very well, but I don't need you to care about it." Concubine Tong glanced at Jue Chan coldly, she was so beautiful Yan, anyone who saw her would be jealous, and said bitterly, "There is no room for fox spirits to stir up trouble in the Forbidden City, my sister is more worried."

Concubine Wen smiled: "The news of her pregnancy didn't come out until noon, and Ling'a came to greet the concubine in the afternoon, and asked the concubine to persuade the emperor that if Chan's child was a boy, he would be taken into the Xianfu Palace to be raised. "Her beautiful eyes flowed, and she was full of laughter, as if talking about something irrelevant to herself, and said to the imperial concubine very affectionately, "Dai Chang was born and they let me keep an eye on them, but it's a pity that the seventh elder brother is incomplete, so they will take care of you." Tell the concubines not to worry about waiting later. Madam, tell me, are we blessed or unlucky if we can't bear it by ourselves?"

The words made the noble concubine's face turn blue, and she stared blankly at Concubine Wen. If it hadn't been at the banquet, she would have had a seizure a long time ago. Now she swallowed forcefully, knowing that Concubine Wen was uncomfortable If it is hard, I have to drag one person into the water. If I am really angry, it is not to express her feelings, so I suppressed my anger and smiled and said: "Sister, if you don't care, I will speak for you, but I want Ah Ling to remember to give it to me. Wrap a big red envelope as a thank-you gift, it’s too troublesome to find the heavy silver, a bank note is fine, hundreds or thousands of taels are not rare for my palace, let him give it in large amounts.”

Concubine Wen smiled and said: "Everyone in the world knows that Tong's family is well-off, so would your empress be rare for Ling'a's red envelope?"

Concubine Tong returned the words to her, and said with a leisurely smile: "It's different to have a son. After more than ten years, he will leave the palace to open a mansion and build teeth. If he is a mother-in-law, I will buy some money. He will go out of the palace to drink the northwest wind? You It’s hard to understand without children.”

The two were talking, when they saw Depin leave the table and go up, and said something to the Empress Dowager, after the old man nodded, she took the maid and left, and when she left the seat, she looked at the emperor, the two of them were gentle like no one else With a smile, Concubine Tong Gui and Concubine Wen were silent, and it took a long time to hear Concubine Wen quietly say: "Ah Ling said it would be great if I wanted Brother Six, but unfortunately I didn't have time... After all, concubines are not as lucky as concubines." .”

Concubine Tong pretended not to hear, but her heart was tense, Wu Yashi's words seemed to ring in her ears again that day, but she couldn't figure out whether she was blessed or not.

Today, all the princes and princesses who could go to the banquet came, but the sixth elder brother was excited at the Palace of Compassion and Ning for a whole day, but fell asleep when he was about to come to the banquet at night, Lan Qi asked the nurse to take the baby back, and did not come at night Just to join in the fun, she must go back to see the child when she leaves now.

Everyone didn't pay attention to Depin's leaving the banquet, but soon Jue Chan left the banquet with an excuse. At that time, there was a lot of gongs and drums, and everyone was applauding for Wusheng's somersaulting, as if no one had noticed her departure.

Xianghe followed behind. The Ningshou Palace was no bigger than the East and West Six Palaces, and the pavilion was more spacious. The master and servant walked for a while, and the drum music behind them could not be heard. When they were about to go to the palace road, Xianghe followed and said: "Slave servant Look carefully, no one followed, but master, you really want to see Master Nalan, in case someone..."

"It's okay, I don't sneak around, anyone who likes to see will see." Jue Chan perfunctory, went straight outside again, she just asked Xianghe to send a message to Rong Ruo to wait for her outside Ningshou Palace at night, but she didn't say anything Shi Chen didn't say where he was, but he knew in his heart that he would definitely come and wait, and sure enough, when he walked out of the palace gate and turned forward, there was no one there, and when he turned back, he saw Nalan Rongruo coming towards him, she immediately felt relieved.

Just because we both know each other, sneaking around will cause trouble, so it's better to "meet" outside the gate of Ningshou Palace. Nalan Rongruo was here to protect the emperor and strengthen the defense, so it is inevitable that he will meet his concubine, everything seems to be logical.

"I heard that Chang Zai is pregnant. I congratulate you." The two stood not far from each other, Xiang He followed behind to check the surroundings, and Rong Ruo was not with the guards, as if he had let the guards go and stayed alone Next, or patrolling Guanfang alone, at this moment bowed to Jue Chan and saluted, "I hope you always take care of your health. You have always been weak, and the hard work during pregnancy should not be underestimated."

Jue Chan smiled sadly: "How are you young masters, I heard that my sister-in-law is pregnant again?"

Rong Ruo swayed slightly, seemed to have the same thoughts as the person in front of him, lowered his head and said, "It's the concubine Yan who has a body."

"Cousin has always liked Yan Shi very much." Jue Chan smiled and called her cousin unconsciously. Nalan Rongruo was shocked and raised his head hastily. Seeing her poignant smile, he felt heartache.

"My cousin doesn't have many children, and the old lady has always cared about it. You should spread more branches and leaves for the family." Jue Chan smiled and took a few steps closer to him, because he passed Nalan Rongruo. Over her shoulder, she had already seen Debi leading someone back.

After Lan Qi went back to Yonghe Palace to see Yinzuo, she went out again after making up her fans. The Empress Dowager must have left early, and she still had to wait and send her back to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and walked over to talk and laugh with Huanchun. But seeing a man and a woman standing in front of him, he thought it was some prince and Fujin who were about to leave the palace, but when he got closer, he suddenly saw the woman in front of the man fall down, the man held her firmly, but the woman's face Protruding from his side, there was also a bright lantern on the other side, seeing Jue Chan's face, Lan Qi suddenly stood up.

The two of them didn't know what to say, the man gradually let go, and after Jue Chan stood still, he walked around him and walked towards her. Lan Qi saw that the man turned around, and it was really Nalan Rongruo. Wuming burst out with ferocious anger, seeing the unparalleled beauty walking towards her, she really hated it to the core.

"The concubine sees the concubine." Jue Chan's etiquette was upright, and he stood up behind Fu and said, "The concubine is not feeling well and is about to go back. The concubine is here. Princess Duanjing is looking for you not long after you left. .”

If Nalan Rong couldn't pretend to be nonchalant, he also came up and bowed his knees to salute. Lan Qi looked at them and said to Rong Ruo: "Your Excellency must avoid the forbidden palace etiquette when patrolling the customs. Your Excellency has been doing business with Long Live God for a long time. There are some things to say." I don’t need to say more.”

Rong Ruo frowned, worried that Debi had misunderstood him and his cousin, and was about to explain, but Debi had already left quickly with someone, without saying a word to her cousin, and she didn't want to hear any explanation, when he got up Turning back to look, Debi has already hidden in the door.Both of them stayed for a while, before Rong Ruo turned around and asked his cousin, "Miss Debi, are you still misunderstanding?"

Jue Chan looked at Rong Ruo, seeing his rosy complexion and jade-like face, he felt very comfortable, as long as he lived well, he didn't care what happened to him, when he heard this sentence, he even smiled and asked: "Is it a misunderstanding? In fact, she didn’t misunderstand, right? Cousin, everything right now is not voluntary, what happened in May, if I didn’t arrive first, it will become like that, I just want to leave Yikun Palace, and I want to take revenge on Guo Guiren for insulting you ..."

Rong Ruo took a step back in horror, looked left and right to see if there was no one else, and hurriedly saluted, "I still have important matters to attend to." After she finished speaking, she turned around and left, but her cousin's words kept lingering in her ears like a spell. , and later he felt that he couldn't stay in the deep palace, so he found an excuse to hand over the errand to others, and left the forbidden palace in a hurry before the Ningshou Palace's Mid-Autumn Festival feast was over.

Rong Ruo was afraid that if he stayed longer, he would bring trouble to his cousin. In order not to let his father send people to secretly embarrass his cousin, he restrained himself, cared about his wives and concubines, and even invited foreign businessmen to stay away from the capital. Entering the palace to help, I didn't expect that today would be like this, just thinking about it makes my spine shudder.

And Jue Chan naturally went back to his residence, recalling that short encounter, knowing that he did not misunderstand his change of heart, knowing that he was doing well at home, and his body, which was empty, heartless and soulless, gradually became flesh and blood, but she Touching his belly, looking at the gifts piled up in the room in just half a day, he laughed disdainfully and contemptuously, not expecting the child in his womb to grow up.

In fact, she doesn't care where the child goes, but she must not let the child call Hui Concubine Er Niang. That night, Hui Concubine haunted her like a nightmare. Hui Concubine deliberately dressed herself up and sent her to the emperor on purpose. She is so infatuated that she hardly knows who she is having sex with. She doesn't blame the emperor for ruining her life. , too late.

Xianghe brought hot water to wash her face, and said anxiously beside her: "Your maidservant is really stupid, the master just said that he asked Empress Debi not to let Empress Hui take away your child, but why do you have to let Empress Debin take away your child tonight?" I met you, this servant knows that you have nothing to do with Master Nalan, you are just talking to cousins, but what if Debi Empress thinks wrong, what if she goes to the Palace of Compassion or the Emperor to say a few words, you will be miserable Yeah."

"What is the heaviest punishment for the crimes committed by the Imperial Palace? Beheading, killing the nine clans, or what else?" Jue Chan smiled coldly, covered his face with a hot towel and lay down, and made a muffled sound from under the towel, "Don't say that I have nothing to do with Mrs. Nalan. If there is something, the concubine will not spread it everywhere. There is no one in this palace who cares more about the emperor than her. In order to save the emperor's face, she will definitely choose to swallow it by herself. Concubine Fornicating in the palace, what a green hat is put on the emperor's head, the adulterer is dead, but the emperor wants to continue living under this name, that is the shame of being an emperor in his life."

Xiang He was confused by what she heard, how could she know the emotional entanglement between her master and Nalan Rongruo who were constantly arguing and still chaotic, but Jue Chan lifted up the towel and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Fool, Don't think about it, the Empress Debi will come to me in a few days, if she doesn't come to me, I naturally have other ways."

Xianghe sticks out her tongue helplessly: "Anyway, it's still early, you won't be born until February next year, there is plenty of time before you give birth. If it's a princess, I'm afraid that concubine Hui won't miss it."

Jue Chan clutched her stomach sadly and said: "My mother's first child is a son. I don't know if I will be like her. It's fine if it's a princess, but the prince is the trouble. It's best..." Her heart shook for a lifetime. With the thought of killing, her whole body was tensed and her back burst into sweat. She couldn't kill this child, she couldn't openly resist the palace, she couldn't do anything too eye-catching, she couldn't let the emperor notice her ulterior motives... no, no, too much, too much There are too many, the only way to live is to live honestly and live well.

Jue Chan couldn't help but clutched the bed sheet tightly, closed her eyes in pain, and Rongruo's appearance just now appeared in front of her eyes. How much she wished that she was Yan, and how much she wished that the child in her womb was born for him.

On this side, the drum music in the Ningshou Palace stopped, Lan Qi was supposed to serve the Empress Dowager back to the Compassion Ning Palace, but she suddenly said that she was not feeling well, and begged Concubine Duan and Bu Guiren to send the Empress Dowager back, of course everyone was willing to help, She doesn't ask for leave in front of the elderly, and the empress dowager can't ask her what's wrong in public, and Xuan Ye has something to say with the princes and nobles. Go first, and leave with Huanchun and the others.

When Concubine Tong and Concubine Wen were respectively lifting their sedan chairs in front of the door, they heard someone from the concubines who waited to see them off said: "The concubine De concubine takes herself too seriously, the concubine imperial concubine and the concubine Wen haven't left yet."

Then someone laughed: "Probably because the emperor is thinking about going to the Yonghe Palace tonight, so I went back early to prepare."

Concubine Tong Gui sat in the soft sedan chair, pretending she didn't hear her, she ordered the sedan chair to be picked up and left, but Concubine Wen stayed behind, and sent someone to ask Eunuch Li where the emperor was going tonight, but she said to go to Yikun Palace, and everyone was in awe for a while. Looking at Yipin, she was very embarrassed, she bowed to say goodbye with a smile, and hurried back to get ready, the people here inquired about it, only to find out that it was because Depin said she was not feeling well, so she shirked the bed attendant.

Speaking of which, in order to avoid the tendency of becoming a queen, Xuanye did not give any guesses to the outside courtiers. The two places of Chengqian Palace and Xianfu Palace are usually stable, and he will not go to either of the two palaces on big festivals. After a long time, Concubine Tong Both Concubine Wen and Concubine Wen are used to it, but after all, it was a rare good day. Wherever the emperor went, he always favored and valued that place. Concubine De just shrugged it off, but everyone didn't believe that she was not feeling well, and said sourly that she was hypocritical Pretend to be a good person.

Lan Qi couldn't hear these harsh words, she hurried back to the Yonghe Palace, saw that Yinzuo was well, then washed and changed clothes and went to bed early, Huanchun really thought she was uncomfortable at first, and asked back and forth several times, I was still thinking about whether there would be good news, but Lan Qi finally told her the truth, saying that she couldn't let go of something in her heart, and she had to think about it calmly, so Huan Chun let her stay in the dormitory by herself uneasy In the middle of the night, because he was afraid of something, he changed shifts with the maid on duty at night, and waited outside the door himself.

But even though there was no sound in the empty palace, Lan Qi tossed and turned and still couldn't calm down. Today, she felt that the scene of Chan's falling into Nalan Rongruo's arms seemed to be engraved in her heart. , even though the opera was full of gongs and drums, she still failed to attract her attention. From time to time, she would go to see Jue Chan's vacant seat, worrying inexplicably whether she would still be with Nalan Rongruo, staring at her from time to time. The people who left the banquet were afraid that they would bump into them outside, and they would stay up until the banquet was over, and they really didn't have the energy to serve the Empress Dowager. Her abnormality would definitely be seen through by the old man, but she didn't want to say it, let alone say it. If you feel that Chan is really having an affair, it doesn't matter if she dies, if Nalan Rong dies, there will be other talented ministers, but for Xuan Ye...

"No, no." Lan Qi covered her head and rolled over on the bed, warning herself solemnly, "Stop thinking about it, nothing happened, nothing happened."

However, Xuanye did not go to Yikun Palace after saying goodbye to the princes and princes. He wanted to go to Yonghe Palace to see what Lan Qi was feeling. Eunuch Li persuaded the emperor to do so to make Concubine Yi hate Concubine De Then Xuan Ye gave up and sent someone to inform Yipin that he would go back in a few days, and then went back to Qianqing Palace by himself, but after sitting and resting for half an hour, he still felt weird in his heart, so he called Mr. Li to come to him and asked: "Is she What's wrong? Why didn't you invite the imperial physician, did you have one?"

Manager Li hurriedly said that he had sent someone to greet him, and said that it was good to have a rest, probably because the wine tonight was too strong, but while talking, he said embarrassingly: "There is another thing, I don't know He De Is it related to the concubine's discomfort? The little eunuch under the slave said that seeing the concubine concubine met Jue Chan outside the Ningshou Palace, Long Live Lord, tell me... Is the concubine jealous?"

In fact, Eunuch Li knew that there was another person, but he deliberately did not mention it for fear of causing trouble, but the emperor was very careful and knew De Concubine best, shaking his head and said: "She is not such a person, did she meet someone else?"

"It seems to be..." Mr. Li's heart was pounding. Although he didn't know the past and the past, it was not good for concubines and ministers of guards to talk in private. , "It seems that Master Nalan passed by on patrol at that time, and the slave doesn't know if there are other people."

But Xuan Ye said nonchalantly: "Rong Ruo and Jue Chan are cousins, Mingzhu has come to tell them long ago, saying that they were childhood sweethearts, and Mingzhu is a careful person for thousands of years, so I am afraid that someone will make irresponsible remarks based on this In the summer, I only flipped through the signboard twice, and he did the secret folding, which made me dumbfounded, such a trivial matter, as for the secret folding?"

Mr. Li felt relieved. The most important thing is that the emperor doesn't care. Once the emperor pursues the matter, many people in the palace will be in trouble. Fornication with concubines is a great sin. Since the emperor considers them cousins... he Thinking of this, suddenly a shock, Eunuch Li, who has seen all kinds of situations in the world, also has the wisdom accumulated in this deep palace, hurriedly reminded Xuan Ye: "Long live, tell me, my mother may have misunderstood that Jue Chan is often in the house with Na Master Lan, are you going to make things difficult for yourself?"

The emperor frowned slightly, he really hadn't thought about these things, but none of them were roundworms in Lan Qi's stomach, maybe what she guessed was what she thought, Xuan Ye unbuttoned his robe and prepared to go to bed, and at the same time told Eunuch Li: " Tomorrow's work is timed together, and I will save time in the evening to visit Lan Qi." But Eunuch Li turned around before leaving, and Xuan Ye ordered, "Let Rong Ruo enter the palace before evening."

In a twinkling of an eye, the next day, De Concubine also asked for leave today and couldn't go to the Compassionate Palace to serve her. The Empress Dowager saw it and sent someone to Qianqing Palace to ask Xuanye, knowing that they were not unhappy with each other, she threw her to Xuanye. Let the people in the palace hug Yinzuo, saying that since she is not feeling well, she is not suitable to take care of children for the time being.

Even so, Lan Qi didn't care too much, she didn't sleep well all night, her head was dizzy, she didn't respond when she saw Yinzuo being taken away, she curled up under the bright window in a daze all morning, she clearly warned herself not to sleep too much last night. Thinking about it, but she had been thinking about it all night, and now she still couldn't get rid of Nalan Rongruo's embrace of Jue Chan.Huanchun should have seen that scene too, but she asked Huanchun, but Huanchun didn't remember anything. It can be seen that only people with a heart will remember these things. Huanchun has no intention, of course he won't pay attention.

And with her appearance, it was rumored that Concubine De was pregnant. She thought that she had occupied the emperor almost every day since she returned to the palace. Maybe there was good news. It was uncomfortable in the Ningshou Palace, but in the end the rumors were cleared up. Where did the concubine get pregnant? Instead, she was sleepless all night and her pulse was disordered.

These words will also be spread to Qianqing Palace. Xuan Ye has no other distractions and has been dealing with official business all day long. Until the evening, Mingzhu exited from Qianqing Palace and met her son who came in with a sign. Since she had never heard of the emperor's call, she naturally wanted to Before cross-examination, Rong Ruo didn't know what the emperor asked him to do. When he left, Mingzhu angrily ordered him: "Go home immediately after listening to the errands. I haven't settled with you for last night. You are fine outside Ningshou Palace." What are you wandering around? You bastard."

Rong Ruo bowed his head and said nothing, the emperor was waiting to be summoned, and his father would not embarrass him at this moment, and he was frank and honest in his heart. When the crown prince came to deliver homework, the father and son talked filially for a while, and then waited for the crown prince to leave before Rong Ruo entered the study.

When Xuanye saw him, he was as friendly as usual, and said he had something to tell him, but at the same time, he called Manager Li to come in and change his clothes, and said casually: "So far, the floods in the south of the Yangtze River have not made much progress. There was a heavy rain, and the houses were destroyed and the people were displaced. Although the papers were handed over one by one, saying that they were being repaired and saved, but I understand that they were just talking perfunctory words to me. Didn’t someone say it? The Qing Dynasty had tens of millions of people, and some of them died. People don't care."

"The minister is terrified." The emperor said calmly, but Nalan Rongruo knelt down in horror, and explained, "It's only the young people who say such inhumane words. The emperor doesn't have to care. When I came back from the north last month, I saw the grain merchants in the north raising funds to collect grain and send it to the south. The country is full of flesh and blood, and the common people are like this. How dare officials be perfunctory when they eat the salary of the emperor."

Xuan Ye turned up his cuffs and smiled coldly: "You said these nice words to appease me, isn't it perfunctory?"

Rong Ruo was confused, and said with sincerity and fear: "I don't know anything about the situation in the south. I just said what I saw. Those grain carts were all sent to the south. The government sent troops to protect them from robbery along the way, and I also helped to escort them. It's been a while."

"Get up." Xuan Ye said, waving his hand to both sides to go down, let Rong Ruo go to the desk with him, threw a map to show him, and pointed to the place he circled with Zhu Zhu, "Where is In the disaster-stricken area, tens of thousands of people were moved out to wait for resettlement, and dozens of surrounding towns were also affected by the disaster, but they still had the ability to resettle the victims, but for the benefit of the local people, they closed the city gates and the victims gathered outside. A vicious circle, the once prosperous land will be destroyed."

Rong Ruo looked at the map with a frown, and the image that the emperor said appeared in his mind. He felt chills in his heart, and heard Xuan Ye say again: "It must be because I lost my virtue that I provoked the heavens to send disasters. Last year, there was an earthquake in Gyeonggi, and this year, Jiangnan Flooding, winter has entered and I don’t know where I will suffer, I can’t sleep or eat every day.”

"Yao Shun Ming Jun also suffered from nine floods and seven droughts. Is it the fault of the emperor." Rong Ruo squeezed the map in his hand, the young man was full of blood, bowed his knees and nodded, "I am willing to go to the south of the Yangtze River to control the floods for the imperial envoy."

Xuanye smiled, and reached out to help him up: "Mingzhu can't figure this out, how do you know how to control the water, but I still want to send you down to resettle the victims for me, and after three to five years, the water will be returned to the fields, where there are the most fertile fields." The land, I still need the common people to take root again and revitalize agriculture. Go tomorrow, someone will take over the errands in Beijing. You have been to the north once, this time go to the south. In two years, when I tour the south, I also need to reuse you."

Rong Ruo bowed his knees to receive the order, and when he was about to get up, he suddenly heard the emperor say: "Your cousin is very good in the palace. Mingzhu said that you are childhood sweethearts. I am not a stingy person. My son, my son, my daughter, who doesn't have a childhood playmate?"

"Your Majesty..." Rong Ruo's body was stiff, and he stopped in the middle, not knowing whether to kneel or get up, Xuan Ye gently pulled him, patted his shoulder and said, "Go to work with peace of mind, didn't you say that I am a wise king? "

Rong Ruo felt his heart stopped beating. He didn't realize how he walked out of the Qianqing Palace until he left the gate of the Forbidden City, holding the map that the emperor gave him in his hand. No one has been willing to take over the affairs of the victims, and told him that this is a thankless job, and told him to be careful when speaking in front of the emperor, but he... lowered his head and squeezed the map, and Rong Ruo glanced back at the majestic palace surrounded by high walls. I have no choice but to do my job well, just because of the emperor's words "not stingy."

In Qianqing Palace, Xuanye was about to go out after changing clothes, naturally he was going to Yonghe Palace, but the little eunuch who was going to deliver the decree came back in a hurry and told Eunuch Li that he and Empress Debi had gone to see Jue Chan. up.

When the words reached Xuan Ye, the emperor had no choice but to order: "It's okay, I'm going to wait for her to come back."