Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"When was she really proud? It was just playing her temper in front of you and acting like a baby. From when I was young to now, I have seen the so-called favorite concubine. She has never looked like her. They say that I am partial to her, but I am not the same After a few years of cold eyes, I really fell in love with her. At that time, Su Mala only said she was good, but I calmly said that I was just pretending." When the Empress Dowager mentioned Lan Qi, her heart was warm and her face was full of kindness, Smiling to Xuan Ye, "With her by your side, you can work at ease in the previous court. Among the grandsons and daughter-in-laws, she is the only one who is the best."

Xuan Ye was of course happy, and after a few gossips, Aunt Su Mala brought people from the imperial hospital to report that a delivery room had been arranged in Xianfu Palace, and asked the emperor not to go to Xianfu Palace again in the near future, because Jue Chan is always there. Birth is imminent.

But mentioning this person, the Empress Dowager said: "This Jue Chan's appearance is too enchanting, I don't like it, don't blame the emperor's grandmother for being nagging, you have to be careful."

Xuan Ye was indifferent, and only said: "Grandma, don't worry."

In the blink of an eye, the first month has passed, and the fifth day of February is Yinzuo's birthday. Because the three-year memorial service of Empress Niu Hulu is coming soon, and the extravagant banquet on the New Year's Day costs a lot of money, and the queen mother did not give the fifth elder brother Yinqi a banquet. At that time, Lan Qi resigned from the empress dowager's kindness, and did not give her son a big birthday party, but took Yinzuo to the Cining Palace early in the morning to kowtow to the empress dowager and the empress dowager.

The little guy is now wobbly and can walk a few steps. He is strong and healthy. When it was difficult in the past year and today, everyone sweated for the mother and child. A year passed in the blink of an eye. The longer the child, the better, and the empress dowager even more It's 10 minutes of love, and she said that when Yin Zuo grows up, she will teach her personally.

The queen mother loves to put them together because the fifth and sixth elder brothers are about the same age. They are all chubby and tiger-headed. Yinzuo looks better, and when he is with the younger brother, he looks like twins. , Today also gave Yin Zuo a big reward, and said to Lan Qi: "I hope they grow up, and they will go to the study together to study and practice martial arts together in the future. They must be the closest brothers."

After saying a few words affectionately, Lan Qi was about to take the child away. Although the banquet was not extravagant, the Yonghe Palace still prepared a table to invite all the palaces to gather together. She asked for wine and ate.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager did not keep her, and waited for Lan Qi to return to the Yonghe Palace with the child in her arms before changing Yinzuo's clothes, when Yinzhen's voice was heard in the yard, and the baby's voice called "Mrs. De" childishly, Putting down Yinzuo and coming out to see, the little guy was dressed in an auspicious suit, holding a new cloth tiger in his hand, no longer a stranger before, when he saw her, he wobbled towards Lan Qi to hug her, and waved the cloth tiger Said: "Give it to my younger brother, and give the cloth tiger to my younger brother."

Lan Qi came in with him in her arms, Yinzuo was excited when he saw his brother, Yinzhen stuffed the cloth tiger to him, and said proudly: "Er Niang made it, give it to my brother."

The nurses and nurses accompanying Yinzhen also came in and put down the formal congratulatory gifts, saying that it was a congratulatory gift from the imperial concubine for the sixth elder brother's first birthday. Lan Qi then said that she should go and invite the imperial concubine to sit down, but the wet nurse smiled awkwardly: "Your Majesty, she is not feeling well, and she said that I would also invite De Concubine Madam to come and sit down sometime."

"That's fine." Lan Qi didn't dare to force her, she turned around to take care of her two sons, and soon Concubine Rong, Concubine Duan, and Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi all arrived. Face, of course, is also for the empress dowager and the emperor.

When women get together, they will inevitably gossip. The children are playing in Yinzuo's room before the meal is set, and everyone is sitting around drinking tea and eating snacks. For example, the nobleman An and the like, now the status is not high or low, and there is no taboo in speaking, and the food is good. I am lucky to be blessed by misfortune. Seeing that she is here today, someone said sourly: "Why is the fifth elder brother not here? Didn't the queen mother send the fifth elder brother to have a reunion with brothers and sisters?"

Concubine Yi at the side really changed her face, she lowered her head and pinched the big pomegranate in her hand, making her hand full of bright red juice, Concubine Hui was sitting next to her, and softly advised: "There will always be someone who will break their mouths, don't worry about her." ?”

And Lan Qi was the one being asked, so she had to respond, smiling perfunctorily: "The fifth elder brother was in the Compassion Palace when I went to pay my respects, but the child fell asleep when I was about to leave. The queen mother said that the fifth elder brother didn't sleep well last night. Well, I can’t be playful today, so I didn’t let you come over.” While changing the topic, he called Huanchun to exchange tea, saying that the emperor knew that she had a banquet today, and gave him good tea and water, and asked the sisters to taste it, everyone knows De Concubine In the early years, she was only liked by serving tea in the Compassionate Ning Palace, but now it is very rare to be able to drink a cup of tea from her.

For the sake of fun, I put the tea stoves in the hall, and watched her serve the tea set and make tea together, talking and laughing to ease the embarrassment just now, but when the tea was almost ready, Ziyu hurried in and said with an inexplicable face: "Your Majesty, Mrs. Guo is here." , Let’s congratulate Sixth Brother.”

Lan Qi didn't think much about it for a moment, she just smiled and said: "Please hurry up." But someone beside her said quietly, "Long live Lord let go of your mouth and let Guo Guiren go out?"

Someone even asked: "Miss Yipin, has the emperor let go?"

Everyone looked at Yipin in unison, she was full of embarrassment, at least it didn't happen before she went out, maybe the emperor suddenly let go now, but it was too coincidental, she didn't believe it.

But the people from the Yonghe Palace had already gone to greet him, and they saw Guo Guiren coming in. The originally glamorous man had lost a few circles of weight and his face was haggard, and he even put on heavy makeup inappropriately. With scarlet lips and pale skin, everyone could see it. Everyone was taken aback, and Mrs. An even said: "Sister Guo, what's wrong, it makes people panic."

Lan Qi has the way of hospitality, so she asked Huan Chun to arrange a seat for her, but the little palace maid moved the chair, but saw Mrs. An pulled a few Chang Zai and agreed, "Put the chair here, we will be a concubine in the palace." He and Guo Guiren are real sisters, so of course we sit together." Then he said on purpose, "Seeing Mrs. Yibi coming alone, I thought Guo Guiren was not in good health and didn't go out. The lady is really too, you wait for the sister to come together Isn't it better?"

Concubine Hui glared at them a few times, smoothing things over and saying, "Concubine Yi was at my place to see how the embroidery looked, she didn't come from Yikun Palace."

Mrs. An was obviously not convinced, she couldn't be rude to Concubine Hui, she would still be able to eat Guiren Guo, she asked her with a smile without any scruples: "Did the emperor order to withdraw the ban on my sister? My sister can't congratulate my concubine concubine, It's a violation of the holy decree."

Even Yi Concubine asked: "Mr. An Gui is right, if not, you should be happy and go back, otherwise it will be the fault of De Concubine Empress."

Guo Guiren glanced at her coldly, his eyes were dead silent, his chapped but thickly rouged lips twitched, and he said gloomily: "Of course it was the emperor's decree, the emperor said today is a good day for Sixth Brother, my minister The concubine should also join in the fun, don't you think the empress doesn't like to see the concubine go out?"

Concubine Yi was choked by her words, she turned her face away and said nothing, but Mrs. An smiled beside her: "What do you say, sisters... like looking at enemies."

"Mr. An, I want to go and see if the princesses are bullying my younger brother. Will you go?" Concubine Duan stood up and left her seat, winked at Mr. An, and took this speech away without hesitation.

Out of the door, Concubine Duan pulled An Gui and said: "We were all in the palace in the early years, don't blame me for not reminding you, what can Concubine Yi really do to you, what can you do? He has a higher status than you, you For a moment of pleasure, she doesn't care about being magnanimous. If she cares about punishing you, you will lose face in the palace for many years. Why bother? If nothing else, just watch Guo Guiren abuse Jue Chan and get grounded , you once abused Dai Jiashi, if you count the old scores, you can't afford to walk around."

Mrs. An was very unconvinced, and muttered a few words winkingly, and suddenly became excited again, pulling Duan Concubine and saying: "Sister, don't blame me for being troublesome. It's really not that I'm troublesome. It's my maid who went to the imperial hospital to get me I ran into it while taking the medicine, and said that Yikun Palace asked someone to take the medicine in private at the Imperial Hospital, and I don't know what kind of medicine they took, nor who it was for."

Concubine Duan was puzzled, "Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui must know about everything in the Imperial Hospital. I have never heard anything strange from Sister Rong."

Mrs. An was still a little excited, and said softly: "Where is Concubine Hui? There is no one like her and the red-topped white. These days, Concubine Yi is favored, and she almost trampled the threshold of Yikun Palace. Maybe there is something wrong?" Did Concubine Hui know, and Concubine Rong was negligent here?"

"Okay, okay, we don't care about people, don't meddle, you have to listen to what I advise you, now the palace is not the same as when there were few people in the past, you don't care about your mouth anymore, this time I can Pull you out, and next time you will be greeted with a slap, they are so young that we can't bear it." Concubine Duan sighed, "I'll only help you this time, as for what I said just now, I also did not hear it."

Mrs. An is the most timid master who is afraid of getting into trouble and bullying the weak and the hard-working. After being intimidated by concubine Duan's few words, she dared not speak nonsense anymore, followed by a few glances at the children, and then returned to the main hall, where she was about to set up a table for dinner.

Although Lan Qi herself seldom made such a lively event, she had helped a lot in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and she was very strict in doing it. She properly arranged two banquets in the palace, neither extravagant nor shabby.A few days ago, Xuan Ye personally came to give her 500 silver, but Lan Qi asked for more, saying that it was not easy for her to raise a son. Well, don't be too shabby to ask her to treat guests, as there is not enough money for him to pay for it.

Naturally, these boudoir sweet words cannot be spoken to outsiders. After all, today is a decent meal, the guests and the host have a good time, and after the banquet is over, they go back separately. Only the concubine Rong and the concubine are still talking, and the nobleman and Dai Chang are going After coaxing the children to take a nap, the three of them rested in the warm pavilion. They all drank some wine, and the blush on their faces still remained.

In fact, Concubine Rong ate a few more glasses of wine and wanted to go back to have a rest, but Concubine Duan stayed behind to say something. Now after Huanchun served tea, she took people out. The three of them sat, Lan Qi poured tea for them, and she heard Concubine Rong ask, "What do you want to say?"

Lan Qi didn't know why, she raised her head and heard Concubine Duan start to tell her what An Guiren told her, she frowned and said: "You have also seen Guo Guiren's appearance, how can this appearance be done without the imperial physician, but they obviously don't Please ask the imperial physician, why did you secretly go to get the medicine again, and what kind of medicine did you take?"

Concubine Rong was obviously not happy, holding a cup of tea, she just smelled the taste and didn't drink it. It took a long time before she drank it in one gulp, and said coldly: "Concubine Hui and I are directors. It doesn't make much sense. I don't want to offend her, and I don't want to turn my face. I want to work harder, but I don't know that she still has something behind my back? Thinking about it, there must be something, since the emperor got Jue Chan away Xianfu Palace, after she favored Concubine Yi again, she didn't bother to talk to me again, it's been a while, so it's not surprising if Mrs An is talking about recent events."

Lan Qi seemed to be devoting herself to serving the tea set, but in fact she had already thought about these words several times in her head. Thinking about what Xuan Ye told her about the behavior of the Hesheli clan on the night of Lantern Festival, she did not think wrong at the beginning. The hands that come in from the outside, and they can stretch their hands into the inner palace to do tricks, and they even don't hesitate to poison the eldest prince and trap the noble concubine for injustice, so what the people in the palace can do is even easier, but Lan Qi can't accept it , their sisters will kill each other?

Let's hear Concubine Rong sneer: "Since Yikun Palace made medicine for her younger sister, what are we worrying about, she is so cold-blooded and ruthless, if we intervene, her fangs are poisonous, she might bite back. This Concubine Yi is really Awesome, she looks like a good person, but she is so vicious in her heart? That's her own sister."

Concubine Duan said quietly: "It's my own sister who caused her to be hated by the emperor. Now that she has finally turned around, how can she let this evil be by her side? Let's see, the emperor pardoned her for the sixth elder brother today. Did it spread out in a few days that she was in poor health and didn't go out again? I saw the way the sisters spoke just now, and Yipin was eager to get rid of it quickly."

What she said made Lan Qi's heart cold. What kind of magical power does this deep palace have, so that her sisters would fight each other. Concubine Duan and Concubine Rong are usually very gentle people. They all have an attitude of looking forward to the show, but when they think about themselves, there is actually nothing they can do. I have heard it today, and I have heard it. Whether Guo Guiren is really sick or was drugged by her own sister, she will not explore it. Even so, what qualifications do you have to sigh others?

Concubine Rong finally told Lan Qi: "You are too merciful, but you can't warm your body even if the poisonous snake is frozen. For matters in the palace and other people's life and death, just look at it."

Lan Qi smiled slightly: "I remember."

Yin Zuo's birthday was very happy. Although Concubine Tong didn't come to the door, she let the fourth elder brother eat and sleep here. It wasn't until evening that Lan Qi felt that it was inappropriate, so she asked the wet nurse to send the fourth elder brother back, but Yinzhen couldn't hold her younger brother. She is willing to let go and insists on staying here for one night. Lan Qi is afraid that she will offend the imperial concubine if she pushes an inch, but Yinzhen cries and refuses to separate from her younger brother. They were at a loss.

Lan Qi couldn't laugh or cry, and finally made a compromise. She couldn't keep Yinzhen too much, but she could send Yinzuo to Chengqian Palace. When the little guy heard that he was going with his brother, he didn't even want his mother. The wet nurse hugged her, and her two little hands were still holding each other. When Lan Qi saw it at the door, she felt warm and helpless in her heart. Huan Chun said to her: "This is the blood relationship, nature."

The nature of flesh and blood relatives should be like this, but Lan Qi also knew about the struggle between her sisters in Yikun Palace, and it was chilling to think about it. Afterwards, she went back to pack her things, and her limbs ached from exhaustion, but Xuan Ye took advantage of it without warning. As the night came, she said that she had a hard time giving birth last year, and the day of her child's birthday was the hardest day she had ever had, so she should be comforted, Lan Qi knew what Xuan Ye was thinking, they laughed and played, and the two of them were happy all night .

Then in the next few days, Xuan Ye was busy before entering the mausoleum for the two empresses, but he did not enter the harem for a few days. On this day, Lan Qi was in the Compassionate Ning Palace for a day, and when she came back in the evening, the road she used to walk suddenly started repairing in the afternoon. Walking, they were blocked both front and back, and the concubines and concubines were not allowed to pass. Lan Qi could only go back in a detour, and the soft sedan walked slowly. When it was near the Xianfu Palace, the sedan stopped suddenly, and Huan Chun said outside: "Master, Jue Chan Always at the front, do you see?"

"Her?" Lan Qi didn't want to see her, but then she thought that she was about to give birth, in case she "offended" her, and she couldn't explain what happened, so she let the sedan chair land and helped Huan Chun's hand to get down, and she saw Jue Chan Shi was at the front, supported by Xiang He and another court lady, and slowly came over to salute her, Lan Qi naturally stepped aside and asked politely: "The imperial hospital said you are going to give birth in a few days, why are you still walking outside? "

Jue Chan said: "It's just that there is no movement. The imperial doctor asked the concubine to come out for a walk. I met you, my mother, just as I went out."

"I gave birth to..." Lan Qi just opened her mouth to talk about giving birth to Yinzhen, but she felt that it was inappropriate. She should not pretend to be the birth mother of the fourth elder brother behind the imperial concubine's back in front of others, so she changed her mouth and said, "It is true, you have worked hard, but Be careful too, see that your stomach is already down, it should be just these few days."

Jue Chan didn't mean to stop Lan Qi from speaking, but just happened to meet her, and now she agreed with a smile and then stood aside, asking Debi to go first, Lan Qi didn't want to say anything more, and ordered her to get on the sedan chair again Walk away, but the sedan chair went back, and after only a dozen steps, there was a commotion behind him, and even a court lady screamed, Lan Qi was startled, and the sedan chair also stopped, only to hear Huan Chun hurriedly say: "Master, Guo The nobleman pushed Jue Chan Changzai down, and he was kicking and punching."

Lan Qi felt like she was listening to an opera, and before she could open her mouth, Huan Chun had asked the little eunuchs carrying the sedan chairs to help, all of them were Kong Wu's powerful people. Hold it down, wait for Lan Qi to rush over to see, Jue Chan has already fallen on the ground, Xiang He is protecting her body, the little girl's clothes and hair are all messed up, another court lady next to her screamed in vain: "Blood, often It's bleeding..."

"Find the imperial doctor quickly, no, bring her back quickly, there is a delivery room in Xianfu Palace, and Po Wen should be here." Lan Qi pushed everyone around her to carry the pregnant woman, and suddenly heard Guo who was pinned down on the ground. The nobleman yelled "Bitch, damn it" crazily, and she was trembling with anger, commanding the eunuchs with trembling hands, "You, you all shut her up, don't let her bark!"

Everyone was ordered, so they simply drew a rope to tie up Guo Luoluo's five flowers, tore a piece of cloth and gagged her mouth, but Lan Qi had already been dragged away by Huanchun, and there was chaos in Xianfu Palace. Uncomfortable, stomach ache, and dozing on her side, Dong Yun urged her to get up and said something was wrong, and when she hurried over, she told her that Jue Chan was about to give birth.

The imperial physicians came in a hurry, and Mrs. Wen was on standby at the Xianfu Palace. Fortunately, everything was prepared, but she was a little flustered when she was about to give birth.Not long after that, Liugong was also alarmed. Concubine Rong arrived first, and she heard about Guo Guiren before entering the door. She seemed to be afraid that Concubine Hui would come first, so she hurriedly came without changing her clothes, and begged Concubine Wen to issue an order to put Guo Guiren first. The nobleman stopped her, and Concubine Wen said impatiently: "I don't care what happens to her, you can just figure it out."

So when Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi arrived, Guo Guiren had already been imprisoned, and those who guarded her were Concubine Rong's. Jue Chan's old enemies are well known to everyone, presumably it was for this reason, Concubine Wen sneered: "I usually don't even bother to fly crows here, it's rare that it's so lively, I don't know whether I should be happy, Yibi, you don't have to apologize , It wasn't you who threw Jue Chan down."

Concubine Ke Yi continued to cry about all kinds of bad deeds of her younger sister, not to mention that her own sister did wrong things to be perfect for her, but she even exposed her evil deeds even worse. After being patient, she finally ordered her to shut up: "I don't blame you. Naturally, there are judgments from the clan's family, so you should stop crying, are you annoying?"

He even directly sent Concubine Yi to leave, not allowing her to stay in Xianfu Palace, and sent someone to ask if she was going to give birth, but after going back and forth several times to no avail, Concubine Wen said with a wry smile: "Why don't we have dinner together, tonight is really good." lively."

But who is still in the mood to eat, Concubine Hui took the opportunity to drag Concubine Rong outside to talk, and both of them spoke straight to the point, Concubine Hui advised her: "The emperor favors Concubine Yi again, she is in the limelight now, sister, why don't you let her go?" If someone entrusts her to take care of it, why bother meddling in this business, it is of no credit."

Concubine Rong laughed: "I'll take care of people, favors are for you. When you get along with Concubine Yi, you should always hold something in your hands. It's best for you to handle this matter. You will always go to the superior later. Answer, I will take care of the person, and I will push you out to deal with it. At that time, whether it is for the empress dowager, the emperor, or the Guo Luoluo family, if you do things beautifully, both parties will benefit. Jue Chan is not a black man. Yashi, as long as the child is born, who cares whether she will be wronged or not? If it is the concubine who was injured today, we have to weigh it up."

Concubine Hui suddenly realized that Concubine Rong was waiting for her here, and it sounded like she was letting herself out of Concubine Yi's hand, but in fact she already knew something in her heart, that she was here to play on Concubine Yi, pretending to be a good person, and sending her off. Follow the flow of favors.

But things have come to this point, she has to take this hot favor, she has nothing to do with Yibi's affairs, and she also knows that Rongbi will not turn against her, so she gritted her teeth and agreed, "Also Please be considerate, sister."

Lan Qi just came out in front of the palace gate, looked up and saw them talking under the eaves, the two of them were a little embarrassed, they came over and asked why they were leaving, Lan Qi said that it was Concubine Wen who asked her to return to the Palace of Compassion, and Rong and Hui spoke to each other. After taking a look, she said that the Compassion Ning Palace and the others were going to answer and let Lan Qi stay.

"Then... I'll have to work." How did Lan Qi know what they were planning, and she didn't want to be too reluctant, so she turned back. Concubine Wen was already sitting at the table eating, and when she heard that she was not going, she greeted, "Then Let's eat, isn't it said that it will take a long time to give birth, don't be hungry."

Lan Qi sat down, and the palace people came to refill the bowls and chopsticks. Her mind was full of the scene just now, and she kept thinking about the way Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong spoke. I couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, do you really not care?