Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"My concubine... I don't understand what the emperor means." Concubine Hui gnawed at these words, the hall was silent for a while, and then there was a soft sound of folds being closed, Xuan Ye left his seat and lifted the Bai Zhu walked over step by step, the place where Concubine Hui was kneeling became brighter and brighter, Xuan Ye stretched out his hand to help her up, the orange candle light shone on her face, but it couldn't cover up her original paleness.

Concubine Hui was terrified after all, her arm being pulled by Xuan Ye was also trembling, as if she had exhausted her last courage to say, "Your Majesty, did this concubine do something wrong?"

Xuan Ye spread out her hand, gave her the candle holder, took two steps back with his hands behind his back and said, "I don't know if you did something wrong, these things now, and the things before, I I had predicted it a few years ago, but everything happened too fast, and it all happened before my eyes. What about you, what do you think?"

During the questioning, I saw Concubine Hui shaking her head vigorously. After she exited the Ningshou Palace tonight, she will go back to her palace. Mrs. Guo is a concubine after all. She sent it back to Yikun Palace as a favor to Yipin, letting her take care of it herself.But the man escaped suddenly, and stabbed a maid in Yikun Palace to serious injury. This crazy woman fled around the palace with a murder weapon. Guo Guiren found it from the corner. At that time, he was already unconscious, and he didn't know that the blade he was holding had cut his hand.

People in the palace were panicked, Concubine Hui didn't sleep, she was thinking about whether her son would be frightened in elder brother's house, but someone from Qianqing Palace suddenly came to pick her up, of course she knew that the emperor couldn't pick her up to spend a good night together, Walking all the way anxiously, she still said these seemingly inexplicable words, but she really understood every word.

"After Nala lost her son, she was insane. She was supposed to be resting in the palace, but she drove to Yuquan Mountain quietly. I don't want to pursue the question of who is the mastermind and who is the mastermind, after all. No one was hurt, and the damned person was taken care of by God. But from now on, I will hand over Yipin to you, and if she has anything out of the ordinary, I will hold you accountable together with her." Xuan Ye said in Sitting down at the side, she calmly looked at Concubine Hui who was holding the candlestick, "You, Concubine Rong, Concubine Duan and the others all came with me in the early years, even if you were a few years later than them, during the hardest days you would have Yes. I will never forget this old love. At that time, I thought, when I truly rule the world in the future, I will give you glory and rewards, but when I can give you all these, what kind of home did you give me?"

"emperor……"

"Smartness is mistaken by cleverness. You are too smart. You think you have everything, and you think others can't see through it. In fact, those people who are stupid in your eyes are just not caring. They are just pretending to be stupid. In fact, they have already seen you through. Thoroughly, when I see you smug, you are always snickering behind your back." Xuan Ye's tone became more and more serious, as if he was greatly disappointed, and then said, "I can't watch you go wrong step by step, After all, you are Yinti's mother-in-law, the crown prince has lost his birth mother, and the eldest son of the emperor can no longer lose his birth mother, let alone bear the sins for his mother."

Concubine Hui looked at the emperor in astonishment, but he was sitting in the dark, and she was holding a bright candle in her hand, so she couldn't see the expression on the emperor's face at all, but the emperor could see all the details of his emotions. inside.

"In this case, I won't say it to you a second time, and you don't have to bear grudges against me. If I really don't cherish you, I won't say what I said tonight." Xuan Ye got up, came over and said Reaching out to take back the candlestick in her hand, "Go back, I have explained everything that needs to be said, how should Guo Guiren end it, you assist the Queen Mother to make decisions, and the Queen Mother does not kill."

Xuan Ye turned his back and went to the table, Concubine Hui called him again, he ignored it and sat back, Concubine Hui stood in front of him, Xuan Ye didn't speak, the emperor flipped through the two books for a long time Concubine Hui finally moved her body and walked towards the door step by step. When she was about to step over the threshold, she suddenly heard the emperor say from behind her: "Choose one of the vacant pavilions in the West Sixth Palace, and choose another one for Concubine Rong." The place in the East Sixth Palace, I will let you move in on a certain day, but I have not moved you into the East and West Sixth Palaces, it is due to my negligence. Just choose a place you like, and just inform the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Concubine Hui supported the door, her foot had already stepped over the threshold, when the emperor said this, she should have thanked her, but she froze for a long time, until the little eunuch in front of the door asked her if she could go Left without a sound.

Eunuch Liang, who was on duty at night in front of the palace gate, respectfully helped Concubine Hui into the soft sedan chair. After watching the sedan chair disappear into the night, he hurried back to the study and told that Concubine Hui had left. Xuan Ye put down the things in his hand, He got up and ordered: "You send someone to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to see if the emperor's grandmother is frightened, and I will go to the Palace of Yonghe."

Eunuch Liang quickly prepared and led Yujia all the way to Yonghe Palace, but when he was approaching, Xuan Ye suddenly called him over, saying: "Stop in front of Chengqian Palace, I will go to Chengqian Palace."

"Long Live Lord?" Eunuch Liang was puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask further questions. He turned around and ran to the front to stop in front of Chengqian Palace. The gate of Chengqian Palace was also locked and locked like other places, and it took a long time to knock on the door. , the people inside were terrified when they heard that the emperor had arrived. When Xuanye entered the door, Concubine Tong came out from Yinzhen's bedroom next to her, wearing a cloak, and asked sleepily, "It's so late, Your Majesty. What are you here for?"

Xuan Ye smiled: "You slept very well, I still wonder if you will be afraid, what happened just now disturbed you? Where is Yinzhen, are you scared?"

"What's the matter?" Concubine Tong was in a daze, she helped Xuanye to enter the door, only to hear Qinglian explain the matter of closing the door and locking it, it turned out that after she played with Yinzhen, the mother and daughter slept together, then When Qinglian saw that the master was asleep, she didn't dare to disturb her. She led the maids and eunuchs to guard the door, and there were guards outside, so she didn't think it was necessary to wake up the concubine.

Xuanye said that Qinglian did the right thing, but Tong Guifei scolded her: "In the future, you must wake me up, I have Yinzhen by my side, if something happens, who will protect him?"

"You're making such a fuss, what could be going on in the palace?" Xuanye was a little tired, so the imperial concubine called for someone to prepare to wash up, and when the busy people all retreated, the imperial concubine was shocked and asked Xuan Ye, "The emperor is worried about his concubines. here?"

Xuan Ye felt drowsy already, and said vaguely: "What's wrong?"

Concubine Tong lay beside Xuan Ye, covered him with a quilt, and said joyfully: "I think it's strange, I think you should be more worried about Concubine De."

"I know you will be afraid, so I am worried about you. She is too courageous to be afraid, so I am not worried." Xuan Ye said lazily and not very politely, turned over and said that he was going to sleep, but Concubine Tong was lying tenderly on him Asked on the body: "Can the concubine think that in the heart of the emperor, the concubine is more important?"

But after asking, there was no answer. Instead, the emperor's tired snoring sounded slightly. Concubine Tong didn't feel sleepy after waking up, so she tucked the quilt for Xuan Ye, and said to herself: "I But is it true?" After lying down for a long time without falling asleep, he still wondered why Xuanye came to see her instead of going to Yonghe Palace, although he thought that the emperor might do this to appease himself, to reflect the dignity of her imperial concubine, But even thinking of her just this once made her feel very satisfied.

Turning over and sticking to Xuan Ye's body from behind, he murmured: "Cousin, I also know how you treat me."

After a whole night of tossing, the emperor rushed directly from Chengqian Palace to the imperial gate to listen to the government at dawn, and the gates of all palaces were also removed. The Queen Mother set a time for everyone to go to Ningshou Palace to discuss this matter. I don't quite understand what happened last night. When serving Xuan Ye to put on her clothes in the morning, the emperor told her: "If you don't care, just don't say a word, just go to Ningshou Palace and drink tea."

So she brought Yinzhen here, first met the queen mother in each palace, and when she saw the queen mother coaxing the fourth elder brother, she said: "The emperor told the concubine not to interfere, and the concubine will not talk for a while, so don't blame the concubine. "

The queen mother also knew that the emperor went to Chengqian Palace late at night last night. Hearing what she said, she just sighed helplessly: "Forget it, don't say that you don't want to take care of it, and I don't want to do it either."

As for Concubine Tong, down to Chang Zai promised to gather in Ningshou Palace today. It turned out that the Empress Dowager sent someone to inform the Empress Dowager last night, saying that from this incident onwards, she also had to learn how to be in charge of the palace. call the shots.Although the old man didn't say it clearly, the queen mother also understands that she followed her mother-in-law and has been a queen mother for 20 years. In fact, she has never done a single serious thing. No matter when she was a queen in the past or when she is a queen mother now, the most turbulent years She didn't come out and say a word, not to mention that in the current peaceful and prosperous world, she has nothing to worry about.

But the empress dowager is old, she will go west one day, and then she will be the only empress dowager left in the palace, almost now the empress dowager is in charge, and it will all fall on her in the future, the empress dowager will also You are not young anymore, and it is really difficult to learn from scratch again, and it is such a tricky thing when you come up.

The six palaces gathered together. In these years, Ningshou Palace has gathered such a complete group of people besides receiving prominent concubines in the morning and evening Dingsheng. The Queen Mother was very uneasy sitting alone. After becoming the late emperor's successor, she accepted the worship of concubines in Kunning Palace. After decades, she could not remember the faces of those women, even Dong E's beautiful appearance.

"Empress Dowager, if you don't talk about things, the concubine will give out blessing bags to the sisters." Concubine Wen suddenly said, reminding the dazed Empress Dowager, she brought Dong Yun with a basket of blessing bags, saying it was to celebrate the eighth birthday. My elder brother was born, and there are eggs, peanuts, candies and candied dates in the lucky bag. I want to ask for auspicious coloring pictures. I posted it for a while just after entering the door, but the queen mother suddenly came to drive, so I stopped.

The queen mother sighed: "I haven't congratulated you on getting the eighth elder brother yet. Someone will send you a reward in a while. That Jue Chan family has worked hard. Look at today, but she is the only one who didn't come. What I said in a while, Just go back and tell her."

Concubine Wen smiled and asked, "What do you want to talk about?"

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager wants to talk about Guo Guiren." Concubine Hui suddenly said, wondering if she hadn't slept all night, her eyes were black and bloodshot, Concubine Wen glanced at it coldly, and said in surprise, "Look I'm tired of you, I saw two people yesterday."

Concubine Hui smiled wryly and did not speak, she got up and went to the Empress Dowager and said: "The concubine has ordered the imperial physician to have an investigation. Guo Guiren is suffering from hysteria. I don't know where this disease started. If we trace the source, it is probably because Jue Chan often left in the old year. When he was in Yikun Palace, the emperor was annoyed when he saw her abuse the concubine and ordered her to be grounded. He guessed that her breath was not smooth and she was suffering from illness. Now that the mother and son of Chan are safe, the emperor is happy that the prince is finally safe and sound. But if the news about Mrs. Guo was spread, it would be the Long Live Lord's fault. The outsiders don't know how to spread the word, and Yipin's sister's family is not easy to explain. She continues to recuperate and think about her mistakes, maybe she will have a good day. What do you think?"

The Empress Dowager does not kill, and Xuanye reminded Concubine Hui several times last night that what she said right now hits the Empress Dowager's heart, and the Empress Dowager repeatedly said: "Since it is hysteria, don't blame her, she is a poor person, just stay in the palace to recuperate. "But then said, "Concubine Yi, the emperor often goes to Yikun Palace, don't you think it's not good to put it in your place?"

Yipin got up, but before she could speak, Huibi said first: "They are real sisters, it doesn't matter whether it is convenient or not, if Guo Guiren is sent to another place at this moment, others will say that Yipin's younger sister is cold-blooded and heartless, leaving her own sister alone." I don't care anymore."

"Sister Hui?" Concubine Yi looked at Concubine Hui blankly, why things didn't go as planned, Concubine Hui looked at her intently, knowing that it's not appropriate to argue at this moment, and hurriedly agreed, "This is the best, or Sister Hui is thoughtful, the Empress Dowager can rest assured that my concubine will take good care of my sister, everything that went wrong last night was the concubine's fault, if I knew she was not in good spirits, I should have been more careful."

"It will be very bad if I see it tomorrow..." An Guiren suddenly said, but was sternly reprimanded by Concubine Hui, "Is An Guiren not in good spirits? The imperial doctor is waiting outside, do you want to call me in to have a look? "

Concubine Tong Gui couldn't bear to see her so powerful, she said coldly, "Miss Hui, she must have not slept well last night, she is so angry, the Queen Mother is here, who are you showing off?"

The atmosphere in the hall turned sharply down, the empress dowager felt uncomfortable sitting on top of it, thinking that if the empress dowager returned to Yaochi westward, she would have to accept all these troubles, and then realized that the days before Yinqi was not brought up was not desolate and desolate, but It couldn't be more comfortable, at this moment she had to cough dryly, and Youyou said, "Those who know what happened last night keep it in their hearts, and those who don't know are not allowed to inquire about it. I asked you to come today, and I have a few words to explain."

All the concubines stood up and bowed their knees, wanting to listen to the Queen Mother's instructions. The Queen Mother looked at the people kneeling on the ground, all of them raised their heads to look at her, and couldn't help trembling in their hearts. In these faces, which woman would Will you take her place in the future?But he didn't dare to think wildly, so he settled down and said: "Although Guo Guiren is hysterical, it also stems from her own tyranny. Today, if the country is governed by benevolence and filial piety, how can it allow abuse in the harem? From now on, you must supervise each other, regardless of your position." Regardless of your status, you can come to Ningshou Palace and tell me if you have abused concubines or even palace maids and eunuchs. This is not a stumbling block behind a criminal complaint, it is for the peace of the harem, and to prevent the emperor from causing trouble. Among them, although there are high and low, but they are all people who serve the emperor, so why bother to fight openly and covertly with jealousy? Such things are bound to be tolerated by Ningshou Palace. I don’t care about things on weekdays, so don’t think I’m easy to deceive.”

Everyone agreed and vowed to remember the Queen Mother's teachings. Seeing that they all lowered their heads, the Queen Mother relaxed, then looked at her valet, understood her reminder, and then said: "You are all good, I know , today is just a reminder, since we all understand, let’s go.” The queen mother said and got up, Concubine Tong Guifei and Concubine Wen hurriedly stepped forward to help, and sent the queen mother back to the inner hall. The two quickly withdrew.

After walking outside the door, Concubine Wen took out a lucky bag from her arms and handed it to the noble concubine as if conjuring, and said with a smile: "Madam, this concubine has a son, are you lucky?"

Concubine Tong took the lucky bag with disdain, looked at it, and smiled at her: "We are half a catty to eight taels, what is there to be blessed? But, the eighth elder brother's biological mother can compare with the fourth elder brother? What are you proud of? "Speaking, he returned the lucky bag to her, turned around and left.

However, Concubine Wen hurried up a few steps and forced the lucky bag back to the concubine with a smile on her face, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager wants us to live in harmony. You also swore just now, so you can't break your promise."

The two had already walked outside, many pairs of eyes watched, the concubine was not easy to get angry, so she took the lucky bag reluctantly, and asked someone to go to the fifth elder brother's house to take Yinzhen away, swaggeringly passed among the concubines, and However, Concubine Wen led Dongyun to send blessing bags around, full of joy, which was very disproportionate to the current situation, everyone reluctantly smiled and congratulated her, and only dared to disperse when Concubine Wen also left the crowd.

Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi left in a flash, Lan Qi followed behind Concubine Duan and Concubine Rong, when they came out, they heard those who were walking far ahead were often talking and laughing, vaguely heard that the emperor went away last night The noble concubine's Chengqian Palace and the like, Lan Qi guessed that she was also talking about her right and wrong, she was in a bad mood after being frightened all night, she got angry after listening to it, turned around and walked to another place and left.

Bu Guiren and Dai Jiashi followed, while Concubine Rong and Concubine Duan hadn't left yet, they looked at both sides, Concubine Duan said: "If she is really angry, she will be a little carried away. In the situation like last night, who is in the palace?" Don't be afraid, if the emperor goes to her place, the imperial concubine will definitely not look good today, and the emperor is doing it for everyone's benefit."

But Concubine Rong said: "How could she eat such dry vinegar? The Emperor will definitely go to appease her in the future. Let's worry about it." He even took Concubine La Duan's hand and said, "How about we sisters take a gamble?"

Concubine Duan smiled: "What are you betting on?"

"If you take a bet on Guo Guiren's life, you can live for a few more days."