Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

At this time Tao Hong came in, she also looked haggard from the torment, but she still managed to support the affairs in Yikun Palace, as for the two of them can talk well at this moment, she is not surprised, everything was planned before, Under Concubine Hui's instruction, her master hesitated for three or four days, and after the crazy Guo Guiren almost bit her, she finally figured it out.Guo Guiren can't escape death, don't waste it in vain, co-operate with Concubine Hui in this scene, and let her be a good sister who is affectionate and righteous in front of Empress De Concubine.

"Guo Guiren has been encoffined, should her eunuchs and court ladies keep their clothes, or..."

"What kind of clothes are you wearing? She's just a nobleman." Concubine Hui stood up wearily, as if she was about to leave, "Let's keep everything simple, Concubine Rong was just saying politely, how could she go to the wall and ask for grace for such a person ? Now that it’s packed, I don’t want to stay for a long time, anyway, there are rules for everything, you just cooperate, don’t worry about it.”

Concubine Hui asked Concubine Yi to keep her spirit up, then led the servants away, Tao Hong sent the guest back, when she entered the door, she heard the master say: "Call all her subordinates here, I have something to say."

Tao Hong responded, and within a short time, the maids and eunuchs gathered in the inner hall. Regardless of the embarrassment on her face, Yi Pin faced them generously and said kindly: "When she was alive, she was not very kind to you. There are always ups and downs in the palace, I want to take care of it, but I don't want to intervene because of face. Now that she is gone, you may have to disperse to work in various places in the palace. I thought, I still went to ask for grace and let you stay Continue to take care of Yikun Palace, do some idle things here, it's better to pass away and be bullied elsewhere."

Everyone kowtowed to thank, saying that Yipin was merciful, thinking that these court ladies and eunuchs were tortured by Guo Guiren, they were afraid of being tortured by Guo Guiren, and they were serving a crazy person some time ago. Yipin said that she opened her mouth to beg for them, and now everyone regards Yipin as a living Bodhisattva.

Yipin said again: "But since you stay here, you must be loyal to me. You should forget everything about my sister in the past, just pretend that there was never such a person. Don't think that I am heartless. Treating her very well, being sad and sad after death will only exhaust your own blessings, you also know that you will be well when I am well, and after I will take care of her for a while, Yikun Palace will still be the same as it used to be, Your Majesty I will come here often, you have to take good care of me here, and the people in the palace will not bully you."

Everyone pledged their allegiance with one voice, and Concubine Yi asked Taohong to reward them with silver, and let them continue to take care of their younger sister, and the Queen Mother also sent a decree from Ningshou Palace, saying that the emperor will now move two queens into the mausoleum, Guo Guiren's Everything about the funeral should be kept simple and there should be no collisions, just thinking that she gave birth to Princess Kejing, and Yi concubine is still here as a biological sister, so it is an honor to give the mother's pension to the standard of a concubine.

When the empress dowager's decision was passed on to the Palace of Compassion, the empress dowager had already come out of the Great Buddha Hall, and when she heard that the compensation for the concubines of Guo Guiren's family was given, she just smiled: "My daughter-in-law here is too soft-hearted. Such a person is full of sins. What do you do for her sorrow?"

Lan Qi didn't dare to talk with her, she sat down and served tea, then bent her knees to give the Empress Dowager a pinch, but she was pulled up and sat on the side together and said: "After a hundred years of me, there will be only The Queen Mother is the master, but when she was young, she was careless, and now she is caught between me and the emperor. She doesn't understand anything. I don't blame her at all. It is her blessing and her helplessness. But now I am looking forward to you If you have success in the future, you can take care of the affairs of this palace. I know you are smart enough to learn things, but you are also born with a bodhisattva heart. Lan Qi, let me ask you, if you are the queen mother, how would you make an order?"

Lan Qi was stunned for a moment, then turned her head around and replied: "The concubine will also do honor to Guo Guiren. She doesn't think about anything else, just for Princess Kejing. It would be nice if she was despised when she grows up. She is the emperor's daughter." daughter."

The Empress Dowager smiled wryly, and called Aunt Su Mala: "What's so amazing, she's also a soft-hearted one."

The nanny smiled: "You ask now, how do you want the empress dowager to respond? Could it be that you blamed the queen mother and pushed the queen mother's idea? You can't even say that it is not easy to interfere, how dare the empress de concubine dare to overstep. It is just a few words Didn't you hear me, our Empress Debi is not a soft-hearted one."

After finishing speaking, Mammy told the Empress Dowager about Lan Qi's doubts. The old man frowned and thought about it, then asked Lan Qi: "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

Lan Qi nodded in embarrassment: "I think it's strange, it doesn't look real, if the emperor hadn't told my concubine that he hinted that Concubine Hui was going to end the affairs of Mrs. Guo, my concubine probably wouldn't think so, but now I feel strange, what do you say How could it be such a coincidence?"

"True or not, you can judge in your own heart. I'm glad you can doubt me. Remember today's incident. When you manage other people or the affairs of the palace in the future, don't soften your heart when you see tears. Calm down." Come to think about it, are the tears those people shed really worth money?" The Empress Dowager also had doubts in her heart, but without evidence, she couldn't say that Yibi was just acting, but Lan Qi was very satisfied when she thought of this, and she was in a bad mood for a while They also broke up, and said with a smile, "Xuan Ye told me before going out, you asked him to invite people from Horqin to come to Beijing to see me, silly boy, there are not many people in my generation in Horqin now, and all the people who come here are Mao Zedong." Boys, I don’t know, what are you doing here?”

Lan Qi smiled and said: "It's always blood relatives, you must like it when you see it." Then she whispered, "It's not easy to invite princes to Beijing. The courtiers and concubines are ignorant and talk about it casually, but the emperor agreed. Li Fan The princes and lords of the courtyard will have to be busy for a while, so it can be seen that the emperor has his intentions, so you accept this kind of favor, counting it on you, it is also a favor to the emperor."

The Empress Dowager gently twisted her ear: "Your words are dangerous, remember, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, unless one day you..." The old man didn't finish his sentence, those words were unlucky and meaningless, and he spat in his heart After a few times, I just laughed and taught Lan Qi, "Don't say such things on your own, and make people find fault. If I hear it again, I will make you kneel in the porch as punishment. I don't care if you have face or shame."

Lan Qi smiled and obediently agreed, and then chatted with her, and only waited for the empress dowager to rest in the afternoon before she withdrew, but she seemed to be relieved, as soon as she saw the nanny coming out, she approached her intimately, acting coquettishly Said: "It's still Mama who loves me, otherwise I must be scolded, Mama, do you have anything you want to buy? There is still a lot of money that Long Live God rewarded me before. I will send someone out of the palace to buy it for you." .”

The nanny smiled softly: "Slave, please don't lie to you. If you dare to tell the empress dowager that Yipin is pitiful, and you have a younger sister so you sympathize with her, you will be punished again today. Poor people must be hated." In the Forbidden City, the word pity is the least valuable. Also, Chengqian Palace and Xianfu Palace used to be against you, but now they are not bad, you can loosen the root a little bit. Xian, and looking at the words and deeds of the other two, it can be seen that the really bad people don't show themselves."

"Remember, remember, if you say something anyway, I'll let them buy it." Lan Qi was tired of Mammy's acting like a spoiled child, and she didn't look like a master and servant. Only then did Lan Qi take Yukui and Xiangyue out.

The two girls were happy to eat and drink tea with the maids and eunuchs of the Palace of Compassion and Ning. When Xiangyue went out, she touched her belly and said, "No wonder Ziyu always loves to come to the Palace of Compassion and Ning with the master. The slaves always think that there are more rules here, and they don't want to come and be treated." Restraint, so it’s so good, it’s different from when I was here, it’s good to be a guest.”

These few of them are all maids from the Palace of Compassion and Ning. They used to suffer a lot when they learned how to behave with the nanny, but now they follow Lan Qi, and they don’t work every time they come again. Treating them with delicious food and drinks, no wonder Xiangyue said so.

All the way back in a good mood, when passing the West Sixth Palace, I saw someone moving things in front of me from a distance, Yukui said: "Mistress Hui will move to Changchun Palace tomorrow, and Empress Rong will also move to Jingyang Palace."

These Lan Qis also knew it, but she joked: "Xiangyue is thinking about the ladies giving you delicious food again, but now that the emperor is going to deal with serious business, and the two empresses are in the mausoleum, how can there be a banquet in the palace? You And wait, I asked Empress Rong to save another food box for you, hide it and eat slowly."

The three masters and servants talked and laughed all the way back to the Yonghe Palace. Lan Qi still sighed when the house was quiet and talked about the experience of the morning with Huan Chun. Someone died in front of her. Huan Chun asked, "Am I too hard-hearted?"

"I don't know, but this morning, when I heard that Guo Guiren is gone, I screamed." Huan Chun curled her lips and said, "Otherwise, if she is crazy, who knows when she will come out to hurt people again, and she can't be innocent just because she is crazy. Let’s tell the servants to see, and the lady Yipin also..."

"Don't say it, you are not what you can say." When Lan Qi mentions Concubine Yi, her heart palpitates even more. Whether it is Concubine Yi or Concubine Hui, she has to be careful with each other in the future. As long as they are in the palace for a day, everyone will look up Don't look down, Xuan Ye has his own reasons for keeping them, just like Concubine Tong Gui was so arrogant and domineering in the past, he didn't even frown, there must be all kinds of people in the harem to balance it.

"Concubine Hui and Sister Rong will be moving out in the next few days. Remember to remind me to give gifts. There is no need to go to Yikun Palace to pay tribute. The Empress Dowager said that it will be avoided." Lan Qi was conflicted again, "Huanchun you It would be fine if it was here, you really didn't see Yipin crying, if it was fake, how could she be so cruel? You can't say this to the Empress Dowager, but in my heart, I would rather Yipin was really sad and she was acting Show me, I won't be nice to her, why bother?"

On this day, it was not until dusk and sunset that things in Yikun Palace were sorted out. Guo Guiren had already been sent away, and there was no mourning hall in the place where she lived, but all the used things were taken away and burned later , and cleaned inside and out, except for the immovable beams, columns, doors and windows, all other furniture and furnishings were replaced with new ones, and even the paper on the windows was torn off and pasted with new ones, waiting for the people in the respect room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to leave. Only then did Yipin come out of the main hall with weak footsteps.

Standing in front of the side hall where my sister used to live, looking at everything that has been completely new without any traces, thinking about the past, thinking about the scene when my sister came to play in the palace when I was still living here, I still fell in love after all. , could not stop the tears welling up.

"Er Niang..." Kejing yelled, Yipin looked back and saw the little girl lying on the threshold from a distance, and the nurse behind her panicked and wanted to carry her away, but Yipin said, "Bring her here."

The nurse hurriedly hugged the little princess across the threshold, and the little girl came running unsteadily, threw herself under Yipin's knees, raised her head and shouted: "Eniang, let's go play, Erniang and Kejing play."

Kneeling down to hug the child, Kejing and her mother were very similar when they were young. Although the age difference between Yipin and sisters is not that big, she also watched her sister grow up. Now that her sister is gone, her child is still in front of her eyes. Maybe Kejing will look more like her mother in ten years' time.Thinking of this, Yipin's heart suddenly trembled. She kept telling everyone in the palace to forget Guo Guiren, but as long as Ke Jing was around, she would always have the shadow of her own mother.

Pushing the child away involuntarily, the little princess froze for a moment, holding her mouth feeling wronged, and leaned over to act like a spoiled child, her mother and her mother kept yelling, although Guo Gui would confess to her daughter that she was the biological mother from time to time, but because of the surrounding Most of them are good at persuasion, and most of them listen to the teachings of nurses. The little princess only recognizes Yipin as her own mother, and doesn't know what a biological mother is.

"Emiang, go play." The little girl took Yipin's hand, but Yipin fell to the ground. Seeing his mother like this, Kejing was very scared, and cried while holding back his mouth. Yipin also choked up, mumbled Said clearly, "Cry, cry loudly, your mother is gone, you should cry."

Crying and crying, she still held the baby in her arms. Everything these days was like a dream. She finally compromised with Concubine Hui and insisted on saving her sister's life for a few days, but she was so crazy that she even She almost bit herself, Concubine Hui tried to persuade her again and again, saying that keeping it was a burden and a disaster. When she thought that because of her sister, Yikun Palace would become a cold palace in the future, she became afraid and hesitated, as she said She doesn't want to be a resentful woman like Concubine Zhao, she wants to live in the palace in a glorious manner, her younger sister will die, she can't deal with concubines Hui, and the emperor.

"Kejing, you, Ama, are so ruthless, he is so ruthless." Yipin hugged the child and cried loudly, Kejing was so frightened that Kejing trembled all over, Tao Hong and the wet nurse rushed to persuade him, but this time, Yipin really cried Passed out.

In the morning, in order to keep Wu Yashi, she pretended to pass out. This time, she really fell into the darkness, but she dreamed of her younger sister showing her teeth and claws. She woke up in the middle of the night sweating. The maid on duty outside heard the movement and waited Before holding the lamp and coming in, I heard crying in the darkness, someone died in Yikun Palace, so frightened that the palace maid knocked down the candlestick, almost causing disaster.