Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"Now that Concubine Wen is in Chengqian Palace, the imperial physician has gone to invite her. Because she knows that the emperor is in Yonghe Palace, so Concubine Gui sent someone to report." Eunuch Li looked at the emperor with a questioning expression, asking roughly The emperor went to take a look.

And Xuan Ye seemed reluctant, it would be fine if it was a normal day, but today he mentioned the matter of Concubine Wen's contraception to the imperial grandmother, not to mention his guilty conscience, anyway, he was unhappy and didn't want to see her.

Seeing this situation, Eunuch Li had no choice but to say: "We all know that you are here, Lord Long Live, but I think it's nothing important, so I'd better go over and have a look, otherwise, people don't know what to think about Empress Debi, what do you think? "

Xuan Ye was annoyed: "Now even what I do is restrained?" Even so, the emperor still left, but Yin Zuo pestered Ama, so Xuan Ye simply led him to Chengqian Palace.

Concubine Tong Guifei saw the emperor bringing the sixth elder brother here, and couldn't understand the situation, but Xuan Ye said gently: "He has been talking about elder brother, I happened to come over, and brought them to play together. You taught Yinzhen very well Well, the younger brothers have started pestering him."

Concubine Tong laughed: "The emperor taught me well." Then she led the emperor to the inner hall, and said inexplicably, "Concubine Wen is really strange, how did the concubine know that she would climb up by herself, and the servants below should die. No one stopped her. But don't worry, Your Majesty, she won't die, the imperial doctor said she fainted from fright and didn't even break her arms and legs."

"That's good." Xuan Ye was not happy at first, but the concubine's words made him smile a little, and after entering the inner palace, Concubine Wen had already woken up, and she was ashamed and happy to see the emperor, but before they waited Concubine Tong Gui said, "Since you woke up and didn't break it, go back quickly."

Concubine Wen nodded pitifully and said nothing, Xuan Ye asked her a few times, and told her not to do such stupid things again, while Concubine Tong deliberately said from the side: "The weather gets warmer, and the begonias in Yongshou Palace will also bloom. No one lives there, you have to be careful when you go back to cut flower branches and set up ladders, if you fall again, maybe no one will see and no one will save you."

"Concubine... I remember." Concubine Wen paled and did not refute, she only raised her eyes to look at the emperor from time to time, and then said outside that the soft sedan chair was ready to take her back to Xianfu Palace, Concubine Wen looked at the emperor's desire She stopped talking, but she couldn't let her make decisions here, and was soon carried away by the people of Chengqian Palace.

However, Xuan Ye and Concubine Tong sent them to the door, watching her get on the sedan chair and walk away before turning back. The concubine thought that the emperor would go back to Yonghe Palace immediately, but unexpectedly, she accompanied her and played with the two children for a long time , and then let the wet nurse carry the sixth elder brother back, while he went back to the Qianqing Palace.

Such a commotion caused the emperor to stay in Chengqian Palace all afternoon. When Lan Qi woke up and heard about this, she rubbed her knees and muttered: "There are pear blossoms everywhere in the palace. Well, it’s not necessarily so strange that you have to come here to cut it, Concubine Wen climbed the tree by herself?”

"The ladder I set up didn't stand firmly, and I fell down. I heard that I didn't climb high, so the fall was not heavy." Huan Chun took the prepared ointment and rubbed it on Lan Qi's knees, telling her not to move.

Lan Qi slowly thought about Concubine Wen's thoughts, about the exquisite dishes and snacks in her palace that were comparable to the imperial dining room, and about her laborious collection of dew from flowers, she showed her heart without reservation, obviously in order to please the emperor, she She is willing to do anything bothersome, but she doesn't know if she fell down on purpose when she came to cut pear blossoms today, so as to attract the emperor to take a look at her.

After all, I was no longer the little nobleman back then. If Concubine Wen wanted to invite the emperor away from the Yonghe Palace, she would not stop people halfway like she used to, and it would be impossible to barge in to ask for someone, so she chose a good place and made a fuss. It was a good joke, but unfortunately the result was the same as those dews, it seemed that hard work was in vain.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Wen is injured, shall we go to condolences?" Huan Chun applied the ointment on Lan Qi, and then came to ask about this matter. Huan Chun was watching the matter sent to usher in Yonghe Palace. Only when she hesitated, did she come to ask the master.

Lan Qi shook her head: "The emperor hinted today that I don't want to have more contact with Xianfu Palace, and it happens that I don't want to, so it's better to stay far away in the future."

At this moment, Xiangyue came in from the outside, happily holding a vase of flower branches, came in and put it on the table, saying: "The pear blossoms bestowed by the imperial concubine, let you display them in the room."

Lan Qi and Huan Chun looked at each other, and Xiangyue said again: "The slave girl asked, the little father-in-law who came to send flowers said that there are them in every palace, and the imperial concubine is afraid that everyone will miss the pear blossoms in her palace, so someone will throw them again But how good it is, let someone cut a lot of vases and give them to the ladies in the palaces to enjoy."

Lan Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and Huan Chun beside her was already rambling: "Then we have to return the gift, our palace has been spending a lot lately."

"No, they all thought that being a master and empress is beautiful, but in fact, there is no better way to be an official. Seeing that the weather is getting warmer, I heard that those gentlemen in the Six Departments hadn't used up their charcoal tributes last winter, and the ice tributes from officials everywhere It's time to arrive again. I'm eager to spend 200 taels of silver every year, which is not enough." Lan Qi also muttered, "The emperor rewarded 500 taels of silver last time. I really look forward to Yinzuo's birthday every month. On my birthday I have never seen Long Live Lord so rich, he is also rich to himself, and he wants to see what he likes."

In the past few days, Huanchun has heard anecdotes about his master going to the market with the Lord Long Live when he was playing outside, saying that the emperor spends no amount of money, and a bag of money will be bottomed out in a long time, and he doesn't know where to put the things he bought. Repeatedly muttering it several times, Huanchun guessed that the master liked that kind of life, and only talked about it when he wished to go out and play a few more times, so he couldn't blame the emperor for his extravagance.

Now he said with a smile: "I just whispered, you talk so much, people really think that the Yonghe Palace will not be able to open the pot. 200 taels of silver is not enough to spend? Your 200 taels of silver in the old year didn't move much. You are all rewards, you have no place to spend money. Saying this now is just because you want to save money for the sixth elder brother."

Lan Qi nodded again and again, "I'm following Elder Concubine Rong's example, she said that when the brothers grow up, they will go out of the palace and set up their own houses. Although the imperial court will allocate money, they will have a salary in the future, but mothers should think more about their children. Saving more money is always a good thing." As Lala Huanchun said, "I will be blackmailed by the concubines in the future, so please keep me in the way."

Xiangyue didn't matter, she straightened the flower branches and said directly: "Four elder brothers will be fine. Concubine Tong's family used to be a big family in Liaodong. I heard that there are mountains of gold and silver. Last time I heard from the little sisters of Chengqian Palace, The money given to Madam in the uncle’s mansion is tens of thousands of taels, so in comparison, Madam, your age is really pitifully small."

Lan Qi was dumbfounded when she heard that, Huan Chun saw her face change, remembering the previous admonition, she was really afraid that the master would be angry, so she scolded Xiangyue and drove her out, and when she came back, the master's face was much better, and he listened to her even more. Feeling: "Xiangyue is right. I really found a good mother for the fourth elder brother. Think about my background. The rewards of the emperor and the empress dowager are always limited. How much money can I save in my life? She knows how to make money, but Concubine Tong Guifei is different. With such a big family business in the uncle's mansion, the fourth elder brother will go out to start a tooth and build a mansion in the future, and there will be a backer behind him. Concubine Hui Rong and the others don't always talk about the backer Thinking about it this way, our sixth elder brother might not be able to compare with the brothers in the future, for him, I have to make good plans."

"Your Majesty always treats everyone equally. Lord Baylor has a lot of salary. What are you worrying about? If the Emperor finds out, I will definitely scold you." Huan Chun coaxed Lan Qi, why did he talk about money in such a rush? Although the Yonghe Palace is not comparable to the Chengqian Palace, life is still very rich. The concubine is favored, and the rewards from above continue every month, and the daily expenses are also low, but recently they spend more. Chatty.

Lan Qi also sighed: "I just talked about the matter of Concubine Wen, okay, that's the decision, no need to go to condolences, it didn't break, right?"

In fact, although the imperial physician said that Concubine Wen was not broken, there were still scratches and bruises on her body, which was inconvenient in Chengqian Palace. After returning to the palace, Dongyun helped to apply medicine everywhere, and there was a big scratch on her elbow. Quapi, Dong Yun didn't follow, so he inevitably murmured: "The people who followed are really idiots, how can I let you climb up yourself, Madam?"

Concubine Wen looked sleepily at Dongyun applying medicine to bandage her wound, and said softly: "I thought that the imperial concubine would not agree to let me cut the flower branches, and was going to argue with her, but she actually agreed. I really couldn’t think of any other way, so I had to climb the tree by myself, and then I fell down, I can’t climb high, and I know I won’t die if I fall.”

"My lady..."

Concubine Wen said again: "I didn't faint, I just pretended."

"Niang Niang?" Dong Yun stopped taking the medicine in his hand, and looked at his master in puzzlement, how did she behave so well, and she started to do things out of tune again, what's the trouble?

"Dong Yun, how do you think I can make the emperor think of me? The emperor has been back to the palace for so many days, and he hasn't come to see me once. Doesn't he miss Eighth Brother?" Concubine Wen said infatuatedly, " Could it be that the emperor gave me eighth elder brother just to let me pass the time, and he won't come any more in the future?"

"You don't think so. It's only been a few days since Long Live Lord came back, maybe tonight or tomorrow night?" Dong Yun said these words weakly. She had followed Queen Niu Hulu for more than ten years. I've said it countless times, but I didn't expect to start saying it again. I'm afraid that once I say it, it will be the whole life of the person in front of me, and when I think of the old master, I will inevitably feel sad.

Concubine Wen said even more sadly: "I knew I shouldn't tell the Empress Dowager that my medicine was changed, probably because the Emperor really hated Ling and they didn't let me get pregnant, that's all right now, The emperor simply doesn't come to see me anymore, he must hate me, just like he hated my sister before."

Dong Yun persuaded: "The emperor has never hated the queen empress, otherwise how could he make the empress the empress? You can't think about it."

Concubine Wen wept, she shook her head and said, "I don't think about it, it's the truth."