Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

In Lan Qi's memory, the most Concubine Wen said to herself was "I won't harm you". The first time I heard such words, I was a little moved, but if I heard them a lot, it would only make people feel chills down the spine. .

"The concubine resigns." Lan Qi turned to leave, but she heard Concubine Wen ask behind her back, "I am just annoying you, why can't you get along with me like you did with Concubine Duan and nobleman Bu? I was thinking, the emperor likes you so much. You, your likes and dislikes must be similar, if you hate me, does that mean the emperor will also hate me?"

Lan Qi stayed where she was, and Concubine Wen was talking to her, so she couldn't just walk away in a rude manner, she turned around and said, "Why would the concubine hate the empress? The emperor would not. It is the concubine who knows the disparity in status, Only Duan concubine and Bu Guiren lived under the same roof with concubines for many years, so their friendship must be different from that of others, it is the concubine's good fortune that the empress is willing to befriend the concubines."

"Then why do you ignore me and stay away?" Concubine Wen anxiously approached and asked, "You didn't come again after drinking tea last time. Could it be that, as the palace people said, you hate me?" Repeatedly invited the emperor to leave the Yonghe Palace?"

Lan Qi was very helpless, and she couldn't tear herself apart from her. Even if it didn't matter what kind of relationship she had, or the difference in status, she couldn't say rude things to Concubine Wen.I just sighed in my heart, if Concubine Wen could pretend to be weak and cowardly like she used to be for the rest of her life, it would be great, such a person would make people feel protective and caring, but her so-called true temperament now is really unbearable.

"The concubine doesn't think like this, and your temperament is not that you like to listen to gossip from people in the palace. In this case, why bother to take the gossip seriously. Please rest assured, the concubine never thinks like that." Lan Qi slowly Backing away, Fu Yifu said, "The empress dowager is still waiting for the concubine to reply. What advice does the empress have? The concubine will listen to it next time. The summer has not passed yet, and the days here are still very long. There is always a chance say."

Putting this sentence down, Lan Qi didn't care anymore, before the rain outside completely stopped, she rushed into the rain curtain without looking back, Huan Chun, who was waiting in the distance, jumped when she saw it, and chased after her with an umbrella , but the road ahead was in a hurry. Although she was not wet, her shoes, socks and skirt pants were still soaked. She was so embarrassed that she couldn't go to see the Empress Dowager, so Lan Qi had to go back to her room first.

Shower and change clothes, wait for Lan Qi to tidy up, the heavy rain outside has stopped, and the sun is shining again, a slanting rainbow is inserted between the clouds, but it disperses when the wind blows, when Lan Qi calls Huan Chun to come and see, only the blue sky and white clouds are left.

"It is said that the rainbow is a bridge to the heavens, and the master is a blessed person, so he can see it. The servant is an ordinary person, how can he see it." Huan Chun smiled and coaxed her, and asked if he would go to see the empress dowager immediately, afraid of where? I was in a hurry, but Lan Qi lazily pushed her away and said, "Because of the trouble made by Concubine Wen, I'm afraid to go to the front and show my face, so you can go and say that I choked on too much lunch with the emperor." Now, let's take a break."

"Then you should go to the house and lie crooked, otherwise the empress dowager will send people and servants back, and if she sees that you are in good shape, she will make a joke." Huanchun agreed, and went out with her hair bun and umbrella, which is incomparable here In the Forbidden City, the palaces and pavilions are gathered far away, and in the blink of an eye, Lan Qi sits and watches the purple jade make a network, and Huanchun returns before a single purple jade is ready.

"The Empress Dowager is taking a nap, and Madam Su Ma is not here, so the slaves don't talk too much, thinking that you don't have to go there, and it's not too late to go in the evening." Huanchun said, putting down a big melon, laughing He said: "The servant girl went to fetch the well water. The day before yesterday, Long Live God said that the melon was too hot to eat. If I come again tonight, I will eat it cold."

"Why do you remember everything, I don't even bother to remember." Lan Qi smiled lazily, shaking the fan in her hand, thinking about the joy of the two when Xuan Ye came, she was in a good mood, and suddenly remembered the people.

The way Concubine Wen looked at her was indeed not hostile, but Lan Qi couldn't stand that cute and pitiful look, as if every time she glanced at her, she was saying: Can you give me some from the emperor?It's not that Lan Qi is stingy and careless, women are inherently sensitive to such things, not to mention they are women who serve a husband together, this feeling is even more sensitive, at least when the Duan Concubine and Bu Guiren are by their side, Lan Qi will never be like this think.

Thinking of what Concubine Wen said about Jue Chan's illness, she didn't care about the affairs of Xianfu Palace. She didn't know that she was ill until she came to Yingtai. She thought it was a natural cold and uncomfortable, so she didn't take it to heart. Now It seems that Jue Chan must have a heart disease.

Just as she was sighing, there was laughter coming from outside, and she heard the baby's babbling, and the concubine Duan was joking: "She is lazy, and now she has left the sixth elder brother at my place, and my place has become the elder brother's place. So it turns out Your master is here to benefit, and I am here to be an old lady?"

The speaker came in, Concubine Duan was holding Yinzuo in her arms, the little guy wanted to hug her when he saw his mother, there were tears on his face, Concubine Duan sat down and said: "I woke up and took a nap and cried so hard that I will not see you here we come."

"Thank you sister." Lan Qi coaxed her son, and the little guy lay softly in her arms, as if he hadn't had enough sleep in the afternoon, and was tired and sleepy, rubbing his eyes with his hands from time to time, Lan Qi coaxed him After a few pats, he fell asleep again after being patted lightly, and the wet nurse came to carry her away.

"A few children played wildly all morning and were exhausted. Yinzhi and the others are still asleep. I was afraid they would wake me up, so I carried them here for you. If you are busy, I will carry them back later." Concubine Duan drank tea and smiled wryly. "My ears are still ringing after being chattered by them all morning. I want to take a nap, but I can't calm down. Think carefully about what Long Live God asked me to do. Why don't I make room for you and act like an old lady?" ?”

Lan Qi smiled and peeled the grapes for her to eat, and said: "Long live God said, looking at the palace, the only one who can be entrusted to take care of elder brother and princess is my sister, and I am also frizzy. It is most appropriate for the children to be by your side. I don’t want to let me touch Long Live Lord.”

"Coax me?" Concubine Duan ate the grapes, praised it as sweet, and said with a smile, "Even if you coax me, I'm happy too. Sister Rong and I are not too young. If we can be called Long Live Lord, I will remember it. It's still sweet after eating honey."

Lan Qi joked with her a few words. She didn't want to mention what she heard when she met Concubine Wen, but she knew that Concubine Duan and Concubine Rong were close, and Concubine Rong knew the most things in the palace, so she chatted casually and hurriedly. Talking: "Just now when I came back from the emperor, I met Lord Mingzhu. I heard a few words that Eunuch Li said to him. It is appropriate to ask about their young master's affairs. I only heard Lord Mingzhu sigh, but I don't know. What's the matter, both father and son are capable ministers of the emperor, if anything happens to them, the emperor should sigh."

Concubine Duan really knew about it, she peeled the grapes herself, and told Lan Qi: "Before going out, Sister Rong came to explain to me about Rong Xian and Yin Zhi, and she talked about the eldest son of Nalan's family, saying that there was a big trouble. It's a joke, raising a concubine in an outhouse. You know, what is the origin of the eldest mistress of Nalan's family now, and she was married by the Lord Long Live. Although this young mistress has a good temper, but her mother's family is powerful, who can tolerate her own girl Wronged in the in-law's house? If you are brought into the mansion to be a small child, let's talk about it, you have an outside house to raise, and the two houses are considered equal? ​​People from the mother's family went to Mingzhu's mansion to make a fuss. How about that woman, after all, how many pairs of eyes are staring at her."

Lan Qi sighed secretly, such a thing really happened, and thinking that Nalan Rongruo brought it back from the south for thousands of miles, she must like it very much, no wonder Jue Chan would fall ill when he heard about it.Her old relationship is still here, and the family already has a new love. If there are young mistresses and concubines in the family, whether the emperor bestows marriage or the elders of the family, it is not Nalan Rongruo's woman who can make her own decisions. I guess Jue Chan Shi can still think about it, but now he has tried his best to bring back the woman, if he doesn't like it, how dare he have the courage to destroy the family tradition and keep it outside?

Concubine Duan ate four or five grapes, asked the maid to fetch water for her to wash her hands, and continued to babble: "Sister Rong said, the meaning of Mingzhu Mansion is to send this woman back, wherever she goes, but Nalan Rong If they don't agree, they say that they can either take them home or keep them in a foreign house. The father and son are in a quarrel, and the young lady's mother's family is still biting, and they keep putting pressure on Mingzhu Mansion, and they are one step away from quarreling with the Long Live Lord. Of course. Mingxiang is such a face-saving person, how can he allow this kind of matter to be decided by the Long Live Lord. But the Long Live Lord does not speak, and Mingzhu has power in the government, so he dare not make irresponsible remarks, so that everyone will not know about it."

"That's right, if I hadn't heard a few words from Eunuch Li and Lord Mingzhu today, I wouldn't have heard anything." Lan Qi responded, with a thrill in her heart, and said with a smile, "The concubine Hui must know."

"Of course I know, Sister Rong said most of what Concubine Hui said here." Concubine Duan said, "I heard that Mrs. Mingzhu used to walk in the palace swaggeringly, but when she entered the palace to see Concubine Hui a few days ago, she was very surprised. Sneaking away, I heard that concubine Hui cried when she saw her, saying that her son's future was ruined, so she asked concubine Hui to give her advice. We are talking here as gossip, and we dare not interfere with the affairs of the court, but there is something strange Long live Lord used to value Nalan Rongruo a lot, and he was always with him wherever he went. Why don’t he pay attention now? Hearing that he came back from disaster relief, the emperor didn’t even give him a compliment, but other disaster relief officials got rewards. It’s missing, how is it possible? There must be something wrong.”

Lan Qi nodded and said: "Perhaps the emperor has other plans, we shouldn't worry about this matter, but they are all women, I am quite curious about what will happen to the woman brought back by Nalan Rongruo, Lord Mingzhu, please don't be cruel. What happened to her."

Concubine Duan smiled and said: "If Nalan Rong is a filial son, he is really stubborn in this matter. We are all waiting to read the following. But you are right, they are all women. That woman from the south of the Yangtze River, don't worry about it." In the end, I couldn’t even save my life.”