Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"Emiang, I hurt." Yinzuo's coquettishness broke the sinking, and Lan Qi lowered her head and said to her son, "How did the fourth brother teach you, have you forgotten it?"

Yin Zuo was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood in front of Jue Chan, bowed politely and said, "Jue Chan is auspicious."

Jue Chan smiled softly: "Brother Six is ​​so good."

Lan Qi pulled her son by her side, and carefully looked at the person in front of her. Now she is really decent, her bright eyes are calm and peaceful, and the sadness and paranoia that always floated in her eyes before can no longer be seen.What happened to her that made her a completely different person?But this is really good, a good person should live a good life.

"I want to go with the sixth elder brother and wait for the fourth elder brother to finish school. Where are you going? Let's go first." Lan Qi said politely, but this was an opening sentence, but the child didn't understand it. Said that he was going to leave, and immediately said to Jue Chan, "Jue Chan, go slowly."

Jue Chan smiled like a flower, of course she knew how to answer Concubine De's words, and said calmly: "The concubine went to the imperial hospital on behalf of the imperial concubine, the concubine was ill but refused to announce the imperial doctor, the concubine went to ask, please ask the imperial doctor It would be good to prescribe some medicines."

"Your Majesty is sick?" Lan Qi sighed in her heart, always wondering if she might be sick from anger, and sure enough, the heart disease needs to be healed by heart medicine, even if Jue Chan used the elixir of Ganoderma lucidum, it might not be effective.

"I've got the medicine, I'm going back to Xianfu Palace, I don't dare to delay the empress." Jue Chan stepped aside, Lan Qi saw that she was so polite, after all, they were not close, so she didn't have to ask any more What, after asking Yin Zuo to salute and say goodbye, he generously led his son away.

When the fourth elder brother came to school, Yin Zuo would cling to his elder brother and pester his mother. The maids and maids were waiting for the two little masters and wandered in front. Seeing the nobleman Juechan, the slaves and servants can’t recognize him, it’s really different, you said that the noble concubine is so troublesome, how can the nobleman still live well in Xianfu Palace?"

Lan Qi smiled: "It's a good day in the palace, but if you have self-respect and love, you won't have a bad life. She is right."

Huan Chun thought more, and said a little stingily: "Such a beautiful person walks around in the palace, other empresses and masters must say that she has ulterior motives, so please don't make any more jokes."

At that time, Lan Qi only felt that Huan Chun was thinking too much, but after a few days, rumors spread, because Jue Chan often walked around the palace these days, although the only place she went to was the Imperial Hospital, other women were still there. He couldn't tolerate her, and even heard that someone blocked her on the palace road and bullied her.

Lan Qi shook her head when she heard about it. Concubine Rong came to sit around this day and wanted to ask Sister Rong to intervene, but Concubine Rong took the initiative to say: "I have taught a few restless people a lesson in the past two days. Thanks to my temper, I still want to ask for help." Swearing at people with a cold face, Xi Concubine is too much, and she is not happy and even instigates some nobles to embarrass Jue Chan nobles. They don't even think about it, she is the eighth prince's biological mother, and lives with the noble concubine, It depends on the owner to beat a dog. He is not as good as a human, and his brain is not good."

Hearing that everything was settled, Lan Qi stopped talking, and Concubine Rong said: "They are afraid that Jue Chan will be liked by the emperor again. Speaking of which, she is good-looking, and there is nothing wrong with being liked, but I think she is as calm as water." Otherwise, how could he have come out of the emperor's tent in the middle of the night in Mulan Paddock? If he leaves, he will probably spend his whole life."

"She's fine now." Lan Qi responded lightly, and saw Huan Chun coming in from the door, saying that the Imperial Concubine sent someone to invite Concubine Rong and Concubine De to talk, and the two figured out that there was nothing important to do in the palace recently. When they arrived at Chengqian Palace, Concubine Yi and Concubine Hui also arrived not long after. All the distinguished people in the palace were there, only Concubine Gui was absent.

Sure enough, Qinglian came to report and said: "The imperial concubine is sick and says she can't come. Please forgive me."

"How long has she been ill?" The imperial concubine muttered in disgust, then looked at the four people present, cleared her throat and said, "The emperor just ordered me to make a list of the concubines on the southern tour. The eldest elder brother also goes, the seventh elder brother has inconvenient legs and feet, the eighth elder brother is too young to go, of course the fifth princess is still a milk doll, and the other four girls are old enough to take with them, but the children There will be someone to take care of you on the way, who do you think should go to the palace?"

Concubine Rong glanced at Concubine Hui, seeing her eyeballs rolling, she immediately spoke first and said: "If the four of you, the concubine, are all going out, no one will care about the affairs of the palace, and the concubine should not go. .”

Concubine Hui glanced at her lightly and didn't say anything, but she heard the imperial concubine say: "The emperor said that the empress dowager and the empress dowager are both at home, and there will be no chaos in the palace. If you want to, you can all join in the fun and stay bored in the palace all year round. It's hard work, it's the emperor's wish."

Concubine Yi hurriedly answered: "Since that's the case, it's better for all the sisters to go. There are so many elder princesses following, and there must be someone to take care of them. Sister Rong Fei is welcome."

Concubine Rong looked at her with a smile and said nothing, and after a little discussion, Concubine Huang dismissed the crowd impatiently, and when the four of them dispersed in front of Chengqian Palace, Concubine Rong said to Lan Qi: "I think Concubine Yi is going to No, the reason why I can’t go is because of the thing that makes her happy.”

Lan Qi thought for a moment, then remembered something, and asked: "Sister, you mean brother five?"

"The queen mother won't go, but the fifth elder brother wants to accompany the brothers. The emperor or the imperial concubine can't order that Yifei should not be close to the fifth elder brother. In this way, the best way to prevent their mother and son from seeing each other is one of them. Don't go alone?" Concubine Rong smiled coldly, "Let's wait and see, if Concubine Yi must go, I don't think the Queen Mother will let Brother Wu go. After going for a few months, the relationship between mother and son Fen Ke has been cultivated, after all, the fifth elder brother also knows now that he is the son of Concubine Yi."

Lan Qi didn't agree with the separation of mother and child, but there was a reason why they had to be separated, so she kept silent every time because of this conflict, Concubine Rong went straight back to Jingyang Palace after a few words .

For the list of concubines and concubines, the Southern Tour event, which had been cold for a long time, became lively again in the harem. The concubines and concubines were all rushing to curry favor, and even the few nobles who were always there were trying their best to accompany them. After all, they went out with the emperor. Walking around, not to mention the great favor, the women in their deep palace can get the chance to travel far away several times in their lifetime.

On this day, people from Niu Hulu's family went to the palace to visit Concubine Wen, who was ill in bed, and Mrs. Jue Chan hid in her own room, but the ladies were very polite. They came here to meet Noble Concubine Jue Chan, and thanked her for treating the noble concubine these days Jue Chan treated each other with courtesy, and soon after the guests left, I didn't want to go to see the imperial concubine unless she called her, but so coincidentally, the person from Chengqian Palace came, and came to ask Concubine Wen for the last time, do you want to follow her? The emperor goes out.

Others couldn't go if they wanted to go, but Concubine Wen asked two or three times. She could go if she wanted to, and she didn't force her to go if she didn't want to.

Jue Chan had no choice but to enter the dormitory. The woman on the sickbed was haggard and pale. The room was so stuffy, but her body was cold. What she did most every day was to look up at the sky outside the window in a daze. For a long time after Queen Niu Hulu passed away, her master was like this every day.

"Your Majesty, the people from Chengqian Palace said that they will come to ask you for the last time. The Imperial Concubine is about to make a list of escorts for the southern tour. If you want to go, you can do it now, and you can't change it later."

Concubine Wen Gui turned her eyes slowly, looking at the glamorous Jue Chan, with a chill of disdain in her eyes, she said coldly: "I won't go."

"Yes, my concubine is going to pass on the message." Jue Chan turned around to leave, but a cold voice came from behind, "Do you want to go? Do you think that my current appearance will delay you?"

Jue Chan's heart skipped a beat, seeing Dong Yun waving at her in front of the door, she was sensible, what to do with a sick man, she just turned around and replied respectfully: "The concubine is as usual, after serving the empress, that's it. Other people in the palace and other matters have nothing to do with the concubine."

"It's hard for you, but I listened to the truth." Concubine Wen's smile was sinister and terrifying, but she quickly turned her face away lazily, and stared out the window blankly, unwilling to talk to anyone anymore.

Jue Chan quietly withdrew, Dong Yun said gratefully again and again: "My lord, you are magnanimous, the master is sick and can't be in a good mood, you must not take it to heart, you are still in Xianfu Palace, so it will not be chaotic after all."

"It's you who are working hard, and you have to take care of yourself." Jue Chan didn't take it seriously, and went straight to send a message to the people from Chengqian Palace, and then went back as if nothing had happened, but Xianghe beside her was very upset. Convinced, I couldn't help but say, "Master, you will be wronged everywhere you do. You were not so weak in Yikun Palace back then. You were bullied at the intersection by those people a few days ago. It was not to seek medical treatment for the imperial concubine. Now the imperial concubine is giving you a face, this servant feels really aggrieved."

"Who is short of your three meals a day, do you have any vegetables and food? Have you eaten enough in Yikun Palace?" Jue Chan patted her on the head indifferently and said, "It's very good here, don't be fooled."

Xianghe murmured: "You have really changed. I didn't see you smiling a few times in the past, but now you often have a smile on your lips. Just now, you also smiled when you talked to your servants. Also, when you met the concubine Defei that day, you looked at me. Sixth elder brother's eyes are really kind, it would be great if eighth elder brother was still by his side."

But Jue Chan muttered to himself: "For so many years, every time I see Concubine De, I feel that she is still the same as before. The clothes and jewelry on her body are getting more and more luxurious, but the way she looks at people has never changed."

Xiang He entangled and said: "Ms. De Concubine was so polite that day, let's visit sometime. Look at the few empresses and masters who are good friends in the palace and Yonghe Palace, all of them are beautiful and respectable."

Jue Chan shook his head: "I am satisfied."

After that day, the imperial concubine gave the emperor a list of the entourages in the harem, headed by the imperial concubine, the fourth concubine Huiyi Derong, concubine Tong, concubine Duan, nobleman Bu, nobleman Dai, and a few newly honored concubines often agreed, even Wanliu Hashi from Jingyang Palace was also on the list, and there were dozens of people bustling around.

The emperor gave them all permission, and announced again shortly thereafter that Shengjia would leave for the south in September. The southern tour was once again on the agenda, and the officials at the front station also wanted to leave home and go south. Nalan Rongruo was one of them. But this time, he refused to bring his wives, concubines and family with him, and the emperor didn't force him.

A few days before leaving Beijing, Rong Ruo finally led her son back to the private house. Shen Wan couldn't believe that Mrs. Mingzhu would let go, but Rong Ruo assured her: "Emiang won't come to make trouble with you, but if she accidentally If you want to see your grandson, you can let her see it. You can live here with peace of mind. Brother Cao and the others will take care of you and will not let people bully you. It can be as long as two or three months, or as little as thirty or forty days. I will arrange everything along the way as soon as possible, and I will rush back to the capital to set off with the emperor, and then I will ask for an order to take you to go together."

Shen Wan no longer expected to go south together, it was a great surprise for Mrs. Mingzhu to return her son, but she was unavoidably worrying about gains and losses, and kept asking Rong Ruo if Mrs. Mingzhu would come to snatch the child back after he left. Rong Ruo knew her mother best, and told Shen Wan firmly that if her mother wanted to go back on her word, she would never agree to let the child come back.

A few days later, Rong Ruo left the capital, and Shen Wan guarded her son anxiously for a few days, seeing that there was no movement in the Mingzhu Mansion, she really believed it, and people from Cao Yin's Mansion often came to take care of her, and her life was finally stable.

The hot summer is coming to an end, and Lan Qi spends almost every day taking care of the Empress Dowager in the Palace of Compassion. The old man will not go to escape the summer heat this year, but she will spend the summer in peace. Last year, she promised Xuan Ye and Lan Qi that she would not get sick and not let the children worry. It was really tough to spend day after day, seeing that autumn was about to enter, and kept saying to Lan Qi: "Although you will not see the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River this time, you can see with your own eyes the people who are rich in fish and rice. The scenery is also good."

But after a few rains in autumn, the Empress Dowager finally caught some cold. Fortunately, it was just a little stuffy nose, and the hospital prescribed a few medicines and she took it.

But the others were looking forward to the well-being of the Empress Dowager, and not to let the emperor cancel the southern tour again, only one of them was only thinking about his own affairs.Concubine Yi has been worried every day in recent days. Concubine Hui came to visit her this day and saw her drinking herbal tea gulping down gulps of herbal tea, advising her to be careful of the cold, but Concubine Yi worried and said: "The emperor has come here often, every night like that, I dare not refuse. But the days are counting and I am about to go out. If I have good news, people will not congratulate me, but will only laugh at me."

Concubine Hui thought about the favored people in the palace since spring and summer. The emperor hardly touched Concubine De. scruples.Even the above matters are carefully calculated and so eccentric, to what extent does the emperor have to care about Wu Yashi in order to make him feel satisfied?

"It's a good thing that the emperor likes me, but I just want to go out with him." Concubine Yi rubbed her stomach with a sad face, "Sister, don't think I'm showing off, I'm really in a hurry."

Concubine Hui didn't explain what she said, thinking that it would not take long for her to recover, and she was envious of her having such an opportunity. She had already missed the best time. Being able to treat her well may not mean that I can't add a younger brother to the elder brother, but now everything is a fantasy. Although the eighth elder brother is smart and clever, he came out of someone else's belly after all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the first ten days of September, and Concubine Yi was really afraid of something. On the day of Double Ninth Festival, she was not feeling well in the Palace of Mercy Ning. The Empress Dowager asked the imperial doctor to come to see her, and said in public that Concubine Yi was pregnant. She couldn't even hide it. , this time her position was immediately removed from the list of entourages, and the others followed suit to go out and live freely, so she had to stay in the palace to have a baby.

Just as she expected, when the people in the palace came to say goodbye, they always had gloating looks on their faces. After all, most people couldn't accompany them, and now there was one person who couldn't go, satisfying the dark and narrow mood of many people.

Even Concubine Rong said to her sisters in private: "I was thinking about what to do with her and fifth elder brother, but the queen mother didn't say anything, and thought she had to wait until the final decision. Now it's all right, fifth elder brother can go out for a tour of the mountains." Playing with water."

In the days after that, the concubines all shunned their services, and the emperor had no intention of entering the harem. On September 24, the emperor issued a decree that all the people passing through the place should live in peace and live in peace as usual, and not move far away. Tired of nuisance.Then on the 28th, the emperor will go on a tour to issue an edict to the world, with twelve articles of grace in the edict, and the holy driver will set off on the [-]th.

The night before departure, everything in the Yonghe Palace has been arranged, Yinzuo insists on going to live with the fourth brother tonight, the imperial concubine agrees, Lan Qi is not easy to stop, the emperor does not enter the harem in the Qianqing Palace, she is rare It was a clean night, but thinking about leaving tomorrow, I was so excited that I couldn't fall asleep. Huanchun Luzhu and the others were also excited, and the master and servants just nestled on the kang and talked.

Gossiping until midnight, she was a little tired, Huan Chun repeatedly advised Lan Qi to go to bed and rest, but not long after she lay down, Lu Zhu rushed over suddenly, bluffing Lan Qi and thinking it was a big deal, but she heard Lu Zhu talk about Changchun Gong Lianye summoned the imperial physician, and the eighth elder brother was seriously ill.

"Eighth elder brother is sick?" Huan Chun said when he heard it, "Is Concubine Hui leaving tomorrow?"

As Huanchun thought, when all the concubines followed the imperial concubine to the Palace of Compassion to say goodbye the next day, the Empress Dowager told everyone that the eighth elder brother was ill and Concubine Hui could not accompany him. The emperor and Princess Elder Brother have less manpower, and everyone who is going to accompany them must be more attentive.He even told him to have a demeanor outside, not to be jealous, and to persuade the emperor to take care of his health. After talking like this for half an hour, he sent everyone away.

When she got out of the Compassionate Ning Palace, the imperial concubine looked at the women and sneered: "The jealous ones didn't follow, the empress dowager really wasted all her time saying these things."

The people didn't dare to say anything, they only waited for the imperial concubine to get on the chariot first, and when the concubine Rong and the others dispersed, they said to each other: "Concubine Yi and Concubine Hui are really unlucky, this is all right, they can continue to be companions again, it's really great I know how uncomfortable the two of you feel at this moment."