Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Except for the imperial concubine, no one in the palace seems to like playing the piano, and the emperor rarely listens to the piano outside Chengqian Palace. I don't know what other people think. In Lanqi, it is only because she is the imperial concubine that the emperor is happy. She was fascinated by it.

"I heard that you have learned it?" the imperial concubine asked.

Lan Qi said indifferently: "My concubine has almost forgotten what happened many years ago. I have never even touched the strings of the qin these years, so I must have forgotten it."

The imperial concubine smiled weakly: "Try it? Maybe it's in your bones. When you touch the strings with your hands, you will remember it naturally."

Lan Qi didn't want her to be disappointed, so she responded with a smile, sat upright on the piano bench, and adjusted her posture and distance a little. Sure enough, as the imperial concubine said, she didn't feel strange at all when she sat down. It has long been engraved in the bone.

Raising her hand, she stroked the zither strings with her slender fingers, but only heard a muffled sound. Lan Qi was stunned, and the imperial concubine was also stunned. She didn't dare to touch the strings again. Out of tune."

The imperial concubine couldn't remember when she stopped playing the piano, at least she hadn't touched it in the past two years when she was seriously ill. Now she no longer needs to deliberately do anything to please the emperor, but now, she can't do anything.

"After all, the emperor likes to listen to the qin, but when he listens to me playing the qin, there is always a change in his taste. He understands it in his heart, and I understand it even more." The imperial concubine took a breath and said slowly, "If you don't Dislike it, I will give you this piano, in the future I will not be here, so you can play the piano for him."

"After my concubine learned the piano back then, she sank the Guqin that the Empress Dowager gave her into the lake, and decided not to play the piano again." Lan Qi said calmly, "It is my honor that I am willing to keep your piano. There may be people in this palace who will play the piano for the emperor in the future, but they must not be concubines."

The imperial concubine smiled wryly: "Why bother? I won't be here in the future."

Lan Qi looked at her piously, with tears in her eyes: "But why did you leave?"

Childish as a child's words are her heartfelt words. The hatred and resentment in the past are all over. The imperial concubine's devotion to Yinzhen, the emperor, and even all kinds of help to Lan Qi over the years are enough to make her life be destroyed. To be cherished is not to be cherished because of what a person has paid to someone, but that she herself is working hard to live, and everyone can see it.

But God is jealous of beauty, such a beautiful and proud woman is about to disappear into this world of mortals.

"I, Ama, and my brothers will continue to support Yinzhen in the future. You don't have to worry about this. Even if I'm gone, I can't erase the fact that he once made love at my knees. The fourth elder brother will still be the adopted son of the imperial concubine all his life. , People today will remember him for a lifetime, and he will be recorded in history in the future, and people from generation to generation will look at him like this." The imperial concubine said a long paragraph slowly, and after a while, she continued, "Only It's a pity that I can't give him a adoptive mother who became a queen, and your background cannot be changed, but I can obviously give him more, but it's too late and I can't do it."

Lan Qi said quietly: "Si elder brother himself will fight hard."

There was quite a silence in the room, I don't know if the imperial concubine was too tired to speak, or the two of them were silent, Lan Qi was thinking about whether to ask someone to find a violinist to tune the strings, when she lowered her head and looked at the violin carefully , the imperial concubine suddenly said: "In the future, even if you can't stand on the side of the child, don't hold him back. If he doesn't fight, he is worthless. If he wants to fight, you can't be partial. You still have ten 34, you must not As wholeheartedly as I am to him, it is my will, if you hear it, obey it."

Lan Qi looked at her and didn't know what to say. The imperial concubine still didn't give up at this moment. Is it because she values ​​Yinzhen and his future too much, or because the pride in her bones can't allow her to give up on this, but the person she is about to leave She can't say these things herself, how can she keep saying that she supports her son to fight in the future?

The imperial concubine turned her face to look at Lan Qi, her dying face was pale and bloodless, Qing Lian painted a little rouge in the morning, but the makeup seemed to float on the surface, but it showed her gauntness even more exaggeratedly. Frowning her eyes tightly, she waited desperately for Lan Qi's answer.

Lan Qi's hand pressed down on the strings unconsciously, and after a dull hum, she finally heard her voice say: "Chen Qie made a note."

The imperial concubine's eyes finally showed some relief, and she repeated worriedly: "Don't be partial to your little son, he has no shortage of anyone to love him, but Yinzhen has too many shortcomings, doesn't it just look like there are two mothers? OK, do you understand?"

The imperial concubine's obsessive love for the fourth elder brother once made Lan Qi worry that if the love was too deep, things would be reversed. Now such a thing has not happened, and she will soon die, but at this moment, a word still makes her worry.It is true that she cannot treat Yinzhen as attentively as the imperial concubine. In her life, there are still many things and people occupying her heart, but to the imperial concubine, the fourth elder brother seems to be everything.

For a moment, she would think sinfully, if the imperial concubine lives healthy and healthy, is it really a good thing for the fourth elder brother?

At this moment, Concubine Tong came in. The frail person also fell ill a few days ago and was sent back to Chuxiu Palace to recuperate by the imperial concubine. Seeing that she was still sickly, it was probably because she heard that the imperial physician was summoned in the morning, so she forced herself to hurry. come over.

"Why did my sister think of playing the piano?" Tong Bin said with a smile. She had been in the deep palace for several years, and her face still had the immature look on her face. She held her sister's hand and said, "Do you want to hear it? I'll play it for you." Listen, I haven't touched it for many years, so I don't know if I can play it well."

Lan Qi smiled and said: "The strings are loose. I'll ask the musician to tune it. My sister's skills must be better than mine. After the strings are tuned, you come and play for your mother."

Tong Bin nodded with a smile and agreed, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Lan Qi got up and asked the court lady to move the piano out, and then asked the Yuefu luthier to adjust the strings. Those things were done by her own servants, and she had to deal with the trivial matters of the Six Palaces. When she was free, she would visit the imperial concubine or Tong Accompanied, or accompanied by the fourth elder brother, what is different from the past is that none of them is sad.

Even though Concubine Tong is not in good spirits, since she loved to cry a lot earlier, she has always accompanied her sister with a smile, and she is stronger than she has ever been. With red eyes, she said, "She looks at me and smiles, so she can leave with peace of mind."

Unlike 11 years ago, the imperial concubine did not pester Lan Qi to say that she was worried about her younger sister. Except for telling Si elder brother over and over again, she did not entrust herself to take care of her younger sister too much, and Concubine Tong was not like Concubine Wen back then. She is so careless, she usually looks at her weak and heartless sister, but now she knows what she wants to do.

Lan Qi thought, back then, Queen Niu Hulu felt that her sister would have nothing to depend on because she was disappointed in her family?The imperial concubine still told herself confidently that her father and brothers would continue to support the fourth elder brother. If it was the case for the fourth elder brother, it was indeed for Concubine Tong that she would have family members to rely on in the future, and there was no need for concubines like Lan Qi to come. take care of.

In the next two days, the imperial concubine was sometimes awake and sometimes in a coma. The imperial physician gradually told the people in Chengqian Palace not to boil the soup.All the family members of Guojiu's mansion have visited the palace, but Lan Qi did not go to see the sad scene, seeing a white-haired man send a black-haired man, and she does not want to remember the pain of sending Yin Zuo away in the past.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, Lan Qi knew what was going to happen. Tian Xuanye had made an agreement with her earlier, because even if the emperor insisted on doing things his own way, it could not be accomplished with just a few words. Hurry up and do it today. It was announced that Ke Lanqi was neither in Chengqian Palace nor Yonghe Palace, so she summoned her sister who had not been in the palace for a long time for no reason, and visited Concubine Wen Gui in Xianfu Palace with her.

Concubine Wen Gui is now a carefree "child". From being insane and uncontrollable at the beginning, to now she really looks like a child. Although it seems scary that an adult's body carries a child's mind and thinking, she relies on Dongyun, Listening to what Dongyun said, even Dongyun said that now he is very worry-free, as if he was fighting every day earlier, the imperial concubine seems to be really back when she was a child, and she is very easy to take care of.

Lanying brought exquisite snacks from outside the palace. In the past, where could she give food to the noble concubine? She might not even be able to enter the gate of Xianfu Palace, but now people like children will happily say thank you, Holding the snack box and snuggling with Dongyun, she picked a few pieces she liked and gave them to her, and then sat down and ate quietly.

Dong Yun dressed Concubine Wen in a clean and tidy way, and the simple clothes did not lose the extravagance. When she sat quietly, she couldn't tell that she was a fool at all.

At this time, the eunuch on duty in Xianfu Palace came back from the outside after listening to the commotion, and told Defei and Fujin as if offering a treasure: "Your Majesty, the emperor just announced in the early court that he would confer the title of Empress Dowager."

Lan Qi recalled that a few days ago, the imperial concubine blamed herself for not being able to give Yinzhen a adoptive mother as a queen. At that time, she did not dare to reveal the emperor's decision without authorization. Now that she has lost her mind, she has really become a queen.

On that day, the emperor issued an order to the Ministry of Rites, following the empress dowager's benevolent order, that the imperial concubine is filial and mature, and Shuyi has always been a writer, and she educates all her sons, and is extremely kind and diligent.Now that Er is suddenly ill and is on the brink of danger, I deeply regret it, and I should immediately make him a queen to show my favor.

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in the former court and the harem. The emperor refused to establish a new empress for more than ten years, but at this juncture, he rushed the imperial concubine to the last breath to enshrine the empress. Is the imperial concubine's life really just as a show of praise and favor as said in the edict?

Even though no one in the harem can compete with the imperial concubine for the position in the middle palace, if that position is vacant, nothing will happen. Now that there is a master suddenly, it is a complete earth-shaking change for the harem and the princes. In a short time, the fourth elder brother became the first son?

The identity of this son-in-law is somewhat embarrassing. Others don't want to admit it, but the emperor will not specifically deny it. If it is not recognized or denied, how should it be counted?

On the ninth day of the lunar month, under the imperial decree, the imperial concubine was established as the queen, and the emperor sent officials to offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth, the Taimiao, and issued an edict to the world.In the harem, the six palaces gathered in the Chengqian Palace, dressed in court clothes, and knelt down to worship the new queen across the inner hall.

The noble concubine was absent due to illness, and the fourth concubine led the sixth palace. Lan Qi stood side by side with Concubine Hui, Concubine Yi, and Concubine Rong. When the ceremony was over, Concubine Yi suddenly said coldly: "In this way, the fourth elder brother has become the first prince. ?"