Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Huan Chun walked around behind her to fix her master's hair, and said with a soft smile, "It's really different now, the emperor picked you up graciously, in the past it was always sneaky."

Recalling the past, Lan Qi was also filled with emotions, and said lazily in the warm bath water: "To be honest, I live better than each of them, but I still feel dissatisfied in my heart. And greed is really terrible, Huanchun, do you know?"

"Your maidservant knows." Huan Chun said with a smile, "but you don't have to worry, empress, no matter how big your desire is, the emperor will satisfy you."

The room was quiet, and soon there was the sound of water rushing, I don't know what the master and servant were doing, only laughter was heard outside, when Luzhu and others came in to serve, Huanchun's clothes were soaked, and the ground was even more messy.Lan Qi wrapped her clothes and got up, and urged her to change into clean ones so as not to catch a cold. When Huanchun came back again, she heard Ziyu telling: "The empress dowager is going to hold a banquet at Ningshou Palace on Laba day, how many guests are invited?" Fujin in the family's palace, Prince Yu and Prince Gong's palace are also coming, the empress dowager please take care of her, let you accompany Prince Yu Fujin, don't let other empresses touch, or say something that shouldn't be said, to the palace Everything outside is right and wrong."

Lan Qi responded, and when she saw Huanchun coming, she screened off Luzhu and the others. The traces of making out with Xuan Ye on her neck, waist, upper legs were shameful, and Lan Qi paid great attention to maintaining her figure and skin. Every inch must be carefully cared for.Right now, the climate is dry in winter, and if you are a little negligent, your face will become chapped when the wind blows. She doesn't want Xuan Ye's hands to be rough when he touches her.

The gel cream that Lan Qi used to moisturize her skin was prepared by Madam Su Mala herself. Lan Qi has been using these for many years, and the unique fragrance has also attracted Xuan Ye. It is the only one in the palace, and others ask for it Can't ask for it.But the Ministry of Internal Affairs also has good things, but although the things sent by Jiangnan are good, the climate in Jiangnan is warm and humid, and winter is also humid. The women there do not have these needs in winter, and anti-freezing and anti-cracking are better made in the north. But the concubines in the palace all believe that beautiful flowers and beautiful water in the south of the Yangtze River are also beautiful, and they are superstitious about the things sent there. Every time Jiangnan pays tribute, they are scrambling for it, but not everyone is suitable for those things.

After tidying up, Lan Qi stood in front of the big standing mirror, wearing only silver silk pajamas, and the room was warmed like spring by burning earth dragons, her face was flushed with no makeup, her face was fresh without makeup, and there was no ink between her eyes and eyebrows. With the brush strokes, her expression and temperament became much softer. She tightened the clothes around her waist, touched her waist and said: "After all, it can't be compared to when I was young. If you are a little bit greedy and eat two more bites, you will give color immediately." Look, in the future, you will get me less delicious food."

Huan Chun brought her a piece of clothing to wear, looked at the master in the mirror and said, "I don't know what the emperor thinks, but this servant looks at you who has been completely washed away, and always feels that you are no different from ten years ago."

Lan Qi leaned in front of the mirror and asked Huan Chun to send a candle to illuminate it. She carefully looked at the skin around the corners of her eyes and mouth, and she could still find faint lines. Looking at his face from time to time, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are getting deeper. In comparison, I have not changed much, but can I survive another ten years? When my face is aging, he will still take me out to relax like this In a few days?"

"Your Majesty, look how well the Empress Dowager takes care of herself. As long as we are willing to work hard, we can fight the years." Huan Chun pulled her to sit down and comb her hair, wrapping a thick strand of black hair in her hand, and said with emotion, "My Majesty's hair is like this! Dense, it won't look old after another ten years."

But Lan Qi looked at herself in the mirror and murmured: "In another ten years, what will come and promise again? There is always no end to such days."

Huanchun didn't understand why the master was feeling melancholy again, she didn't understand the love between men and women, but she knew the helplessness in the deep palace, so she wanted the master to calm down and didn't say anything else.Instead, after combing her hair, Lan Qi told her: "It's just about to celebrate the festival, you send someone to buy good rouge and gouache outside the palace, which is suitable for winter. It’s my reward from Laba.”

Huan Chun raised his hands to compare the money: "Madam, this will cost a penny."

Lan Qi smiled slyly: "The wool comes from the sheep, I will go to their masters to get the money back."

Seeing that her master was in a good mood again, Huanchun was so happy to make her happy, and then she sent someone out of the palace to buy things, and counted the names of all the palaces and courtyards, making sure that there must be no shortage of places, and the people in the Yonghe Palace are quick and efficient. Simply, the day before Laba, all the rewards from the Empress Defei were distributed.

Counting it, it seems that the ever-favored Concubine De is so generous for the first time that even the emperor was alarmed. Eunuch Liang was sent to ask why the Concubine De concubine did this. Lan Qi smiled leisurely and said to Mr. Liang: "Go back Tell the Lord Long Live that I spent 80 taels of silver here, and the Lord Long Live rounded up the whole number and rewarded me with 100 taels of silver, and I will tell him why.”

Lan Qi was a concubine, and her annual silver salary was only 300 taels of silver. She asked Xuan Ye for a reward of 100 taels, and she could do it. When Chun sent Eunuch Liang out, he smiled: "You go back and tell the emperor, what the empress means is to go back and explain it yourself. It's not a big deal at all."

Eunuch Liang sighed and said: "The relationship between Long Live Lord and Empress is different from other people. My errands here depend on others to do things. I always neglect the 'rules' of Empress's here on others, and occasionally make jokes and make people laugh. It's embarrassing."

Huan Chun smiled and said, "Why is it different?"

Eunuch Liang tsk-tsk, and blamed Huanchun for being confused: "Which sentence is perfunctory what the Lord Long Live said to the empress? We must do our best in everything, right? But most of what the Lord Long Live said to other people are perfunctory. It's often hard to handle, if it's all perfunctory, who knows when a sentence will be true. Look at that Wang Changzai, he likes it when he likes it, and he puts it down when he says it."

Huan Chun tentatively said: "Speaking of which, does Long Live Lord know that Wang Chang is being bullied by Empress Xi? You were not in the palace for a few days, did my little apprentice tell you, Xi Concubine?" The empress is too cruel to bully people."

Eunuch Liang snorted: "Isn't it obvious that the emperor sent her there?"

Huan Chun was startled, she was used to the emperor's tenderness towards her master, she was used to the care of her master being held in the palm of the emperor's palm, and now she suddenly heard such cruel and realistic words, she felt a little bored for a while.

Eunuch Liang shook his whisk and was about to leave, he said with a smile, "Huanchun, you are really lucky to be with a master like Empress Defei."

The next day is Laba, and the Ningshou Palace is very lively, and a year has passed by. Although there is nothing new about the festival every year, it is precisely because of being healthy and healthy that these same things can be repeated, which makes people feel happy. People feel that it is good to be alive.In a sense, there are so many frequent festivals throughout the year, perhaps it is to constantly remind people to live well.

During the festival of the twelfth lunar month, all the female relatives are dressed brightly and full of auspicious words. When they get together, they just want to have a good time. They can also temporarily put down the usual estrangement. What they are best at is the politeness on these faces, and they are well maintained. His own dignity maintains the dignity of the royal family.

Lan Qi was ordered by the Empress Dowager to sit with Prince Yu Fujin, and Fujin re-entered the palace today, looking much better.In this snow disaster, the emperor appointed Prince Yu again to inspect the disaster-stricken areas and went with his brother. The rumors of the tense atmosphere between the brothers were self-defeating. In the end, the emperor acted impartially, wrong was wrong, and brotherhood was still brotherhood.

This made Lan Qi also heave a sigh of relief. When chatting and laughing with the audience during the banquet, her eyes glanced at the women present, but she didn't see the beautiful Wang Changzai. Master: "Concubine Xi told Concubine Rong early in the morning that the king is often suffering from cold and recuperating in Qixiang Palace."

Lan Qi asked, "Why didn't Yuan agree?"

Sure enough, her eyes were careful, the women were only interested in being happy, and didn't care about how many or how few people were at the banquet, Yuan promised to live alone, and she didn't need to report to anyone, so she quietly left the banquet while it was busy, and spoke to the people of Ningshou Palace If you feel uncomfortable, you can leave.At this moment, she is going to the West Sixth Palace step by step along the palace wall. Although she has been in the palace for nearly two years, she is not qualified to be able to move freely in the palace like those ladies. In many places in the Forbidden City, she has never been Never been.

Fumbling forward, the wind blew his nose red, and finally found the gate of Qixiang Palace. The eunuch guarding the gate saw the strange face at first glance, hesitated, and waited for the court lady who Yuan promised to accompany her to report her family name, saying that she was here to visit Wang Chang It was only then that the eunuch in front of the door pretended to be respectful and led Yuan Ying into the door.

But Yuan Shi was frightened as soon as she entered the door. When a court lady was kneeling in the courtyard, she was the one beside Wang Chang. She stopped in fright. She didn't take good care of Wang Changzai, so that Changzai was caught in the cold and couldn't go to celebrate the festival with the Empress Dowager, and Empress Xi concubine punished her, just knelt for another hour and it would be fine."

Yuan Xu was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and he regretted that maybe he shouldn't have come today. When he arrived at Wang Changzai's room, a court lady with a strange face came out and smiled calmly: "It's Yuan Xu. coming?"

Later, Yuan Shi found out that, except for the one kneeling in the yard, Wang Changzai's former court ladies had been replaced by Xi Concubine, and now her every move in the house was under Xi Concubine's nose. Live the life of a prisoner.

Standing in front of the couch and looking at the weak Wang Changzai, Yuan Xu couldn't help tears in her eyes. She always thought that Sister Wang was favored, that the favored Sister Wang abandoned her, and that she had betrayed the agreement between the sisters first. How could she? One would think that Wang Changzai, who seems to be in a good mood, has such a hard life of carrying people back.