Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

The Mid-Autumn Festival is over, and there will be no major events in the harem until the end of the year. The Empress Dowager once again mentioned the matter of drafting for the emperor. The emperor had sent the household department to inform the Eight Banners before the Mid-Autumn Festival. , put it aside and ignored it.And as the roster was handed in, women of the right age in the banners from all over the country were sent to the capital early from their homes, or their relatives were in the capital, or they rented inns and posthouses, and waited for the emperor's decree to draw up the date of selection.

In the past, choosing Fujin for the prince time and time again, and the emperor's selection of a few girls from the Han family by his side were not serious drafts. Hundreds of people, after being screened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and others, the last remaining ones will be personally interviewed and selected by the emperor and queen mother.

Lan Qi and the others don't care about the matter of putting up the signboards, they just wait for the emperor to choose who they want, and then arrange them to live in the inner palace according to their family background and status in the palace. It is also necessary to find out whether there are any disputes between the newcomers and whether they are close and familiar. It is not so easy to randomly assign a place for them to live in.

At present, the emperor's date has not yet been fixed, and things have not progressed yet, but Lan Qi and Concubine Rong have already checked the unoccupied palaces and pavilions in the palace, sent people to clean up the preparations, and asked the Respect Room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to arrange palace maids and eunuchs in advance , set aside a certain amount of manpower, and report the number of women under the flags to participate in the leadership and lead the reminder, so that on the day of the election, the corresponding maids and nurses will be arranged to meet in the palace, and according to the number of people, arrange where they are waiting. place.It was the first time for Lan Qi to deal with such a thing, she had discussed with Concubine Rong, but she did well, which comforted the Queen Mother very much.

On the Double Ninth Festival, in order to show his filial piety, Xuanye finally fulfilled the Queen Mother's wish and planned a draft on September 25, with half a month left to wait for those girls who have not yet entered the capital to arrive in the capital, and during those fifteen days, the emperor He took his sons and clan children to inspect Jidian and the paddock for autumn hunting, wandering around without touching the ground, and finally returned to the palace to settle down before the draft day, his whole body was tanned.

When resting in the Yonghe Palace that night, Lan Qi compared the skin color on the emperor's face and chest and said: "The sun was so poisonous in summer that I didn't get tanned, but in autumn it was so tanned. The emperor will come back half a month later. The concubine won't be able to see you at night."

But Xuan Ye said: "When the newcomers enter the palace, you really won't be able to see me at night. In a few years, you will be 40 years old. Do you want to suspend the sign together with Concubine Rong and the others?"

Lan Qi didn't expect Xuan Ye to say such words suddenly, her joking face froze immediately, she pursed her lips and looked at Xuan Ye without speaking, but he snorted softly: "You are in a hurry to take care of everything Well, I have to agree to the Empress Dowager's drafting right away. I wanted to delay it, but I've been free recently so that I can hang out with you, but you are in a hurry to call the newcomer to the palace, don't you? You don't want to see me again in the next night?"

"The concubine is a grandmother." Hearing the emperor's words, she felt reassured. She bent down to tie Xuanye's pajama belt, and said, "Your majesty and concubines, let's live with each other. Be the emperor and concubine. They all have their own responsibilities. As for the newcomers, as long as the emperor doesn't show respect to the concubines for the sake of those beautiful and young ones, the concubines will not care about them. They are all about the same age as Wen Xian. Can the concubines make it difficult for them? "

Xuan Ye coughed lightly: "It's not always possible to choose a newcomer, choose someone as old as us? They are young, and I can't blame me."

Lan Qi smiled, turned around and went to serve him ginseng tea, stood aside thinking about Xuan Ye's words, and suddenly laughed again, the emperor put the tea bowl into her hand angrily after drinking ginseng tea, and said bitterly: " How can you laugh, I will be annoyed, after a while newcomers will come and cause new troubles, you should pester me to lose my temper, and I will come to coax you."

"Don't worry, the emperor, there will never be such a thing." Lan Qi was in a good mood, but when she turned around, Xuan Ye pulled her to her side and asked her why she was laughing.

"Laugh when I'm happy, why do I have to?" Lan Qi didn't want to say what she was thinking, but Xuan Ye's hands were already on her waist, as if she would be miserable if she didn't say anything, she shivered and avoided Without looking at the man's domineering gaze, he could only blushed and said, "I mean... those young and beautiful newcomers will be of use to you, but when you were the youngest and strongest, they would never see you for the rest of your life. I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other very often in the next night, but in the best time, you are almost mine alone."

Lan Qi intentionally matches you and me, and said very ambiguous or even rude words, but this is indeed her pride, not sooner or later, she met each other in the best years, lingering for more than ten years, when she thinks of these, she is She doesn't care about younger newcomers.As soon as the words fell, her body was heavily crushed and fell down, and the belt she had fastened for others was torn apart a few times, Xuan Ye's solid chest was exposed in front of her, and her big hands walked down her waist, angrily Say: "I am not as good as I used to be?"

When Lan Qi saw Xuan Ye's strong chest, her heart jumped wildly. She asked him to rub it again, and her body became weak already. She couldn't help but look charming and speak ambiguously, and said in a very low voice: "Then how can you prove it to me?" ?”

While Xuan Ye was laughing domineeringly, the curtains beside the bed were falling layer by layer, covering the infinite spring, and the next day was September 25th, having a good night, the contented man sat on the top and looked down at those fourteen or five-year-olds like flowers. Xiunu, she really looked at children like that.

Those who can enter the final selection will never be too ugly. If you look too much, you will be dazzled easily. The emperor has read all the beauties for decades, and he is too young to be young. If he chooses to see the beautiful women of the two flags a day, four or five In the future, except for the queen mother who selected a few people with good family background and appearance, what Xuan Ye left behind was the family background behind them.However, the Guarjia family that was settled early in the morning made his eyes shine. At least he can cultivate a legitimate concubine with his beauty.

When the newcomers officially entered the palace, it was already mid-October. Sure enough, every batch would have outstanding figures. Give the title of "He", and in a blink of an eye, there is a beautiful, young and noble person in the palace.The emperor even arranged for her to live with Concubine Tong in the Chuxiu Palace. Although she was not the head of the first palace, she was the only one among this group of newcomers who lived in the East and West Sixth Palaces.

The green head card of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was prepared according to the name of the canonization long before the newcomer entered the palace. Lan Qi and Concubine Rong had seen it with their own eyes. , it’s time to stop some brands, and it’s pointless to keep them.”

Lan Qi only said: "Let's wait for the emperor to order."

Concubine Duan was also at the side at that time, but she mentioned: "Why is Chen Changzai's green card still standing still? Now that newcomers come in, does she have no chance? This year the emperor didn't take her with him when he went to Changchun Garden, leaving her alone Alone in Zhongcui Palace, when I came back to see her in August, she was dead, if the emperor doesn't favor her again, she probably won't recover."

Lan Qi sighed in her heart, she still remembered what the person who burned paper money for the prince's daughter said, one moment at another, it turned out that the emperor really could say that he didn't like it or not.In the past, although the Wang family was disliked by others, she was a "favored concubine" who could be accepted by the emperor. A person like Chen Changzai who could get along well with concubines did not know how to please the emperor.

After all, the king's heart is unpredictable, and Lan Qi's blessing is that Xuan Ye regards her as his other half, not just a concubine in the harem.

According to the rules, newcomers have to go to various places to greet and salute when entering the palace. After seeing the queen mother, they go to each palace according to the status of concubines, but now there are no noble concubines in the palace, and there are five concubines. It has been officially said which is higher and which is lower. In the past, there was Concubine Wen Xi anyway, and it was the same wherever you went after Xianfu Palace, but now it obviously has different meanings whichever place you go first.

The person who cares most about the importance of the high and low is none other than the master of Yikun Palace. The day before the newcomer entered the palace, Concubine Yi knew about Lan Qi and Concubine Rong, and said that the sisters were waiting in Ningshou Palace the next day, so that those The newcomer saw everything at once, and said very calmly: "Now that the elder brothers have grown up, the nine elder brothers and the ten elder brothers will also reach the age of marriage. Before the children leave the palace, the gate control rules in the palace should be stricter." .”

The Empress Dowager agrees with these words, not only the unmarried elder brothers have grown up and left the palace to have families, they will also come to the harem to pay their respects from time to time, it is better to be more cautious than to do more things.But I can't stop my brothers from entering the palace, and I can't stop the concubines in the palace from going out. Everyone discussed with the queen mother, and it was finally decided that in the future, whenever an adult brother enters the palace, the eunuchs sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs will immediately inform All the palaces and concubines avoid suspicion in their residences, and those who violate it will bear the consequences.

It's not difficult to do this, and the elder brothers will not run to the inner palace every day, but there is one person who is a little embarrassed, that is, the prince of Yuqing Palace.Moreover, the prince would go to the Ningshou Palace to pay his respects to the queen mother every day. Lan Qi and the others ignored the prince intentionally or unintentionally, but they still laughed at each other when they mentioned it in private. .

On that day, all the concubines gathered in the Ningshou Palace and waited for the newcomers to come to salute. Most of them entered the palace through the draft. Lan Qi and the others did not participate in the four or five days of tedious and long draft. Today was the first time they saw the newcomers. Needless to say, she is beautiful, but seeing that they are all the same size as the princesses, Concubine Yi is straight-hearted, and couldn't help saying in public: "At first glance, I thought Wen Xian had come in, why do I feel more and more like a newcomer?" Are you young?"

The Empress Dowager coughed dryly, blaming Concubine Yi for being disrespectful, and everyone was busy sitting upright, watching the newcomer make a big salute.And in order of status, the one kneeling first is the Guerjia family, who is favored by the emperor this time and is superior to everyone else.