Harem for a living

Chapter 149

Taking a few deep breaths, Chen Manrou calmed herself down.With this calmness, she really discovered the problem. Chen Manrou stared at Xiaolezi, and asked word by word: "You said, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already started preparing Jifu?"

"Yes, imperial concubine." Xiao Lezi nodded quickly. Chen Manrou stared at Xiao Lezi expressionlessly. After a while, a bright smile appeared on her face, which almost didn't scare Xiao Lezi. The stimulation was too great, so the mind was out of balance.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you alright?" Xiao Lezi yelled tremblingly, Chen Manrou smiled silently for a while, then turned to look at Xiao Lezi, "There is no news about the draft, but I have started to prepare Jifu. Tell me, the owner of this Jifu , which one will it be?"

Xiao Lezi was also frightened and stupid before, thinking that the emperor had not issued the imperial decree to establish a queen, and her own mother had no confirmation, who was this auspicious costume prepared for?That's why I rushed to report the letter, and now I heard Chen Manrou's question, and I also reacted.

If someone is selected from the outside to be the queen, one is to make an order directly, and then the house of internal affairs will come to tailor the clothes.The second is to draft directly. After the selection, let everyone go home. The emperor ordered that the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepare auspicious clothes.Now, there is no movement between these two, which means that there is a [-]% chance that the new queen will be selected in the harem.

In this harem, from all aspects of analysis, only Chen Manrou has a better chance of winning.If you want children to have children, you must have character and character.Even, even the phoenix seal is in hand.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean..." Xiao Lezi also asked with a smirk, and Chen Manrou gave him a look: "I don't mean anything, don't spread this matter even if you go out, if it really disagrees with Ben Gong's guess, Then this palace will be ashamed and embarrassing. Wait until you call Manager Ming in, I have something to order."

Xiao Lezi also understands that this matter cannot be spoken out, his mother has always been cautious, without a real imperial decree, this matter is false, she immediately expressed her understanding, turned around and went out to smooth this matter out.

After Manager Ming came in, Chen Manrou directly ordered: "During this time, you should take good care of everyone in the Zhongcui Palace, and don't spread any gossip, especially about the Empress Dowager. If the emperor doesn't issue an imperial edict for a day, the palace can only It's a noble concubine, what should I do, don't I need to tell you?"

Manager Ming nodded quickly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I know what to do."

From now on, the management of Zhongcui Palace is even stricter. Even if the rough eunuchs in the palace sweep the eunuchs, they will never gossip about anyone after they go out.

As for the visits from Concubine De and Concubine Fu and others, Chen Manrou even rejected them all on the grounds that she wanted to take care of the fifth princess.He hid in Zhongcui Palace to look at the account books all day long, and met the chief stewards in various places in the palace to deal with some matters.

When he went to greet the Empress Dowager Ci'an, he was even more respectful and never said anything against the Empress Dowager Ci'an.However, if the Empress Dowager Ci'an's request is too excessive, Chen Manrou will consult the emperor first, and then deal with it.

Two months passed in a row, and in the blink of an eye, it was the successive memorial days.Chen Manrou discussed this matter with the eldest princess, and sent 5000 taels of silver to the royal temple to make sesame oil money, and held a grand water and land dojo for her.

Afterwards, Chen Manrou received a letter from Chen Huaijue, saying that the dams in Shaanxi were almost completed, and they would definitely arrive by the end of the year.With this message, Chen Manrou's heart became more stable.

During the Ci Ning Anniversary Ceremony, Chen Manrou asked the emperor to ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send 8000 taels of sesame oil money to the temple, and also held a water and land dojo.

In December, the emperor finally revealed his words to Chen Manrou: "After a while, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will send you an auspicious suit. You try it first. If there is something inappropriate, let them modify it. I am going to canonize you at the beginning of next year." For the Queen."

Chen Manrou was stunned at first, not pretending, but it has been nearly five months since she heard the news and the emperor said it himself, she almost felt that she was wrong, at this time the emperor gave her a definite answer She was really stunned by the news.

It took a long time before Chen Manrou came to her senses, her face was a little happy, a little worried, and a little panicked: "Your Majesty, this matter..."

"You don't have to worry, I have my own intentions." The emperor looked at Chen Manrou and said softly.The eldest prince is dead, the second prince is the biological son of Concubine Shu, so there is little chance of inheriting the throne, and the third prince has been weak since childhood.Counting it down, Xiao Si is more readable, smart and clever, and has been close to the eldest prince since childhood. Now Chen Manrou is also good to the eldest princess, and canonize Chen Manrou as queen, and Xiao Si will become a legitimate son.

In this way, it is better than marrying a new queen and then waiting a few years to give birth to a young son.The prostitute is young, and the rest of the princes are old, which is not good for the country.Moreover, when the new empress enters the palace, she will definitely be jealous of Concubine Chen and the others, so maybe his children will suffer.

Instead of causing disputes in the future, it is better to let Chen Manrou follow the trend.Anyway, there is no one in this harem who ranks higher than Chen Manrou.

Another reason is that Chen Manrou was relatively close to the empress in the past, and the emperor was quite satisfied with the empress's methods of managing the harem and her attitude towards concubines.He didn't want Chen Manruan to be as virtuous as the queen, but only learned one-third of the queen, so he could feel at ease in the harem.

Chen Manrou is not clear about the twists and turns in the emperor's heart, and even if she is, she won't care.Compared with the dead, that is the most tasteless thing.It's like Qianlong's successor, everyone said she was inferior to Xiaoxian, and then she forced herself into the "dogma" of opening up and shutting up.

In fact, to be honest, filial piety is not necessarily virtuous, and successors are not necessarily unvirtuous.If the successor faces it calmly, he may not be worse than Xiaoxian, but unfortunately, his temper is too tough and he didn't find the right way.

The most important thing is that the emperor is not that scumbag of Qianlong.Regardless of whether it was for the sake of success or compassion, in short, the emperor did not allow anyone to sleep with him for a year, and just for this alone, he would be far behind that Qianlong.

"Your majesty, I don't know what to say right now." Chen Manrou showed all the anxiety in her heart, and leaned closer to the emperor: "I am very happy. If the emperor takes a fancy to me, it means that the emperor is Those who believe in this concubine, I have the heart to help the emperor, and I am willing to take care of the harem for the emperor. But in my heart, I feel a little out of touch at the moment, just floating in the air."

No matter what, let's vaccinate the emperor first.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what I'm talking about now." Chen Manrou muttered, and buried her head in the emperor's shoulder, and immediately, the emperor noticed that the side of her neck was moist.

Thinking about it, I put my arm around Chen Manrou's shoulder and patted it: "Don't worry, if you are unsure about something, ask the Queen Mother first, if you are still undecided, then come and ask me. Isn't it a few years before the eldest princess gets married? ? You also discuss it with her."

The emperor felt a little pity in his heart, thinking that Chen Manrou had suddenly assumed such a heavy burden, it was normal to be afraid and worried.Big deal, take care of yourself more in the future.Even if it is not as good as successive, it will definitely become a qualified mother of a country.

In December of the 11th year of Yonghe, the emperor issued an imperial decree—the daughter of the Chen family, Roujia, showed her six elements, she had a long history of virtue, and she had an emperor's heir, who could be the mother of a country and canonized as the queen.The canonization ceremony was held on December 21.

With the imperial decree, the entire harem didn't even splash.Everyone is not a fool, the emperor's performance for such a long time is enough for them to see clearly that the emperor's favorite is Chen Guifei and Chen Manrou.

Besides, in terms of seniority in the harem, Chen Manrou can be counted on.Although Concubine De entered the palace at the same time as Chen Manrou, she had no heirs, and her status was lowered by a head, so she was naturally inferior to Concubine Chen Gui.

"Congratulations, empress, congratulations, empress." Manager Ming led people to salute Chen Manrou in the courtyard of Zhongcui Palace. Chen Manrou hurriedly waved her hands: "Don't be in a hurry to salute, it won't be too late to salute after the post-sealing ceremony."

"Your Majesty is too careful. The Jifu Internal Affairs Office sent it over for your Majesty to try. Could it be that there is still a change in this matter?" Li Chun said with a smile on the side, and Chen Manrou glared at her: "Why is there no change? The world is always changing, Be careful to make the ten-thousand-year ship."

Li Chun stuck out his tongue and dared not speak.

"Your Majesty, the Eldest Princess is visiting." As soon as Chen Manrou told everyone to disperse, Xiao Xizi came over and reported, "I'm already waiting at the door."

"Then why don't you come in quickly?" Chen Manrou hurriedly said, stood up by the way, and went to the yard to greet her in person: "Why is the princess here now? Did the loquat dew I gave you yesterday work?"

The weather has been cold these past few days, and the eldest princess has a cough, so Chen Manrou asked someone to give the eldest princess loquat dew.

"Thank you, Concubine Chen, the lopa dew is very effective." The eldest princess smiled unnaturally, and after Chen Manrou sat down on the soft couch in the room, she asked: "Father's imperial edict has come down, Are you going to move to the palace after the Empress Dowager Ceremony is held?"

"Moving to the palace?" Chen Manrou was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that the empresses of all dynasties lived in Yongshou Palace, which is the closest to Qianqing Palace and Yangxin Palace.She will become a queen in the future, and if there are no exceptions, she will live there.

"I don't know about this for the time being. In a short time, I probably won't go." Chen Manrou shook her head and said, she was actually a bit repulsive to Yongshou Palace. When she thought that the queen lived there for eight or nine years, she didn't think much about it. live in the past.

However, if she couldn't keep going, she was far away from Qianqing Palace, which meant that her successor was not valued by the emperor, and it would not be of any benefit to her in the future.But if you want to renovate Yongshou Palace, the possibility is only [-]%, not to mention that the eldest princess is not married yet.Unless, she wanted to turn against the eldest princess right away.

The eldest princess probably knew that what she just said was inappropriate, but, after all, it was the bedroom of her mother, and she and her younger brother grew up there. In a blink of an eye, this Yongshou Palace became someone else's residence. She couldn't bear to erase even the traces of her mother's existence.

(End of this chapter)