Qing Palace - Biography of Concubine Wan

Chapter 57
the sixth day of october
Qing Ru went to the South Study Room to wait for her driver. When she arrived, Fulin hadn't come yet. In the huge South Study Room, there were only her and a few cleaning eunuchs.

Climbing up the steps, he walked to the desk, where there were two stacks of memorials presented by the ministers, and the cinnabar pen specially used by the emperor for correcting the scriptures was sitting quietly on the pen stand.

After a while, Fulin arrived, followed by a person, Qingru also knew this person, it was Tu Hai who left the palace with him in disguise that day, he, like Chang Xi, was a confidant who had followed Fulin for many years.

Fulin strode to the book case, and after dispatching the eunuchs, he took out a secret letter sealed with honey wax and solemnly handed it to Tu Hai: "Remember what I said earlier. Now, this thing is of great importance, you must hand it over to Fujian Navy Admiral Muhacha as a novice, it is a confidential matter, and you must not reveal half of it with you!"

Tu Hai's expression froze, and he clapped his sleeves and knelt down and said loudly: "I respect my life, I will never fail the emperor's trust!" Immediately, he raised his hands flat, respectfully took the secret letter from Fulin, then bowed his head and stepped back.

Watching the door slowly close in front of his eyes, Fulin threw himself into the chair exhaustedly, closed his eyes and said, "Come here, rub my forehead." Apart from him, there was only Qing Ruzai in the study, it was natural to say that It will be said to others.

Qingru stood behind him as she said, and stretched out her hand to rub his temples lightly. With just the right amount of strength, Fulin let out a sigh of relief: "Did you often help others rub?" Look at her skillful movements, it doesn't look like For the first time.

Qingru responded softly, and then added: "I used to rub Ama when he had a headache." I haven't seen Ama Erniang for more than a year, and I don't know if there will be a chance to meet again in the future. Everyone said: Filial piety is the first thing to do, but her daughter is extremely unfilial!The mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

After a while of silence, Fulin asked again: "Is the injury on your neck healed? It seems that the mark is still there when I saw you last time." The simple question made Qingru feel a wave of pain in her heart. Ripples, the chill from the journey just now is gone, and the whole body is like being in the spring of March.

The movement of his hands slowed down slightly, and Fulin pulled her hand down before she could rub it any more. He stood up and looked back at her neck, the marks were almost invisible, only a few light marks similar to his skin color remained. Now, if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to detect it, so Fulin felt relieved and said: "Fortunately, there are no big scars left!"

After such a long time, there is no reason why it is not good, and it is rare that he has always remembered that after more than two months of getting along, Fulin has a new understanding of Qingru, and the feeling she gives him is indeed as the Queen Mother said. A woman who is greedy for vanity and unscrupulous, the old grievances are slowly disappearing in his heart, if things can develop according to this track, one day Fulin will accept Qingru sincerely, then at that time, everything will be back to normal. The good and the beautiful once, that pair of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies who talked eloquently in a restaurant, met with poetry and books, and became confidantes.

That day, Qingru stayed in the south study room until evening before going back, and brought back a commandment from Fulin: the day before yesterday, Qin Tianjian came to report back, explaining that there will be a rare meteor shower in the evening, and you will also Come, follow me to the observatory with all the concubines!
Qingru walked slowly, every time she thought of this sentence, her heart beat a little, and her steps became much lighter. When she returned to Chonghua Palace, she saw a table full of silk and satin utensils as soon as she entered the Bilin Hall.

"Who brought this?" Qing Ru asked Zijin who was counting things.

Hearing the question, Zi Jin hurriedly stopped what she was doing and replied: "Miss, Concubine Chun came here just now, and she brought these things. She has been waiting for you here for a long time, and she just left!"

"Did you say something?" Qingru sat down with her hands on the table, she was really tired after standing for a whole day.

Zijin shook her head, suddenly thought of something again, and reached out to find a small jar from the pile of things: "Before leaving, Concubine Chun specially confessed that the maidservant will give this to you, saying that it is The plum blossom wine she brewed by herself, I bring it for you to taste."

Qing Ruwei was a little surprised, she thought it was just a joke in the Wangyou Meilin that day, she said it was fine, she didn't want her to actually go to make wine, but she never heard Ri Xi say that she had learned how to make wine, could it be... …

Thinking about it, Qingru suddenly laughed, Zijin and others asked strangely when they saw it: "Miss, what are you laughing at?"

Qingru smiled for a while and breathed a sigh of relief: "I was thinking, Concubine Chun has never learned the craft of brewing wine, how could she suddenly brew it? In all likelihood, she just grabbed the petals and threw them into the wine that was already brewed. In a good wine, counting the days, this wine has been sealed for almost a year, maybe the petals inside have rotted, I dare not drink the wine made like this!" I am in a good mood today, Qing Ru couldn't help opening The servants also giggled when they heard Rixi's joke.

Zi Jin suppressed her smile and said: "Since this is the case, then the servant girl will put away the wine first."

"Well, but I can't find what you want to accept. If I can't hand it over when Concubine Chun asks, she will be angry. Don't say anything else, just let me drink up the wine she made herself." I'll take it." Qingru ordered, the mood of the master is good, and the mood of the slaves is also good, not as depressed as before.

After resting for a while, I asked Xiao Fuzi to pass on the dinner. After a while, the imperial dining room delivered the meal. As usual, it was four meat, three vegetables and one soup, but the pattern was changed. Speaking of which, the pattern of the meal these days is different. It is updated frequently, unlike the past ten days and a half months, it has not been changed once.

The people in this palace are all the same, they learn how to adapt to the wind faster than anything else, I think it's because Fulin's attitude towards her has improved, and I'm afraid that she will turn around and cause trouble for them in the future, so I started to curry favor as soon as possible .

After eating and brushing his teeth with green salt, Zipei has already put water in the bathtub, with the petals of the current season floating on it. After taking off his clothes and taking a bath, he slowly slid into the bucket, and his whole body was immersed in the warm water. of water.

Lao Tzu once said that there is nothing weaker than water in the world. In fact, a woman’s heart is as soft and weak as water. Alas, she sighed quietly, and she closed her eyes, but she still kept thinking about Fulin in her mind. When she came out, he was still correcting the paperwork. Now he didn't know if he had eaten, but he was hungry, and he didn't know... whoever he would call to serve him tonight.

The sour feeling overflowed the eyes, turned into water vapor and disappeared in the steaming mist...

In fact, she is not the only one who thinks this way!
Concubine Jing, who was barefoot and undressed, was sitting alone on the steps in front of the palace gate, staring at the starless night sky in a daze. It was cold and autumn in October, but she didn't seem to know the cold.

Hugging her around her knees, she looks so desolate, not like the fierce and domineering her in ordinary times. I wonder if she is recalling the days on the Horqin Grassland. Yi Yi ran on the grassland without any scruples. She was so innocent back then.

Until entering the palace, her innocence and ignorance became a crime. She and Fulin were as incompatible as heaven and earth. Whose fault is this?Lalei stared at her bare feet without shoes and socks, but couldn't find the answer!
"Your Majesty, why did you run out without even wearing your shoes? It's so cold on the ground!" Nanny Wu is Lalei's wet nurse. She watched her grow up, and when she married into the Forbidden City, Nanny Wu also followed her. To Lalei, who lost her mother at an early age, she was like her own mother.

Nanny Wu squatted in front of Lalei, covering her cold feet in her arms, such meticulous care seemed rare in the palace.

Lalei said smoothly: "I don't like those tall flowerpot-soled shoes, they make me unsteady! Mommy, when will you make me a few pairs of boots that we used to wear in Horqin?"

"What nonsense, ladies in the palace are not allowed to wear this, if people see you and go to the emperor to sue you, you will be in trouble!" Mother Wu advised.

"Heh!" Lalei laughed at herself, and when she spoke again, her voice was so sharp that it was frightening: "Do you think there will be people from my palace?" !Not to mention that someone complained, even if I dangled in front of him with my boots on, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to me. Besides, today I have become a side concubine, what else can he do to me! "

"Your Majesty!" Mother Wu yelled distressedly, the feet in her arms couldn't be warmed, they were as cold as ever.

Master Lalei looked at the hazy half-moon in the sky, and said in a faint voice, "Nurse, who do you think will accompany the emperor tonight?"

"Your Majesty, don't think about it. These have nothing to do with you. You should go back to the house and rest earlier. When you wake up, everything will be fine!"

Lalei was stimulated by Madam Wu's comforting words, she quickly pulled back her feet and stood up, pointing in the direction of the Qianqing Palace and shouting loudly: "It has nothing to do with me! How could it have nothing to do with me? He is my husband, and I am registered by him personally." My queen! But you saw, except for a few days after the wedding, he never came to touch me, and instead hang out with those foxes every night!" Good portrayal, except for cursing that she doesn't know how to vent her resentment.

The resentment of the women in the palace has always been endless, because of this, the harem has become the place where the most resentment gathers in the world.

"But empress, you are no longer the queen, this is the Zhai Palace, not the Kunning Palace!" No matter how much she couldn't bear it, Nanny Wu could only say this.

Nanny Wu's words pierced Lalei's heart like a knife, invisible blood kept flowing out, but she woke up because of it, yes, how could she forget, she has been deposed as a side concubine up.

quiet!How can she calm down!
"Ah!" She suddenly clenched her fists and screamed, and the shrill, ghostly voice spread far away. Nanny Wu was already in tears. She went over and hugged Lalei's trembling body and choked up, "Mother, don't you This way, don’t be like this! This servant knows that you are suffering, although the emperor doesn’t love you anymore, but the queen mother still loves you, and this servant loves you!”

Lalei shook her head silently, crying escaped from her tightly shut mouth, no!This is different, a woman who is not loved by her husband cannot be called a complete woman at all.

Mother Wu said again: "Your Majesty, why don't you ask the servant to talk to the Empress Dowager and ask him to allow you to go back to Horqin for a while, so that you don't have to watch the Emperor and other empresses in the palace all day long!"

"No! I won't go back!" Lalei's reaction was unexpectedly fierce. She pushed Nanny Wu away vigorously, letting her body fall in the cold wind, she said to herself: "I won't go , don’t go, even if I die, I will die here, and no one can make me leave!” The weakness turned into viciousness in an instant: “I still want to see with my own eyes what will happen to those foxes one by one. Like Xie Yu and Mo Wan in the past, hahaha!" Crazy laughter echoed in the empty palace, the wind was lonely, and the night would never fade away, such a Concubine Jing made people hate and pity her!
South Study

It was already the first watch when Fulin finished correcting all the papers. He stood up and stretched himself. He never said tonight that he would sleep alone or which concubine he would stay with, so the eunuch in the respect room was outside the door early in the morning. After waiting, Chang Xi didn't let Fulin in until he was done with his work.

Fulin frowned after reading all the green cards on the plate, "Why isn't there a card like your nobleman here?"

Chang Xi was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why the emperor suddenly brought her up, so he immediately replied carefully on his face: "Your Majesty, you forgot that earlier you told the respect room not to prepare a sign like a nobleman." He stole a glance at Fulin's face.

Fulin was stunned for a while, then he suddenly realized and nodded and said: "I remember it, there is indeed such a thing!"

After a period of silence, he finally made a decision: "Pass on my will, and come to serve you like a nobleman today!"

Hearing this, Changxi was stunned for a while, then felt a little bit, and hurriedly retreated to pass on the decree, thinking that if the Queen Mother knew about this matter, she would be very happy, if the nobleman waited for so long, it would be considered that she was going to make it through.

Before he could step out of the door, a eunuch hurriedly ran back and forth to report: "Report to the emperor, the guards of Shenwumen came to report, saying that they found the guard Tu was seriously injured outside the palace gate!"

"Is there such a thing?" Fulin stood up in shock, and within a short while, the person he sent back was seriously injured, and the news leaked out so quickly: "Hurry up, bring Tu Hai to see me, Also, Imperial Physician Xuan is here!"

Chang Xi paused, then walked back to Fulin: "Your Majesty, the bed attendant..."

"Let's talk about it tomorrow, you go and announce the imperial physician to me first!" Fulin interrupted impatiently, worrying about the secret letter that Tu Hai brought out, wondering if it had fallen into the hands of others.The emperor spoke, Chang Xi could only follow through, feeling a little sorry for Qing Ru.

(End of this chapter)