Madam Hou

Chapter 6

In Tangrong Courtyard, Cuizhu picked out a golden phoenix hairpin with a red gold carcass dotted with emerald pearls from the red pear wood jewelry box, and was about to insert it into Madam Lin Hou's head, but Madam Lin Hou waved her hand and said: "I This is to beg for help, not to demonstrate, what to wear such a gorgeous hairpin, it’s easier to change it.”

Cuizhu hurriedly picked out a begonia-style silver hairpin from the box and inserted it in for Mrs. Linhou.Mrs. Lin Hou took a picture in the brass mirror, and continued: "Put some powder on my face."

Cuizhu took another gouache and added a layer of powder to Mrs. Lin Hou, making her look pale and haggard as if she had just recovered from a serious illness.Mrs. Linhou was satisfied now, and hurried to Congjingyuan with a group of maids and women.

In the Congjing courtyard.

After pretending to be a lady from a great family for so long, Yanniang finally showed her countryman's true colors at this moment. She held one of the rough envoys around the waist to stop her from leaving with one hand and held her in place with the other hand. Holding the woman's hand, two rows of snow-white teeth bit her arm one by one, making the woman let out a cry like a pig being killed in pain, and the shrill sound resounded through the sky.The other women and maids around were afraid of hurting Yanniang, or being hurt by Yanniang, so they didn't dare to go forward, but anxiously urged Yanniang to let go.

Mrs. Lin Hou saw such a scene when she entered the Cong Jingyuan. She was so frightened that her head split open, and she hurriedly stepped forward to persuade: "Yan Niang, Yan Niang, let go and talk if you have something to say."

Pointing at the maid next to her, she said angrily, "Why are you still standing there, you haven't stepped forward to separate Yanniang!"

The two wives hurried forward, one on the left and the other on the right, and it took a lot of effort for the boss to separate Yan Niang.

Mrs. Lin Hou wiped the veil soaked in chili water on her eyes, tears immediately seeped from her eye sockets, stepped forward to hold Yanniang's hand, and immediately choked up and said: "Yanniang, I know I'm sorry for you , If it was someone else, I would say nothing against your own wishes, but that person is the emperor, and we are courtiers, so how dare we violate the emperor's wishes, there is nothing I can do about it."

Yan Niang looked at Mrs. Lin Hou who looked pale and haggard, her body was on the verge of falling, and begged bitterly, as if the world would collapse if she did not agree to enter the palace, she didn't have any sympathy in her heart, and said coldly: "I want to go back. Home."

"Yanniang, don't be like this. I know you are the kindest. It is said that the anger of the emperor and the sorrows are everywhere. You just don't care about the lives of more than 400 people in my Yongning Houfu. Parents and sisters of the county."

"I want to go home."

"Are you afraid that you will be bullied when you enter the palace with a low status? Don't worry, Master Hou and I will recognize you as a goddaughter and let you enter the palace as the righteous daughter of the Marquis of Yongning. One day when the Marquis of Yongning is here , we will protect you."

No matter how serious Madam Lin Hou said about the consequences of not entering the palace, and how beautifully she described her life after entering the palace, Yanniang would always insist on the words "I want to go home".

Later, Mrs. Lin Hou also lost her patience, and directly ordered the maid to lock Yanniang into the Congjingyuan, and asked the maid to take away all the nobile ceramics and other objects that might be used as sharp weapons to commit suicide, and then went to the door. The outside said to Yan Niang inside through the door: "Yan Niang, you think clearly inside, and I will let you out when you think clearly, don't blame me, I really have nothing to do."

After finishing speaking, he was about to wipe his eyes with the handkerchief, and then remembered that Yanniang couldn't see at all, so he took back the handkerchief again, and then led the maidservant away.

At first Yanniang kicked the door and shouted "Let me out" for a long time, but later she found that it didn't work and her voice became hoarse, so she went back to the bed and cried on the bed, crying in her heart because she was so unlucky.

It wasn't until the dawn dawned and dawn was approaching that Yanniang finally figured it out.

Not entering the palace is certainly not as serious as Madam Lin Hou said. For the Yongning Hou Mansion, at most it is not being welcomed by the emperor and occasionally being tripped by the emperor. If the emperor really wants to ask a founding marquis for a woman The crime of the government, the censor is not a dry meal.

But if she didn't enter the palace, she would offend both the Yongning Hou Mansion and the emperor, and in the end they would probably be the Chen clan.The Marquis of Yongning and the Emperor's Chen family faced each other with no power and no power, and the winner or loser was immediately apparent.They don't even need to do it themselves, they just need to show their likes and dislikes among the lower-level officials who want to please them, and someone will clean up the Chen family for them.

What's more, after all this happened, I'm afraid she still couldn't escape the fate of entering the palace at that time.In this case, it is better to enter the palace now, and save the parents and sisters at home. If you are lucky and do not get out of the cannon fodder, you can bring the sisters at home to have a better future.

After thinking it over, Yanniang asked the maid who guarded the door to prevent her from escaping to tell Mrs. Lin Hou.

After that, everything went smoothly, Mrs. Lin Hou held a banquet at home and recognized Yanniang as her adopted daughter.Then the little eunuch in the palace carried Yanniang into the palace with a sedan chair, and Yanniang naturally knew the reason why money is easy to get close to, so she slapped Mrs. Lin Hou hard before she left.The next day, the news that the righteous daughter of Yongning Hou was favored by the emperor and made a nobleman spread to the aristocratic circle in central Beijing.

The noble ladies in Beijing don't usually have much entertainment when they are free. Most of the time they like to get together and gossip about what happened to a certain family to pass the time.As soon as the news of Yanniang being made a nobleman came out, it immediately became the headlines in the gossip circle of noble ladies.Moreover, news about how this nobleman was favored continued to spread, which continued to add enough material to this headline.

Until autumn passed and winter came, this newly-appointed nobleman was still the most discussed topic among noble ladies.

Because of Yanniang's favor, Mrs. Linhou, a cheap godmother, is often said behind the scenes by other wives to please her without shame, but when they meet each other, everyone flatters Mrs. Linhou again.

Just when Mrs. Linhou was flattered and flattered, and she did nothing wrong in sending Yanniang into the palace, there was another explosive news in the palace: the favored Mrs. Chen was thrown into the cold palace.The reason is rumored to be because unclean things were added to the First Prince's food, with the intention of harming the First Prince.As for what that unclean thing is, I don't know, and no one cares.

The ladies sighed secretly, it is really not so easy for a crow to turn into a phoenix, it is possible to become a dead crow before turning into a phoenix.Those wives who originally wanted to imitate Mrs. Lin Hou and send some unfavored concubines or clan daughters into the palace also stopped their actions.

Mrs. Lin Hou's life is not easy, those wives who used to flatter and flatter her are far away from her in a blink of an eye.Although I know this is normal in the world, I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.

Mrs. Linhou still feels a little guilty towards Yanniang, knowing that Yanniang's end has something to do with her.So I went back to my natal family and begged my natal sister-in-law, through the long relationship chain of my natal sister-in-law--my natal sister-in-law's sister-in-law--my natal sister-in-law's sister-in-law's daughter-in-law. It's not too bad to live in the palace.

Then one winter passed, and this year also passed. When spring was approaching, when the noble ladies almost forgot about Chen Guiren, the explosive news from the palace came out again.

Chen Guiren came out from the cold palace, and Chen Guiren regained his favor.

The reason for the restoration of favor is said to be because the emperor passed by the door of the cold palace on a certain full moon night because he couldn't sleep.Hearing voices from the cold palace outside, he went inside out of curiosity, and saw Chen Aifei, whom he once liked, wearing a thin padded coat, standing on tiptoe in the snow to pick plum blossoms from the plum tree to eat.The tenderness in the emperor's heart suddenly poured down like a mountain torrent, he walked over and hugged Yanniang, and shouted with pity and remorse: "My concubine, you have suffered."

Chen Guiren who heard the emperor's voice immediately burst into tears, crying loudly: "It's really not the first prince I killed."

The beauty was crying, the pear blossoms were raining, and they were more beautiful than the plum blossoms on the tree. The emperor's heart immediately softened, and he comforted the beauty and said: "I know, I know, I am sorry for you, I have wronged you." Then Chen Guiren came out of the limbo (I seem to be Qiong Yao).

The ladies said in their hearts, sure enough, although it is difficult for a crow to turn into a phoenix, it is not impossible.

Then two months passed and spring finally arrived.There was another news from the palace that Chen Guiren was pregnant with a dragon fetus.Then Chen Guiren was promoted to the position of concubine, and then the empress took this concubine Chen to Fengyi Palace to take care of her personally.

When Mrs. Lin Hou heard the news from her natal sister-in-law, she couldn't sit still immediately.Concubine Chen was pregnant and the queen had no children, so the queen took care of Concubine Chen herself.These three messages are connected into a line, and a final result is about to come out.

Madam Lin Hou hurried back to Yongning Hou Mansion in a carriage without even saying hello.Closed the door in Tangrong Courtyard and talked with Lord Lin Hou all night.When she came out the next day, Mrs. Lin Hou invited the concubines who had been separated from the family to Linping County to be a matchmaker for the son of the Yongning Hou Mansion.

(End of this chapter)