Madam Hou

Chapter 78

Yin Niang walked to Madam Chen and sat down, and asked Madam Chen, "Mother, you like Brother Gen very much, do you want to raise him under your lap?"

Mrs. Chen said: "That's not the case, I just want to take him over to take care of him because I see his pity."

"Mother, you should take Brother Gen back to Concubine Qiu to raise him. Concubine Qiu is Brother Gen's biological mother, so how could she not love him?"

Mrs. Chen is not a stupid person, and she could hear Yinniang's words, so she asked, "Why, do you think Aunt Qiu is cheating on me?" Sui Sui Nian wanted her to record Brother Gen under her name. At that time, she was impatient to take care of Mr. Chen's concubine, so she didn't want to.Could it be that Aunt Qiu deliberately let her see that she didn't care about Brother Gen, so that she would feel sorry for her, and hoped that she would be willing to record Brother Gen under her name.The more Mrs. Chen thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.

Yin Niang did not answer Mrs. Chen's words, but instead said: "Mother, do you know that the empress wanted to adopt the second prince next to Bai Guifei, do you know why the empress did not want to adopt the second prince later on?" ?”

Mrs. Chen naturally didn't know about this kind of thing.

Yin Niang continued: "It's because Bai Guifei helped her brother seek an official position in front of the emperor, so the empress alienated Bai Guifei and chose to adopt her sister's son instead. My sister's natal family has close brothers, so I don't care about my elder sister and younger sister. For the prince, it is not a good thing."

Mrs. Chen lowered her head after hearing this, showing a thoughtful expression.Seeing this, Yin Niang stopped talking.

She is married now, and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to go home in the future. When she is at home, she doesn't want to waste time with her mother and sister, so she uses other topics to divert Mrs. Chen's thoughts.

There are no vacant houses in the first month of the wedding. In the first month of the wedding, the bride is not allowed to stay at her natal home. The bride must rush back to her husband's home before sunset.

When Mrs. Chen saw that the time was about the same, she reluctantly sent Yin Niang and Lin Fengqi out of the house.

After Yinniang and Lin Fengqi left, Mrs. Chen sat on the chair and bowed her head in thought for a while, but she quickly stood up and ordered the maid beside her to say, "Go and call Aunt Qiu, and ask her to take the young master back to him. You tell her that the child was born by her, and she should take care of it as a mother, if she doesn't take the child back, I will give it to Aunt Dou and let her raise it for her."

Although she felt sorry for the child, it was more important to have her daughter and grandson. There was no reason for her to ignore her daughter and grandson for the sake of this cheap bastard.

On the second day after returning home, it was the Laba Festival. As in previous years, there were still Laba porridge rewards in the palace.The Yongning Hou Mansion also made Laba porridge, which was served in white-glazed porcelain jars, and the maids distributed it to relatives and friends everywhere.

The second princess was born on the Laba Festival, and today is also the first birthday of the second princess. Because it will be the third prince's full moon ceremony in a few days, the empress Chen followed the principle of keeping a low profile. After asking the empress for instructions, she did not prepare The first birthday banquet of the second princess was held, and only a few seats were held in Lanhe Palace, and some princesses and princesses who were close relatives of the clan and foreign wives of the first rank in Beijing were invited.

According to folk customs, Yinniang, as the second princess's aunt, must attend the second princess's first birthday banquet.But the royal family is not an ordinary family after all. Yinniang's current identity is the wife of Yongning Hou Shizi, and according to Dayan's order system, she belongs to the third rank.According to her rank, Yinniang was not qualified to participate, and there was no special order from the palace, so Yinniang did not participate in the second princess's first birthday ceremony.It was only when Mrs. Lin Hou came back that she heard that the little princess had grabbed a book of poetry and a small xylophone when she was catching Zhou. The emperor was so happy that he said directly: "The royal family is going to produce a talented princess."

Four days before the wedding, Yinniang and Lin Fengqi didn't have any free time, and it was not until the fifth day that they were free.Lin Fengqi originally said that he wanted to take Yinniang out for a day of fun.Although Yinniang has lived in the capital for more than a year, she usually has few opportunities to go out, and there is no chance to go out at all. Yinniang really wants to go out for a stroll.

As a result, when we got up in the morning, we opened the window and found that it was snowing heavily outside again, braving the snow for a stroll, Yin Niang didn't have such romantic feelings, so I had to give up the idea of ​​going shopping.

The two had nothing to do, so they gathered around the kang table to play Shuanglu.Yinniang is not very good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she is very good at playing Shuanglu. When two people play, Yinniang basically wins more.However, playing Shuanglu couldn't last a day, and the two of them moved to bed to play other games after playing.

Lin Fengqi endured it hard in the past two days, and today he got his wife's permission to have sex, and the two of them tossed together on the bed, until it was almost evening before they stopped.After Lin Fengqi was full of wine and meat, he hugged Yinniang who was so tired that he couldn't lift his fingers. While recalling the charm just now, he sighed: "It really is a beauty, a hero's tomb."

The new love between Yinniang and Lin Fengqi passed by like this, and on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Fengqi began to go to the military office every day to be on duty, while Yinniang began to slowly learn the life of a daughter-in-law.

She first spent some time gathering her dowry, especially the fixed properties such as pavement and fields. Although she didn't have to take care of it herself, she was particular about who she should choose to take care of it.Even if someone is chosen to manage it, it is necessary to beat the manager's head from time to time, or check the accounts from time to time to be aware of it, lest the slippery manager's term expires.There is also the internal affairs of Mudetang.Fortunately, Mu De Tang was already managed in an orderly manner, and it didn't take much effort for Yin Niang to take over.

By the time Yinniang straightened out all these things, the days had slipped to the sixteenth of the twelfth lunar month.

The sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is the full moon banquet for the third prince.Because the third prince was raised by the queen, the queen made his full moon banquet bigger than the two elder brothers in front of him.Yinniang went to the palace with Mrs. Lin Hou to attend the banquet. During the banquet, Yinniang did not see Yanniang. Only the queen was holding the third prince in her arms to accept the congratulations from everyone.

Wearing a real red and gold embroidered dragon and phoenix pattern large sleeves, a long red skirt, the queen of the red trousers is hugging the little prince wrapped in a big red swaddle.The queen looked at the little prince with a loving expression and a radiant face, and it was obvious that she liked the little prince very much.

There were too many wives around the queen, and Yin Niang didn't have too many chances to look at the little prince. She could only see from the little face that was slightly exposed in the swaddle that the little prince had a ruddy complexion, and he should be extremely healthy.While Yinniang was relieved, watching the lively and festive full moon banquet, but missing the prince's biological mother alone, Yinniang also felt a little sad for her sister.

The second prince's full moon banquet was only two days past, and then the two generals Xue who defeated the Northern Qiang in Longxi returned to the court. The emperor rewarded the two generals generously. At the first level, Hussar General Xue Jian, who was promoted to Doctor Ronglu, was the first rank, and General Guangwei Xue Wei, who was promoted to General Zhaoyong, was the third rank.

Since then, in the imperial court, Concubine Shu and Ning Guogong's lineage, which was originally at a disadvantage, has returned to a relatively balanced position with the Empress and Kang Guogong's lineage, and may even be slightly stronger than the Empress and Kang Guogong's lineage.

Even in the harem, Concubine Xue Shu, who is also from the Xue family, returned to everyone's attention with a gorgeous posture after copying scriptures for several months.It is said that the emperor has already drawn up the decree of promoting Concubine Shu to be a noble concubine, and he is waiting to issue the decree to Xiao Yu Liugong on a sunny and sunny day.

However, the queen did not have a solution to this. When the emperor proposed to promote Concubine Shu, she also asked the emperor for instructions: Should concubines Chen and Concubine Bai, who have contributed to the birth of imperial heirs, also be promoted?In addition, there are some new favors, those who have made meritorious service to the emperor, should they also raise their status?Just taking advantage of the happy event of the two generals' victories and triumphs, these concubines can also enjoy the royal favor together. The concubine can arrange the conferring ceremony of these concubines and concubine Shu's canonization ceremony together to avoid extravagance and waste.

The emperor bowed his head and thought, the royal heirs are not abundant, and there are only five children in the palace so far. It is indeed a great achievement to conceive a royal heir, and it should be promoted.So he waved his hand in agreement.

After the emperor nodded in agreement, the empress drew up a list of concubines: the noble concubine Bai was promoted to Concubine Ning, the concubine Chen was promoted to Concubine Jing, the beautiful woman was promoted to Jieyu twice because of her pregnancy with a dragon fetus, and the concubine who gave birth to the eldest princess was promoted Concubine Qin was not included in the list of promotions due to her recent mistakes. There were also a few servants, beauties, and nobles who were newly selected in the spring draft this year and were quite favored by the emperor.After obtaining the approval of the emperor, the list of Jin titles was issued to the harem together with the imperial concubine's canonization decree.

It has to be said that after Concubine Shu copied the scriptures for several months, she has done a good job of nourishing her energy. After hearing the news, in the Chunhe Palace, not a single porcelain cup and tea set was broken, and no palace person was punished, not even the servant who reported the letter. When speaking, he could still smile, and said softly and kindly: "The younger sisters have made meritorious service in the royal family, so they should be promoted."

Dayan's concubine rank system is not as complicated as that of the previous dynasty. Empress Taizu Yide reformed the complicated and cumbersome concubine system of the previous dynasty. After nine grades.Among them, there are no fixed numbers of servants, beauties, noblemen, and Jieyu. There are nine concubines, eight concubines, one noble concubine, and one imperial concubine.Concubines and above all have titles, concubines are Gui, De, Xian, Zhuang, Li, An, He, Xi, and Kang, and concubines are De, Xian, Zhuang, Ning, Li, Jing, Shun, and Kang.

Speaking of it, the performance of the newcomers was actually quite mediocre. Although most of them were favored by the emperor, there were some who were favored by the emperor, but none who were particularly favored by the emperor.I don't know if it's because the land is not good, or the emperor didn't water enough, the newcomer has been in the palace for nearly a year, but almost no one has conceived.On the contrary, there was a palace lady next to a nobleman who was favored by the emperor for one night and was lucky to conceive, but in the sixth month of pregnancy, she was killed because of constant fear and anxiety, so she lost her baby.The emperor heard that it was a female fetus, and because he had lost the impression of the palace people, he was not very sad or regretful.

(End of this chapter)