Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 472 The Queen Mother
After leaving Concubine Kang and Yin Yuling, Li Xin and Yin Liuchen left the palace.The carriage is already waiting, but there are not many gifts.

Originally, I didn't have to bring any gifts, I just went to meet the elders, so bringing some, it was considered as a little sympathy for their young couple.Li Xin brought a few needles and threads she made, and made some snacks herself.

Yin Liuchen prepared a Jade Buddha for the Queen Mother.

Li Xin was a little nervous all the way, but he was used to it.When he was young, his grandmother had always loved him and always liked to be picked up to the palace.The relationship between him and the emperor's grandmother has always been relatively good, that is to say, they have grown up slowly, but they have become a lot less familiar.

It's also something that can't be helped. As he grows up, it's not easy to go to the harem all the time.Don't talk about him, even the elder brother of the crown prince is not good always staying in the harem.

It's better to be careful about the plums in the melon field.

The carriage entered the palace and stopped after walking for a while.There was already a sedan chair waiting for them, so they got on the sedan chair and headed towards the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

Caixia and Hanrui followed the sedan chair with gifts.Li Xin sat quietly in the sedan chair the whole time, not daring to lift the curtain to look outside.

When the sedan chair stopped, it was already outside the Ci Ning Palace.Although the Compassionate Ning Palace is also resplendent and majestic, it has a dull atmosphere and is relatively quiet.The Compassionate Ning Palace is actually a relatively remote existence in the palace, after all, this is the residence of the first emperor and empress.

To put it bluntly, the masters who live here are all widows, no matter how noble or powerful they are, they can't change the status of widows.

All the way in, it was really quiet.It seemed that all the waiters were light-footed, not even daring to breathe.But the outside is heavily guarded. It looks like it's called protection, but it's actually monitoring the queen mother!

The tall pines and cypresses grow very well and are verdant.In the winter, the courtyard lacks the decoration of flowers of various colors, and there are only some tall evergreen trees, which are faintly gloomy.The Compassionate Ning Palace occupies a large area. After hearing Liu Chen's talk, Li Xin knew that the Compassionate Ning Palace was probably bigger than any other palace in the harem.

It's just not as beautiful as those palaces.After all, there are still quite a few people who want to live in the Compassionate Ning Palace, and it is too small to live there.

There are so many people in the harem of any emperor, even if some can be sent away, not all of them will be sent out of the palace.Generally, those who only have daughters, or those who are of high rank but have no children, will mostly live in the Compassionate Ning Palace.That is to say, those who have sons can be regarded as a way out if they go to the fief with their sons.

In fact, going to the fiefdom is really better than staying in the palace. Many concubines have no power if they stay in the palace. After the late emperor passed away, they have nothing to rely on.

When it comes to the fief, even the prince and concubine are very honorable in the palace.

In the palace, when the first emperor was alive, the empresses and concubines would inevitably compete for favor. Living in a palace, seeing people up and down, life is really not that easy.And when there is a queen mother, it is still a question of whether another concubine can be accommodated.If it is intolerable. , Those concubines don't even know how they died.

But now there are very few people living in the Compassionate Ning Palace, the main hall naturally lives with the Empress Dowager, and then there are a few concubines of no status living in the side halls.

Most of the noble concubines back then died, and those who were sent out of the palace were sent out of the palace.There are also those who were buried by the late emperor, and there are not many people who are still in the palace.

After entering the main hall, Li Xin took a slight glance and saw someone sitting on the main seat.She and Yin Liuchen both knelt down to salute, Caixia and Hanrui also knelt down.

"See the queen mother." Li Xin lowered his head slightly, but he didn't see the queen mother clearly.

"Get up!" The words were casual, but with a faint sense of clank.Just listening to such a voice makes people think that then he is not a very gentle person, but rather manly.

It was not until he sat down that Li Xin dared to glance at the Queen Mother.The empress dowager is over sixty years old, but she is still well maintained, and she doesn't look old.Even the strands of hair are black and shiny, without a trace of white hair.

The Queen Mother sat quietly with her back straight, showing an inviolable appearance.The clothes and jewelry are all high-quality goods, showing wealth and delicacy everywhere.Because the first emperor passed away, the Empress Dowager did not wear bright clothes, and even jewelry did not need to be too bright.

Looking at the face, there is a bit harsh and stern look, and the eyes are so sharp that people dare not look directly at them.

The Empress Dowager also looked at Li Xin quietly, it was a rare appearance, no wonder Liu Chen was tempted.I thought that girls from small families would not be able to appear in the meeting, but now that they look at it, they are not bad, and they are not like ordinary girls from small families.But it's not like those ladies in the capital, but it has a very unique feeling.

Speaking of which, this woman is really not simple.I also heard Tianchen talk about it before, saying that she is a rare little girl.

A few years have passed, but this little girl has grown into this appearance.It is really a great contribution for a woman to benefit the people.

The queen mother did not make things difficult for Li Xin, she just said some commonplace things, as if it was true that at least an ordinary grandmother wanted to see her grandson-in-law.

After talking for a while, the Queen Mother wanted to leave Yin Liuchen to talk alone, so Li Xin led Caixia and Hanrui to leave first.After walking outside, Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the queen mother is a person who has lived in the world for a long time, and she always gives people an inexplicable pressure.She was a very shrewd and capable woman, even though it was the first time they met, Li Xin thought so.

That's right, it's certainly not easy for a woman to walk step by step today.

It is indeed not easy to go from a concubine's room in the palace to the empress dowager position today, but still hold the power all the time.When the first emperor first became emperor, the current queen mother is just a low-level harem woman.But after slowly becoming the queen, he let his son squeeze out the legitimate son left by the Yuan empress and become the emperor.

Such a woman is of course very powerful.

Li Xin didn't dare to go far, so she just walked around the Palace of Compassion and Peace.There are magnificent palaces everywhere, and there are many high walls. Standing here, you really can't see the outside of the palace at all.

It seems that the sky has become smaller. Living in this palace year after year is really scary.Fortunately, in this era, almost all women who enter the palace are voluntary, as long as the emperor will not force women from any family to enter the palace.This is still a bit of human rights!It would be a nightmare if women lived in an era when they were forced to draft.

It's like the Qing Dynasty, but in the families of officials with a slightly higher rank, the daughters have to participate in the draft anyway.

Only if the emperor doesn't like it, and even the royal family members don't like it, then they have the right to find someone else for their daughter.Speaking of it, it was really a perverted dynasty, and it was creepy to think about it.

"Empress Dowager doesn't know what to say to Shi Ziye, Shi Ziye hasn't come out after so long." Hanrui frowned slightly.

"My dear grandparents! It's normal to talk more, it's rare for Liu Chen to come to the Palace of Compassion!" Li Xin smiled.It's not always easy for Liu Chen to come to the Compassionate Ning Palace, since he's here, it's not wrong to talk a little longer.Of course, she also felt that the Queen Mother and Liu Chen couldn't just be chatting about family affairs.

But no matter what she said, she couldn't control it.

Suddenly a few people walked by not far away, Li Xin looked over, the leader was a young and beautiful woman, she was very beautifully dressed, she looked like a fairy.

The people in the back are dressed as palace maids, maybe they are the masters of the palace?The closer he got, Li Xin felt that the woman in the lead looked familiar, she looked 25 or [-] years old.But it doesn't make people feel that the color of the flower is withered, but it has a very unique beauty, like a tumulus that is in full bloom, very bright and moving.

She always felt that she should have seen this person before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

That group of people had no intention of entering the Compassionate Ning Palace, and passed by the gate of the Compassionate Ning Palace.Li Xin didn't know what her identity was, but she didn't care, and those people didn't intend to talk to her.

At this time, Yin Liuchen was sent out by a maid from the Compassionate Ning Palace.

"Who is the person who just passed by? Is it the master of the palace?" Li Xin asked the maid who came out of the Compassionate Ning Palace.If it is really a concubine of some rank in the palace, the maid who serves the Queen Mother personally should know her!
"As for the concubine, it's Empress Jade, who is favored in the palace now! Over the past two years, the emperor seldom goes to the harem, and it is probably this Empress Yu who is serving her." The maid replied truthfully. with.This kind of thing is not a secret, and naturally many people know it.

That is to say, Li Xin entered the palace for the first time and did not know much about the palace yet.

"That's it! I don't understand anything." Li Xin smiled. "May I take the liberty to ask, what is the name of this jade concubine?"

"Empress Yupin was originally surnamed Liu, but she came from a humble background. She is just a family of ordinary people."

"Thank you."

"It's a servant's honor to be able to explain the doubts of the concubine, how can I deserve a word of 'thank you', I really am a slave."

Li Xin and Yin Liuchen got into the sedan chair, but Li Xin was thinking about that concubine Yu, where did she meet her?Surname Liu?She thought for a while, whether she knew a woman surnamed Liu at some point.

If you can't remember your identity, you must be very unfamiliar, but if you feel familiar, you should have been in contact with it.It can't be just a passer-by I've seen, otherwise I wouldn't feel familiar!
But she just kept going casually, and it was fine if she didn't think about it. It was just someone she met suddenly, and it wasn't that important.It's okay if you can't remember it, it won't affect her life anyway.

(End of this chapter)