Chapter 10: The Harem Level
Lu's family motto says: Life is only four major things - glory and wealth, birth, old age, sickness and death.
There is categorically no such thing as saying goodbye, and you must arrive early.
Fu Ji may not hate the queen, but he also understands that I don't like the queen.
Even Fu Ji said, I can go if I want to, and if I don't want to go, he can give me leave.
What else can I say about this?
It's all over when you show off~!~!
On a sunny day, a walk is conducive to physical and mental health, I did not pass the sedan chair, but step by step slowly to Fengyang Palace, walk is a good mood, only feel that the scenery along the way is pleasant, everywhere scenery, is I familiar with the palace road and familiar people, as long as I raise my head on the road, no one dares to meet my eyes, wearing a beautiful eight skirts, cast their beauty under such a bright sun, as if the palace in addition to Fu Ji, it is my alone, no one can take away my glory, born should be thousands of favors, only I respect.
Perhaps, not having children will be my only weakness in the future.
But now, at least I'm still alive and well.
If the queen hadn't stopped me, I'd have almost been happy to heaven.
Only I am used to it, occasionally there will be a little high place cold loneliness, this loneliness is not easy to tell outsiders, only I can know the taste; there is a corner from Fengyang Palace, I take the afterglow everywhere, I saw a few in the distance was still in the Leaf Pavilion to pick the morning dew, the clothes are thin, the face is also like the bud, delicate and timid, maybe one day I sneeze, they will tremble for a while, cough, and finally just like the duckweed in the wind, I don't know when they will be blown away by the rain and wind.
A low rank is unlucky, the good things can't be turned, and the bad things can't be looked down on, so you can only mess around blindly when you have nothing to do, make some rouge gouache to pass the time, and even the morning dew and nectar have to be collected by yourself, and there is not even an umbrella around.
The bitterness of collecting nectar does not prevent them from having good eyes, one of these servants is sharp-eyed, when he saw me, he was so frightened that he didn't even hold the porcelain bottle in his hand, and he almost smashed it to the ground, but a talented person next to him was about to have two hits, and he actually ran over and caught it, and the rocket was fast and steady, and there were really two brushes.
The most scarce thing in the palace is all kinds of talents, I think the acrobatic one is very interesting, wearing a blue bamboo leaf pattern cover, compared with other women's beauty, there is a subtle and quiet beauty, not at all like just now, with the appearance of the family.
It's a pity that before I could see who the talented person was, the first three or four low-level palace concubines knelt down straight, and knocked their heads there desperately, with the momentum of making a noise compared with the porcelain vase.
I'm a good one,
How scared are these women of me...........
This kind of thing almost happens two or three times a day in the palace, which makes me often want to sigh when I see it, but after thinking about it, I feel that sighing for this trivial thing is very unclassy. There are too many false rumors in the palace, and even I was passed on from the immortals to the rakshasas, and the first jealous of my beauty, and hated me for being ruthless for more than a day or two;
However, the premise of not provoking is also important.
As long as they are so obscure forever, and there will never be any news in their stomachs by the way, it is absolutely appropriate to live to the end of their lives, and I will also greatly ask Fu Ji to set aside a good place for them to be alone, so that they can retire there.
It's the grace of this life, don't think about it.
You can't blame me for this, if you want to blame it, just blame this abyss-like deep palace.........
Why is the deep palace a deep palace? Because when it is quiet, it is really quiet, as quiet as the imperial tomb of the dead is buried; but when it is lively? The concubine is always a bright light, no matter how much rain and wind blows, the sun in the sky is always trapped in the palace of the favorite concubine, and the sky is full of glory for only one person to enjoy, and the winter is like spring.
Behind the glory, there is nothing imaginary, only the long night and the cruelty of reality are left.
The women in the palace, simple, in short, if you are not lonely, there are ghosts, and if you are lucky, you can also get a grace to call your family to come in and talk, and if you are unlucky, you can only talk to your own shadow in this life.
I am just being favored, but I can often call Changyun and Daddy to come in and see me, and I don't have time to talk to my own shadow, and I don't know if this is a full fortune, after all, others can't take such a turn in their lives, and I don't have to work hard to get it.
In contrast, I got too much, and what I didn't get seemed too little, too insignificant.
So, shouldn't I ask for anything else?
I don't know what Fu Ji thinks, maybe I really know it in the future, and the truth will make me a little sad.
So I'm wise to just not think about it.
It's good to be rampant and domineering in the palace, but it's better to fight alone than having a military advisor come up with an idea, always vigilant and have a sense of security, the woman in the palace has a limited IQ, and I can't look down on it if it's not limited, and my family is a family, and I finally have my own sister who can occasionally enter the palace to talk to me.
It's a pity that my sister has a lover and forgets that she is lonely day and night, and she is lonely day and night, and she is busy embroidering a dowry for herself, and she rarely comes to the palace to see me recently..........
Thinking of this, it really made me frown and even more worried, and I couldn't help but say two sentences: "Look, I knew that the weather was so good today, I should have asked Chang Yun to enter the palace to talk to the palace, but it's a pity to .........."
Wu Meizi and Xiang Tao held my hand steadily, even if it was a small step, it was also a steady walk, but Wu Meizi couldn't say anything at other times except for dressing up and talking a lot, let alone learning to meet the horse; she listened to me chattering and didn't have anything good, and began to think about being a demon to the concubines, and her mouth kept thinking about wanting to see her family, and she couldn't say anything for a while, so she had to close her mouth and walk in peace, trying to be quiet.
"Today is the second year of junior high school," seeing that the stubble was about to fall to the ground, Xiang Taozi was still more clever, and said with a smile: "Niangniang is afraid that I forgot, the second lady only came half a month ago, and just a few days after returning to the house, you called someone to enter the palace again, so let the second miss rest in the house for two days." ”
"Yes. "I just said it smoothly, sad and sorrowful, but I didn't feel too emotional, so I got off the donkey and nodded: "It's good to leave some effort for her to cultivate a good relationship with Fu Sen, and I saw her embroider a purse last time, and even the wrong thread had to be dismantled and redone, and I don't know if .......it was sent out in the end."
Xiang Taozi knows very well what to say to make me happy, and her little face is happy: "What's the urgency of this, or wait for the second miss to marry into the Yuwang Mansion seriously in the next year, Niangniang, you can ask her in person, isn't it done?"
When I heard it, I thought to myself, it's just early spring, and by the next early spring, Chang Yun will probably be the serious Princess Yu.
Think about how capable and powerful Fu Sen is, the prince has always been crowned king, and there are very few people who can participate in politics, but he can still be the minister of state, and it is estimated that Fu Ji was under a lot of pressure when he first established him. Now it's okay, many years of political achievements are there, Fu Ji has always been very melancholy, either afraid of this or that, but he still hasn't denied Fu Sen's credit, it can be seen that he is really deserved as a national minister, and it couldn't be more reassuring.
From this point of view, Changyun is still blessed, as soon as he marries, he is a big wife for others, unlike me, no matter how loud and popular the concubine is, she is a head shorter than the queen, and she can't sleep in a mausoleum with the emperor when she dies, and she has to lie alone next door, which is simply a miserable capital.
However, we must not only focus on the present, but also think long-term.
From a macro point of view, Chang Yun and I are still a good thing in the end.
This means that our Lu family will ascend to the sky in one step from now on and become a complete relative of the emperor.
We are all young and beautiful.
In the days to come, it will still be long~
Led people around the Leaf Pavilion, and saw that Fengyang Palace was not far ahead, and it was only a few steps away from it.
To greet the queen, first of all, time and attitude are secondary, and the most important thing is momentum.
If the momentum is sufficient, the waist pole will not be soft, and it can hold up the scene.
When the scene is there, the people are there, and when the momentum is soft, the people are also soft.
The workplace is like a battlefield, and the enemy must first choose the right one.
My father, General Lu, is a military general, and the generals are not necessarily all big and coarse, but their thinking is definitely different from ordinary people, he relied on his military exploits to get mixed into the position of the equivalent pillar of the court, and he has a completely different view of the workplace struggle; General Lu told his daughter before entering the East Palace, earnestly entrusted, and even the content of the entrustment was ingenious - that is, don't be afraid of causing trouble, don't make trouble, it's a big deal that your father and I roared at the court, but whenever the roar shocked His Royal Highness the Prince's ears and his brain was empty, this matter could be vaguely passed.
And, even if it is to bully (to) soft (engage) afraid (thing) hard, then you have to focus on a soft persimmon pinch, pinch this one, in order to pinch the next one, just like attacking the city, always have to outflank the surrounding first, in order to clear the interior one by one, if you come up and think about a pot, the army is basically not far from death.
I think my father's words are very reasonable, and the results are good; looking at it, in the past few years, in addition to the queen, in the entire Jinggong Palace, there is only one Rui Guifei in the upper echelons below, Rui Guifei down, the seat of the fourth concubine is empty, no one has the courage and confidence to sit up, the high-level is scarce, the bottom is numerous, and there are only a group of servants and maids standing behind in fear, there are a lot of people, but they are all crowded behind and not in front, the number is enough, but when it comes to pomp, it is simply a little pitiful.
Now there are only two middle- and lower-level people who can be fortunate enough to stand behind me, Li Zhaorong and Yuan Guiren, who are still the old people of the East Palace.
The old man, in a sense, is also an 'old man', Li Zhaorong is old, Yuan Guiren is decrepit, both of them are from the background of the female official of the Si Bed, when they entered the East Palace, they were many years older than Fu Ji, and now they are old, and they don't have the strength to jump, so the queen and I both think that they can be rewarded with a good seat so that they can live a good life by themselves, and there is no need to bother with these two old women.
A few years have passed, after my intentional or unintentional investigation with the queen, I found that Li Zhaorong is indeed very careless, and even Li Zhaorong's low sense of existence does not even need to have his full name, belonging to the kind of existence where the palace people shouted Zhaorong Niangniang, the queen saw and shouted Sister Li, and Fu Ji nodded when he saw it.
And me, when I see Li Zhaorong, I usually can't see it, at most I sweep it with the tail of my eyes, even if I say hello.
Li Zhaorong is resigned to her fate, but Yuan Guiren occasionally has to come out suddenly, about once in the East Palace miscarriage (that time it was not my harm, purely because she didn't keep it) once, she is always a little upset, when it comes to her stillborn child is okay, she will shed two tears; Li Zhaorong is entering the retirement life ahead of schedule, Yuan Guiren still has to brush up on the sense of existence, but unfortunately she can't rely on the queen, and she doesn't dare to slap me, so she had to stick to Li Zhaorong's side, the two old people huddled together to keep warm, and now Li Zhaorong's position is a little higher, and the queen also gave her some palace affairs, so Li Zhaorong was even more afraid when he got an errand, Now I see my life more important than grace, even the last bit of self-motivation that Yuan Guiren is so easy to pick out, so many years have been diligently managing so much sesame big palace affairs, nothing to do for the queen to manage the things on the ledger, generally in addition to reading the ledger or just drinking medicine in peace, every time in the winter, thunder and thunder to get a serious illness, but the illness does not die, actually still rely on chirping to live until now, it can be seen that the body must be very strong, the medicine is not in vain.
Li Zhaorong herself has no major problems, and I don't bother to find fault with her, that is, she has to cough twice when she is fine, and the old cough is like lung disease does not heal, which makes me occasionally listen to a little disgust; and every time it is time to say goodbye, she always comes a little later than me, and it is harmless to be a little late, but I stood well at the gate of Fengyang Palace, and as a result, I could hear the sound of her coughing muffled with a handkerchief from a distance, let's go, I have to hold the hand of Yuan Guiren next to me and walk one step and three times, and I have to sweat on my head when I walk ten steps, I feel that it is not a problem to carry Li Zhaorong around the palace road for ten laps.
The high-level is the high-level, and the middle and lower concubines can't talk together, often meet, still I greet them with the corner of my eyes, bored to see them trembling and saluting me,
No way, the harem is so boring, except for intrigue, everything is according to plan,
What's even more terrifying is that everyone is used to it, and one day it will change, and it may be unaccustomed to it.
If the queen doesn't come out, the concubines have to wait outside, and after waiting for a while, a big palace maid ran out of it and opened the curtain, and said softly that the queen was still grooming, obviously her own master was arranging the score, and it was clear that she was going to hang us, and she wouldn't come out if she didn't drag on for a moment.
Just wait. I casually admired the flowers and plants in Fengyang Palace, and swept a group of warblers and Yanyan behind me with my eyes, and when I finished sweeping, I found that there was a big vacant position behind Yuan Guiren, and it was very conspicuous there.
Hey............
Where did Cheng Guiren go?