Chapter 222, Cui promised Cui to agree
After having breakfast with the emperor in Zhengjiazhuang Palace, he set off again.
The mourning concubine's ceremonial car was empty now, and she took the maids, grandmothers, and nursing mothers, and followed the emperor with her daughter to the largest and most gorgeous imperial Yuluoluan car.
Pulling this moving palace were sixteen fat, strong, jujube-red Mongolian horses, all dressed in yellow silks, trained to walk at an even pace.
The Yuluoluan car is extremely spacious, with several tables and chairs inside, and a table full of folds and folds. Obviously, when the emperor was in a hurry, it was indispensable to review the recitals. In the Luan car, it is divided into two spaces before and after, the front is the place where the emperor deals with government affairs, and the back is a large screen of twelve styles of rosewood inlaid with luodian landscape, and the back of the screen rests on a very wide Luohan couch, which is equipped with bright yellow mattresses, backrests, soft pillows and other things, and there is a red sandalwood carved dragon kang table in the middle, and the kang table is separated by tea, snacks and seasonal melons and fruits.
Zhu Niu looked at the yellow and clear tangerines in the enamel porcelain plate, her eyes suddenly brightened, and she immediately pulled her neck and screamed.
Hao Ming said helplessly: "Okay, don't scream, peel it for you." He picked up a tangerine and was about to peel it, when he saw a woman wearing a light blue embroidered rose flower twig flag dress come from the side of the screen.
"The concubine asks Concubine Shu to say goodbye. ”
Ming was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Cui promised, why are you here?"
The person who came was Cui Yu, who was originally the palace maid next to the queen, eighteen or nineteen years old, but now she is one of the emperor's concubines, and she agreed.
Cui Yu said without saltiness: "The queen mother asked the concubine to serve the emperor's diet and daily life. And also. The concubine's surname is Cui, not 'Cui'!"
Hiss: "Uh...... So, your name is Cui Cuiyu?" - the surname is no problem. The name is also very nice (eyebrows like green feathers), but it can be put together......
"Yes. Cui Yu continued to look like she wasn't salty, but she was obviously a little unhappy.
Hao Ming secretly thought that the queen asked Cui Yu to serve the emperor's diet and daily life, to put it bluntly, she wanted Cui Yu to get the moon first near the water, but Hu Ming entered the emperor's jade Luoluan car...... One mountain accommodates two tigers.
But Cui Yu is a tiger. Obviously, it's far from fighting.
Hao Ming asked her with a side face: "Didn't the emperor ask you to serve the emperor?"
Cui Yu said: "The emperor ordered the concubine to serve the mother. ”
Forehead...... Didn't the emperor like the red sleeves and incense? He actually brought Cui Yu, a beauty, here to serve her.
Ming smiled and looked at Cui Yu a few times, then handed her the tangerines in his hand, and his eyes smiled into crescent moons: "Hmm." You've come just in time, peel oranges for Hongu!"
Cui Yu's eyes widened: "Peeling oranges?"
Hao Ming nodded: "That's right, you have to peel it clean, and there can't be a trace of meridians on it." Otherwise, the pig girl won't eat it.
Cui Yu had to take the orange that Mingming came over aggrievedly. Stuffy tears the orange peel. It's as if it's tearing and screaming.
However, Cui Yu's hands were very dexterous, and he quickly handed the cleanly peeled orange flesh to Ming, who nodded with satisfaction, tore off a petal and stuffed it into the pig's mouth.
The pig girl chewed happily, her cheeks squirmed, and she ate happily.
While feeding her daughter, she asked Cui Yu: "Did the queen take the initiative to recommend you to the emperor, or did the emperor take a fancy to you?"
An unnatural flush slid across Emerald Feather's face. She said softly: "Three months ago, when the concubine served the emperor to clean her hands. The emperor praised the concubine's eyebrows for being good-looking. Then, the queen pushed the boat down the river and arranged for the concubine to sleep for the emperor. ”
Hao Ming secretly wondered, could the emperor be deliberately responding to the empress, right? Then he looked up at Cui Yu's eyebrows, well, it is indeed a pair of natural willow leaf curved eyebrows, slender and long, and they are not drawn from black. Therefore, Cui Yu did not have a trace of bangs on his forehead, so he presented a smooth forehead and soft eyebrows.
"Ahh
Forehead...... I got distracted and forgot to feed the pig. Mingming hurriedly tore another orange and stuffed it into her mouth.
After eating the whole orange, the pig girl burped happily, and her mouth was full of sweet oranges. Then he tilted his head, and went into the couch and fell asleep.
It looks like I was overdone yesterday, and I'm going to catch up on sleep today. Humming secretly watched, gently patted the pig's back, hummed a song in her mouth, and coaxed her to sleep.
"What else do you have to order?" Cui Yu suddenly asked.
Yu Ming waved his hand, "It's okay, you go and serve the emperor." ”
Cui Yu was overjoyed, what she was waiting for was this sentence, so her eyebrows fluttered, and when she saw Wanfu, she bypassed the screen and went to the front.
After sending Cui Yu away, he tilted his body and leaned on the soft pillow, wanting to sleep for a while. Although the emperor's jade luoluan car is much more comfortable, it is a little swaying after all, and in such an environment, Humming can't sleep. But it's good to take a break from crookedness.
But not long after lying down, the emperor suddenly came over and asked, "Why don't you ask the Cui family to serve?"
Hao Ming yawned, got up and hurriedly greeted the usual salute, and said, "Cui promised that his heart is not here with the concubine, and it is useless to keep it." ”
The emperor sat sideways on the Luohan couch, and then pulled Mingming to sit down beside him, and said softly: "I stay in the Cui clan, only as a maid, don't worry about it." ”
If he was really just a maid, how could he be summoned to bed?
The emperor couldn't help but laugh as he saw the increasing jealousy on his face, "Look at your little temperament, that Cui clan is just a little more pleasing to the eye, I praised it casually, but the queen was so interested that she asked her to serve me to bathe ......"
The corners of his eyes were raised, and he said sourly: "Serve the bath, and then serve the emperor to the bed!" - you are really not a picky eater, as long as you look good, you will pull it on the bed!!
The emperor smiled and pinched the tip of his nose, which was as delicate and white as a goose's leg, "She's just a coat, and you have to eat it like this?"
Hao Ming snorted softly: "Aren't pure concubines and Jia concubines also from Baoyi? and the late Huixian Guifei Gao is still from Baoyi?" - Baoyi's background may be a hard injury in other dynasties, but in the Qianlong Dynasty, it really doesn't matter what your background is. As long as the emperor likes it, the concubine will be sealed!
The emperor said lightly: "It's okay if the Gao family doesn't mention it." Pure concubines and concubines have served me for many years, and they have both virtue and virtue, so I rewarded the concubines. How can Choi and the two of them be the same?"
Yu Ming caught a glimpse of the slightly trembling shadow reflected on the screen, so he smiled and groaned: "The pure concubine gave birth to the third elder brother, and the Jia concubine gave birth to the fourth elder brother, so the concubine was sealed." If the Cui family also gives birth to an elder brother to the emperor in the future, won't it be the same?"
The Emperor smiled and said, "I won't ask her to give birth." ”
Yu Ming was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "After Cui promised to get the position, there should be no more Shunzi soup." ”
The emperor said lightly: "Where the queen secretly gave it, I naturally don't have to give it again." ”
Ming couldn't help but be stunned, Cui's family was just born in Baoyi, even if he had a child, it wouldn't be a big deal, the queen was so guarded?
This Cui family is also pitiful, thinking that the emperor likes her, but it turns out that she is just self-inflicted. The concubines who were not allowed to be born by the emperor were just playthings that the emperor occasionally played with on his whim.
Since then, along the way, Cui's has been extremely quiet and submissive, no longer has that non-salty and non-light appearance, and has lowered his posture very much, just like a palace maid, waiting for the roar, serving tea and water, beating his back and knocking his legs, and he is not very serious.
probably knew that he was just a dispensable plaything in the emperor's mind, so he didn't dare to be arrogant anymore. Facing Concubine Shu, who was born in a big family with the banner of the Manchu Army, the Cui family was very flattering.
There was little wind and rain along the way, so one afternoon at the end of September, we arrived at the Mulan paddock. In the flat area of the Mulan paddock, a feng shui treasure land by the mountains and rivers was selected, and the guards began to set up camp, the center was the emperor's imperial tent, a tent hall made of felt cloth, like a dome, at a very fast speed, with the cooperation of hundreds of guards, built up. With this as the center, around the emperor's tent, three layers of armor and layers of checkpoints were set up to ensure the emperor's safety.
Around the emperor's tent, according to the rank, the felt tents of the concubines were also built. The felt tent, in fact, is the yurt, the nomadic people live by the water, so they invented this kind of yurt that can be moved at any time, because it is mainly built with sheep felt, so it is also called the felt tent. The Mongols called it "Geers".
The princes and nobles of more than a dozen Mongolian tribes headed by Horqin came to greet them, and this was the first time they had seen so many Mongolians! One by one, both men and women, they were all dressed in extraordinary colors, and their bodies were tinkling with many beads made of coral and lapis lazuli, and both men and women wore two big braids, especially the whips of Mongolian women were also decorated with coral and other jewelry.
The vast magnolia grassland, occupies a circle of more than 300 miles, the water and grass are abundant, the first emperor did not come to hunt for thirteen years of reign, and the emperor came to the throne in the sixth year, so the wild animals here have already multiplied countless times, and it can be said that the mountains are full of prey.
In autumn, the forest is dyed, and as far as the eye can see, the sunset is reflected in the endless golden canton, and you can vaguely taste the sweet smell of wild fruits.
Hao Ming couldn't help but sigh secretly, fortunately he came, otherwise no matter how beautiful the landscape of the Old Summer Palace is, there is no natural magnificence of the Mulan paddock. Occasionally, when the wind blows and the grass is low, you can see sika deer scurrying, and you can see black storks, herons, and crested ibises, which have been listed as endangered species in later generations.
Unfortunately, in this era, there is no wildlife protection law, and these birds and beasts are all prey. (To be continued.) )