Chapter 266, Yin Promise (I)
On that day, the emperor promised to take her out of the palace, but there was no news, but he asked Ming to scratch her liver and lungs every day!
And the emperor really cared about the matter of the four deachers, according to what he said before, the regular clothes he wore were rewarded to Prince Hongday, and he was also rewarded to his brother-in-law Pingjun Wang Fupeng, and Bei Zifuduan was also rewarded, and the children of the clan before and after added up, a total of more than a dozen sets were rewarded, but for the inventory of the Sizhiku...... It's just a drop in the bucket, isn't it?
However, the emperor decreed that he was not allowed to make clothes for him this year. This decree made the queen mistakenly think that the emperor wanted to be frugal, so the queen immediately sang with her wife, immediately reduced her own expenses, and did not make new clothes this year, and the hairpin jewelry on her head is also getting less and less day by day, and finally less than simply wearing only velvet flowers, so pure as if she was always agreeing.
The queen was so frugal that the emperor couldn't ignore it if he wanted to, so he couldn't help but praise it in a similar way. This month, I also deliberately went to the Kaiyun Hall to accompany the queen to dine with the queen a few more times. Seeing such a move, Concubine Xian was angry and hot-eyed, so she hurriedly followed the thrift, and even greatly reduced the expenses of the harem. In this way, although it saved money for the emperor, it also caused a lot of complaints from top to bottom.
On the hottest dog days, the second princess was so hot that she had prickly heat, and she didn't like to eat. The empress invited the emperor on this ground. Although the emperor didn't like the queen, the second princess was her daughter in the end, and the emperor couldn't ignore it, so he went to the Kaiyun Hall of the Broken Moon before the sun reached the most poisonous hour.
However, the emperor had just arrived outside the palace. Then he heard a melodious and gentle voice coming from the hall.
"The silk blows to the idle courtyard, swaying the spring like a line.
Stop for a long time,
Didn't steal half of the water.
The colorful clouds of the tease.
How can I show my whole body ...... in my step?"
This tone is delicate and moving, as if it blew away the hot summer day in an instant, which is particularly refreshing. The emperor couldn't help but stop outside the hall and quietly listen to this voice like a heavenly sound.
"You Dao Cuisheng gave birth to the skirt Akane,
Brilliant crystal hairpin eight treasures.
……
Don't beware of sinking fish, falling geese, and birds,
The shy flowers of fear are shivering. ”
This song is just a song, which makes people feel that the aftermath is lingering. Three days without stopping!
The emperor pushed open the door of the palace and asked in a loud voice: "Who is singing the Peony Pavilion?" - the emperor is also a person who likes Kunqu opera, and there is a big stage in the Old Summer Palace. The Peony Pavilion is the most common Kunqu opera on the excerpts! So the emperor heard it with his ears, it was a section of the garden in the Peony Pavilion. Listening to this paragraph in the ears, there is a great sense of birds and flowers, and it is also tactful and tactful. So. The emperor couldn't help but wonder. Who the hell is singing. This tactful voice is not like what the eunuchs in the same paradise can sing, and those eunuchs, no matter how well they sing, they will lose a little taste after all.
The queen was dressed in plain clothes, stepped forward and curtsied a few steps, and said with a smile: "Back to the emperor, it is the concubines who have nothing to do." Called Jinyu to sing a song. ”
"Jinyu?" - is the name of a palace maid, and it is really not something that a eunuch can sing. The Emperor's eyes swept away. Sure enough, when he saw a slender palace maid wearing a green collared palace dress behind the queen, the emperor asked, "Did you sing it?"
Jinyu still didn't dare to look up, hurriedly bent her knees deeply, and said "yes" in a low and soft manner.
The more timid Jin Yu was, the more curious the emperor became, and the emperor looked twice, but unfortunately he could only see the smooth and white forehead and a pair of slender willow eyebrows. The Emperor said, "Raise your head." ”
Jinyu held a handkerchief in her hand, her hands trembled slightly, full of cowardice, she raised her head slightly, revealing a delicate melon seed face, her eyes were moist and moving, like cutting water, she only raised her head like a glimpse, and then immediately lowered her head quickly, not daring to look at the emperor.
Seeing this, the queen felt bitter in her heart, but her face was dignified and gentle: "The days are getting hotter and hotter, and the emperor is working hard to deal with government affairs, but I am afraid that there is no pastime on weekdays." If the emperor doesn't dislike it, it's better to ask Jinyu to serve in front of the emperor, and he can sing two songs to the emperor when he is free. ”
The emperor took a deep look at the empress and said, "The empress has a heart." It's just that I didn't know that the queen had trained such a wonderful person. ”
The queen smiled and said, "Where are the concubines training, the emperor...... Don't you think Jinyu looks familiar?"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Na Jinyu carefully, although he didn't remember that there was such a charming and wonderful person among the palace maids, but this name was ...... It's vaguely familiar, but I can't remember it for a while.
The queen said: "Jinyu is the dowry maid of the Duan Concubine Xilin Jueluo." ”
As soon as the empress said this, the emperor immediately realized that it was the palace maid who was knocked unconscious in the flowers by the sea in Penglaifu on the night of the drowning of the concubine! The emperor only remembered that at that time, a palace maid who looked embarrassed and cried incomprehensibly, did not expect that she was so neatly tidy, and she was so beautiful and so graceful.
The queen said slowly: "After the concubine died, the concubine looked at her pitiful, so she took her by her side and served. I only knew before that Jinyu could sing Kunqu Opera. And he sang no worse than the eunuchs in the same paradise. ”
The emperor nodded, "It's not bad...... The people who sing in the palace are all eunuchs, although they rub grease and powder, and they sing like women, but after all, they make people feel a little wrong in their hearts. And such a graceful woman's Kunqu opera voice made him can't help but think of someone......
The emperor narrowed his eyes and asked Jinyu, "When did you learn Kunqu Opera?"
Jin Yu was soft and timid, and her voice was as low as a mosquito fly: "Hui, back to the emperor, the slave's father was originally the head of a Kunqu opera team, so the slave learned opera since childhood. How could his parents die when he was young, and later he was fortunate enough to be taken in by the concubine Niangniang as a personal maid, so he married into the palace. Saying that, Jin Yu was busy doing ten thousand blessings, and said: "The slave sings badly, and it really pollutes the emperor's ears." ”
The emperor smiled slightly, "In the past, I used to hear eunuchs singing, but now I have changed my appetite, which is still pleasing to the ear." This is equivalent to agreeing to accept Jinyu to serve in front of the palace.
The queen said gently: "If the emperor likes it, it's fine." Saying that, the queen instructed Jinyu again, "The "Palace of Eternal Life" you sang before is very good, why don't you sing it again and listen to the emperor." ”
Jin Yu responded softly with a "yes", and after a short pause, she reopened her voice. Jin Yu looked cowardly, but when she sang Kunqu Opera, she was not cowardly, every word was beautiful and tactful, and she was moving.
The emperor took away a palace maid beside the empress, and such a thing immediately reached the ears of the concubines of the six palaces. This night, Jinyu's singing resounded through the emperor's Kyushu Qingyan, and in the early morning of the second day, the emperor issued an edict and rewarded Jinyu with the title of an official woman.
After the palace maid sleeps, it must be sealed by the official woman. But Jinyu, an official woman, didn't do it for a few days, and she was promoted to the throne and agreed, and the emperor also rewarded her with the title of "Yin", which was for the sound of the promise, and for a time the six palaces were full of jealousy. (To be continued.) )