Chapter 30: The Return
The heavy snow on the second day of the Lunar New Year fell and melted, and when it turned into a puddle of water accumulated on the ground, the Shangyuan Festival came lively.
In the morning in the palace, the warblers and swallows in the Kunning Palace, which had been silent for many years, were fragrant with fat powder flowers, which made people panic.
Empress Yuan was carefully dressed up by the powerful palace people around her.
The golden silk bun, the green sideburns, the long depiction of the willow eyebrows, faintly swept out the true national color. Vermilion in the single, blue Zhai clothes, gold silk weaving to make Zhai bird lifelike, every detail.
Finally, bring the heavy, the phoenix crown of the two dragons playing with the pearl and the phoenix bird Chaoyang, with a little emerald as the bottom, inlaid with a large number of red sapphires, pearls as spikes, the craftsmanship is exquisite and complex, and the people who are swaying are dazzled.
After dressing up, Queen Yuan, although she is not confused as she gets older, her appearance still deserves the praise of glory Qiuhua.
Empress Yuan looked at the long-lost outfit in the mirror, hooked the corners of her lips, her face was happy, but she also sighed silently in her heart.
How many years has it been?
Is it five years, or six years?
Kunning Palace is like a cold palace, and it has been many years. She even thought at one time that this outfit would never return to herself.
If she hadn't told the prince to send someone to pay careful attention to the Shen family's every move, the emperor would not have been suspicious of the concubine so lightly.
After the Shangyuan Festival, the general text of the draft girl in the palace is about to be handed down, and the three girls sent to the palace by the Cheng'an Hou Mansion must be the most eye-catching one.
Shen Guifei's hand was stretched too long. The emperor will definitely hate the palace concubine who stretches his hand too long. This is the truth that she slowly realized after many years in the palace.
Yes, this world belongs to the emperor, if the person next to the pillow points fingers at the political situation and personnel, even if he is the master of the harem, there will be a day when he will be left out in the cold.
The word "spoiling concubines and destroying wives" rests on the emperor, and it seems that no imperial history dares to say it.
If the emperor does such a thing, it must be the "loss of morality" in the middle palace.
Empress Yuan walked very elegantly with upright steps, wearing a forbidden step on her body, and the bead-ring jade pendant made an orderly sound with the steady pace.
Majesty and posture, dignified and elegant, will show the majesty of the heavenly family.
It seems that as soon as the queen stops here, as soon as she takes a step, it immediately makes people awe and put away her slow heart.
This is especially true for the palace concubines who entered the palace later and had a low position, as if the heart that had been floating in the harem was slowly gathered and surrendered.
Although the queen doesn't care about the affairs of the six palaces, she is also the master of the harem in the end, and looking at this step formation, it is still as stable and natural as it was back then, and she has never been rusty at all.
The concubines and concubines who were still playing and laughing in Kunning Palace quieted down, waited for the queen to sit down, and saluted and worshipped.
As soon as Empress Yuan raised the corner of her eyes, she saw Shen Guifei's respectful expression.
Shen Guifei did look respectful, but she was full of unwillingness.
If she is a little bit worse, she will be able to crush the queen under her feet in one fell swoop, and if she abolishes the crown prince, she will replace her!
But after a year, Empress Yuan was able to resurrect and regain the phoenix seal!
She still remembered clearly that the emperor smiled and said to her: "The concubine has been working very hard recently, and her body has weakened a lot. ”
Then there is the reward of flowing water and the grace of many days.
But the real power in his hands was forcibly broken!
Who can be willing?
Of course, Empress Yuan knew that Shen Guifei was full of unwillingness.
This person, after tasting the taste of power, it is difficult to let go. Shen Guifei has acted as the palace eunuch for not five years but also three and a half years, so many years of hard work, but if you want to get rid of it in vain, no one will be reconciled.
But she has been in power for too long, so she is stubborn and blind.
No matter how bad her Yuan family is, she is still sitting in the position of the queen! No matter how noble Concubine Shen is, she is just a concubine!
It's hard to say, but it's just a concubine room.
Delusional want to stretch out his hand to the court and reach out to the backyard of the nobles, and he doesn't weigh himself carefully?
When Empress Yuan thought about it, it seemed that half of her depression for many years had been dissipated, and she was extremely kind to everyone.
She was not good at chess that day, and was exploited by the Shen family, and she was silent for many years. But with her understanding of the Shen family, she knew that the Shen family would definitely not hold back and act carefully.
What she was waiting for was the moment when the Shen family was rampant and disrespectful.
The emperor opened his eyes, so that she could see this day.
The palace concubines saw the ceremony, and there was no major event, but after the routine said how the palace lanterns in each palace were prepared, whether the concubines were ready for the lantern riddles of the Shangyuan Festival dinner, etc., a group of women in the deep palace began to talk about things in Beijing.
"Speaking of the affairs of the various provinces under the New Year's Festival, the concubine heard a strange thing. Jing Zhaoyi covered the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief and said softly.
When everyone heard what she said, their eyes turned to her, and even the queen had a little curiosity flashing in her eyes: "Come and listen, I haven't heard anything strange about the nobles in Beijing for a long time." ”
Jing Zhaoyi reasoned slowly: "It's actually Mrs. Cheng'anhou, when she is in her thirties, her son is about to marry a daughter-in-law, she is so blessed and has a happy pulse again." ”
"I don't know that there is such a thing. The corners of Empress Yuan's mouth curved out of a full arc, and she turned her head and asked Shen Guifei, "Mrs. Cheng'anhou, it's really a blessing, Guifei said, isn't it?"
As soon as Shen Guifei heard Jing Zhaoyi mention the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, she was angry.
My brother is really unreliable to find that aunt from the Qin Mansion! Otherwise, she would not have arranged for someone to contact the subordinates of the Qin Mansion.
A pregnant concubine is just an insignificant minor role in the Hou Mansion for her plan. Unexpectedly, she carefully arranged the matter, and used the concubine's room to slip the tire, and planted the culprit on the sixth girl of Cheng'anhou's concubine.
Unexpectedly, that person was not reliable enough, not only was he discovered, but he was more like lifting a stone and hitting his own feet, and he also smashed out the fact that Mrs. Cheng'an Hou was pregnant!
In this way, the Wang family rose in the house, and the matter of the concubine's slippery tire was like a stone sinking into the sea. She was afraid that someone would find out, so she had already turned out the manpower to contact the Qin Mansion, but she didn't expect the queen to ask her such a thing today.
Could it be that Empress Yuan knew something? In the usual days, where would Empress Yuan talk to her so kindly.
The thoughts in my heart turned a thousand times, but there was no difference on my face.
Shen Guifei's eyes widened slightly, and she pinched the handkerchief to cover the corners of her mouth. She was already younger than the queen, concubine and others, so she seemed to be cute and cute, and she seemed to be surprised, "The concubine body didn't know that Mrs. Cheng'an Hou could get a pearl at such an age." Speaking of which, he sighed faintly, "I don't know if the concubine will have such a blessing in the future, and she can also have a child." ”
Concubine Yang only said with a smile: "I didn't know that Cheng Anhou and his wife were so affectionate." ”
The emperor and queen have been centrifuged for many years, and the Li Concubine Yang family is used to being a "Se servant" on weekdays, and she has no brains, and these words seem to mean something.
Concubine Zhou, who was sitting next to her, smiled and picked up the blue and white porcelain tea cup, gently brushed the tea foam on the cup with the lid, and said with a pleasant face: "The concubine is still young, and she will definitely be able to have another child in the future." ”
When Shen Guifei heard the word "again", she was angry again.
This lady has a gentle and kind appearance all day long, and her words are all knives. Up and down the palace, who can not know the child in her belly who was ruthlessly attacked by the queen many years ago and failed to keep it.
The handkerchief in Shen Guifei's hand became tighter and tighter, but the smile on the corner of Empress Yuan's mouth became deeper and deeper.
But in just a few years, Shen Guifei couldn't hold her breath like this.
That's good.
How could Shen, who couldn't hold her breath like this and had no children by her side, be her opponent with the prince?
Shen Guifei didn't say a word, and everyone's faces were slightly embarrassed. Concubine Zhou Shu's face was not obvious, but she was still drinking tea with a pleasant face. As soon as Empress Yuan changed her words, she mentioned the matter of this draft.
There will not only be show girls selected from all over the world, but also the niece of the Queen Mother's mother, the Sun family, and the girls of the Cheng'an Hou Mansion.
In the palace, there is also a new favorite of the emperor recently, a golden beauty from the palace of Shen Guifei.
The high-ranking concubines looked like they had a lot of time to watch the play, and the low-ranking beauties and ladies had their own thoughts.
The queen smiled a few more words, and instructed the concubine, concubine, concubine, and Jing Zhaoyi to help her prepare for the newcomers to enter the palace, and then dispersed for the morning ceremony.