Chapter 219: Harem
"Do you think I should accept the emperor's gift?" Qin Mo raised his head and looked at the sky, but this was actually out of his own intention.
"The girl is now doing things by the emperor's side, so she must understand that the holy face cannot be offended, our emperor, although he is majestic and strategic, is also a saint of governing the country, but the ancients said, if the king is accompanied by the tiger, the girl should also understand this meaning, besides, it seems to me that this time our emperor recruited the girl to do things close to him, and it is not just to pick a pleasure, it is a whim for the girl, if the girl resigns, there should be some busy in the future, you know what I mean-!"
Concubine Nian slightly supported her long sleeves, looking solemn.
Qin Mo looked up at the sky and exhaled, she understood, she understood, which meant that even if she resigned this time, the emperor would still find him under the pretext, in case, if he really felt that Qin Mo had rejected him, which was the so-called having two hearts, when the time came, it would be possible to take his own life.
He is the emperor, and he has the power of life and death over everyone, so what is it to kill her as a small commoner.
Writing papers, well, it's just a paper in the imperial study, grinding, and occasionally copying and conveying edicts, and it's not a multi-core department, since she wants to do it, she'll do it.
Xiao Tao finally came from Suizhou, holding a lot of paper and pen in her hand, because Qin Mo was about to enter the palace to take office, and there was no one to take care of this business, thinking that the eldest aunt had been complaining that Qin Mo did not give her family Ruizi trouble, saying that there were so many shops under him, and he did not give his brother a housekeeper, so he wrote a letter to ask Ruizi to come to the capital.
Ruizi's cousin is a little wooden, but he lacks some of his father's bad intentions and has a stupid temperament.
I also know some arithmetic, I can write, and my writing is very good.
Now Xiao Tao understands these businesses of the Qin family, and Qin Mo still made a notice outside, gave a high salary, and hired a person who handles the overall accounts outside, this person must be able to read the account books, play the abacus well, and then have more work experience such as the shopkeeper.
Qin Mo thought that the person who came to apply for the job must be an old housekeeper, but he didn't want to, on the first day of this list, it was a young and handsome son who came.
Qin Mo was a little shocked, but seeing that this young man was very confident, and took the initiative to say that he was very familiar with Qin Mo's internal business.
Qin Mo still felt confused, but he couldn't see the hostility in his eyes, so he kept him, he signed up for his name Sima Wenyu, Qin Mo couldn't find someone to check his bottom, and thought that this capital was originally the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and finally hired this Sima Wenyu, nothing else, giving Qin Mo the feeling that this person is capable.
Being able to take care of such a big family business of the Qin family is not something that ordinary people can do, this foundation was built by Qin Mo single-handedly, and Qin Mo knows everything in between, but it is someone else.
Let this Sima Wenyu assist Qin Rui.
Qin Rui is the Qin family in the end, Qin Mo is relieved to give him the seal, and it is not worrying to be an outsider, so this Qin Rui took Qin Mo's seal every day under the guidance of Sima Wenyu to help sign and approve the text delivered below.
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Qin Mo has been in the palace for the fifth day, and he doesn't feel anything special when he stays by the emperor's side every day.
When I met for the first time, I felt that he was very majestic, treacherous, and had a sense of distance, which made people dare not approach.
But after three or five days, I suddenly feel that others are also very ordinary, with the same expression as others, I will tremble my nose, I will be tired and lie on the dragon chair regardless of the image, I will pinch my nose with my hands, sometimes I will breathe out in a hurry, when I look at the concerto, when I am not satisfied, I will immediately have a black face, and the depressed appearance is on my face, and when I see some reports of good news, sometimes I will suddenly laugh out loud, there is a sense of smugness, and I don't often lose my temper with the palace people.
It just so happened that Father-in-law Liu was also beside him and reminded Qin Mo all the time, and Father-in-law Liu was serving tea and water to add carbon to the stove, while Qin Mo was laying paper next to him and helping to copy some documents to be issued.
And this happened to be noon on the fifth day.
"Qin Mo-!" Suddenly, Qin Mo was copying something on the bookcase next to him, and the emperor shouted from above.
Qin Mo was puzzled, and when he looked up, he saw the complicated face of the emperor Lao'er.
Qin Mo stood up, "Your Majestyβ!" β
"You've been here for so many days, what kind of person do you think I am! Do you also have a lot of things in your heart that you want to ask me, I left you alone in this imperial study, think about it, now there are so many voices outside, what will they say, they must say that I am in love with a woman, but I am not included in the harem, but I placed her in front of the palace to be a special favorite-! β
Hearing this, Qin Mo had a moment of confusion on her face, she glanced at the emperor's smiling eyes, and then she got up and knelt on the ground and leaned over
"Wechen don't dare-!"
It turned out that he also knew that there were many people talking about it outside, not to mention the palace, especially the harem that was most relevant to the emperor's woman, that is, those in the court, and they had a lot of tongues.
The emperor of this dynasty has few female officials, but it is still located in front of the palace, in front of the palace, the closest to the emperor, the best to know the emperor's intentions, and the best to know the secrets issued in a child's text.
All in all, a very special position.
In fact, for so many days, Qin Mo was of course full of doubts in her heart, but could she go and ask him in person
"Hehe, you are so smart, naturally you know that I left you in front of the palace, not to spoil you, and you don't have too many things on you to attract me, but you still have a little bit of likable appearance, but the palace, I, around, the most important thing is the face, women, after so many years, I haven't seen anything of all kinds-!"
After a pause, the emperor changed his posture and took a sip of the tea in front of him.
Qin Mo was still kneeling like that, his eyes kept looking up, not knowing what he was going to say today.
After a while, I saw that he finally put the tea down
"I left you in front of this palace, naturally I want to know, do you have the ability to surpass ordinary people, is it as mysterious as Lord Han said, saying that you can grow an acre of grain and rice, you know, the people of the past generations have lived on grain, there are natural disasters, there are people who can't eat, I was born as the king of a country, I just want to be gracious to my people, if you really have this magic skill, you can demonstrate it to me in front of me, if you can really achieve what he said, you teach me, I am willing to share this half of the country with you-!"
And so it was.
Qin Mo guessed that this was the purpose of letting him enter the palace early in the morning, and he still cared if he could really grow rice with high output value.
Actually, she really has it.
"If the emperor speaks, Weichen thinks that the minister doesn't care about what the emperor says-!"
"Oh!" Hearing this, Nashun Kangdi's body was crooked on the dragon chair, his hand resting on the armrest, and he made a look that was very interested in Qin Mo's words, "Then you are-!" β
Qin Mo lowered his face and looked down, "As long as the emperor can truly love the people like a son, Weichen will be satisfied." β
The emperor stroked his beard, leaving a series of slightly embarrassed laughs, "Hehe." Hehehe.! β
"So, you're willing to show me how you grow a thousand catties of rice!"
Qin Mo knelt on the ground, lowered his eyebrows, and raised his head, "The emperor's decree, how dare Weichen not be dedicated-!" β
"Hehehe.!" Sure enough, this sentence provoked Long Yan Dayue, and the emperor's eyes moved to Qin Mo's face, "As long as you say so, I will believe you-!" β
Qin Mo was silent.
"In the east of my dormitory garden, there is a pond water, originally my palace people have always been the place where I made a lotus pond in the summer, I ordered someone to strip off the lotus leaves in it early in the morning two days ago, and then clean up the pond, that is my back garden, no one dares to come, you take it, how about making the pond your test field, if the final result is really so godly, I will definitely reward you-!"
Qin Mo buried his head and thanked him, "Weichen remembers the emperor's reward, and he will definitely go all out!" β
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After Qin Mo got this experimental field, he found that it was not convenient to raise seedlings in the palace, so he thought about it, it was better to let those farmers raise seedlings outside the palace and then bring them into the palace to plant them.
It's just that it's the end of autumn, and the rice has just been harvested, so it's too early to say that the seedlings are raised.
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It's just that for Qin Mo, staying in the palace every day, the courtiers of the former dynasty don't look for trouble, and the harem won't be so peaceful.
Qin Mo got up early, only stood in the center of the garden of the imperial garden, ready to move his neck bone, dodge, and then be summoned by the emperor later, but he didn't want to, when he turned around to do gymnastics, he saw a little girl hiding behind the dense octagonal gold plate and sneakily looking at Qin Mo.
Qin Mo has always been active in front of the palace, of course, he occasionally sees the concubines of the harem waiting outside the palace from time to time, and waiting for the emperor to meet after the affairs are completed.
And this maid looks like she is a little familiar.
It's not the emperor in front of him, the emperor doesn't need to look so sneaky, so most of them are those ladies in front of him, these days, Qin Mo has also seen a few in the harem, but he really can't remember that this maid is from that palace.
The maid seemed to have noticed that Qin Mo had seen her, and gave Qin Mo a slightly threatening look, so she hurriedly ran away.
This head, in the Xianfu Palace, a bright yellow robe, a woman who has passed the age of knowing what is wrong, the woman's age is not small, look at the fine dry lines on the face, you know, just in this palace, idle and nothing, heavy maintenance, with the crown of the imperial concubine on her head, a phoenix hairpin pressed on half of the head, and a string of pearls fell from the mouth of the phoenix hairpin.
I have been sitting next to the low table in the inner hall, sitting for a long time, the incense burner on the low table, the rich spices burned, although the hall is large, but everywhere can smell the rich fragrance of roses.
The woman sat on the chair, her long gold armor piercing the orange peel, and she pulled out the petals of the orange peel one by one.
". Empress. See. I see it.! β
A voice suddenly came from the outer hall, and the woman on the seat quickly stood up, because she was in a hurry, and her armor pressed against the sandalwood table, injuring her nails, and the woman's eyebrows flickered.
And the man outside who had just uttered a hurried word had already entered the door.
Wearing a light pink palace maid costume, she also has a palace maid's double bun on her head.
The woman hurriedly went out, saw the palace maid, opened her eyes slightly, and hurriedly asked, "What have you seen?" β
The palace maid ran in and ran out of breath.
He approached and knelt down at the man in his bright yellow robe
"Niangniang, I saw it, the woman who is by the emperor's side every day, Lan'er is really seeing it today, she is alone in the imperial garden, the emperor is now in the early dynasty, and he did not summon her alone, but when Lan'er looked at her just now, she saw her alone in the back garden of the emperor's bedroom, and she seemed to be very familiar with it, and her behavior was very presumptuous!"
She saw Qin Mo jumping and kicking there, and she only had one thought, this woman didn't look like a woman at all, she was not as good as her.
"You can see what she looks like, how she looks-!"
When Lan'er heard this, she disturbed her head, "It's still very good-looking, not the kind of beauty that captivates the country and the city, but it gives people a special feeling, especially her facial features, which give people a very delicate feeling, slightly heroic-!" β
As soon as the woman heard this, her body was like a spirit, and she was cleaved with tears from head to toe, and she couldn't control her body, so she took two steps back sharply, and then planted herself into the seat.
". Imperial Concubine Niangniang...! Here, Lan'er saw the appearance of her master, and whispered worriedly.
For a long time, this imperial concubine seemed to have come to her senses. With his hand on the armrest, he turned his eyes to look at the girl, with a deep loneliness in his eyes.
"It's over, now our Jing'er is completely finished-!"
As soon as he saw that his master was so uncomfortable and his feelings were so low, he was naturally uncomfortable in his heart.
Seeing that the imperial concubine was so defeated, Lan'er took the veil, and naturally shed tears when she was sad.
"Niangniang, don't be like this, Niangniang, our fourth master still has a chance, our fourth master is worse than others, Niangniang, you are the first one who can't fall, think about it, you are also the imperial concubine, and the second largest in this harem is you-!"
This maid, looking at her master, complained and wept, and shed tears vigorously with a handkerchief.
The woman sitting on the chair shook her head in disappointment with tears in her eyes for a long time.
"No, I can't. No, I can't. Although I am the imperial concubine, after all, I am a cut short of her, and I am not the queen after all! β
These words suddenly came out of her heart, and the frightened god of the maid was shocked, and immediately called out, "Niangniang-!" β
Then, pull the imperial concubine out of her own sadness.
The imperial concubine came to her senses, and she also followed Na Lan'er, looking left and right with a frightened expression.
I don't know if there will be ears on the wall, but this will not be heard by the queen, and she is getting more and more confused as she gets older.
I can only think about these words in my heart, how can I say them in my heart today.
How can such words be put on the lips.
The maid was calmer than the master, and only bit the veil
"Niangniang, how can you be so easily discouraged, think about it, no matter how high the status of the queen is, but the two sons she gave birth to are not pleasing to the emperor, you look at the emperor, how good it is to the five princes and the third prince every day, especially the five princes of Concubine Hui, it hurts in the heart from birth, who doesn't know the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, it is the emperor to our four princes, and it is better than the prince and the king of Lian, the prince has been in that position for so many years, this year's birthday is for the five princes and the prince, and the discerning person can see the gap at a glance, Who said that the queen's heart will not respond! β
"Mother, don't mess up by yourself-!"
Listening to this little girl talking to herself next to her, the imperial concubine is really much calmer than before, so some minions are more solid in their hearts than their masters, and they will also encourage their masters to do things.
"Well, what you said makes sense, as long as the emperor is still in the day, the position of this prince may change at any time-!"
Lan'er answered next to her
"That's the reason, although the prince said that the queen is the biological mother, but all these years have not been favored by the emperor, the emperor is turning a blind eye to him, the five princes are favored again, Concubine Hui is young and beautiful, and the emperor likes it, the emperor has sheltered their mother and son in the court for so many years, the queen may have hated the root of the tooth itch for a long time, Concubine Hui has the queen as a big enemy, when to pay attention to our Xianfu Palace, and Concubine Hui's grade is lower than you, and the mother does not have the master's confidence in you, what is the mother afraid of, As long as Niangniang thinks that you are the imperial concubine above 10,000 people under one person in the harem, who are you afraid of, Niangniang is every time her heart is empty, is it not that there is a snipe and a clam competing for fishermen to profit, there is Niangniang you are here, our four princes are the winners in the end-! β
"Well, yes, what you said does have some truth, although Concubine Hui is favored, she is just a concubine, and the prince who gave birth to the prince is not right, and the prince on the queen's side is not favored."
As soon as this was mentioned, the imperial concubine's eyes suddenly became fierce.
"Over the years, the emperor has favored the young people in the harem, all of them are little sluts, you say that Yan Yue'e, just by virtue of that face, and that soft and weak appearance, made the emperor feel distressed, the emperor favored her, and now she is sick every day and a few imperial doctors serve the decoction in front of her, serving and serving, the concubine, heh, it has only been two years since she entered the palace, and she climbed the position of this concubine. Looking at her sick appearance, it is estimated that she will not live for two months-! β
As soon as she heard her master's words, Na Lan'er was in better spirits than anyone else.
"That is to say, so God punished her and let her be stained with dragon grace for so long, but for a few years, not a man and half a woman were not born to the emperor, and now look, this grace is gradually decreasing, I'm afraid that the grace will only fade faster after this, and now her Chengqian Palace is no different from the cold palace except for the imperial doctor-!"
"Butβ!" When it comes to the emperor and his daughter, they are the most disgusted by those senior concubines, and the imperial concubine gritted her teeth, "It's just such a fox who just went down, and now there is another one in front of the palace, this time it's better, don't accept it as a harem, and let the emperor go directly-!" β
Thinking of this, the imperial concubine sneered.
This Lan'er blinked, looking shrewd, and flattered the person in the upper position
"Don't be angry, angry and hurt yourself, in my opinion, the new fox is only afraid that the favor will not last long, Niangniang thought, she suddenly appeared like this, there are already many Niangniang are wary and dissatisfied with her, why bother the imperial concubine Niangniang to do this, I am afraid, if this continues, she will only stay in the palace for two or three months, and then disappear naturally!".