Chapter 406: True Intentions
On the kang bed in the Changchun Palace, Yuan Ying opened her eyes and felt sleepless.
She wanted to fall asleep, her eyelids were tired and she was fighting, but the things in her heart kept churning.
The Li family was squeezed by the Nian family, first begging for mercy with the flesh and blood in the abdomen, and then avoiding the Old Summer Palace. She played really well with this hand, thinking that she was repeatedly persecuted as a noble concubine, and was bullied by a little concubine instructed by the Changchun Palace, but she didn't dare to resent it at all, even if she didn't say anything bad to the Nian family, she could only avoid the Old Summer Palace.
As for Nian, I don't know how she got the blue eyes of Banzai. But looking at her current behavior, she is probably also trying to win the trust with her feigned uprightness.
Yuan Ying knows very well that the most important quality of Banzai is to be unobstructed in front of him. Nian didn't know what kind of master he had, but he was able to find out the pulse of Banzai and cast for him.
It's just that Banzai has never been a person who is arbitrary, so although he values Nian, he refuses to easily rise to her position. And since she wants to use her brother, I'm afraid that she will still be suppressed in a short time.
But...... To make amends, I'm afraid I'll let her give birth, right?
Yuan Ying heard Mama Zhuang talk a lot about the harem during the Kangxi period, and took the Queen Mother as an example, there was a matter of paying her son.
Even if it's just a concubine, you can't underestimate it. It is necessary to know when the position can be ascended, but long live a matter of will. What is rare is the Sacred Heart and family history. If the shortcomings of the Li family are in their origins and family, the Nian family does not have this shortcoming.
And pampering and children, why not worry about it?
Until the palace maid outside the house screamed, she didn't sleep for even a quarter of an hour.
When the palace maid waited for her to get up and wash, she turned on the lamp and asked carefully, "Did the master sleep well?" She saw that the queen's face was pale and a little swollen.
Yuan Yingdao is fine, and the palace maid still invites Mama Zhuang.
Mama Zhuang asked people to come over and beat her legs after breakfast, and when Dai Jiashi came to ask for peace, she took the beauty fist in the hands of the palace maid and knelt in front of Yuan Ying's couch to beat her legs.
Yuan Ying woke up after a short nap and felt better, and he didn't want to open his eyes and see Dai Jiashi kneeling in front of the couch waiting.
"Get up, I know your filial piety. In the future, you don't have to do such things, just have them waiting. Yuan Ying sighed.
Dai Jiashi lowered his head and whispered, and then sat on the embroidered stool in front of the couch and accompanied Yuan Ying to talk about cause and effect.
I just said that an old man studied diligently since he was a child, and although he did not gain fame when he grew up, he also worked hard to make the family worry-free, who knew that when he was old, he did everything he could to marry a daughter-in-law for his son, but his son kicked him out of the house and refused to support him.
The old man asked his son, wasn't he afraid of retribution?
The son said, "I am your retribution, who is my retribution, I will not know until I am old."
Yuan Ying asked Dai Jiashi: "You say, what is the reason why the son is talking about?" ”
This story was written in a book sent to Changchun Palace, maybe it's just apocryphal, or maybe it's some rural experience. Dai Jiashi also read it, and said at this time: "The old man was young in order to study, his father sold his mother, he saw his mother being sold but was not moved, his mother cried at him, asking him to beg his father, but he said that he didn't sell you, there is no silver at home, what will he take to study?" ”
"After that, he sold his sisters and sisters, and the sisters also cried to him, saying that he had no silver at home, and he couldn't afford to keep you down, so it was cheaper to sell it."
Yuan Ying continued: "When he marries a wife and has children, he also sells his wife because he has no silver at home, and if he has no silver, he sells his daughter to marry a wife and take a concubine, and when he has no money, he will sell his wife and concubine, and when he sells his daughter to his son to marry a wife, his son will also drive him out of the house." That's why the son said, and he is his retribution. ”
Dai Jiashi didn't speak, and Yuan Ying asked her again: "You say, that old man Weishenme asked his son if he was afraid of retribution?" And the son is not afraid of people's words and drives his father out of the house? ”
Dai Jiashi pondered and said: "The old man thought that his son would be afraid of the rumors of the neighbors, but he didn't know what he did, so he would have made the neighbors not speak for him, but he was afraid that he would have to say a word of evil and evil retribution." His son also knew about this and dared to drive him out. ”
Yuan Ying sighed: "Yes......" she looked at Dai Jia and said, "So this person can't do something unfortunate, otherwise it will be too late to regret it when no one speaks." ”
Dai Jiashi immediately understood that this was the queen warning her not to be jealous of the Gege sent in this year, and she hurriedly said respectfully: "The emperor's mother is right, and the sons will keep it in mind." Then I said that the new Gege waited for Honghui to live these days, she was busy taking care of her daughter, and the other two Gege were also well-behaved people, and they didn't have the slightest problem with Xin Gege, and often took care of her.
"I rewarded Xu with six pieces of cloth, six hairpins and a pair of bracelets. Su and Ma also gave her some rulers, needles and threads, etc., and they often walked around when they were fine. Dai Jia said.
After Dai Jia's left, Yuan Ying asked people to find out the scripture and turn it to the old man. In just half a page, the account is shocking. She didn't understand it when she looked at it, but when she got to the last two paragraphs, she was terrified.
At the beginning, it is clearly the old man's self-realization. He thinks that he is hard-working as a young man, and he is hardworking in middle age to support his family, and he is worthy of his son when he is old. Who knows, for another person, it's a different story.
Although there is a warning to the world that only by doing good deeds can there be blessings, but doing evil will bring bitter consequences, but the self-realization of the old man in the first two sentences touched her.
Tang Taizong once said that with people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses.
The old man was like a mirror, and she began to wonder if she was like this old man in the eyes of others.
This made her can't stop thinking, what is she like in the eyes of Banzai? Did everything she had been trying to do really happen? Respectful to the top, lenient to the bottom, what she wants is fame? Popularity? Or is it a state of mind?
She uses the behavior of ancient sages to demand herself, has she really done it from the bottom of her heart?
When she asked herself, she couldn't help but shudder. She knows very well that respect, filial piety, and generosity are her weapons and the foundation of her foothold, so she demands this from herself both inside and out. But in her heart, she knows what is important.
As long as you do it, she doesn't really think that the Queen Mother and Long Live are worthy of respect.
The Queen Mother is too cold, she has never disobeyed her since she married into her brother, and she is respectful and filial to everything at all times, but the Queen Mother has never said a word for her. Even after entering the palace, in front of Banzai, the Queen Mother did not show her preference for her and snubbed the Li family.
Isn't she worthy of the Queen Mother saying a word for her? Is there anything else she can't do well?
As for Long live, he favored the Li family in the mansion before, making her like an ornament. When she entered the palace, she didn't know where to put her. Now he is showing his attention to her as a queen on the outside, but he is embarrassing her in private. made her bitter and unspeakable, and hated him for being ruthless and insidious in her heart.
Isn't she his queen? Didn't she give birth to Honghui for him? is so honored and favored by the Li family, and she has not said a bad word about her outside because of jealousy. Isn't she good enough?
But looking at the old man, it scared her.
If the Queen Mother had seen through her grievances a long time ago, and if Banzai had also seen her resentment, would ...... What else does she have to stand before them?
It was as if she had been stripped naked.
Yuan Ying shook his hand and closed the book, but the half page of the story still appeared in front of him.
The palace maid asked her if she wanted to pass on lunch?
Yuan Ying didn't answer for a long time, and the palace maid wanted to ask again strangely, but saw the queen mother slowly get up and said, "Wait until I go to the small Buddha hall to recite a scroll of scriptures and then come back for dinner." ”
The palace maid hurriedly said: "Yes, the slave maid will go and prepare." ”
Kneeling in front of Master Guanyin, Yuan Ying did not chant the scriptures for the first time, but looked at the loving and loveless face of the monk in a daze, and asked in her heart: What should she do?
In Yongshou Palace, Li Wei was letting the children try on clothes, and Hongyun and Hongshi helped Hongyun change, and Hongyun was so anxious that his face turned red: "I'll wear it myself!" ”
Hongshi said solemnly: "Biedong, children should be obedient and obedient." ”
Hongyun said gently: "Hongyun is the most well-behaved, so serious about reading and writing, and now he is also obedient, let my brother dress you." ”
Hongyun, who moved into Brother's office, worked too hard, and heard Hongshi say that he 'sat there with a pen in his hand and could write for a day', and Hongyun also said that he memorized too hard and kept all the time.
Li Wei asked his brothers to play with Hongyun more, but he couldn't figure it out. It is said that he was never taught to work so hard when he was in Yongshou Palace, where did this child learn it? Asking Erhe didn't know the essentials, she even suspected that she secretly taught him with Hongyun's nurses, and let people interrogate him privately for a long time.
It's not that she doesn't want Hongyun to work hard, but what kind of work does a six-year-old child use? Looking at Hongyu, who has just graduated from Shang Shufang after getting married, the fourth master also assigned him homework, which shows that he can read for a lifetime if he wants to study, and there is no need to rush for a while.
The most important thing is to write and read every day, what should I do if I get myopia?
Hongyu was chased and intercepted by her brother and the nurse eunuch, and ran to complain to her, her little face was aggrieved and angry: "They don't let people read!" I read the book in the house for half an hour, and the nurse asked the lady to collect the book and drove me out for a walk! Where am I going? The Imperial Garden has long since become tired of it! ”
He originally wanted E-Niang to support him, but E-Niang listened to his words and thought about it: "Then why don't you go to the Old Summer Palace with E-Niang?" It's a big place, and in recent years, a lot of new pavilions have been built, and you haven't seen it. ”
"E-niang!" Hongyun was so angry that he stomped his feet! "I didn't mean that!" He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, stared at her suspiciously, and asked, "Eniang, are you coaxing me?" ”
Li Wei didn't know where to let him see it, and just after he was stunned, Hongyun looked like "I have discovered the truth!" He said, "Sure enough, it's the same as what the fourth brother said!" E-niang loves to coax people the most!! ”
It's Hiroshi again!
It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
When trying on new clothes today, Li Wei said Hongshi, you look about the same height as your twenty-emperor uncle and a few cousins, come on, come and help E-niang try on clothes. These are all things that will be given back.
Pulling Hongshi to try on clothes for a long time, lifting him around, I think this kid is so handsome! She also specially asked people to make small Mongolian robes and Hanfu, and he wore each set very good-looking!
When Hongshi returned to the brother's office after trying, he saw several large boxes in the house. Open it and flip it through, it's all he tried on today. Zhao Quanbao, who came to deliver the box, said with a smile: "The slave asked the fourth elder brother to say goodbye, this is what the master said to do for you." ”
When Li Wei saw the fourth master, she said that those clothes were very good, and they were rewarded for the children in the palace of King Zhijun and Prince Li. Even when she saw that Hiroshi was dressed well, she also gave it to him.
There are a number of cases in the palace, and Hongshi can be regarded as taking advantage of himself by leapfrogging a few brothers this time.
The fourth master couldn't help but want to see what it was like for Hongshi to wear a Mongolian robe and a scribe's scarf when he heard her, but it was inconvenient to be in the palace, and then he heard her say that he wanted to take Hongyu with him when he went to the Old Summer Palace next year, so he said: "Hongshi will also go together." ”
He has been hesitating, like he lives in the Old Summer Palace in the summer, but his sons are in the palace, and he can only meet once a few days to ask an answer to do his homework, which is inevitably beyond the reach of the whip. He thought that when the time came, he would bring his sons to the Old Summer Palace, and the place would be able to live, but when the time came, would he only bring his own children, or would he even bring the little royal brothers in the palace and the imperial nephews of the third year of the south?
Of course, I just want to bring my own family with me, but at this time, I am not happy to treat him differently.
Li Wei saw that the fourth master was turning left and right in the room as if he was thinking about some big problem, and he couldn't read the book, and he couldn't approve the excerpts, so he looked into the distance from time to time.
didn't dare to disturb his train of thought for a while, and sat aside with a play book in his hand.
Shengshou saves trouble, but New Year's can't. In the blink of an eye, it was the New Year, and when I heard that this year's palace opera was organized by Nian's family, Li Wei couldn't help but be funny. This year, it seems that he is really getting more and more famous.
However, when I sat in Yuhua Pavilion to listen to the play, I realized that this palace drama still had a copy from Changchun Gongsu, and it was done by the two of them. But only Nian's is famous outside.
As a noble concubine, Li Wei and the queen sat on both sides, separated by a hollow flower pavilion in the middle.
Yierha is already married and is not considered a member of the royal family, but the fourth master specially announced that she would enter the palace to celebrate the New Year together, which can be regarded as a rare honor. After she went to the queen's side to say goodbye, she came to Li Wei to say goodbye.
Li Wei asked her to get up, seeing that her complexion was not bad, and she wanted to marry into the Wulanala family in the past few months, she should not have been wronged. After asking a few questions, she was asked to go and talk to Zalafen.
When listening to the play, people often come to ask for peace, and there are a few who can enter the cabinet, and the rest are mostly kowtowing on the front side of the cabinet.
Li Wei is still hanging the title of 'sick and weak' outside, and the fourth master is already a little angry, thinking that she pretended to be sick at the beginning as a helpless move, but how can anyone curse herself for many years? As far as Chrysostom Yuyan is concerned, she is only allowed to use this excuse to block people in the past few years of the Chinese New Year, and she is not allowed to see people and say that she is not in good health, she is sick, and it is unlucky.
Thanks to this reputation, it is much more convenient for Yuyan and Zhao Quanbao to drive outside.
The jade bottle is because he is not a person from the Yongshou Palace now, and he followed Erhe to wait in the pavilion. At this time, she quietly came up and motioned to Li Wei to look outside: "Master, that's Concubine Nian." ”
Li Wei glanced over, and saw that on the left side under the steps in front of the pavilion, Yuyan and Zhao Quanbao retreated, and a young woman wearing silver and red shoulders led four or five people to kneel there and kowtow, and only after repeated times did they retreat respectfully.
From beginning to end, Li Wei only saw the top of her head, leaving only the impression that her hair was quite black and her skin was quite white.
Speaking of which, my impression of Nian has always been very vague, and I don't even remember what her eyebrows and eyes look like until now. It seems that she has known the person written on the draft roster from the beginning, and she should have seen it a few times later, but I don't know if it is human self-protection, and she has formatted all the concubines of the Nian family in her brain, and she can't remember the face of a person now.
When it was time to eat at noon, the fourth master couldn't come to the Taihe Palace, so he asked people to bring food. The first is the sixteen ways of the queen mother, the eight ways of the queen, the eight ways of Li Wei, and the four ways of several princesses.
Nian's ate in a corner room in Yuhua Pavilion. Yuhua Pavilion is not a big place, and there are many masters here today, and she can get a corner room where the servants can rest and eat, and she has already taken care of her.
Listening to the eunuch singing in front of him, the concubine sent eight dishes first, and after a while, there was a hot pot, a snack, and then a wine.
Although everyone has it in front of her, she just thinks that the concubine is the most haode.
It's not that she's jealous of the concubine. In the past year, she has been in contact with a lot of palace affairs, and the food tastes of the palace masters also know a thing or two. The queen mother and the queen don't need to be repeated, they are all brand dishes in the palace. The concubine prefers some tricks, which is different from the ordinary meal practices in the palace. Outsiders all say that the concubine loves nature and doesn't like complicated. Even if you eat, you only love to taste the original flavor, and you don't see that the porcelain used by the concubine is without a trace of pretentiousness?
Long live is exactly this character of Ai Guifei.
Fresh vegetables are rare in winter, but there are several fresh vegetables and vegetables fried and cold salad given to the concubine, which looks less precious than the bear's paw shark's fin, but Banzai is specially appreciated with the taste of the concubine.
In this way, it seems that the concubine is the person in her heart.
Nian Shi looked at the plate of four joy pills in front of her.
Banzai is sure to eat it all.
She could only put down the chopsticks with difficulty and slowly swallowed it with rice.