Chapter 389: Dark Tide
"Sister." The palace maids lifted the door curtain, Zalafen came in, and the palace maids waiting in the house all blessed themselves: the third princess.
Although there are many princesses in the palace, there are only three born to the emperor. The eldest princess and the third princess are born from the same mother, and their maternal position is not high and they are not favored, the eldest princess sister is a mother, and she has protected the third princess since she was a child. Now that the eldest princess is getting married, she will get married soon, and the third princess will come over every day, and she can't stick to the eldest princess, and the two sisters will never be separated.
Yierha beckoned her to come over, and the palace maids hurriedly picked up the half-embroidered tent on the couch, and when the tea was served, they all withdrew, leaving the two princesses to speak.
"Where are you from?" Ilha took a piece of lotus pastry and gave it to Zalafen.
"I just went to see the mother." This lady refers to their biological mother, the Song family, who lives in the east side hall of Changchun Palace.
Yierha couldn't help frowning when she heard this, Zalafen knew that she had always disliked being close to Concubine Ke by herself, so she quickly changed the topic: "Sister, did you embroider the tent for yourself just now?" He laughed as he spoke.
Yierha scratched the little conscienceless nose and said, "Embroidered for you." My grandmother and sister make the things on my side, and I just make what I like. β
The princess descended, and the status was precious. Of course, she won't be allowed to do a lot of needlework like ordinary brides. However, in order to show virtuousness, there are still a few things to do.
Seeing that the palace maids were all in the outhouse, Zalafen whispered to her: "Niangniang made some for you, I think they are all made by Huang Ama after pointing to the wedding photos, and the needles and threads are all new." "If the needlework of the old years is left for a long time, the color will not be bright. Most of the boxes there are fresh needlework, which at first glance refers to the rush made after marriage.
She also said this to say something good for her mother in front of her big sister. She could see that Concubine Ke loved and feared her eldest sister, and even when she looked at her in the past, Concubine Ke was more respectful than loving, and hated to give her up.
Yierha's brows were so furrowed that she couldn't let go, and she patted her lightly and said, "Do you think I dislike her?" Compared to Zalafen, she was separated from the Song family after remembering it, and when it comes to her feelings for the Song family, she is much deeper and more complicated than Zalafen.
Zalafen hurriedly said: "Sister, I didn't mean that. The remaining half of the lotus paste cake in her hand couldn't be eaten anymore, so she put down her snack and whispered, "I just think she's pitiful......"
Yierha said calmly: "Who in the harem is not pitiful? It's Li Eniang, you think she's good, but Huang Ama is good alone, in exchange for everyone in the palace who doesn't like her. Can this be called good? β
Zalafen couldn't speak, and Ilha sighed softly, not wanting to push her sister too hard. She didn't go through the events of the year, and she was full of admiration for Concubine Ke, without the slightest darkness.
Unlike her, she suddenly woke up one day and found that Eniang had moved to the deepest small courtyard in the house, and she and her sister were sent to the queen to be raised. She couldn't ask Eniang, and as soon as she asked Mama, she was terrified and whispered to scare her: Ask again, ask again, send you over and lock you up, and no one will let you see it!
If it weren't for her sister at that time, she really wouldn't have been able to hold on. It was because she thought of her sister that she didn't have the impulse to say that even if she was locked up with Eniang, she was not afraid.
No one dared to mention this matter in the house, and she never asked about anything. But when she grew up, she guessed that the Song family had made a mistake, and she didn't know what she had done wrong, which aroused the disgust of Huang Ama.
Therefore, Yierha never dared to talk to the Song family, and over time, she was not allowed to Zalafenti. Because she was afraid that she would remind people of the mistakes that the Song family had made and bring trouble to her.
"Okay, let's not talk about that." Yierha smiled, "I heard that our princess's mansion is already under construction, and it seems that all of them have been built in one place, so it will be convenient for us to visit each other at that time." β
Zalafen also hurriedly smiled: "Then I'll go to play with my sister, can't you bother me?" β
Yierha gently scratched her nose again: "I don't think anyone will dislike you?" β
The two sisters looked at each other and smiled.
Yierha saw that it was almost noon, so she stayed with Zarafin to eat together.
Zalafen said, "Bring the tent, I'll make it with you." "Ilha asked people to bring the tent again. The two sisters did needlework together, and the room was so quiet that no sound could be heard.
Although when they grew up, Huang Ama deliberately let Erhe live with them, but Yierha knew that her and Zalafen's temperaments had already been decided. Sometimes she also envies Erkh, she is so energetic. Like during the day, when she is fine, she likes to run horses, play with the dogs, and shoot arrows.
Even in the house, she would rather read and write, and rarely use needlework as a pastime.
Yierha sighed softly when she thought of this, people are really different from people. When she was a child, she and her sister lived with the queen, and all the people in that big courtyard were quiet. It's rare to even get together to chat and eat melon seeds.
This is the rule, is it the character that a lady should have? Even the people below are a little more disciplined than those elsewhere.
Zalafen suddenly opened her mouth, she was more affected by Erhe, of course, she was quieter than Erkh and didn't like to talk, but when she was put together with Yilha, she was a little girl who loved to talk and laugh.
"Sister, I went to Niangniang's place just now, and it seems that Niangniang let me go because of a guest." Zalafen is still quite sensitive to this, and Concubine Ke herself will not drive her. At that time, she seemed to see someone walking by outside the door, and after a while, Concubine Ke said that she would not delay her, and asked her to hurry back to lunch.
Concubine Ke never dared to leave her for dinner. In the past, she didn't dare when she didn't make a princess, but now that she is a princess, she doesn't dare even more.
Yierha didn't seem to care at all: "It's better for you to take care of the affairs of Niangniang's side." β
Zalafen quickly shut up, she just remembered what she had just said.
The entanglement between Changchun Palace and Yongshou Palace, Yierha can see it more clearly than Zalafen. Zalafen remembered a few people in his heart, one was her, the other was Niangniang, and then Erhe, Li Eniang, Huang Ama, and there would be no one else when they came back. Since she was no longer under the control of the queen, she forgot about the queen in a blink of an eye.
She sometimes mentioned two sentences, and this little guy was quite reasonable: "Anyway, she can't control me anymore, what else do I want her to do?" β
Let Yierha love is not, nor is scolding.
Children can think simply, but Yierha can't think a little more. Concubine Ke lived in the Changchun Palace was arranged by Huang Ama, she thought about it and thought that Huang Ama was thinking about her and Zalafen, and the two of them did not live with the queen after entering the palace, and let the concubine go, just like they still lived in the queen's palace, they could still get the queen's money.
Pulling the tiger skin to make a big flag, sooner or later, the princess who will marry out one day is a rootless duckweed in this palace. She and Zalafen have no brothers, and they can get a little bit of the queen's light when they hang in Changchun Palace.
As for Huang Ama Weishenme not letting them continue to follow Li Eniang, she can also understand. Li Eniang herself is as hot as a charcoal basin, and adding the two princesses of them is like pouring another spoonful of hot oil. There is only one big brother in the queen's place, and the people in the palace have to watch the people cook, staring at Changchun Palace and Yongshou Palace.
What kind of person Concubine Ke is, Yierha knows best. Her biggest disadvantage is that she has no character, her ears are soft, and she believes everything others say.
She had heard that Concubine Ke took great care of the concubines, but this hearing was false.
Someone must have been coaxing her again. In the end, the wedding dress was worn on someone else, and she was still haode empty-handed, and what she was most afraid of was that the black pot would make her carry it again.
Yierha is not worried about Concubine Ke, no matter how big the mistake is, in front of the two princesses, she will be reprimanded at most, and she will not even be demoted. But Zalaphin was too naΓ―ve, and if she crashed into it and shouted something out, it would be broken.
She made up her mind to tie up Zalafen, and she didn't let her go to see Concubine Ke recently, so she said, "I still have some work here, why don't you help me?" β
Zalafen hurriedly agreed: "Okay, then I'll come over early tomorrow morning." β
Ilha then asked someone to bring embroidered pamphlets and fabrics, and spoke in the same way as Zalafen. She had to bolt this girl for half a year.
As for what Changchun Palace has in mind, they don't mix it up.
In Changchun Palace, Song glanced at the two tribute satins placed in her room. Ten horses were lifted, and these twenty horses were placed in her house, and they were to be rewarded to-morrow.
It is said that this year's Da Gege and Sange Gefeng princesses are happy events, so the queen specially rewarded her.
But on the one hand, she was rewarded, and on the other hand, it was implied that some of her horses were reserved for a few concubines in Xianfu Palace.
Since you want to give, you can't favor one over the other. The Song family looked at these twenty horses of good material, and the people of Xianfu Palace gave two horses each, except for the one who moved to Yinghua Palace, and the rest of the people plus her and the Wu family, it was just enough to divide it, and they could spare two horses. The rest should be regarded as the errand money given to her by the queen.
Song thought bitterly, and asked people to unfold the cloth to her one by one. The horses that the queen named to give people are indeed the most outstanding of them, willow green and pink, worn on the young girl, in this late autumn palace, it is probably as attractive as Jβ‘J, right?
"Send these two horses to Concubine Nian." She pointed and said, there is another silver-red one, Song thought about it, and added it to the young concubine's book.
Silver red and pearl red are similar, so it should be a favor she gave to Yongshou Palace.
- Xiexie, who has taken care of Ilha and Zalafen for many years.
The Yongshou Palace has also been dry with the cloth recently. Without him, shouldn't this be a few festivals in a row? The fourth master also felt that Li Wei had been wronged, so he sent her a cart of fabric with a wave of his hand.
Li Wei looked at it, and her heart twitched.
I don't know if the fourth master is really awkward with the queen or loves her to death, most of the fabrics sent are red. Concubine, magenta, begonia red, cherry red, pomegranate red, carmine, sandalwood, apricot, orange red......
If she didn't listen to the introduction of the needlework mothers, she didn't know that the ancient people could pay so much attention to a single red. In fact, there are indeed all kinds of red when you look there, there is definitely a difference in color number, and it looks really good, I heard that red stays in people's sight for a long time, so there is a red conspicuous one.
That's it...... Doesn't this look like fighting with Changchun Palace again?
Li Wei herself is by no means a belligerent person, she doesn't rise when she sees others coming to find fault, on the contrary, her favorite is An Ansheng's, it doesn't matter if you hate me, just ignore me? I hate that I still have to ignore me, guilty of J?
It's just that the fourth master and a queen in this palace are all indomitable and brave people who become more and more courageous. She felt that these two might be too similar to each other, so they couldn't get together.
The most important thing is, don't you always pick me up when you fight?
The grandmothers introduced it very energetically, but the concubine didn't seem to be excited at all, and gradually no one dared to speak.
Li Wei put down the material in her hand and said, "That's it, these reds are too heavy to line me, this year's clothes are only red on the trim, and the background color is not allowed to be red." β
The needlework mother was a little embarrassed, and pointed to a few of the horses that had been named by Banzai and said: "Niangniang, it's not that the slaves and maids don't wait, it's just that these things have something to say......
When Li Wei asked, he knew that he had seen the materials first when the fourth master rewarded the materials, and a few of them also specifically pointed out what kind of clothes they wanted to cut.
She waved her hand frustratedly: "Forget it, you can watch it." β
The grandmothers carried these materials out again, and when they discussed them in private, they all said, long live what they want to cut into, it can't be discounted, but your lord doesn't like it and can't ignore it. There is simply a lot of material, so simply cut one batch according to what Long Live said, and then do the second batch according to what your lord said.
Several grandmothers have made up their minds, so although it took two times and added effort, but waiting for the master, only think that they have not done enough, how can they not be willing to do more work? Not happy to fuck off. There are a lot of people scrambling to do this job.
The harem sewing room is also a very large set of people, and it has to be divided into several rooms. Those who specialize in men's clothes are divided into those who wait for the emperor and those who wait for the elder brother. Those who specialize in women's clothes, and those who wait for the queen, those who wait for the concubines, those who wait for the two concubines, and the rest are those who wait for the concubines.
The people waiting for the queen's room are a little worse than the people waiting for the concubine's room.
For no other reason, the queen doesn't like to wear them, except for the clothes that are in season every year, and only occasionally when they need to be rewarded, they are waited.
It's different on the concubine's side. The concubine herself loves to toss not to mention, and the emperor also sent a few loads of clothing from time to time, pointing to how this horse was cut for the concubine, what it looked like, how to embroider here, what gems and pearls were used here, and so on.
Because of this, the concubine's side is occasionally short of manpower, so she draws from other rooms to come and support.
The people waiting for the queen's needlework room did not dare to draw it, so they naturally looked for someone below. This is all about big fish eating small fish, small fish eating dried shrimp, and the most drawn are the people who are waiting for the needle money room of the new concubines who have entered the palace.
If you want to say that the people in the needlework room are willing to wait for the concubine or the concubine, it goes without saying, isn't it obvious?
The palace maid who waited for the Nian's to pick incense returned to the sewing room for the fourth time to urge, and today let her hold the sister of the sewing room and did not let go: "Sister also thinks about it for our girl, this material has been sent for almost a month, and the single clothes are not jackets, you sent it back, it was cold, and our girl couldn't wear it, wasn't that a waste of effort?" β
When she came today, she deliberately brought silver, and stuffed it into the hands of the palace maid in this sewing room, felt out the needle cocoon in her hand, and took out a jar of almond and lanolin to stuff it to the palace maid: "Sister urges me to urge me, as long as I can give me a letter of approval, let me go back and pay the errand." β
The jar of almond oil was cast into the hearts of the palace maids, who took needles and threads every day, and their hands were absolutely protective of haode, otherwise their hands were broken for fear that their hands would scratch the cloth, and they might be driven out of the needlework room.
It's not good for her to accept this can of oil and not help, so she will let the incense wait first, she will go to see where the clothes of the young concubine have been made, how much is still missing, if there is not much left, it is a big deal that she will fight hard and send it over, and it will be considered a good fate.
As a result, she turned out the clothes sent by Concubine Nian according to the list, and was dumbfounded: why hasn't she even cut it?
She went to ask the needlework mama in charge of this room: "Mama, look, it's been almost a month since this material was delivered, and it's still like this, how can we make a difference?" β
The needlework mama knew that it was good material as soon as she swept it, and she was bluffed! I thought it was a leak of a master! hurriedly picked it up and scolded: "All stupid eats and drinks and doesn't know how to work!" Why did you mention it so late...... "Before I finished speaking, I saw the sign on the cloth: Xianfu Palace, Tongdaotang, Nian's.
She snorted coldly and threw the fabric back into the palace maid's arms.
The palace maid might as well Mama's face became so fast that she was stunned when she hugged the material.
The needlework lady sighed: "I'm so busy, and you're still here to make trouble for me!" After that, he turned around and was about to leave, but the palace maid hurriedly begged to stop her, saying that she had come several times to pick incense, and the young concubine was a master, and it was not easy to get this material just by looking at it.
Needlework has been working in the palace for a long time, so that she will not be frightened by her words, not to mention that when she heard it, she knew that she had received the benefits of others, and said with a smile: "You don't know that you can't draw people out at this time, since this is the case, then this material will be cut by you, and it will be sent to others after cutting." Don't say that Mama doesn't take care of you, the things over there don't call you these days, so you can do this with peace of mind. β
The palace maid didn't expect Zuihou to become her own errand! There is a waiting concubine over there, which one is heavy and which one is light, can she still know? I regretted that my intestines were green, and I had no choice but to hold my breath to make this young concubine's clothes.
But she didn't suffer in vain, she came out and said to Xuanxiang: "I see that you are really in a hurry, so let's do it, I will fight hard to make the clothes for you, but at this time, maybe, I have another job over there......"
Pick incense didn't wait for her to finish speaking, she was very grateful, and then she gave a heavy gift to ask the palace maid to make the clothes.
When she returned to Xianfu Palace with the haode clothes she had finally made, the gold festival had already passed.
"Look, girl, this dress is so beautiful!" Pick incense put the clothes on her arms and showed them to Nian, while boasting vigorously, "Do you want to put it on?" Put that hairpin on again. β
There will be another draft next year, and Nian's heart is like frying and roasting. When I came in, I was full of ambition and calm, and I didn't know where I was going.
The emperor almost seemed to have forgotten about them.
No matter where he goes, the emperor only takes the concubine with him. Go to the outside of the plug, go to the garden, no matter where you go, you only remember the concubine, as if the people in the West Sixth Palace are all decorations.
She originally thought that the emperor would summon her sooner or later, and after a long time, she would be able to let the emperor know her benefits.
But now that I can't even see the emperor's face, what's the use?
She kind of understood, when Taizong was in the palace, they hated Concubine Guan Sui Palace. That's because after the emperor got her, he couldn't see anyone else in his eyes anymore.
Without her, the other women in the harem would have no way to live.
Nian didn't have the courage to think about anything other than the concubine, what she was thinking about now was how to meet the emperor and let the emperor know her. He knew her before he could possibly like her.
She changed into this dress and put on the hairpin that she had paid several times the amount of silver in exchange. When she entered the palace, she only brought silver, and she didn't dare to bring much expensive jewelry. I thought that I would always have the opportunity to see my family after entering the palace, and my family would just bring it in for her when the time came. As a result, I didn't expect that she hadn't been favored by the monarch for two years after entering the palace, let alone thinking that when she was entitled, she could announce that her family would come in and meet such a sweet dream.
So I can only spend several times more silver than this hairpin in exchange for this new face.
Sure enough, as soon as you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea.
The silver that her family gave her was almost spent after only two years in the palace. If she can't be favored again, will she have to live a life of eating chaff vegetables in this palace?
- She didn't come to the palace to live like this!
Nian looked at her in the mirror, and said that everyone in the world wanted to accept her fate, but she didn't accept her fate. Since she has entered the palace, she must make a name for herself.
She is younger than the concubine. Even now the concubine is still favored, what about ten years from now? She couldn't be old in ten years, and she was only in her twenties at that time, and she could still wait long live. She just can't compare to the concubine for a while, but she can survive better than her.
Sooner or later, she will be able to win the emperor's heart more than the concubine.
In the Heart Cultivation Palace, the fourth master saw that the hour was almost up, and asked Su Peisheng to pick up the concubine.
Su Peisheng said with a smile: "Long live, your lord is already waiting for you in the back." β
The fourth master then remembered that he had already asked people to go there once, and there were two more folds on the table to be approved, he seemed to have added a little more strength, and after he finished approving it in one go, he put down the pen, and got up and went back to the apse without washing off the ink stains on his hands.
Li Wei was eating boiled corn in the East Fifth Room. Holding a stick and gnawing directly is not elegant, but she really wants to eat, so she asks people to break off all the corn kernels and then cook them, take a small white bowl, scoop them with a silver spoon and eat them, and serve them elegantly.
When the fourth master came in, he saw that she was eating deliciously, so he leaned over and let her feed her, and said, "Why didn't you put egg sauce today?" β
Egg sauce, salad dressing are also. Because it is made of eggs and oil, it has such a simple name. At first, she also remembered more archaic names, such as jade sauce, topaz sauce, and white jade sauce......
The fourth master asked her not to toss, and said that the name egg sauce was quite haode.
"Didn't you get it?" He said.
"Did I get it?" Why didn't she remember? But this naming convention is a little familiar, maybe she really came up with it.
Li Wei followed him into the back room with a small bowl, he washed his hands and changed his clothes, and she fed him one bite at a time, saying, "The new corn is very sweet, and the egg sauce will cover the smell, right?" β
The fourth master let her stuff a mouthful of corn kernels, and eating without talking was his education since childhood, so he could only nod his head.
Li Wei was greatly encouraged, and the remaining half bowl was fed to him.
The fourth master, who was a little hungry after the folding, let the half bowl of corn kernels be fed, and the hunger was not so great, so he sat down and was not busy letting people have dinner, and told her how to spend Hallomy.
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