Chapter Twenty-Five: Concubine Xian's Troubles
The magnificent reed plain city is located in the center of Daxingfu, it is a rectangular city within a city, 230 zhang long from north to south, 180 zhang wide from east to west, surrounded by towering city walls, outside the city wall are all outside the city range, there is a wide and wide moat, it is an important facility to protect the imperial city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
There is a gate on each side of the wall, and there are four intricately designed corner towers at the four corners of the wall.
The entire palace complex in the inner city is a wooden structure, with a yellow glazed tile roof, a blue and white stone base, and is decorated with brilliant paintings.
The whole palace is divided into two parts: "outer court" and "inner court", the outer court is the place where the emperor handles government affairs and holds court meetings, and all major national activities and various ceremonies are held in the outer court.
And the inner court is the dragon tower and phoenix pavilion Lianxiao Han, and the reed yuan palace where Yushu Qiongzhi is made of smoke.
Approaching dusk, the heat gradually dissipated, and the palace maids and eunuchs in Cuihua Palace had even more chills down their spines, not because the ice cubes in the Great Ice Pool were fanned out by the incense wheel, but because they were worried about whether they could see the sun tomorrow.
Concubine Xian was in her bedroom, like a proud peacock, scratching her head and posing in front of the oval dressing mirror on the frame, Gu Ying felt sorry for herself.
On the side, a row of palace maids kneeling and holding lacquer plates, inside a box of brocade boxes, the brocade boxes are full of rows of jewelry, gold, silver, jewelry, and jade bracelets, which are dazzling and dazzling.
She had a selective fear of having so many beautiful pieces of jewelry that she couldn't decide how to fit them into her voluminous, towering bun, and it was annoying to pick them up.
Although she was named a virtuous concubine, she was not virtuous at all.
She also had a temperament that was more temperamental than that of the eunuchs, and whenever she saw someone talking to each other, she felt that she was speaking ill of herself.
A pair of oblique eyes swept over, like a cold wind, blowing over the respectful faces, and the second one on the left was a new little palace maid, wearing the most ordinary pink palace maid clothes, but more beautiful than her own beautiful clothes.
The wig she stuffed with her wig is gorgeous and complicated, the gold carving is a ruby phoenix crown, the five phoenixes in Chaoyang are hung with beads, and the flowers in Jinling Palace are pressed on the sideburns, but they are not as good as the simple hanging bun she casually holds!
Could it be that she has the favor of youth? So, have these three months of good days come to an end?
Thinking of this, she walked over and in a rage stretched out her sleeves and knocked everything she could see on the carpet.
The palace maids were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, and Concubine Xian pointed to the new palace maid: "Pull it down, and you will be punished for twenty!" ”
Be! Empress!
The poor girl cried: Mother spare her life!
Two big eunuchs had already come and dragged her out for execution.
The palace people next to them were inexplicable, trembling with fright, obviously no one dared to say a word.
It just so happened that Hao Tong, who was beside the emperor, led two small internal eunuchs in, seeing this scene, he was already surprised, and said with a smile: "Niangniang, you are angry, but don't dare to cry, you have to do it again after the makeup, and you have to delay the birthday banquet. ”
He waved his hand, and the palace people were like being pardoned, cleaned up the mess on the ground with all hands and feet, and retreated.
The beauty of Concubine Xian is self-evident, otherwise she would not have walked today as a little palace maid.
But that was a long time ago, the women in the palace are the fastest, lonely, depressed, jealous, dumping, look at the emperor's face, look at the queen's face, look at the Wei Wang's political envoy...... No, that person wasn't the one she dared to look up at, no.
So she gets old quickly, half-aged, the charm is still there, and she uses excessive dressing to make herself look like a twenty-eight girl, but it often backfires.
At this time, she was angry, but motioned for Hao Tong to sit down.
Hao Tong sat sideways on a splendid pier, and said: "The old slave is afraid that you won't be able to hold your breath, so I came to persuade you, for a while, don't say things that shouldn't be said at the birthday banquet, that matter was decided three months ago, wasn't it?" If it weren't for the fact that on the day she received the order, her mother had just died, and His Majesty tabooed the white murderer and allowed her to treat her mother's funeral first, and enter the palace after three months. So, you can take these days in the harem, it's all extra money, if you think so, wouldn't you feel better? ”
As he spoke, he looked up at the beautiful palace maid who came in to serve tea and snacks, and the palace maid was stared at by his hook-like eyes, and wanted to retreat, but without the approval of the virtuous concubine, she hurriedly lowered her head and frowned, and stood aside with her hands hanging down worriedly.
Concubine Xian's tears that had been held back for a long time fell, and she couldn't help it, and said angrily: "Why is she the queen when she comes?" This palace has survived for so many years, and has given birth to a dragon heir, to succumb to that little girl, what does Your Majesty think? Do you just take the protests of the courtiers as wind in your ears? ”
"Who called her the daughter of the Tokhtars! In the past, the detachment was also directly sealed, and he didn't stay up for a day. There was a precedent for such a thing, and it was useless for the courtiers to oppose it. Hao Tong's tone was still soft, and he sighed, as the chief steward of the Imperial Palace, Hao Tong could only drink tea leisurely here.
"Where is this where we mother and son are placed! Yong'er is in her twenties, and she still wants to call her the queen mother? ”
Concubine Xian sat on the gold lacquer carved treasure chair in front of the mirror, smashing her white and plump chest in annoyance, and Hao Tong noticed that it was already a little sagging.
stood up, took a jade comb to grate her hair, and comforted: "Niangniang, it's not that serious, King Qi just has you as a concubine, and there is no chance to meet." People only came to be the mother of the sixth prince Shou Wang Kang, the queen mother is sixteen, and the son is still in infancy, which is quite suitable. Yo, you have gray hair, wait for the old slave to pluck it for you. ”
Hao Tong's words made Concubine Xian hate to death, and bluntly explained that King Qi was hopeless to be the prince, what kind of world is this? Since the death of the queen and the abolition of the prince's court, she seems to have hope, and the seemingly unbreakable middle palace and the crown prince's position are suddenly vacant, isn't this enough for her and her son to work hard? But who would have thought that it would be so effective to take off Yan Fei and speak in front of His Majesty, and the meat and bones hanging in mid-air were taken away by other wolves in an instant! Their mother and son could only watch......
"It is said that this daughter of the detachment of Yan Fei is an outlier among the daughters of the clan in Daxing Mansion, stubborn and abnormal since childhood, her father is busy with government affairs, and always serves by His Majesty's side, and has no time to take care of her education, she has formed a gang with the scoundrels in the streets, the first lady of the dignified Jin Liang country, the respect of the county lord, and often mixed in the gambling brothels. Entering the palace today, the secretary of the Shanggong Bureau took the concubine's talent list to register as usual, and her talent is: eating, drinking, and having fun, which is also called talent? Do you want to face? Such a woman is not qualified to enter the palace to be a queen, and she is not qualified to marry an ordinary child of a family! The more Concubine Xian spoke, the more angry she became.
"It's not a matter of worrying about the mother, she doesn't know anything, but her father Wei Wang is a great talent, and he is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially in music, which is rare in the world, mainly because people will be reincarnated."
"How about being reincarnated? I also heard that when she was a child, a Taoist priest told her fortune, she was the reincarnation of the Destiny Lonely Star, Ke Father, Ke Mother, and Ke Fu! Your Majesty doesn't know what to think, marry such a mourning star! ”
Hao Tong looked at the iron-faced woman with heavy makeup but was angry in the dressing mirror, and said with a smile: "Her mother is dead, is it a dead ghost, what's in the way of her daughter?" Saying that she is a father, isn't her father living a good life? King Wei Xiaojun mainly entered the palace, and the eight characters and five pillars of his birthday were all calculated by Qin Tian, very good, there is no big problem, but the five elements are short of water, and the name of the family is fishing, which means that the fish gets water. It is nonsense to prove what the Destiny of Heaven is Lone Star, and any fortune teller is made up by people who are not used to seeing Lord Wei. ”
Concubine Xian said angrily: With the power of Totoku Yan Fei, the gang of people in Qin Tianjian dare to say that her daughter's eight characters are not good? It seems that in the future, this palace will be subordinated to a scoundrel!
"That's it! The old slaves have been busy to death in the past two days, today is a holy birthday banquet, tomorrow is the second auspicious day selected by Qin Tianjian, it is appropriate to carry out the queen's canonization ceremony, there are thousands of things, but don't go wrong! ”
Hao Tong still spoke softly, but he was already soft and rigid, with a white hair of a virtuous concubine in his hand, and the orchid finger was handed to the palace maid beside him.
"Don't talk weird, what's wrong?" Concubine Xian asked.
Hao Daodao: "In the morning, His Majesty drove the Longwang Temple on the outskirts of the city to ask for rain, and there were many mouths in the court, and before His Majesty, he said that King Qi and his brother-in-law Princess Liang Jinzhigong soaked in the cloud soup pool of the Blue Mountains at night, these days, Daxing Mansion has been spread all over, adding oil and vinegar, and even the details are described as I saw it with my own eyes, and every move in the three hundred rounds of the dry wood fire battle has a name, which is simply unbearable, which is too ......"
His words were first said with a smile, and then with a heavy tone.
Concubine Xian hurriedly said, "What did Your Majesty say?" Hiss ....."
She grinned as she spoke, it hurt, and another white hair was dragged down, this damn Hao Tong, how idle are his paws?
"What can my husband and father say about this kind of thing? Your Majesty was speechless. ”
"That's it, it must be that sassy woman who seduces Yong'er in every way. In fact, why should you tell Your Majesty about the big thing of sesame? Since ancient times, beauties love heroes, no way, who called my Yong'er handsome and chic, and the net recruit girls like that? Your Majesty will definitely favor us more Yong'er among the two princes, who told him that he still has the mother concubine of this palace? Let's not mention that King Liang's dead mother's mother Yuan clan has long been in a mess, just hearing that he himself has a squint, he will have nothing to do with the throne for the rest of his life! Such a son, how could His Majesty clip him from the corner of his eye, hahaha! ”
I don't know why, seeing that others are unlucky, Concubine Xian suddenly felt much better and laughed.
A eunuch brought by Hao Tong quipped: "Niangniang, it's not a bad thing to glance at you!" I heard that every time Wang Ye Wei killed King Liang's heart, his eldest brother Shangshu of the Criminal Department stopped him, otherwise, that kid would never have survived now! ”
Concubine Xian held the handkerchief and blocked the deformed mouth with a smile, "Oh, why? ”
"Because he is the only one in the court who was born with an eye disease in his right eye, and he wears an eye patch in the last court, and now that he has a prince who is his companion, His Majesty will no longer scold him like a bandit with this, isn't his own prince like that?"
"Really! That kid of King Liang is blessed with blindness! Hahaha! She laughed again, but forgot to gag her mouth, and Hao Tong could even see the little tongue in her throat.
He looked at the laughing people and stopped talking, threw down the comb, and led his own people back after giving a salute.
Concubine Xian saw Hao Tong leaving, and looked at her makeup in the mirror for the last time, the garnet red palace dress was too old-fashioned after all, and it was hot, someone came! Bring the set of the colorful thousand mist plum blossom hank dress to the main palace......