Chapter 012
Sang Zhi actually heard it, but he didn't react for a while.
Going to Kunning Palace? Who in this palace doesn't know that Kunning Palace is comparable to a cold palace, the queen is not favored, and the emperor is still thinking about abolishing the queen, maybe the queen will follow in the footsteps of Concubine Jing that day! When the time comes, the palace maids of Kunning Palace are afraid that they will have to be connected by Zhulian, just like Concubine Jing of Yongshou Palace, and several palace maids under her hand are brought over from Kunning Palace. After all, it turned out that there were no palace maids in Yongshou Palace who were serious about serving their masters, and the queen mother took pity on the abolition and specially sent the minions from the original Kunning Palace to serve.
Now the newly hired queen mother, who has only been hired for a few years, is also deeply loved by the queen mother. It's a pity that the queen mother has already ignored the government and does not manage the harem, even if she has the love of the elderly, she will inevitably be made difficult by the emperor in the end. The emperor's intention to re-establish the Chengqian Palace after the abolition is simply Sima Zhao's heart - everyone knows it. What's more, if the queen mother is abolished, most of the palace maids will not be able to escape. Therefore, no one is willing to go to Kunning Palace to live tremblingly, lest the emperor will be implicated by the queen when he deliberately finds fault with the emperor one day. Everyone privately thinks that the best result of going to Kunning Palace is to be able to live like guarding the cold palace, and if you are unlucky, you are afraid that you will lose your life. This is not alarmist, the emperor once embarrassed the queen, so he found the fault of the palace maid of Kunning Palace and died on the spot, who dares to say anything?
On the contrary, everyone scrambled to go to the Chengqian Palace. The emperor's grace is favored, such as the sky, not to mention that the imperial concubine is benevolent and kind, and the palace people burn incense and worship the Buddha at the expense of heavy bribes, just to be able to enter the Chengqian Palace. As long as you enter the Chengqian Palace, it is almost equivalent to climbing the high branches, and the emperor goes to the Chengqian Palace almost every day, and the palace maids inevitably hope that they will be seen by the emperor one day to become the second Dong E.
The benefits and disadvantages of this, Sang Zhi has slowly figured it out, so he was surprised when he heard Sulena's question. How could Surer ask that? Don't you know what it means to go to Kunning Palace? Sang Zhi thought to himself, now that he is staying in Chengqian Palace, this is a place that many people dream of. In the harem, as long as he says that he is a person from the Chengqian Palace, almost no one dares not to give three points of thin noodles. But if it is said to be Kunning Palace, it is no different from Yongshou Palace, not only will it not be polite, but it may even be ridiculed and ridiculed.
Thankfully, Soller didn't insist on asking. Sang Zhi quietly breathed a sigh of relief, would you like to go to Kunning Palace?
Of course not!
Although she felt a little pity for the queen of Kunning Palace, she would never put herself in it for a little pity. Sang Zhi felt that the women in this palace, except for the imperial concubine Dong E, who was not pitied? To be serious, the most pitiful thing is not the queen, but the palace people who are treated as slaves like mulberry branches. No matter how miserable the queen is, she is still a master in the end. But the palace maids and eunuchs are really like a mustard, and the master will not treat them as the same people. The Manchu royal family, who fought the world on horseback, has only been in charge of the Central Plains for more than ten years, and still has the bloodthirsty killing and cruelty of the law of grassland survival in their bones. In this case, isn't he a hundred times worse than those masters?
Sang Zhi shook her head slightly, she would never go to Kunning Palace. Let's not talk about my unlucky luck - I don't know how many years of bad luck she saved in her previous life to be able to pass through to be a slave, just say that a half-baked outsider like her, if she goes to Kunning Palace, if she accidentally commits a taboo, she may die in minutes.
Nothing is as important as your own life. What's more, Sang Zhi has no feelings for this Qing Dynasty except for disgust, and the only ones who can barely be counted as having some friendship are Lu Ying and Su Le, and Lu Ying is also in Chengqian Palace, so she has no reason to leave the relatively safe palace of Chengqian Palace, but to go to Kunning Palace, which may lose her head at any time.
She was thinking a lot, and before she knew it, she had returned to Chuxiu Palace. Tong'er, who was on duty at night, saw her coming back at the door, and immediately greeted her with a smile, "Mulberry branches!" ”
The look was very different from what he had been before. Sang Zhi thought about it, and immediately understood the reason, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. She really hated such flattery and courtesy! I didn't want to say more, but I couldn't show my disgust, so I had to reluctantly squeeze out a faint smile, and my voice was cold, "It's not too early, let's rest." ”
Tong'er couldn't see her coldness, and she was extremely angry in her heart. Secretly scolded her in her heart, and still grabbed Sang Zhi's arm with great affection, "Yes, Ming'er is a thousand autumn festivals, and you can afford the third watch, Sister Sang Zhi has a good rest." ”
The mulberry branch was still faint, but his heart calmed down. She was almost accustomed to the flattering atmosphere in this palace - she was born like this, how to ask for knowledge!
I had just closed my eyes and fallen asleep when I was awakened by the bell. On the third day of October, the queen's birthday arrived.
If you want to talk about this Qianqiu Festival, the busiest people are not the slaves and maids in the palace, but the concubines of the palace and the military officials of the court. Of course, mulberry branches are not easy. Just after the ugly hour, everyone was busy. Sprinkle the sweep of the sprinkler, dust the dust of the dust. Sang Zhi estimated that at most three o'clock in the morning, she got up with sleepy eyes, but she didn't dare to slack off. Those who can be placed on the front are dressed up, and those who can't be placed such as mulberry branches and others work silently. For a while, the huge Chengqian Palace was silent, and only the sound of footsteps and work could be heard.
They kept busy until the sky was gray and bright, but they heard a shrill report from outside the palace - "The emperor has arrived!" ”
Don't talk about mulberry branches, there is nothing in the entire Chengqian Palace that is not surprised. Today is the Thousand Autumn Festival, the queen's birthday, according to the custom, the emperor to go to the palace of Jiaotai, and wait for the queen to go to the queen mother to salute the palace after the palace, the emperor and the queen together to celebrate the ceremony, then from the princess to the wife of the general of the town, the princess, the Hou to the book of the wife, etc., all have to wear court clothes to the queen's seat before saluting. After the ceremony, the emperor accompanied the queen back to Kunning Palace to set up a banquet, and invited everyone in the harem and the ladies and wives outside the palace. To put it simply, on this day, the emperor is going to accompany the queen all day.
But no one expected that at this time, the emperor would come to Chengqian Palace. Suddenly, the whole palace was in an uproar - on the occasion of the queen's birthday, the first person the emperor saw turned out to be the imperial concubine, and he also came to the Chengqian Palace in person, looking at the posture to take the imperial concubine to the Jiaotai Palace. However, except for the emperor and the queen, no concubine is eligible to enter the Jiaotai Palace.
Everyone has different thoughts, but they are not surprised. The only person who can go to the harem of the Tai Palace is the queen. Now if the imperial concubine goes, what does it mean? People in the palace are accustomed to seeing the wind and rudder, who doesn't know that the emperor has always wanted to abolish the imperial concubine and change it? The emperor is persistent, and he does such an unceremonious thing on a thousand autumn days, and the intention is obvious.
In the not very bright sky, the mulberry branch bowed and bowed like the palace maids to welcome the emperor into the palace. With a long sigh in my heart, it is rare for Shunzhi to be so persistent and affectionate! It is not something that should be criticized if the white head of the heart is not separated. It's a pity that he is the emperor. Concubine Dong E's sole favor in the harem, Emperor Shunzhi's actions are great affection for Concubine Dong E, but how can the queen's mother, who should have celebrated her birthday, be embarrassed!
This is already a strange thing, but what is even more unexpected is that after the palace people reported, the imperial concubine Niangniang did something that made everyone pinch a cold sweat.