Then there was a long flat box, and when the box was opened, the Queen Mother's eyes were straight: a resin ornament resinous imitation of an ivory carving was covered in a clear glass cover. The black lacquered wooden base sits on a long, curved jade-colored ivory. The ivory is full of carved flowers, including peonies, roses, lilies, tulips, calla lilies, narcissus, and many more. Although the flowers are small, they are very delicate, clear, lifelike and vivid.

"Xiu'er, how can there be such a delicate thing? How can it be so beautiful! There is absolutely no one in the palace, this thing must be placed in the most conspicuous place! "The Queen Mother likes it very much, and her voice is much higher than usual.

"Back to the Queen Mother, what kind of resin material is this thing called, it is very similar to ivory material." Fu Jin is very strategic in speaking, she doesn't say it's an imitation, the imitation is not worth much, if it is very similar, the connotation is different.

"But this palace thinks it's better than ivory, but I have to ask someone to watch it carefully and don't touch it."

Next up is a jade-like jade handicraft unicorn that is a little smaller than an ivory carving. It is no different from real jade, in fact, it is glass, machined, and the workmanship is very exquisite. The Queen Mother tilted her head to look at it with affection, and made a "tsk" sound in her mouth. Although I like it in my heart, I'm embarrassed to have two treasures. The emperor took the unicorn in his hand, looked at it over and over, and was reluctant to put it down. said to the queen mother: "This one is going to belong to the sons, it is said that the unicorn is to ward off evil spirits, and it can be placed in the court to prevent the traitorous ministers from disturbing the court." ”

"Okay, okay, this will belong to the emperor, hurry up and take it to ward off evil spirits!" Everyone laughed.

Then there were binoculars for the emperor. At that time, telescopes had been invented, and Shunzhi also had a gift monocular for Westerners, which was still used in the military, and Emperor Shunzhi cherished it very much. I was overjoyed when I saw the one given by the imperial brother. The binoculars are easy and comfortable to use, and the multiples are large and clear. This one is just for tourism, and it's many times better than the previous one! Emperor Shunzhi once again looked happy: "Brother Huang, I like these gifts of yours so much!" ”

The second box was all for the Queen Mother, including fabrics, bedding, underwear, etc., and a full box was filled. Fu Jin just briefly introduced what it is and what it is used for. The Queen Mother was not embarrassed to take a closer look, and hurriedly instructed the lady to open the third box. Inside is a gift for the harem concubines, as well as fabrics, bedding, etc., one for each person, all in transparent plastic bags. There is the name of the owner of the gift on it, and I don't look closely.

The fourth box is a gift for the princes, all toys, cultural items, etc.

The fifth box is for food and drink, including drinks, canned food, biscuits, sweets, etc., and no fruit. Fruits are perishable, and when fresh fruits are brought back, the emperor and the queen mother will be suspicious of where the prince goes.

Inside the sixth box are crafts. Including fabrics, embroidery, pendants, fans, jewelry, etc. It's all small things, Fu Jin said: "These things are for you and all the ladies and concubines, and the names are written on them, and you will distribute them, and the concubines will not point fingers." ”

The queen mother of the Great Qing Kingdom, Concubine Zhuang, who used to be dominant, was at a loss when she saw the things in front of her and didn't know what to take, her mouth kept "tsk", and the smile on her face couldn't be hidden. She is very satisfied with Lord Rui's Fujin who can talk and do things, and hand over the good things that win the hearts of the people to herself.

"Xiu'er, how did Lord Rui bring these back? It's hard for them! ”

"Look, don't worry about how they brought it back, if you like it."

The Queen Mother is very generous with Tong's generosity, and she said that this is the demeanor of everyone's ladies. Unlike some Fujin in the house, who gave the queen mother a little filial piety, he chattered endlessly to buy good children, for fear that people would not know the joys and sorrows.

The Queen Mother and Fu Jin muttered about gifts. What she was most interested in was the sixth box, a delicate box of various sizes that filled the box to its full. The exquisite packaging made the Queen Mother sigh very much and satisfied her great sense of glory.

She doesn't worry about those delicate little boxes, and she doesn't know which one is her own, so she has to keep her own share, right? I can't give myself the same gift as other concubines. So she asked, "Xiu'er, can you tell me what is in this box?" So much, dazzling, don't give it wrong. ”

Fu Jin immediately understood what the Queen Mother meant, and agreed with a smile: "Then the concubine will talk about it roughly." If you have a name on these boxes, you can give them by name, and if you don't have a name, you have the final say. My prince doesn't know too well how many concubines, concubines, and gifts in the palace are made up of a whole number, the older generation gives ten shares, the younger generation gives thirty shares, and the rest is rewarded by the queen mother. ”

The Queen Mother laughed: "It's justifiable to be so greedy for ink, since that's the case, the rest will all go to the palace?" This palace has to take a good look at its own property, what kind of embroidery is it, you can tell me. ”

Fu Jin took out two antique small boxes, inside which were agate Buddha beads, a string for each of the emperor's mother and son, and the queen mother was very happy to take it and wear it on her wrist. They are all dark red, very solemn, and people who believe in Buddhism are very fond of and cherish Buddha beads.

The mining and processing of the Qing Dynasty are still very backward, due to the limitations of equipment and conditions, so the agate was also very valuable at that time, mainly because of the high hardness of agate, the difficulty of carving, and a string of agate pearls is a national treasure. Although the price is a little worse than jade, it is much more expensive than "exotic". It is said that it took one or two months to carve an agate Guanyin in the Qing Dynasty, and the "exotic" computer-controlled engraving machine came out in one or two hours, and it was very exquisite, because the carving tools and equipment of the two could not be compared. In fact, machine engraving has its advantages and disadvantages, the blank with high hardness is carved quickly, and it is easy to produce scraps.

"Xiu'er, what is this delicate little box for?" The Queen Mother opened a cardboard box tied with a ribbon among the colorful gifts, picked up a flat and round object, and looked at it with great affection. This can be said to be a very delicate metal box. In the words of the "exotic" people, this is a handicraft made of stainless steel. But it's not a very bright kind, it's called matte professionally, and the delicate place is the pattern of this box, which is three-dimensional, protruding, no wonder the Queen Mother loves it so much. Even "exotic" people think it's exquisite.

Fu Jin was very distressed in his heart, and said in his heart: "How can Yun'er be willing to give away such a good thing? "But I've already brought it, and I have no choice but to take it. Because there were too many things, she didn't ask Yun'er one by one, so she didn't know each other, so she had to ask the prince: "Look, what is this?" ”

The prince took it: "Oh, this is a small mirror, press this button and it will open." ”

"This is a mirror?!" The Queen Mother was simply surprised and stunned, and when she opened the mirror, she was surprised to see it: how can it be so clear? I don't know how many times clearer than that bronze mirror! The wrinkles and freckles on the face are clearly visible, completely real and not adulterated at all! I took a picture of the queen mother like it again and again, and finally put it in my arms.

"Oh! What is it? The Queen Mother exclaimed again, it turned out that she saw the glass from the slightly opened box, and opened the package herself without using Fujin's hands. This is a set of glass cups of cold boiled water, which belongs to the fully transparent kind. A big belly cold cup, eight water cups, and a simple magnolia flower pattern on the water cup. Placed in a tray of the same material, it is particularly transparent, particularly clear, and watery, and the queen mother likes it so much that she can't bear to touch it. Such high-purity glassware is undoubtedly a treasure.

The emperor was attracted by the exclamation of the Queen Mother, and hurried over to see, "Ah! He said, "This must be me!" ”

The Queen Mother said: "No, this is safer to put here in the palace!" ”

Fu Jin smiled: "There is more." Inside this big box is a fruit bowl with fruits. ”

"Good! In this way, this fruit plate returned to the palace, and the emperor asked for two more glasses. ”

The emperor smiled "sigh": "The emperor's mother has become an old child now." ”

The Queen Mother "hummed" and laughed.

"Xiu'er, this box is so small, what is it?" The Queen Mother's eyes are not enough. Fu Jin really didn't notice this small box, opened it and looked at it, and then there was a sharp jump: this is a piece of jewelry that is so beautiful that it cannot be described: the golden phoenix is shaking. This is a small nine-tailed phoenix step shake, the body of the phoenix must be gold material, yellow, is a number of gold wires, the edge of the wings is evenly inlaid with red gems of the same size, each tail feather has a multi-colored gem shining with colorful light, the lower end of the tail feather is a green gem. Unlike the gems set on the jewelry of the Qing Dynasty, the light emitted by these gems is very long, as long as it flutters, there will be multiple beams of light "swishing" across it, like a meteor that disappears in an instant, piercing people's eyes. Only the Queen Mother can wear the nine-tailed phoenix, this is the appearance of Yun'er's painting, and the titanium jewelry customized by the manufacturer in Xiaoli's hometown. The workmanship is quite exquisite, each gold wire is so smooth and delicate and stiff, and the shape is quite accurate. The tassel tassel hanging down is made of crystal glass beads, and at the bottom is an emerald green drop-shaped jade stone, which Yun'er didn't notice when she talked about the gift yesterday.

"Yikes!" The Queen Mother exclaimed and picked up the jewelry, "Xiu'er, is this for the palace?" ”

Fujin not only feels sorry for his liver, but also hurts! complained in my heart that Yun'er was too careless, how could she give away such a valuable thing? There's too much for the Queen Mother, right? But I've already brought it, and it's not easy to take it back, so I have to take it in large quantities, and still said with a smile: "Queen Mother, this box is written with titanium jewelry." ”

"What is titanium? Rui Wang Ye tell me? ”

The prince smiled and said, "The jewelry minister is an absolute layman. On the foreign side, this kind of gift is bought by Yun'er. She said that this titanium is also gold, which is more suitable for jewelry, without rust, corrosion, and irritation to people's skin. The jewelry made is also very beautiful. ”

"yes, that's pretty too, and it didn't cost a lot of money, right?"

"Since it's a gift, it's for you, and you should spend as much money as you want."

"Lord Rui said this, but this palace is a little unpleasant. The ...... in this box Oh! It's also jewelry! That's pretty too, isn't it? It seems like there are about a dozen, right? Why are you so dazzling? So many gems on it? The Queen Mother's eyes widened.

"Concubine, look at it, the label in the box is about alloy jewelry."

"Alloys are a lot of gold, aren't they?"

"But this concubine doesn't know."

"It's so exquisite! Su Moer, can you put this phoenix on this palace and take a look? ”

Su Moer hurriedly came over and put it on the Queen Mother, and looked left and right in front of the small mirror for a long time.

"Xiu'er, I see that you have a dry mouth and talk for a long time, so let's rest for a while."

Su Mo'er hurriedly said: "You see how blind the slave and maid are, and they haven't poured tea for Fujin yet, so the slave and maid will go." ”

Fu Jin grabbed Su Mo'er and said with a smile: "Miss Su doesn't have to be polite, there is a gift for you here." "Not to mention Fujin, even the queen has a lot of respect for Su Moer.

"Huh? And slaves? Thank you Fujin! ”

"You, you can't thank me, all the gifts were selected by the side Fujin of our house, and they were also bought with her silver."

Not only Su Moer, but even the Queen Mother was stunned and looked at Fujin.

Fu Jin hurriedly said: "It doesn't cost the Qing Dynasty money over there, so the master asked the prince to bring a few antiques, and they brought Yun'er's father's antiques to exchange for money." ”

The Queen Mother said nonchalantly: "How embarrassing this is, go back and let Lord Rui return the silver to Old Taishan." ”

Fu Jin knew that it was not appropriate to say much about this, so after agreeing to the Queen Mother's question, he opened the topic and said to Su Moer: "Miss Su, here are the fabrics, jewelry, daily necessities and handicrafts that Yun'er gave you, I don't know the name, you can see if you like it or not, and if you like it, you can accept it." ”

"The slave maid likes it so much! Just now you showed it to the Queen Mother, and the slave maid was so greedy that her heart itched. Thank you Fujin, thank you Wangye, thank you side Fujin! ”

Su Moer's eyes flashed with tears, and she took the box to the side to admire.

The Queen Mother smiled: "Su Moer has always been calm, and today's performance is too rare." It's just that the side Fujin won't give it to you, and the palace won't give you a few pieces? ”

"If you want to talk about rewards, the queen mother doesn't give slaves and maids, what gold, silver, jewelry, clothes and jewelry, slaves and maids can't use up in this life, but today's things slaves and maids don't dare to guarantee that you can give slaves and maids."

"Just said that you are calm, so petty and angry? In this way, you can pick and choose what you have just seen. ”

"Really? You're the queen mother, you can't say it's counted, right? The slave wants your titanium phoenix! ”

"You dare!"

The three women couldn't stand up straight with a smile.

The Queen Mother said: "Don't look at this box first, go back and take a look slowly, otherwise you will faint if you are too excited." ”

Even the mustache and bun couldn't stop laughing.

Then the Queen Mother looked at the gifts for the concubines, including clothing, as well as each person's two alloy jewelry and pile yarn palace flowers, sachets, crystal glass necklaces, agate bracelets, cosmetics and so on.

There were nineteen concubines on Emperor Shunzhi at that time, and the queen and the concubine were relatively high. Those who have given birth to children in Shunzhi are more valued, including Concubine Ning, the mother of the second prince Fuquan, Tong Jinya, the mother of the third prince Xuanye (that is, Concubine Tong, the mother of the future Kangxi Emperor), the mother of the fifth prince Chang Ning, the mother of the fourth emperor, Wu Ya, and the mother of the sixth daughter, Krinara.

The gifts of these concubines are naturally more and better than those of others.

The gifts to the concubines took a lot of Yun'er's brains. For fear that improper handling will lead to incidents. Fortunately, it seems that the Queen Mother is very satisfied: "The side Fujin in your house has really grown up, and he acts like an adult." "That means it's up and down.

Because of the king's mention, Yun'er's gifts did not forget a few surviving concubines. They are all gifts according to position, and the Queen Mother is very satisfied.

There is no need to explain the clothing, Fu Jin briefly introduced the novelty objects and the queen mother that were not in the Qing Dynasty in the gift. For example, towels, bath towels, nano towels, socks, toilet water, shampoo, nail polish, makeup cases (including lipstick, eyebrow pencil, rouge, incense powder, etc.), fans, soap, soap, etc. Fu Jin roughly told the Queen Mother and Su Mo'er about the usage and dosage taught by Yun'er. The queen mother was so happy that she watched this and that. The emperor and the prince were talking on the side, and they were often surprised by the queen mother's exclamations and forgot to talk.