Chapter 16: Empress Jiang
Zhao Heng's expression was iron-clad and he let the chamberlain ride his horse back to the East Palace, and then jumped into the bath, brushing his body over and over again, especially his chest. In fact, his clothes had already been changed in the Jiang family, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still felt uncomfortable.
"Goro, Goro! Be careful, don't hurt yourself! Zhao Heng's close attendant Zheng Rang saw that Zhao Heng had the posture of brushing the skin off, and hurriedly comforted him.
Zhao Heng gritted his teeth and said, "Next time, I will definitely throw that stinky girl into the stinky ditch!" ”
The chamberlains just didn't hear it.
The news that Zhao Heng was urinated by Jiang Wei was not a secret, and it quickly spread to the ears of several well-intentioned people, in the Guan Ju Palace, the fourth prince heard that Zhao Heng was urinated, and he rolled on the ground happily, "Hahaha - I will make you love clean!" Makes you love clean! "He and Zhao Heng are only half a year apart, and his mother is a concubine, and he often looks at Zhao Heng unpleasantly, and the two are old rivals.
"No, I'm going to find him-" Before the fourth prince could speak, he was grabbed by a hand, and as soon as he raised his eyes and saw the person who grabbed him, he couldn't help but droop his head, "Sister! ”
"You're going to find the prince again?" Princess Hengshan glared at her younger brother and said, there are a total of five princesses in the saint, and Hengshan is the only princess who was born with a title.
"I'm going to play with the prince." The fourth prince said confidently.
"You go and fight him!" Hengshan is eight years old this year, five years older than the fourth son of the emperor, and has always taken it as his responsibility to take care of his younger brother, so he didn't let him go to Zhao Heng, "Let's go, let's go to A-Niang!" ”
The fourth son of the emperor was tightly grasped by his sister and couldn't break free, so he could only follow Hengshan to find his aunt in frustration. It was almost half an hour before the time came, it was the time for the aunt to have dinner, he didn't want to eat with the aunt at all, and the fourth prince burst into tears in his heart. He went to the East Palace to laugh at Zhao Heng, and he also wanted to eat. Hengshan didn't know what the fourth son of the emperor was thinking, so he pulled his younger brother to find A-Niang. The fifth daughter of the emperor, who has been in an invisible state, hurriedly followed behind the two, she is An Zhaoyi's daughter, and An Zhaoyi is An Guifei's sister-in-law.
The maids in the inner hall had already begun to eat, and when Concubine An, who was sitting upright, saw the children who had come in, a smile appeared on her face and beckoned them to come over. As the most favored concubine in the palace, Concubine An's clothes are not gorgeous, there are only a few brass hairpins on her head, and the clothes on her body are also made of silk, rather than luxurious silk satin brocade, which looks like the lady of an ordinary official family, rather than a pampered concubine. She gave birth to a dignified goose-egg face, with slender willow eyebrows delicately depicted, and her face was powdered with fat, which made her skin look soft and flawless. Concubine An was born into a family and was raised in the palace since she was a child, and her every move can be regarded as a model of palace etiquette.
"A-Niang-" Hengshan threw away his younger brother and threw himself into Concubine An's arms.
"Auntie." The fourth son and the fifth daughter of the emperor stepped forward to salute Concubine An.
Hengshan turned his head and glared at his brother, how many times had she said that if she wanted to call A-Niang instead of Auntie, why couldn't he remember!
The fourth son of the emperor was glared at by his sister, what's wrong with him calling him aunt, he is called aunt when he grows so big, isn't it only by calling the queen that he can call auntie?
Concubine An Guifei looked at her daughter's intimate actions, comforted in her heart, she patted her daughter's back and said: "Only the queen can be called A-Niang, don't call it wrong in the future." ”
"No!" Heng Shantou rubbed into Concubine An's arms, "I will be called A-Niang in the future!" ”
Concubine An smiled slightly, "It's okay to call it in private, but you can't call it wrong outside." ”
"I know." Hengshan responded obediently.
"Let's eat." An Guifei smiled lightly.
The people put the food table in front of everyone respectively, An Guifei's diet is simple, every meal can not eat chestnut rice, Hu cake, the meal has been mainly vegetables, the occasional meat is just fish food, the palace people are praised for the virtue of the concubine, but how can such a meal attract the appetite of the prince raised by Jin Zun Yugui, the fourth prince smelled the taste of the meal and began to lose his appetite, after the palace maid served the staple food, the fourth prince's face changed, "What is this?" ”
"Shiro, it's Mai Rice." The palace maid said.
"Mai Fan?" The fourth prince of the emperor turned his face away in disgust, "Auntie, I want to eat rice." ”
Concubine An asked the fourth son of the emperor, "Shiro, do you know that many people can't eat this wheat rice outside." ”
The fourth prince lowered his head and did not speak, secretly thinking in his heart, when he used to eat chestnut rice, he said that many people couldn't eat chestnut rice, and now he said wheat rice, and simply said that people outside don't eat anything, "This wheat rice is dry, I can't eat it, I want to eat rice." The fourth son of the emperor said aggrievedly, he knew that he had gone to the East Palace to find Goro just now, and the food there was much better than that of Auntie, and it was better for A-Niang.
An Guifei frowned slightly, "You-"
"Shiro loves rice, so let him use it." A gentle and smiling voice came, and the fourth prince looked up and saw a man in a dark robe walking in, and his eyes lit up, "yes, yes!" ”
Zhao Min, the third emperor of Great Qin, patted his son's head lovingly, and when he saw the excessively simple meals on the dining table, he couldn't help but say, "Why does A-Qing treat himself so badly? ”
"I don't have to worry about food and clothing, where is the loss? Now that Anyang is moving, I don't know how many more victims, I can save a point in the palace, and I can save ten people outside, what can I suffer? Concubine An got up with a smile, "It's Saburo, you have lost a lot of weight these days, and state affairs are important, but you also have to take care of your own body." ”
After Hengshan saluted his father, he led Ah Mei and Ah Di to retreat, leaving their parents to say intimate words.
Zhao Min held Concubine An's hand and sat down, "A-Qing has worked hard for you." ”
"As long as I can help Saburo, I won't work hard." The smile on the corner of An Guifei's mouth deepened, and shallow fine lines appeared on the corners of her mouth and eyebrows.
Zhao Min looked at her fine lines, and the tenderness in his heart was even greater, and he reached out to wrap his hand around her waist, "You are really my virtuous helper!" ”
An Guifei said lightly: "It's all old husbands and wives, what do you say." She raised her head and said, "San Lang, today is the Jiang family's Xiaojiu Niang's first birthday banquet, do you remember?" ”
"Remember, didn't the prince go to celebrate?" Zhao Min said.
"Previously, you named my eldest lady as the pavilion master, and the little Jiuniang of the Jiang family should also seal Tang Muyi, right?" The eldest lady in Concubine An's mouth is the eldest daughter of her eldest brother, and she has already made a promise, and in response to the relationship between Concubine An, the eldest lady of the An family has the identity of the pavilion master as soon as she is born.
Concubine An didn't say it, Zhao Min really couldn't remember it, after all, more than ten years had passed, but when she said this, Zhao Min really hesitated, what he hesitated was not to canonize Jiang Jiuniang as the pavilion master, but-
"The queen's status is higher than mine, and her niece's canonization should also be one level higher than the eldest mother." Concubine An knew Zhao Min's concerns and took the initiative to say.
Zhao Min smiled, "Ah Ning is too willful, Ah Qing, you don't care about her." ”
An Guifei said: "How can I worry about the queen." She pushed Zhao Min again and said: "You go and tell the queen the good news, I heard that Jiang Jiuniang will enter the palace the day after tomorrow, so I said it as soon as possible, and let the queen be prepared." ”
Zhao Min said: "I'll come back later." ”
An Guifei nodded.
Zhao Heng kept washing his body in the East Palace, and accompanied Zhao Heng's chamberlain all the way until he jumped into the bath and quietly retreated, walking towards Jiaofang Palace.
At this time, it was the time for the queen to practice calligraphy in the study, after Gao Jingde freshened up and changed his clothes, he quietly walked into the study, Queen Jiang's personal female officer was polishing ink for the queen, and Gao Jingde stood behind Queen Jiang without saying a word.
"Did things go well today?" Empress Jiang's subordinates did not stop, and asked out loud, her voice was delicate and incoherent, like a pearl falling to the ground.
"It went well." Gao Jingde is the chief manager of Jiaofang Palace, and he is very trusted by Queen Jiang, even Zhao Heng does not dare to offend easily, between Gao Jingde and him, Queen Jiang obviously believes in Gao Jingde.
"Gorou didn't get into trouble?" After Empress Jiang finished copying a page of Buddhist scriptures, the female official turned a page for her, and Empress Jiang continued to copy the Buddhist scriptures.
"No, Gorou has been playing with Xiao Jiuniang today."
"Playing with Ah Shi?" Empress Jiang's subordinates paused, put down the brush, turned around and asked with interest, "Are you sure he is playing with Ah Zhi, not bullying Ah Zhi?" "Queen Jiang is three years older than Jiang Ling, she is thirty-one years old this year, because of proper maintenance, she looks only in her early twenties, unlike Xie Ze's cold elegance and Shen Qin's bright beauty, she is delicate and soft, her eyes are bright and shining, and she seems to always contain a pool of clear water.
"It's playing with Xiao Jiuniang." Gao Jingde smiled a little in his tone, and said all the deflated things that Zhao Heng ate on Jiang Wei today.
Empress Jiang laughed and fell on the female official, "It's rare to see Gorou suffer so much." ”
Gao Jingde said: "That's also Xiao Jiuniang's intelligence, the slave and maid watched it for a day, and I didn't hear Xiao Jiuniang cry." ”
"So well-behaved? What about the Achi body? I heard that A-Niang said that it was okay, but people have gained weight. Empress Jiang asked with concern.
"Okay, Xiao Jiuniang is a lot fatter than before, and the slave maid sees that she eats a lot, and she is also lively, and she is a healthy child at first glance." Gao Jingde said Jiang Wei's good appetite.
Jiang Hou nodded again and again, "Children should eat more and move more when they grow their bodies, and it's not good to be too pampered." Her only son is free-range.
"It's not, Xiao Jiu Niang Yuxue is cute, chubby like the little jade girl sitting down in Guanyin Niangniang, and she is pleasing at first glance." Gao Jingde has served the queen for many years, and he knows very well how to say that Empress Jiang's heart is in the heart, several princesses in the palace are sick, and Jiang Changhui is never rare.
Empress Jiang instructed Gao Jingde: "Since Ah Zhi can walk, you ask them to be careful when decorating Ah Zhi's room, don't let her bump into anything casually." ”
"The slave will tell you to go down." Gao Jingde said.
"Sanniang, it's time to wash." The female official reminded the queen that Empress Jiang's daily routine is very fixed, and now is the time for her to freshen up and massage.
Empress Jiang opened up a bath in the palace, and every day there were people from the Tangquan Division who brought out the temperature of the soup spring adapted to the temperature from the Tangshan for her to bathe, and the soup spring also added the medicinal bath prescription specially prescribed by the imperial doctor of the Imperial Physician Department for her, according to her frequent needs and the change of the four seasons, this time is also the time when Queen Jiang enjoys the most, and the big things can not disturb her. After taking a bath in the soup spring, Queen Jiang put on a soft fine linen coat, lying on the cushion of silk satin fabric, and asked the female official to massage her acupoints, apply honey fat for skin care, and her hair was also washed, and someone specially combed her hair and massaged the acupuncture points on her head, and soon she fell asleep.
The maids reduced the sound of breathing to a minimum, and then Zhao Min slowly appeared at the door, and the maids were taken aback when they saw Zhao Min, and they wanted to get up and salute, then Zhao Min waved his hand and motioned for everyone to retreat, and the maids glanced at each other and retreated helplessly. Jiang Changhui was already in a state of entering Heitian Township, and he didn't notice the maid's departure at all, and only instructed the maid: "Press my neck, it's very sore these days." ”
Zhao Min quietly looked at the dizzy queen, her back body was completely naked, the skin on her body was frosty, soft and fat, the curve of her back was round and perfect, even if she had given birth to a child, her waist was still slender and her palms could be closed, her buttocks were as white as if snow was condensed, and she was soft under the candlelight.