Chapter 3: Beauty
Daye Dynasty Shangjing as the capital, the implementation of the county system, the country is divided into 24 counties, the county is divided into counties, respectively, and each county Taishou and each county county order jurisdiction. During the appointment period, the situation was directly passed to the central government, which was left to the emperor to decide whether to promote or promote local officials or make other decisions.
The twenty-four counties are: Dan'er, Ludong, Luxi, Shanggu, Julu, Langya, Xuejun, Jiuyuan, Huiji, Majun, Shangxi, Yingchuan, Guyan, Jiujiang, Bashu, Qianzhong, Nanyang, Sanchuan, Hedong, Beidi, Neishi, Mozhong, Longxi, and Guanxi.
There are three dukes in the central government, the Taiwei, the prime minister, and the imperial history, the prime minister commands a hundred officials, and the six departments are directly appointed to the emperor. There is also a cabinet auxiliary government, and the power is divided into prime ministers.
Yongshou Palace
Ronghua knelt on the futon, leaning over and reciting Buddhist scriptures, earnest and reverent.
Seeing this, the Queen Mother, who was worshipping the Buddha on the side, showed a satisfied smile on her face, stopped the rolling Buddha beads in her hand, and handed the Buddha beads to Ronghua.
Ronghua stopped his movements and took the string of Buddhist beads.
The Queen Mother picked up the Buddhist scriptures copied by Ronghua and asked Ronghua with a smile: "Yu Miao also likes this "Myoho-renge-kyo"? ”
Ronghua faced the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, "I didn't dare to be happy, but I contemplated this sutra and said: 'It is the time of the sun, moon and light Buddha from the samadhi, because of the wonderful light Bodhisattva, said the Mahayana Sutra, the name of the Lotus Flower, taught the Bodhisattva Dharma, and the Buddha protected the thoughts. Sixty small calamities, not to be seated. When the listener sits in one place, sixty eons, the body and mind do not move, listening to what the Buddha says, it is like eating. There is not a man in the crowd who is tired of being weary of body and mind. 'With respect. ”
Jingxin helped the Queen Mother to get up, and the Queen Mother looked at Ronghua condescendingly, "If that's the case, Yu Miao can have some understanding." ”
Ronghua frowned slightly, then shook his head, "None." ”
The Queen Mother sighed: "And this, Yu Miao still needs to be well understood." ”
"Yes, Grandmother."
"You've been here for two days, go and rest first, and it's not a while to revere the Buddha."
"Yes."
Ronghua got up and faced the Queen Mother, "Grandson retires." ”
"Go ahead."
The Queen Mother looked at the figure of Ronghua leaving, her palace clothes were slightly raised, and she asked Jingxin: "This child doesn't have any Buddha roots, is it useless to let her worship Buddha here all day long?" ”
"Your Highness is very intelligent."
The Queen Mother's hollowed-out finger guard swiped slightly, and she smiled kindly, "If this is the case, it is very good, but I am afraid that it will ......"
"The scent on His Highness's body is very strong."
Ronghua sniffed, it is true that he has stayed in the Buddha hall for the past few days, and his body is covered with sandalwood fragrance.
"Prepare water, this palace needs to change clothes and bathe."
Hui Xue cleverly took off the palace clothes on Ronghua's body.
"How's the queen mother?"
Hui Xue was specially sent to Ronghua by Empress Chen, lest she be in the Yongshou Palace and not aware of the situation outside the palace.
Hui Xue divided the palace clothes and hung them on the screen, and a pair of clever eyes blinked, "Your Highness doesn't have to worry about Niangniang, Niangniang asked the slave maid to tell His Highness, let His Highness rest in Yongshou Palace, as a relaxation." ”
Ronghua smiled, "You girl is quite clever." ”
Ronghua waved back to the snow, walked into the other side of the screen, took off his underwear, and let the warm water soak his neck, and the green silk floated on the water, covering the scenery below the water.
Ronghua said through the screen: "Back to the snow, I don't want all the clothes I have changed." ”
Although I don't know why, Hui Xue is a very qualified palace maid, she held the palace clothes that Ronghua had changed, squatted and bowed her head, "Huh." ”
Hui Xue wiped the water on the green silk for Ronghua.
When it was almost dry, Ronghua took a roll of bamboo slips, sat on the edge of the bed, and put on a brighter lamp in the snow cleverly, and retreated.
There is nothing beautiful about bamboo slips, but they are some wild histories of the previous dynasty. Ronghua swept through the rows and suddenly smiled, is it called a cycle of cause and effect?
Fengqi Palace
Queen Chen put down her hair, and Mama Chen took a jade comb to smooth Queen Chen's hair, and secretly hid it when she encountered white hair.
Empress Chen had already understood Mama Chen's movements, held her hand, and looked at the blurred face in the prism, "Mama pull it off." ”
"Yes."
Mama Chen obediently plucked off the hidden white hair and put it in a brocade box on the dresser, which already had a lot of gray hair, and Mama Chen locked the brocade box.
"Mama, do you think this palace is old? Hongu is forty-six years old. ”
"Niangniang is not old, but what woman doesn't have gray hair?"
"But a few days ago, I saw those concubines in the palace, all of them were young and beautiful, and there were many people who were smaller than Yu Yuan. Even the concubines and the old people who entered the palace together looked like they were only two hundred and ten. ”
"The newly selected concubines in the draft are naturally young, and the oldest is only seventeen. As for the concubines and concubines, they just didn't see it, and they didn't know what they looked like in their palace. ”
Empress Chen touched her face and showed a dignified smile, "This palace knows, as long as this palace is the queen, even if the person is old and yellow, the emperor doesn't look at it, so what's the matter?" After all, there is still Yu in this palace. ”
From the palace to the East Palace, and then to this deep palace, she is only her in the end for more than 20 years.
"That's a great thing."
"Mama, you don't have to pay attention to the people from the Taiwei Mansion, tell me to go down, and our people don't do anything."
"Yes."
Empress Chen's fingertips crossed her red lips, "Mama, I heard that a girl from the Taiwei Mansion entered the palace." ”
Mama Chen smiled respectfully, "Exactly." ”
"The Taiwei Mansion is really becoming more and more shameless, my aunt and nephew serve a husband, and the Taiwei Mansion is embarrassed to make it."
Even Mama Chen showed a disdainful expression, and she asked, "Do you want ...... Niangniang?"
"Hmph, do you think the emperor is stupid? Let the Taiwei Mansion do it yourself, this palace doesn't want to care about these things. By the way, what's that girl's name? ”
"Chen Feifei, the eldest daughter of the third master, the emperor has crowned a Chen beauty."
"Oh, beauty?"
Speaking of this, the disdain on Mama Chen's face became even more obvious, "The medicine confused the emperor, and I was carried to the imperial garden by the emperor on the spot. ”
"These filthy things don't have to pollute the ears of this palace."
"It's the old slave's fault."
"Mama, let someone go."
"Yes."
Mama Chen turned off the lights, served Queen Chen and fell asleep, and ordered two more people to guard, and then went to the side hall to rest.
Empress Chen opened her eyes in the darkness. It's just that she didn't respond to their request, and her mother actually let her niece enter the palace to humiliate her, and this Taiwei Mansion didn't take her seriously. Thought she would compromise? It's ridiculous, she wants to see if this Chen Feifei can still give birth to a prince? The Imperial Garden is fortunate, and the Chen family's century-old reputation has been ruined! Mother doesn't think about it, doesn't father think about it?
Empress Chen used her strength to break her long nails.
Ronghua also heard about it, and it was in the Yongshou Palace.
"The concubines see the queen mother, and the queen mother is safe."
"Get up, didn't the mourning family say that you don't have to come to the mourning family to ask for peace?"
Sandalwood was burning in the Yongshou Palace, and a woman dressed in a smoky blue palace dress sat on the side.
"Are you a new palace Chen beauty?"
"When I return to my mother, it is exactly."
The Queen Mother rolled the Buddhist beads in her hand, "No need to be polite, they are all a family." Yu Yuan, don't you say? ”
Ronghua put down the teacup, his eyebrows were picturesque, "It is this truth, what the imperial grandmother said is naturally right." ”
"Your Highness Eleven."
Ronghua raised his eyebrows and looked at the woman, with light makeup on her face and delicate facial features, as if she was a meek and pitiful woman in Jiangnan, but she was probably about the same age as her, but she was her mother in name. Thinking of this, Ronghua's fingertips retracted and hid under his wide sleeves.
Your Highness Eleven? It's rare to hear people call her like this, Emperor Mingzhen has a lot of heirs, not counting the deaths in the womb, there are more than 20 people, but there are many who died halfway, in the palace, in the east palace, and in the palace. Daye is not divided into men and women, and she is eleven.
"Chen Meiren."
The grade of the beauty is not qualified to ask her to salute a concubine. So Ronghua sat beside the Queen Mother and sipped the tea.
"It's all the same, Chen Meiren is from the Langya Chen family with the queen?"
Chen Feifei hung her head and said respectfully: "The concubine is the Jiujiang Chen family. ”
"Jiujiang?" The Queen Mother's armor grabbed her wide sleeves, and said with a smile: "That's right, Chen Meiren looks like a beauty raised in the south." ”
"The queen mother's praise."
The Empress Dowager sent people out of the Yongshou Palace with a cup of tea. The Queen Mother looked sideways at Ronghua, "Yu Yuan, have you heard about the day before yesterday?" ”
Ronghua twisted up a piece of osmanthus cake, "I haven't tasted it." ”
Ronghua fed the pastry to the Queen Mother, who kindly took a small bite, "Sweet." ”
Jingxin waited beside him with a tea cup, looking at his grandparents and grandchildren with warm eyes.
"Yu Jiao also tastes it, the osmanthus cake made in the imperial dining room today is good."
Ronghua smiled and put down the osmanthus cake that he had bitten in his hand, picked up another piece and took a bite, his phoenix eyes narrowed, and he said with a smile: "It's very sweet." ”
"Imperial dining room, reward."
The Queen Mother raised her sleeves and took the osmanthus cake with a clean heart, "Oh." ”
Ronghua went out of the main hall and was about to go to the side hall.
"Your Highness Eleven."
Very familiar, Rong Hua turned sideways slightly, combed her flowing cloud bun, and the woman in the smoky blue palace dress smiled quietly, "Your Highness Eleven." ”
"Chen Meiren."
Chen Feifei sat in the side hall where Ronghua lived and took the tea handed by Hui Xue.
"Your Highness Eleven, is the concubine calling your cousin? Or is it His Highness Eleven? ”
Ronghua let Hui Xue go down and smiled back: "Didn't Chen Meiren do a good job?" ”
"Your Highness Eleven, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Ronghua pushed the small dishes on the table towards Chen Feifei, "Taste? ”
Chen Feifei twisted a piece of mung bean cake, the powder did not stick to the cherry lips, and it melted in the mouth, "It's delicious." If it's really something that goes to Beijing, it's good. ”
"If you like it."
"It's time for the concubine to go."
Rong Hua Feng's eyes squinted, "To be honest, why are you here in this palace?" ”
Ronghua's pupils are round and large, the whites of his eyes are few, and he looks clean and clear. In this way, even if Ronghua's phoenix eyes are slender, they don't look small, and they are so oblique that they are not seductive.
"Your Highness Eleventh will know later." As she spoke, Chen Feifei covered her lips and smiled.
Ronghua smiled.
"Back to the snow, send off the guests."
Chen Feifei blinked, twisted her waist and walked out of the side hall.
Although Rong Hua behind him was still smiling, his phoenix eyes did not show any warmth.
Ronghua unfolded his palm, and a piece of paper lay quietly in the palm of his white and tender palm. She glanced at it.
Take the lampshade, light the candle, put the paper on it, and in a few moments it will be dusty.