Chapter VI: Punishment for kneeling
Cui Jinxi was sitting at the table and having dinner, and An Chun walked in from outside: "Master, I heard that the emperor asked Xu Xuan to sleep tonight."
Cui Jinxi ate the dishes on the table with the same complexion, the emperor was lucky to her yesterday, can't she sleep with another beauty today, after all, the beauty is not a decoration when she enters the palace. She didn't think that the emperor would let her sleep continuously, and look at it, and tomorrow Xu Xuanzhi will become the target of everyone's attack again.
"Hmm."
Tingxue thought that Cui Jinxi felt uncomfortable when he heard that the emperor went to Xu Xuanzhi, so he comforted: "Master, don't feel sorry for this, this is how it is in the palace."
Cui Jinxi took a sip of the soup sent from the imperial dining room, she thought that she was that kind of person, how could she be uncomfortable if she didn't love Shen Xuanxin. She is a woman who can afford to let go, she will not be trapped by love, love is love, even if she is separated, she will smile and bless.
"Don't worry, your master won't even be able to figure out this little thing, the emperor is a big man, and he can go wherever he wants. We waited for him when he came, and if he didn't come, we would live ours well. ”
An Chun stood aside and looked at Cui Jinxi's calm face: "We are relieved that the master can think so, what I am most afraid of in this palace is the stupid woman who is waiting infatuatedly."
It's still An Chun who is right, she has been in the palace for a long time, and she can see these things more clearly. An infatuated woman doesn't live long in the palace, love makes people obsessed, and demonstrativated will do stupid things.
The palace at night was exceptionally quiet, the gates of each palace had long been closed, and at this time, two eunuchs carried Xu Xuan, who was wrapped in a quilt, and walked out of the Yuhua Pavilion and went straight to the emperor's palace. Tonight there are some people who are happy and some who are worried.
Cui Jinxi dressed up early in the morning and took An Chun to the queen's Kunning Palace, and today Xu Xuanzhi is going to come to greet the queen. A room full of women doesn't know what will happen, and she is so happy to watch everyone's wonderful performances.
"Say hello to the Queen."
The queen sat on the main seat of the first palace in gorgeous palace clothes, and the queen was thirty years old, and she didn't know what it was like to watch a group of little wives of the emperor come to greet her every day. It should be happy, after all, I watched everyone salute her, and that feeling was not something that others could experience.
"Cui Guiren came early."
Cui Jinxi lowered his eyebrows at the queen and said, "Back to the queen's mother, the concubine has already woken up."
"Well, you're a rule-go-getter. Su Yun looks at tea. ”
It is estimated that her low eyebrows and pleasing appearance just now made everyone think that she could not become a climate, and this will make her son queen sit down and drink tea, and everyone did not say anything against her.
The high-ranking concubines in the palace have all come, but Xu Fanxi and Xu Xuan, who slept last night, have not yet arrived. I don't know if Xu Xuanzhi overslept or didn't want to come, if he didn't want to come, it means that Xu Xuanzhi was too rampant. If you oversleep, then the palace maids around Xu Xuanzhi are too useless, and they dare to neglect such major events.
After thinking about it, I heard the eunuch outside shouting Xu Xuan, and then Xu Xuanzhi came in under everyone's gaze. This Xu Xuan's dress is really bright, wearing a crimson pleated Ruyi Luo skirt, her skin is even whiter, and she wears a hairpin inlaid with turquoise on her head. Is she here to ask for peace or does she want to compare beauty with the ladies of the palaces?
"The concubines say hello to the queen, and I greet all the mothers."
Concubine Rou was not happy as soon as Xu Xuanzhi came in, Xu Xuanzhi was too late at this time, how could she let go of this opportunity to suppress her: "Xu Xuanzhi didn't oversleep before coming here, we have been waiting for you for a long time."
The queen pretended to be a good person there again: "Xu Xuanzhi was tired of serving the emperor last night, and the palace will not care about it today."
Xu Xuanzhi knelt on the ground: "Queen Xie is considerate."
Concubine Shu sighed: "Xu Xuanzhi was tired last night, so don't sit down quickly, so as not to stand for a long time and get tired again."
After Shufei finished speaking, everyone was laughing, but these laughs were mockery that did not make a sound. Xu Xuanzhi looked at everyone's sneering face, and his face instantly fell.
"Okay, everyone, stop laughing at Xu Xuan, she just entered the palace and is young and sleeping for a while is not a big mistake."
The meaning of the queen's sentence is that everyone is old, and it is not compared with Xu Xuanshi. What woman wants to hear others say that she is old, especially those who are younger and older than themselves are even more jealous.
"The queen is always generous to the sisters in the palace, but she can't let some people be pampered and arrogant. In the future, whoever sleeps will be able to sleep lazily? It was Dong Zhaorong of Chuxiu Palace who spoke.
Cui Jinxi is also looking at this Xu Xuanzhi who is kneeling on the ground, and the people are all beautiful women in the palace, no wonder everyone wants to target her.
Xu Xuanzhi knelt on the ground and listened to Dong Zhaorong's accusation against her, she knew that everyone was jealous of her serving the emperor last night, so they wanted to embarrass her. Thinking of Wen Cun Xu Xuanzhi who was with the emperor last night, he was a little more confident in his heart, a group of old and yellow women just wanted to win the emperor's pity, why should she bother with them, a group of poor worms.
"The concubine knows that she is wrong, please ask the queen to forgive the concubine."
"Nian is the first time this palace will punish you, get up."
"Thank you, Queen Mother."
Xu Xuanzhi knelt on the ground for a long time and was finally able to sit, but everyone dispersed before her buttocks were hot. She also saluted the queen mother and said goodbye, and when she left Kunning Palace, she saw a few concubines outside.
"The concubine has seen Concubine Rou, Dong Zhaorong, Ye Zhaorong, and Concubine Hui."
"I heard that Xu Xuanzhi is a native of Jiangnan and is good at various talents, I don't know if it is convenient for this palace to listen to my sister play the piano?"
Xu Xuanzhi is proud, her father has let her learn all kinds of talents since she was a child, just to be able to enter the palace when she grows up. It is said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and I think that there will be no person with both talents like her in the palace.
"Niangniang wants to listen to the concubine and sacrifice the ugly, I don't know where to play?"
"Why don't you let the palace people take the piano to the pavilion in the lotus pond, let's be there, Concubine Rou Niangniang can see it?"
"Okay, it's up to your concubine."
Xu Xuanzhi followed Concubine Rou and the others to the lotus pond, and everyone could hear it when they played outside, maybe the emperor would also pass. Just now, she was worried that Concubine Rou would let her go to her palace to play.
The stone bench in the pavilion was cushioned with soft cushions, and Xu Xuanzhi sat down and reached out to take the high-grade guqin in the hands of the palace maid. The jade hand lightly picked the silver strings, and the hands plucked on the guqin, the sound was beautiful, like the sound of heaven, after a long time, he ended the playing of this piece and slowly stood up: "The concubine is ugly."
The music she plays is a masterpiece, and this is also a song that she often practices in the house. The husband who taught her said that the song she played was all very good.
Ye Zhaorong is good at playing the piano in the palace, and the emperor praised her piano skills for playing better than the pianist in the palace. She smiled after listening to the music played by Xu Xuanshi, because Xu Xuanzhi not only learned the piano skills, but also learned other things, so the piano plan was not as good as her.
"Xu Xuan's play is good."
"These Ye Zhaorong's compliments."
Concubine Rou and Concubine Hui glanced at each other, and Concubine Hui said to Xu Xuanzhi with ill intentions: "Ye Zhaorong is the best concubine in the palace who plays the piano, Xu Xuanzhi is afraid that he doesn't know, the emperor also said that Ye Zhaorong plays better than the piano master."
This Xu Xuanzhi really didn't know where she would know so much when she first entered the palace. She was angry at this time, Concubine Rou and the others deliberately made her ugly, and Ye Zhaorong was also not as good as her, she should be happy.
"What do you mean by Concubine Rou Niangniang deliberately letting me play the piano to humiliate me?" Xu Xuanzhi's brain was hot and he said such a thing.
When Concubine Hui heard it, she felt that Xu Xuanzhi was really funny, such a useless woman really didn't know whether she was alive or dead, and thought that her queen dared to speak to Concubine Rou like this.
"Presumptuous, you dare to accuse this palace of being a waiter, and you don't kneel down for this palace." Concubine Rou's face is not good, she has been in the palace for so many years, and it is the first time that she has been accused by a waiter in person.
Xu Xuan's words were out before he knew that he was careless, and he said something that he shouldn't have said for a while. She bowed her head and knelt on the ground: "Concubine Rou Niangniang forgives the concubine for the sake of saying the wrong thing for a while."
"There is no need to forgive sins."
Concubine Rou looked at everyone: Xu Xuanzhi committed the following crimes, and he was punished to kneel for two hours here to set an example. ”
Xu Xuanzhi knelt on the ground in a daze, and Yingzi, the personal palace maid beside her, also knelt with her. She hoped that the emperor would come to save her, but she didn't know that the emperor would not come, and where would the emperor know about the voice here in the Heart Cultivation Palace.
"Li Dezhong."
"What does the slave have in the emperor?"
"Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs draw up a decree to promote Xu Xuan as a nobleman."
"Yes."
"How's the harem doing?"
"The harem is quite calm, that is, Concubine Rou sat in the imperial garden for two hours yesterday, and today I heard that Xu Guiren was punished for kneeling for two hours for contradicting Concubine Rou." The more Li Dezhong spoke, the quieter he became, not knowing what the emperor meant by suddenly asking about the harem.
"The following offenses really deserve to be punished, how is the one in the Snow Falling Pavilion?"
Shen Xuanxin asked very casually, as if he suddenly remembered to ask casually.
"Cui Guiren stayed in the Snow Xuan and didn't go out much except after greeting the queen in the morning, so everything should be fine."
She doesn't go out much, she's afraid of offending people. It is safe to stay in your own palace with a low position.