Chapter 50: Cining Palace
It snowed heavily last night, and Jiang Yin blew his hands and entered the room, "Yuehe, you are still in the room." ”
Yuehe also woke up early at this point, combed his hair, and replenished his rouge. asked, "The ladies of the harem, please come back?" Does the Queen Mother have a break? ”
"It's all back, the mother saw today's heavy snow, very happy, said that it would be shoveled off in a short time, called a few of us to the garden to make fun, I also came to call you. I'll look for Linglong and a few of them again. Jiang Yin put his hands together and went out again.
At that time, the Queen Mother asked a few little palace maids to raise, and a few of them are now the top of the Queen Mother's heart, and they also get some tea on weekdays, and they have never done heavy work, and they are not angry, they are raised as half a master, and this dignity is not available to others.
Yesterday in the middle of the night, I saw that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and I knew that today's Forbidden City was dressed in new clothes, and now the palace people of Cining Palace are rushing to shovel the snow away, but Yuehe shouted to the Fuyuan of Cining Palace to play with snow, have a snowball fight, and put a snowman. And the Queen Mother held the soup woman, sitting on the high platform and watching the excitement of the courtyard.
Yuehe got out of the battlefield, ran to Niangniang's side, pointed to the rows of snowmen, and said loudly, "Niangniang, look, is this snowman white and fat." ”
The Queen Mother, who was dressed in a dark Lianyun regular dress and wrapped in a gray wool collar cloak, put down the tea cup in her hand and laughed, "The mourning family thinks that the moon girl is white and tender, and it is more pleasant." ”
Standing behind her was Mama Gusu, who took care of the Queen Mother who never married in her life, and Mama was also smiling, "Don't say, Niangniang has raised these girls all these years to be delicious and lazy, but they are not white and tender." ”
"Mama Gusu laughed at the slave again." Yuehe saw that this year's snowflakes were huge, and the private garden of Kunning Palace was already white, and I don't know what kind of situation the imperial garden was, "The queen mother has a very good snow scene today, why not step on the snow and the activity is also good, the slaves and maids will not let you fall if you hold on." ”
"That's it, after all, you don't like to move when you're old, so the mourning family can just watch you play with Gusu here." The Queen Mother waved her hand again and again, signaling Yuehe and them to continue playing.
Yuehe didn't force it, and continued to have fun.
The Queen Mother squinted at a few lively girls who were playing, "Aunt Su, Mama has not been in the palace for a long time now. ”
"Back to the Queen Mother's words, there are no new entrants after the general election three years ago, and the emperor feels that the general election will cost the people and money, and he will not be elected again this year." Mama Gu Su smiled.
"Our emperor is also a capable person, after ascending the throne at 25, he didn't let the harem have one more person, the mourning family looked at the female officials of the first emperor in the palace, they are all old, and they are in charge of the election, and it has been three years in the blink of an eye, but our emperor has grasped the harem tightly, but the mourning family's mother-in-law is not important." Our emperor's means are high, the pressure of the previous dynasty was all pushed to the mourning family, forcing the mourning family to give him a general election, and through the election, the harem was exchanged for blood, so that the mourning family folded most of the cronies, the mourning family thought he was an honest man, and he didn't want to look away, but now even the palace can't fiddle at will.
"Niangniang doesn't have to worry, the emperor's biological mother will go early, the queen mother's protector will grow up, our emperor also rules the world with filial piety, and your honor is still honorable." Mama Gusu lowered her eyes.
"Yes, he has no biological mother, and the mourning family has nothing to do, after all, it is a little worse, the girls who gave birth to my mother's family are not angry, none of them are useful, and when they are old, they are so stupid that the mourning family doesn't want to keep it in the way. Now the emperor is getting more and more ideas. "How can the stability of this harem reflect the importance of the mourning family. The queen is respectful to the palace on her face, and she shares the right to eat the mourning family behind her back, and the mourning family does not think that there is no emperor's instruction.
"In the end, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, the Queen Mother, you just need to raise your blessings, you are the emperor's mother-in-law, and no one can take you for anything." The master is blinded by the pitiful appearance of the emperor before he ascended the throne, and was folded by the emperor most of the manpower, and now the harem is stable but uncertain, the emperor has accepted most of the daughters of the ministers, and it is okay on the surface, but behind the scenes, our dignified and demure queen is not clean.
"I don't know how the mourning family is so old, but I don't want to fight for anything, it's just that there is no one to use the mourning family around the emperor, and the mourning family is not the emperor's biological mother, and there is always a layer in between. Didn't the others* work out either? "The emperor doesn't let go of some people around him now, but after all, the news is blocked, and the mourning family is always uneasy.
"Niangniang, our emperor is very clean, those palace maids and singers sent in, few of them have entered, and even those who have entered are all low-ranking and pitiful, and they have no right to speak, so they all look backwards." The new emperor ascended the throne, and he did not admit people for two years, and the major forces have cultivated batch after batch of people to come in, and the water in this harem has long been muddy, but our emperor is the daughter of a non-powerful minister. I'm afraid that the secret delivery will not be useful.
The Queen Mother sighed, her thoughts jumped long, looking at the girls who were still having a snowball fight, as if she didn't know the sorrow of this deep palace, and suddenly sighed, "There are also 17 Yuhe." ”
"Back to the Queen Mother's words, after the New Year, she will be 18 years old, which is the best age." Mama Gusu continued the Queen Mother's words and said, "Over the years, she has grown into an excellent girl." ”
"Gusu, which of them do you think is good?" Mingzhi raised a few of them, and played the interpretation flower that was raised for the emperor from the beginning, and his identity was not noble, but he was talented, and his hobbies on weekdays were also what the emperor liked. It's just that the emperor must be wary of sending it out openly, but he can't send it in secret, and it's good that there is a clear restrain the queen.
"If you talk about the four people you raise, after all, they are the ones who are the best of the best." Niangniang is going to make a move, after all, the harem is not messy enough, and the queen is also unconscious.
"You don't call the mourning family haha, catch up with the New Year's Festival, think of a way to send it." The Queen Mother turned around and stared at Gusu carefully.
"This is delicate and charming, Yuehe is coquettish, Jiangyin is dignified, Lancui is the most talented, which is not all good, if you talk about temperament, Linglong is afraid that she is too smart, Yilancui's literati is arrogant, I am afraid that it will not cater to it, Jiangyin is a good one, but there is less interest, but Yuehe is too big. Fortunately, she has an aunt who is a high-ranking female official in this palace. "It is true that each has its own good, but each has its own shortcomings, although the queen mother gave it, the emperor will not treat it badly. It's just that the chess pieces on the surface are always of limited use.
"The mourning family is a little optimistic about Yuehe, that girl is a strong and smart aunt, she can ask for me several times for her friends in the past, and she is a friendly person, and she will repay her kindness, so she can use it." When this girl came, she looked like a New Year's doll, really pleasing, not showing mountains and water, never contacting her aunt, and really not seeing such a dripping aunt at all. When I first came, I was very concerned about that best friend, and the palace has always been unkind, but the mourning family also noticed her because of this, until this girl sought medical treatment for her best friend to her aunt, and later asked me to find out that this girl has such an aunt.
"The Queen Mother, it's a good thing to be affectionate, but it's also a shortcoming." This girl is a little innocent, if she is put next to the emperor, I am afraid that she will suffer, although her aunt must help her, the old thing is very good, I am afraid that she is extremely reluctant to be her nephew as a concubine. The year before last, the old man was afraid that he found out about his mother's intentions, and he tried to transfer her niece several times, if I hadn't been careful, I would have almost been succeeded by her a few times.
The Queen Mother thought for a moment and said, "The most regular performance is still Jiang Yin, just her, she doesn't like to tell right and wrong, Miao Zi is also upright, at least she is also virtuous, let her serve the emperor." "If you want to say that the emperor prefers it, this harem is also full of flowers, but I can't find any laws.
The happy little girls who were still playing naturally didn't know that their fate had already been doomed when they stepped into this Cining Palace.
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Jiang Yin, who was summoned by the Queen Mother that night, closed the door and talked for a long time, although the other three felt a little strange, but they didn't pay much attention to it, Jiang Yin came to have an idea here, and he didn't have to worry about anything, Linglong watched his beauty in the mirror, and insisted on patting his face with cold water on a cold winter day, and the home remedies outside were said to be good for the skin.
Yuehe pouted, three of the four of them were new palace maids, and one Linglong was later, fighting for the favor of the mother in the past, although they played together, they were not convinced. Linglong seems to have always had thoughts about the emperor, every time the emperor comes to Cining Palace, she wants to go up, if it weren't for Gusu Mama to manage, it may have been done a long time ago, Lan Cui is always immersed in her own world, in the past, she always loves to hold books, Yuehe doesn't like her, Jiang Yin's words, always love to teach people, make the oldest look, although Zi Ning also loves to control herself, but it is always different, and every time she makes a bad it is Zi Ning's head, Yue He knocked on her head again, how can they compare with my Zi Ning, really.
Thinking of this, I felt angry, this Zi Ning was stupid to death, and put himself in such a situation, but we are all slaves, and it is not that I didn't ask the Queen Mother, but Niangniang said that it was the emperor's will, and there was no way. In the past, she always told me how free and happy the world outside the palace is, the beautiful scenery of Xihang, the beauty of the Qinhuai River, and the weird and strange talk of Journey to the West, all of which make me have infinite fantasies.