Chapter 424: The Concubines Compete for Favor (Asking for Subscriptions...)
The eight eunuchs who carried the sedan chair were ordered, got up the sedan chair together, and carried the sedan chair at the same pace, walking steadily and steadily. [Biqu Pavilion free reading.] Sixty or seventy meters in front of the imperial sedan chair, there were twelve eunuchs, and as they walked, they made a sound of "whoop, whoop", and were "eating".
When the people in the palace heard this voice, there was silence everywhere they went. Stop all kinds of laughter and talking. I know that the emperor is here. Don't dare to make a loud noise to alarm the holy driver.
Xiao Xizi just turned around the rockery and heard the sound of "eating", so he was ready to dodge, and looked around, there was nowhere to hide. I want to retreat to the rockery and hide. It was too late, the imperial sedan chair had already come to him, and he mixed in with some eunuchs, standing facing the wall, so as not to "startle".
It wasn't until the bright yellow imperial sedan chair disappeared around the corner of the palace wall that he straightened up and walked towards Yonghe Palace depressedly. He walked very slowly, very slowly, and did not know how to tell the queen. He was afraid to see the queen's disappointed expression. The master is uncomfortable, and he, a slave, is not comfortable in his heart.
The father-in-law walked into the Yonghe Palace cautiously and nervously, the queen was dressed very beautifully, sitting on the soft couch, looking at the portrait of King Yu, her eyes were full of indescribable love.
The father-in-law knew that the queen was ostensibly looking at the portrait of King Yu, but in fact, through the portrait of King Yu, she was thinking about another person in her heart, that is, the emperor.
There is a portrait of King Yu hanging on the wall, and among all the emperor's heirs, the one who looks the most like him is King Yu. It's also strange to say, the bigger King Yu is, the more like the emperor. This portrait was specially painted for King Yu by the most famous imperial painting master in the palace at the request of the queen. The queen asked for this portrait of King Yu and hung it in the palace. I often look at it stupidly.
This portrait is an important link between her and the emperor's feelings. By looking at this portrait, my heart was full of thoughts for the emperor, and I thanked the emperor for giving Yu'er to her, making her life more perfect.
King Yu is her hope, and it is also the only weight for her to ascend to the throne of the queen in this life.
When the father-in-law saw the queen looking at the portrait of King Yu, his expression was strange, and he became more and more obsessed, and he chuckled in his heart, and he stiffened his hair to interrupt the queen's reverie: "Queen, when the emperor came out of Xiangfu Palace and was about to move to Yonghe Palace, he suddenly came halfway to Jinhe Palace's father-in-law, and his father-in-law told the emperor that Concubine Jin had angina pectoris, and she was so painful that she was dead and alive, and she was speechless, and asked to see the emperor for the last time. The emperor turned around halfway and hurried to Jinghe Palace in a sedan chair. ”
Father-in-law Xi stood behind the queen, hanging his head and telling the queen everything he saw, and when he was done, he didn't dare to come out, he didn't dare to look up at the queen, for fear of seeing the queen's disappointed expression.
The emperor has not stepped into Yonghe Palace for a long time, and the queen looks forward to the emperor walking into Yonghe Palace every day to greet the queen. Simple expectations have become extravagant expectations, and the emperor did not step into Yonghe Palace when he went to Jinghe Palace every day, which led to a lot of discussions in the harem, and the queen fell out of favor.
Helplessly, the queen took the opportunity to ask the queen mother for peace, and tactfully explained her wish to the queen mother, and the emperor could not be dedicated, so as not to cause disputes in the harem.
The Queen Mother was silent after hearing this, but only warned her earnestly: "As a queen, you should be virtuous." It is necessary to focus on the overall situation and stabilize the harem. ”
The Queen Mother didn't have to think much about it, she understood that the Queen Mother had the meaning of reproaching her for being jealous.
In the past, the emperor favored the former queen, and she fought with the queen. After the death of the Empress.
She instigated Concubine Li to compete for favor, and in the process of competing for the emperor's favor, Concubine Li used improper means to seduce the emperor in a hurry, causing the emperor to be dissatisfied and beat her into the cold palace.
Removed a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, never thought that Concubine Jin took advantage of the loophole again, and offered to raise the underage Princess Qi in poor health, which was well received by the emperor, saying that she was kind and compassionate. For my sake, I will relieve the queen's worries. She is my good concubine.
Since then, Concubine Jin has won the heart of the emperor with her virtue, and the emperor began to favor Concubine Jin. The emperor was born with a seed of dedication, and he only liked one person when he recognized it, and the other concubines were all deaf ornaments and stored in the harem to fill the number, and the emperor's special favor caused dissatisfaction in the harem.
Fighting back and forth, each taking what he needs, she got the queen's phoenix crown, and they got the emperor's heart.
Sitting high in the queen's position, she is not satisfied, she not only wants to get the queen's phoenix crown, but also the emperor's heart. Seeing the emperor nesting in Jinghe Palace every day, his heart was uncomfortable, and the poison of jealousy grew rapidly like a madweed.
Jealousy kills. It can make people feel bad.
The news that the happy father-in-law brought back from outside made the queen lose her Fengyi, looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to the good news. The emperor promised to go to Yonghe Palace from the Queen Mother, she was fully prepared, prepared a sumptuous dinner, prepared a family drama, and reshaped her image in the emperor's heart.
"Slut, fox spirit, don't get sick soon, don't get sick late, but the emperor changed his mind to enter Yonghe Palace, and that slut got sick and died of anger." Queen Yi was so angry that her silver teeth were crushed.
Xiao Xizi raised her head suddenly, and said angrily to the side: "Jin Niangniang is really, if you are sick, you should go to the imperial doctor, or the emperor angrily reprimanded Father-in-law An, and Father-in-law An ran to the hospital to ask for a royal doctor." is clearly using a plan to drag the emperor from entering Yonghe Palace. ”
"Hmph, this slut is afraid that the emperor and the palace will play a family carnival. She will only play this trick, and she will leave the emperor with her at the expense of mutilating her body. Her little trick Bengong had already seen through it and was angry. The anger on the queen's face gradually swelled up, and she couldn't dissipate it in one breath on her chest.
She looked at the delicate moon cakes and snacks on the table, with a delicate guqin and a Xiao next to her, and felt depressed.
It happened that at this time, a palace maid came in with a cup of tea, and when she saw that the atmosphere in the dormitory was not right, she was startled, she was so shocked that she didn't dare to come out, her stomach was soft when she walked, and her hands trembled, and the chaise tea in the teacup overflowed, and she spilled along the tray, which happened to be seen by the queen, and the queen happened to have no place to come out of her belly, so she grabbed a box of moon cakes on the table and smashed it at her, scolding: ", you are blind, a cup of good chaise tea was half spilled by you." ”
"Ah, the queen spares her life, and the slave and maid confess." Blood ran down his face from his forehead. The teacup in her hand shattered with a "horn", and the tea burned the back of her hand red, so painful that her tears flowed, and she didn't care about the pain, so she knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the queen.
Father-in-law Xi also hates that iron is not steel, and at a critical time, this lowly maid who doesn't have long eyes adds to something, he also rushed up and slapped her a few times: "Things that don't have long eyes, how did the grandma in charge teach you." ”
Father-in-law Xi slapped her a few times, and soon half of her cheeks were swollen, and she knelt on the ground pitifully, begging the queen to spare her life: "The queen spares her life, the queen spares her life." The slave didn't dare anymore. ”
The queen waved her hand and pulled it down: "The rod is responsible for the twenty boards." ”
The palace maid was overjoyed, knowing that this was the lightest punishment, the queen still showed mercy, and she immediately knelt down to thank her.
At this time, two stout palace maids walked in from outside the dormitory, dragged the palace maid who made a mistake out and scolded her for twenty strokes.
Father-in-law Xi personally brought a cup of chaise tea to the queen and handed it to the queen: "Queen, please drink a cup of chaise tea." ”
The queen took the teacup and took a sip, the entrance was fragrant and refreshing, very delicious, and she couldn't help asking: "Xiao Xizi, what kind of tea is this, the entrance is mellow." ”
"Queen, the slave made it for you, this is Osmanthus King tea, take 10 red dates, 5 grams of Osmanthus King, and 10 grams of sugar. Use sugar water to decoction the red dates until they are ripe, pour in the tea juice to remove the slag, mix well, two cups of beauty every day, can nourish the skin, moisturize the skin, and maintain youth. ”
"Well, I have a heart, hey, time passes, I entered the palace at the age of fourteen, it has been almost twenty years in a blink of an eye, and I have turned thirty-six years old after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Youth is gone. The queen sighed, looking at her beautiful face in the mirror, with subtle wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and sighed.
All the beauties in the world have been snare into the palace, the palace has the most beauties, and women are most afraid of old age and decay, such a posture naturally does not arouse the emperor's interest, fortunately, the emperor gave Yu'er to her, otherwise she will be more lonely.
An undetectable sigh reached the ears of Father-in-law Xi, he couldn't wait to bite off his tongue, it was really a mouth, which household did not mention that pot, the woman was most afraid of saying that she was old, why did she tell the truth to the queen, so that the queen touched the scene and sighed a lot.
He hurriedly made up for it, bent his waist, deliberated the words and changed the topic, and lifted King Yu out of the heart of the queen: "Queen, you will always be the most beautiful in the heart of the slave, and King Yu praises you as the most beautiful queen mother in the world." ”
"Yu'er is an adult, and I'm old. Now, the palace's greatest wish is to choose the favorite princess Yu for Yu'er. Queen Ni looked at the sincere and frightened appearance of her father-in-law, and said lightly: "Father-in-law, you go and bring the painting scroll sent by the Internal Affairs Office to the palace to see." ”
"The queen is right, the slave counts the days every day, hoping to see the wedding of King Yu, and the slave will go to get the beauty painting." The father-in-law ran into the side hall with a smile, opened the cabinet, selected some beautiful beauty portraits from them, rolled them up one by one, and came to the dormitory in his arms. It was placed on a low table opposite the Queen.
The low table is full of scrolls.
The queen leaned on the couch. Flipping through a scroll of paintings. commented one by one, putting aside the portraits of those who didn't like their family background, those who looked bad, and those who didn't have a good figure.
The father-in-law was on the side, rearranging the scrolls that the queen had finished reading and putting them together, staying aside and not daring to disturb the queen's review of the paintings.
The queen stared at a painting for a long time, Xiao Xizi's heart moved, he stepped forward to take a look,
The woman in the painting is so beautiful, her face is like a hibiscus, her eyebrows are like willows, her eyebrows are like spring, her skin is like snow, her black hair is pulled into a beautiful beauty bun, and her head is full of pearls and hairpins that shine dazzlingly in the sun, what a beautiful woman.
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