Chapter 24: Ningshou Palace first met Wen Xian

This morning, Li Dequan instructed me and Luoying to go to Ningshou Palace (Note 1) to send out the palace for summer vacation, it is said that this Ningshou Palace is where the Queen Mother lives, and there are no good things.

Luo Ying and I walked towards Ningshou Palace with a group of palace maids, and along the way, we all walked at the root of the Forbidden Wall, for fear of encountering a master who was not easy to mess with, this is the way to survive in the Forbidden City. I asked Luoying: "Luoying, did the emperor say that the four of us can go?" Luoying nodded, and said matter-of-factly: "It stands to reason that if the concubines or princesses of each palace go, there are female officials with them, so the four of us female officials should also go to the summer resort." I "oh" sounded, thinking, this old man Kangxi really โ–กโ–ก the way, and said that it was a reward, it turned out that everyone went, I still have to serve more than others, old fox! Luo Ying had been to Ningshou Palace a few times before, and she had the eyesight to push me with her elbow and said, "The slave has seen Mama Xia." I also hurriedly followed her example and said, "The slave has seen Mama Xia." Mama Xia's eyes swept over me and said, "Are you?" Luo Ying hurriedly said: "Mama Xia, this is the new female official of the Qianqing Palace, Niu Hulu Moyi." Mama Xia smiled and said to the two of us: "Princess Wen Xian moved to Ningshou Palace yesterday, and she will talk to the Queen Mother in the east hall. Luo Ying saluted and said, "There is Mama Lao Xia." โ€

Mama Xia stepped into the east side hall, and an old woman who looked no more than sixty or so was lying on the couch, dressed in elegant and plain clothes. A girl about twenty years old next to her was talking about something, which made the Queen Mother laugh again and again. She is pink and delicacy, her lips are dotted, and a pair of smart eyes are flowing, looking forward to the brilliance. Mama Xia is also a person with a face, so she walked straight over and saluted: "Gege (Note 2), the Qianqing Palace has sent someone to send things for the summer vacation, please take a look." The Queen Mother nodded slightly, and Mama Xia was about to go out, Princess Wen Xian next to her smiled and said: "Mama Xia still hasn't changed the old rules before, and she still calls the imperial grandmother (Note 3) Gege, which shows that the imperial grandmother will never get old." The Queen Mother nodded Wen Xian's forehead and said angrily: "This girl, she is not in shape, Shun Anyan doesn't care about you, the next time he comes to pick you up, the mourning family will definitely teach him well, don't spoil you, the demon king of the world, to the sky." Mama Xia also smiled and said: "As soon as Princess Wen Xian came, Gege often laughed, this time the summer vacation let Princess Wen Xian accompany Gege, the emperor must also mean this, the old slave went to let the girl from the Qianqing Palace come in first?" The Queen Mother said: "Go." Then he said to Princess Wen Xian: "Girl, you have to take care of your mouth later, the person who came here is your emperor's personal female official, you have no rules if you don't let outsiders pass it out, and the imperial grandmother can't do anything at that time." Princess Wen Xian grabbed the queen mother's arm like a kitten, and said coquettishly: "I don't believe what they dare to say, the imperial grandmother just loves Wen Xian, Wen Xian likes to make such trouble." The Queen Mother gently touched Wen Xian's black hair and said, "I really don't know how such a quiet person as your mother gave birth to such a troublesome girl." โ€

Luoying and I were led into the east hall by Mama Xia, and we saw Princess Wen Xian holding the arm of the Queen Mother and coquettishly, and before she could look at it, she immediately knelt down and said, "The slave Niu Hulu clan (Ilgen Jueluo clan) pays a visit to the queen mother." The Queen Mother saw the two of us, waved her hand and said, "Get up." He said to Mama Xia lightly: "Mama Xia, you can arrange these things." "Huh" Mama Xia led the palace maid behind us and walked out, we were not in advance or retreat at this time, standing in place at a loss, waiting for the Queen Mother to speak. I raised my eyes and thought: This young girl should be Princess Wen Xian, the sister of the fourth master and the fourteenth master, and the only princess who lived to adulthood, but she was about to die on the way to escape the summer soon. When she saw me, I quickly lowered my head, and she walked down to my side, and said, "Are you the female official of Huang Ama, Niu Hulu?" She asked again, "Is that the female official who played the piano for my younger brothers to be?" She immediately came to my face with interest, looked left and right, and made me uncomfortable, this princess must have been held by the queen mother and the emperor, as well as Concubine De, several brothers and younger brothers, and married Shun Anyan (Note 4), Shun Anyan is the grandson of Tong Guowei, the nephew of Empress Xiao Yiren, she will treat this princess well, she is really a collection of thousands of favors. Like me, my parents divorced when I was a child, I was used to living a hard life with my mother when I was 10 years old, and I didn't see my father until my mother was dying, Fang Lushan, he didn't care about me, but forcibly interfered with my freedom, without his permission, I didn't even fall in love once except for Lu Zhen. Thinking of Lu Zhen, there was a pang of colic in his heart, and his eyes were flushed unconsciously. She looked at me suspiciously, Luo Ying hurriedly pushed me, I immediately came back to my senses, the important thing now is to save my life, I quickly retracted my tears. She pointed at me and said to the Queen Mother: "Imperial Grandmother, Wen Xian wants her to teach me to play the piano." โ€

PS: A sentence is like a thunderbolt from the sky, she is a princess, how can I teach her to play the piano? It's incredible, what kind of person is this princess? The sister of the fourth master, the sister of the fourteenth master.

Note 1: Empress Borzigit of the Qing Dynasty ancestor Xiaohuizhang, in the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi, moved to Ningshou Palace.

Note 2: Gege, because Mama Xia called her Gege when the Borzigit clan was not out of the cabinet, so she knew that the queen mother at that time did not change her words.

Note 3: Imperial grandmother: The princess is the same, the father is called Huang Ama, the mother is called Huang Eniang, the queen mother is called the imperial grandmother, the grandfather is called Ma Father, and the emperor is called the Huang Ma father. Lafayette refers to the gods and Buddhas of Buddhism, and also refers to the old people who believe in Buddhism, which is both an honorific title and a nickname, just like we call the old grandfathers and grandmothers very old, and the respectful and affectionate ones are called the old birthday stars and ancestors

Note 4: Shun Anyan, Tong Jiashi, the grandson of Tong Guowei, Malhun continued to marry the nephew of Fujin Tong Jia, and the nephew of Empress Xiaoyiren. In the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi (1700), the ninth daughter of Emperor Kangxi and Princess Wenxian of Heshuo. In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, because of the party's attachment, his forehead was cut off, and he was imprisoned at home, and later released. In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), the governor of Sanling was appointed as the Minister of the Guard, and died in the same year.