Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

Mrs. Wang returned to the familiar Rong Mansion, her mood calmed down a little, and she stopped thumping and jumping around. Only then did she realize that her underwear was almost soaked. After leaving the palace compound, she couldn't help but secretly regret that she was worthless For no reason, he was frightened by a maid and broke into a cold sweat.

"Madam, old lady, please go and answer." Outside the door, the sound of mandarin ducks sounded, and Mrs. Wang followed her to Jiamu's room.

Mother Jia could see the anticipation on her face, Madam Wang didn't dare to go around in circles, and said, "Old lady, I have said everything we discussed earlier, and Yuan Chun has also listened to it."

Jia Mu nodded, and Mrs. Wang said again: "This time I went in and saw Baoqin, a female official of the second grade." The second half of the sentence was not so willing.

There was another silence, and after a while, Mother Jia sighed: "The female officials in this dynasty have no real power." But her tone was a little slow, and she didn't seem so sure.

This was a life-saving straw for Mrs. Wang, "Yuanchun is still young, so there must be good news coming soon."

Mother Jia thought about the fact that there are two lords in the Shifu. Although her daughter is dead, the uncle is in charge of the salt government...

Mrs. Wang thought that her elder brother is the governor of the Beijing camp, her younger sister is in charge of the Xue family, and she also lives in her house, and she also has a daughter who is a concubine...

The two looked at each other, both fearful and lucky, not knowing what other support they could hold in their hands.

Jia's mother: Rong's daughter-in-law is the daughter of Prince Yizhong.

Mrs. Wang: The family has a good relationship with King Beijing.

Jia Mu: And the grace of the late emperor.

Mrs. Wang: Duke Zhen, Duke Li, and Duke Qi.

After counting it again, Mrs. Wang calmed down a bit, remembering the three-point profit that Baoqin said, and began to be afraid again: "Old lady, the family borrowed money to go out, Baoqin seems to know a thing or two..."

what to do?Should I continue or let go?If you say that this matter can save seven or eight thousand silver a year, it will only cost one or two months, and you can't meet major events such as weddings, funerals, etc., but mosquito legs are also meat, and now I feel a little bit reluctant.

This day is all bad news, Mother Jia was helpless, but luckily my uncle gave me a lot of money, and I was still able to support myself, so she said, "Stop it first, we will talk about it after this year." Her face turned cold, "Let the people below put their mouths on it." Hold on tight, how did the news get out!"

Mrs. Wang took the order to go down, she didn't want her to be old and weak, her clothes were wet and the cold wind blowing, she would have a headache and brain fever when she came back, and she had to stay in bed for half a month.

The concubine's family came to the palace to thank her in the name of the emperor's eldest son, the full moon. The emperor's eldest son was full moon on February 23, and Shulan took care of her for a few more days. She felt that her health was almost good, so she started again on March [-] I greeted Shulan, because it was the day, Qingmei and Yuanchun went to Kunning Palace first, and after greeting Shulan, they went to the Empress Dowager's Palace together.

The area for the elderly in the palace is on the west side of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The largest palace is the Palace of Compassion and Ning. To the west of the Palace of Compassion and Ning is a smaller Shoukang Palace. There are six smaller courtyards around the east and back of the Palace of Compassion and Ning. .

The Empress Dowager lived in the largest Palace of Compassion and Ning, the Palace of Shoukang was empty, and the remaining concubines of the late emperor crowded into the small courtyard.

When Shulan came with someone, there were still people in the Empress Dowager's room, Taifei Yu and Taifei Wu, one with her five-year-old daughter, and the other's son who had already been named the Prince of Loyalty, waiting to pass the late emperor's filial piety You can be taken out of the palace.

Seeing Shulan leading the emperor's only two concubines, the Empress Dowager also felt that she couldn't hold her face. Concubine Yu didn't say anything, her son was only 12 years old, and Prince Zhongshun was [-] this year. He had three sons and four daughters. In addition to the quota of main concubines and side concubines, there are countless concubines and actors.

The draft, this year must be drafted!

There are three people around the queen mother, one is the nanny who looks like Zhao, and the other two are the empress dowager's big maids. They are about to leave the palace at their age, and they must stay to be the nanny. .

Shulan came in and saw that Baoqin was not there, and asked a special question.

The queen mother smiled: "I asked her to arrange the residence of the new maid."

After that, I asked the two concubines symbolically. It has been two years since Concubine Dong entered the mansion. As she got older, her problem of crying in the wind has improved a lot. When she returned to the Queen Mother, she no longer screamed like mosquitoes. The Queen Mother was satisfied. Nodded, said: "Go out for a walk more in spring, and your health will be better."

It was Yuan Chun who came down, and Yuan Chun's appearance was quite good, and his smile was dignified and generous.The Empress Dowager also smiled and asked her about "do you get used to living in the palace" and other topics that were purely nonsense, and she got an affirmative answer, so that's about it.

"Look how restless you are," the Queen Mother said with a smile, "Hurry up and go back to see your son."

Shulan felt embarrassed, and whispered: "When it grows a little stronger, I can hug it out."

"If you want to see me, I'll go." The queen mother was in a particularly good mood when she mentioned her grandson.

I can only see the queen mother once in half a month, and I can say at most two sentences at a time, and they are still completely unremarkable, such as "I ate duck last night", "The weather is good today, the wind is not strong", Yuan Chun is a little annoyed, but He had no other choice but to follow Shulan quietly and come out again.

Qingmei lived in Chuxiu Palace, and she said goodbye to Shulan at the west gate of Kunning Palace.

"You pass through my palace, and the road is closer." This is the kind of time you can pass through Kunning Palace when you are with the empress. It is like this two or three times a month, but when you come out from the east gate, Yuan Chun will see you. A person I don't really want to see, Baoqin.

The two hate each other.

But the etiquette still needs to be done. Yuan Chun thought about what Mrs. Wang said to endure for the time being, and waited until the child was born, so he reluctantly lowered his head first, and his posture was not right. He waited for a long time. He didn't hear Baoqin calling, Yuan Chun couldn't help but looked up.

Baoqin sneered at Yuanchun.

Yuan Chun blushed and turned pale, and said, "Aunt Baoqin is free today."

Baoqin looked at the two court ladies following behind Yuanchun, and Nuanqing who was holding her hand, without saying a word, he walked sideways into Kunning Palace.

Yuan Chun became even angrier. There was only one court lady holding the piano, and two people followed behind her. The eunuch guarding the gate of Kunning Palace let the man in without even looking at her badge.

Yuan Chun stood at the gate of Kunning Palace for a long time, with a dull expression on his face, and finally left with a cold snort.But because I stood for too long, I didn't stand firmly when I turned around, and I swayed a few times to get my balance.

During this period, another major event happened in Ning's mansion, and Jia Zhen was so angry that she went out on crutches.

There is a garden in the Ning Mansion that has been built with great effort, called Huifang Garden. It was built early, and it cost about a million taels of silver. The whole Huifang Garden is built around this water. It is modeled on the garden of Jinling, with green trees, rockery, and strange rocks. People who have seen it say it is good.

Unexpectedly, the official sent someone to fill it in, saying that someone had drowned inside.

What's the point?The moat drowns people every month, why don't you fill the moat.

What's more, he filled in the section of Ningfu Back Street and said, "I won't make things difficult for you. I know the garden in the mansion is good, and everyone in the capital praises it. It's just this small section that drowns people. Just fill in this short paragraph, do you want to change course?"

I XX%$#&, Jia Zhen yelled at the main courtyard after sending off the official, and changed the road. There were people living in the front, back, left, and right sides. Whose house should I change to?And it’s not like that time now. Now digging canals to get water requires approval from the Ministry of Households, and taxes are required. It’s just a matter of diverting the river to cultivate land. This kind of pure ornamental water does not cost a few thousand taels of silver a year.

This is even more irritating, he can't afford to spend so much money now, and is doing his own business...

Zhuangzi's income is not good, and the expenses of the family are increasing year by year, especially after Qin Keqing came in, Prince Yizhong also relied on their family, and he had to pay three to five thousand from time to time.

Fortunately, it was Prince Yizhong who took his son to guard the imperial mausoleum. Prince Yizhong would not tell the concubine about this kind of thing. Now only the concubine's concubine and a ten-year-old concubine are left in the palace of Yizhong. If you don't come out with the door closed, it will be much cleaner.

Jia Zhen was furious, and after cursing a few words, she became dizzy, almost frightened Jia Rong and Youshi to death, so she hurriedly invited a doctor to see her, prescribed Niuhuang Qingxin, and lay on the bed for almost half a month before getting out of bed.

But just two hours after he got down, he lay back down again.

The small pond in Huifang Garden stinks because of the lack of running water.

Jia Zhen was so sad that she ran to the ancestral hall and cried loudly. When she came back, her eyes were red and she sent someone to fill in the small pond.

These two things made Ning Rong and the Second House angry, and all of them were recorded on the head of the piano - in fact, the second thing was prompted by Xiaobao to fill in - aren't you a female officer, we will also send One goes in.

The Jia family took action immediately and helped Xue Baochai find connections everywhere, starting from the king of Beijing, to Jia Zheng's colleagues in the Ministry of Industry, they searched all over, and they didn't care that Aunt Xue only gave 1 taels of silver, so let's put it first Besides, so tossing back and forth like this really made them stuff people into the Ministry of Internal Affairs before March [-]th.

With Xue Baochai's appearance, there are more than enough drafts, let alone the selection of court ladies, so she was deliberately forgotten that she had a misbehaving elder brother who beat people to death. After the primary election of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on March [-], she was sent to Into the palace.

But the money and hard work are for nothing, because the small election in this issue is controlled by the piano.

The Empress Dowager said: "Once a person is purified, it is easy to think too much. If you do a good job holding the piano, give her more work."

Half for exercising, half for reassurance, Baoqin became a veritable aunt, and went to see the new maids who entered the palace.

Unlike the draft, there is only one round of small elections, and after passing the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they will directly enter the palace. Although the list is detailed this time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs still adds [-] more candidates for each level according to the proportion.

The new palace maids cannot live in the palace without training. They now live in the east long room inside the palace wall, but there are 900 to [-] rooms to accommodate [-] people, all of which are Datong shops.After the three-month training period is over, they can be assigned to the palace and have a formal residence.

There is still a five-year-old princess in the palace, born of Concubine Yu, who is now living with Concubine Yu in the Tousuo Hall on the east side of the Palace of Compassion, so there must be a few princesses accompanying her in this small election.

Xue Baochai came here for this, she is considered a high-level court lady, so in the list of more than 800 people, she was on the first page, and Baoqin saw her name at a glance, and went to Dongchangfang to investigate the legend Sister Bao, whose face is like a silver plate and whose eyes are like water apricots, has an idea in her heart.

Now Baoqin went to look for Yuanchun with the list.

Seeing Baoqin, Yuan Chun felt a little confident, but her intuition told her: there must be no good things coming to hold Qin.

Yes, first of all, she has to greet Baoqin.

Baoqin shouted, and said: "Jia Bin, I'm here to send you a message."

The expression on Yuan Chun's face was distorted by too much force, and she couldn't help stabbing her, "Aunt Baoqin is busy with affairs, and there are only five rooms in my palace, so I'm afraid I won't be able to accommodate you."

Auntie said that she is old and has five rooms, and she is mocking her for locking the palace gate.

Baoqin didn't know if he didn't hear it or he was pretending, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "The gate of the palace will open soon." She shook a stack of papers in her hand, took out the first one and handed it to Yuan Chun, "Look look at this."

Yuan Chun couldn't calm down at all to read the densely packed small characters, and asked directly: "Auntie has something to say."

Baoqin pointed to Xue Baochai's name, and said: "Did you see that? I remember that you were also a court lady at the beginning... It's only been a few years, and I'm going to send another one in."

Before Yuanchun could react and say something, Baoqin took out the paper from her hand and said, "Baochai behaves decently, and her round face is quite flattering, and the rest of them are not as good as her, presumably Yu Toffee is satisfied."

Yuan Chun felt depressed, and wanted to say that this person belonged to the Xue family and had nothing to do with her, but thinking about Mrs. Wang's arrival for half a month, the meaning revealed in her words at that time was that she was still not optimistic about her entering the palace. It's only a month.Although she felt that Baoqin was here to provoke, but she had to say that she hit the spot.

Earlier, when Mrs. Wang persuaded her to let Baoqin occupy a spot, Yuan Chun was unwilling, but now that she is his cousin, it is even more awkward.Yuan Chun didn't care about palace affairs, and was a little impetuous under Baoqin's guidance. She only heard the words of Concubine Yu, and thought that this person was what Concubine Yu wanted. She couldn't help but think a few more steps forward compared to herself.

She originally belonged to the queen's palace, and later she was given to the emperor who was still the seventh prince at that time.

Then it is not impossible for Concubine Yu's palace to produce a maid for the emperor.

As for why Concubine Yu trained the emperor's court ladies for no reason, please, that's the emperor, shouldn't it be right to please him? Moreover, Concubine Yu also has a 12-year-old son who has no position at all, so she must not look at the emperor. Do facial expressions matter?

So could this court lady be left by Concubine Yu for her son?

The Eighth Prince is only 12 years old, too young, and the draft will be held in the second half of this year, so Concubine Yu can't afford to choose someone from among the maids.

However, Concubine Yu also has a daughter, who is only five years old this year, and it may be prepared for her.

Yuan Chun twisted his handkerchief while thinking, this risk cannot be taken.What if she enters the palace and asks me for help? If I take a step back, even if I can refuse, what if she does something inappropriate and hurts me?

And last time I heard from my wife that Baochai is a man with ideas.The last time I heard my wife talk about someone with an idea, she still talked about holding the piano, let's see what it is like now.

You have to find a way to drive people out.