Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

After a few unsalty conversations with the Queen Mother, Yuan Chun followed Shulan out of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, thinking of Baochai who was waiting in Jingren Palace, she rejected Qingmei's invitation to sit for a while and went back directly.

Baochai was sitting in the main hall closest to the door, when she saw Yuan Chun coming in, she stood up hastily, lowered her eyebrows and called "Sister" pleasingly.

Looking around, Yuan Chun saw that Nuan Qing led the people down.

Maybe this is the only chance to come to see Yuanchun.Baochai said with a smile: "At home, my aunt often mentions my sister, and often tells me to listen to my sister when I enter the palace."

Yuan Chun understands the meaning of this sentence. Baochai's aunt is Mrs. Wang, Yuanchun's own mother. This means that Mrs. Wang knows about her entry into the palace and agrees, and even says that Baochai's status is lower than Yuanchun's. Some, otherwise how to use the word obedient.

But Yuan Chun is not so easily bewitched now, she said with a smile: "My sister entered the palace, I was supposed to take care of one or two. Your natal mother and my wife are sisters, and we should help each other." .”

Baochai said: "Sister, why do you say that? I entered the palace to choose a maid of honor. In the future, I will serve as an attendant to the princess. Sister is a concubine, so she needs to take care of her a little more."

Yuanchun was overjoyed, and felt a little more at ease. Fortunately, she was not provoked by Baoqin. She calmed down in the past two days, and when Baochai said this again, she also felt that she was on the edge of the horns earlier. Baochai Xiaoxuan came in Yes, she is not a court lady, and Baoqin showed her the first list last time, and this time she is going to choose a companion for the princess. Aren't the top ones all candidates for the princess? .

Seeing that Yuanchun hadn't spoken, Baochai said again: "The one who took us today is the maid from the mansion..." Baochai hesitated for a moment, and in front of Yuanchun, it would be better to ask the maid to be more polite.This question is asked knowingly, but if you want to quote it down, you have to start here.

When it comes to holding the piano, Yuan Chun's face is not very good-looking, "It's her, who leads two maids in the palace to swagger through the market every day..." It's really annoying.

Baochai's face showed a bit of longing, and said: "Sister, I don't know. When she took us to see the Queen Mother in the morning, the Queen Mother treated her very well. She must be very favored by the Queen Mother. It is not in vain to treat her like this. This life."

"Where is there any favor, it's just an errand, and the queen, she will take advantage of this time to take care of the election, and when you all enter the palace, she will be left to take care of the queen mother's errands What Yuan Chun said, she couldn't help but gloated a little, she and Qingmei half-tested and half-jokingly calculated the errand of holding the piano, and the final conclusion was that they looked beautiful on the surface, but in fact they had no real power.

"However..." Yuan Chun looked Baochai up and down, and said, "If you come to the Empress Dowager's Palace, you will definitely be favored more than her."

The two sisters looked at each other and reached an agreement in an instant.

For example, when the emperor came, Yuan Chun would say a few words, "Your Majesty, the empress is kind, and let me meet the cousin of my mother's family who entered the palace election this time." She is mature, stable, dignified and generous, which is really good."

When paying respects to the queen mother, she also used the empress's kindness as an excuse to give Baochai a little sense of presence.

The aunt who was in charge of the training of the new court ladies also said that he was a good person. The queen mother asked about Baoqin in private, and said, "My aunt said that she is a quick learner, but..." Baoqin lowered the head slightly and said, "She Our family has close contacts with Jia's house, Jia's house and our family..." He stopped talking.

The queen mother sighed and stopped asking.

Baoqin was secretly pleased, presumably Yuanchun had said something nice.

Originally Baochai entered the palace, her plan was to persuade Yuanchun to sue Baochai on impulse, and let them fight in their nests, but later I heard Xiaobao say that he persuaded people to fill the courtyard of Ningfu, and counted the time Before Baochai enters the palace again, then this is available.

Baoqin didn't continue to mention Baochai in front of Yuanchun. When the two met, she paid more and more attention. It seemed that Yuanchun not only gave Baochai a sense of presence in front of the queen mother, but also said it in front of the emperor.

Waiting is this.

Not two days later, it was the beginning of June, except for the maid who was selected for the princess hadn't been finalized yet, the rest of the maids were almost taken back by their masters.

On this day, Xiaobao suddenly entered the palace.

The last time it was the Empress Dowager's grace, the emperor gave him a waist card, saying that he could come in to see the piano or something, but Xiaobao is a sensible person, he can come in at most once a month, and he must greet the emperor first every time, and then Just went to Baoqin, and the emperor was more satisfied with it after going back and forth.

Xiaobao knelt on the ground after inviting Ann, and kept his head down. The emperor didn't understand what he wanted to do at all.

Just when Ruicheng's patience was about to be worn out, Xiaobao spoke up.

"Your Majesty, my family and the Jia family have settled their feud..." Xiao Bao whispered.

After hearing this, Ruicheng didn't have any emotional ups and downs, but he was still a little unhappy.

"I heard that there is a maid in the palace who came in through the Jia family, so I checked..." Xiao Bao's head lowered even more, and his voice seemed to come from the ground.

Ruicheng snorted.

After buying two passes, he didn't dare to buy any more. Xiaobao took out a piece of paper from his cuff and held it above his head, "There is a brother in this palace maid's family who has misbehavior. In order to let her enter the palace, Jia's mansion asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to let her enter the palace." People from the Ministry of Industry..." After saying these two words, the voice became too low to be heard.

"...It was originally selfish, but there are more and more people behind it, and it is impossible to check...But these things, think about it, it's better to leave it to His Majesty."

Ruicheng went down and took the piece of paper. After reading two lines, Xiaobao felt the piece of paper on his head rustle.

"You go down first." Ruicheng said in a deep voice.

Ruicheng sat back on the chair again, and the table in front of him was the paper that Liang Shubao had just presented.

The family of a court lady named Xue had a brother who beat someone to death. This is the first rule, and he beat him to death because he robbed the maid.

After coming to the capital, he lived in Jia's mansion, drinking and gambling every day, or went to Jia's family to study.When it came to family education, Ruicheng looked at Xiaobao with an unnatural expression, and there was a bit of resentment in his mouth, remembering that he was originally Jia Baoyu's companion, he understood that the family education of big families is almost the same. thing.

The last one, this case was handled by Jia Yucun, Xiaobao couldn't find the reason for closing the case, but it can be seen that Xue Pan was acquitted and released.

Ruicheng has not been emperor for less than a year, his sense of justice has not disappeared, and his suspicion is getting worse.How can someone be killed and still be exonerated? There must be money in it. Think about it, will there be such a thing?

And the maid who entered the palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs didn't even find out about this matter?Still was used money.

what to do?Check it out!The emperor sent someone to adjust last year's case, saying that officials would be evaluated, and he arranged for confidant officials to dig down bit by bit, starting from Jia's house.

But Baochai couldn't stay in the palace anymore, so the emperor went to the queen mother's palace that day. Because of insufficient evidence, the emperor couldn't say too much in detail, so he just told the queen mother that her family was not very good, fearing that she would spoil the princess.

When the Empress Dowager was Concubine Chen, she didn't deal with Concubine Yu very much, because Concubine Yu had two children and all she earned was the favor of the old emperor.But now that the empress dowager's son has become the emperor, this competition naturally ceases to exist. The empress dowager looks at Concubine Yu's 12-year-old son and can recall the cute appearance of the emperor when she was a child, and when she sees her five-year-old princess, she sighs that it's better to be a daughter.

If it had been before Ruicheng ascended the throne, the queen mother might have sent him over as if she hadn't heard of it, but now the little princess came to pay her respects every day, and her relationship was too good, so the queen mother would naturally plan for her.

So within two days, Baochai was quietly sent out.

Xiaoxuan was sent out after entering the palace and Xiunu was sent out in the last three months of selection. The latter's market is equally good, and the former is a humiliation.

Why?In addition to serving people in the palace, there are also rough tasks such as sweeping the floor and washing clothes. This kind of thing also needs to be done by someone. Being sent out means that you can't even sweep the floor well, and you can't even wash a piece of clothes. This is not a shame. What.

Rao Baochai was dignified and generous, and she was sick in Lixiangyuan for almost ten days before she could go out.

"Good girl, don't cry, my head hurts from crying." Aunt Xue sat beside Baochai's bed and advised with a sigh.

"It's just to be humiliated, and to be a court lady was sent out." Baochai was stuffed under the quilt, her voice was not very clear. "It's been fine for the past two months, and it's only because I went to see Yuan Chun." When she got so angry, her sister stopped screaming.

"Don't say that!" Aunt Xue said, "Your aunt also made great efforts."

Baochai turned over and sat up suddenly, and said: "Two months ago, the aunt in charge was satisfied. Although the maid in their family was cold, she took me to see the Queen Mother."

"The Empress Dowager is here, and Concubine Yu is also here, smiling at me."

"Maybe it's her doing something wrong behind her back." Aunt Xue said, "For you to enter the palace, your aunt found many people back and forth, and even entrusted your uncle's relationship. The old lady also met a few people, all for you. You are worried about this."

"Then how did I get out!"

It was rare for Baochai to lose her temper. Aunt Xue comforted her for a long time but it didn't work. It was because she cried for a few days and became ill for a few days before she recovered by herself. up.

When Baochai went out, the few people who competed with her for the same position felt that there was a lack of a strong competitor. Relatives, why don't you just send them away?So the few remaining people worked harder, which made the aunts a lot easier.

Yuan Chun felt that Baoqin was involved in this matter, so he caught her to watch it when he had the chance, hoping to find out some clues, but after two days of watching, another big event happened in the palace.

Jane is pregnant.

She actually took the lead, Yuan Chun and Dong Qingmei looked at each other, sparks became more intense.

It's very simple, Zhenli is a noble person, even if she gave birth to a daughter, she can only raise the child by herself, so this child is either hers or Dong Qingmei's.

Naturally, the queen would not help a nobleman who was born as a court lady to raise a child, and besides, her own son is not yet a year old, so how could she be so carefree.

I don't think that when I first entered the palace, I thought it would be best to give birth to a child. Now they have reached the point where they want to have a child, so the two of them find a reason to go to the Queen's Palace every day, greet, chat, and do everything. Do it, try to snatch the child over.

Shulan was so annoyed that she cursed twice before she stopped.She is also annoying, the emperor doesn't know what happened again, he hasn't come to the harem for half a month, the queen mother is looking for her, and the two concubines are also looking for her, the conscience of heaven and earth, the emperor came to her palace just to see his son, look She looked like she was not in the mood for anything, and she wasn't really stupid, how could she hit the muzzle of the gun.

The emperor is investigating the fraud incident in Baochai's election, and this investigation is serious.

The first feedback came from Jia Yucun’s trial at the time. When the case was closed, two things were mentioned. One was that Xue Pan had been murdered by Feng Yuan’s injustice and died;

Ruicheng's hands trembled in anger, this is the case being tried by the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture!

Looking further down, this person is Lian Zong of Jia's family, who also worked as a teacher in Lin Ruhai's family, and Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng jointly managed the recovery.

No wonder Concubine Jia wants to speak well for her, they are all a family!

Ruicheng looked at Mizhe and thought about it for two or three days, and finally called Baoqin to ask questions.He was also prepared, for example, Baoqin would say something more or less, but he could ask directly after her, unlike asking Yuanchun, he had to try it out.

This is the most annoying, I am so suspicious that I am dying, thinking about whether your family is forming a clique for personal gain, what do you want to do with so many connections, or your family has entrusted so many connections, and the money is tens of thousands, so send it like this What on earth is the palace lady trying to do here?

I can’t blame the emperor’s conspiracy theory. There are tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the highest monthly salary of a court lady is only 20 taels. Even with rewards, this Baochai will not be able to pay back her capital if she has been a court lady for 30 or [-] years, so what she plans must not be. The maid is so superficial.Ruicheng couldn't help but think of himself. Only when the picture was of the emperor could it explain that Jia's family found a relationship between the top and bottom, and spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to send someone in.

Does this mean that Yuan Chun is not very favored?

But why are they worried? What did they do to make the emperor worry?

Looking at the Jia family's network, thinking that there is still an illegitimate daughter of Prince Yizhong in the Ning residence, Ruicheng shivered from head to toe.

"Are you from Jia's family?" Ruicheng asked.

Baoqin replied: "My father was born at home, and my mother bought it later. The three of us were all born in Jia's mansion."

"The Jia family is a descendant of the Duke, so they must have a good relationship with the Eight Dukes who founded the country."

The emperor became suspicious, hugged Qin and said with a smile: "There are only three or five people in the country who are in constant contact with each other. The Zhen family has the best relationship with the family. Every year, they give gifts in several large boxes. By the way, there is also Beijing County. Wang, every time I come here, I don’t put on airs, and I behave like a junior, saying that I and Baoyu belong to the same generation..."

Ruicheng is angry again, is the King of Beijing the same generation as him?

"There are also a few generals who will meet the juniors in the mansion every time they come, and some of them only sit in the study outside." Baoqin added. "By the way, last time I heard from my mother that the granddaughter of the old lady in Jia's house came back to live."

What he said was similar to what Ruicheng found out.

But such a connection is even more frightening. With Jia's mansion as the center, Prince Yizhong and Prince Beijing have been confirmed among the royal relatives. There are still seven or eight duke families similar to Jia's. Both the Zhen family and the Lin family have real power, and there are also some unknown generals.

Prince Yizhong came here for the throne, as for Jia Fu'an's intentions?Looking for a change of dynasty, whether they are optimistic about Prince Yizhong or waiting for Yuanchun to give birth to a son, whether they want to control the government or bully others, and the families surrounding the Jia family who can more or less have a relationship with Prince Yizhong are all of them. How did you plan?

Regarding all this, Ruicheng no longer cares.What he has to do now is to wipe out those people who are deceiving and threatening his throne.