Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

The emperor woke up after sleeping for more than an hour, and went to the morning court without breakfast.Baoqin waited until she and Liangxue and Liangqian had finished shifts, and then went back to sleep.

However, he was young and energetic, and he still cared about the queen mother, so he got up and took a look after two hours of sleep.

The queen mother still didn't wake up, and the medicine was still poured in between her teeth.

Baoqin is a bit sad, the queen mother has always been kind to her, knowing that she is sleepy, she rarely asks Yunrong to arrange her morning errands, the new satin in the palace last time, and rewarded her with two, There are also motivated palace flowers, and so on and so on.

There are many maids in the Empress Dowager's Palace, 24 as usual, and the emperor is very filial, so he added twelve more. The Empress Dowager would not let her do more work such as serving tea and pouring water. At most, she just helped. Not to mention sweeping the floor and cleaning the table.

At best, she was serving the Queen Mother to eat, and she only talked about it. There was a little eunuch who served food and so on, so she just said what to serve.In this way, the queen mother also said: "When you are young, you don't take care of your body. When you are old, you will have problems everywhere." She often asked the little eunuch to hold a chopstick for her, saying that eating on time is good for her stomach.

For the health-preserving porridge or body-nourishing soup served in the imperial dining room, the Empress Dowager had a small cup every night, and she shared the rest with Aunt Yunrong and the two court ladies.

Not only for the sake of appearance, but also for my own heart, holding the piano also hopes that the Queen Mother can live a long life.

Ruicheng rushed over after the morning court, said a few words to the imperial physicians who were on duty in the side hall before coming in, his face was gloomy and a little calm, and he sent someone to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to get the regular clothes, and planned to stay in Cining palace.

The queen mother was ill, and her attack was fierce, so the draft had to be suspended.The show girls who were sent back, including the show girls who had already seen them, were a little anxious. If something happened to the queen mother, it would have to be delayed for another year. How long has it been delayed.

In the afternoon, there were a total of twelve people sitting in the bedroom of the Empress Dowager of Compassion Ning Palace, the emperor and empress, two concubines, Sister Yunrong, two big maids and four maids who were on duty.

The palace ladies are nothing but standard uniforms, and the headbands are palace flowers, which are also very clean. The concubine is different, with at least four bracelets on her hands, a long string of earrings, and hairpin tassels on her hair. Quite a few, and by the way, it makes a sound when you move it twice.

When there were too many people, the noise would naturally start to upset. The emperor looked around and said, "Both of you go back."

Qingmei and Yuanchun bowed their heads and went out, their voices much quieter.

Shulan stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty has a headache, let me pinch it for you." Shulan didn't keep her nails very much in the first place, and she wanted to cut them bald after giving birth to her son, so she pressed her ten round fingertips on the nails. It is also very comfortable to wear on the head.

Ruicheng rested for a while with his eyes closed, and said, "Is the First Prince okay today?"

Shulan sighed lightly, and said: "The imperial doctor changed the prescription, and the nurse just drank it, and it hasn't taken effect so quickly."

Ruicheng hummed and stopped talking. The child he had been looking forward to for several years was a sick child, and the emperor felt a little inexplicable emotion in his heart. Fortunately, there was another pregnant nobleman in the palace, which slightly diluted the sadness.

Concubine sons are a bit different from concubine sons. In this draft, we have to select a few high-status ones, especially in good health.Although it was said to be relaxing, the calculations in Ruicheng's heart did not stop at all.There were also a few disobedient courtiers, including Prince Yizhong who was a little restless guarding the imperial mausoleum. Last month, he sent three groups of people back to Beijing, and even pretended to be businessmen. It was self-evident what he wanted to do.

It was getting dark quickly.

Shulan said that the eldest prince tended to have a fever at night, she was worried, she had to go back and watch, Yunrong and Liangxue Liangqian also went back, now only Baoqin and the emperor were left in the whole bedroom, plus four little maids.

Baoqin extinguished a few candle lamps, spread a blanket on the soft couch, and then sat beside the Empress Dowager's bed to guard.

The candles were dimmed, and everyone who was shaking was drowsy.

After an unknown amount of time, Baoqin suddenly woke up, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has woken up!"

Ruicheng hurriedly lifted the blanket and got down, pulled on his shoes and arrived at the Empress Dowager's bedside.The Empress Dowager's eyes had already been opened, she held the piano with one hand, and stretched her other hand into the air, Ruicheng hurriedly grabbed her other hand, with tears in her eyes, she called softly: "Mother's Queen, Mother's Queen."

"With you here, I feel at ease." The Queen Mother's voice was extremely weak.

Baoqin didn't know that the queen mother suspected of admitting the wrong person, she and Ruicheng helped the queen mother up with a big cushion behind her.He took another cup of warm ginseng honey water and fed it to the Queen Mother, saying, "Your Majesty has guarded you for two nights."

After finishing speaking, he held the piano and waved his hands, called the four little maids to come out, and ordered: "You go and call the imperial physician to come over for a pulse diagnosis, you go and call Aunt Yunrong, you go and call Aunt Liangxue and Aunt Liangqian, and you go and turn on the stove. Here comes the warm porridge."

Hearing the orderly instructions for holding the piano outside the door, the queen mother took Ruicheng's hand and smiled.

Not long after, Sister Yunrong and Liangxue Liangqian both arrived.After a bowl of hot porridge, the Empress Dowager became much more energetic, and said, "I'm fine, Ruicheng, go back to sleep, and you can rest while holding the piano."

The queen mother was able to get up and walk a few steps in the room the next day, but the soup did not stop, and she felt bitter when holding the piano, but the queen mother frowned and drank it all.

Apart from the empress dowager, the Eldest Prince's illness in the Queen's Palace also recovered. The new prescription prescribed by the Imperial Physician was very effective. The Eldest Prince no longer had a fever twice in three days, and the frequency of illness gradually returned to the level of a normal child.

Everything is fine, except for the suspension of the draft due to the illness of the queen mother, Ruicheng is not very interested in the harem women's sex. Said it was over hastily.

However, the procedures that should be followed still have to be followed. In the last round, twenty beautiful women entered the palace and lived in Jingyang Palace.

On the third day after Xiunu entered the palace, the emperor announced a decree, to the effect that holding the qin worked hard, served the queen mother with due diligence, virtuous and virtuous, etc. A series of adjectives piled up, my heart is very comforting, etc., all of the above are Can be ignored, Yuan Chun almost broke the veil and gritted his teeth when he saw the last sentence of this paragraph, "Confessed as a concubine".

The next paragraph is even more exciting, saying that for the convenience of her serving the Queen Mother, T'en allowed her to live in Qixiang Palace.

Qixiang Palace is indeed the closest place to Compassionate Ning Palace, but, together with Yongshou Palace, it is the two closest places in the palace to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Walking out of the palace gate is the back hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor's bedroom.

However, there is no back door to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, so you still have to go around to the front door to enter.

Yuan Chun saw that Baoqin had changed into the same big attire she had on the day she became a concubine, and knelt in front of the queen to accept the imperial decree, the expression on her face was almost distorted.

Baoqin took the imperial decree and went to thank the emperor and queen mother.

Dong Qingmei played tricks, and Yuan Chun followed her to Chuxiu Palace.

Entering the main hall, Dong Qingmei pulled Yuan Chun to sit down, several court ladies were guarding outside, although the door was open, but the hall was empty, the voice was so small that it was hard to hear clearly.

"Why are you angry, younger sister?" Dong Qingmei entered the mansion earlier than Yuan Chun, even though she has the same status, she can still call Yuan Chun her elder sister.

Yuan Chun sighed, and said: "Sister, I don't know what to say. You don't have a slave background, so how can you be on an equal footing with us. Your Majesty even gave her a title..." Yuan Chun also I want to scold me regardless, but Baoqin is in full swing. Although she is ranked behind in terms of seniority, if she is going to sue the queen mother, the queen mother doesn't like her very much, and she will lose her sacred heart But what's better, it's better...

Qingmei sneered, "Just now I looked at my sister and stared blankly at her, didn't I see the empress's face?"

"Huh?" Yuan Chun's eyes lit up.

"As early as in the mansion, she walked in with the empress, so quietly became a person on the same boat...The empress looked at the top of her head, her face turned green." Qingmei smiled as she thought , "When you catch her in a wrong place, the empress will definitely not spare her."

Yuan Chun also laughed, "She's just a servant girl, she's over 20 years old, I think it's just to give her a favor, and it's not uncommon for Gaozu to accept a maid who served his mother as a concubine, so there's nothing to be afraid of." Even so, Yuan Chun somehow remembered the last time Mrs. Wang entered the palace and said that the father holding the piano had died in the small river behind the Ning Mansion, and suddenly shuddered.

Qingmei nodded, "Let's see how the Queen's Empress will react, it is said that Your Majesty and her..." Qingmei's eyes flashed a trace of disgust, and said: "I will pay my respects to the Empress Empress the next day, let's see then."

"What my sister said is true." Yuan Chun echoed: "Why don't we go and see Liu Guiren, her belly has been around for more than four months, and I don't see her coming out for a walk. I don't exercise much, what should I do if I don't give birth in the future? "

The two stood up again, thinking that it would be good to be happy, maybe there will be happy news next month.

When Baoqin got the imperial decree, he had nothing to say except to praise the impermanence of the world.Although it was caught off guard, it finally came.

The queen mother saw Baoqin smiling, and said: "You have a bit of a posture in such a dress, it's not bad, you didn't miss it."

Baoqin lowered his head slightly, raised the corners of his mouth, a little shy, and said: "The Empress Dowager..."

The queen mother said: "If you move to the palace today, I won't keep you. You are familiar with the rules of the palace. You can choose the maids yourself."

Baoqin kowtowed to the Empress Dowager, she hesitated to speak very shyly, and finally the corners of her mouth raised uncontrollably, and she left the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

In the evening, Ruicheng was walking towards Qixiang Palace while thinking about the Queen Mother's words, "I'm not in good health, and I value the girl Baoqin. I'm afraid I won't be able to find any good family when I leave the palace at this age. A concubine, just give it to her."

Ruicheng didn't feel much, and the queen mother said: "Think about it, counting from the time when the first emperor was still there. Holding the piano to save him in the imperial garden, he was rewarded by the emperor; he treated the first prince coldly, and later the first prince It's useless, and then she entered your house... The crown prince forced the palace, and the first emperor ascended the throne. I only figured it out because of this illness, this child has luck."

If luck is involved, don't think too much about it, you must hold it firmly in your hands.

After saying this, the Empress Dowager added more, "She manages palace affairs well, and the regulations are clear, so she is a smart person."

Both mother and son fell silent, thinking of the whip that Dong Qingmei got again.

Ruicheng immediately decreed to seal Baoqin as a concubine, and tonight was the legendary day of rejoicing.

But it didn't seem to be going well, because there was a smell of yam and jujube paste cake in Qixiang Palace, smelling this smell, the emperor had another impulse.

Baoqin didn't intend to do that at first, but Huiyan from the Queen's Empress Palace came this afternoon.

After greeting An respectfully, he said, "Madam, Hui Ting has to make another plan for her marriage. Liang Dafu's father is newly funeral, and it is reasonable to observe three years of filial piety, and Hui Ting will be too old at that time. Ting has served the empress for many years, and the empress will not let her be wronged."

Seeing the change in Baoqin's face, Huiyan said seriously again: "The young master is a member of the royal family, so naturally he doesn't need to be filial, but the eldest son of the Liang family, he can't do anything during the past three years of filial piety."

When Huiyan left, her heart ached a little while hugging Qin. It was easy to talk about marriage, Huiyan's implication: Her elder brother might not be able to keep his job in the army.

It's hard to know how painful it will be in the days to come if such a big one gets off the horse right from the start.

But Baoqin felt that something was wrong. When she was still in the seventh prince's mansion earlier, Shulan was neither cold nor cold to the two side concubines. To be precise, she was neither cold nor cold to the emperor.Shulan doesn't care who is favored and who sleeps with her. Even if Liu Guiren has a child again, she just passes it by with a calm smile. This time she made her a concubine, why is Shulan's reaction so great?

Liang Dafu went to the army and worked under the queen's elder brother. Even if the queen mother and the emperor don't know about it now, they won't be able to hide it in the future. As for the queen's personal maid going out of the palace to marry, this is another big problem.

The empress is tightly tied to a concubine in the palace... Could it be that the empress dowager and the emperor will become suspicious?Or should I remind her?

So when the emperor came in the evening, there was a scent of yam and jujube paste cakes in the hall, and when the grooming was finished, Baoqin was already waiting in the inner hall.

Seeing the emperor coming in, he hugged the piano and smiled, "Do you want some pastries, Your Majesty?"

After each of them had eaten three pieces of pastries, the atmosphere became extremely harmonious. Lying on one side of the big bed, Ruicheng fell asleep not long after reminiscing about the aftertaste of the pastries.

This is also understandable. The Empress Dowager was ill. He stayed on guard for two nights without much sleep. He was physically and mentally exhausted. Now that the atmosphere is so good and his stomach is full, he feels tired, so he has to sleep.

But the next morning, the palace exploded. The emperor didn't consummate the room with the new concubine. This was a bright slap in the face. Yuan Chun and Qingmei were waiting at the door before the Kunning Palace opened, waiting for a joke. Hold the piano.

Before Baoqin arrived, Kunning Palace opened the door first.

Yuan Chun and Qing Mei came in to have a look, the queen was smiling, and she was in a very good mood.

Not long after, Baoqin arrived, but her eyes weren't swollen, and her complexion was radiant, she didn't look depressed at all.After bowing to the queen, she sat down and didn't speak.

Qingmei covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled, and said to Baoqin: "This is the first time my younger sister serves His Majesty, it doesn't seem to be the case."

Yuan Chun laughed accompaniment, and said, "You have finally become my younger sister, but it's just a bit exaggerated."

Hearing the two finished speaking, Baoqin also smiled, and said: "You two young masters, the imperial decree only mentioned concubine concubine, but it didn't say that I would be withdrawn from the position of second-rank internal secretary."

Nima!

Shulan smiled, and made a concluding speech: "It's all over? It's time to see the Queen Mother."