The Harem of the Qing Dynasty - the next era

Princess He Hui smiled and said, "I thought you were going to point Xiao Qi to Chang Lin."

Han Ling smiled faintly: "You can't leave all the good things to Huifanara, it's either Xiaoqi or Xiaoshi. Since you can't get around, Fulong'an is still self-loving, but he can't be satisfied with everything. This is enough. gone."

Hai Lancha secretly slandered: Not necessarily!

The family banquet for the son-in-law was still held in the Shoukang Palace. Except for the six concubines, almost all the princes above the fourteenth elder brother attended. Even Yongxuan and Yongxuan in the hot filial piety only came to their own convenience after paying their respects. The Empress Dowager Looking at the scene in front of me, I may not be happy, but I may be even more frustrated. With the sudden death of Concubine Shujia, apart from the Queen, the old people in the harem are only Concubine Yu and Concubine Wan. They are obviously strong. The Jingren Palace faction can no longer be ironed out, further down, Concubine Shu is actively moving closer to the Queen, and as for Concubine Ling—the Fourteenth Elder Brother is still in the hands of the Queen.

It has to be said that the empress dowager who was planning to attack was still too optimistic.

Empress Qianqiu, Han Ling visited Shoukang Palace to salute, on the way back to Jiaotai Hall, before Yuhua Pavilion, I saw a maid who was in a state of embarrassment rushing out diagonally, and slammed into Yijia, shouting loudly: " Mistress, help me!"

Feng Jia's retinue wasn't just to put on a good show. The court lady who committed the crime was immediately restrained. Zhang Lei scolded: "Bold slave, how dare you disturb the empress Feng Jia, and don't detain her!"

"Wait a minute." Han Ling patted the armrest and asked the other party, "Where are you from? How can I ask this palace to save your life?"

The palace maid crawled forward: "My lord, your servant is Chang Wan!"

"Um".Han Ling frowned, "Why are you here?"

Chang Wan kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Mistress, our master has been ill for four days, please be merciful, send an imperial doctor to see her, slaves and maids will tie grass rings, and remember the empress's grace for the rest of their lives."

Han Ling said indifferently: "You are also an old man in front of Concubine Xiang. I have done my best to her, and she is not worthy of my extra favor."

"The empress is a lesson." Chang Wan begged bitterly, "Master has been disrespectful to you. This time, the crime was not wronged by the Lord Long Live, but I beg the empress to see it in the face of the empress dowager and Ulanara. For the sake of the master's hard work in serving the sick, let me show you an extrajudicial kindness and save her life!"

Han Ling snorted: "Resisting the decree and not complying with it is a crime of great treason. The emperor is kind, and has already dealt with her lightly. He thought of Ulanara's dignity, and cared about the sickness and fatigue, but it was nothing more than depriving Xiang concubine of her status. , aren’t you satisfied?”

Seeing that the queen could not be persuaded, and the two servants wanted to forcefully drag her away again, Chang Wan yelled: "Empress Empress, this servant is willing to exchange his life for the master's life!"

After saying this, Chang Wan didn't care, and directly slammed into the palace wall. It wasn't because of Yiwei's quick eyesight and quick hands that he almost broke her head.

"You bastard slave, how dare you threaten me!" Han Ling was furious, "Pick up the lock, put it in the Xinzhe Treasury, send people to the Yinghua Palace, and send all those who are on duty today to the Punishment Department for questioning."

The four concubines and six concubines behind were silent like cicadas: Xiang concubine is completely hopeless.

As the ceremonial driver landed outside the Jiaotai Hall, Han Ling seemed to have restrained her anger just a little bit, because she told Zhang Lei: "Go to the imperial hospital and ask them to send someone to the Yinghua Hall to see Concubine Xiang. Today is my For thousands of years, it’s just a matter of cultivating the afterlife!”

The four concubines all complimented: "The master is kind!"

Han Ling thought for a while, and then said to Concubine Yu: "Come on tomorrow, you and Concubine Shu will go to Yinghua Palace, and teach the servants not to treat Concubine Xiang too harshly, lest it be true that we are ungrateful and forgetful. Affection."

The two concubines each agreed: "Yes!"

Liuting in the cold palace finally came to life after being treated by the imperial physician, she opened her mouth to ask Chang Wan for tea but to no avail, the little palace maid who came to take care of her temporarily curled her lips and said, "Aunt Chang Wan risked her life and escaped from Yinghua Palace in order to seek medical treatment for you. , threatened the empress with his own life, and now he has been imprisoned in Xinzheku, and we don’t know if he is dead or alive.”

Liuting was taken aback: "How could this happen?"

The little maid rolled her eyes: "That's not the case, can the imperial doctor come to see you?"

Liuting burst into tears: "Sister——"

The little palace maid handed over a bowl of cold water: "The hot water will be used to make medicine for you, that's all. I saved it from between my teeth. You can just drink it!"

Liuting gritted his teeth: "I want to see the queen."

The little palace maid sneered: "Which name tag are you on, the empress can see it if she wants to?"

Liu Ting held back his anger and begged: "My good sister, as long as I can see the empress, I will never forget your benefits."

"You still think of yourself as a high-ranking concubine!" The little palace maid became more and more contemptuous, "I don't know if you have the ability to survive from a desperate situation, but if you do, I have already died in Xinzheku. It’s not certain who it will fall on.”

After two days like this, Liuting gradually became desperate, and suddenly heard a voice of greetings from outside the courtyard, and when she struggled to get up, Concubine Yu and Concubine Shu had already walked outside with their noses covered: "You slaves are really too I'm a little lazy, my mistress Qianqiu, don't talk about renewing the weather, at least I cleaned it, and I have the face to sell it hard? Don't you ask yourself, are you worthy of the reward from the mistress?"

The master just pleaded guilty, because he apologized and said with a smile: "It should be taken care of seriously, but Ulanara is sick, and the slave is selfish. After all, she is related to the empress. If there is a good or bad because of this, wouldn't it add to the empress? The bad luck? The lesser of two evils, the slave is in a dilemma, so he is a bit negligent."

In the Sixth Palace, worshiping the high and stepping on the low is the norm, Concubine Yu didn't pay attention to it, and when she entered the inner room and saw Liu Ting's face, she felt a bit of sympathy: "I haven't seen you in several months, why are you so thin?"

After a long period of hard work, Liuting's arrogance has long since faded away, seeing Concubine Yu as if she had been saved: "Sister Concubine Yu—Mistress Yu Concubine, I have something important to tell Lord Long Live."

Concubine Yu sighed: "The Empress has done her best to you, if you are not satisfied, even we don't know what to say."

"No - no -" Liu Ting hurriedly explained, "I'm not going to sue the Empress, I want to tell the Emperor that Concubine Jia deserves to die, and Concubine Chunyi, Concubine Ling and Concubine Yu's dragon fetuses are all Concubine Jia's poisonous hands—"

Concubine Yu and Concubine Shu were taken aback: "Ulanara, don't bite at will. If these words reach the ears of Long Live Lord, even the Empress Dowager can't keep you."

"What I said is true!" Liu Ting gritted his teeth, walked straight to Hei, and handed in the nomination certificate according to Chang Wan's account, "I have physical evidence. Yuying once sent a handwritten letter to Yiguiren's court lady, Xinlan, asking her to take Yiguiren to watch the fireworks prepared by Languiren, and she also stated that one of the fireworks needs to be broken to make things happen. This handwritten letter is now in Jingyang Keep it in the palace, if you don't believe it, just go and check, I didn't lie a single word!"

"Okay!" Concubine Yu didn't dare to ask more, because she discussed with Concubine Shu, "You stay here and watch, I'll report to Empress Empress."

Concubine Shu was also shocked: "Sister, don't worry."

The matter is of great importance, the empress went out in person, sent troops to the six palaces and sent generals, determined to investigate several murder cases to the bottom.

According to Liuting's confession, Concubine Shujia was worried that Lan Guiren would rely on her kinship to replace her position in front of the empress dowager, so she wanted to cut off her, and she was afraid that her concubine would have a son. trick.In the end, it was all the concubines who were interested in the Queen Mother. Lan Guiren lives in Yonghe Palace, and it is difficult for Concubine Jia to escape the relationship. Naturally, she loses the suspicion of behind-the-scenes planning. Ren Gong was pushed to the top of the storm.

Concubine Yu seemed to believe it or not: "My lord, according to what my concubine heard, Ulanara's words can be fulfilled."

Han Ling handed the recovered secret letter and Yu Ying's public handwriting to Cheng Shuang: "Show them!"

When everyone looked at Yuying again, their expressions became unkind.

Han Ling said coldly: "Let her see for herself!"

Yuying turned pale with shock: "Your Majesty, the slaves have been wronged. Someone must have framed the slaves and the noble concubine."

Han Ling smiled faintly: "There may not be nothing about copying, but if you can copy to this level, I would like to meet this copy master."

Yuying was about to argue, but Li Yujin, who was ordered to leave the palace, replied: "My lord, the slave went to Xinlan's house. It has been found out that Xinlan was sent out of the palace in the 27th year of Qianlong, and died of illness half a year later. A lot of belongings were recovered from the house, obviously brought out from the harem. According to the confession of the family, Xinlan left in a hurry and did not have time to explain the funeral. If the slaves hadn't searched carefully, they would not even know that there was such a property Stay here, let the Empress take a look."

Everyone took a look and saw that in addition to four boxes of gold and jade jewelry, there was also a large wooden box. When they opened it, there were thirty or forty ingots in it, all of which were fine silk silver with the fire seal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Concubine Ying sneered and said: "Mr. Yigui, you are a rich man. Even the maid in front of you has saved a private house of thousands of taels."

Lady Yigui was dumbfounded: "Master and empress know that even the servants can't come up with 2000 taels of silver, how can we reward her with such a lot of property and let her take it out of the palace?"

Han Ling smiled faintly: "Since she was not convicted and released from the palace, who is too troublesome to investigate her as a house thief?"

Concubine Ling suddenly asked: "You said that even the family members don't know about this property, how can you prove that it is her own private property?"

Li Yu bowed and replied: "Xinlan has a niece, and she has also obtained several pieces of jewelry from her. Some of them are matched in pairs, which match the ones she secretly hid. The servant asked again, Xinlan brought a few pieces of jewelry when she left the palace. He brought two suitcases back home, originally said to be silk and satin clothes given by the master of the palace, but because of a thief at home, all the belongings on the sidewalk were lost, and Xinlan was frightened and sick. Just now, his brother was very angry when he picked it up, and only scolded Xinlan for precautions Flesh and blood, pretending to be captured by bandits, and unwilling to benefit their family members, they were condemned by God and lost their lives for nothing.”

The author has something to say: As I said before, the main content of the second part is the continuous reduction of the number of concubines in the harem, and all those who should be reduced have been reduced. This article is not far from the end.