Queen's Road in the Red House

From the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, the palace will be full of excitement for the New Year.

Because this year is the year when the prince can be registered, the emperor ordered that the New Year's Eve must be lively and festive.Concubine Zhou Guifei and Concubine Zhuang discussed with Daiyu and sent out a batch of satin silk that had been accumulated in the warehouse in previous years.

These delicate silks and satins are made into clothes, not to mention that the maids don't follow the rules, and they will be damaged soon after working.To be distributed to the concubines, it turned out to be some old things that had gone out of fashion in the past few years, and it was like bullying anyone.

So the few people simply released all the discerning maids to pick out some old or slightly damaged silk brocade gauze and fold them into Qianyan banners, and then ordered some skillful palace servants to use colored thread or straw The rope is woven into sedan horses and tied to flowers and trees.Sure enough, the palace was full of embroidered belts, full of flowers and branches.

Wherever the emperor went, his eyes were full of splendor, and he felt very comfortable. He deeply felt that under his wise leadership, the country and the people's security were prosperous.

Therefore, he also said that the Empress Dowager worked hard, and the Crown Princess was also diligent. During the New Year's Day, there were many rewards for people to see, so he ordered the Household Office to carry four small baskets of gold coins of various colors to the Empress Dowager's Palace for rewards. Daiyu made a half discount here. There are also two small baskets.

When Xin Hongcheng returned to Chonghua Palace, Daiyu happened to have just received the reward and was talking to Eunuch Qin who came to present the reward in person.

With sharp eyes, Qin Wu hurriedly saluted, "Prince Wan'an."

Xin Hongcheng grabbed a handful of golden pegs from the basket and gave it to him. Qin Wu couldn't see his eyes with a smile: "Oh, I'm so lucky. The crown prince and concubine have already rewarded him, and today I got a double share."

Daiyu wore a red feather veil and a white fox's crane cloak, and said with a smile: "During the New Year's Eve, it's hard for the father-in-law to serve the emperor, so it's only fair to get a double."

Xin Hongcheng saw that a dead leaf had fallen from the top of the snow cap on her head, and the palace servants behind her were not tall enough, so they probably didn't look at it, so they reached out and took it off for her.

Qin Wu saw it in his eyes, and he understood better: gold and silver rewards, what is the dignity outside in the Tian family, for example, the emperor gave rewards to the palaces according to their positions, but in fact, many concubines may not even recognize who they are .

It takes such daily actions to show thoughtfulness, back then the emperor only treated Empress Xiaoyi like this.

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When Qin Wu left, Daiyu asked doubtfully, "It's only noon, why do you have time to come back?"

Xin Hongcheng smiled: "No matter how busy you are, you can't live in the ministry. What's more, there will be banquets in the palace every day from the 28th, and you will have no time. I don't think there is anything important today, so I asked for leave and came out to accompany you for a day. You If you want to go out of the palace for a stroll, it’s fine.”

The two entered the room hand in hand, and Daiyu asked the little eunuchs to bring in two baskets of gold nudes of various colors and pour them on the ground, letting Baimao Moran and the maids sort them out according to their shapes and weights.

After Xin Hongcheng sat down in the Nuan Pavilion, he happened to be able to see the bright yellow outside, so he turned his head and said to Daiyu in a low voice: "Father, this is developed. Now people use baskets for gold, not when they first ascended the throne. , anxiously turned around for hundreds of thousands of silver, and in the end even used money from the courtiers' family to envoy, wishing to pawn the dragon robe."

Daiyu couldn't help pinching his waist: "How dare you talk nonsense about my father's words like this? I thought I was someone who could make fun of people. Now that I see you, I've become a A worrying person who is busy gagging people's mouths every day."

Xin Hongcheng dodged "Ouch" and said, "Isn't this just a joke?"

Daiyu covered her ears: "I didn't hear anyone joking with you. I didn't hear such disrespectful words. You can't get enough of Eunuch Qin's whisk, so don't drag me."

The two laughed for a while.

The maids in the outer room occasionally heard the laughter of the masters in the inner room, and they all raised their heads to look at each other and smiled as their aunts.They were originally from different masters. Bai Mao and the others had served in the palace for a long time, so they were supposed to be more respectable.It's just that Xin Hongcheng has always left all the maids in the palace and handed them over to Daiyu.

There are different levels of human affection, and Moran Xiaoluo has been with Daiyu for several years, so she is naturally closer.But in terms of personnel rules in the palace, they are not as good as Baimaohongzhang.

So the two sides kept courtesy to each other and asked for advice. In the past six months, they have been in harmony with each other, and because of their different backgrounds, they have supervised each other, so they can take a firm look at Chonghua Palace.

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Xin Hongcheng flipped through the New Year's gift list on the small table of Lihua, and asked Daiyu if she wanted to go out of the palace and go back to Rongguo Mansion to have a look.Daiyu thought for a while and shook her head.This month, the queen mother invited Jia Min to the palace in order to forgive her, and even made an exception to leave lunch before letting them go. This time, she went out of the palace to see it, it seemed that the queen mother did not have the grace.

Xin Hongcheng knew that Daiyu was careful and thought more about everything, seeing that she refused to go out of the palace, he quickly turned the corner: "After that year, the first month is also lively, so I just went to pay her old man a New Year's greeting."

At that moment, Moran and others finished distributing the golden cymbals, and came to Daiyu to reply: "There are 870 six in total, including plum-blossom-style, begonia-style, and pen ingot Ruyi, Babao Lianchun, champion and the number one. It’s a common style. The servant girl looked at it, and the plum blossom style is the most exquisite and the color is the best.”

Daiyu nodded, "Since it's the New Year's Eve, and you've worked hard to share a share, each of you can take two for yourself."

Xin Hongcheng said: "This is your first year in the palace to celebrate the new year, and there must be many people coming to see you. These seem to be many, but in fact they are gone. I remember that when the queen mother was here, the first year was separated for a full year. Two or three thousand, and you have to prepare some gold and silver keys. You don’t have enough here, so I’ll ask someone to lock up a batch for you from outside.”

The imperial edicts of each mansion brought the girls or the clansmen brought the children into the palace. The palace satin, the ruler head, and the golden scorpion in the pouch were the most common and indispensable gifts in the gifts.

Daiyu smiled: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs also has a case for sending it, plus I prepared it myself two months ago, it was enough, and the father sent these to be prepared, that is, more people will come this year I'm not afraid anymore."

"Prepared by myself?" Xin Hongcheng was leaning on a red soft pillow, sat up after hearing this and asked: "Did you use your own dowry to make up for it? That's not possible. I'll give you how much you used." Fill."

Daiyu poked him: "You lean on it, you'll be surprised again." Then she said leisurely: "I'm not a farmer, I'm just the output of the Zhuangzi's shop in the dowry, isn't this for people? What's the point of putting a mountain of money there. The palace has a lot of expenses, and the monthly money is not enough, and it is common for the empresses of each palace to get some subsidies from outside."

Just like in Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Xing's monthly bill was 20 taels, and Wang Xifeng's monthly bill was [-] taels. Whoever lives by this money must be tight.

Xin Hongcheng still refused to forget it, and only wanted to come up with a number: "As a man, he can't even support his family, so what's the point of governing the country and bringing peace to the world."

Daiyu snorted: "It's very unnecessary, it's enough for the whole Chonghua Palace to use the crown prince's role now, if you go to make extra money and stab the emperor to father, it's not good."

The two of them were talking, when Hongzhang came in with a gloomy expression and replied: "Your Majesty, Princess Shenjun is here."

Xin Hongcheng frowned: "What is she here for? No one in the palace wants to see her, so she wants to run around."

Hongzhang couldn't help muttering: "I must have heard that the emperor has rewarded our empress with a golden pistol, and he is here to ask for it again."

Xin Hongcheng's eyebrows turned cold: "What is 'again'?"

Hongzhang couldn't figure out what Daiyu was thinking, so she lowered her head and dared not speak.Xiaoluo happened to come in too, holding two boxes of golden scorpions each with Mo Ran and the others. After hearing this, she hurriedly said: "Go back to the prince, last time the queen mother rewarded our mother with eight rare cloud brocade gauzes. It is said to be a new material from the south, and there are only four colors: shrimp red, sapphire blue, cloud green, and bud yellow. Your Highness just looks at the Queen Mother, and you will know how valuable it is if you only reward two horses."

"Who knows that before entering the gate of our palace, Princess Shenjun blocked the little eunuch who was carrying things at the gate, untied all the elastic ink flower silk silk wrapped outside, and directly touched these materials one by one, eight Not a single one was spared.

At that time, the empress dowager was still in front of the empress dowager, sister Moran followed, and the slaves and elder sister Baimao went to get the big woolen clothes of the moon and winter palace maids, but they were not here. Snatched four horses - she didn't want to lose face, and she expected our mother to want face, so she wouldn't go around saying that she stole something, at least it was given to her. "

Xin Hongcheng frowned more and more, and then looked at Daiyu: "You just let her take it away like this?"

Daiyu was already getting up to change into the guest clothes, and after hearing Xiaoluo's words, she snorted coldly and said, "How could it be - although Yunjinsha is precious, it's just a new word, next year all the ladies in the palace will have it, It's not that I'm hiding something, it's just that I hate such tricks, and it seems to force me to submit."

Xin Hongcheng nodded: Indeed, things are small, but this matter makes people angry.When he thought of his daughter-in-law being robbed of her clothes and materials in the harem, he felt angry. Then he was a prince for nothing!

Sitting in front of the mirror, Daiyu slightly evened the powder mixed with jasmine branches on her face, turned her head and smiled at Xin Hongcheng: "After I came back and heard about it, I will send someone to tell Princess Shenjun: These eight pieces of brocade The color of the gauze is bright and bright, and it is most suitable for children to wear as New Year's clothes. I have already explained to the empress dowager that there are three princesses and one prince in the palace for children under the age of ten. , so I divided them equally to make clothes for my brothers and sisters. I was worried that eight pieces of material would be sent to the embroidery room in the name of Chonghua Palace. Just send it to the embroidery room for me.

Even the pattern of the clothes, I asked Mo Ran to send them in person. "

Xin Hongcheng also smiled: "You still have a way."

Daiyu also laughed: "She is afraid of the Empress Dowager in the palace! After hearing this, I dare not refuse to send it, because it is not the clothes in the order, and some silver is pasted on the embroidery house instead."

Xiaoluo put down the box, and hastily locked the Luodian cabinet, as if she was afraid that Xu Ying would rush in and steal the money.

It wasn't until it was locked that she smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it's a good way for her to steal a lot of rice! Although half of the yarn was sent to the embroidery room in the name of Princess Shenjun, the ready-made clothes were sent to the three princesses and the six princesses. At the place of the prince, but no one in the palace knows that there are only 32 bolts of cloud brocade gauze offered in total, except for the empress dowager and concubine Zhen Gui, only our Chonghua Palace has them.

It was specially rewarded in front of the empress dowagers, because the empress dowagers govern the six palaces, no one can climb it.So other people will not accept the love of Princess Shenjun, it's easy, they only know that it is the clothes from our Chonghua Palace to thank the empress.The smart ones can't even find out the whole story, and laugh at Princess Shenjun in their hearts. "

Xin Hongcheng nodded three times in succession: "Exactly, even if this material is cut up to make clothes for dogs, it doesn't need to be given to this kind of people."

Xiaoluo couldn't help but opened her eyes wide in surprise and said: "Your Highness and Your Majesty really have a good heart, and Your Majesty also asked me to use the leftover brocade gauze corner cloth to sew a small winter coat for Peony. Shi Taijun now every morning Rain or shine, I took Mudan out for a walk around the Rongqing Hall, and Mudan couldn't do without a padded jacket."

Just as she was talking, Daiyu was already dressed.

When Xin Hongcheng saw it, his eyes dazzled.

Even if it is a New Year's feast, Daiyu rarely dresses up in such a luxurious way: a brocade skirt with golden flowers and a hundred butterflies inlaid with a bucket of pearls and wool edges, and a phoenix pattern on the cloud temples inlaid with southern beads wrapped around branches, golden steps and flying gold pearls. The emerald plum blossoms are corresponding and more eye-catching.

Xin Hongcheng had never been stingy in praising his wife's beauty, and at this moment his eyes showed surprise: "You originally preferred more elegant attire, just like the moon shining on the cold river, but occasionally you dress more gorgeously, even if Xia Yingchengtang, you are also gorgeous. It's pretty."

Daiyu smiled: "You don't know, it's heavy. But I have to dress up like this today - the second sister-in-law came here to find me unhappy, so I have to treat it as her own way His body."

Xu Ying is a person who is short of money.In other words, the entire Shenjun Palace is short of money.

So Xu Ying was jealous of money and came to find trouble for Daiyu. Daiyu was annoyed at her, so she dressed up like this to deliberately stab her.

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Xin Hongcheng smiled at the corner of his mouth, seeing Xiao Luo and Mo Ran walking towards the main hall with Daiyu, he raised his chin to Bai Mao.

Bai Mao hurriedly came to him and stood quietly.

"Does Princess Shenjun always act like this to disgust people?"

Baimao lowered his head and said softly: "There are always two or three times. But don't worry, Your Highness, Your Majesty is not a person who suffers from silence." After speaking, Xin Hongcheng was afraid that Daiyu would feel that Daiyu was unreasonable and not virtuous and gentle enough, so he hurriedly said: " But our empress is really a kind-hearted person, this Yun Jinsha, she was going to make a set of clothes for each of the young masters in the palace, and the remaining four were originally intended to be sent to Shangjing Palace for the queen... for Immortal Master Yuanhui. It's a pity that being interrupted by Princess Shenjun like this, I have to cut off all my clothes. On weekdays, the head of the family is even more..."

Xin Hongcheng interrupted her with a wave of his hand: "Needless to say. She will be fine if she doesn't suffer."

Bai Mao's countless good words were blocked, and he almost choked up.

Xin Hongcheng got up, put on his boots, and walked towards the front hall, but stopped behind the openwork floor covering.I just heard Xu Ying's voice, and she sarcastically said without any kindness: "The princess is really a noble person with a lot of things. She forced her sister-in-law to hang here for a long time before she came out slowly. This should be placed in an ordinary family, alas, it will become It's a joke."

Xin Hongcheng's face was frosty, he turned around and went out from the side door, heading directly to Mingzheng Palace.

He knew that Daiyu might not have suffered in the end, but Xu Ying must have said a lot of yin and yang words like this.

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The end of the new year is approaching, and the emperor is also preparing to seal the pen to celebrate the new year. At this time, he is watching Qin Wu hang wall vases on the wall.

Seeing Xin Hongcheng coming, he smiled and said: "I just heard Qin Wu talk about the harmony between your young husband and wife, and you came here. It's rare to take a rest for a day, why don't you stay longer in Chonghua Palace."

Because of Empress Xiaoyi's early death, the emperor is actually very willing to see his son and daughter-in-law love each other deeply, as if to make up for his own regrets.

Xin Hongcheng smiled, stood next to the emperor and looked at the wall vase together, and then said: "I was there, but it's a pity that the second sister-in-law has gone, so I came out."

As soon as this daughter-in-law was mentioned, the emperor became a little cloudy: "Didn't the queen mother order her to cultivate herself and introspect herself? What is she going to Chonghua Palace for?"

Xin Hongcheng said directly: "Because Emperor Father rewarded Chonghua Palace with two baskets of golden scorpions."

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then his face darkened.

Every emperor is such a creature: if I give it, I have to be grateful and thankful, and if I don't give it, I can't reach out to take it by myself, and I can't complain.

It was not wise for Xu Ying to cut off Emperor Xuanhe's Hu for some gold and silver.

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