Prince in the same boat

On the signature of the canvas, it is impressively written: Xia Yongfan, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province.

When the queen mother saw Yongfan's inscribed name: Xia Yongfan, her expression changed again.

Before entering the customs, the Aixinjueluo family could not tell the seniority from the name according to the Manchu custom.After entering the customs, Emperor Kangxi was deeply influenced by Han culture, and he also used generational characters to name his descendants.He had 35 sons. Except for 11 sons who died young, all 24 sons used the word "Yin" as the generational character. "The character generation.

In the Yongzheng period, it was even more specific that the generation of emperors and grandchildren used "Yong" as the character generation and "Yu" as the name.

Among the sons of Qianlong: the elder brother Yonghuang, the second elder brother Yonglian, the third elder brother Yongzhang, the fourth elder brother Yongxuan, the fifth elder brother Yongqi, the sixth elder brother Yong Rong, the seventh elder brother Yongcong, and the eighth elder brother Yongxuan, tenth elder brother Yongyue, eleventh elder brother Yongxuan, twelfth elder brother Yongxie, thirteenth elder brother Yongjing, fourteenth elder brother Yonglu.Except for the fact that Brother Nine had not been named early, they were all named after the character 'Yong', which represents Meiyu.

In addition to these princes, the same is true for Prince He's several sons: Yongying, Yongbi, Yongshen, Yongsan, Yongkun, and Yongsan.

Although there is no law expressly stipulating that folk names cannot be used in this way, the royal family's seniority is well known all over the world. Generally, anyone with a little knowledge will be careful when naming their children to avoid conflicts with the royal family.

At the beginning, the prince and concubine only knew the pronunciation of Yongfan's name, but they had never seen the font, so they didn't discover it!

Yong Fan... Yong Fan...

"Fa Yan Shao Jian" once said: "Jade can't be carved, and jade can't be used as a tool."

The term "beautiful jade" also refers to uncarved rough jade, which looks like jade but not jade.

Like jade instead of jade? !Could it be that this boy's name also contains some meaning?The Queen Mother looked at Yong Fan's face that was somewhat similar to someone, and couldn't help muttering in her heart.

According to He Shun, Xia Yongfan is only 16 years old this year, so he should have been born in the seventh year of Qianlong's reign, and when Hongli visited the south in the sixth year of Qianlong's reign...it seems that he passed through Jinan Prefecture in Shandong Province and spent a month there. Could it be...

No... there's no way something like this is going to happen.The Empress Dowager just suppressed such a thought, but she immediately suppressed it. Without him, that vague idea seemed to the Empress Dowager to be too absurd and too bizarre.

Maybe, it's a coincidence.

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager gave a relieved smile, and said kindly to Yongfan: "I don't know why, the old lady felt a kind feeling when she saw the young master for the first time, and she liked it very much. yes."

"Madam just smiled." Yong Fan smiled and said, "Yong Fan's grandfather passed away early, and he lived with his mother since he was a child. There has never been an elder in the family. When I saw the old lady today, I felt that I was very close, but Yong Fan knew that he came from a humble background. , not daring to cling to it.”

"Sister, why don't you go to the back hall when you come, and let the servants wait anxiously." The queen mother was about to speak, when she heard a hearty voice, and after a closer look, it was the concubine and Prince Fujin who had come.

"My maidservant has seen the empress dowager." The empress dowager and Fujin knelt down and kowtowed.

"Empress Dowager!" Yong Fan's face changed wildly, she... She turned out to be the Empress Dowager Chongqing, the biological mother of the current Emperor Qianlong, the Holy Mother of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Niu Hulu, and her grandmother in this life!

Originally, he only wanted to get in touch with the Prince's family first, but he hadn't made a plan for what to do in the future, he could only play by ear, but he never thought that today he would be able to meet this well-known "Lafayette" in Huanzhuli! '

"Get up!" The Empress Dowager raised her hand to help, and Qing'er and Lan Xin who were beside her helped her and Fujin up with winking eyes.

"Today is your Qianqiu, so there is no reason for you, the birthday star, to kowtow to me. I am afraid that I will not come here with great fanfare if I perform these vain rituals today. Get up quickly, and let this rule be waived for today. "The queen mother said with a smile.

"It's all the Empress Dowager's grace, and the servants dare not be disrespectful." Although they heard the Empress Dowager said that they don't want these vain gifts, the Taifei and Fujin still made a blessing.

"Originally, Aijia just came to this bamboo forest to hang out, but he didn't expect to meet a painter with unparalleled painting skills here." The Queen Mother said with a smile.

"Caomin has seen the empress dowager, and the empress dowager is a thousand years old." When Yong Fan saw the empress dowager looking at him, he immediately suppressed the excitement in his heart, and knelt down with a plop: "The grass people don't know that the empress dowager Fengjia is here in person. Yan, you deserve death!"

Compared with ordinary people who trembled in fright when they heard the identity of the Queen Mother, although Yong Fan's tone trembled a little, his enunciation was still very clear, and he seemed very restrained.

"Whoever doesn't know is not guilty, get up." The queen mother said kindly, and then dragged her into the small pavilion to appreciate the painting painted by Yongfan.

After entering the pavilion, the two sisters greeted the queen mother again, and then the queen mother pointed to Yongfan's transformation and said to the concubine and Fujin with a smile: "That monkey boy Hong Zhou is really a filial son. Niang Qianqiu even deliberately found a painter who is proficient in Western painting skills to paint for Erniang. She also specially found someone from outside the palace. Could it be that the painters in the Ruyi Pavilion are no longer good? But I saw this painting just now, sad The family really knows the child's filial piety, and they don't know where Hong Zhou found this painter."

At this time, a lot of guards from the palace had already come around the small pavilion, holding hands in the surroundings. Yong Fan bowed his head and stood outside the pavilion very politely. He didn't follow in, and he didn't interrupt indiscriminately. He nodded secretly again.

The concubine looked at Yong Fan who was standing outside the pavilion, and heard the queen mother asking herself, she thought about it and said with a smile: "This child is a friend of Beizi Duolong from Wang's family in Zhijun, and Duolong is the godson of Hongzhou. The boy liked to play around since he was a child, but he suddenly got better in the past half a year. The prince only found out after hearing about it, and he knew he was sensible after making a bosom friend. The prince was curious and went to see it himself. He is really very talented. He came to the capital alone without relatives to make a living. The prince has already seen it, and said that this child is very good in both character and conduct. Today is the birthday of the servant, and the empress also knows that the servant likes these things It just so happens that this kid is proficient in Western painting techniques, so I let him try it."

The queen mother nodded in satisfaction, and felt that Yongfan was very popular with him. Since Hong Zhou said so, he should have checked his identity, and there must be no problem. He was summoned to be a painter in the Ruyi Pavilion, specializing in painting for the palace.

Then the Empress Dowager and the Concubine began chatting and appreciating Yong Fan's paintings, and asked Yong Fan to explain a few words.Yong Fan carefully answered the questions of the Empress Dowager and the Concubine, but did not say much about the others. Who was he facing in front of him?Empress Dowager!Even today's Emperor Qianlong has to pay respect to someone who is three points, besides, Qianlong has a NC record, but the Queen Mother does not.The old man has been well-behaved all his life, and now he has just developed a good impression of himself by accident. If he rushes up to talk about Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake or something, let alone whether he will be taken by the guards who pay close attention to this place. If the assassin is killed, even if the Queen Mother is willing to listen to her own story, her own outcome will not be so good!

Therefore, Yong Fan not only dared not be impulsive, but also dared not show the slightest strangeness in front of the Empress Dowager.

Listening to the concubine Tai and Concubine Yugui chatting while admiring the paintings, although Yongfan didn't say anything on the surface, but secretly began to analyze their conversation in his heart. Even if they are such good sisters, six or seven out of ten sentences are words. Those who are aggressive are definitely not as kind and hearty as they appear on the surface, and their hearts sink more and more involuntarily. It seems that they really underestimate the people of this era.I wondered whether the plan I thought I could succeed in front of the empress dowager and even the emperor, but I must not die before I finish my mission.

Thinking about it, no matter it is recorded in the history books or judging from the appearance of the Empress Dowager Chongqing and Concubine Yugui, the two empresses were definitely not peerless beauties when they were young, and their appearance could only be regarded as ordinary at best.But think about it, among the concubines of Emperor Yongzheng, only the two of them can leave their children safely. All of them are descendants who died early, and their fortunes are shallow.Only these two are the real winners in the Yongzheng Harem.Empress Xiaoxian passed away early, the imperial concubine Dunsu also died of illness at a young age, and the concubine of Qi who gave birth to the third elder brother Hongshi Li was still a side Fujin who was personally invited by Yongzheng in Kangxi. His status is higher than that of Niu Hulu. No matter how many times he spent, the result was that his son was bestowed to death by Yongzheng, and he was also living in a cold palace.Only of these two, one became the emperor's biological mother, her son became the emperor, and the other was Concubine Yugui, who gave birth to Heshuo and the prince who were deeply favored. Apart from luck, if there is no other means , Yong Fan would not believe it either.Seeing how their relationship is so good, maybe they signed an offensive and defensive alliance back then, and they supported each other in the Yongzheng Empress Palace, which made them seem so happy and harmonious.

Thinking of this, Yong Fan was drenched in cold sweat, and the little bit of complacency he had planned and the prince was thrown out of the blue in an instant.He secretly rejoiced, fortunately, he didn't pretend to be smart and made any bigger moves, otherwise a bad situation would be exposed, and a dead end would be very possible!

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager was concerned that he was a man after all, and it would not be appropriate to stay in a place full of female relatives for a long time, so she and the Empress Dowager asked him to resign after giving some rewards.

Yong Fan was startled and frightened today, longing to stay away from these two old ladies, and did not go to see Duo Long who is still drinking in the palace, so he quickly left.

She didn't leave right away, and Yong Fan walked alone on the street without any particular destination, just wanting to calm down her trembling heart.

Now that he has taken this step, there is absolutely no reason to stop. Although today's understanding made him know that he was a little too ignorant before, but Yongfan no longer has the idea of ​​shrinking back. When you act, you need to plan a lot.