Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

Yuanmingyuan is located in the northwest suburb of Beijing, [-] to [-] miles away from the Forbidden City. Zhengjue Temple is located in the southeast of Yuanmingyuan, close to Yuanmingyuan. It was built in the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty. It was originally named Kaiyuan Temple. .In the Song Dynasty, it was changed to Zhengjue Temple.Scholars of all dynasties have left poems and essays praising Zhengjue Temple.Sa Tianxi, a native of the Yuan Dynasty, said in his poem "Returning to Zhengjue Temple Lately" that "the sound of porridge and fish has stopped, and the firewood is covered at dusk, and the moon is on the ground when seeing off guests, and the mountain is covered with clouds. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a monument to commend meritorious officials in the temple. In the Yongzheng period , has been turned into a royal temple, and ordinary people can no longer enter. The ancient temple that stands for a hundred years, the corridor is deep and quiet, the pines and cypresses are evergreen, and it is solemn.

On the seventh day of the 21st year of Qianlong, Xiaoxue, a sedan chair was carried into the gate of the temple.

The sedan chair did not go to the Daxiong Palace, but turned westward, went straight in, and stopped at the door of the west wing at the end of the corridor at the back.The young man leading the way in front of the sedan chair drew up the curtain of the sedan chair, and two women came out of the sedan chair, wearing black cloaks, who appeared to be master and servant, and the maid held a bundle in her arm.The young man led them into the west wing, and then stood by the inner door with his hands down.The master and servant put down their hats, and a man who looked like a father-in-law greeted him with Buddha dust in his hand, and said to the master: You are here!Come inside please.The woman nodded and said: Li Yu, long time no see.Her handmaid took off her outer cloak for her, and the three of them stood together near the outer door, away from the inner door.The woman pushed the door into the inner room, and then closed the door behind her back.

The woman saw the man in yellow clothes standing at the other end of the room with his back to the door, so she knelt down and kowtowed: Yingluo pays homage to the emperor.The man didn't move, Yingluo stood up by herself and sat down in the chair.After a long time, the man said, how are you?turn around.The moment the two looked at each other, they felt a shock in their hearts.Yingluo sees him no different from a few years ago, with bright eyes, but now she looks at herself with a little sadness.The emperor saw that her complexion was pale but she had an unprecedented beauty and softness. She was wearing a lotus color solid color shirt and her hair was tied behind her head, but it was no longer the style in the palace. Jingchai, only a jade butterfly pendant the size of half a palm pinned to the button of his shirt, it looks like a precious thing at first glance.

Yingluo smiled slightly, and said: Your Majesty, I am fine, of course Yingluo is fine with you!The emperor sat in a row of chairs opposite her, turned sideways to her, picked up the tea bowl, and said: "Tea is only served."Yingluo also picked up the tea and drank a couple of sips.The emperor said: You...why do you want to see me?Yingluo said: Your majesty, why did you come to see Yingluo?The emperor smiled and said: You are still the same.The atmosphere suddenly relaxed, and Yingluo also smiled and said: You are also the same.The emperor said: Does Fu Heng know?Yingluo said: I didn't tell him.The emperor nodded, and when she continued, Yingluo said: Your Majesty, during the three years in Yuanmingyuan, you never replied to Yingluo's letter, I know, you have been angry with me all the time.The emperor was surprised and said: I have returned.Yingluo said: "It's all for the Queen Mother. You didn't ask Yingluo a word."The emperor knew that she was messing around and said with a smile: You didn't ask me a word!

Yingluo walked to the door, opened the door and said something to the outside, then came in with something, and presented it to the emperor with both hands.The emperor saw that it was a black leather hat, and he stood up.Yingluo said: Your Majesty, this is made of the fox fur you gave Yingluo a few days ago.The emperor saw that this hat was exquisitely made, and it was the same style as the one she made for herself a few years ago, but the tassels on the top were no longer yellow, but ocher.Unconsciously, he reached out, took the hat and put it on, the size was just right.The corners of his eyes were moist, and he said softly: You still remember.Yingluo sat back in the chair and said: So the emperor thought that Yingluo would forget you.The emperor said: Isn't it?You have long forgotten me.You were there for three years and never mentioned anything about seeing me.

Yingluo said: You didn't even mention to see me!The emperor said: Alright, Wei Yingluo, do you still want me to go to you?Yingluo said: You put me in the cold palace, how can I ask to see you? It's not like you don't know that Yingluo never asks for help.The emperor said: When will I... Okay, that's all.Don't talk about the past.Say, have you forgotten me now?Yingluo said: Yes.The emperor's face darkened, he took off the hat from his head and put it on the tea table, just about to speak, Yingluo smiled and said: It was the emperor I forgot, but not you.The emperor looked up at her.Yingluo said: Your Majesty, do you still remember the original hat?The emperor nodded, and Yingluo said, "Today's hat is almost the same as the previous one, isn't it?"The emperor nodded.Yingluo continued: Do you understand?

The emperor felt sour, but said in his mouth: I don't understand, you come and tell me.Yingluo looked at him and said faintly: In Yingluo's heart, I respect and love you, the same as before, always the same.The emperor looked at her.She continued: "It's no different from when the Empress Xian was still in Changchun Palace.The emperor let out a long sigh and did not speak.Yingluo went on to say: You are in my heart, not the emperor, but brother-in-law, never changed, how could I forget you?The emperor felt a pain in his heart, and said: You used to be my imperial concubine.

Yingluo said: Yes, it was also for the Empress Empress, Yingluo has always regarded her as her sister, so you are my brother-in-law.The emperor was silent.Yingluo said: So when you were in Changchun Palace, you asked me to cling to you, but I refused.Later, you punished me to kneel down to the East and West Six Palaces, and you wanted me again, but I refused again.Do you understand?I will not betray the former empress.So I killed Erqing and left you.Then I thought about it for a long time, what happened to Erqing was not your fault, what kind of person are you, how could you do that.Please forgive what Yingluo said to you that day.Then he stood up and knelt down to the emperor.

The emperor whispered: I am really sorry for Rong Yin and Fu Heng.you get up.Are you doing it for Fu Heng?

Yingluo sat back in the chair, shook her head, and said: Your Majesty, let me tell you a story.Once upon a time, there was a girl whose mother died when she was born, and her elder sister brought her up.The elder sister entered the palace through the draft, and the younger sister looked forward to her return every day. Finally, one day, the elder sister came back, but what came back was a body that was no longer alive, and she died.The emperor shook.Yingluo continued to say quietly: My younger sister found out that her elder sister was strangled to death, so she also drafted herself into the palace to investigate the truth about her sister's death.Then she met the kind-hearted Empress Xian. She was just like her younger sister's elder sister, gentle and understanding. She regarded her as her older sister. Naturally, she would do her best for her until she died.

The emperor was shocked again, and said: Why didn't you tell me?Yingluo said: Because my sister's death is related to you.The emperor looked at her in surprise, thought for a while, and asked: Who is your sister?I don't remember ever dealing with a court lady.

Yingluo said: The person who killed my sister was Concubine Yu.The emperor sighed, thought for a while, and said: I understand.It turned out that you were because of this reason. At that time, I thought you were framed by Hong Zhou, and then his mother was looking for trouble for you, so you... Yingluo said: Prince He did not frame me, I framed him.The emperor's eyes lit up, and he stared at her closely.Yingluo smiled miserably, and said: Your Majesty, do you know why Concubine Yu wanted to kill her sister?The emperor looked at her.Yingluo said: Sister, not only did she lose her life, she also lost her virginity, because she got drunk with the prince and went into the imperial garden to force the maid, and she happened to be the unlucky maid!

Anger also appeared in the emperor's eyes, he slapped the armrest of the chair with both hands, and said: This absurd Hong Zhou!Yingluo's eyes were full of tears, but they didn't fall. She continued, "The empress and Fu Heng both knew about this. Fu Heng kept telling me that the person was Prince He, because he was afraid that you would kill me. Pharmacy, I was hunted down by Concubine Yu, you can ask Ye Tianshi, he was there that day, it was Fu Heng who saved my life, otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you today, not at all What is the imperial concubine.

Countless thoughts passed through the emperor's mind, and he said slowly: So you promise to marry Fu Heng with your body?Yingluo said: My life is his, you know what kind of person I am.The emperor was silent for a while, and said: "It is also for this reason that Rong Yin wants to marry you to Fu Heng?"Yingluo said: No, the empress does not know about the pharmacy.She also didn't know that Fu Heng wanted to marry me because he wanted to protect me. She rejected you because I was in Changchun Palace.So he told the situation of that day again, including what he warned Erqing, and the emperor completely remembered it.Yingluo said: So, Your Majesty, do you think I can betray the former empress?

The emperor said: If you had told me earlier... Yingluo smiled and said: "What did you tell me?"Tell you that he and the Prince defiled my sister, and that Concubine Yu killed her sister and is still chasing me?What can you do for me?Who was Wei Yingluo at that time?On the day I framed Prince He, if it wasn't for the first empress, would you have killed me long ago?The memory of the emperor swirled like a revolving lantern. At that time, when Li Yu asked whether Wei Yingluo was secretly executed, he was talking about his own thoughts...

Suddenly Yingluo said: "Your Majesty, I don't blame you. You have no reason to be my brother for me. You couldn't do it before, and you can't now, let alone he is the prince of the Qing Dynasty."Wei Yingluo, Concubine Ling, who the hell are they?Talking and laughing.The emperor was silent for a while, and said: Wei Yingluo is the woman I like.Yingluo was shocked.The emperor just looked at her, smiled, and said: Then why did you come to tell me today?

Ying Luo looked at him and said cautiously: Because I want to tell you that I have a child, and I don't want you to know about it from others.The light in the emperor's eyes dimmed for a moment, then he turned his head away and closed his eyes in pain.Yingluo suddenly felt very unbearable, just about to speak, but saw the emperor had turned his head and said: So this is the reason why you want to see me today.There were tears in his eyes, and his tone was even more indescribably soft and sad.Only then did Yingluo completely believe what Fu Heng said, that the emperor really loved her, and she was silent for a while.The two sat for a while, and the emperor suddenly said: "It's so fast!"Yingluo knew that he was talking about the fact that he drank child-preventing medicine and had no children for two years, so he turned around and asked: Why did you agree to let me go out of the palace?

The emperor looked at her and asked, "Where did your moon dew bosom friend go?"Yingluo didn't know why he suddenly asked this, so she tried her best to recall, but couldn't remember anything.The emperor walked to the desk in front of him, and Yingluo saw a long strip of things covered under the black cloth on the desk. The emperor gently lifted the cloth, and suddenly there was the moon dew bosom friend with broken strings.She looked at this qin and suddenly thought of many things. After the death of Concubine Chun, she wanted to push the emperor away. The emperor brought the qin and taught herself to play the qin... Finally, she bowed her head sadly and said: I'm sorry.The emperor's hollow voice said: Wei Yingluo, I don't want you to stay by my side to lie to me again. I'm very happy that you finally stopped lying to me today.

Yingluo said: But to be honest, it hurts too much. I'm sorry, Yingluo made you sad.The emperor turned around, he had already returned to his normal state, and said, "Okay, I like this sentence, it shows that you really have me in your heart all the time."Yingluo looked at him sincerely, and said, "Your Majesty, what's so good about me?"Born as a servant girl in a coat, she is stubborn and stubborn, you have so many beautiful and gentle women from prominent families who obey you...how can Yingluo be... The emperor smiled and said: I don't understand either.Yingluo said, "Then what should we do?"Your Majesty, it's a pity that Yingluo is only one person.The emperor laughed again, and said: What should I do?Didn't I do it already?

Yingluo got up immediately, walked in front of him, knelt down and kowtowed, and solemnly said: Thank you!Yingluo originally decided to die in the Old Summer Palace for the rest of her life, never to betray the former empress, and Yingluo will never forget your kindness.The emperor secretly sighed in his heart, she would not be his own after all.He stretched out his hand to help her, but withdrew his hand again and said, "Get up."Yingluo got up, halfway up, about to fall, the emperor hurriedly stretched out two hands to help her, so she stood up smiling while supporting the emperor's hands, and said in a low voice: Thank you, brother-in-law.The emperor said with a straight face: You are so courageous!Yingluo smiled and said: Thank you, Your Majesty.The emperor sighed, and said: You can call me that in your heart.Yingluo smiled and said: Yes.

Then he walked to the table, picked up the hat, walked over, put it on the emperor's head, looked at it again, and said: "It's so beautiful!"The emperor laughed and said: Are you praising yourself?You can be quite boastful.Yingluo said: Of course!Your majesty, just tell me what you want, and Yingluo will make it for you, at least it is something from home.The emperor's heart was full of sadness, but there was another kind of joy, and he said: "It's a deal."Why don't you tell Fu Heng what happened today?Yingluo turned around and said, "I don't."I didn't do anything wrong, why did I tell him?He was upset because you gave me the fox fur two days ago, so I made a hat for you.The emperor felt a kind of happiness in his heart, snorted again, and thought to himself: I have become a peacemaker.He said in his mouth: Wei Yingluo, what exactly do you want to say?

Yingluo smiled and said: Tell him to treat me better.He does errands for you all day long and doesn't go home. In his heart, you are still important.After Junggar came back, he told me that he knew you well, and what happened to Erqing must not be your fault, so he would not ask you and let me let go of that matter, but in fact, I already understood.The emperor was happy, but curled his lips and said: I know, you two are having a fight, you are here to blame me today!And deliberately used that fox fur as a hat to run on me!What are you to blame?Yingluo frowned and said, "If you want to commit a crime, there is nothing to worry about!"This is really a donkey liver and lung with good intentions!If you go and tell him that I see you, I will not obey.As he spoke, he reached out to take the hat on the emperor's head. The emperor smiled and moved away.

Seeing her laughing and cursing, the emperor seemed to be the Yingluo who was in front of him back then, but he still had no relationship with him, he didn't know how to get it, and felt satisfied and happy.The two talked a lot, and asked Li Yu several times to come in and change the waiter for tea and fruits.When Yingluo came out, it was already dark.Li Yu helped her into the sedan chair with tears in her eyes, and said to her: "Madam Ling, this has solved the knot in the emperor's heart!"See the emperor happy!Life is easier for slaves!Thank you minions!Yingluo smiled and said: Li Yu, you have to take good care of the emperor, otherwise, I won't be able to spare you!Li Yu hurriedly said: Yes, yes, Madam, don't worry.Yingluo said: You should still call me Miss Yingluo as you did back then.Li Yudao: "Don't dare."Yingluo said, "I'm not Lingfei anymore."Li Yudao: Yes, the slave will stop barking from now on.

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[Historical Origin] Zhengjue Temple/First Glance/: In the southeast of Yuanmingyuan, next to Yuanmingyuan, the history before Qianlong repaired it is described in the first paragraph of this section.