Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

It was also the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year after Empress Nala was imprisoned. In the Western Garden of the Old Summer Palace, the sun was shining brightly and the breeze was blowing.Not far away, the blue glazed roof of the exterior is shining, and the Dashui method designed by the European missionary Jiang Youren is shining in the sun.The western stone niche is exquisitely carved. In front of the stone niche is a semicircular crabapple-shaped pool. There is a deer in the center of the pool. There are five hounds in the east and west. The hounds spray water at the deer.On the east and west sides of the Begonia Pond, there is a flower-shaped pool on each side. Inside each pool is a thirteen-story square water spray tower, which is made of white marble and sprays water layer by layer. There is a circle of thin water columns spraying water around the bottom of the tower, and the sound of water is gurgling. .

Concubine Rong was wearing a flesh-colored western long dress and a navy blue button-up dress on her upper body, her hair was braided and sparkling with thin diamond chains, she was playing with her pets Ru Huangbao and Frost Flower Harrier, the green grass was lush , the two hounds jumped up and down, barking, and Concubine Rong stood and sat and ran around, being chased by them, whispering to them softly, and the laughter floated in the sun.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair with the yellow umbrella of the Nine Dragon crank in front of the Dashuifa, wearing gold-rimmed diorama sunglasses, watching this scene, he felt very comfortable.He remembered that many years ago, the little Yingluo was punished to kneel in the courtyard of the Changchun Palace for hitting him with water. To Yingluo's birthday gift to herself, a pair of black satin warm shoes;There is also a letter that reads:

The fourth master "Emperor Monogram" has a long life and happiness,

Thank you for everything you do for me.Don't sing songs of old age's hatred, the world also has its own galaxy.

Concubine Gongsu bowed and kowtowed

This monogram has been with Yingluo for many years, and it was the first time she used it... It was also that year, when she came back from the west, he visited Yujing Garden and sat by her bedside and said a word, but no one knew about it, Yingluo was in a coma, and he didn't speak aloud, the pearl outside the door couldn't hear her.What he said was: Don't worry, I won't tolerate Hong Zhou forever.

Li Yu took a bright yellow box and opened it, and said to the emperor: Your empress said this is better than Longjing tea and ginseng tea, and it can be cured for all kinds of ailments throughout the year, so use this. Both the empress and her like Pu'er tea.The empress also said that this small ointment is more convenient, and it was delivered yesterday.

The emperor pulled off his sunglasses with his hands, and looked from above. In the box was Pu'er tea paste, which was a tribute from Yunnan. The decoration is uniform in density, regular in pattern and extremely elegant.The emperor smiled, took two pieces, put them into a tea bowl, and put on his sunglasses.

Li Yu closed the lid, put the box away, and whispered a few words in the emperor's ear. Finally, his voice was slightly higher, and he could hear "it's on your bedside table".The emperor snorted, and said with great interest: Go back and take a good look at how the revisions are going, and give one set to Fu Heng.Li Yudao: "Yes, the servant sent people to teach the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deliver it."

The emperor asked again: What did Xiao Quanzi say recently?Li Yu hurriedly said: "I haven't delivered a note recently. Although he is busy with his yamen affairs, he will not dare to neglect your work. The emperor can rest assured."Last time I said that Mrs. Nalan likes to use blue and white flowers every day. According to your instructions, Desheng sent a set of ten Kangxi green lotus bowls to Chunhe Garden this morning. Desheng said, Mrs. Nalan likes it very much. , Said that it is the blue and white of this dynasty, she likes the set you gave me the most!The emperor nodded with a smile, and said: Yong Qi said that she likes things from Grandpa Sheng.

Li Yu said again: Well, Mrs. Nalan still has vision.Yesterday I saw that the set you chose is really beautiful!The emperor said: The inside and outside of the bowl are decorated with twining lotus flowers, which means "one product is clean and honest". The ancestor specially fired this bowl as a reward to encourage officials to be clean and honest. The blue and white flowers of the Ming Dynasty never had such complicated and elegant patterns and superb delicacy. tire glaze process.Li Yu nodded and said: Oh, so that's what you mean. You are praising Mr. Fu Heng. No wonder Madam likes it.The emperor smiled triumphantly, and said: "And that screen, she must like it."

Li Yu asked again: What would you like to eat in a while?The emperor pointed at Concubine Rong.Li Yu then said loudly: Madam, the emperor asked what to have for lunch?Concubine Rong held Ru Huangbao's head in her arms, looked at the emperor with a smile and said, "vegetable and meat dumplings, clam noodles, milk wine, and the emperor's favorite crucian carp soup, steamed milk cake, and Korla fragrant pears."

Seeing her smiling like a flower, the emperor became dazed, and Yingluo's "Don't Sing Songs of Everlasting Regret" floated in front of his eyes. In the soothing and moving sound of water, those youthful years, those years, those people, and those things were pushed before his eyes one by one. One by one, he closed his eyes and said to himself:

Lin Hua thanked Chunhong, too in a hurry.Helpless morning, cold rain and late wind.

...It is a person who grows up and hates water and grows east...

The sun has overcast a little, and it looks even darker behind the round lenses.Li Yu had already gone to deliver the message, Concubine Rong was lying down on the grass, Ru Huangbao and Shuanghuayao went up to lick her cheeks together, making her giggle...a circle of guards stood quietly in the shadows in the distance...

That night, in the Chunhe Garden, a round of reunion moon illuminated the courtyard like daytime.On a rattan stool wide enough for two people in the flower hall, Yingluo was lying down, closing her eyes and feigning sleep.Next to it is a large round wooden table and four embroidered piers.There are written characters, paper, ink, brush and inkstone on the table, and a tray next to it, which contains blue and white multicolored okra-patterned porridge jars from the Wanli period, several small bowls of the same style and a plate with the same pattern. Towel, scoop and two small spoons, several small cups and mouthwash.

After Fu Heng took a bath, he came out and saw that she was wearing a dense yellow silk homemade jacket, a pleated pomegranate skirt, and only the "Butterfly Love Flower" gold hairpin stuck in her bun. She held a feather fan and slanted her belly , made a pillow with the other hand, so he smiled and sat on the edge of the stool.Go look at the peach-shaped lupine I picked for her from the various offerings during this southern tour.

The fan is made of gray bird wing feathers stacked and arranged, and the fan surface is slightly concave and almost arc-shaped.The center of the front fan has an embroidered protector covering the feathers, embroidered lotus water birds, and a circle of copper discs on the side, which is bright and clean.The peacock's tail feathers are pressed down by the disc, colorful, and the fluff of the peacock is exposed in the gaps.There are three bright red pompoms adorned on the fan, one big and two small, the distance between them is sparse and dense, lively and lively.The fan handle is made of wood, with copper buttons inlaid at the end, tied with tassels, and attached to a small embroidered purse.

Fu Heng looked at the purse carefully, one side was embroidered with red peach and bat patterns, and the other side was embroidered with white landscape, the colors were bright and the images were naive, but the embroidery was meticulous, and he knew that Yingluo must have embroidered the purse on it by herself.It was getting cold early, and she liked the feather fan. She said it was Zhuge Liang, so she took the feather fan, so she kept holding it, and smiled again, and looked at the words on the rice paper by the light on the table:

The bell sends the evening rooster to announce the dawn.At dawn, when is the end of the world.There are more people in busy places and less idle places.When you are free, how many people can know.For thousands of years, people grow old with sorrow, and the grass still grows in spring.Going up to the small building alone, the clouds are far away, and there is a little green hill in the end of the world.

On the one hand, he said: Zhang Bi's cursive calligraphy masters Zhang Xu and Huai Su, this book is like a storm, and the wind is flying like lightning.You still lack some heat.

Yingluo opened her eyes, put on her fan, and sang a promise: Thank you, Mr. Fu Heng, for your guidance. Students should work hard.I like the cursive scripts of Xu Wei and Zhu Zhishan, but you say that I am only suitable for the styles of Zhang Bi and Chen Daofu.The emperor said that my handwriting has improved a lot.Fu Hengdao: You have read the cursive passage in Chen Baiyang's "Picture of Lotus in a Vase" and you can continue to read his Qijue poem axis. on his painting.

Yingluo smiled and said: It's rare for an adult to praise you.Seeing that he was wearing a light snow blue horseshoe-sleeved civilian dress, clear as a stream, eyes like bright stars, this is the material she chose, made of pearls, it is the color of the screen bestowed by the emperor today, she praised: This dress is beautiful!Fu Heng smiled, looked at her eyes as bright as autumn water, and said: Today is the night of the full moon again.Thank you Madam for the crab feast, it was plump and fresh, everyone ate happily, the wine was also good, An'er was still raving about it when she returned to the palace.

The screen that the emperor boasted of was a plain wood-wrapped brocade border with paper-woven characters embedded in it.The screen is woven with extremely thin light snow blue paper silk, and the frame is inlaid with elegant colored brocade. The paper weaving technique is unique to Yongchun Prefecture, Fujian Province, and has a history of nearly a thousand years.The screen is as tall as a person, and there are twelve in total. On the center of the screen is a seven-character poem in running script inscribed by the emperor's imperial pen. There are twelve poems in total. "Book", "Autumn Outskirts", "Autumn Day After the Seventh Eve", "Qinghua Tower Against the Rain", "Autumn Night with Moon", "Dawn of Qinglong Bridge", "Wild Scenery", "Wearing the Wild Goose", " Panshan nostalgia", "winter night rejoicing".When she received it, she told Fu Heng that the emperor took the opportunity to bring private goods and insisted on posting the poems she wrote to Chunhe Garden.

Yingluo sat up, rolled up the rice paper, put it on an embroidered pier, opened the porridge pot, scooped the longan porridge inside into a small bowl, handed it to Fu Heng, and said with a smile: Let me tell you, Yibin Miscellaneous Grain Wine It's delicious, Xiao Quanzi is used to being filial.The ancient cellar in Yibin was built in the Hongwu period. At that time, the most famous "Yaozixuequ" in the Song Dynasty was produced.I was afraid that Long'er would have diarrhea if he ate too many crabs tonight, Pearl said to tell him to drink some ginger soup before going to sleep.

Fu Heng nodded, sat on the embroidered pier, drank porridge, put the bowl away, rinsed his mouth with a blue-glazed ice-patterned gold bell cup, wiped his mouth with a fragrant towel, turned his head to look at the bright moon in the sky, and said: I hope People are long, thousands of miles share beauty.

Yingluo knew that he was feeling sorry for his elder sister Rongyin, and even Concubine Gao and Nalashi, so she laughed again: Chanjuan is not there, but Yingluo is there, young master, I want to interrogate you!Said and lay back on the rattan stool.Fu Heng also sat on the edge of the stool, raised his eyebrows and looked at her in surprise, Yingluo nodded his nose and said: You have been hiding it from me.Fu Heng thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out, so he asked: What's the matter?Have I ever kept anything from you?Yingluo squinted at him, and said: "Think again, think inside the palace wall, you always hide things inside the palace wall from me."Hearing what she said, Fu Heng knew that she was talking about Concubine Chun's love for him back then, but the two of them hadn't mentioned that for many years, so he said: No.

Yingluo shook her head.Fu Heng thought for a while, but still couldn't think of it.Then she bent down to hug Yingluo, and said, "Tell me."Yingluo still didn't say anything, Fu Heng began to rub, Yingluo felt itchy and unbearable, she couldn't stop laughing and panting, so she said: "Okay, okay, I say!"I said!

Fu Heng let her go, got on the rattan stool, and held her in his arms.Yingluo leaned close to his ear and whispered: Shen Bi was the one in his heart.Fu Heng looked at her, his eyes flickering.Yingluo smiled and said: I want to ask how I know?Fu Heng nodded.Yingluo touched his right cheek with her fingers, and then said: Aisha told me.Fu Heng sighed and said: Why did she tell you?Yingluo said: I think she must know, she told me a lot about Shenbi, but when I asked her this question, she never told me, so I knew.Fu Heng laughed, scratched her nose, and said: So she didn't tell you.

Yingluo also smiled and sighed, then lay on her back with Fu Heng side by side, looked at the starry sky together, and said:

In fact, I should have thought about it a long time ago. When you went to Yili that year and she sang "Bai Shi Lang" for me about Tianshan snow lotus, I should have thought of it, and I should have thought of it when I was in Jinchuan.Also, when the emperor moved to Yingtai that year, she told me that I should rest assured of you. Later, in Yujing Garden, she asked the emperor to let you dance swords and recite poems for you; Concubine Chun is because of you, she was not surprised at that time... It turns out that she has been silently doing it for you.Not only her, but Aisha.I have also asked her many times why she became a saint, but she refused to say that she does not need to be a saint in order to escape marriage... If it is an irrelevant person, why can't she tell me...

Aisha’s name is Yichuolamo, which is the name of the beautiful goddess at the highest peak of Danbamerduo Mountain. She is such a beautiful woman and born in such a family, but she is a very simple person. , Shen Bi also said that she is pure and born from the heart, so she can look like a Bodhisattva.Unexpectedly, she also fell in love with the young master so early in the morning.At that time, she and Shen Bi were both in Jinchuan, so they must know a lot about Master.She really knows how to judge people, and marrying Pudawa also knows how to judge people.

Fu Heng looked up at the vast night sky, and said casually: That's all in the past.Yingluo then turned around and said: I had an intuition a long time ago that the person in Shen Bi's heart was you, and then I thought I was wrong, but I didn't expect it to be so.That year, Doro was ordered to start collecting the list of factions. In fact, both you and Shen Bi knew it, and you didn't tell me earlier.

Fu Hengcai said: I'm afraid you are worried, if you don't say anything else, you will worry about Rongrong and Doro.Yingluo nodded, and said: I met Doro once in Changchun Pharmacy recently, and I said 'thank you', but he sat silently for a while without saying a word.Fu Hengdao: Last year, two days before the Wanshou Festival, he came to me and asked me about you and Hongzhou. He always suspected that there was a festival between you and Hongzhou. I told him.Yingluo looked at Fu Heng in surprise.Fu Heng and her looked at each other, and then smiled, Yingluo suddenly understood, and Fu Heng also knew that Doro was treating her, and he didn't know what to say for a while.Fu Heng smiled and said: You know, he rarely asks.He knew that you were adopted into Nalan's house. I didn't mention that Sister Aman was originally a court lady, so he didn't know that you were the original concubine Ling.After he listened, he only told me that he would get things done.

Yingluo also smiled, and said with emotion: You men... Shen Bi said that she knew that Zheng Ying was sent by the emperor to watch Yongqi, and told Yongqi early in the morning, but how did she know?Li Yu didn't tell her again.Fu Heng smiled and said, "She knows the emperor, right? Didn't I say, 'Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who wish to take the bait', the emperor didn't target Yongqi alone, he said it was okay to inspect the prince. The incident in Yangzhou was similar to the incident in Taihang Mountain back then." , The matter of Taihang Mountain is related to seizing the heir, so he also suspects that someone planned it for the elder brothers, not only the elder brother, but of course he must pay attention to the people around the elder brother.Yongqi is in the shadows, what is she afraid of?Didn't you also say that if you don't want to be strong?

Yingluo looked at the moon and sighed, "I think the moonlight in this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is particularly good. It's the bright and gentle eyes of sister Rongyin looking at us from the sky."Royal affairs are really not simple, nor will it be simple.There was such a coincidence in the matter of the bird gun last year. When Yongxie went to destroy the old bird gun, Huang Xing took a leave of absence for a few days because of an urgent matter at home. If there is no life, Zheng Ying will also be in trouble.Shen Bi heard from Li Yu that Huang Xing begged the emperor for a transfer, but the emperor disagreed and asked him to stay in Yongxuan Mansion. Zheng Ying also told Li Yu that he really couldn't relax for a moment.Shen Bi also said that she and the emperor didn't sleep well in the next few days, and they were afraid when they thought about it, and said that they were blessed by Allah.Being a parent is all about worrying, but fortunately, Sister Hai doesn't know.

Then he turned over and nodded his nose and said: Young Master, how did you know that Shen Bi treats you?When did you know?Fu Heng then said that Concubine Rong was seriously injured and fell into a coma that night outside Yangzhou City that year, and she leaked her thoughts.

Yingluo immediately sat up, put down her fan, and said relentlessly: "Okay, you knew it so early, but you never told me!"No wonder you wrote that long letter to Cheng Hao after the incident... I always thought that Shen Bi dealt with Hong Zhou because of the incident with Tong Shun Zhai and made friends with me again!It turns out that she is actually after you!As he said that, he reached out to Fu Heng's flanks and scratched. Fu Heng hid and said with a smile: "What do you want to know?"Then take her both hands.

Yingluo's hand was caught and she couldn't break free, so she stared angrily.Fu Heng hurriedly let her go, and said: "She is not just for me, nor is it just for the two of us. The fourth elder brother of Queen Hongzhou is not just our private affairs, nor is it just the emperor's family affairs. What I mean is that she is not only for the emperor. , for the harem, for everyone in this world.She didn't know about Sister Aman.

Yingluo still acted angrily and ignored her.Fu Heng held her hand and coaxed her: "Okay, I was wrong. I should have told you earlier, but I didn't want to hide it from you. I just didn't want you to worry about it."Yingluo then turned around and smiled sweetly: So she was the one who saved you in Sailimu Lake!Fu Heng looked at her in surprise. He didn't say anything about Fatimah that night in Yangzhou when she was unconscious. She was so sensitive.

Yingluo snorted and said: There is nothing in this world that I don't know, I will always know.That year, we were in the cave by Sailimu Lake, what were you thinking about?Fu Heng suddenly remembered the words Fatima carved on the stone, and blurted out: "Thousands of mountains and trails, I will walk with you."Yingluo said: What?Fu Heng then pulled her down, held her in his arms, and repeated in her ear: "Thousands of mountains and paths, I will walk with you".

Yingluo's heart was extremely sweet, she closed her eyes, and after a while, said in a low voice: Actually, Shen Bi is today, and it's all because of the young master, she is indeed the second woman in your heart, right?Fu Heng smiled slightly, only held Yingluo's hand tightly, and said: We made it.Fu Heng has belonged to Wei Yingluo life after life, starting from the day he met her in the Forbidden City.

At the same moment, the phrase "thousands of mountains and paths, walk with you" is also being recited by another person.This man is the emperor.Concubine Rong took him on her arm and was walking in Le'anhe's courtyard.Before, the emperor looked at the moon and said, "I wish you a long life, and you will share the beautiful beauty of thousands of miles", so Concubine Rong laughed: Your majesty, it sounds a little sad and regretful.Shen Bi likes "thousands of mountains and paths, walk with you".So the emperor repeated, "Thousands of mountains and thousands of paths, I will walk with you", and then his eyes lit up, his heart suddenly became clear, and all the emotions in the morning were gone, and he looked at Concubine Rong.

Concubine Rong smiled softly at him, and said: Empress Empress, Concubine Gao, Madam Nalan, no matter where they are, they and you are "thousands of mountains and thousands of paths, walking with you", because they are all in your presence. In their hearts, you are also in their hearts.The emperor smiled and said: What about you?Concubine Rong looked at him narrowly, tilted her head and asked: What do you think?The emperor didn't speak, but when Concubine Rong saw that he was awkward again, she smiled and said: Of course.

In the moonlight, the emperor saw that she was wearing a luxurious white gold-rimmed palace dress, with big curly hair hanging around, and her eyes were shining faintly. , she was wearing a similar one, but that day when she was in front of people, she combed her hair and had a big ruby ​​hairpin in her heart. She was so happy that she stopped and took her into her arms.Concubine Rong asked in a low voice: Why do you like me?The emperor's eyes lit up, and he asked with a smile: What do you think?Concubine Rong smiled without saying a word.The emperor chanted:

Take safflower, take white snow, and wash your face for joy;

Take white snow, take safflower, and wash your face with your children to make beauty;

Take the bonus, take the snow white, and wash your face to make it shiny;

Take the snow white, take the bonus, and wash your face with your son to make Huarong.

After chanting, he looked at her and said, "That's why you are called Concubine Rong."Then he nodded her nose and said meaningfully: Some people say you are a bone spirit!Concubine Rong turned her face away and said with a smile: You are lying to me again, summer is over, who still drinks plum soup?Then he turned his face back, looked at the emperor with a smile, and said, "Do you think so too?"The emperor gave a heavy "hmm" and asked: Do you want my life?Concubine Rong smiled again, put her arm on his shoulder, pretended to slap his face, and said: I want it, of course I want it, I said earlier, Chen Bi only wants you.As he said, he held the emperor's face and kissed the emperor. The emperor was caught off guard, widened his eyes, and then closed them.

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