Story of Yanxi Palace: Red Seal Spring Star

At noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yilu brought two women in their thirties to see Wei Mei. He asked the two women to go in, and he replied outside the inner room door: Madam Ling, this is The servant is Qigege's two nanny, now there are six people looking after Gege day and night, you can rest assured.Wei Mei thanked her, and the two women greeted her, and Wei Mei told everyone to go down, saying that she wanted to have a few words with Mrs. Yilu.Because of what Concubine Rong said yesterday, Yilu couldn't help feeling uneasy.Just listen to Wei Mei who is inside the door and say: My lord, Concubine Rong didn't embarrass you yesterday, did she?Yilu felt relieved, and said: Thank you for your concern, Concubine Rong only said that the slaves should take good care of your empress and Qi Gege.

Wei Mei said: My lord, you and your wife have always taken good care of me, Wei Mei will keep it in mind, my lord, don't see outsiders, speak at ease.Yi Lu said: "Thank you, Madam, I have neglected Madam a lot in the past. You are magnanimous and generous. I am grateful to you. The old wife also wants me to take good care of you. It's just that I am not satisfied with this, so I will do as I wish."These two empresses can definitely rest assured that they are family members of people who have followed the servant for many years, and the servant has carefully instructed them.According to the servants, you are going to be promoted, my lord, congratulations.

Wei Mei hurriedly said: Thank you, my lord!I just gave birth to a princess, and I will be promoted somewhere, the adults joked.Yilu said: "The servant's family is old acquaintances of the empress, so the servant presumptuously said that you must keep the emperor well and give him a son, so that your position in the palace will be stable, and the servant and the old wife will also be able to enjoy some glory in the future." .Hearing what he said, Wei Mei thought it was Concubine Rong who was strict with him yesterday, but now that the Empress is here, he felt that life was difficult and worried, so he laughed and said: Your Excellency is serious, Concubine Rong and Empress Empress are very kind Well, Concubine Rong delivered the imperial decree yesterday, maybe she said something more serious, because she was afraid of getting involved.

Yilu sighed, and said: Your Majesty doesn't know what's going on in the palace. The Emperor, Empress, Concubine Rong, and slaves can't afford to offend any of them, and slaves can't even speak in front of them. The Queen Mother is not very old now. Take care of things, the slave is to get closer to you, the empress, the empress thinks about herself, thinks about Gege, and thinks about the slaves.The slave has something else to do, so I will leave first. If the empress needs anything, please let Miss Xijun and the two newcomers come and tell the slave.

After Yilu left, Wei Mei thought deeply about what he said just now, and unconsciously had a lot of insights in her heart.Yilu, especially Li Shi, are his great benefactors. When the emperor didn't come to the Old Summer Palace, he stayed here alone, and they took good care of him.I owed Wu Min's family a lot of favors, but the emperor didn't teach me to associate with him again, so I had to find a way to repay this Yilu's family no matter what.

After Yilu went out, he went home and went to Li's house.Seeing him lying on the kang depressed and unhappy, Mrs. Li knew that it was because of what happened last night, so she comforted him and said: "My lord has been working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for so many years. I haven't seen anything. Why are you still thinking about what happened yesterday?"Yilu said: "You don't know, I can see that the emperor and Concubine Rong are on the same side, and the empress is on the other side.Li Shi was taken aback and said: What?

Yi Lu said: Concubine Rong mentions the queen mother and the emperor every now and then, isn't that just oppressing the queen?Besides, she came here under the imperial decree, and she would never dare to be self-reliant. Then who is the person who suppressed the queen, don't you understand?Li Shi said: Master, you mean that the emperor and the empress are at odds?Yilu nodded, sighed, and said: It's hard!After the empress came, Yuan Chunwang beside her hinted to me a lot of her intentions. Yuan Chunwang was originally the head of the respect room in the palace. It was not simple. He said that he was under my jurisdiction. How could I disobey the empress?As a result, the emperor made another set.

Mrs. Li was even more surprised, and asked: Is the queen going to be unfavorable to Wei Mei?Yilu said: No.Yuan Chunwang didn't mention her, she was nothing at all, how could the empress care about it, the empress just wanted to take care of things, which was what she was supposed to take care of.Li Shi said: Then what are you worried about.Yi Lu said: "Wei Mei, she was born in a bag and a daughter, but the emperor is so caring. I think he just wants to suppress the queen. Concubine Rong is just here to pass on a message. Think about it, don't you?"Mrs. Li thought for a while, and said: "My master is right.

Yi Lu said: "The empress's gift is absolutely fine. She just wants to do something, and she won't be so stupid. Concubine Rong naturally knows it, but you see that she made a big fuss and moved the queen mother out, don't you understand?"This Concubine Rong really couldn't see that she was a delicate beauty, she spoke in a leisurely manner, she was not from our place, but she was very powerful, you didn't see, Desheng's attitude towards her last night, Desheng was better than Li Yu He's easy to talk to, but I haven't seen him like that to anyone yet, I respect and delight him very much.The empress was meant by the empress dowager, but now it seems that the empress dowager has changed her mind.

Li Shi said: Well, both the emperor and the empress dote on her, she must be very good at kung fu.What are you going to do, sir?Yilu said: "What should I do?"What to do.Li smiled and said, "Then who are you facing?"Yi Lu said, "Can you still laugh?"I can only listen to the emperor, but I can't offend the queen, so I say it's difficult.

Li said: "Wei Mei is good to us. The emperor values ​​her. Of course he is good to us. The master should be happy."Yilu said: "I understand now why the emperor hired so many masters to teach her in the morning, and you know that this command word was used by the one who used to serve the queen mother in the Yuanmingyuan, and that one was also surnamed Wei, coated Being a court lady, the emperor must have thought about it a long time ago.

Li said: "I don't think so, how does the emperor know about Wei Meixing?"And she looks nothing like the original one.I heard from her before that the emperor didn't even visit her, and she also gave birth to a daughter. You are overthinking it.Yi Lu said: "The more I think about what happened before and after, the more I become more and more afraid. If one is bad, our whole family will lose their heads."Mrs. Li said with a smile: "Then what does the master mean to resign?"Yilu didn't think about this, and was taken aback for a moment.

Seeing his expression, Mrs. Li said: "Since the master doesn't want to resign, then think about what to do. Didn't you say that you said something to Mr. Fu Heng recently? He is now in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is the emperor's brother-in-law." A confidant, a military minister, naturally understands what the emperor is thinking.Yilu was overjoyed, and said: Ma'am, you are smart, yes, Concubine Rong needs to get close, but I'm afraid I won't be able to do so for a while, Mr Fu Heng and I often meet each other now.

Mrs. Li nodded and said: "I will tell Wei Mei when I have a chance later. She is a smart person and listens to me. Master, please relax."Yi Lu nodded and said: Well, I have spoken to her a few words today, telling her to give birth to another son for the emperor as soon as possible.Mrs. Li laughed: Do you want to have a baby?It's easy for you to say.Yilu ignored her teasing, and was very happy in his heart, only feeling that a big stone in his heart had been removed.

After the family banquet on the [-]th night, fireworks were set off on the north shore of Houhu Lake outside the Changchun Immortal Pavilion. After watching the fireworks, the emperor and the queen went back to Louyue Kaiyun.After changing, the queen asked the two wet nurses to bring Twelve Elder Brothers and Wu Gege.The emperor hugged Wugege, who had been there for more than two months, and seeing how small she was, he said to the queen: Queen, she looks like you.

The queen smiled and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, she doesn't get sick because she eats little, and the imperial doctor said she wasn't afraid."The emperor nodded.The queen said again: Your majesty, you haven't seen Qi Gege yet, she looks like the emperor.The emperor smiled, handed the child to the wet nurse, and said to the queen, "Whether it looks like Zhen or Erniang, they are all my golden branches and jade leaves."Zhaoyang will be our Princess Gulun of the Qing Dynasty in the future, as I said earlier.

The queen was very sweet in her heart, and said with a smile: Thank you, Your Majesty!The name you gave, the concubine also likes it, Zhaoyang, what a lively name.What name do you plan to give Qigege?The emperor pondered for a while, and said: I didn't think about it before, since the queen asked, I thought about it temporarily, let's Zhaohua.The queen said: This name is also good.I thought to myself: Zhaoyang is better and more interesting. Like Yongzheng, it is the name of Zhonggong's child.

"璂" is the jade ornament inlaid on the suture of the leather bean. According to the Ming and Qing dynasties, only the emperor's leather crown can be decorated with twelve 璂. Therefore, the emperor named her eldest son this name. The Yongcong that the emperor gave Seventh Prince was comparable. "Cong" is an ancient jade ritual vessel, which was used in the temple of Zongshi.

Then the emperor hugged the twelfth elder brother on his lap again, Yongzhen was not yet four years old, he was born with beautiful features, the emperor teased him and said: Yongzhen, when did you see Huang Ama last time?Elder Brother Twelve looked at Nala's family and then at the nurse, but couldn't say anything for a long time.Nala was unhappy with his son, but said to the emperor: "Yongxi hasn't seen you for half a year, and I'm a little strange."The emperor smiled and said, "It's my fault, Yongzheng is still young."Then he said to Elder Brother Twelve: You have to listen to Grandma.Grandma is the wet nurse.Elder Brother Twelve smiled and said: Yes, Huang Ama.

After the nurse took the child down, the queen said that the family banquet was very tiring, so she asked the emperor to go to bed and rest.The two were lying on the bed, the queen leaned on the emperor's arms, and said: I heard that you have passed the cold, and my concubine is afraid that you will not be able to have dinner today.The emperor said: I'm fine, just a little tired, go to bed early.Then he closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.

The queen was a little disappointed and didn't say anything to the emperor, but her husband lay beside her, feeling very comfortable in her heart, and after watching the emperor for a long time, she fell asleep.The next morning, because he didn't have to go to court early, the emperor didn't get up until [-]:[-] a.m. when he saw the queen was still leaning on his arms, he gently moved her away and got up by himself.

Then Nala also woke up. Seeing Li Yu dressing the emperor, the emperor smiled at her and said, "Queen, sleep a little longer. Today, I will accompany Huang Erniang to worship the Buddha at Zhengjue Temple. The annual drama will be postponed until the third day of the junior high." .Nala asked, "What time is it?"The emperor said: I will go back to Jiuzhou Qingyan first, and then I will go after breakfast.Nala said: "Is Concubine Rong's sister going too?"The emperor said: "She hasn't completely recovered from the cold, and she will come to greet you later."Nala said: "Then the concubine is going to serve the emperor and the queen mother?"The emperor said: No need, the queen should rest too.Then he went out.Nala knew that this was what the emperor, mother and son wanted to say.

After the emperor left, Zhen'er came up to dress her, and said, "Madam, the emperor is coming and going in a hurry now, and Zhen'er can't bear to see it."Nala said: I look at the emperor, but now he's not doing well here, and he doesn't go to the newcomer's place either, because he's too busy ahead.Zhen'er said: "How did the concubine Ling have a child?"Nala said: "That was at the beginning of the year."Zhen'er shook her head and said: Didn't you hear that, Yilu said that after the emperor came here, he got up early every day to ride and shoot, and only rested during the Chinese New Year.

Zhen'er saw that Nala's mood was depressed, so she stopped talking, thinking: every time the emperor comes, the empress will be unhappy, it would be better not to come.Later, after returning to the house, he told Yuan Chunwang, Yuan Chunwang said: The emperor's heart has never been with the empress, not because of Concubine Rong at all.Zhen'er then sighed and said: "It's a pity that the empress just doesn't understand."

On New Year's Eve, Fu Heng and his wife took their son back to Mashen Temple Street for a reunion dinner. Everyone hadn't seen Fu Long'an for almost two months. They all said he was too heavy, and the old lady couldn't see anything, but they heard their grandson giggling. He laughed straight, and was extremely happy in his heart. After holding the child for a while, he also said that his arms were sore.The second sister-in-law hurriedly took it, hugged Fulongan upright, patted him gently, and then hugged him horizontally in her arms, teasing him all the time, unable to put it down.

The eldest sister-in-law smiled and said: Second sister-in-law really likes it more than her grandson!The second sister-in-law said with a smile: Long'er looks really good-looking!Don't you think so?Suddenly, Fu Long'an turned his eyes around, looked for someone everywhere, and then burst into tears with his mouth puckered.The second sister-in-law was busy giving it to Yingluo, Yingluo smiled and said, "Give it to him, Ama."

Before the words were finished, Fu Heng had already carried Fu Longan away, and the child immediately stopped crying and lay on his shoulder, grinning.Both the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law were very surprised, and said to Yingluo: Fu Heng is not at home, the child is still so clingy to him?Yingluo said with a smile: the first thing he did when he came home was to hug his son.Long'er would stare outside the door almost every day when his Ama was about to come back.Everyone was amazed, saying that Fu Longan was smart, the old lady said: Fu Heng was like this when he was a child, at that time he liked Rong Yin the most, and whenever he heard Rong Yin's voice, he wanted to find her.After hearing this, everyone felt dejected, and the whole room suddenly fell silent.

Seeing tears in Fu Heng's eyes, Yingluo hurriedly took her son over and said, "Emiang, the Queen Mother brought you a sheepskin blanket from Chahar, which is so beautiful."As she spoke, she winked at Pearl, and Pearl immediately went to open the bundle and took out a small snow-white fur blanket. Yingluo said it was Mongolian lamb wool, a gift from Prince Horqin, and everyone praised it when they saw it.Yingluo asked Fu Heng to spread the old lady's chair, and Fu Heng took it, helped the old lady up, spread it, and then helped her to sit back.The old lady was very happy, and said in her mouth: "Okay, okay, go back and thank the queen mother for me."

Afterwards, Yingluo carried her son and Fu Heng to Rongyin's sacrificial room, and brought Fu Long'an to pay her New Year's greetings.After talking about Fu Long'an for a while, Yingluo saw that Fu Heng's eyes were full of tears, so she asked Pearl to take the child away and closed the door.Fu Heng was still kneeling on the futon, so she walked over and hugged him in her arms. Fu Heng wept and choked up, and said: My sister taught me to read when I was four years old. It's a thousand words.Yingluo had a sore nose and shed tears, saying: I still remember the scene when my mother taught me how to read and write in Changchun Palace.The two stayed in silence for a while, and when their tears dried up and their mood calmed down, they left the sacrificial room.

This was Yingluo's first time participating in a group dinner, and she felt that she was treated as a noble person by the Fucha family, and she was really overwhelmed.The old lady has been praising her, saying that she is good everywhere. She remembered that Fu Heng said at that time that she had a child, and the old lady would really treat her as a family, and looked at her son happily... I didn't eat the safe meal, because Fulongan kept looking for him to hug.

In the evening, the couple rested in Fu Heng's study.Holding Yingluo in his arms, Fu Heng said: Before, in this room, when I came back to sleep, I kept holding that sachet, thinking of you.Yingluo hummed, then kissed him on the lips.Yingluo felt that Fu Heng was very attached to her tonight, Yingluo hugged him, and suddenly remembered that in the study of Yujing Garden, she saw Fu Heng crying in her dream that night, she couldn't bear it, so she kissed him on the neck inside.

After a while, Fu Heng turned over and hugged her in his arms, and kissed her cheek, she whispered: Young master, don't be sad, you still have Yingluo.Fu Heng hummed, and hugged her tightly. She was very sweet in her heart, and she felt full of Fu Heng in the dark.In the end, she saw another tear from the corner of his eye, and felt very satisfied in her heart. She could make him so happy, vent, heal and heal the pain in his heart... Also, Long'er, the son she gave birth to him, also The best way to heal and heal the pain in his heart...Suddenly he remembered a poem he read recently called "Chizi":

May the heart of a child be able to pave a smooth road

May the goodness of the original heart shine through the eyebrows

May the kiss of relaxation be to those who are at ease

May the body follow your soul

May there be a door to confide in the sad spring and autumn

May the city where I live have a pillow for sleeping peacefully

May there be no trace of grievances, may kindness wait for you

May those who attack the heart be relaxed and stupid

no longer ask

This is a little poem she likes very much.

The author has something to say:

[Babysitters] The princes of the Qing Dynasty had eight routine nannies and eight nurses each, which was extremely luxurious.

[Fucha's sister-brother relationship] In the "Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty", there was a special record of one thing: "Empress Xiaoxian and the Bachelor of Economics and Economics (that is, Fu Heng) are close relatives, teaching achievements, and kindness. I am also because among the younger brothers of Empress Xiaoxian, it is not easy to get such a loyal servant, so I am favored by it." Explaining the close relationship between Empress Xiaoxian and Fu Heng, it shows that Empress Xiaoxian cares about Fu Heng's childhood growth and even The development after embarking on an official career has a profound impact.

Some people believe that the relationship between Concubine Yuan and Baoyu in the Red Chamber is completely based on the relationship between Empress Xiaoxian and Fu Heng's siblings. The prototype of Yuanchun is that Xiaoxian has a high content. "Before that Baoyu entered the school, when he was three or four years old, he had already been taught orally by concubine Jia, who taught him several books and thousands of words in his stomach. Although his name is sister and younger brother, his condition is like mother and child." After a few strokes, Yuanchun and Baoyu have a deep relationship, which vividly appears on the paper. Here is Fu Heng's family affairs, which is an excerpt from the previous "Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty".The novel refers to this passage.

It is set in the original play that Fu Heng entered the palace as a companion at the age of six. According to the age difference between Fu Heng and his sister, this is almost the age when his sister entered the palace. It seems to be related to the above textual research. That is to say, when the queen is at home, She was the one who taught Fu Heng. She married into Prince Bao's Mansion, and Fu Heng also joined the palace to study. In addition to being taught by the best emperor teacher, she was also close to and influenced by Qian Xiaosi.Gan Xiaosi's affection for him is very convincing. Gan Xiaosi also values ​​the qualities and traces of his sister in him, as well as the painstaking efforts he has poured into him.His understanding of Xiaosi, his loyalty and true love are justified. His love for Sister Wei, who is pure in nature and smart and capable, is justified to the extreme.

[Poetry] This is a lyric from the episode "Out of the Dust" of the TV series "Crane Huating", borrowed from the novel as a vernacular poem.