Emperor Tong's Concubine Tong in Qing Dynasty

Tian Mi also felt that something was wrong.

In the past ten years, there have been days when the weather is good, and there have been times when Jiangnan was hit by disasters.The money sent every year is different, but I can know it well.But this time Tian Mi felt that she couldn't understand the ledger.

Tian Mi's armor knocked on these ledgers one after another.

Hong Hui ran over and hugged Tian Mi's calf, "Ma'am~"

"Are you acting like a baby again? What do you want to do?"

"Eat soup~"

"It looks like I'm hungry, bring the custard quickly, don't starve our little elder brother."

Tian Mi took off the armor on her fingers, took a small silver spoon, and dug custard to feed to Hong Hui.Kangxi braved the wind and snow and came in. As soon as he entered the door, he asked someone to slap the snow off his body, and couldn't help saying: "It's snowing!"

"Auspicious snow heralds a good year." Hong Hui shouted.

Kangxi was obviously surprised, "Who did you learn this sentence from? The main reason is that this child has aura. Even if other children teach this sentence, they don't know where to say it. Look at him, how well he answered the words." .”

"I just said that when it started snowing just now, who knew he remembered it."

Kangxi hugged Honghui and held her in his arms. Seeing Honghui eating the custard bit by bit, he couldn't help sighing.

Tian Mi asked him: "The New Year is coming soon, what is there to sigh about?"

"Astragalus said, the concubine's child is a princess, a spoiled guest."

"Isn't it normal to have a sister first and a younger brother later? Don't you see that the boss and his family also have an elder brother now? They are still young, and they will have a son in the future."

But these words did not persuade Kangxi, the person placed by Kangxi told him that the relationship between the crown prince and the crown princess was not good, and the crown prince didn't like the female relatives of Yuqing Palace very much.

"Put some more people at the prince's place during the draft, Guo Lai Changjun, how can the grandson handle the matter at a young age?" He was a little worried, and hugged the little grandson in his arms even tighter, because of the heavy snow, Around the capital, and even in the northern provinces, many people will freeze to death at this time. In previous years, the fourth child came forward to manage it. It’s more than 40 years since the capital died, and I can’t help but think of the grandson’s father in my arms: “The fourth child is blessed, and the first one to be born is elder brother.” Perhaps the fourth child has pity for all living beings in his heart, so he is also pityed by heaven invisibly , This means that people who have accumulated good deeds must have Yuqing.

"The third child is even more blessed. The first child is an elder brother, and he is born in the first place."

Kangxi shook his head, "The blessings of the third brother are not that great. This is what I want to tell you. In the past two days, the medicine storehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been opened, and the boys of the third family will use it."

Tian Mi paused for a moment, and couldn't help asking in surprise, "Ill?"

Kangxi nodded, "Let's see if this kid is lucky enough to survive."

Honghui in his arms raised his head to look at Kangxi, stretched out his small hand and patted Kangxi's big palm, "Mafa, you're not sad."

"Mafa is not sad, eat yours."

Tian Mi then dug out a spoonful of custard with a silver spoon and fed it to Hong Hui, "When is Cousin going to marry Lao Qi? It was too late a year ago, let's wait until the next year. When is the year?"

"It's all right, let's see if there are any good days? Look at your frown, what's the matter, is the money not good enough?" Kangxi felt strange. Over the years, my cousin has never worried about money.The Treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has money whenever it is used.

"I don't want to take advantage of it, but I feel that something is wrong with the money collected this year. As for what is wrong, I can't tell. Alas, I am worried." After speaking, he showed Kangxi a few books on the table.

The court lady showed Kangxi the pages one by one, and Kangxi couldn't see anything different, "It rained a lot in the south of the Yangtze River this year, and several places were flooded. Maybe all of the south of the Yangtze River was affected. The business of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not going well. Yes, don’t think too much about it.”

Tian Mi shook her head, "For so many years, the people in charge are the same group, I don't know if I am suspicious, I always feel that there are internal thieves, otherwise I will replace these people with another group of people Come up."

"Changing management in a hurry is easy to be affected. If the change is not good, many things will not be done well. Leave this matter alone. I will leave it to Cao Yin to investigate."

Kangxi didn't think it was an important matter, and he didn't think anyone would dare to lie about it.It just so happened that at this time, Jiangnan Sanzhi was reporting to the Nianqin Palace, and the three knelt down in front of Kangxi. After Kangxi explained what he should normally tell them, he casually brought up the matter.

"Your master and empress think that this year's money is a bit wrong, so keep an eye on it."

After hearing this, Cao Yin thought for a while, maybe the women in the harem were suspicious, and replied: "This slave will go back and investigate strictly. If there is someone who is rich in private money, I will write it in the book and submit it to the emperor."

The three of them exited the imperial study together, and when they were walking on the road, Li Xu couldn't help but ask, "What does your empress mean? Does it mean that the amount of money we handed over is wrong?"

"Maybe that's what it means." Cao Yin lowered his head and thought for a while, and there were indeed fewer handed ins.

"How is this possible? There are ledgers to prove it."

Sun Wencheng who was on the side couldn't help but said: "The account books can be faked. I don't know what the empress thinks. What link is the suspicion? Let's check where should we check?"

Cao Yin also regretted it now, so why not ask a few more questions just now.We can't complain about this errand, who made the silver really go through the weaving government's Yamen.He turned his head to look at Li Xu: "Isn't Mrs. Wang very favored in the palace? Please ask her to ask the empress for us, what does the empress say?"

Li Xu agreed, and turned around to deliver the letter to the empress.

Another purpose of Cao Yin's coming to the capital was to prepare a dowry for his daughter, and send her to the capital to prepare for marriage after the next year.When he got home, his son Cao Yong, who was less than ten years old, was waiting at the door.

"Dad is back?"

"Ah."

When the father and son arrived at the hall, Cao Yong reported the things he went out to buy with the housekeeper today, and couldn't help but said: "I didn't expect things in the capital to be so expensive. My son thought that we had enough money, but I just bought it." A few pieces, and now the money is almost bottomed out. Today’s money is not enough, fortunately, I met my eldest cousin on the road, and he gave some money to my son.”

The eldest cousin he was talking about was Li Xu's eldest son, Cao Yin didn't think much about it, "You will pay back the money tomorrow, thank you cousin again."

"Well, my son remembered it. Dad, didn't you say that officials should not make friends with princes? My son saw that the eldest cousin was respectful to the eighth master."

When Cao Yin heard this, he couldn't help but his heart skipped a beat, "Did you see it with your own eyes? As slaves, we naturally have to be respectful when we meet brothers."

"But you also said to stay at a respectful distance. On the way, you said hello respectfully, and you just leave quickly. But he still stayed there and talked to Ba Ye for a while. At that time, he asked his son to go over to say hello to Ba Ye. His son had no choice but to After following him, Eighth Master asked his son to go to his house to play with him at that time. His attitude was very kind and he didn't show any pretensions. They got so close, they said that things at home are busy recently, and father can't take care of family affairs, so he needs his son to rush back and forth, so he was afraid of delaying his sister's important affairs, so he thanked Ba Ye for his kindness and didn't go to their house. "

"That's right," Cao Yin was obviously startled. A few years ago, he was blackmailed by the two masters of the capital. In the past few years, he clearly felt that several factions in the south of the Yangtze River were fighting against each other, which made him feel like he was walking on thin ice.And the eighth elder brother and the eldest elder brother are faintly of the same school.If he got close to the eighth master, the prince would be annoyed, and if he rejected the eighth master, the elder brother would be unhappy.

This really makes people feel like a storm is coming.

"Son, no matter who is looking for you, we can't go out. You are young and don't know how to socialize. Besides, our family is the emperor's slave, so naturally we have to follow the emperor closely. The most taboo of a slave is to have two masters."

He let out a long breath, feeling that not only the water in the south of the Yangtze River is deep, but the water in the capital is even deeper.And what was Li Xu thinking?

At the eighth elder brother's house, the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother sat drinking tea together.When the two saw the crowd coming and going at the door, it seemed that many of them were family stewards who had given gifts and posts and left name posts, and some of the rest left directly.

The eighth brother then brought in a few young people, "Nine and ten brothers, come here, let me introduce you, these are all talents from the south of the Yangtze River."

Brother Nine was lazy, and couldn't help yawning when he heard these people's self-introduction.

For myna's face, he sat here for a long time, listening to these so-called Jiangnan talents talking about their romance for a long time, and wanted to stand up and leave several times.When everyone dispersed, he stood up and said goodbye, "Brother, my brother has something to do, so I'll leave first."

"What's the matter? It's hard to come out of the palace, why don't you have a meal at home before leaving, what's the matter? Tell me, brother will do it for you."

"The lady in the palace ordered you to go to Fifth Brother's house to have a look, or to ask why there is no child crying at Fifth Brother's house. You should sit down and brother go."

Elder Brother Ten stood up, "Myna, I'll go with me, I see Brother Ninth doesn't seem very happy today."

Brother Nine was really not in a good mood today, so Brother Eight told him, "Go and grab Old Nine, don't let him quarrel with Brother Fifth, by the way, I have a lot of good things here, you guys Bringing it can be regarded as a present, don't always come to the door empty-handed."

The tenth elder brother was anxious to catch up with the ninth elder brother, "They are all my brothers, so the fifth elder brother won't take it to heart."

"It's not surprising that there are many people, so bring it."

When the two brothers arrived at the fifth child's house, the eunuch at home came out to welcome them, and asked someone to pick up the gift while whispering to brother Jiu. "My lord and Fujin had a quarrel, and the slaves don't know why. Anyway, Fujin hasn't gotten up for several days. At first, my lord tried to persuade him, but later I moved to live in the study in the front yard."

"Go, go to the study."

The study room is not a place for people to live at all. The fifth prince has been sleeping on his desk for a few days, and his bones hurt from sleeping.After waking up in the morning, he hid all the bedding and made it back at night.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lao Jiu came, he first looked around, then searched in several bookcases, and finally found his brother's bedding in the corner between the two bookcases.

"Look at our fifth master, now we can't even go back to the house."Lao Jiu said and threw the contents of his arms into his brother's arms, "There are so many men, but you live the most useless life, what's wrong? You can't talk about it if you have something to say?"

"Nothing? Why are you yelling so loudly? Tell me where you want to go. Brother will take you there." The fifth elder brother was very shy. It was not a good thing to be kicked by his younger brother for such a thing, so he waved his hand to let the eunuch we back down.

Elder Brother Ten obediently found a stool next to him and sat down by himself. Elder Brother Nine didn't want to let the topic go so lightly, "You think you're keeping it a secret, don't you know how many girls with double foreheads are in your house? Eyes? No wonder Er Niang urged me to come out to have a look early this morning, it turned out to be like this, do you want me to go back and tell the truth to Er Niang?"

The fifth elder brother also felt that the matter was tricky, "My mother shouldn't care about this kind of thing, and you shouldn't come here. The quarrel between husband and wife has always been fighting at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. How common is this kind of thing? The quarrel between us is our two. matter, just leave it alone."

"How can it be ignored?" Ninth brother stood up and was about to reason with his brother, tenth brother went up and hugged Jiu brother and dragged back, "Ninth brother, forget it, don't say it, fifth brother is right This matter is the housework of the couple, but fifth brother, you have to go to the palace with your sister-in-law to tell the empress after all, after all, the empress cannot leave the palace, and everything is listened to by others without knowing the truth , No matter how realistic it is to listen to others, it’s not as good as you and your sister-in-law going to the palace to explain it to him.”

Brother Jiu felt that what he said was right, "What Lao Shi said is also reasonable, I won't talk about your affairs, as a younger brother, I have no reason to accuse elder brother, you all say that Er Niang loves me and my elder brother Eleven, actually Er Niang loves you a lot, don't let Er Niang worry about you in the palace."

Old Five nodded.

Lao Jiu broke free from Lao Ten's arms, patted the clothes on his body, found a stool and sat down.

The three brothers sat in the study in such an awkward manner. After a while, there was a maid whispering outside the door, and then an eunuch opened the door to let her in.

"Greetings to the three masters, we, Fujin, have organized a banquet, please stay and have a meal with the two masters."

Lao Jiu snorted coldly, and Lao Ten immediately agreed, "Eat, eat, eat, I will definitely stay for lunch today, and tell you Fujin to get more good wine and food. I haven't seen Fifth Sister-in-law for a few days. Let me tell you Fujin Said that there is no need to talk about so many rules, let's go to the hall to eat together." After the maid retreated, Lao Ten jumped up and pushed Lao Jiu, "If my brother doesn't say anything, why don't you just stand up and leave? Why are you so stupid? , This is obviously because my sister-in-law is soft like Fifth Brother, and they are still angry after you leave like this. Why don't they have a meal at this time to ease their relationship and let Fifth Brother move back. "

Lao Jiu really didn't want to talk to this fifth sister-in-law. After hearing this, she couldn't help but become angry, "You are right, so I will do as you said, and I will have dinner here today."

The two brothers looked at Lao Wu's face, and Lao Wu was indeed relieved.

After a meal, the couple did reconcile, but Lao Jiu was very upset, and couldn't help discussing with Lao Shi and the other two when he came out of Fifth Brother's house, "It's just that Fifth Brother is too soft-tempered. Fujin, if she is so used to showing face to men every day and doesn't teach her, master can show you eating plates on the spot, it's too shameful for her, women just can't get used to it, and then again, women are not good things , Fifth sister-in-law almost alienated the relationship between our brothers, mother and son."

"It's not as serious as you say."

"That's it."

"That depends on what kind of daughter-in-law you marry. You look at the eldest sister-in-law, then the crown princess, and then the fourth sister-in-law. They are all very virtuous. And I don't think there is anything wrong with the fifth sister-in-law. They just quarrel. That's all, you said that couples in the world don't quarrel."

Brother Jiu looked up and down at Old Ten from his horseback, "I see, you are very grateful to the sister-in-laws in front of you, and I won't speak ill of them in front of you from now on."

The tenth old man laughed foolishly, Brother Jiu made people feel very comfortable about this.The sister-in-laws remembered their kindness, and so did Brother Jiu.

The two walked along the street all the way, and within a short distance they came to the door of Si Age's house.Coincidentally, I saw the servant here pulling a cart full of things to go out. I ran into him on the road, and the servant from the fourth elder brother's house hurriedly greeted me on the street.

The two brothers looked up at the plaque. The elder brother was not at home, leaving a sister-in-law who could not come to visit.Besides, the two brothers and the fourth elder brother didn't have much in common. When they met, they wanted to hide far away. Every time they met on the road, they had to say hello. Everyone wanted to look good.This is also because the other person is not at home before passing through the door. Unexpectedly, something happened.

"Where are you taking a load of stuff to send?"

"Returning to the two masters, these are sent to the palace, and they are all used by our elder brother."

Now that they met, the two of them took these things back to the palace, "Follow behind, and go back with Master."

The two of them wobbled forward, and saw that there were still many people on the street shopping and giving gifts for the New Year, and they were also full of large and small carts.

Old Ten couldn't help but ask, "Ninth Brother, don't you think that Mynah is getting too close to those officials in Jiangnan?"

"There are some who actually let the servants of the Li family enter the house. Who are we? Who are they? The starling gave them a seat. If they come to my house, I won't even let them in."

Hearing this, Old Ten couldn't help turning his head to look at the eunuch of the fourth elder brother's family, and then beckoned immediately, calling the eunuch of the fourth elder brother's family over.

"Have people from Jiangnan visited your house?"

"Our grandfather is not at home, and no one comes to our house to deliver posts. In the past few days, all the relatives and clan palaces have been walking around."

Elder Brother Shi didn't believe it, "You Fujin are still at home, don't you think there are no women from Jiangnan coming to see you?"

"I came to a few houses, but they didn't have any relatives, and we, Fujin, didn't see each other. It was also because the Chinese New Year was approaching recently, and there were a few royal palaces that sang big plays. We invited us, Fujin, to watch the show, and we, Fujin, brought our family's The two princesses went to the theater. The elder brother of the third master’s family is not Kangtai, we Fujin and Da Fujin went to see the theater together a few times, and recently we are busy seeing stars at both ends, so we are almost not at home.”

Ninth elder brother suddenly remembered that the fourth elder brother's concubine, Mrs. Li, was related to Li Xu's family, "No one from Li Xu's family came to say hello to that backyard of your family?"

"No."

Brother Nine stopped talking, and Brother Ten keenly felt that he was not in a good mood at the moment.A group of people parted ways at the gate of the palace, the two brothers slowly returned to the harem, the tenth brother went to see the queen mother, and the ninth elder brother went to see Yifei.

Although Concubine Yi was coaxed by Lao Jiu's rhetoric on the surface, she didn't believe her son's words in her heart. "No matter what you say, my mother will believe it. Anyway, I don't care about the two of you. He is already married. It is his own business to think about how to live in the future. When the time comes to marry you, what should be done I'm done, Er Niang will never do anything wrong to you in her life. Now I hope that your little brother can grow up safely and start a family."

After speaking, he sighed, and Guo Guiren came out from behind the screen, holding a tray in his hand with a few silver ingots on it, "Sister, I found what you asked me to look for."

"I found it for him," Yi Fei turned around and patted her son's hand, "I heard that Lao Ba has a lot of money recently, even if he is a real brother, in the future even you and Lao Wu will have to settle accounts clearly. If you don’t have any money, just come to Er Niang. Don’t take money from outsiders, even if it’s from your own brother.”

"My son understands this."

"Not necessarily, I just hope that in the future, you will not just eat others' soft mouth and take other people's hands softly. If it is true that at that time, you will be soft on others and let them catch the handle, then I will be ashamed for you panic".

Brother Jiu couldn't refuse, so he had to ask his little eunuch to take the money and wrap it in cloth and carry it on his back.

When he was leaving the house, he was suddenly considerate, "Emiang, you have three sons, and you gave these to your sons so generously, how many treasures do you have hidden?"

Concubine Yi couldn't help laughing and cursing after hearing this, "You kid is still thinking about Erniang's private house, go and have a look behind with your aunt, so that you know what's going on, don't say I'm partial to you brothers I don't hurt you."

Guo Guiren said: "How much silver does your mother have, most of it is the filial piety of Guo Luoluo. Although I have saved a lot over the years, it is not cash, but some gold and silver that are not easy to sell. "

Concubine Yi nodded, "So don't always think that I'm thinking about your uncles. It's not easy for your uncles. They have supported our mother and son. After so many years, they have hundreds of thousands of silver. , but it’s only a little bit on the three of you, it’s not enough to see.”

For a moment, Brother Jiu felt that the silver on his eunuch's back was too hot to touch. "Son, I know, next time I meet my uncle, I'll talk to them nicely."

Concubine Yi sighed, "Go away."

Brother Jiu walked into the palace road, he was not in a good mood all day today, the contempt for status inherited from Concubine Yi made him feel that the starling was too polite to the people of the Li family today.But after thinking about it, the starling is the son of the emperor, why is he so polite to a man from the family of a slave?

He stood in the palace road, after thinking about this question, the answer was ready to come out.

Brother Nine ran up the palace road, and the little eunuch behind him chased after him.Brother Jiu ran to the vicinity of the Compassionate Ning Palace in one breath, squatting in the garden of the Compassionate Ninggong, panting, still recalling when he was a child, when Concubine Hui made it easier for her elder brother to live outside, it was a wild goose.How many jokes were made in the palace back then.

Has Concubine Hui ever plucked the goose feathers for the eighth elder brother?No!Concubine Liang can't even touch geese, and she doesn't even have the qualifications to pluck hair.

If we talk about the dowry of the eight blessings, there are many dowries of the eight blessings, all of which belong to the palace. Since the old prince of their palace passed away, their power has plummeted.Nowadays, there are not many channels to get money, and Guo Luoluo’s family was slapped on the face by Bafujin because he did not marry from the paternal family. It's a tael of silver that hasn't come out.

That is to say, the palace can't provide much money, and he, Fujin, doesn't have much dowry available.With such extravagance, the source of the silver can delineate several directions.

Elder Brother Ten was called out, saw Brother Nine squatting in the garden, and ran over to pull him, "What are you doing squatting here in winter? It's too cold here, go, come with me to the palace to talk to the Queen Mother."

"Old Ten, tell me, did you give myna the money your uncle gave you?"

Elder Brother Ten took off his hat and scratched his head, "To tell you the truth, Brother Ninth, I fell out with my uncle's family because of my mother-in-law's affairs. I learned some time ago that my mother-in-law's funeral Uncle's bastards were fighting while keeping their filial piety. My mother-in-law's bones were not cold yet, they would embarrass my mother-in-law."

Brother Jiu knew about this matter, in the final analysis it was because of the title, Faka and A Ling'a fought for the title left by their Ama, and did not take into account that this was the funeral of the noble concubine.

This made Elder Brother Ten's face particularly ugly. I remember that for a while, Mynah specially adjusted the conflict between the two of them. "Then you and your uncle broke up with them, where did your usual expenses come from?"

"What can I spend? The palace gives me moon silver. I eat and use it in the palace, and the clothes I wear also come from the palace. Huang Ama takes care of me. Why should I think about what I have. Have you forgotten? My aunt and my mother-in-law left me a lot of money. When my mother-in-law passed away, the imperial concubine showed me my sister’s dowry list. What to make up for. So I am not short of money."

Yes, the dowries of Empress Xiaozhao and the imperial concubine are not decimals. Empress Xiaozhao also managed the big and small things in the palace at the beginning, so I don't believe she didn't make more money at that time.Take today's fourth child as an example, why is he not short of money?That's not because the imperial concubine empress subsidizes him.Even if the queen didn't save much, after all, a dead camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten boat still has three catties of nails.

"Where did the starling get his money?"

"Are you talking about myna's money?" Elder Brother Ten looked around, "Let me tell you quietly, all the big families in Beijing worship under myna, do you know that? People from the Tong family don't go around with the fourth son." , secretly honoring mynah. This is the amount of silver that is given to them every year, and my uncle’s family, I heard from my cousins, there is a lot of filial piety every year.”

Brother Jiu seemed to be struck by lightning, "What did you say? You and your uncle don't have a good relationship. It's fine for them to eat inside and outside, but the imperial concubine just looks at the Tong family's people eating inside and outside?"

"Let me tell you quietly again, the marriage between Jiu Gege and Qi Busong of the Tong family was decided by Huang Ama, but the imperial concubine has been blocking the imperial edict, and the people of the Tong family are now scratching their hearts with anxiety. This is the empress dowager just now told me."

"What else did the Empress Dowager tell you?"

"I didn't ask specifically. Do you want to come and talk with me?"

"Walk."

After Brother Nine came, the Queen Mother became even happier, "I don't see you, a little thing, coming over, why did you think of coming to me today?"

"Didn't I miss you? The hot milk tea here is also very delicious?" Brother Jiu said something nice when he was coaxing people. A bowl of hot milk tea.

Brother Nine held a bowl and asked the Queen Mother, "Why haven't you seen the sisters?"

"They're all in the warm pavilion at the back. They're afraid of the cold. It's just you brats who like to run outside if you're not afraid of the cold."

Brother Jiu asked in a low voice: "What about Jiu Gege and Qi Busong's marriage? It's almost Chinese New Year."

"Your Huang Ama said to stretch again."

Brother Nine and Brother Ten looked at each other, and they talked with the old lady for a while before leaving.But I didn't expect Tong Guowei to enter the palace the next day. In addition to reporting the major events in the court, Tong Guowei also asked directly in private.

"Forgive me for being bold, but I can't ask such a question. The princess in the palace doesn't know when she will get married. The family has already prepared. If there is anything wrong, I beg the emperor to point it out. I am stupid. I really don't know. Where is not appropriate."

Kangxi saw that his uncle had already asked the question, and after thinking about it, he replied, "The imperial decree will arrive at your house in two or three days."

Tong Guowei quickly knelt down to thank him.

Then he stood up and rolled up his sleeves, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing I want to ask. How is the imperial concubine? The two of them broke up unhappy, and now the slave family is worried about the empress, has the anger subsided?"

Kangxi couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "My cousin has long forgotten how much a family can worry."

Tong Guowei couldn't rest assured after hearing this. If he had forgotten it a long time ago, why didn't he make this happen earlier.

But Tong Guowei had nothing to say. After quitting Qianqing Palace, he returned to his hometown with a sad face. All the young and old in the family were waiting. Looking at his expression, they thought this matter was hopeless.

"Ama?"

"Did the emperor not agree?"

Tong Guowei shook his head, "The imperial decree is coming in two or three days. It's the empress's side. It's been so long, and the empress has not responded in time. I don't know what's wrong with the empress?"

Qingfu said, "Why don't you ask Concubine Tong."

Tong Guowei shook his head, "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. During the Chinese New Year, you will pay homage. You all tell your wives to pay attention to your mother's expression when you talk to your mother."He paused at this point, he always wondered if the empress was angry with the Hesheli family, the Hesheli family is just a confused woman, and the son who is used to it is not good, if she gets angry with the empress in the palace again, she will not After going out, the older I get, the more confused I become.

Sure enough, the imperial decree arrived at Tong's house the next day, and the whole family was beaming with joy. Even though they knew about it a long time ago, they were still blushing with joy.These foreign officials who come to the capital to report on their duties must follow the lively followers.Other local families also sent congratulatory gifts early.

The princes and princesses in the palace also congratulated in person, because the fourth elder brother was not at home, and Si Fujin came to the palace early in the morning with her things. She first came to Chengqian Palace, greeted Tian Mi, and then hugged her son in her arms, "We I have prepared some things and I don't know if they are suitable or not, so I ask Er Niang to help me take a look. The relationship between Jiugege and our master is extraordinary, so the things are prepared thicker."

Tian Mi took a look, and found that they were all women's hairpin jewelry, and added two bolts of palace satin to them, "Be careful not to let them say 'satin', it is unlucky, but to say 'silk', take a good look Don't say it so deliberately, our Jiugege is different from other people, just don't poke the pain in her heart when the time comes."

After Tian Mifen finished speaking, she remembered that she had watched the birth of this little girl in the garden a few years ago, and now it has been more than ten years, and the once magnificent and ambitious Concubine De was gone.

Back then Concubine De had the intention of replacing her, and I was very afraid of Concubine De, I never thought that today I would raise her son and prepare her daughter for marriage, alas!

"The daughter-in-law went there with Honghui in her arms, and let Honghui meet more people."

Tian Mi nodded, "Go, he has already started to learn to speak, pay attention, and let those women and maids around you pay attention not to say dirty words, and let him learn it carefully."

Si Fujin took his things and carried his son to the Palace of Compassion, and happened to meet a few sisters-in-law. Except for the crown prince, the prince Fujin had already gathered here.

San Fujin had just died of his son, and he looked haggard. A person who usually likes to talk so much shut up now and didn't say a word.

Da Fujin loves her very much, and pays attention to her when drinking tea and talking, Wu Fujin's complexion is not good, just now he was blocked by Concubine Yi, and he was accused of being scolded by Sang Huai in secret, and he was in a bad mood.That is to say, Bafujin is more active, talking with a few princesses.

Sifujin went away with the child in her arms, Sanfujin burst into tears, and quickly wiped them with a handkerchief, "Honghui, do you still remember your brother?"

"Remember, brother's cloth tiger is still with nephew, did nephew bring it to you?"

Sanfujin couldn't bear it anymore, covered her face and apologized, and went to change clothes. In fact, she found a place where no one was around and hid and cried first.

Da Fujin sighed, the child has grown up so much, if it is gone, it will be gone, why is the mother not sad, so she said to the few Fujin present: "Today is a good day for the princess, don't talk about sad things, I will be here tomorrow Let’s set up a stage at our house and invite a group of actors to sing in our house, and you all come together to persuade the three younger brothers and sisters.”

Wu Fujin thought for a while, "I'm afraid that sister-in-law San won't go, I heard she's feeling uncomfortable recently."

Da Fujin also thought of it: "Just work hard for the fifth and fourth siblings, you take her over, tomorrow I will drive our prince out, is there any messy people in the backyard, let's close the door, cry if you want, laugh if you want Just laugh, don't be too taboo."

Sifujin and Wufujin nodded, Wufujin was also very depressed recently, and needed to find a place to relax, "Okay, I'll go find Sisao tomorrow, and we will go to Sansao's house together."

Ba Fujin was eating melon seeds, she was the youngest in this group of people, and she didn't get along with them much, so she didn't have much to talk to these people.Now that I heard that this group of people wanted to find a secluded place to encourage each other, I couldn't help laughing secretly.The left and right are just a group of people huddling together to keep warm and licking each other's wounds, there is no need to go by themselves.

Seeing Sanfujin's life like this, Sifujin began to worry about Honghui, who has now become her lifeblood.When sending Honghui back to Chengqian Palace, she was reluctant to let go, holding her son in her arms and dawdling in Chengqian Palace, unwilling to leave.

After dawdling until Tian Mi found out, she couldn't help but ask, "Want to take Hong Hui away?"

"I don't want to, my daughter-in-law doesn't want to, it's just... I haven't seen you for a few days, I'm panicking."

The son is not his own, the fourth master does not agree to take the child back at all, just like what everyone said, not any elder brother in the palace is qualified to be raised in the palace, Sifujin also heard some rumors today, they all say Sanfujin His son's fortune is poor, otherwise he wouldn't even be eligible to be raised in the palace.

In any case, the palace has not died of elder brother Gege for so many years.The empress can definitely keep Hong Hui, but she is not willing to part with her son.

"If you want to take him back, it's fine. Why don't you take him away in a few days and bring him back to me after the Chinese New Year."

"The house is in a mess. My daughter-in-law either goes to the host's house to listen to a play or goes to the west's house to drink, and I don't have time to take care of him, and my mother has to take care of her. Could it be that our Honghui is too naughty and made my mother unhappy?"

"Where is it, this kid has a special aura, and the emperor praises them every day when he comes."

Honghui looked up at Eniang, proudly, "Mafa boasted yesterday that his son can recite poems."

Sifujin looked delighted, "Really? Our Honghui is really amazing!"

"Emiang, when will Ama come back? It's the Chinese New Year. Is Ama still coming back? My son asked Mafa yesterday, and Mafa said he couldn't come back."

"Emiang is right, since the emperor said so, then I won't come back during the Chinese New Year."