[Red Mansions] The promotion of the female history of salted fish

The Empress Dowager was ill for a while, and her vitality was exhausted after all, so she didn't get out of bed for three or five days.It seems that the emperor finally remembered after many years that he still has a biological mother. He reported to the Compassion Palace every day after the court.

The queen mother also cooperates, she accepts the filial piety given by the emperor, and will not ask for anything if the emperor does not give her.In this way, it aroused more guilt from the emperor, and the treasures and supplements were moved to the Compassionate Palace like flowing water.Although in the past, no one in the palace dared to treat the queen mother slowly, but the concubines may not be so, especially the concubine Zhen Guifei who is in charge of palace affairs takes the lead in ignoring the queen mother. go.

Now the emperor didn't know what kind of wind he had, and his attitude towards the empress dowager turned 180 degrees. Why don't these concubines who followed Zhen Guifei's footsteps flash into the air?In the past few days, the porcelain in the palace has broken faster than before.

Concubine Zhuang was not in a hurry.Concubine Zhen Gui was disrespectful to the Empress Dowager before, and it was so-so when she went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay her respects.At that time, Concubine Zhuang felt that she was too flamboyant, but the two of them usually did not interfere with each other, and after the matter of the third princess happened, she didn't need to say these things to the enemy.Counting the concubines in the emperor's harem in detail, the high-ranking concubines who can maintain respect for the queen mother from the beginning to the end, really no one can fight her for two rounds.

Of course, even if no one can compare to her in terms of past performance, Concubine Zhuang is still cautious.During these days when the Queen Mother was ill, her daily worship time to the Buddha had been upgraded from the original quarter of an hour to two quarters of an hour.

Thinking of the feeling of kneeling for a long time when she accompanied the fifth concubine to burn the scriptures two days ago, and the coolness from the ground crawling up her knees, Yunling decided to make a heat-generating futon.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. The winter artifacts of later generations, electric warmers and little suns, sound like they are fully functional, but Concubine Zhuang, as the ruling class, definitely has a lot of "artifacts" in winter.Not to mention Mrs. Tang when she was sleeping at night, but during the day, the delicate and compact hand stoves and foot stoves in the warehouse of Changchun Palace are enough to fill a Duobao Pavilion.

As I said before, the small Buddhist hall in Changchun Palace was newly built this year. Concubine Zhuang did not have the habit of worshiping Buddha in the past winters, so naturally there were no thicker futons in Changchun Palace.If she couldn't hurry up and make this hot futon, it was guaranteed that someone would jump out to share Concubine Zhuang's worries within a week.

Yunling's method is very simple. She first ordered a batch of longan-sized copper balls from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Of course, the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not give her a few smooth solid balls. Various auspicious patterns such as precious flowers and wishful thinking.In the past few days while waiting for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cast small balls, Yunling made a few futons again, and made two small openings with a diameter of no more than five centimeters at a distance of three-quarters of the radius from the center of the futons. The two sides face each other across the center of the circle.

In this way, when Concubine Zhuang pays her respects to the Buddha, she only needs to heat up the copper balls in advance, put them into a small purse with pliers and stuff them into the futon, and then adjust the angle of the futon so that Concubine Zhuang can enjoy both the hot futon and the futon. It won't be a problem.

Yunling's needlework is really ordinary in this era. Fortunately, making futons, there are good craftsmanship and good craftsmanship, and ordinary needlework has ordinary methods.Even if only the stitches are smooth, this futon still keeps Yunling busy for three days.

Three days later, Yunling went to Concubine Zhuang to present the treasure with the futon that was basically in place, causing Concubine Zhuang and Nanny Jiang to sigh, "They all said that I love her, and I think about my child all this, so how can I let this palace go to bed?" Can it not hurt?" Then he called Bai Sha, "I remember that a few years ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent up a pair of emerald imperial concubine bracelets full of green, and let you put them in the warehouse. These brightly colored things have to be brought by the little girl. It’s beautiful, you find it and reward her.”

Concubine Zhuang always used hairpins and rings to adorn Yunling with her status as a female historian, and she never took gold and silver locks directly like a court lady. This is another kind of concubine Zhuang's thoughtfulness.When making this futon with painstaking effort, Yunling only thought that it would be worth it if she could improve her favorability with the boss, but she didn't expect that there would be a bonus.This was a pleasant surprise.

"Then the minister missed the good things from the empress." Yunling glanced at Concubine Zhuang's friendliness and thanked Concubine Zhuang with a smile, and went to fetch the things together with Baisha.

Concubine Zhuang sat at the top and watched Yunling walk away, she was thinking of something while sitting on the seat.After a while, two expressions of disappointment finally appeared on his face, "A-Jiang, I think Yunling is really a good boy."

Mother Jiang knew what Concubine Zhuang was thinking, and said with a smile, "Then it is even more necessary for the empress to plan for Miao Nvshi. Doesn't this woman seek a good marriage all her life? The empress has always had a good eye, and Miao Nvshi will have to thank you all the time." The gods and Buddha let her meet the empress!"

Concubine Zhuang smiled lightly. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Bai Sha come in from outside and winked at her, so she swallowed what she was about to say, and only followed Mother Jiang's words, "That's right. When the time comes We must choose a good-looking, gentle and handsome Haoerlang for Yunling."

I heard someone outside suddenly laughing loudly, "What is handsome, gentle and handsome? No matter how capable the son of another family is, can he be better than our son?"

Mother Jiang was shocked. Apart from the emperor, the only one who could call "our son" to the princes was the empress.

Concubine Zhuang didn't realize it, she stood up and blamed, "Why didn't the emperor let someone inform you when he came to Changchun Palace, but it's my fault that I didn't go out to meet you." She said in her mouth If he apologized, his eyes looked at the emperor very tenderly, and there was a strong friendship in it.

The emperor walked around the table and came to hold her hand, glanced at the tortoiseshell glasses on the table, and couldn't help but soften his attitude towards Concubine Zhuang, "Who were you thinking about just now?"

"It's the female history of my concubine," Concubine Zhuang said with a smile, "it's not that I'm anxious to see her now, but just chatting casually. Of course, the men of our Situ family are good in everything, and they are a hundred times stronger than anyone in the world. "As she said, Concubine Zhuang glanced at the emperor secretly, but was caught by the emperor's direct gaze, so she had to look away in a hurry, as if she was holding on, "It's a pity that the princes are not around the concubines. A mere female history is worthy of it."

Seeing that Concubine Zhuang loves her so much, the person who said "the one who is stronger than the world will go a hundred times and a thousand times" is obviously referring to herself, the emperor is naturally in a good mood, "The character you like is naturally good, even if the family background is a little poor, the main house Can’t do it, can’t it be done with a side room?” At this point, the emperor’s tone sank, “I just heard that Hui’er’s youngest son is gone?”

The fifth prince born by Concubine Li was named Situ Hui.The fifth concubine seems to serve Zhuang Concubine as another mother-in-law these days, and Zhuang Concubine also has a good impression of her, and sighed, "Yes, that child has been in trouble since birth. I don’t know how many volumes of scriptures have been offered in this small Buddhist hall. When she entered the palace a few days ago, she said that Xiao San’er was seriously ill, and she knelt in the small Buddhist hall for two quarters of an hour. I can survive it, who would have thought..."

The emperor originally angered the fifth concubine, but after hearing Concubine Zhuang's words, his anger subsided a little, and he thought that the crown prince has only three sons; The good news is that the first wife gave birth to the eldest son, and there was no movement after that; the third prince has been married for nine years, no matter whether the first wife and concubines only have daughters, or did not give birth to a son until last year, and then he has the confidence to start fighting with the prince ; Originally thought that Hui'er had a good relationship with children among brothers, but now...

The emperor sighed, "I will choose the people for the prince. The fifth child should be able to come back during the Chinese New Year. You and Concubine Li can discuss and reward a few people." The eldest prince can fill the backyard with no rewards. Well, the third prince has a concubine, counting and counting, only the fifth prince who is married needs Concubine Zhuang to show him, after all Concubine Shu and Concubine Hui don't like to meddle.

Concubine Zhuang's heart moved, she bowed her head and said yes.

Yunling didn't know her fate turned a corner that day. After copying the scriptures in the Buddhist hall and returning to the back room, she heard the explosive news that Xiaoyan brought back after going out for a walk, "Sun Xuan is pregnant gone?"

A while ago, the emperor was hunting for beauty in the harem like a planter. All the palaces promoted a group of newcomers among the maids, and Changchun Palace was no exception.This attendant Sun Xuan was originally a second-class court lady next to Concubine Zhuang, who happened to catch the emperor's eyes and was taken away to sow seeds.After sleeping for a few times, I didn't see the emperor's special favor. After the freshness passed, I threw him in the Changchun Palace. Concubine Zhuang saw that she was pitiful, so she helped to say a few words to the emperor before she got it. of.Unexpectedly, she became pregnant silently!

"Yes," swiftly putting the food out of the food box, Xiaoyan sat across from Yunling, resting her chin on one hand, "There's frying pans in the small kitchen of Changchun Palace, it's almost the twelfth lunar month, the small kitchen The chefs here are too busy during the Chinese New Year. Sun Xuan's status as a waiter is low, if the empress is kind enough, I should set aside a special stove to serve her."

The small kitchen of the Changchun Palace is usually the private kitchen of Concubine Zhuang. Although the beauties, talented people, and even the maids and eunuchs who live in the Changchun Palace get their meals from here, and the beauties can even order food for money, but it is not a good time. You can eat anything you want.The purpose of setting aside a stove means that the set aside stove will be waiting for Sun Xuanshi's order at twelve o'clock, so that Sun Xuanshi can order whatever he wants to eat.

After all, no concubine has been pregnant in this palace for some years. Although Sun Xuan's status as a waiter is low, the child in his belly is valuable!In case of being promoted in the future... The only ones who can get in touch with Concubine Zhuang in the small kitchen are the master chefs, and everyone else is probably tempted by this matter.