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

"Your majesty is really disrespectful..." Concubine Zhuang lay on the imperial couch, waved back the little maid who wrapped her nails with impatiens flowers, and shook her head at Mother Jiang with a smile, "Concubine Dong has never been smart. , I’m afraid I still don’t know why I’m downgraded.”

Jiang Nanny held the silk fan and chatted with Concubine Zhuang while fanning her fan. After the little maid went out, she deliberately said, "Isn't it? It's not a small matter. She can't think about it all the time these days?" Concubine Hui's staff let a living person into the harem, and locked him up in a remote palace for a whole day in order to eliminate suspicion. It's hard for Concubine Hui to finish the work cleanly, and now His Majesty's reckoning has not been done at all.

"I'm thinking about it, but," Concubine Zhuang snorted, "with her brain, she might think she is taking advantage of the victory to pursue her." It's time to be promoted to a concubine, why is she still ranked fourth among the six concubines, not even a noble concubine.

I have to say that after so many years in the palace together, Concubine Zhuang knows Dong Concubine quite well, no, it should be Dong Meiren now.After Eunuch Chang read out the imperial decree in front of the people in the courtyard, Dong Meiren's face couldn't help but go back to the main hall and no one was seen.

Fortunately, the people in the courtyard were not completely ignorant of their faces. The imperial decree only said that Concubine Dong was demoted to be a beauty, but did not ask her to be moved to the side hall according to the treatment of a beauty. Dong Meiren gave preferential treatment.I just don't know if Dong Meiren can understand the meaning of the emperor's beating.

How could Dong Meiren have the heart to think about these things now?All these years, she has been working hard, wanting the emperor to raise her to the position of imperial concubine. This time, the noble concubine did not know what she did to let the emperor divide the palace power equally.At this time, if you push it again to make the emperor despise the noble concubine, won't the concubine position be vacant?

Well-planned, but today an imperial decree was deposed?The all-purpose excuse of the emperor's disrespect was still used!The silk handkerchief in Dong Meiren's hand was torn, "Go and find out, who was in front of the emperor before this palace's demotion, and why?"

The court lady responded and ran away. Before she came back, another court lady came back, "Madam, Eunuch Chang returned to Qianqing Palace after leaving us. The emperor is leaving Mrs. Zhen for dinner. The noble concubine is with you. During the banquet Speaking of the bandit suppression last time, His Majesty also rewarded Master Zhen with a box of East Pearls and a pair of South Sea coral trees."

"Zhen, Shi!" Dong Meiren's brightly-featured face was distorted to hideous.

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The reward received by the Zhen family overturned the jealousy of the concubines and concubines. Who wouldn't envy the imperial concubine's power over the years?Even though they are all first-class concubines, they don't have any royal power.It was so easy for the emperor to remember that there were three other concubines in the position of concubine, but as soon as he let the four concubines share the palace affairs equally, he gave something to concubine Zhen's brother to appease him.The emperor's heart is so partial!

Even Concubine Zhuang, who knew the cause and effect and had always been calm, couldn't help sighing after receiving the news, "The emperor and the noble concubine are childhood sweethearts after all."

When the current emperor was young, the heirs of the former emperor died frequently, and rumors arose in the palace, saying that the ghosts of the previous dynasty were responsible.The first emperor didn't believe in these strange powers, but today's birth mother half-believes it, and insists on pestering the first emperor to send the emperor out of the palace, where he lived with his wet nurse at the time, and did not pick him up until the emperor was eight years old.

It is unbelievable that the princes who were raised in the palace by the first emperor later died of illness one after another from the age of ten to fifteen or sixteen, and there is only one single seedling left today.So now he has successfully ascended the throne, and even conferred the imperial order on the wet nurse back then, called "Mrs. Fengsheng".

This Lady Fengsheng is the biological mother of Concubine Zhen Gui.

With the affection of Mrs. Zhen, plus the fact that the imperial concubine is one year older than the emperor, and grew up together since she was a child, the life of Concubine Zhen has been very prosperous since she entered the palace. Even if there were occasional mistakes and omissions in handling palace affairs before, the emperor would not seriously care about her .So Concubine Zhuang knew that if Dong Meiren wanted to use this crude method to pull down the noble concubine at once, it was a dream come true.

At this age, he didn't think about the consequences before doing things, and even the eldest son of the emperor couldn't hold his head up.What's the point?Concubine Zhuang bowed devoutly to the Buddha statue in front of her three times. She didn't want this palace power to last long in her hands, as long as her third princess was healthy and healthy, she was satisfied.

Yunling led all the maids to stand aside to watch Concubine Zhuang worship the Buddha, and when Concubine Zhuang finished worshiping Buddha and went to the courtyard, she heard the report from the little maid, "Sister Luyun is back."

This Luyun is also one of Concubine Zhuang's eldest maids.Yunling hasn't seen her since she was transferred by Concubine Zhuang. It is said that some time ago, Concubine Zhuang saw the married third princess on behalf of Concubine Zhuang.

Concubine Zhuang has lived for nearly 40 years, and only has this one daughter, so she naturally regards this daughter more than anything else, and said repeatedly, "Let her in quickly."

I saw a tall girl coming from outside the door, wearing the green uniform of the first-class court ladies in summer, with a brown pleated skirt with embroidered leaves, and no bracelets and rings on her wrists and fingers like other court ladies. , the navy blue waist looks clean and vigorous.The fly in the ointment is that there is a bit of anger on her face, which compromises her amiable appearance.

Seeing her face, Concubine Zhuang felt that something was wrong, "What's wrong? Are you angry that someone doesn't have eyes?"

Naturally, Lu Yun didn't dare to say yes, and only picked up the good-sounding words and began to say, "The servant is going on behalf of the mother, who dares to be angry with the servant? The princess is well-fed, but she misses the mother..."

Concubine Zhuang also missed her daughter, but she still couldn't forget Lu Yun's face when she first entered the door, "Then why are you so angry?"

Seeing that she couldn't hide it, Lu Yun could only tell the truth, "The son-in-law took a concubine with wine on the last holiday."

What?Even Yun Ling who was standing on one side was taken aback, this son-in-law is quite courageous.Although it is said that three wives and four concubines were the basic operation for men in ancient times, the relationship between a princess and a son-in-law is different from that of an ordinary husband and wife.The emperor can have three wives and four concubines himself, but he certainly doesn't want to see his son-in-law also have three wives and four concubines.It is normal for a son-in-law to have a few concubines, but to serve wine and take concubines seriously is to slap the royal family in the face.

Yun Ling remembered that Bai Sha had told her some time ago that the princess had been married for less than a year.This son-in-law...is his head so hard?What is his last name?

"The Zhen family is too deceitful!" With a "bang", Concubine Zhuang slapped the table heavily with her palm, her chest heaved up and down, obviously very angry.

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Princess House.

In less than a year of marriage, the son-in-law took concubines in a grand manner, and even Luyun was angry, let alone the dowry maids who married with the princess.

When Eunuch Gao, the chief eunuch in Concubine Zhuang's palace, arrived at the princess mansion, the maids were verbally attacking the son-in-law.The princess didn't care about such an uneasy son-in-law, and was even amused by the maids.

Seeing that the princess was in good spirits, Eunuch Gao was relieved.Concubine Zhuang's rewards are very comprehensive, including food, clothing, jewelry, and decorations.The third princess accepted the reward with a smile, and stuffed a purse for Eunuch Gao. Before she could speak, someone said again at the door, "The reward from the Holy Majesty has arrived."

Ever since Lvyun returned to the palace, the third princess had expected that Concubine Zhuang might reward something, so she had already made preparations.But the reward from the Holy Majesty was caught off guard.

"Your Majesty is concerned about his daughter." The maids welcomed Eunuch Chang in with smiles on their faces.The Holy Majesty rewarding the princess is no different than Concubine Zhuang's rewarding the family. The maids set up the incense table, and the eyes of the three princesses were shining when they knelt down to listen to the decree.

Compared with Concubine Zhuang's various rewards, the emperor's rewards are very pure.Angelica, red peony root, salvia miltiorrhiza, rehmannia glutinosa, safflower, Cyperus cyperi, buliuxing...

When sending off Eunuch Chang, the smile on the third princess's face was stiff.

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"The Holy Majesty rewarded the medicinal materials?" In the palace, hearing the news brought back by Eunuch Gao, Concubine Zhuang couldn't believe it.

Yunling stood aside, her heart was also overwhelmed by the barrage.Even though he was raised in Zhen's family since he was a child, the son-in-law rewarded his daughter with a bunch of medicinal materials that nourish qi and blood and help women conceive... What, what does the emperor mean? If she gets pregnant earlier, the Zhen family won't be able to!

Seeing Concubine Zhuang standing unsteadily, Baisha and Zizhu hurriedly helped her to the imperial concubine's couch.

Are there too many ice basins in this room?Why does the coolness seem to penetrate into the bones along with the breath?

Concubine Zhuang slowed down for a while, and seeing Yunling's faces wrinkled into a ball, she collected herself and asked Eunuch Gao who brought back the news, "How is the princess now?"

"When the maidservant came back, the princess seemed to be in better spirits than before." Speaking of this, Eunuch Gao was also a little puzzled, "If you are worried, I should call the princess into the palace tomorrow to have a look."

"Forget it," Concubine Zhuang was silent for a while, then shook her head and said, "I am busy with palace affairs now, so I will be gone for now. I will see her when she returns to the palace after a while."

This is sad to say.Not to mention the princess, even Concubine Zhuang's current status in the palace depends entirely on the emperor?The emperor decided this matter, so what if he called him back to the palace?Was caught by the emperor and taught the way of being a wife again?

However, Yunling watched coldly, Concubine Zhuang really cared more about palace affairs.If it is said that in the past, she probably still had food, drink, and theatres, and by the way, she meant to give Zhen Guifei two points, but now she does not let go of the rights that have been allocated to her.In the past, Bai Sha was often ordered to go to the small library of the Changchun Palace to find travel notes and prose to read to her, but now they have become the palace's account books, but the small Buddha Hall still does not leave for a day.

I have to live healthy and healthy, and watch, to see what will happen to this proud Zhen family and this noble concubine Zhen who is loved by three thousand people.Concubine Zhuang knelt in front of the Medicine Buddha, with a serene smile on her lips.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Li and the fifth concubine have arrived." On this day, just after finishing the palace affairs in the morning, before entering the Buddhist hall, a little palace maid reported.