Old things in the Red Chamber

When Jia Huan came to visit Gu Xin, he was in a daze when he saw Gu Yun. "You too, if you put on this look at home, my cousin will feel uncomfortable."

Gu Yun waved his hand, "Xin'er is much better. I've been watching since last night. Today, I see that he's panting once and it's not serious anymore. In addition, he didn't cry in the past, and now he eats delicious food. I'm relieved a lot."

Jia Huan put the medicinal materials on the table, "This is also a good thing. I think that curing a disease is worse than recuperating. If you take good care of it, Xin'er is no worse than other children."

Gu Yun said in a daze, "Tell me, how about I ask for leave and take Dai'er and Xin'er to visit the grave in Gusu?"

"Are you okay, the weather is getting colder and colder in the future, and you took a child who is only a few months away to visit the grave... What do you think?"

"It's okay, since I can't visit the grave for the time being, I'll go to Huguo Temple to do a ritual for my father-in-law first."

Looking at him, Jia Xun seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. "Yunming, are you really okay? Xin'er made you crazy?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Dai'er dreamed of my father-in-law and mother-in-law yesterday. I cried a lot in the morning, and I thought I would do a ritual ceremony to thank my father-in-law and mother-in-law..."

"Thank you for what?" Jia Xuan felt that he was really crazy.

"Thank them for giving birth to Dai'er. I will not become a bachelor. I will handle this matter myself. I will accompany you to see their mothers first. Later, we will go to Huguo Temple."

"I'm sorry," Shi Taijun wiped his tears, and said to Wang Xifeng, "There will be crabs in a few days. You invite your sister to let her relax for a day. Good brother, why did you have a gas disease, oops , it really is a fly in the ointment."

Wang Xifeng took the beauty mallet and knocked Shi Taijun's leg, "Old lady, brother-in-law Lin is capable. The adults in the Tai Hospital are diligent in going to his house. This disease will be cured sooner or later."

"you are right."

Shi Taijun took off the tortoiseshell glasses, handed them to Yuanyang, and put the letter away, "Put it in my box inlaid with screws."

A woman came in from outside the door and reported, "Old lady, the noble concubine has sent someone here, and has already gone to see the wife."

Shi Taijun was very happy when he heard the first half of the sentence, but his complexion turned bad when he heard the second half of the sentence. "knew."

Wang Xifeng understands that the old lady has disliked the noble concubine, she sings the opposite tune several times, spoils the important affairs of the family every time, and does not get close to the old lady, it seems that the old lady is also heartbroken.

"Where is Hefei, do you have any news?"

"Didn't our master show off his waist a few days ago? Jia Hou came to visit in person, and the news he brought was not about the empress, but about His Highness the Ninth Prince."

"Oh, what did he say? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Our master didn't come to tell you because he didn't think it was a big deal. It's my fault. If you don't understand, you can't remember it. It won't be more than half a month. Is it the late emperor's birthday? The Supreme Emperor left for the mausoleum of the late emperor. Your Highness the Ninth Prince said that when he came back, he would go to the various imperial tombs to pay homage, that's what he meant, and I couldn't imitate the old man's way of saying what it is called Yeling."

"You don't understand," Shi Taijun let out a long sigh, "It's a matter for the princes to follow their ancestors to show their faces, and our Ninth Prince has a good manner and is also kind. Power. Although it’s not a big deal, if every little thing is done well, it’s much worse if you don’t have to do big things.”

After being depressed for a long time, there was good news, and Shi Taijun's mood began to improve again.Regardless of the fact that the imperial concubine sent someone to contact Mrs. Wang, she talked to Wang Xifeng for a long time before sending her back, and she also started to take a nap.

The imperial concubine sent someone here to ask for money, Mrs. Wang was reluctant to part with her private house, and her husband didn't have much money, so she went to Shi Taijun.

"The empress said, it will be useful for her to ask the family to send 5 taels of silver."

Shi Taijun rolled his eyelids, "Did the empress say what is the use?"

Mrs. Wang was half annoyed, with tears in her eyes, "Ever since your empress went to that shameful place..."

"Isn't concubine He also in the palace? She has been in the palace for so many years, gave birth to two sons, and didn't ask for a penny from her family. We gave her the 5 taels. Didn't she pass these few days in peace? year?"

Mrs. Wang heard the dissatisfaction in Shi Taijun's heart, and then cried out, "The empress is high and has no children, and the people in the palace will despise her. Even if the concubine is not as high as the empress, no one in the palace dares to offend the prince. Today, people in the palace Well, I said that the food delivered to the empress is cold, how can the empress eat cold in this weather." After speaking, she began to cry, "The empress is the empress of the main palace, no one dares to treat you slowly, the fourth concubine is in charge of palace affairs, I want to be promoted, but I feel that our concubine is blocking the way... old lady..."

"Oh..." Shi Taijun also felt uncomfortable, she had heard about the harem turmoil, "Yuanyang, go, and bring the banknotes in my mahogany box."

Yuanyang came out holding the box and handed it to Mrs. Wang.

"The old woman only has 3 taels in her hand. You should give it away first. The family is not as good as every year. After the Chinese New Year, when Zhuangzi comes up to deliver the rent, I will make it up for the empress."

Mrs. Wang, the housekeeper, knows that the annual rent is only more than 1 taels. She also heard that the old lady asked the old man to give Jia Hou 10 taels of silver, but Jia Hou did not want to return it. The old lady ate and drank all these years All the money was spent by the family, and there was no chance to use the private house. At the moment, it was just 3 taels to send myself away.

"The daughter-in-law will go back first, and come back to say hello to the old lady in the evening."

Shi Taijun nodded, thinking in his heart, with [-] silver, the imperial concubine should be able to last until the New Year, and now handing the sign to see the concubine, firstly, Shi Taijun is old, and he walks slowly in the palace, which is a waste of time. There were two empresses, when they saw the imperial concubine, they were afraid that the imperial concubine would feel uncomfortable, so they simply didn't hand over the sign and asked Mrs. Wang to see the imperial concubine, and Wang Xifeng went to see the imperial concubine. Every time it was said that the concubine He was recovering from illness, Wang Xifeng couldn't see anyone here, and Zhongwuhou's mansion couldn't see anyone there, Shi Taijun didn't think much about it.Now, it seems that the second daughter-in-law has completely won over the imperial concubine.I don't know how the concubine's situation is, so let's play it by ear when the New Year's banquet is held.

Here Jia Lian was honestly serving Jia Amnesty at home, feeling agitated, thinking that he would go to Jia Zhen after a while and break the matter apart.When I went back to my yard at night, only Ping'er was with my elder sister. The two of them were looking at the flowers under the lamp. not coming back?"

Ping'er stood up and changed his clothes, "I think the old lady hasn't slept somewhere, and when the old lady leaves somewhere, she will come back."

There was a noise in the yard, Wang Xifeng walked in exhaustedly, and waved her hand when she saw Ping'er, "Take me back to her own room, good girl, mom will talk to you tomorrow, I'm really tired today."

Ping'er went out with her eldest sister in her arms. Wang Xifeng fell on the kang without changing clothes or going to the hairpin.Jia Lian looked at Nahan, "What's wrong with you? Something big happened today?"

"The Jin Chuan beside my wife fell into the well. When I fished it out, it was swollen. My wife asked me to find someone to fill the well."

Jia Lian thought for a while, "Jin Chuan is the wife's confidant, could it be that he knew something important and was..."

"The wife said that she took Baoyu away. I heard that the wife closed her eyes for a while at noon a few days ago, and Baoyu went to the wife's room. The two of them were playing ghosts in front of the wife's bed. The wife woke up and opened her eyes, angry. The three souls and seven souls moved their positions, Baoyu turned around and ran away, and his wife drove Jin Chuan out, and it took a long time. Many people knew about it. cast a well."

Jia Lian looked at the light and said, "That must not be the case. My wife loves Baoyu, and because of Baoyu's reputation, she would not drive Jin Chuan out with such fanfare. She would only give Jin Chuan to Baoyu. In the future, when Baoyu's wife comes in, she will pass Jin Chuan over." Minglu."

Wang Xifeng got up from the couch, "Second Master meant what Baoyu did, but the wife deliberately drove Jin Chuan out with this excuse."

Jia Lian nodded, and took a few glances at Wang Xifeng, "Don't go anywhere these few days, just stay at home and look after the eldest sister. I went to Zhongwuhou's mansion yesterday, and their Xuan'er is not as old as the eldest sister. She wears men's clothes. The child's clothes are elegant and elegant, and we follow Brother Xun to meet guests, we girls, when we see outsiders hiding in the arms of the maid, we look petty."

Wang Xifeng didn't talk to him about it, and listened honestly, thinking in her heart that she should stay away from there these few days, let alone the prestige of the grandma who ran the house back then, what she does is the work left over by others Son, bah, let me find someone to fill the well where someone died, who will be buried?

The Supreme Emperor took his grandson to visit the Mausoleum. This kind of thing has nothing to do with the women in the harem. Therefore, Prince Zhongshun, who is as attached to the Supreme Emperor as sticky candy, thinks that the sky outside the palace is blue, the water is green, the flowers are fragrant, and the caterpillars are Lovely, and of course caterpillars don't have to be this season.Anyway, he was in a happy mood, so he went to the imperial study to make a report. The emperor saw that he had worked hard during this time, so he sent him out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, his new love disappeared.

The king of Zhongshun was so angry that he almost took up his weapon and went out. He reported at the door that the son of the king of Chu came to visit.

The prince of Chu is the unlucky King of Xiangyang some time ago.After he was deprived of the title of Prince of Xiangyang, he spent a long time in the prison with bitterness. He was just released yesterday. Said that he was going to come out, each found something to do, pretended to be a busy person, and avoided meeting him.

I was worried that if he picked up his hobbies again, he would bring trouble to someone.For example, the fourth son-in-law, who was taken to the study by the emperor, knelt on the steps for three days and raised his legs for half a month. The fourth princess still felt that he deserved it.Wei Ruolan, who went out to play together, is still in the hospital bed. The good news is that the emperor spared him because he almost died. The bad news is that the emperor said that since he is sick, he should stay in bed for a year.

Wei Ruolan, who was gradually recovering, was confined to his own bed for a year, and no one in his family sympathized with him.

As soon as King Zhongshun, who was furious, saw his cousin, he wondered how this kid could still laugh.

The Prince of Chu was very happy. He waved a folding fan with white jade bones and a white satin face in the cold weather. He shaved his beard, put on a golden crown, and satin silk upper body.

"Brother Huang gave me an errand, saying that since I can't do well in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, let me be the censor of Zuodu. When I thought about it, having a job is better than not having a job, so I gladly accepted the job."

The corner of Prince Zhongshun's mouth twitched, "Who do you want to join?"

"I don't think about it now, but if you want to play with me today, I will make a gesture in the future." "I won't sue you in the next three months."

"You also know that being a censor is a criminal complaint. I sat up straight, didn't bully men and women, and didn't ride horses to make trouble in the street. What are you suing me for?"

Shizi shook his fan, "Does it count as occupying a good man?"

"Have I ever occupied? All I'm looking for are cheap people. Let me tell you, this trick doesn't work for me."

"Your last friend has become a good citizen. Are you planning to go to him now?"

Prince Zhongshun felt aggrieved, "Who gave him his citizenship? Is it the Northern King that bastard, we can't finish it."

"Come here and I'll tell you," Prince Chu said for a long time lying next to Zhongshun's ears, covering Zhongshun's ears with a fan. Baoyu, ask where Jiang Yuhan went?"

"My lord, do you want to bring him back?"

Prince Zhongshun narrowed his eyes, "No, you just need to ask. Don't worry about that Jiang, this king is not the kind of person who coerces others into prostitution. Since he has the ability to coax others to quit his citizenship, this king didn't do it for him." It is necessary to make an exception. You went to Rongguo Mansion to make you shake the mountain, hey, the Northern King really thinks that the King is a soft persimmon."

Concubine He recovered from her illness, she was so thin that she was almost out of shape, she was lying on the bed for more than half a year, and finally she was able to go out, Licorice put the big clothes on her, she couldn't support the clothes anymore, Licorice looked uncomfortable, " Empress..."

"Don't talk about it, it's good if you can save your life. See if the sedan chair is ready outside? It's not too late to greet the queen mother and queen."

As usual, no one was seen at the queen's place, but when they arrived at the queen mother's palace, the nuns beside the queen mother carried the eleventh prince out, and the tears of the concubine burst into tears.

The eleventh prince is a little over a year old.The two calves were moving quickly in the Queen Mother's Palace, and the elderly mothers couldn't keep up. He looked at Concubine He as if he was looking at a stranger. When he came to the Queen Mother, he stood next to the Queen Mother's legs and looked at Concubine He curiously.

"Take it back with you. Bengong's energy is getting worse and worse, and it's hard to take care of him. It just so happens that he will be brought to Bengong for nothing, and I will return him for nothing."

In the past half a year, two more princes were born in the palace. The birth mother of the twelve princes had a low status and was adopted by a concubine.The thirteenth prince's biological mother is a concubine, so there is no pressure to raise a son. As long as the weather is fine, they will bring the son to the Queen Mother. This trick is learned from Liu Guiren.

Liu Guiren is still a noble person, and the date of becoming a full-time official is nowhere in sight, and the eleventh prince is raised by her in a muddleheaded way.I heard that the foster mother of the eleventh prince is a strict old woman, and now Liu Guiren wants to hug her son in private, but if she is found out, she will have to say something to her.

It is said that Liu Guiren's retribution has come. Back then, she made an idea and took her daughter away. The mother and daughter could not see each other for ten and a half months. Now her son is in front of her eyes, and she can only look at it. Even touching it is a sin.

Concubine He coaxed the eleventh prince to get into her sedan chair, knowing in her heart that the queen mother simply returned the eleventh prince, but the empress dowager, the ninth prince might not be able to return to her side.

"Tong'er, tell my concubine what you want to eat, and concubine mother will make it for you." Concubine He coaxed him to say a few words to herself, but the eleventh prince just raised his eyelids and glanced at her, without saying a word. Play with the cloth tiger in your arms.

"Tong'er, we also have your old little cloth tiger in our palace, will I play with you later?"

The eleventh prince grabbed Buhuo by the ear, and looked up at her again.

No matter how He Concubine coaxed him, the Eleventh Prince kept quiet and only cared about playing with himself. When feeding, He Concubine would not eat. If his mothers would feed him, he would be happy to eat.

Put him on the couch, and the nanny held a small bowl, and while feeding him, she talked to Concubine He, "Our eleventh master doesn't pick up his mouth, eats whatever he gives, doesn't pick clothes, wears whatever he wears. He's the most obedient, When I first learned how to sit a few months ago, I liked to stay by the empress dowager's side, sitting when I was not tired, and leaning against the empress dowager when I was tired, without crying or making trouble."

Concubine He tried not to shed tears, thinking that even if she was placed beside her grandmother, he would be wronged.

The voice of the emperor coming outside the door was louder and louder.Concubine He wiped her eyes quickly, and took the eleventh prince to meet him at the door.

The emperor put both hands under the armpits of the eleventh prince, and lifted him in. Only then did the little guy really smile.He took the initiative to crawl into the emperor's arms and sat down, quiet and well-behaved.

"Eleventh is different from Little Nine. Little Nine is noisy everywhere, and Eleven is quiet everywhere." The emperor stroked Prince Eleven's hair and asked him, "Where did Tonger's little cloth tiger come from?"

The eleventh prince pointed to the opposite concubine and the emperor said: "You should tell the emperor that the concubine mother rewarded you."

"Mother Concubine...rewarded."

"So good." The emperor handed him to the eunuch next to him, "Take him out to bask in the sun, don't spend too long in the sun." He motioned for Hefei to sit over, "If it's a princess on Eleventh, I won't be in a hurry, no I’ve seen a quieter kid than him. When the father comes back with Zhao’er, let the brothers play together while Zhao’er greets you.”

Another meaning of this is that the eldest son really won't come back to him.I was prepared, and I also knew that raising a child by his grandfather's side would give him a higher status.Concubine He gently agreed.

"You have been too thin these days. I also know that you can't eat while taking medicine, but you are too thin. How about this, I will tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs to follow the rules of your imperial concubine. The position is here, let’s take care of it first, and when you’re ready, we’ll have another prince.”

The standard for an emperor to favor a person is whether he is willing to let you have children.The people and concubines in this palace are waiting to give birth at any time, and the concubine bowed her head shyly, the old lady's words "that shameful place" and the aunt's "don't fight or grab, live a good life" still echoed in her mind.

The emperor stretched out his hand and grabbed her skinny hand. The two of them didn't speak, letting the time disappear inch by inch.

In the Palace of Fragrance, Concubine Jia grabbed the hand holding the qin in the Palace of Phoenix, "Really? Concubine Zhen is also sick?"

"Well, the Empress Dowager ordered her to be moved out of the Shoukang Palace, saying that she should not pass on her sickness to the Supreme Emperor, and let Cheng Wang's family come to serve in the palace, and she was placed far away in the palace where the concubines lived, next to the alley. .”

"That place is too remote, how can the concubine agree."

"Concubine Toffee has a fever now, and she is unconscious from the fever."

Concubine Jia suddenly felt cold all over and couldn't help wrapping her clothes tightly, "Is there any news?"

"Concubine He is out of the palace today. I heard that I went to the Empress Dowager first, but the Empress Dowager blocked her. Then I went to the Empress Dowager's and took the Eleventh Prince back."

"Is it really suspicious, I always think it's not easy." Concubine Jia murmured, "Hold the piano, go prepare something, I'm going to see my second sister, she's cured, of course I'm going Congratulations."

Baoqin hurried to the storeroom, saw a few rose-red silks, wrapped them up, inside the palace was the same as outside the palace, only the main wife could wear red.When the empresses in the palace can't wear Zhenghong, they can only think of ways to wear silver red rose red magenta to comfort them.

Concubine Jia Guifei had already changed her clothes, holding the hands of a few young maids, waiting to hold the qin, and just leaving the palace gate with the guard of honor, a little eunuch ran over, "Mother, the emperor's driver is in the Pixiang Palace."

Concubine Jia sighed, "Let's go back, Your Majesty is annoyed by our lack of winks the most."

The eunuch went to visit several times, and it wasn't until the palace was locked that they knew that the emperor had just come out of the Pixiang Palace, and he didn't know where the imperial driver had gone. It was distributed to Pixiang Hall, and I don’t know where it was distributed in the middle of the night?”

"Niang Niang" held the piano and pulled the quilt for her, "It doesn't matter which one you allocate to, what matters is that you should plan to have a child."

"The eleventh prince has gone back, and the ninth prince is raised in front of the Supreme Emperor, what should I do?"

"Your Majesty, there are a lot of children in this palace. Since we can't raise the Ninth and Eleventh Princes, we can also raise other princes."

"Other princes are not caring no matter how they raise them. The old lady disagrees, and the wife and the master may not be willing. Look at the emperor, although he is caring for the eldest princess Anyang, has the queen mother's natal family reused it? Isn't it relying on her own kiss?" Cousin, let the Gu family look after the capital for him."

"It's not like you only have one girl, the third girl and the fourth girl are also at the age to leave the court."

Concubine Jia immediately became interested, "Good hug, what you said is, I have seen the third girl, she has an idea, she is my half-brother, the old lady and the master will definitely agree. It's just..."

"It's just that the wife will be unhappy. The fourth girl is next door, separated by another layer, and the blood is not far away, but they are not from the same family. The wife is willing, but the master is not necessarily willing. After all, the example of the concubine is the first, and the concubine is still the same. Where is his niece?"

Baoqin spoke to Concubine Jia's heart, "What you said is also what I thought, let me think again, it is appropriate to get someone into the palace to help me."

Baoqin wrapped the quilt tightly around her, "Go to sleep, ma'am, it's never too late to think about it tomorrow."