Mighty and Majestic Concubine Wan Gui

Jia Gui hurried back to his hometown before the Chinese New Year, and first went to see Wan Gui with his silver and silk.

Wan Gui is Wan Zhen'er's father, his benefactor, and a petty official who committed a crime.The Wan family had been gloomy and gloomy for several months in a row, and he would run around outside every few days. The big guillotine hanging above his head was always unresolved, and he didn't know what was going on.

Today I was drinking in the house when I heard my daughter-in-law calling out in the yard: "Master, Jia Gui is here to find you."

He was overjoyed immediately, and hurried out of the room: "Brother Jia!"

"Brother Wan! I lived up to my trust, your daughter was sent to the palace, and I sold the goods you gave me at a good price."

"Thank you, brother, you have worked hard all the way, come in and drink to warm yourself up. Daughter-in-law, you ask the restaurant to bring you a table of good wine and food, and I will clean up my brother."

"Alright, I'm going right now."

The two of them went into the room holding their wrists together, and said this while warming up the fire. Jia Gui didn't wait for Brother Wan to ask, so he took out the silk and said, "This is the money that the palace gave to the maids, and it can be regarded as a token. Brother, I can I didn't lie to you. Let me tell you in detail..."

He told all about the journey, the first time he gave gifts and sent people to the steward's mansion of Kunning Palace, the second time he sold out the goods, and when he was about to leave for home, he took out 200 taels of silver. Do some research.The steward's sign of Kunning Palace looked kind and friendly, and although it had the voice of an eunuch, it was much more kind than the big file (big eunuch) in the city.

Wangui was so grateful that he almost burst into tears, he held his hands and said, "Brother, you are such a good person, I have a brother like you in my life, it's worth it."

Jia Gui was also very moved: "Brother Wan, we didn't have a close friendship at first, but you dared to entrust your daughter to me and gave me three carts of goods. I dare not let down your deep friendship." Why do you trust me so much? What about me?Although I am famous for being a good character, there are too many things that I know people and face but don't know my heart.

Wan Guixin said, I have been observing secretly.

The two chatted for a while, and the two boys from the restaurant brought a large suitcase with a pole, and put a table of chicken, duck, fish, and rice wine.

Hot wine, eating meat, chatting.

Jia Gui: "Brother, why don't you send out your son, just send out a sister?"

"A son is not afraid. A man is not afraid of humble origins. As long as he has the ability, he can stand out in any way. Girls are different. They value their family background the most. In case her father is involved in the incident over there..."

Wan Gui didn't finish his words, so he didn't need to tell outsiders.If he is convicted and his family members are sold out as servants, the boy is not afraid, he will work diligently with the master, and he will be able to survive no matter what.If a girl becomes a slave, she will have to suffer a lot, and there may be terrible things. It is better to make plans early and send her to the palace early. Even if she is a maid, she will not be betrayed.

Emperor Xuande is only 37 years old, and he is in his prime. Empress Sun and Concubine Wu Xian are favored in the palace now. Fortunately, my daughter is ugly and will not be favored by Emperor Xuande. He was only in his 30s and had to be buried.

Wan Gui planned very well for his daughter. He entrusted fellow countrymen to spend money to send her daughter to Kunning Palace. My daughter is smart and powerful. □□Own money, go out of the palace to get married, if the family affairs are over by then, her brother can pick her up.

If not, you can't go out of the palace, then you can be a nanny in the palace... There is nothing wrong with being a nanny. Relying on it is better than the so-called "a hundred years of suffering and happiness left to others", so as not to be implicated in the crimes committed by the husband and son.

Alas, the world is hard, honest people don’t have enough money to spend, live in poverty, if they want to be generous, let their wives and children wear silk and satin to eat fat, it is inevitable to do some unclean things.

Good guy, it doesn't matter if there are so many big masters extorting money, just stare at me as a small official, alas.

Although Jia Gui didn't understand how far-sighted he was thinking, he also knew that this was a kind father's heart.It's pouring wine again, and comforting him again.

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One yuan resumes, and all phenomena are renewed.

After the new year is the tenth year of Xuande, which is the tenth year of the current Emperor Xuande's reign.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is a good day, everyone in the palace is full of joy, eat and drink well and get red envelopes, you can also set off firecrackers, watch plays and juggling, it is so happy.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the maids in the Kunning Palace were neatly dressed and kowtowed to Mistress Sun: "Mistress, happy new year, everything goes well."

Empress Sun: "Reward!"

One big red envelope per person.

Then, she went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to congratulate the New Year, and brought the concubines who were not favored in the harem to kowtow to Queen Mother Zhang together.

It is also the work of the empress to sacrifice the land, just like the silkworm kissing ceremony in spring, the empress takes the wives to complete it.

During the second time, Wan Zhen'er sat next to the brazier holding a big flower roll with brown sugar and sesame sauce, smiling happily as she ate it.

After eating, Master Zhang came back at night, and she went to pay New Year's greetings: "Grandpa, happy new year, everything goes well."

Zhang Shouyi: "This sentence, how much money do you want to coax?" Squeezing her face, she felt that she had gained more than a circle, and she gained so much in just a few days?No, I read it wrong. It is the scarf that squeezes the meat of the double chin, so it looks fat. "Here." There were five taels of silver in the red cloth bag.

Emperor Xuande was busy worshiping the sky first, and then went to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors.

After worshiping the ancestors, it will be fine, and it is officially a holiday!He took out a cricket pot with an ivory mouth from his arms, and hooked his fingers: "Old Guo, do you take it with you?"

Guo Shouren also took out a cricket jar from his sleeve: "Here it is~"

"Hey hey hey!"

"Hey hey hey!"

When the two were excited, their hands became hot, and the crickets screamed in the jar with excitement.

On the ground is a red cricket basin, carved with clouds and waves, with capricorns churning on the top, and a layer of gold filling the bottom, and the golden light is faintly exposed in the gaps in the red.

I grabbed the leaves of the daffodils on the case and split them, and used them as grass blades to pull the crickets.

The fat prince broke the cotton curtain suddenly, and the maid at the door didn't even have time to open the curtain. He rushed into the room with a gust of cold wind, and as the cold wind blew, the crickets stopped calling again.

"Come here, son."

"Father!" The fat prince rushed over, "Ah, I came just in time!"

Emperor Xuande was fat and lying on the ground with his beard hanging down on the ground, his buttocks turned up, and he looked at the cricket in the jar intently: "Shut the front and back doors tightly, and no one can go in or out. This cricket can't be exposed to the wind. Son, I gave it to you earlier." How do you use your cricket jar?"

A trace of embarrassment appeared on the prince's face: "Father said that this cricket has to be kept warm in his arms after autumn... My son is very obedient."

Emperor Xuande's eyes were as bright as a torch, and a holy candle illuminated him: "I turned over and was crushed to death while I was sleeping?" What a reputation I have, since I like cricket fighting, I never cover the jar myself at night, and I don't take it with me when I go to court during the day, so as not to worry about it. Yang and Yu Qian and others chattered.

"Hmm..." In fact, I thought it was too noisy and threw it to the window. As a result, my parrot flew out and broke the gourd jar and ate the cricket.

Emperor Xuande and Guo Shouren were fighting crickets face to face, and the crown prince was lying beside him watching the battle. In a small jar, the two fighting insects were fighting to the death.

They bite each other with mouths that are too small to see clearly, and they fight up and down.

In this square inch, desperate fights are like generals duel on the battlefield.

It is a pleasure to hear the natural chirping of insects in this cold winter, and only those with money and leisure can enjoy it.

Wan Zhen'er outside the house was wearing a tiger-head hat, a sapphire blue jacket and a red skirt, and she was holding a Taiping palace lantern. She was dazzled by everything in front of her eyes, and the worst lantern in the palace was even more beautiful than the most beautiful lantern in the county. Beautiful, that juggler can climb poles, do somersaults, go through fire hoops, and conjure things out and back.

"Wow~"

"Wow~"

"Wow~"

"Oh~"

"Oh my god~"

Like a bumpkin who has never seen the world.

For Wan Zhen'er, eating and drinking is the top priority of Chinese New Year.

"Wearing new clothes, receiving lucky money, and delicious food, um, what a good year." She scratched her head, feeling a little homesick all of a sudden.

It's not the first time she's homesick, it's just the first time she thinks so... so much that she wants to cry.

Grandma Zhu found her sitting in the room, warming herself by the fire, and immediately guessed: "Miss Wan, are you homesick?"

"Well, Mammy...I miss my father and mother."

"I was homesick when I first entered the palace, but after a long time, I didn't think about it anymore." Once I entered the palace, the gate was as deep as the sea. Although I left the palace, my parents died at that time, and my younger brother didn't even kiss me. She became her own and gave birth to a child, but after her husband died, she had to rely on the monthly money from entering the palace as a nanny to raise her two daughters.She stroked her hairy little bald head: "For a few dollars, ask the dining room to cook a dish from your hometown. What do you want to eat?"

"Grilled chicken with scallions..." Wan Zhen'er had already discovered that everything in the capital is good, but scallions are not tasty enough.The green onions in my hometown are sweet, but yours are spicy, so disgusting!

The fried chicken with scallions didn't taste right either.

The seventh day of the first lunar month, the beginning of spring.

The son of heaven personally led the three lords, nine ministers, princes and officials to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring and pray for a good harvest.

The imperial dining room has prepared a hundred dishes for His Majesty and Empress to have a spring bite.

Emperor Xuande didn't care about his figure. He ate spring pancakes and drank wine, and his stomach was round.

Sun Niangniang reservedly ate three rolls and wiped her mouth: "Give the leftovers to the mothers and maids."

Naturally, Wang Shanggong picks first, and she picks the rest.

Wan Zhen'er: "The spring pancakes are delicious!"

The Imperial Dining Room did not have a Lantern Festival for a year, so it started to practice five days in advance, and all the exercises were distributed to the little maids who had a good relationship with the Imperial Dining Room.

The glutinous rice balls are also very delicious, and the osmanthus bean paste, black sesame, and rose sauce are all very delicious.