[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

It wasn't until the Jade Belt Pool that Jiang Heng knew what the emperor brought her here for.

The emperor pointed to two snow-white and elegant swans swimming far away on the water, and pulled her over from behind: "I am here, don't be afraid. After a while, you can look at the swans more, and then reach out to touch them. Once you get used to them, you won't be afraid again." Afraid of these feathered birds."

Jiang Heng couldn't help laughing: Your majesty is so interesting, he even brought her to desensitization treatment to get rid of her psychological shadow.

So he followed the words and replied with a smile: "Okay, my concubine will have the courage to touch it later." Then he looked forward to looking at the lake.

The emperor was surprised: just now he specially told her not to be afraid, in fact, he not only comforted her to be afraid of swans, but also comforted her because she was framed just now.

But seeing her smiling carefreely and sweetly immediately, I couldn't help being curious.

He told Su Peisheng to go to the rare bird room to get some food that swans love to eat.

In fact, Su Peisheng had already prepared a set of things to amuse the goose, and the most experienced goose-training eunuch in the Rare Bird Room was waiting nearby to serve, but Su Peisheng saw that the emperor seemed to have something to say to the trustworthy nobleman, so he immediately stepped back and took it again. Goose food.

The emperor stood by the water with his hands behind his back: "Just now the Zhou clan slandered your reputation, are you not afraid of seeing it? Are you afraid of treacherous people, but are you afraid of swans?"

Jiang Heng knew that his 'fear of geese' had only become a fixed impression of the emperor, so he didn't try to justify that he was neither afraid of Zhou Xuyue nor afraid of geese, and avoided only out of respect for the fighting power of swans.

But the emperor asked this question as if he was distracted.She thought for a while before answering the emperor: "Have the concubines ever bullied Zhou to promise? As long as the emperor investigates, the truth will come to light. The concubines believe in the emperor's wisdom, so they are not afraid of Zhou's promise." She looked at the lake and smiled: "But the goose is not Because the emperor is wise, he will not jump up and hit his concubines when he is frightened."

The emperor also smiled at first, but then suddenly asked her: "It's just that I won't be deceived and wronged you. But Mrs. Zhou has hatred in her heart, and she probably will act like this in front of others, pretending to be wronged by you. If others refuse to believe you because of this, and gossip spreads around and ruins your reputation, what will you do?"

The moment Jiang Heng met His Majesty's eyes, he suddenly figured it out, as if he had drank a bliss potion.

Emperor Yongzheng, his reputation, and Qiu Xue told him that Prince Lian was fined to kneel at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation for two days. The news spread quickly—the emperor must have thought of himself!

Any concubine, even the queen, would not make such an association through an ordinary Zhou promise.

Only Jiang Heng, standing on the shoulders of history, knew how Emperor Yongzheng I was trapped by fame, and knew that he was scolded to the point of breaking his defenses in his later years. As an emperor, he actually wrote a book by himself, and ended up with an ordinary poor scholar. When facing the line, he released "Da Yi Jue Mi Lu" to explain his innocence to the people of the world, so that he could instantly think of the hidden meaning of the emperor's words.

Jiang Heng said softly: "The emperor also said that others 'don't believe me'. So what can be done? Those who understand will naturally see the truth like the emperor, and those who don't understand just don't want to understand, my concubine The distinction will only increase the discussion, and people will say that the concubine is angry and guilty, so she makes more excuses."

At this time, the moonlight is rising, and the river surface is like an illusory silver light shadow. There are only two snow-white swans, slowly and quietly staying on the water surface.

There was no one around, it was not like the Forbidden City for a while, but like another split time and space.

The two of them seemed to be visitors who inadvertently broke into a painting.

The emperor was comforted by such tranquility, and seeing her eyes were as clear as a silver moon, with a smile on her face, he couldn't help but said: "You have a good temper, you don't know sorrow by nature."

Jiang Heng raised his eyes and looked at the emperor: "Actually, my concubine is also worried. Being insulted by others, especially being wronged, is an extremely disturbing thing. But the concubine thinks, it's not that the concubine has a problem. Just be at ease."

Jiang Heng is very grateful to her parents for their upbringing, one of which is that her parents gave her a lot of love, and she never doubted herself since she was a child.

When I was a child, I encountered unscrupulous small groups robbing her things, and even teachers and mud: "Why don't they rob others, but you?" Such questions also caused confusion to the young her: Yes, class With so many girls, they only rob me, am I being ostentatious?Am I not being kind enough?Did I do something I shouldn't?

Fortunately, my parents discovered this symptom in time, not only protected her to solve the problem for her, but also went to the teacher directly for this sentence: "You should ask the child who snatched things, not my child!"

There is no reason for bad people to pick victims. Maybe it is not because you did something wrong that you suffer, but because you did something right that caused the malice.

Her parents told her firmly since she was a child: It is not your fault that you encounter bad people and misfortune, and it is not your fault that others don't like you.

Feeling malicious, you can be sad, you can find a way to fight back, or you can choose to forget and ignore it and move forward, but you must not rise to deny your personality just because of the problem.

That's why Jiang Heng can stir his coffee and listen to people talking about him behind his back.She is a human being, of course she also has various emotions of anger, sadness, and chills, but when the emotions pass, she never denies herself.What she loves the most is really herself, fighting for herself, enjoying for herself, she firmly believes and loves herself.

Jiang Heng was firm and optimistic. Unexpectedly, when the emperor heard her say that, he felt in his heart: how pitiful, I can punish people to kneel down, but she had no choice but to comfort herself: 'this is not my problem'.

The emperor is a very disciplined person, and he never acts intimately with his concubines outside, so he still clings to her hand when he is in the house, and he puts it down naturally when he goes out.

But at this moment, he stretched out his arms between the lakeside world, Xu Songsong held her in his arms, and stroked her back like coaxing some small animal: "Okay, it's not your problem, I know Yes, I will believe you."

Jiang Heng: ...I'm not pretending to be pitiful, I'm showing my self-confidence and charisma, and by the way, spreading some optimism to you.

Your Majesty, your problem is not to believe me, your problem is to believe in yourself!

Not to mention being an emperor, a small leader like a section chief will be scolded behind his back.In this world, there is no high-ranking person who is not accused by anyone.But you are already the emperor, as long as you don't break your defenses, no one in the world can do anything to you. Think about how others can only look at you, whether you should kneel or have to kneel, isn't it very happy?

But Jiang Heng definitely couldn't say this directly. She could only express her concern and trust for the leader with this comforting and lenient hug: "The emperor is willing to trust the concubine, and the concubine feels enough. The emperor is the most important." This is the truth.

By the way, I expressed my opinion to the leader: "Don't worry, your majesty, because of your belief, my concubine will also remind herself to be cautious in words and deeds, and will not let down the trust of the emperor."

The emperor tightened his arms, and said in his heart: Sure enough, I was frightened by people's framing, I believed her, but she still didn't forget my repeated promises.

What a pity!

Jiang Heng thought, Su Peisheng's ability to become the first secretary of the empire really depends on his strength.

Just now when the emperor was talking to her in private, Su Peisheng disappeared without a trace, and even the string of people who followed the emperor on a trip didn't know where they went.

The entire lakeside is as quiet as words, as if there is no one in it.

But at this time, the emperor returned to normal, and when he was about to take her to undergo "swan desensitization training", Su Peisheng miraculously appeared again, followed by the eunuch from the rare bird room.

Su Peisheng is a master at this kind of elusiveness that fits the emperor's mind.

People from the Rare Bird House respectfully came up to pay their respects.

Hearing the emperor's order to ask the swans to swim closer, the eunuch in the rare bird room immediately blew a bamboo whistle with a slightly shrill sound.

Thinking that this was the sound of eating for the swans, I saw two swans who wanted to cook and swam to the shore gracefully but quickly.

When the swan came ashore, the emperor naturally stood in front of her, and then personally took a piece of square cake that Jiang Heng couldn't tell what the raw material was, and teased the swan to come over.

These two swans were obviously carefully selected to show their talents to the leaders.

The movement of coming over to prepare the cooking meal is elegant and friendly, and very well-behaved. If the emperor does not throw the food in his hand on the ground, but just holds it in his hand, even though they are eager, they will not come up to peck people's hands to grab food, just Looking helplessly, it can be seen that they are well-trained.

"Touch it." After Jiang Heng also fed two goose cakes, the emperor still didn't give up letting her get close to the goose.

Jiang Heng reached out and touched the necks of the swans, and then touched their feathers.

I thought, such fine goose down should be quite expensive to make down jackets.

It wasn't until Jiang Heng completed a series of actions such as feeding, touching and interacting with the geese that the emperor decided: very good, after his own guidance, she is no longer afraid of birds.

Then he said to Jiang Heng: "When we arrive in Chengde, I will take you to see Costin."

The girl in front of her was really surprised: "Is the emperor going to the palace to escape the summer heat?" Jiang Heng couldn't think of any Mulan paddock at the first time. In her impression, Chengde was connected with the Summer Resort.

The emperor paused: "It's halfway through summer this year, so it's too late to go to the Rehe Palace, and the Old Summer Palace in Beijing is a good way to escape the summer heat, so I can go there next summer. I'm going back to Chengde this time to prepare for hunting in the hunting garden in autumn." Wan Wan smiled: "It's not a palace, it's a hunting garden, do you still dare to go?"

Jiang Heng touched two smooth gooses again: "Thanks to the emperor's blessing, my concubine dares to go anywhere now."

She really wanted to go out.

The Forbidden City is quite big, but there are too few places for concubines to go.

This is due to the fact that the current emperor has few concubines, and even promised to have two houses in the Six Palaces to live in.It is said that when Lord Kangxi was in his later years, the ladies of the promised officials and even the young vassals were all crammed together in rows of servant rooms at the back of the Qianqing Palace. Apart from being well-dressed, the accommodation conditions were no different from those of the maids. It can be seen that the harem stayed There are really not many places for concubines.

Moreover, the palace roads in the palace are very regular and neat, and the palace walls on both sides are also of normal color, which always makes people feel like they are walking in one place.

And in order to make the house warm quickly in summer, put ice in summer to cool quickly.The houses of the people living in the harem of the Forbidden City are all small rooms.Even the queen's palace is no exception, there are small and exquisite rooms.

Jiang Heng imagined the large flat floor, but the main area was actually on the courtyard.

Jiang Heng really longed to be able to go outside for a while, especially to go to the vast grassland hunting park and see the fresh animals.

When the emperor left Yonghe Palace the next day, it was still seriously dark.

Because it started to rain at night, the emperor got up another quarter of an hour earlier, and while changing his clothes, he told Jiang Heng: "It is difficult to walk on the road in rainy days. If you wake up a quarter of an hour earlier, the eunuch who carries the chariot will not be in a hurry if you are not in a hurry. foot."

Jiang Heng expressed his understanding: His Majesty looked like the kind of person who would never be late for an appointment with others, and would arrive early.

Jiang Heng carried an umbrella to the gate of the Yonghe Palace, and came back with an umbrella when he saw the light of the guard of honor lights and candles turning the corner and out of sight.

"Change to strong tea." Jiang Heng felt that he needed some strong tea to refresh himself after working the night shift and continuing the day shift.

Qiu Xue went to exchange for strong tea with a smile.

Jiang Heng noticed that the corners of Qiu Xue's mouth couldn't be closed: every time she came back from the Hall of Mental Cultivation, or the emperor visited, Qiu Xue's expression was always radiant with joy.

It's like the farmer's uncle saw the harvest crops all over the ground.

Just when Qiu Xue was changing for strong tea, the rain started to rain heavily, gradually pouring down.The rain became extremely fast. Jiang Heng originally opened half the window to watch the night rain, but the rain suddenly turned heavy. When she reached out to close the window, half of her sleeve was already covered in rain.

Qiu Xue came back from serving tea, listening to the sound of rain outside, hesitating whether to serve strong tea to the master: "On such a day, I must be able to avoid asking for peace, master, why don't you drink strong tea, just catch up on sleep."

The Queen's Chengqian Palace has long issued a statement that there is no need to come to pay their respects in any bad weather such as moderate rain or snow.There is no need to wait for an additional notification from Chengqian Palace—on such a day, the eunuchs of Chengqian Palace are too busy with the affairs of the palace to do their best, so they don't have time to notify you one by one, so just take a break from work.

Jiang Heng was very sorry, it would be nice if it rained another day.In this harem, there are no fixed holidays, and bad weather is God's free meal.

Another day, she would definitely be able to sleep back into the cage.

But today is not enough.

Zhou promised to be demoted, and the emperor deprived her of her concubine status and became a palace maid. This happened right in front of her eyes, and it had something to do with her.

On the side of the emperor, he will naturally send someone to inform the queen of this matter.

But Jiang Heng, as one of the people involved in the incident, couldn't just pass by like a normal person.She should promptly report the overall situation to the direct leader of the queen, and express the respect of the direct leader of the harem.

"When there are eunuchs in Chengqian Palace, let's go." Reporting to the leader sooner rather than later, Jiang Heng brought over strong tea and drank half a cup, ready to continue working overtime.

When Jiang Heng reported yesterday's events from the Queen's Palace, the rain had just stopped, and the trees were still dripping water.

The air after the rainstorm was unbelievably fresh, and the temperature was just right.

Jiang Heng said to Qiu Xue, "Let's go to Yudai Pond again!"

Before leaving Yudai Pond yesterday, Jiang Heng deliberately asked for a few bags of goose food in front of the emperor, saying that he wanted to feed the swans in the future.The emperor felt that his curative effect was very good, so he happily agreed, and asked the Rare Bird Room to make two new bamboo whistles: "Teach the people of Yonghe Palace how to call the swan over."

Jiang Heng was going to take Qiu Xue to get his own whistle called Goose.

Maybe she will have several swan friends in the future.

And when the emperor came down from court this day, he went to the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay his respects.

"It's raining today and it's suddenly getting colder. The queen's mother is careful to catch the cold."

The queen mother smiled when she saw the emperor: "The Ai family has to tell you, the Ai family sits in the palace all day long and has nothing to do, and will take care of itself when you are free, but you are very tired, don't catch a cold. "

Now the emperor is very skillful and naturally able to accept the care of the queen mother.

He also told the queen mother about preparing to go to Chengde after the Mid-Autumn Festival.It is vague to mention it to Jiang Heng, but of course it is much more detailed to tell the Queen Mother, and it also means to ask the Queen Mother to go out for a walk.

The queen mother has nothing to do now and only has to play, so she will be happy to hear that she can go out to play.

Then he said: "It's good to go out for a walk or two, it's suitable for children and grandchildren."

emperor:……

He found out that everything about the queen mother can be related to Yi's children and grandchildren.

Not only that, but the queen mother has already made a decision for him: "Take a few more young concubines."

The emperor tactfully expressed his refusal: "After all, it is to go to the hunting garden. The most important thing is to meet the Mongolian princes and perform martial arts with the Eight Banners..." What's the matter with going to more than half of the harem?

However, the Empress Dowager smiled lovingly but could not refuse: "Oh, Aijia is getting old, and I feel uncomfortable with no one around to talk to relieve boredom. Bring a few more young and lively concubines to accompany Aijia."

The words have come to this point, what else can the emperor say, he can't let his mother feel lonely and uncomfortable, so he has no choice but to agree.

The queen mother gave another 'hey': "I heard that Prince Heng's family just added a son and a daughter last month. For such a happy event, the emperor rewarded Prince Yi's mansion?" Then she sighed: "Prince Heng's daughter is on top. What a blessing, what does the emperor think?"

The emperor couldn't stand it any longer and left quickly.

I feel like a tool man for the queen mother to hold her grandson.

Sitting on the chariot after leaving the Compassionate Palace, the emperor couldn't help thinking of his previous life: ten years after he ascended the throne, no heirs were born in the harem, and no concubines were even pregnant.It wasn't until the last two years that a nobleman was favored by accident and gave birth to the sixth elder brother, who was promoted to the position of concubine.

After that, he didn't see his youngest son a few times before he died of illness.

The emperor has always felt that he and his close relatives are somewhat unrelated, now that he has experienced life and death, the emperor has almost turned his back on the scarcity of heirs.

However, the empress dowager here obviously couldn't see it. Looking at the eager eyes of the empress dowager, the emperor's scalp became tense: If this is the same as in the previous life, one, three, five, or eight years have passed without any heirs, what will the empress dowager talk about? ah!

The news that "Zhou promised to transfer from his current job and devote himself to gardening" was announced by the queen in public when all the concubines went to Chengqian Palace to pay their respects on the second day of the rainstorm.

At this time, the two rooms on the west side of Yonghe Palace have been evacuated: all the furnishings belonging to the promised positions have been returned to the warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the various heads and faces that were issued to the promised positions in the palace have also been taken back. Prepare for later use.

The cage that Zhou promised to bring when he entered the palace that day was carried away by the eunuch, and it is said that it will be handed over to her.

The room on the west side of the Yonghe Palace is as clean as if no one has ever lived in it.

The palaces also heard about this news to some extent, but before they could gossip about it, the empress used it as a negative example in public.

"Don't mention Zhou's disrespect in front of the imperial court, but he has repeatedly insulted the emperor with words! It is the emperor's kindness to only punish her as a court lady, and you must take it as a warning!"

The queen used to call everyone sisters with a smile, but now she is annoyed, and the sisters have become you and others.

'You and others' all got up and listened to the training.

The queen didn't mention Zhou's words framed Jiang Heng, she just criticized her words and even wanted to drag the emperor, and she also mentioned that Zhou's intentional dress was simple to make the emperor feel sorry for him. Very dignified: "In this palace, to be a concubine must abide by the rules of a concubine! If you don't want to wear your concubine's clothes, and don't want to wear your hair, if you pretend to be a court lady, then become a court lady!"

The anger of the two emperors is different.

The emperor's anger was mainly due to Zhou Xu's repeated confrontation with him, and his intentional false accusation of the trustworthy nobleman.

But the queen's anger was more because Zhou promised not to obey the rules, and even pretended to be unable to wear clothes after being treated harshly.

Who is this?

It doesn't matter whether Zhou promised to talk about trustworthy nobles in his words, but the trustworthy nobles in the same palace are not even the master.In the eyes of the wives outside the palace, if Zhou promised to be wrong, he couldn't blame a little nobleman who lived with him.

That week's promise of being abused was spread, and it was her, the queen who was the lord of the sixth house, who was finally ashamed.

Let's play, let's play, let's play, don't make fun of the palace rules!

The queen doesn't care much about the women in the harem competing for favor, whoever can please the emperor will do.But if she violated the palace rules and crossed the bottom line, endangering her face, the queen would be angry.

Fortunately, this time the emperor's eyes were burning, so he ignored it.If the Zhou family is allowed to pretend to be pitiful and succeed in fighting for favor, and everyone will follow suit in the future, it will become an example, then in the future, there will be a concubine dressed up like a little maid who sells herself to bury her father in front of her relatives, that would be too shameful.

On the point of saving face, the brain circuits of the emperor and queen became unprecedentedly unified.

This couple is the emperor and queen of the country, they are the head of the family, and they must guard the face of the royal family.

After the queen finished talking about the ending that Zhou had promised, she took a second look at the noble concubine: She knew that Zhou had gone to the imperial concubine's palace two days before committing the crime!

The queen was looking at the imperial concubine, but the imperial concubine was staring at Jiang Heng.

As soon as the queen's voice fell, the noble concubine sneered and said, "It's a good thing to trust noble people. Once the emperor comes to your palace, Zhou's promise will become a court lady."

Jiang Heng was sincerely puzzled and said: "I would like to ask the concubine to advise, how can this matter be the concubine's ability? Could it be that the concubine can still pull Zhou Xin to go against the emperor?" She sighed and said: "The concubine has no ability, not Holding her and rushing towards the imperial court, the emperor was furious."

The queen took the words, frowned at Jiang Heng, but actually helped a few words: "I can't blame you for your incompetence. Su Peisheng was also very surprised when he reported to the palace back and forth. He said that Mrs. Zhou might have lost his mind and went crazy. Su Peisheng took her down, but she still struggled out and rushed to the emperor, trying to kill her!"

After talking about this, the empress became angry, and simply pointed at the noble concubine and brought up the old matter: "The noble concubine also said that she has the ability to trust the noble, why, did the noble concubine forget herself back then? Why don't I report to the emperor and send the Wu family and others to me?" How about bringing everyone into the palace to remind the imperial concubine?"

Jiang Heng saw the imperial concubine's face immediately sank.

Afterwards, Jiang Heng learned the reason of 'Wu Shi' and others: when the emperor was still Prince Yong, the late emperor and the queen mother often rewarded the palace people to be concubines in the palace, but the emperor focused on Nianshi in the next few years. Of course, he couldn't even touch the emperor's side.Not only that, but when the emperor ascended the throne and moved into the Forbidden City, the imperial concubine also told the emperor that these people had never served the holy driver, they were just ordinary court ladies, so they might as well stay in Prince Yong's mansion to look after the house.

Wu and the others have been on the bench in the palace for many years, and they didn't expect to be favored at all. They only wanted to rely on their age to be a nobleman or something in the palace to provide for the elderly, but they didn't even get the tickets to enter the Forbidden City, so they continued to stay. She was an old maid in Prince Yong's mansion without her master.

The queen had raised objections at the time, feeling that this matter was inappropriate, and the palace was not short of money and space to raise a few low-ranking concubines, why bother to let them look after the house alone with no rank and no end.

However, the emperor still decided the matter according to Concubine Nian's wishes.

At this time, the empress brought up this matter to warn the noble concubine Nian: You, who still say you believe in nobles, have you made several women in the palace backyard lose the title of concubine and forget it?

Since Jiang Heng entered the palace, the most nervous farewell ceremony finally came to an end, and all the concubines felt like they had escaped from the sky.

Jiang Heng was also very helpless when he saw the way the imperial concubine looked at him before leaving.

Perhaps the imperial concubine herself understands that no concubine can win the favor if she wants to, the root cause is always the emperor.

But the imperial concubine cannot be hostile to the emperor, it seems much easier to be hostile to her.

For the noble concubine, it was not until today that she really took the nobleman Xin into her eyes and regarded her as a threatening enemy.

Compared with a few months of favor, the imperial concubine cared more about her privileges with the emperor being tampered with.

The emperor's temperament has always been like this, whoever he likes, he has a special preference for whomever he likes.Listening to her words at the beginning, she could make the concubines who had never served in Prince Yong's mansion stay in the mansion without a name, but now she would demote Zhou Ying to be a palace maid for the sake of trusting the nobleman.

After returning to the palace, the imperial concubine sat concentrating for a while, then called for the maid of honor, Gan Tang: "Call Chen Debao from the respect room."