[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

Hong Zhou sat on the ridge of the field, thinking about how time passed so slowly.He looked at the field ridges that seemed to have no ends, the cropped wheat fields that looked like monks, and the six-year-old child even melancholy came out of the thought of physical relativity.

He deliberately asked Hongli: "Fourth brother, do you mean that the time on the clock in Yuanmingyuan and the sun in the sky are different from those in the palace? The sun here is very long and slow?"

Hongli thought: If you have time to think about this strange question, why don't you come down and help my brother tie some wheat?

Coincidentally, father and son are in the same line, and now Hong Zhou's Huang Ama is also sitting in Jiuzhou Qingyan, feeling how time passes so slowly!

The ten-day wheat harvesting day set by the emperor himself was not only to train his sons, but also attracted some important princes and ministers to come to the Yuanmingyuan to facilitate the emperor to handle government affairs during the ten days.Now he can't take the lead and give up halfway, change the order day and night, and set off immediately to return.So although he was very concerned about the affairs of the palace, he was still nailed to the Old Summer Palace.

He had no choice but to send letters, all kinds of things that he could think of for a woman to conceive, and order them back to the Beijing Central Household Affairs Office in a streamlined manner.

The first thing Jiang Heng received was not the intricate and detailed utensils that the emperor thought of one after another and stuffed into the Yonghe Palace one by one.

It's the new swivel chair.

It's a pity that not to mention the new-style swivel chair, even the original one was pushed away by Qiu Xue with particular persistence: "This slave looks really frightened."

This slipping out is no joke.

When Jiang Heng saw the large swivel chair published by the court, he simply asked the manufacturing office to add guards around it to make it a pushable crib.

When the Qing Dynasty started from outside the customs and lived by water, they often had to migrate, and children were sometimes hung on horseback and taken away.Even if you have a house, it's the same, just replace the horse's back with the beams - most of the children in the palace use "Yuche", which is to tie a rope from the beams and hang a small boat-shaped bed.

It is very convenient to shake the child.

But Jiang Heng remembered hearing from colleagues that children should not be shaken vigorously.The child's skull has not fully grown. If some parents have heavy hands, or some nannies think that the child is annoyed by crying, they will shake the child vigorously.It seemed that the child had fallen asleep peacefully, but in fact he might have been shaken to death.

Therefore, although the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already begun to measure the house in the back hall of the Yonghe Palace, they are preparing to install the furniture such as the car.Jiang Heng is still planning to give the child a modern version of the stroller, and then he can push the child out to bask in the sun and replenish calcium.

Except for the daily work of thinking about baby products, Jiang Heng completely resumed his original routine.

After that day of nausea, she felt nothing again.

The queen originally wanted to avoid Jiang Heng's invitation, but Jiang Heng declined politely: she still wanted to come out for more activities when she had the chance.If she couldn't even attend the invitation to Chengqian Palace next door, wouldn't she be trapped in Yonghe Palace for the next eight months?

That is absolutely impossible.

So she said to the empress sincerely: "Emperor Liu asked for the pulse, and the pulse of the Taoist concubine is still stable. If this is the case, I can't wait for a long time."

As the big leader, the empress must do the routine care of 'preventing a pregnant concubine'. In the future, in front of the emperor, it will appear that she has fulfilled her duties as an empress, and she is gracious and careful.

But from the point of view of the heart, the queen was actually relieved to see that Jiang Heng sincerely wanted to continue paying her respects and did not rely on herself to be pregnant.

When things happen, people's hearts are judged, both good and bad things are like this, and the concubine is pregnant, which is considered the happiest thing.If someone is arrogant and self-indulgent, no matter how well he pretended before, now that he has a lot of support, he should show it.

Jiang Heng was still as usual, and the queen also felt relieved.

The palace is fine now, don't have that kind of concubine with eyes on the top of her head anymore.

Seeing that Jiang Heng sincerely expressed his intention to come to pay his respects, the queen followed her will: "If that's the case, it's up to you. Anyway, you also have a nurse sent by the queen mother, and an imperial doctor who asks for pulse every day. If you feel uncomfortable, don't worry about it." Don't force yourself, just send someone over and say it, and it's over, and you don't have to force yourself to come over."

Jiang Heng thanked the queen for her concern, and when it was time for lunch, he said goodbye.

When he walked to the door, he heard that the queen did not order the meal, and did not rest for a moment, she was already instructing Gongmei to continue to take care of the palace affairs with the account books of the concubines this month, and said in her mouth: "Use the ice on the top A few older concubines, don't be too restrictive. If the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a deficit, report it to the palace, and then convert and transfer the money, and this year's hot weather, the summer grass for the palace people Soup……"

As Jiang Heng walked out, the queen's voice gradually disappeared.

But I don't know if it's because of the emotional sensitivity during pregnancy, Jiang Heng suddenly felt: The empress seems to have endless palace duties, and she seems to enjoy it.

Ever since the news of her pregnancy spread, getting up early to greet Chengqian Palace has become a scene of parenting experience exchange. Even Concubine Qi, who used to look at her with resentful eyes, now has to live a sympathetic relationship with Jiang Heng. Tell me about your experience.

On the contrary, the empress has always just sat in a high position and listened, and never mentioned any experience in raising children to Jiang Heng in private.

The queen empress had her own children, and she also has experience in this regard.But she didn't keep her child, so she never mentioned it again.

"Your Majesty, don't forget about it, that thing hurts your mind." Compared to Jiang Heng himself, Qiu Xue and others reacted more seriously.It was like the wind was jittery, seeing what Jiang Heng was doing, he would tense up a string.

Jiang Heng feels that the current Yonghe Palace is like playing with wooden figures of 'one two three'. As long as she stands up, everyone will immediately stop, and then look at her nervously, as if she might fall to the ground at any time. They are ready to be under the covers at any time.

In fact, on the second day after Jiang Heng diagnosed his happy pulse, he found that Qiu Xue looked rather haggard.

When she asked, Qiu Xue was still very embarrassed and said: "I was thinking about things that we should be careful in the palace last night, and my mind was a little confused. During the night, my stomach refluxed, so I got up and vomited twice."

Jiang Heng was moved and funny at the same time: her reaction to morning sickness was fleeting, but it was Qiu Xue who vomited nervously.

The tension visible to the naked eye in the Yonghe Palace gradually relaxed after four or five days.

One is that Jiang Heng, the righteous master, is exceptionally normal and has the power to bring comfort to people.The second is Nanny Yu sent by the Compassionate Ning Palace, who really played the role of Zhenshan Tai Sui.

Jiang Heng had seen a lot of maids and maids in the palace, but Yu Yu still left a deep impression on her and admired her very much.

Around the age of 50, outside the palace is a proper grandmother-level figure, who can be an elder to entertain grandchildren; the nuns who survived to this age in the palace and did not go out were mostly career-minded women who were rare in ancient times (or did not Women who have other ways out) are basically in the position of the heads of the various divisions.

However, due to physical reasons, Nanny Yu could neither go out to get married nor work hard in the palace, so she could only stay in the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion and Peace day after day.

Jiang Heng originally thought that he would see a nanny who was a bit serious and old-fashioned, and would deeply regret that his body would drag him down for most of his life.

Unexpectedly, Mammy Yu is a very cheerful person.

And her joy is the kind of optimism from the heart.There is always a gentle and happy light in Mammy Yu's eyes.She came to Yonghe Palace with a wooden crutch, and she had to salute Jiang Heng according to the rules when entering the door. Jiang Heng was well prepared, and quickly called Qiu Xue Qiushuang to support her.

Nanny Yu sat down on crutches very neatly.

She looked at Jiang Heng, her eyes were full of relief and joy: "When the slave girl heard that the empress is happy, she was really happy for the master, and also for the empress. The empress dowager can trust her, so she pointed it out to take care of the empress."

He laughed again and said: "Your Majesty, don't look at the crippled body of the servant. In fact, apart from walking slower than others, nothing is worse than others! Now that you are in this palace, please just say it if you have an order. Don't make the servant feel ashamed." The empress dowager has given me many years of grace."

Jiang Heng looked at her, and remembered some deeds of the disabled and strong that he had seen before.Nanny Yu is definitely the kind of person who would use her feet to practice calligraphy without her hands, and strive to write better with her feet than others.

It is the heroism that Jiang Heng really admires: Even if he is hit hard by life and tempered by fate, he still faces life optimistically.

Such a person who is always strong and bright can bring people around him a sense of peace of mind.

The Yonghe Palace has indeed settled down because of the arrival of the nanny, because of her heart and attitude, and because of her well-organized and experienced arrangements. The instability like bubbling boiling water has disappeared.

Jiang Heng also quickly found a way to get along with Mammy Yu: treat her as a normal person mentally, and don't treat her like a person with crippled legs and remind her everywhere, "Mama Mama is different from others, Mama Mama should stop moving soon, Mammy doesn't need you.'Jiang Heng specifically asked Qiu Xue and others not to mention such things in Yonghe Palace.

And Nanny Yu also quickly started working smoothly.She does not interfere with the financial, personnel, and palace affairs of Yonghe Palace, and only takes care of Jiang Heng's daily life precautions clearly.

Every day when Jiang Heng went to pay his respects to the queen for half an hour, Nanny Yu would also take the opportunity to hold a group class for the rest of the palace people, to preach about the various taboos of having a pregnant concubine in the palace.

When Jiang Heng came back with Qiu Xue Qiushuang that day, he saw that under the shade of trees in the front yard, all the rest of the Yonghe Palace were sitting in a row and listening to the class.

Jiang Heng didn't make a sound, and stood on the corridor listening for a while.

Nanny Yu was holding a box of common ointments and face creams used by palace maids.

The facial fat used by palace people is not as fine as the facial fat used by concubines. The cream is made of astragalus, peach blossom, asarum and other beauty herbs combined with beef marrow oil, almond oil or other high-quality oils. treasures.

The facial fat used by palace people is basically refined from ordinary lard paste.

Therefore, the palace people generally don't put on face cream in summer, just wash their face and forget it, there is no need to smear their face with oil.

But this kind of facial fat is essential in winter, otherwise the face and hands will be easily cracked and left with scars.

Madam Yu has already prepared for the winter: "Just now we talked about the taboo of burning various spices in summer, now let's talk about facial fat and daily hand oil - there are many noodles in the palace with various spices added. Fat supply. But from now on, people in the Yonghe Palace must use this most common facial fat, and don’t use any fragrance. Women’s physique may change when they are pregnant. They used to touch spices that have nothing to do The medicine powder may cause discomfort if touched now."

The role of palace maids is also divided into grades and grades.

The Yonghe Palace is already decent, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs' ability to watch people order dishes is passed down in their ancestors.Nowadays, the palace people of Yonghe Palace must be of high quality when they go to receive things.

Facial fats with all kinds of face powder added are definitely rarer than the most common ones, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs often uses them as favors.For example, the items currently used by Qiu Xue and others, although the regulations are still for the palace maids, but in terms of the level of detail inside, they are no worse than the ordinary promise officer women in the palace.

Nanny Yu has been forbidding this kind of "rareness" since she was a child, and she is also preventing outsiders from borrowing this kind of "rareness".

Even the master spice master with the sharpest nose may not be able to separate the subtle and disturbing spices mixed in the oil.

Don't take any risks at all, everyone returns to the most simple and ordinary things.

Qiuxue supported Jiang Heng to stand on the porch, and said, "Nurse Yu is really careful, all the facial rouge and rouge used by the empress have already been replaced." Add rouge gouache.

This point is not only dreamed of by Mammy, but also Qiu Xue and others.

But Madam Yu is so meticulous that she covers the whole palace and prohibits all possible inappropriate fragrances carefully, which is not as good as others.

So careful on a box of facial grease.

Just by looking at the leopard, you can know how cautious she is in the major matters of basic necessities of life.

All the daily necessities in the Yonghe Palace were planed by Madam Yu like a plow.

Jiang Hengyuan thought, this child is not the first day, it has been more than a month.Since the child can stay safely in the womb for more than a month, it should be explained that there is nothing harmful to her in the Yonghe Palace.

Jiang Heng thought that Nanny Yu's actions were just to guard against the future, and to guard against the outsiders.But she didn't want Madam Yu to go back and look back, not even letting go of the current things in Yonghe Palace.

So all of Jiang Heng's paints, including the ink sticks, were temporarily taken away by Nanny Yu and sent to the imperial hospital for appraisal.

Jiang Heng explored and put forward his own views. She is addicted to drawing now, and it's really itchy to be free all of a sudden.Nanny Yu laughed and said, "Don't worry, Madam, the servants will not meddle in their own affairs, so you can't do this, and you can't do that. The child is spiritual, and the mother is in a good mood, so the child will grow up well."

"At that time, the empress wants to stay still, and the servants will urge you to do other things. The reason for taking away your painting tools, especially the colors, is to be careful: the empress shows her pregnancy very early. Perhaps it is Your Majesty's fetal image is like this, maybe there is something in this palace that has irritated your Majesty, I can't say for sure, I have to check everything before I can rest assured."

Jiang Heng expressed his conviction.

Obediently accepted the arrangement, and took back his painting tools five days later.Indeed, several colors were confiscated, such as gamboge and malachite, which were ruthlessly eliminated.Even the cinnabar was taken away.

Jiang Heng already knew that cinnabar is mercury sulfide, which is poisonous when exposed to high temperatures.But she did not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, especially since the emperor had to use a vermilion pen to critique papers, of course he had high requirements on the safety of cinnabar, so the cinnabar in the palace was processed, and the safety factor was quite high.But even so, the Tai Hospital, being too cautious, did not return the cinnabar paint to the Yonghe Palace, and only asked the Ruyi Hall to send the alizarin red and magenta that had been certified as safe.

Ruyi Museum came to send new paints, it was the lead bridge who heard the good news and didn't fall asleep for two days of joy.

Even though he knew that the Tai Hospital had checked it, Yinqiao still sniffed all Jiang Heng's paints very carefully.

Then he instructed: "Madam, among the western paints in the Ruyi Pavilion, there are several kinds of white. The one used here is the harmless pearl white, but there is also a kind of lead white, which is pure in color. But the western painters in the Ruyi Pavilion As I mentioned before, when they didn't know it was poisonous, many famous painters used too much of this lead white paint, and got the same disease so that...the lady must be careful about white."

The current paint is fine. What Yinqiao reminds is that in the future, fearing that someone will be malicious and fish in troubled waters, he will replace the harmless color sent by Ruyi Pavilion with poisonous white.

Nanny Yu nodded straight as she listened.

Yinqiao is busy with 'advanced studies' now, so it's rare to come here. Jiang Heng also showed her the 'Aixinjueluo·Minmin' he painted earlier.

Looking at the little girl painted by Jiang Heng, Yinqiao's eyes shone with excitement and tenderness: "This servant is really looking forward to seeing my mother's child." She thought in her heart, I will stay in the palace for a long time, and I will go to The Department of Punishment went to see more darkness in the palace.

In the future, we will be able to help the empress and children better.

Looking at the little girl painted pink, Yinqiao thought: With such a mother, she must be the happiest little princess.She believed so firmly.

After Yinqiao left, Jiang Heng didn't put away the 'Minmin' picture for the time being, but asked Nanny Yu persistently: "I took out this painting just now, and Nanny seemed very surprised. Is something wrong?"

Nanny Yu couldn't help asking: "My Lady, where did the little girl in this painting come from?"

Of course, Jiang Heng couldn't say that he was a clay sculpture and painted by the emperor.But he also didn't want to take what he said casually to the emperor at that time, saying that he had dreamed about it.

At that time, I didn't expect to have a child so soon, so I said it casually.It's different to mention it now, and it will be regarded as a "blessed and good fortune" fetal dream.

Although Jiang Heng had an intuition that she was a daughter, he had to be on the safe side. If it was a son, a prince, it might not be a good thing to have some kind of miraculous pregnancy dream in advance.

She doesn't want to create some "magical vision" for the child to hurt people's eyes and hearts.I just hope that I am still a child of Peanut, and I will be an ordinary and safe person first.

So he only said to the nanny: "I drew it casually, thinking that if the emperor had a daughter, it would probably be like this."

Yu Momo sighed and said, "My Lady, if the Empress Dowager sees this painting, she will definitely like it."

Nanny Yu served the empress dowager when she gave birth to her second child—mainly when the empress dowager gave birth to the emperor. She was just an ordinary nobleman with no special treatment, just a nanny assigned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

During the period of the first emperor, the empress dowager was famous for being favored for some years, but the people in the palace only saw her being favored as a concubine and giving birth to a child every two years, but they didn't see the sadness behind her.The empress dowager had three daughters in total, but two of them died in infancy, and there was even a princess who died within two months of birth.

Only the fifth princess, Princess Wenxian, really let the queen mother see her grow from a baby to a girl and get married.The Piansheng Princess passed away at a young age, more than ten years ago.

Nanny Yu sighed, "Princess Wen Xian and Lord Long Live are siblings, they are very similar in birth."

Don't use it for Mammy, Jiang Heng will understand.

She is a little girl made of clay with the emperor's facial features, and she looks a bit like her own aunt.

If she rushes to hand this painting to the queen mother, maybe the queen mother will like this unborn child more, but Jiang Heng is not prepared to let the child bear the emotional burden that does not belong to her/him before birth.

However, Jiang Heng wanted to keep a low profile, but he couldn't stop the emperor from wanting to be high profile.

It can be said that thin arms can't twist thick thighs.

Let's say that on the day the emperor returned to the Forbidden City, he came to Yonghe Palace to visit and have dinner.

Coincidentally, with the return of the emperor, Jiang Heng's morning sickness also returned.Jiang Heng thinks: This may mean that the king does not see the king, and Minmin does not see Minmin...

It was okay at first, but smelling the hot and sour dishes on the table, Jiang Heng became hungry as usual.After being seated, the emperor didn't eat it himself, so he gave her a shrimp first.

Jiang Heng smelled very fragrant, but when he bit the shrimp into his mouth, he was shocked: how could it be so fishy!

She immediately took a veil and spit out the shrimp.She didn't care about being indecent in front of the emperor—if she swallowed it forcefully, she would probably vomit on the spot, which would be even more indecent.

Seeing this, the emperor immediately cared and said, "What? Is it not to your taste?"

Jiang Heng endured his nausea and forced a smile.

The emperor gave her another piece of baked sea bass with lemon cooked by Chef Annan. Before he came, he had asked Chang Qing carefully what kind of meal the Yonghe Palace called recently.

When he came to see her today, he brought all the things he thought pregnant women should eat, and the things that Chang Qing reported that Jiang Heng liked to eat.

Jiang Heng also wanted to eat a bite of grilled fish with lemon pepper.

Who knew it was in his mouth, and he was shocked again, wow, this one is more fishy, ​​it is also a kind of earthy smell of river fish, and the fishy smell of sea shrimp just now is really crouching dragons and phoenixes, each has its own advantages, so another veil was quickly wasted.

The emperor even put down his chopsticks this time, got up and walked to her side, followed her back worryingly: "What's the matter?" Then he asked Nanny Yu directly: "Is she always like this since she was pregnant?"

Nanny Yu hurriedly answered the emperor: "Your Majesty used it a few days ago..."

The emperor looked at the table full of dishes: "Then the taste of the big dining room is different today?"

Jiang Heng shook his head with difficulty, and it took him a while to suppress the nausea in his chest, and described it vividly to the emperor: "It's not to blame for the big dining room, it should be because the concubine's taste has changed. Tasting these fish and shrimps, it's like chasing fish by the sea. It's like chewing on a live fish."

The emperor felt distressed and funny at the same time, and sat directly beside her, picked up her chopsticks and tasted the fish belly he had picked up just now.

Apart from the sour taste, he wanted to frown, but there was no trace of fishy smell.

For this meal, the emperor saw that she used very little, and almost barely managed to eat a few stalks of vegetables.It is rare for the emperor to be at a loss what to do.

He didn't remember anything about the concubine's pregnancy: it was too long ago.The children he had had were basically born in the palace. At that time, he was busy secretly tearing up with his brothers.And more than ten years have passed, and the memory is really blurred.

So the next day the emperor got up early and went to the queen mother's palace to pay her respects, and couldn't help talking about it.

The Queen Mother was satisfied now, and stopped talking about 'give me a grandson', but started talking about this baby who already had a shadow.

Hearing what the emperor said, the queen mother laughed and said: "A woman's reaction to pregnancy is always strange and changes every month. When the Ai family had you, for some reason, sometimes they couldn't open their eyes, feel dizzy, and couldn't eat. I can’t sleep. Sometimes I’m in good spirits, and suddenly I want to eat something and I’m so greedy that I can’t wait to eat it right away in the middle of the night.” However, she was just a nobleman at that time, and she didn’t have these conditions.

The emperor sighed in his heart: "Emiang has been so kind to her son in raising her son, it's really hard work."

The queen mother talked about her grandson every day: "It would be great if I were a prince."

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor shook his head: "Emperor Niang, she is a princess."

Queen Mother: ? ?

After the thirteenth master, the queen mother was once again startled by the emperor's princess logic.But the queen mother and the emperor are mother and son, and sometimes the brain circuits are really consistent.Especially when the emperor mentioned that the name Minmin came from Concubine Xin's dream, and then showed the queen mother the small portrait of Minmin painted by Jiang Heng, the queen mother immediately reached an agreement with the emperor.

"Well, since there is Reimu, it must be a princess."

The Empress Dowager took the little girl painted by Jiang Heng, looked left and right, couldn't put it down, and felt kind at the first sight, and even raised it up to look at the emperor's face: "Xinbi's painting is very interesting. If you don't say it, the Ai family will think It’s the way you wore skirts when you were a child. Look at this little one, it’s just like you now.”

The queen mother, who accidentally stumbled upon the truth, did not wake up the emperor.

The emperor still felt that he was a cold-faced king, so he just laughed off what the queen mother said, and then talked about his hexagram: "What's more coincidental, because I saw her painting and heard her say that a daughter fell into a dream, I just made a hexagram, and it turns out that there are auspicious signs for the heir. But I didn't expect the good news to come so quickly."

It was the first time for the Queen Mother to hear about it, and it happened to be in line with her favorite legendary story, and it was completely a professional counterpart.

"If you are born a real little girl, you must be a very lucky one."

Speaking of metaphysics, the Empress Dowager still did not forget to step on the legendary master Yun Jia: "What happened to that Yun Jia who told you fortunes, what kind of luck is strong in the country, and the luck of the heirs is weak, it's just nonsense."

The emperor who brought Master Yun Jia to blame, later realized that he seemed to have smashed the brand of his national teacher, so he rarely smiled awkwardly.

After stepping on others, the queen mother turned back to her granddaughter (yes, the queen mother has also identified her as a princess now), and directly discussed the name: "Then the emperor has thought about whether the little princess should use the word Min for her nickname, or her title." Use sensitive characters?"

The emperor nodded: "I think the princess's nickname should be Minmin. But I have also prepared a few titles with the word Min. At that time, I will only look at the time when the child is born, and the Qin Tianjian and Zhongzhengdian will count." Re-test, if there is a deficiency in the five elements or something wrong with the time, the word Min will be moved to the title, and the small word "Shou Shou" next to it will be taken first."

After all, in order for the children to grow up safely, the palace generally does not give formal names to princes and princesses, let alone titles. It is best to just use a vague nickname used by elders, and you must not use words such as rich and powerful. .

The purpose is to suppress the life expectancy.

The queen mother nodded: "The emperor is very thoughtful, the Ai family has nothing to worry about, just waiting to hold their granddaughter." After calculating that there will be nearly eight months to wait, the queen mother was a little discouraged.

The emperor turned around and told Jiang Heng about the name.

Jiang Heng couldn't help laughing when he heard the famous theory in the palace that "I don't want to be famous because I'm afraid of being in the census book of the King of the Underworld": After all, this child's parents are people who have traveled through the underworld for a round, and they are both lonely souls returning to the sun— — This child can still appear, it is estimated that the horoscope is very hard.

She could still laugh at this moment. After hearing that the emperor had enthusiastically exchanged a series of "magical and sensitive" stories such as hexagrams, fetal dreams, and portraits with the queen mother, Jiang Heng felt that his morning sickness reaction was severe again.