[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

Jiang Heng was pleasantly surprised when he received two small bamboo baskets of mangoes. It happened that he was tired of drinking lemon tea, so he could switch to mango-based tea.

Of course, before making fruit tea, she had to eat the mango glutinous rice cake of her dream.

Annan's cook also followed to the Old Summer Palace.When Qiu Xue went to find him with the mangoes, she saw that the cook was slumped on a bamboo chair, holding a small teapot in his hand, no different from the serious cooks in the capital.

Qiu Xue coughed, "Hello, Chef Ruan."

I saw the cook jump up from the chair, and said with a straight voice: "Hey, Miss Qiuxue is here, why don't you eat."

Qiu Xue couldn't tell who was more authentic, herself or him.

After exchanging greetings, Qiu Xue handed over eight mangoes in a small bamboo basket.Chef Ruan had tears in his eyes when he saw it. He was half happy and half nostalgic. He picked up the top one and turned it upside down: "It looks like our Annan's thin-skinned red mango."

It can be seen that King Shengming, the relationship between the two countries is indeed better!

"Chef Ruan, our mother wants to eat mango glutinous rice cake."

"Glutinous rice cakes, glutinous rice are all available, let the concubine Xin have a look."

Chef Ruan, who was completely unaware of the wind and rain outside and gradually settled down in the capital, met mangoes, the specialty of his hometown, and tried his best to cook a mango feast.

At dinner that day, Jiang Heng was surprised when he saw the number of dishes: "I asked you to send a few more mangoes, just to let him keep two for himself. Those who understand the homesickness, leave their hometown, and can't taste the taste of their hometown. Poor. But look at the quantity, he has cooked all the dishes."

Jiang Heng judges others by himself. Sometimes when she gets up early and sleepy, she really wants to have a can of Red Bull, and when she eats hot pot, she also really wants to have a carbonated drink.

It doesn't mean that those things taste good, but the taste of hometown that you can't eat.

When the emperor arrived, he showed a rather unbelievable expression on the several mango-related dishes on the table.

The golden mango meat is directly covered with rice, and it seems to be poured with snow-white milk; there are also some side dishes that the emperor thinks can’t be fried together: mango fried chicken, mango sauce with fried shrimp, most of which the emperor can’t understand The green mango is dipped in a kind of black soy sauce.

"You like to eat these?"

"Your Majesty, let's try it." Jiang Heng recommended mango sticky rice to him: "The topping is not milk, but coconut milk."

Compared with mangoes, it is not uncommon for the court to receive coconuts as tribute from the south.It so happened that Jiang Heng watched "Dongpo Zhilin" yesterday and saw that after Su Dongpo was demoted to Hainan, he drank coconut juice and made a coconut crown out of coconuts, which later became popular in the capital.

Jiang Heng asked the dining room to bring one over, and wanted to get a coconut shell hat belt for Minmin.

The emperor said that there was no need for her invitation, he looked at the normal imperial meals in front of him, and felt that the common dishes made him a little more appetizing.

Seeing that she really ate green mangoes dipped in soy sauce, the emperor felt that people have different tastes, and said: "I still have a mango in there, and I have already ordered Changqing, you just go and eat it these few days." If the dining room wants food, let him go and get it from me."

The distribution of tributes in the palace is based on status, Jiang Heng didn't get many mangoes here.

This is because he had signaled to the Nanguofang, if the Nanguofang should be distributed according to the usual routine, I am afraid that the mangoes that Concubine Xin would get here would be lower than Concubine Yu and Concubine Xi, and would only have one bamboo basket.

Even if this mango was actually what he asked for from Lao Ba because he was thinking about his concubine Xin, even if Concubine Xi and the others might not like this mango at all.

This matter made the emperor feel a little uncomfortable.

After all, the rank of concubine is still a bit lower. When Minmin is one year old, you can consider making her a concubine again. Otherwise, there will be various cases throughout the year, and you will suffer somewhat.

The emperor is a man who treats people well and wants to give good things to others.Thinking that she and her daughter will go according to the concubine's status, if they don't think of sending many concubine things for a while, they won't be able to use them, so I can't help but worry about it.

Minmin is a princess... which is also just right.If it's the prince, I'm afraid I'll hesitate a bit when I take the throne, and I'm afraid the courtiers will speculate more.

Jiang Heng still doesn't know that the emperor is already thinking about the promotion issue that she cares most about.

She is now thinking about another fruit she would like to eat.

Jiang Heng poked and asked secretly: "Chen Qie heard from Chef Annan that they also have a kind of fruit called durian, which looks like a hedgehog on the outside, and the smell is not very pleasant, but the flesh is sweet."

The emperor thought for a while: "Old Ba seems to have mentioned it once. But he said that the fruit tastes bad, looks ugly and has sharp thorns that can easily hurt people, so it is not easy to pay tribute."

Jiang Heng was sad: Ba Ye, how can you judge the fruit by appearance.

But the emperor's attention was shifted to a bowl of fruit puree on the table: "What kind of dish is this bowl of puree?" Although the next dish seemed strange to the emperor, it was more or less colorful and beautifully arranged. It's purely a bowl of mango puree.

"It was prepared by my concubine for Minmin. Physician Liu said that besides eating rice porridge, Minmin can also add some fruit puree."

The emperor was a little surprised: as far as he knew, the princes in the palace were all breastfed until they were two or three years old, and there were some who didn't like to eat and kept breastfeeding when they reached their age.

Jiang Heng laughed and said, "Minmin likes fruit puree very much, does the emperor want to see it?"

The emperor nodded, and Minmin's extra meal location was moved from her own room to the main hall.

The nursing mother used a small silver spoon to feed Minmin fruit puree little by little, with great patience.Although Minmin ate slowly, she ate very deliciously, and her stomach rose and fell accordingly.The emperor is like countless netizens who are addicted to watching pandas eating bamboo, immersed in the repetitive movements of watching their daughters eating fruit puree, and are silently cute.

This day and night, it was rare for the emperor not to put his hands on the book, but he just lay on his arm and looked at the top of the tent, as if he was quite worried.

Jiang Heng changed into his pajamas, looked at the emperor's expression in the reflection of the mirror for a while, and then regretted: "Oh, today I can't enjoy the unbuttoning performance of the top emperor's level."

The emperor obviously has something on his mind.

As the weather got hotter, she only applied a little face cream, which still had a fresh big orange flavor.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is really diligent in the research and development of cosmetics.Jiang Heng made citron's bath cream for summer use in the past, and in the following summer, various refreshing and fruity bath creams will be available on the market.

Save Jiang Heng to try a little bit by himself.

"The emperor is not happy?" Jiang Heng sat gently on the edge of the bed.

The emperor originally looked at the top of the tent, but then closed his eyes and meditated.At this moment, I didn't open my eyes, but my sense of smell was keen, and I felt that there was a very fresh freshly cut orange sitting beside me.

Even if he closes his eyes, the scene of "breaking new oranges with slender hands" will immediately appear in front of his eyes.

So he reached out and groped, holding his slender hand in the palm of his hand, still closing his eyes: "It's nothing serious."

Jiang Heng: ... If there is no big deal, let me go in and sleep.It's getting late, you have to get up early tomorrow, and I'm not brisk, I have to get up to look after the children first, and then go to the morning shift to settle down.

Let's all go to bed early and stop being depressed, okay?

However, although the emperor said that there was nothing serious about it, it was obvious that something small or medium made him unhappy, and he was still waiting for Jiang Heng to ask and comfort him.

Jiang Heng looked at the emperor on the outside, unless he stepped on him (today she was wearing pajamas and skirts, which restricted her from hurdling), otherwise she could only continue to sit here and act as an interpreter.

So Jiang Heng took out the enthusiasm to play with Minmin and asked: "The emperor will talk to the concubine, don't be bored in your heart." He also shook the emperor's hand twice as encouragement.

The emperor just opened his eyes, moved his eyes to look at her, and said with an expression of "I really can't do anything about you, since you insist on asking, then I will reluctantly tell you": "I have tested Hongshi and theirs today. homework."

"Hongshi has become more and more outrageous in the past six months or so. Because of Concubine Qi's going from the palace to the Old Summer Palace, I saw him always in a state of anxiety. I once enlightened him. He is getting older and older. As the prince who is about to leave the mansion, you need to open your eyes. I once reprimanded him and asked him to be diligent and focused..."

But Hongshi didn't take it to heart no matter whether he taught earnestly or reprimanded him harshly.

Blindly immersed in the fear of Erniang being moved to the Old Summer Palace.

"I really don't know how to teach him."

The emperor thought, this probably cannot be taught, for example, what he and his brothers have not seen is the xinxing that has been taught.Huang Ama put most of her energy on the second brother of the prince, and of course her attention was divided when it came to the other sons.

This should be a talent - the emperor had already acquiesced that Hongshi was not good at being a prince.

But what the emperor was even more dissatisfied with was that Hongshi's temperament hadn't improved and remained stable for so many years.

Don't look at Hong Zhou's innocence, I'm afraid that when he grows up, he will be able to take on things better than Hong Shi.

Just because of Concubine Qi, Hongshi really lost his soul in the past six months, but he just couldn't make up his mind.Don't talk about being a king, just worrying about a little thing for a small official or official for half a year, wouldn't the people below be unlucky?

The emperor didn't want him to be indifferent to his mother being sent out of the palace.But the emperor had already given Concubine Qi and him enough face at that time, and sent them to Yuanmingyuan together on the grounds that "Concubine Qi is the oldest and can take care of the concubine", and his reputation and face were preserved for him.

But Hongshi still couldn't pick it up.

"Doesn't he admire Lao Ba as an uncle? Then why don't you learn from Lao Ba?"

Back then, Huang Ama called Lao Ba "the son of Xin Zheku's lowly servant girl" in front of the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty. Even the emperor, who was a political enemy, found it harsh, thinking that Huang Ama should not insult his concubine and concubine heirs like this.

Although Lao Ba was uncomfortable, he quickly cheered up and did not feel depressed (although it was a pity for the emperor at that time that Lao Ba did not sink in this way), and he was never as panic-stricken as Hongshi.

"I'm really disappointed in Hiroshi."

"I thought, I'd better let him meet Concubine Qi to calm himself down. The only thing he can do now is filial piety."

Jiang Heng seemed to listen seriously, but he was actually surprised: this was the first time the emperor discussed the princes' affairs with her, and he clearly expressed his attitude towards the princes.

Is it because she had no children before?The emperor felt that she couldn't understand discussing the child's education with her, or because of Minmin, the emperor became closer to her, and could even discuss the prince's affairs with her?

But either way, it's a good thing.

But the emperor opened his eyes and looked at her again, he was a little more straightforward: "I suddenly sent Concubine Qi and Nian to this Yuanmingyuan together. Although you didn't ask, I'm afraid you have thought about the reason in your heart."

Jiang Heng also said bluntly: "The concubine guessed something."

Sure enough, the emperor just laughed it off: "I believe you guessed something, that's why you never asked, and never asked Concubine Qi for favors."

"The empress told me two or three times to intercede for Concubine Qi, and she came to ask me if I would like to take Concubine Qi back to the palace to reunite with Hongshi during the holidays."

"This was originally the duty of her queen. However, the rest of the concubines in the palace should behave in harmony and generosity, and they have mentioned to me more or less once that for Hongshi's sake, they should treat Concubine Qi leniently. But you, what happened before and after?" Nothing was said."

Concubine Xi and Concubine Yu, the two concubines with princes, no matter how happy they were about Concubine Qi being sent to the Old Summer Palace, they had to plead for Concubine Qi's favor and go through a formality.After all, they have sons under their knees, and it is a due courtesy to intercede for the birth mother of the eldest son of the emperor. Otherwise, it would seem that they are jealous of the eldest son of the emperor and pave the way for their own children.

But Jiang Heng didn't speak here, so the emperor guessed that she should know why Concubine Qi left the palace.

This time, it was the emperor who shook her hand in a comforting manner.

"I asked Hongshi to see Concubine Qi, but I wouldn't move her out. Minmin is still so young."

"Just let Concubine Qi still live in Guanlan Hall in the west. Across Fuhai, she and Nian can't get along. Although you like to go around, don't take Minmin to the west. "

Jiang Heng had heard from Yinqiao before that the Old Summer Palace could be regarded as a garden divided into two halves.To the east is the housing area, to the west is the landscape area, and most of the landscape area is a large lake.

It is obviously a lake, but it is named Fuhai, which shows how big it is.

It takes a long time to cross by boat.

To the west of Fuhai, there are also a few sparse courtyards. The emperor just placed Nian and Concubine Qi on the westernmost side across Fuhai.

That is equivalent to the natural cold palace of the Old Summer Palace: people rarely swim there when they swim in the lake.

Moreover, there is no dock in the west, and there are no ships in itself.

If Concubine Qi and Concubine Nian wanted to meet the Emperor by chance in the eastern housing area, they had no choice but to walk—at the pace and dress of concubines, they would have to walk seriously for at least an hour.

On such a hot day, if any beauties put on makeup, it would definitely be a joke.

Therefore, even though Sheng Jia arrived at the Old Summer Palace, they were still trapped at the westernmost end of Fuhai, and their days were the same as before, neither seeing Sheng Jia nor anyone else.

For Hongshi, the past two days have been mixed: it was worry that he got confused in the exam yesterday, but it was joy that Huang Ama finally let him go to pay his respects to Er Niang.

It's a pity that Fuhai didn't have a boat prepared, and Hongshi didn't dare to go back to ask Huang Ama for a boat, so he had to walk by himself. After walking with difficulty for almost an hour, he finally arrived at Guanlan Hall where Concubine Qi was staying.

When the mother and son finally meet, Hiroshi has a lot of troubles to tell.

Of course, before coming here, he hugged the teapot and drank a few cups of tea in a row.

Hongshi wanted to complain, but Concubine Qi felt that she was suffering even more: she was sent to the Old Summer Palace last year, and now half a year has passed, she is really going to be driven crazy here!

When the emperor didn't come to live, there were few people in Yuanmingyuan, and there was no one in the west except for the servants in the palace.

Going out is the boundless lake, Concubine Qi didn't let her cultivate her body, her heart was as wide as the lake, but it made her feel as painful as falling into the lake.

At first she was still trying to relieve her boredom in her own room, but later she would even go to talk to Nian, so you can see how suffocated she is.

After all, Concubine Qi is here to take care of Nian, and the palace officials dare not stop her.

Since Concubine Qi felt that she was wronged, she brought out the inside and outside of the words, and even complained to the concubine Nian: "I just want to send you a few words, but I just want to send you some clothes. So what if you were angry with Concubine Xin when you went out, after all, you didn't go out, and I didn't hurt Concubine Xin in anger, why is the emperor so angry, and sent me to this barren mountain and ridge-like garden regardless of years of love? !"

When Concubine Nian heard this for the first time, her face was completely shocked by her stupidity.

Concubine Qi could say such a thing?

Your Majesty is a person who inquires about his career and his heart. You have thought of doing harm to Concubine Xin who is pregnant, so you still want to plot against Concubine Xin through me.

Maliciousness has already started, but it was just an attempt, and you actually feel that you have been wronged by being dealt with?

Concubine Nian looked at Concubine Qi who was sitting opposite her, and thought desolately: It must be because I have no children.It is because of the emperor's taboo that Concubine Qi can still stay in the concubine position, presumably it is because of the third elder brother.

Seeing Concubine Qi babbling a lot, Nian concubine is used to it, anyway, she is idle, and she has a kind of pastime expectation of 'I'll see what stupid things you can say today'.

And after Concubine Qi started chatting with Concubine Nian, she couldn't help but ask Concubine Nian strangely: "Didn't you die from illness in the palace? How did you get to Yuanmingyuan... Although there is no lack of medical care here, But after all, it is incomparable with the imperial physician in the palace, and your illness is cured instead?"

Concubine Nian didn't want to talk to her at all: At that time, she was dying in the Forbidden City because she wanted to see the emperor and make him feel soft, but now she's living on the edge of the blessed sea, so why bother herself?

Furthermore, there is a force in Nianbi's heart that supports her: hate is always longer than love.

She wants to live in this corner of the Old Summer Palace, waiting to see Concubine Xin fall out of favor!Wasn't she more favored than Concubine Xin?In those six years, no one could compare to her brilliance, not to mention the empress backing down, even the empress dowager couldn't control her.

That's why Concubine Nian has such a temper that she wants to wait here, maybe one day the person sitting opposite her will be Concubine Xin who has fallen out of favor, instead of Concubine Qi who is currently asking her why she recovered from her illness with a stupid face.

It is only said that Concubine Qi has really felt wronged for the past six months, she has nothing to do except eat and sleep every day, and the anxiety of worrying about everything in the palace almost drives her crazy.

Especially during the New Year's Eve, Concubine Qi misses the pleasure of being the birth mother of the eldest son of the emperor and concubine, mingling with the wives inside and outside.

Now that she finally saw her son, Concubine Qi naturally had countless complaints.

After Hongshi had finished paying his respects, Concubine Qi cried: "I heard that Shengjia has been in Yuanmingyuan for several days, why did you come to pay his respects, did you even forget Er Niang?"

Concubine Qi was originally a loving mother who cared about her son very much, but she has been imprisoned as a bitter wife for more than half a year, and she has to complain when she sees her only relative.

But Hongshi was more aggrieved than her and wanted to complain, and upon hearing this, he said: "Emiang still blames her son for forgetting you? If it wasn't for her son begging in front of Huang Ama repeatedly, how could Huang Ama let her son come to see you! "

Concubine Qi said happily when she heard this: "You begged your Huang Ama? What a good son! Then since he asked you to see me, he must be willing to move me out of the west of Fuhai and move me to live in the east courtyard."

Hong Shi was taken aback, shook his head and said, "That's not true, Huang Ama only asked his son to come to see Er Niang."

Concubine Qi was extremely disappointed immediately, and muttered: "What's the use of that. It's useless to see it."

After saying this, Hongshi felt so sad that he was scolded by Huang Ama for repeatedly begging for mercy in the past six months, and the embarrassment of being punished by Huang Ama in front of his younger brothers and even eunuchs yesterday came to his mind. It's useless to lose your son? That son really misses you for nothing!"

"At that time, the concubine Xin was pregnant, and her son told her to tell Er Niang not to move. It would be better for you to collude with concubine Nian. What did you think? I lost face and was imprisoned in the Old Summer Palace. Today I finally begged Huang Ama to come to see you, but instead of saying that you are considerate of my lack of face because of your fault, you still complain that I am useless."

Concubine Qi was shocked and cried: "Do you think Er Niang has embarrassed you?"

The mother and son talked with each other, but the more they talked, the more excited they became.

Hongshi recalled how Hong Zhou was praised by Huang Ama, and recalled Concubine Yu getting closer to Concubine Xin, so he said, "Hongli and Hongzhou have Er Niang to help. Concubine Yu's mother and son are the best. After rewarding our new tribute fruit (Hongshi didn't have the nerve to say that he didn't get the reward), Piansheng Hongzhou immediately said to take it back for his younger sister to eat. Huang Ama really likes it, Kua Wudi will take care of her younger sister."

"There is Hongli again, now there is no imperial concubine, and Erniang is not in the palace. Concubine Xi often helps the queen to take care of trivial matters. The county magistrate is better off taking care of it now. Now the eunuch that elder brother serves is more respectful to Hongli than to his son. .”

"Besides, Hongli himself is very cunning. As soon as Huang Ama praised the fifth brother for caring about his younger sister, Hongli took the poems he wrote to the fourth younger sister to study and read poems for the fourth younger sister, pretending to be a big brother! They rely on If you are not yet ten years old, you can still go to the concubine's palace, but your son can't. Not only can you not help your son, but only add trouble to your son."

Concubine Qi said with resentment: "The emperor actually let Concubine Xin live in the Tantan Pavilion? I heard that it is the closest to Qingyan of Kyushu!"

Even Hongshi, a "confused child" like the emperor Jinkou Yuyu, was driven crazy by Concubine Qi who couldn't grasp the point at all.

"My mother! What my son said was that I was alone and helpless. You didn't say that you were planning for your son, but you were still watching where the concubine Xin lived! No matter what, the empress Xin gave birth to a younger sister. Now that Hongli and Hongzhou are getting older, the son It's the two of them who are worried!"

Concubine Qi was a little short of breath at first, and then began to play badly, directly shirking responsibility and saying: "Hongshi, if it wasn't for you, would Er Niang be sent to this Yuanmingyuan?"

Hong Shi was even more angry: "Huang Ama said that it depends on the end result rather than sincerity. It's like a fool's sincerity will only do bad things. If the official's errands are fundamentally wrong, no matter how hard they try, they will only harm the people. Er Niang, don't say how you feel about me, you should do something to make Huang Ama happy."

"Now Huang Ama has arrived in the Old Summer Palace, you send some embroidered clothes to Jiuzhou Qingyan, please forgive Huang Ama, don't be left in this Yuanmingyuan after the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

However, Concubine Qi didn't hear the latter sentence at all, she covered her face and wept because of the first sentence: "You actually think that my mother is harming you, why do I have such an unfilial son!"

Hongshi was left speechless, so he had to resign and leave.

Hongshi came out of Guanlan Hall and walked all the way around the lake.

He was disturbed by the chirping of cicadas in summer.

Just walked to the West Palace Gate, just in time to meet the high-spirited Jiu Ye.