The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

In order to optimize allocation, save expenses and allocate resources more reasonably, the Dugu Dynasty actively carried out layoffs in the harem in the first year of its founding.

However, in order not to cause turmoil in the hearts of the people, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, who has become more and more vixen, created the expulsion method of "planting the blame" with great foresight.The specific operation is to use the Supreme Emperor as bait to hook out those "motivated" court ladies, and then send them out of the palace under the name of "disrespecting the empress dowager".This approach can only be implemented in this dynasty, because the Supreme Emperor is an unprecedented royal son-in-law.

As a result, the Supreme Emperor, who was still thinking hard about how to withdraw the ban on drafts and expand the production team of fat grandsons as soon as possible, suddenly found that his sudden popularity had increased.The specific performance is that every time he leaves Ningshou Palace, the number of maids in front of him will increase rapidly.This is nothing at all, after all, there are many people in the palace, but the shy and timid expressions on each face are more frightening.Being surrounded by several beauties is happiness, but being surrounded by dozens or even hundreds of beauties, and everyone has an expression of wanting to pounce on them and have a bite, is not enjoyable. It turned into a pot of fragrant braised pig's trotters.

After five days of this, Jia She finally fidgeted and called Yingchun, and asked bluntly, "How about sending the maid out of the palace?"

Yingchun replied with a low eyebrow and pleasing eyes: "I'm still considering candidates."

Jia She swept Qiu Shi'an coldly, and Eunuch Qiu hurriedly stepped forward, took out a booklet with a dark cloth cover from his sleeve, handed it to Yingchun with an apologetic smile, and said, "His Royal Highness, these are selected by the Supreme Emperor at his discretion." You might as well arrange them to be the first batch, if you think it suits you.” These are all senior female officials in their early thirties who looked at Jia She’s eyes too hard and scared the emperor to run away. Married, the candidates are often widowers with a bunch of children, or bachelors who are too poor to support their daughter-in-law, but they are unwilling to let them go straight to become nurses. It so happens that the Supreme Emperor wants to fill the harem at this time , How could they not fight hard?

Those under the age of 20 are all court ladies, except for the sisters from the Xue family and the maids brought into the palace by the Ning Mansion, they have not been able to get into the position of female officials, and they have the chance to wink at Ning Shan.Between [-] and [-] is the main force of the female officials, and they can often appear in front of the master. This group of people has high ambitions, just as Si Qi expected, they look down on Jia She, and they all aim directly at Ning Shan He is also the main member of the second batch of release palaces in the Spring Festival plan.After Jia Amnesty's experiment was successful, it was Ning Shan's turn to fish.

Jia She, who couldn't eat anymore, expressed his anger: "I have nothing to do, and I watched and watched around the master. Can they afford to pay for it?" Mingjian, the Supreme Emperor has such a good temper, he can't bear to be looked at, so please hurry up and send these people out of the palace."

Yingchun leisurely flipped through the brochure, and was satisfied to find that the list on it was [-]% in line with what she had secretly drawn up. She couldn't help but proudly gave herself a compliment, and then said perfunctorily: "I haven't shown it to the emperor yet, let the emperor hold on to it." Let’s go.” It hasn’t been long enough for the wind to go out, and I’m afraid some remote places haven’t heard it yet, Jia She still needs to work on this bait for a while, and it will save time and effort to catch all of them.In the final analysis, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, who has not yet correctly realized the horror of middle-aged women, has insufficient understanding of the tragic situation of the Supreme Emperor, and is completely a model of standing and talking without back pain.

At the same time, Mrs. Xing, who lived leisurely and contentedly in the Yongfu Palace alone in a corner of the palace, also found that the number of court ladies and officials who came to show her courteousness soared.Mrs. Xing has a special status in the palace. Although she does not have an official title, she is indeed the famous step-wife of the Supreme Emperor. It stands to reason that a husband and wife should be promoted to the empress dowager.However, in view of the special status of the Supreme Emperor, no one has dared to make this suggestion so far, so they vaguely gave her the rank and salary of a noble concubine and arranged corresponding attendants. The palace also referred to the layout of the former concubines.Mrs. Xing herself is not dissatisfied, but it is inevitable that some court ladies look down on her when they see that she has never been titled. Usually, there are not many people who flatter Mrs. Xing, but since Yingchun announced that she would fill the harem for the Supreme Emperor, many elderly court ladies seem to have lost their lives overnight. Thinking of Mrs. Xing for a while, they flocked to her one after another and took the tactful route of concubines trying to curry favor with the wife.

Mrs. Xing has never been a generous and kind character. Although she has no position to criticize others' attitudes towards her, it doesn't mean she won't care.However, Mrs. Xing wrote down all the things that were too obvious in the front and back in the back, and she just waited for the opportunity to sue.This is quite in line with Yingchun's needs, she is worried that she has no excuse to go out to sweep people, as long as Mrs. Xing has avenged her, all of them will be on the list of going out of the palace.

The Taishanghuang used the bait to catch a group of older wives with lofty hearts, and Mrs. Xing used the bait to catch a group of snobs with high-sightedness and low-handedness. Almost done, I found a sunny afternoon and went to Fengyi Palace with the list to ask Ning Shan to have a symbolic look.

When I arrived at Fengyi Palace and asked, His Majesty has been busy with government affairs for several days, and has not entered the harem for a few days.Yingchun hesitated for a moment, it was inconvenient for her to go to the front court, and she didn't know what government affairs were, and she didn't dare to ask people to send messages to disturb her at will. After thinking about it, she might as well just leave it to Jia She.

Chilling in Ningshou Palace and complaining endlessly, Jia She heard that the group of green-eyed maids were finally going out of the palace, and jumped up excitedly to polish the ink himself, and was about to write the imperial decree.Yingchun reminded in time: "Think of a good reason first. First, it must not cause panic among the people in the harem. Second, don't let those outside the palace who intend to send women into the palace have hope again. There are also regulations for releasing people to be drawn up. Only those who are over [-] years old and have low grades and unimportant positions can apply. Let's relax a little more, with a limit of [-], and those who intend to leave the palace early before their age can also be considered .”

While splashing ink, Jia Amnesty promised, "Whatever you say, do what you say. Let's get rid of those women who are not doing business." Recently, the life of the Supreme Emperor has become more and more frightening. He felt like he got into his bed, and in the middle of the night, while he was having a good dream, a ball of smooth white meat suddenly rolled in. He was so scared that now let alone the inner room, he dare not use the maid to make the bed, and even changed the eunuch to take a bath and change clothes.

There is no peace in the palace, and it is even worse to go outside.The Supreme Emperor happened to be very poetic last night, and he took a stroll in the purple bamboo forest in the back garden without bringing a few people. The court lady, who couldn't walk fast, took aim at the target and slammed into her target for more than ten rounds, and the delicate skinned and fleshy Taishang Emperor was hit like an ink painting full of fallen flowers.

I originally thought that the bamboo forest was gloomy, and it was late, so the sightlines were not good. Who would have thought that I would go around in a peach blossom forest with nothing but tree trunks and flowers and leaves? The female officers on the night shift who happened to pass by" looked forward and suddenly stepped behind, and all cried and said that it was not intentional.There were no fewer than ten people who sprinkled teapots, soup cups, washbasins and even soap powder all over his body, and all of them begged for mercy before he got angry.

Grand Master Xi is used to pretending to be powerful, and he spends a lot of time shouting and drinking, but he has never seriously punished anyone, and those who make mistakes are all graceful beauties in palace costumes. I limped back to the Ningshou Palace by myself, and because of the cold night wind, I staggered all the way in clothes full of tea and ginseng soup. Asking for the pulse, it turned out to be caused by external factors and internal stagnation, and the size is also a typhoid fever.I was told by the imperial doctor that I need to eat a few meals in peace and quiet, and take two doses of medicine first to evacuate.Jia She took a look at the prescription, the perilla, platycodon grandiflorum, windproof, nepeta full of paper were not counted, and the angelica, tangerine peel, and white peony root were not delicious things, not to mention the citrus aurantium and ephedra behind it, and immediately threw a piece of it His face was wrinkled like a steamed bun that hadn't eaten his breakfast.

When Yingchun came over, Jia She had just finished drinking the medicine, and was moaning and snuggling on the low couch covered with a brocade quilt. Hearing that people could be released from the palace, he jumped up excitedly, regardless of his top-heaviness. Eloquently wrote a bunch of nonsense, to the effect that His Majesty is filial, pure and benevolent, and he serves the Supreme Emperor day and night in the palace. I still feel that I can't fulfill my filial piety, because I saw that the maids have been in the palace for many years, and they have left their parents. , not being able to fulfill the wishes of the family, and it will greatly hurt the peace of heaven... Wait, let's talk about the main point at the end. All palace ladies who are over 25 years old next year can leave the palace and return home. Can be considered at discretion.

While Jia Amnesty was writing, Yingchun was reading the imperial decree backwards, and the more he read it, the more familiar it became: "It seems like I've heard these words somewhere."

Qiu Shi'an apologized and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness has a good memory, which is vaguely similar to the reason why the former emperor abolished the decree for concubines to visit relatives."

Yingchun curled her lips, raised her hand and took away the imperial decree, and threw a volume to the little eunuch, saying: "Go and see if any of the Hanlin scholars on duty today are free? If so, please ask him to draft an imperial decree for you."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Jia She and said, "Imperial Father has a noble status. It's not worth writing an imperial edict of this level by yourself. You can just write it on behalf of me."

Jia Shewo went back to the couch, humming and said: "Stinky girl, you dare to despise me for not being good at writing, and deduct all your salary, and tell you to taste the taste of eating chaff and swallowing vegetables."

Yingchun replied casually: "I'll go to my wife's place to eat, so I won't be hungry."

It was only then that Jia She remembered that he still had a wife. He hadn't seen her for a long time, and he almost forgot that there was such a person. He couldn't help asking, "Where does your wife live now? Are you doing well?" Although Mrs. Xing is weak He is also incompetent, and even looks very poor, but after all, they are the husband and wife who have been with him for more than ten years by the side of the stable. Although the relationship is not deep, it is not without any.Especially now that the identity of the wife and concubine who is married into the door with an eight-carrying sedan chair is unknown, I feel a little bit guilty.

Yingchun replied: "My wife is now living in Yongfu Palace, and all the supplies are of the grade of a noble concubine. Yu'er and Xi'er and I will go over to say hello every few days. It's pleasant to chat and laugh with us, but it's a bit The palace people don't wink very much, and feel that the wife has no status, so they can't help but neglect her."

Jia She frowned and said, "There are people like this who should be sent out."

Yingchun said: "It's natural. Those who disrespect your wife will not only be sent out, but also be removed at all levels, leaving the palace in vain."

Jia She gritted his teeth and said, "Don't just vent your anger on your wife, there are not a few people who offend me, Master."

Yingchun asked curiously: "Who dares to disrespect you?" Which one without eyes and ears would dare to neglect the Supreme Emperor?This is an authentic person who can walk in front of the harem as he pleases, and even the guards who follow him can walk sideways.

Jia Amnesty's face was ferocious, and his expression was awkward: "Don't ask if you shouldn't ask, it's not something you, little girl, should know." How can Hua Hua spend most of her life almost being prostituted by a woman? "What's the idea of ​​those maids thinking that he can't see it?Although I don't know why he has been too emperor for several months before suddenly becoming a favorite, but this does not prevent the "sharp-eyed" elder from seeing through the "sinister intentions" of the girls. Compared with the group of moonlit wolf girls in the palace, Mrs. Xing is simply a model of virtuous and virtuous girls. She not only follows the rules, but also knows her destiny.