Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

Fourth An and the others didn't know what happened to Ru Ning. In fact, they hadn't communicated with Gaoyou for a long time. He wasn't sure if Gaoyou had given up on them. I can't help being afraid, he has been in Anfeng for more than two years, and he spends almost all his time on socializing with people, and he has run out of money.

There was almost no rice in the house, and it was the Hongxiu trustee in the palace who brought them money, so An Laosi would not go to the street to beg for food.

Although he worked as a small official in Anfeng, the official he bought with money didn't even need a job, but he had a wider range of friends, which was used to get closer to other small officials, and there was no monthly salary.

After all, Liu Futong is not so stupid. You can buy it, but you can't buy high-ranking officials, and you can't buy real power. These people who buy officials are actually buying face and looking good.

Although it is not allowed to buy officials on the surface, Liu Futong turned a blind eye and closed his eyes, which can be regarded as increasing revenue and reducing expenditure for the Anfeng treasury.

An Laosi sat on the chair and sighed. He felt that he had a smart head, but there was nothing he could do in Anfeng. Compared with him, An's wife was much calmer. Gossiping with the female relatives of the neighbors nearby, the women sit together drinking hot tea, embroidering flowers, and chatting about new things that happened recently.

And Fourth An suddenly discovered that his wife actually enjoyed such a life, but what she enjoyed was not doing needlework in a warm room, but enjoying what she could hear from her female partner every day.

Then at night, he shared it with An Laosi. An Lao Si felt that he and his wife had been married for so many years, and it was during the time in Anfeng that his wife talked the most.

This night, An'an's wife coded down the information she had inquired into and put it in the cabinet. After climbing into bed, she said, "I don't know how Hongxiu is doing in the palace. She always sends us money. Life in the palace shouldn't be too difficult." .”

Fourth An thought about Hongxiu's cute and pitiful appearance, and said to his wife, "A woman like her is the one who lives the longest. We need to find out more information."

In the eyes of Mr. An, Hongxiu is a woman who crawled out of a crowd of men. She is tougher than most women locked in the backyard, and smarter than women working in the fields. To put it bluntly, it is She knows how to speak nonsense when meeting people. This is also a science. How many people have the ability but are delayed because of opening their mouths.

At this time, Hongxiu was serving the queen. She relied on currying favor with the big court ladies and clever words, and she was generous. In just one year, she changed from a tea-making palace lady to a personal palace lady. Now her job is to dress the queen. Queen's side.

The queen is not very old, she is in her early twenties, she was raised spoiled and spoiled, she was locked up in the yard since she was a child, she has a snow-white skin, her hair is well maintained, black and smooth, but there is one thing that is not good—— Her appearance can only be called mediocre, she has a square face, small eyes, almost no nose bridge, and her nostrils are a bit upturned.

Concubine Li is different from the queen, she does not have the delicate white skin of the queen, nor does she have long black and smooth hair, but her face is beautiful, and any status in the harem is false, only the emperor's favor is real No matter how low the status is, the emperor loves her, and the court maids dare not belittle her. No matter how high the status is, if the emperor doesn't love her, the court maids will have a lot of excuses to shirk her.

Even the maids in the court want a good future, but they always have to know where to work hard.

The queen was sitting on the chair, and Hongxiu was dressing her. The queen looked at herself in the bronze mirror. The bronze mirror did not show clearly, and her face seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, but the queen could still see her own appearance. She is not beautiful, and her family always said to her, "Women do not rely on their looks, but on virtue and virtue, so that they can be invincible."

She touched her face.

Is she moral?She never asked about the emperor's court affairs. She regarded the emperor as her heaven and everything she had. From the first day she stepped into the palace, she made up her mind to live only for her husband in the future. Maybe this is the virtue of virtue. .

Is she good?She never cared who the emperor doted on, and even the emperor doted on his concubine and forgot to reward her, so she had to make up for it, to comfort her, maybe this was Xian.

But the emperor still didn't love her, and he didn't even want to share the bed with her.

Even when they shared the bed occasionally, the emperor was unwilling to look directly at her face. If he saw her face, the emperor would still have a look of disgust on his face.

When the mother entered the palace, she told her that she must give birth to the prince as soon as possible. As long as she has a prince, her position will never be shaken again.

She dared not tell her mother that the emperor did not want to touch her.

What woman can give birth to a son by herself?

"Your Majesty, this is the new hairpin of this year." Hongxiu turned around and picked up a tray. On it were exquisite jewelry that made ordinary people dumbfounded and could not be afforded in their lifetime, but the Queen just glanced at it and said indifferently. Said, "These are too fancy, replace the ones I usually use."

Hongxiu said softly: "Yes."

After Hongxiu finished dressing the queen, she found that the queen was sitting in front of the mirror with tears streaming down her eyes. Noble girls were never allowed to cry. Their tears would be turned into weapons and they could not shed for themselves.

Hongxiu didn't make a sound, and it wasn't her turn to make a sound at this time.

It was the grand maid who came in and saw the queen weeping alone, so she hurriedly pulled the red sleeves who dared not move and knelt down.

"Your Majesty, take care of your health." The palace maid grew up with the Empress since she was a child, so she dared to say such a sentence, and her tears also fell, "You can't tell the jokes over there."

The queen's voice was hoarse: "He Gong, who doesn't know that I'm a joke?"

Those people said behind her back that she had no talent or good looks, but she firmly occupied the queen's seat. Didn't the emperor enter the queen's palace several times a month?

She couldn't even defend herself.

She never thought of being a queen!When she was at home, she thought that she would marry her father's disciple, and her husband would respect her, not to mention affection, at least respect each other as a guest and be an arm to each other.

But when she became a queen, she couldn't even ask her husband why he didn't give her face.

She was pinned down by Concubine Li, unable to move.

The palace maid struggled to bring up an ugly smile: "Mother, then Concubine Li is like Bao Si, a demon concubine, and Your Majesty is a queen, she is just a concubine."

The queen looked at the eldest lady: "She is pregnant."

The grand lady dared not speak.

The queen's voice was very soft: "And I don't have any children yet."

"This child cannot be born." The queen said, "If she really gave birth to a prince, I will have no place to stand."

The grand lady bit her lower lip, why didn't she know?A mother is more expensive than a child. If the Li family has a son, this child will be the only child of the emperor, or the eldest son. There is no one who is not in the imperial court. If the queen is found to be wrong again, her seat will be in jeopardy , the queen was walking on the cliff, she made a wrong step, and there was an abyss below.

Concubine Li's child cannot be born, and even if she is born, she cannot live.

The queen said, "I don't have anyone I can use now."

The grand maid dared not speak, she was a bit timid after all, murdering the emperor's heir was a heinous crime, enough to kill the whole family.

At this moment, Hongxiu suddenly raised her head, her face was full of tears, which made her look extremely embarrassed, her nose was running down, and she didn't dare to wipe it, her voice was choked up: "Your Majesty, let the servants go. "

The queen looked at Hongxiu, and she asked, "Aren't you afraid of death?"

Hongxiu trembled: "I'm afraid."

Queen: "Then you still want to..."

Hongxiu sniffed: "To tell you the truth, slaves are favored at home, brothers and sisters also love slaves, but they don't want to be strict with the rules when they enter the palace. Everyone has a clever mouth and a vicious heart. Only the empress treats slaves." Alright, I am willing to share your worries for your empress."

The palace maid breathed a sigh of relief, she looked at Hong Xiu with more pity in her eyes, this Hong Xiu, at first she thought he was a restless person, after all he had a good face, but after getting along with her for a long time, she realized that this person had no face at all. She has a good face, but she is actually an idiot. Whoever talks to her a little more and gets a little closer will give her the things that are next to her.

The empress always gave her some money because she was pitifully stupid, but she never expected to gain her loyalty.

The queen was also a little moved, she said to Hongxiu: "Come to me."

Hong Xiu walked over on her knees, and the queen took her hand: "You are a good person, if you can get things done, I, this palace, will promote you to be a grand maid."

Hongxiu covered her face and cried: "I don't want to do this, my brother and sister-in-law teach me to repay my kindness."

The queen finally couldn't help crying: "You understand, you understand the truth!"

The palace lady also cried, and the three of them cried together in the hall, and the people outside heard the movement inside, so they could only guard the door of the hall and not let anyone approach.

While Hongxiu was crying sincerely, countless thoughts ran through her mind.

Although she is not the most useful by the queen's side, many people know her, so the queen will definitely not send her to Li's side as a court lady.

The most feasible way is for her to be favored by the emperor, entrusted with a position, and live in Li's palace.

At that time, the queen will probably have a quarrel with her, showing that she seduced the emperor by disregarding the queen's kindness.

Whether Mrs. Li will believe it or not depends on the queen and her abilities.

This is a way, and there is another way that the queen will punish her directly, and if Mrs. Li wants to know the news around the queen, she will also come to win her over.

But this method is not so easy to implement, and there are too many uncertain factors. Li Shi is so favored, she probably doesn't care about the queen for a long time, the queen has no favor and no children, when she gives birth to the eldest son of the emperor, she will How to handle the queen, how to handle it.

Hongxiu thought for a while, and felt that the queen would probably choose the first method as well.

This is the safest way, if she has a pet, Li Shi will naturally try to get close to her.

If she is not favored, it is only a loss of a court lady.

Li Shi can't go to bed when she is pregnant.

It is reasonable for the queen to choose the first method.

Right in the arms of Hongxiu.