It's Hard to Be the Concubine of the Red Chamber

Chapter [-]

On the surface, Yuan Chun was just living his little life in silence, but in the end, he didn't stop making small moves to inquire about the news in the palace.

However, unlike other people who inquired about the news and acted in secret, Yuan Chun asked Xiu Yan to hang out in the palace for a while on the bright side, and kept saying that at least he could not live with his eyes in the dark.In addition, she also secretly asked her to use the contacts that the Rongguo Mansion gave them in the early years to carefully inquire about the news about the palaces of the princesses, mothers and concubines of the Supreme Emperor during the vigil while holding the piano. A couple of sentences.

To be honest, the Rongguo Mansion was indeed quite beautiful in its early years, and Jia Mu, as the head mother of the house, naturally held a lot of connections in the harem, and most of them were given to Yuan Chun when Yuan Chun entered the palace.But these people sound like a lot, but if you count them carefully, they are all hidden threads buried in the past twenty years, and they are all from the palace of the Supreme Emperor's concubines, so they are really useless now.In addition, under the great waves of the past twenty years, except for those who have disappeared out of the palace and lost control, there are actually not many people left, and they are basically those in the Supreme Palace who may not be very favored. by the old man's side.

It is not very useful on weekdays, so it is inevitable that it will be shelved by Yuanchun, as if there is no such thing at all, but at this time, it might as well be reused.

Anyway, I don't know what played a role in the end, but after another month or two, Mo Xiang came to bring a message to Yuan Chun, saying that it was Tu Mingxuan who seemed to have a sudden interest in Jia Lan. With a bit of concern, he often asked Jia Lan a few more questions when he asked Tu Jinghuai about his homework.

Even occasionally, when the conversation is scattered and the thinking is scattered, it is possible to chat a few words about the daily life in Rongguo Mansion.

It is not known how many Tu Mingxuan's eyeliners are secretly in Fengzao Palace, but on the bright side, Mo Xiang and Le'er are both real people who came out of Tu Mingxuan's side. If there is no one around Tu Mingxuan Neither will believe it.

So for these two people, Yuan Chun left a more intelligent and capable Le'er by his side, and put Mo Xiang by Tu Jinghuai's side, which was equivalent to taking the initiative to let Prince Yizhong be under Tu Mingxuan's surveillance all the time.

Since Mo Xiang followed Tu Jinghuai, even though she still occupies the title of the first-class maid in Fengzao Palace, she basically stays with Tu Jinghuai, and rarely goes back to Fengzao Palace privately— — This time she was able to go back to Fengzao Palace to tell Yuanchun the news, obviously she had something to do with Tu Mingjun.

This can be regarded as an unspoken thing.

In addition, just two days ago, Xiuyan also brought back news that Tu Mingxun suddenly started to care about young talents who were not married young people in various families for some reason.

After comparing the two sides of the news, and what I asked before, it is not difficult to know the reason.

So Mo Xiang was sent away on the front foot, and Yuan Chun got up and went to the small kitchen to make a few dishes by himself, and then took a few maids to send it to Tu Mingxuan himself.

It can also be regarded as showing weakness and showing kindness.

Women in the harem are not allowed to enter the former court without authorization. This is a rule left over from the previous court.It is already afternoon now, and the court meeting has long since ended. Strictly speaking, the palace where he lives and works on weekdays can be regarded as the harem, not to mention that Yuan Chun also sent Xiuyan to find out that there are no courtiers around Tu Mingjun. It doesn't matter if the concubine is favored to go in and say a few words.

But Tu Mingjun still kept a straight face, said something that concubines are not allowed to enter without permission, and asked the eunuch next to him to go out to answer, which made Yuan Chun shut the door hard for a while.

One must know that although Yuan Chun's delivery of the things would not be done with great fanfare, it was no secret that they were on the road, at least the respectable masters in the palace always knew about it.

Everyone knew that Yuan Chun had been humiliated, and she seemed to have really fallen out of favor in the past two months, so it was inevitable that some people would sneer at her when she paid her respects the next day.

And Yuanchun also changed Xiaojiabiyu's fresh attire from usual, and changed into a relatively complicated big clothes, and then just sat on his own seat, pretending not to hear anything, and only tilted his head after the Queen Mother spoke Gossip with the empress about the experience of taking care of Baoyu in the Rongguo Mansion.

The queen empress and Tu Mingjun are about the same age, and they are both 26 and [-]. Tu Mingjun is still young in the eyes of outsiders, but the queen is actually considered old in the harem according to the current saying. old.And now that the queen has given birth to a son-in-law as she wished, she doesn't care much about favors.Therefore, in addition to protecting his own son as an eyeball and never letting go of the harem affairs, he just dislikes Concubine Ning and Concubine Jing who gave birth to a son before him. The prince didn't feel anything.

In the final analysis, firstly, it was because Yuanchun did not have a prince by his side, and Prince Yizhong under his knees made it clear that there was no threat. Secondly, Yuanchun was able to let go of the palace affairs several times in the past and was not greedy for power. After all, the empress is also sympathetic, and she is willing to protect Yuanchun a little bit even when Yuanchun and her are not in conflict and will not pose a threat.

After all, it is much better to have Yuan Chun, an old man with no heirs, occupying the position of imperial concubine than to let a prince's birth mother take the position.

----split line----

On Yuanchun's side, even though the door was closed once, Yuanchun was not too discouraged. He just cooked the meals with his own hands every day, and then sent a few useful maids and eunuchs to send them to Tu Mingxuan. They were all brought back as they were, but Yuan Chun was not annoyed or even asked the reason, and simply kept it for himself for the next meal, and the next time he still delivered it right away, and the cycle went on and on.

It only lasted for a few days, and although others didn't know what happened between the Holy Majesty and the noble concubine, it was a certainty that the noble concubine Xian would fall out of favor.

The twists and turns in the harem are more troublesome than anything else. Although the empress's love is still there, it is impossible for the empress to protect Yuanchun all the time.

Therefore, it was inevitable for Yuan Chun to suffer some verbal grievances. Even within a few days, people in the harem began to provoke Yuan Chun directly.

It's not a big deal in calculation, but it's just the matter above the monthly case.

Because Yuan Chun's status is placed here, apart from the empress, Yuan Chun has always received the first good things. Naturally, no one dared to say anything when he was favored before, but now seeing that Concubine Xian seems to have fallen out of favor, naturally All ghosts and monsters jumped out.

For example, this time the one who is brave to stand out is a noble person who jumped out of nowhere.

Luo Guiren was also drafted into the palace last time. Yuan Chun didn't remember the specific background. Anyway, when Luo Shi entered the palace before, he was just a talented person, and he was assigned to the concubine's palace.Luo Shi was not favored, since he entered the palace, he has only been favored two or three times. In the first two months, his sign was turned over once, and he was lucky enough to conceive the emperor's heir, so he was promoted to the position of nobleman.

The empress Shu concubine in Luo Guiren's palace was not of high birth, and she only gave birth to a princess when she was old and golden.However, since nobleman Luo was pregnant with the emperor's heir, she inevitably swelled up a bit, which made Concubine Shu a lot of anger. This time, she was provoked by someone, and the maid beside her actually started to provoke Feng Zao people in the palace.

The left and right are just an example of wanting to grab the first share, and they even call it their own master who is now pregnant with gold, so there is no need for inferior goods, the imperial concubine and empress are always the most understanding, it is better to be accommodating or something.

There are really not many quotas in the harem. If the concubines in the harem only rely on the quotas to live, I am afraid that they will all die of poverty. Therefore, it is never an important job to get the quotas in the palaces.However, the status of the nobles and below is lower, and there are few decent people around them. Most of them still send the big palace ladies around them to do things, but when it comes to the masters of the first palace, they have a lot more people in their hands, so such trivial things are nothing. .

At least on the side of Fengzao Palace, it was only a second-class maid named Xi Niu who was not well-known in Fengzao Palace, and two third-class court ladies whose names Yuanchun couldn't quite remember.

Xi Niu has a good ability to comb her hair with one hand, and she can barely show her face around Yuan Chun, but she is not valued very much.In the final analysis, it was because her temper was not very good, she was quite irritable, so Yuan Chun actually didn't like to order her to go out on weekdays.This time, if it wasn't for Qiaoer, who was supposed to go to collect the case, it happened to be her turn to meet her family, and it would not be Xi Niu's turn to be arrested by Baoqin to do such a thing.

She was not a good-tempered person at all, but when provoked by the big lady beside Luo Guiren, Xi Niu naturally became angry-although the person next to Luo Guiren was a big court lady, but as usual, the slave next to the nobleman was more decent than the noble concubine pouring tea It's not as good as it is, how could she bear it, and immediately the two sides had a dispute.

In the end, Xi Niu naturally still took the first share and left, but Luo Guiren's first lady was slapped by Xi Niu, losing her face completely.

Although he didn't lose face this time, no matter what, being provoked by a mere nobleman shows that Yuan Chun is not as powerful as usual now.

Of course, Yuan Chun couldn't be ignorant of these twists and turns in the House of Internal Affairs, but she didn't bother to ask more about the cause and effect, but casually let Baoqin admire Xi Niu's pair of golden pegs.

"It's just because my mother's family is not powerful enough and the foundation is unstable. If Concubine Ning and Concubine Jing have any ups and downs, these ghosts and snakes will never dare to make trouble like this. I don't know who is behind this idiot. It's just a noble person. Today If I take a step back in this matter, I am afraid that everyone will dare to climb on top of me." After dismissing Xi Niu, Yuan Chun complained a few words in front of Baoqin and Xiuyan in a nonchalant manner.

Yuan Chun always had a gentle and generous appearance, as if all her temper had been wiped out by ten years of court life, but it was rare to see her with such a mean appearance.That's all for holding the piano, I knew that my young lady had never been soft-tempered, but it was rare for Xiuyan to see Yuan Chun like this, so she didn't know what to say for a while.

"This is also the reason why the empress is usually too soft. If you can have the three-pointed aura of a girl when you are in trouble, the slave will not worry about it at all." Even holding the piano can rely on his usual strength in front of Yuanchun. A decent joke, "The older you get, the more peaceful your temper becomes."

In the early years, Mrs. Wang had the same temperament as Sister Feng now, and when Jia Mu was young, she was even more unyielding. It would be a strange thing for Yuan Chun, who was raised by the two of them, to be really a Bodhisattva. When he was still in the palace to serve his master, he had to bow his head when seeing everyone, so naturally it softened Yuan Chun's temperament.

So Yuan Chun listened to Baoqin's ridicule, but he just smiled and didn't speak.