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

Chapter 65

The so-called gaining wisdom by eating a ditch is just that some people can't learn this thing at all.

After the Qianqiu Festival, because the weather turned cold, Yuan Chun didn't bother to go out and simply reported being sick for a day or two, and then heard the news that Concubine An and Guiren Yang were picking each other up.

During the Empress Qianqiu's time, there were indeed quite a few people who sent Guanyin to her son. Yuanchun sent a decoration, but Concubine An sent a portrait, and there were also Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures.

These are the only gifts between the left and right women, and it is really impossible not to collide with each other.

Yang Guiren sent such an exquisite white jade Guanyin, which not only slapped Concubine An in the face, but also offended not one or two people.

Concubine An just spread the words that Yang Guiren is rich and noble without any trace, and thought that she had done nothing, but Yang Guiren was not the little whites in the palace who had never been trained in palace fighting. Within a few days, the origin of the rumor was accurately found out.

But this is not a problem. It is not a secret that the officials on the left and right side of Jiangnan are rich and honored. It is almost an open secret that every family tries to deliver things to the palace.Yang Guiren didn't care much about this, but he still wanted to slap Concubine An in the face.

Then Yang Guiren simply started to laugh at An Pin's poverty, but outside the palace, An Pin's father was inexplicably impeached by the Ministry of Officials.

Although Anpin's father is only a humble fifth-rank official (originally sixth-rank, but Shi En has been promoted two ranks since Tu Mingjun came to power), but after all, as long as her father stands there, Anpin is from an official family background. It's different from the daughter of a commoner's family.

That's all, and then almost in the blink of an eye, An Pin's eldest son fell ill for no reason.

The eldest son of the emperor was born prematurely at seven months, so Concubine An naturally had to be pampered and pampered. Fortunately, there is only such a prince in the palace, so naturally no one dares to neglect him, and the food used is the best in the palace.Even though she was raised so meticulously, even though she is still sick, she has been raised safely for nearly a year, but she suddenly caught a cold.

The eldest son of the emperor has always been regarded as an eyeball by Concubine An. Unless she is at bedtime, she always takes the son by her side to take care of her personally. Even in this way, she can catch a cold out of thin air.

On this day, Concubine An was turned over and went to bed in the Holy Palace. When she came back in the middle of the night, she called the eldest son and the nanny to her room to rest. Then when she woke up suddenly at the third watch, she He found that the eldest son of the emperor who was sleeping next to him had started to burn.

It was also Anpin who discovered it early. At that time, the eldest son of the emperor had just started to have a fever. If she didn't feel that something was wrong and single-mindedly alarmed the imperial physician, maybe it would have been delayed.But even so, the condition of the eldest son of the emperor is still not optimistic.

After all, infants and toddlers are prone to premature death, not to mention milk babies who are not yet full-week old, it is common for five or six-year-old half-old children to die of illness, especially the eldest son of the emperor is still a seven-month premature baby, which is even more dangerous.

"Now the Holy One only has one prince, Concubine An. Naturally, he is very concerned. He would rather be suspicious than treat this as an accident out of thin air. It is already in the winter moon, and there are not many ways to make a little baby catch a cold. This time If Concubine An's mother and son Lianxin didn't find out that something was wrong, then the gods would be hard to save." After all, she is the only seedling in the palace now, even if this is in the way, the queen has to show 12 points of concern .

Naturally, Anpin herself can't care about anything except the eldest son of the emperor. The queen can understand this and doesn't say much, so she can only talk to Yuanchun at this moment.

"Forgive me bluntly, it's not like this has never happened before. The reason why Concubine An gave birth prematurely was because Concubine Jiang pushed behind her back. Although the emperor's eldest son is safe and sound after all, If she hadn't been teased, Anpin's pregnancy would have lasted to full term given the circumstances at the time." Anpin's pregnancy image wasn't bad at the time, but if she hadn't had a crooked mind, full-term delivery would have been a bit of a problem None.

Yuan Chun's current intention is to suspect that Concubine Wu is now pregnant.

But Concubine Wu is also a smart person, since she was diagnosed with pregnancy, she asked the queen to raise a baby in her own palace, and never left the palace again.Although Yuan Chun doubted her, he didn't dare to say that Concubine Wu must be involved.

The reason why An Pin was able to catch the culprit quickly when An Pin gave birth was largely because there were not many people in the palace, so it was easy to find out the truth.But now the population in the palace is gradually increasing, and there are people of various backgrounds. It is not easy to suppress others just by the queen's background, let alone find out the truth of the matter, which is definitely offending people. , it's hard to say how many people in the palace can cooperate.

"It's fine if she's not paying attention in the palace, but if there are outsiders intervening, it will leave traces. Fortunately, Concubine An is not a newcomer to the palace this time. Many of the people serving her are from the palace. The ones I brought, and the rest were dialed out when I first entered the palace or around the time of pregnancy and childbirth. They were all things before the draft. Concubine An didn't have any friendship with the heads of the palace, and only checked the eldest son of the emperor. It would probably be easier for people from any palace to come and go in and out of her palace two days before and after catching a cold—or it would be easier to send the imperial physician to check the pulse of the palace people more to see if anyone other than Concubine Wu is pregnant. Yes." There was no such thing in the dream, so now Yuan Chun can't think of a good way.

Concubine An in the dream gave birth prematurely at more than eight months, because she took care of herself well, so the eldest son of the emperor is only a little weaker than the full-term child, and it will be almost ready when she is five or six years old. It's not as thrilling as it is today.

Concubine Wu is a person with no ambitions, even if she gave birth to the third son in her dream, she is still honest and never provokes any troubles.On the contrary, Yang Guiren was diagnosed to be three months pregnant on the Wanshou Festival in May of the next year, and gave birth to the fourth son of the emperor.

Therefore, Yuanchun was inevitably a little embarrassed, so he had to select some methods based on his own experience, and made up his mind to leave these things to the queen, and he didn't want to intervene.

Fortunately, the queen didn't even think about throwing the pot to Yuan Chun, so she ran away naturally.

Because this matter may not be possible, and it is quite offending, Yuan Chun didn't even go into details in front of Tu Mingxuan, only saying that the queen discussed with her how to find out the truth of the matter.

"It's fine if Concubine An's own people in the palace don't care, but if someone else has to be caught. The empress also said that it's one thing for concubines in the harem to compete for favor, but it's not okay if the emperor's heir is involved. .” Yuan Chun only said lightly, and by the way, raised a little favorability for the queen.

----split line----

Although the tone of the matter has been set, it is not so easy to find out about this matter.

After all, although Concubine An has settled down now, she is really not a generous character. After careful calculation of the people in the palace, there are few people she has not offended.

The eldest son of the emperor was originally born prematurely. If he had been carefully cared for, he might be able to develop it, but it would be detrimental to be so sick out of thin air.Although he was rescued this time, he still suffered from a minor illness every three days, which was extremely shocking to watch.

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, it is the longevity of the Supreme Emperor.

After all, Yuan Chun has a good status, and it is especially easy to gain favorability with the Supreme Emperor, so there is no need to be too cautious, just pick out a few needlework that fit the actual scene, and then use the silver ticket to grind away Tu Mingxuan's private life. Ku, and picked out a few good things for birthday celebrations, but they were very mediocre, neither brilliant nor anything wrong.

"Although the concubine entered the palace at the beginning, even though she couldn't bring the dowry, the mother of my natal family loved me, so she folded the silver ticket and let the concubine come in. She only said that it is not easy to live in the palace, and it is better to live with money. I also said to the empress before that it is only the birthday gift of the concubine this year, and I can't let the saint pay for nothing." Yuan Chun still has tens of thousands of old banknotes from twenty years ago in his hand. After Baoqin went into the warehouse to pick out a few high-quality products, he only counted a few thousand taels of silver bills and handed them to Tu Mingjun, a standard forced buy and sell.

Although it is only a middle-grade product, it is still something that can be used by the queen. These few things together should look like 2 taels, but Yuan Chun only has a rascal face and thinks he bought it for a few thousand taels.

Tu Mingxun looked at the banknote in his hand, quite dumbfounded.

"It seems that Concubine Xian is not very well-off." The large banknotes in the palace are not very useful, so most of the banknotes counted by Yuanchun are tens or hundreds of taels. But really not much.

This is already considered teasing.

But Yuan Chun didn't take it seriously: "Isn't it? At that time, I brought 10,000+ taels of silver bills into the palace. It took less than half of these years, and I still have 7 to [-] taels left in my hand, but the salary in the palace is not enough. Gao, every year my concubine only pays out but not gets in, so I have to be more frugal."

Whether it is the side concubines in the palace or the concubines and nobles who came in later, they can justifiably bring their dowry. If the family prepares some farm shops, it is okay, but Yuan Chunming does not have such things.Also, her birthday coincided with the New Year's Eve banquet, and it was impossible to hold a birthday banquet to receive presents.

Of course, since Yuan Chun became a concubine, it is impossible for the Rongguo Mansion not to subsidize one or two things, but it is impossible to put these on the bright side, so Yuan Chun had to pretend that these did not exist.

As for the eunuchs in the original book, because Yuan Chun is still favored now, although they know that the Rongguo Mansion is rich, they still dare not go to the Rongguo Mansion to fight the autumn breeze.

Although the favored eunuchs in front of the master are very happy in front of outsiders and even the unfavored masters in the palace, but their intuition is the most sensitive, but they dare not offend the favored masters.