The red house is not a pity

Qin Keqing took Ruizhu's hand, looked at the makeup in the small mirror, then smiled and turned to ask the maid to stand up, "Just send someone else over, why did you come here?"

"Being able to send a message to Madam is something that no one else can snatch." He stepped forward to help Qin Keqing straighten the corner of her skirt, and then said, "Which card is a servant girl, if she can serve the Empress Dowager, she is already What a great blessing. Madam loves her so much, how can a servant bear it."

Qin Keqing smiled lightly after hearing this, but didn't say anything, checked her attire, then held the maid's hand and went to the Queen Mother's bedroom.

She and the current emperor are siblings who are closer by blood than everyone else, and the aunt who raised her when she was a child has become the queen mother, and the queen mother is the younger sister who has won the protection of her late mother.

After this list, among the women in this world, apart from the Queen Mother, probably only Qin Keqing has the highest status.

Of course, it doesn't refer to seniority or status, but blood relationship and love.

As for the empress, if the empress hadn't given birth to the emperor's eldest son, it is estimated that there is no such empress now.

The emperor has long been dissatisfied with the empress for a long time. In addition to the fact that the empress was married in by the former empress dowager, the empress is also taboo because of the empress's short-sightedness and cruelty.

The man who became the emperor became more and more suspicious. He was very afraid that one day the eldest son's uncle would bring soldiers from the nine sects to cooperate with the queen in the palace and force him into the palace.

And he has no feelings for the queen, nor does he have any friendship to share weal and woe.There is only indifference and faintness between them.Back then, he had heard the Queen say to his close maid that he would rather be his brother's concubine than marry himself, a useless man.At that time, they had only been married for less than half a month.

He thought with all his heart that he had another close person in this world, but unfortunately his fiery heart was quenched by this basin of cold water.After knowing what his wife wanted, he no longer regarded this woman as his family, but just like the grasshoppers who were on the same rope with him inside and outside the palace.

Both pull and hit.

Because of this, Shui Yan, who came to power, is very wary of the ambitious queen, and has been suppressing the queen's natal family when conditions permit.Even the fact that the queen's father and brother would get the title of Cheng Engong when the queen held the phoenix book was denied by the emperor.

"How can He De wait for this title if the country and the people have not built an inch of work?"If all the daughters in the world were born like this, there would be no more generals who could win a hundred battles.What is ancestral family law?My ancestors are my ancestors, and my descendants call me ancestors. Since this is the case, from the beginning of me, the women in the harem are not waiting to seal their natal family. '

The ministers still wanted to object, and Shui Yan smiled again and said: "A man makes great achievements, and confers his wife and son. This is what a man pursues. I believe that the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty should not rely on raising a daughter, but want to rely on nepotism. Useless people."

Come on, with just this sentence, no one dares to say that they just want to become relatives of the emperor, and then so and so.

I can't afford to lose that person.

......

But everyone has a soft spot in their heart, and Emperor Shui Yan is no exception.

Mother and elder sister are the softest places in Shui Yan's heart.

These days Qin Keqing stayed in the palace for a while, whenever the emperor had free time, he would come to the queen mother's bedroom to have a chat with the two of them.

As for the empress dowager leaving a foreign minister to order his wife to live in the inner palace, no one who was well-informed said that the empress dowager or the emperor's move was inappropriate.

Is not this nonsensical?

This Imperial Commander is a real golden branch and jade leaf, and ninety-nine percent of the blood on his body is the same as that of the emperor.

"The Ai family heard that there is a girl in your house, who is your father-in-law's biological sister? I haven't seen her for a long time. When will it be convenient, you can bring her to the Ai family to see."

Qin Keqing was sitting on a soft chair, chatting with her own aunt about homework.The demeanor is natural, without any uneasiness and twitching.

"Don't mention her, aunt, she is not a sitter. She is a small person, and she loves to talk to adults since she was a child. Every time you talk to her, you laugh until your cheeks hurt. She was raised in that house when she was a child. A few years ago, the old lady in the mansion went, and she is serving her granddaughter's filial piety. When she is out of filial piety, she will be brought in to show to my aunt." Even if it is national filial piety, but family filial piety and national filial piety are double filial piety. Palace, people in the palace will also be taboo.

"This is really rare. How old is this year? Have you settled for someone?"

"Who's to say no, my grandma went early. My father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't care much. I grew up in that mansion since I was a child, and the old lady, grandson, granddaughter, and great-grandson in that mansion are not lacking. I took care of her in everything. Fortunately, the grandma kept some old people to wait on her. It wasn't until I entered the door and found a chance that I picked them up.

The upbringing of the girls in that house is really unflattering.Even keeping a concubine is better than keeping a pet.Our aunt is still a naughty one. She is really annoying and funny when it comes to her studies.She was only three years old when I entered the door, and she was almost 11 years old after the new year.Originally, she had already made an agreement with the Lin family, but because of the internal and external affairs in the past two years, it has not been finalized for a while. "

"The Lin family?" The queen mother thought for a while, and if Keqing could hear the Lin family, it was probably the only one, "Lin Ruhai's son?"

"Auntie also knows Master Lin?" Qin Keqing asked the queen mother who hadn't been out of the palace for 30 or [-] years in surprise.

"That's a romantic and handsome person, how can I not know it. I think back then..." Lin Ruhai happened to accompany her sister on the road where the top list was parading the street in the year when Lin Ruhai became a prostitute.

"What did the queen mother tell my sister about those years? Let me listen too."

The emperor came in without a notification, which frightened the two women in front of him.

After saluting and sitting down, Emperor Shui Yan asked again what the mother and wife had been interrupted just now.

The Queen Mother laughed, and didn't think anything, so she said bluntly to Shui Yan, "What can I do, but I was still outside the palace, followed your aunt, and we watched the champion parade together. Although it is a three-year competition, But we only saw that one time, the top pick was still good enough, the second place," the queen mother shook her head, "I really can't see it, it's the Tanhua, who looks good. I even lost the embroidered veil... ...It's a pity that such a handsome person left early."

"Pfft!" Qin Keqing laughed, "What does Auntie mean to say that ugly people are not a pity?"

There was also a smile in the emperor's eyes.

Sitting on the throne is hard work, but my mother no longer has to live in depression. This kind of life, where she can say whatever she wants, and no longer has to worry about it, is suitable for a mother who has suffered all her life.

The queen mother thought for a while, and nodded very seriously, "A good-looking person is more pleasing to the eye than others, with handsome eyebrows, elegant and distant. Thinking about it until now, I seem to have heard the screams of my daughter on the street at that time." .”

The Empress Dowager turned her gaze to Qin Keqing, "What does the Lin family boy look like? Does he have the same demeanor as his father?"

Qin Keqing first glanced at the emperor who was gossiping with them softly, and then returned to the queen mother with a smile, "He is two points more handsome than Master Lin, our little aunt also looked at Brother Lin My son laughed so dissatisfied, she said she was beautiful and delicious. She said it was lucky she didn't face a big horse monkey every day, otherwise she would have gone crazy."

"Hahaha," the emperor mother and son were immediately amused by Qin Keqing's words.

"Then how does your little aunt from your husband's family look like? If she looks too ugly, she will let down the Lin family's good looks."

"This aunt is too worried. Our aunt looks happy and blessed. Although she is still young, she can't be wrong when she grows up."

Xichun's appearance is really not bad, or what the Jia family can do is their appearance.

The men are handsome, and the women are also beautiful.

"What? The fourth girl from my sister's in-law's family has promised to Lin Ruhai's son?" Shui Yan knew something after hearing this.However, he had never heard of the engagement of the two families.

"The two families have already made an agreement. At first, they were still young, but later they caught up with the double filial piety of the national filial piety and family filial piety, so they let it go first. But the Lin family is a family of integrity, and the aunt of the Lin family is also kind to our aunt. No, they took my aunt to the Lin family when I stayed in the palace this time."

Shui Yan nodded, so it was so.But he also made a note of this matter, and later, someone Yilaomai wanted to ask Xichun to marry him, so that he could follow Qin Keqing's route.

Unexpectedly, when Shui Yan heard this, he remembered what happened today.Naturally, this person was dismissed.

After listening to Qin Keqing's words, the Queen Mother smiled and told the palace people beside her, "You can pick up some things and go to the Lin family in a while, thank the Lin family for helping our aunt and grandma take care of Miss Jia. To Miss Jia."

Qin Keqing stood up with a smile, thanked the queen mother for Xichun, and then sat down again under the queen mother's signal.

The empress dowager's move was actually making a face for Qin Keqing, how could Qin Keqing not know.Mo Ming was moved in my heart.

Over the years, even if I didn't do anything to help her, my aunt and brother still never leave her. Even in their most difficult times, they still wanted to support her outside the palace.

Who said the royal family has no family affection.It's just that there are too few people who can get this kind of family affection.

How lucky she is...

"As for the marriage between the girl from my sister's in-law's family and Lin Ruhai's only son, I've made a note of it. I'll marry the two families when I'm filial piety."

"The matter of bestowing a marriage is not difficult. But out of filial piety, the emperor must not forget the important event of drafting. Look at the three melons and two dates in your harem, I will help you."

Seeing his aunt's displeased look, he quickly laughed and yelled, "I'm afraid my aunt may have misremembered, how could I remember that there was only one jujube in the huge palace. You old... this is a gluttonous melon!" ?”

The queen mother laughed so much that she scolded Qin Keqing, saying that she was doing weird things, and then turned to look at Shui Yan, "As for the talent show, you have to do it well as soon as you go abroad. You don't need the queen to do this. I can't trust her. It's time for your sister to come in too, and our mother and I will watch slowly."

"It's all up to the queen mother." Anyway, for him, women are for giving birth to children and accompanying the queen mother.

The queen mother spends several times as long as he spends facing people he likes with people he doesn't like every day.Therefore, marrying a person whose mother looks good is actually conducive to the harmony of the harem and the happy mood of the mother.And he was not afraid that his mother would choose a girl from her natal family to enter the palace, after all, his mother and aunt had no family for a long time.

"Didn't the Sixth Department have a lot of trouble because of the draft. Why can't I hear it these two days?"

Shui Yan handed the tea brought by the maid to the Queen Mother herself.Then, with a half-smile, he said to the mother and sister in front of him with a sarcasm, "Before, it was because of the unequal distribution of benefits, but after that, the distribution ratio was unified."

"... If a girl from such a family wants to enter the palace, wouldn't it make the harem dirty again." How many people in the previous dynasty always wanted to control the emperor's harem.

They want to connect back and forth, with the aim of powering the government and the public, and even shake the country and society.This kind of thing, not to mention whether the queen mother will sit idly by, even if she is just a mother, the queen mother will not allow anyone to rob her son's things.

Even if that thing is thousands of miles away.Even if it is to be an enemy of the world, she will not hesitate.

...because she wants to protect her son.

"Don't worry, Empress, Jie Shizhen will give mother a list. Since those ministers sent their daughters to the draft, they can't help them. We might as well arrange a good home for them one by one."

For example, the daughter of an official of one faction marries the son of an official of another faction.

Another example is to select girls who have no official entanglements into the palace, and then lose a group of selected girls who are "informed" and "recommended".

"This time, I don't plan to make it too big. It will be in the capital and the three surrounding provinces. Well, the title of the family is in the third rank, and the father's official position is also in the third rank."

"...This is your first draft after you ascended the throne, isn't it too thin?" Then how many girls can participate in the draft?

In the past, there were no conditions, so I could only wrong my son.Now even if he has wronged the people of the world, he can no longer wrong his own son.

"Mother, the draft is only for the sake of the heirs. So many people are selected to enter the palace, not to mention the turmoil in the palace. It makes me upset to see it. And all the way down, it wastes manpower and material resources. Now the treasury is empty and there are few masters." , and dozens of mouths are missing.” After entering the palace, he provided them with food and shelter.They would still attack their own children when they were fine. He got kicked in the head by a donkey, so he got a lot of women in?It will be quieter if there are fewer people, and it will be arranged far away at that time, and no one should move around if there is nothing to do.

What Shui Yan didn't say was that during the draft process, the fees for these beautiful women to enter the capital and leave the capital were all a lot of money.

And there are some officials in the middle who have gone too far to pluck their hair.

After listening to her son's words, the queen mother thought of the old emperor's harem and the east palace of the prince's time.

"It's true. If there are more people, there will be more right and wrong. But it's not too few, and it doesn't look like it."

"The queen will just watch it."

"Auntie, the emperor has entrusted all this matter to you. When the draft begins, you are always busy."

"Be busy, be busy. Your aunt has been idle all her life, and she has long been bored."

Shui Yanji was filial, when he heard his mother's words, he quickly said, "Why don't you take the eldest prince to your mother's harem?"

Looking back, my sister is out of the palace, and my mother is alone in this huge palace with no one to talk to, isn't it boring.

"Forget it, that child is like his mother. All good children have been mistreated." Back then, the queen had always looked down on the queen mother, and never looked at her straight.The same is true for children.Although the empress dowager is now the emperor's birth mother and has become the woman with the highest status in the world, the empress's awkwardness of wanting to bow her head but unable to let go of her figure is still not liked by the empress dowager.

No matter how you look at it, it's fake.

"The eldest prince is only six years old, so he will be fine if he is educated well." Qin Keqing thought of the little eldest prince he saw when he entered the palace before, and felt a little worried about the child's education in his heart.

At that time, not long after she entered the palace, she happened to accompany the queen mother to visit the imperial garden, and saw the eldest prince playing with his entourage in the imperial garden.

At a young age, he has the appearance of a dandy, not only that, he is arrogant and domineering, and looks like he has no eyes, which is also very 'uneducated'.

When paying respects to the Empress Dowager, that reluctant look was really disgusting.

That's his own grandmother, wouldn't it be chilling to do so.

"Let's not talk about them, it's a disappointment. The background of the Ai family is there. The two women look down on the Ai family on the surface, and how many people look down on them in their hearts, but they don't say it, and they still show it on the surface. Come with respect."

Hearing this, Shui Yan felt even more distressed about her mother's difficulty, and stood up and knelt beside the Queen Mother.

As soon as Shui Yan knelt down, everyone including Qin Keqing also knelt down.

...For Qin Keqing, the emperor kneels and sits with her, that's too arrogant.

"Mother, the hero does not ask where he came from. You believe in your son, and your son will govern the world as well as any emperor. Your son will let the people of the world and all future generations know what an excellent man you have raised and raised. emperor."

No one will ever underestimate their mother because of their status.Those women who are higher than their mothers have made any achievements. Have they ever cultivated an emperor, a good emperor for the country and the people.

The Empress Dowager couldn't stop her tears, she helped Shui Yan up with trembling hands. "The queen mother knows, knows. My son is the best. No one can compare. The queen mother knows, always knows."

Qin Keqing also shed tears beside her.

...because her mother was less accepted by the world than the Queen Mother's aunt.

And it will never be known.

If she was a man, wouldn't she be able to fight for her mother's honor and identity, at least for her recognition?