[Red House] Lixian

In the Si Palace of the Qing Dynasty, Xue Baochai came to see Wei Qian anxiously.

All the concubines were present in the hall, Concubine Wen and Concubine Xian were on both sides of Wei Qian, and the other concubines sat around the three of them.

Situ Yun and the queen mother discussed the restoration of Jia Yuanchun, but Jia Yuanchun is only a concubine at present.

Headed by Concubine Wen, Chen Mengyu, Qi Qiurou, Jia Yuanchun, Concubine He, and the Cao family and Kong family who used to take care of the crown prince form the current seventh of nine concubines, leaving two vacant.

Compared with other periods in this dynasty, this generation of harem can be said to be the group with the lowest rank of concubines.The most outstanding person is only Wei Qian, the concubine of virtue.

Nine concubines fill in seven, Jieyu has nine people, Cairen has 16 people, and Baolin has 17 people.

Yingying and Yanyan surrounded Wei Qian, Wei Qian looked indifferent, somewhat like the lord of the harem.

Wei Qian picked up the teacup, Baochai wanted to offer tea to her, but Wei Qian stopped her. "This palace is not the empress dowager and the empress, and the six palaces are only trusted by the empress dowager and your majesty. This tea, you will go to the Ningshou Palace to pay your respects later, and go to the empress dowager."

Wei Qian looked at Xue Baochai, now Baochai was dressed in gorgeous clothes, full of jewels, although the coldness in his bones was still there, but because of breaking Yunying's body, most of the Yuan Yin was gone.

"Unfortunately, I still had the intention to let her enter Taoism." Wei Qian asked Xue Baochai to help take care of the girls' school in the city. The original intention was to slowly train Xue Baochai, and let Xue Baochai practice with him in the future.After all, this is a talented cultivator.

But people have their own ambitions, and not everyone can endure the changes of "a long life, a vast future".Is it not my own way to choose a hundred years of wealth and honor?

"Now that you return to the court, it is your choice after all, so you can do it yourself in the future." Wei Qian waved his hand, and Yiyun came forward with a jade plate, on which there were jade hairpins and other things.

"When I was in Yongfu Palace, every concubine who came out from my side would give me a jade hairpin palace flower. You have been by my side for these years, and this thing will be given to you."

When this matter was mentioned, Concubine Xian's expression changed, and she couldn't help but look at the concubines present.

There hasn't been a big fight since Wei Qian took charge of the harem, and it has something to do with the concubines who came out of Yongfu Palace.

Looking around, at least half of the concubines present here are from Wei Qian's Yongfu Palace.The current owner of Yongfu Palace is Qi Qiurou, a concubine from the same batch as Bai Su and Shi Qinglan.

After careful calculation, more than half of the current seven of the nine concubines are under Wei Qian's wing.

"Back then she helped a group of concubines in Yongfu Palace, did she plan to get to this point early?" Jia Yuanchun never dared to underestimate Wei Qian's thoughts.

According to Yuan Chun's suspicion, Wei Qian might be behind the scenes for her fall to the position of concubine.

Xue Baochai took Yuchai respectfully, and Wei Qian smiled and said, "You all know all the concubines present, but their identities are different now. It won't hurt to be more respectful to you sisters if you enter the palace late."

His eyes fell on Xue Baochai's stomach, and Wei Qian said again: "You are pregnant, if you give birth to a prince in the future, I will be able to ask your majesty for your merits and raise your position." Wei Qian knew Situ Yun, knew Situ Yun Preferring Xue Baochai, I must have prepared to raise points from the beginning.

But the empress dowager will definitely disagree, why don't I sell a favor?

Letting Xue Baochai sit down, Wei Qian chatted with the concubines for a while, then hastily sent everyone away.

Jia Yuanchun was full of preoccupations, and immediately went to greet Chen Mengyu after leaving the palace.

"If Concubine Ning supports the Crown Prince, how can the two of us have a bright future?" In this regard, Chen Mengyu's thinking is similar to hers, and this is also the thinking of many aspiring concubines, to give birth to a son and sit on the throne of Queen Mother!

However, everyone is not up to date, there are many princesses in the palace, but there are only three princes.

"Sister Xiangling." Xue Baochai came out of Weiqian Palace, and saw Xiangling slowly walking towards Qingsi Palace with a bucket of spring water.

So Xue Baochai stepped forward to help.

"Don't dare to trouble your mother." Xiangling immediately took a step back and looked at Xue Baochai warily.

Seeing how vigilant the old good sister was, Xue Baochai's face froze, and immediately changed to a smiling face: "Why are you being polite to my sister?" As he said that, he wanted to help.

But Xiangling's attitude was alienated, and after saluting, he left from the side without giving Xue Baochai a chance to talk.

Yiyun saw it at the gate of the palace, and hurried over to pick up Xiangling: "Why, did she make things difficult for you?"

"No." Xiangling sighed faintly: "She wants to carry water for me."

"Carrying water? Why, she still wants to wait for the emperor?" Qi Yun sneered: "We were also blind back then, so we didn't see that she was such a thing."

Wei Qian ordered Xiang Ling to fetch water, saying that His Majesty would be here soon.If Xue Baochai is asked to help, wouldn't it create another opportunity for her?

Thinking of Xue Baochai's belly, Qiyun hated iron and steel: "If it weren't for our mother's inability to give birth, where would it be her turn?"

Xiangling nodded heavily: Xue Baochai is the empress, but not the empress they serve.

Yes, the status is different now.In the eyes of these concubine Ning's lineage, the method of knocking on the corner of the wall may have long been hated by a group of palace people.

To please the emperor?Didn't these palace people teach her all kinds of ways to please the emperor?How to make tea for the emperor, how to give the emperor a massage, how to gauge the emperor's temper, all of these were learned in the Qing Si Palace.

"Is it different after all?" Standing at the gate of the palace, the autumn wind was rustling, Xue Baochai looked dazed.

What should I do next?

Climb up from Baolin step by step?Talented people, Jieyu, nine concubines, and finally the concubine.Xue Baochai really didn't have that idea at the moment.

Give birth to a son to seize the country?Xue Baochai is self-aware that if she wants to play palace fights, her long-time master, Concubine Ning, may not bother to talk to her.But that cousin Concubine Xian could crush her to death with one finger.

The family background is there, why should the Xue family fight with the Jia family?It is a problem for Wang Ziteng to help anyone.

Xue Baochai always has to take the safety of his family into consideration.

"Entering the palace for the second time, I feel even more helpless than I was in that year."

"Concubine Ning has always disliked forming cliques. At present, only Concubine Wen really catches the eye. Even if the other concubines come out of her palace, they will only have a weak friendship. But cousin..."

"Helping my cousin means standing in the line of the second prince. I'm afraid it won't be good if the prince's line suppresses me." Xue Baochai doesn't want to intervene in the prince's battle at the moment, she just wants to give birth to the child in her stomach safely.

"Looking at His Majesty's family letter in the south of the Yangtze River, we can see some clues in the palace." Xue Baochai is a smart person after all, at first he was confused and then began to really think about his future.

"Concubine Ning generally stands with the prince. There are also the two concubines Cao and Concubine Kong who have made great contributions by taking care of the prince. Now they are sitting on the nine concubines, and they often send things to the prince. These people must support The prince is on the throne."

Thinking that Concubine Ning has no children and is tied to the crown prince as an adoptive mother, Xue Baochai's unrealistic thoughts can be dispelled.

Concubine Ning is immortal and infertile, and the status of the Eastern Palace is intact.

"Back then, the Empress asked Concubine Ning to take care of the prince. Now it seems that it should be the most wise step for the Empress."

Indeed, it was this step that saved the prince's life.

"Forget it, let's take a step at a time. At present, the joint position has not been really implemented." After thinking about it, he returned to Yongfu Palace.

Situ Yun let Xue Baochai live in Yongfu Palace with obvious intentions.

Immediately after the concubines left, Wei Qian asked Xiangling to go outside to fetch water to make tea for the emperor. It was she who guessed that Situ Yun was coming to Qingsi Palace to say hello and asked Wei Qian to take care of Xue Baochai.

Not long after, Emperor Junlang stepped into the Qingsi Palace.

"Guess your majesty will go this way when you come out from the queen mother. Why, are you worried that I will deal with your favorite concubine?" Wei Qian put her chin on the table and played chess by herself with a smile on her face. Even Situ Yun came in. Did not get up to salute.

Seeing that Wei Qian was flirting, Situ Yun was not angry, he laughed and sat obediently next to Wei Qian.Seeing that the chess game is neat, he simply picked up the sunspots and placed them.

"After all, it's someone who came out of your palace. I wanted to tell you. No, let her live in Yongfu Palace."

"Oh?" Wei Qian pulled her tone, staring at Situ Yun with a half-smile.

Situ Yun was a little embarrassed. "Okay, I'm wrong, I can't help it for a while."

After all, Xue Baochai looks good, and his temperament has been understood in the past few years.She is a female official who is well-loved by Wei Qian.

"The hero saved the beauty, and I was captured alive for a long time. I am too lazy to meddle in your business. But let me say it first, sister Hongchun has taken care of me since childhood, and she wants to be with me for the rest of her life. Don't mess around. Xiangling is a pure and lovely girl. Don't let your mind wander." Wei Qian slowly tapped the chessboard with the chess pieces: "Yiyun and Qiyun are planning to leave the palace to marry in the future, so you don't want to spoil their innocence."

Sighing faintly, Wei Qian complained to herself and said, "This concubine is currently surrounded by these few female officials, please be merciful, Your Majesty."

Situ Yun touched his nose: "Do you really think I'm such a casual person?"

hehe.You are not a human being.

Xiangling stared at Situ Yun, and the girl brought the tea set with a vigilant look.

Just as Situ Yun took it, Xiang Ling immediately withdrew his hand.

Situ Yun felt helpless, did he regard me as a hungry ghost?

Situ Yun knew the temperament of the old people around these concubines.Xiang Ling is a pure girl, she has been well protected by Wei Qian all these years in the palace.Situ Yun was also happy that there were a few such innocent girls in the palace for a change of air.

Moreover, Xiangling looks good.

This is enough for Situ Yun to be tolerant.

Wei Qian waved back everyone: "With Concubine Qi in Yongfu Palace, Baochai can't suffer. But like her cousin, she came from the position of female official. Do you want to give her the position of honorary female official?"

"Speaking of which, what's going on with Concubine Xian? How did she get demoted for no reason? What the empress mother didn't say clearly, can you tell me?"

"Your Majesty, go down and ask the prince. He may have an explanation." Wei Qian didn't bother to be a villain, kicked the ball out, and continued to talk about the female official: "When Baochai came out of the palace, he was a minister. Why don't you be like your cousin, in the palace of Baolin?" Add a title of female minister after the position? In this way, she can be protected from being bullied in the palace, and it can be regarded as the utmost benevolence and righteousness for her in the palace."

Shangshu, from the second grade, is second only to the title of nine concubines, because Baochai is pregnant with a prince and serves Situ Yun in the south of the Yangtze River, so he deserves this title.

"To ask the prince?" Situ Yun's heart moved, and he vaguely understood.

After thinking about the female officer, Situ Yun was happy to sell Wei Qian's face.And only Wei Qian can deal with the Queen Mother.

"You handle everything. You issue this edict, and I will give you the power of the six palaces. You can be confident."

Then he said: "I discussed with the queen mother, your palace is too small, although you will fill the plum garden with you, but it is not beautiful as a concubine Shu. How can there be any reason why your palace is smaller than Concubine Xian?"

"Concubine Shu?" Wei Qian was watching the chessboard, but suddenly raised her head: "Your Majesty wants to give the concubine a place?"

Situ Yun solemnly said: "I don't know how you have been in the palace all these years? Especially when you saved the crown prince a year ago, and negotiated peace with Saibei. I know everything about it."

"You have a share in my world. Concubine Shu is just the beginning. I promise that even if newcomers enter the palace in the future, I will not let any concubine overwhelm you."