The Queen's Beggar's Wife

The time has entered November, and the weather is getting colder and colder. The clothing bureau under the Royal Workshop began to deliver the winter clothes made to the palaces one after another. In just a few days, the masters and palace people in the harem all changed. Put on warm new clothes.

In the past, the lush imperial garden began to reveal a bleak scene, only the bamboo courtyard was still green, and the plum trees in the plum garden quietly gave birth to a few flower buds. Soon, they will usher in the most beautiful season.

Chu Yueyin also started to get busy.Zhao Muqin sent her aunt in charge, Xinyi, to Kunning Palace to assist Chu Yueyin in managing the affairs of the harem, while she herself was a leisurely empress dowager, burning incense in the Buddhist hall of the Compassionate Ning Palace, worshiping Buddha, and dismissing day.Before handing over the harem affairs to Chu Yueyin, the Empress Dowager Zhao also moved the daily greetings of the concubines to the Kunning Palace, stipulating that the concubines should greet the queen every morning, and the queen would lead them to the Palace of Compassionate Peace every ten days. Your Majesty please.

Chu Yueyin saw that the Palace of Compassion and Ning suddenly changed from bustling to deserted, and worried that the Queen Mother Zhao would not get used to it, so she postponed the time for paying her respects to the concubine by half an hour.Early every morning, if Yu Wenhua stayed overnight in Kunning Palace last night, Chu Yueyin would wait for him to change his clothes first, and send him out of Kunning Palace for the morning court.After washing up, he went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to greet the Empress Dowager Zhao, had breakfast with her, and then returned to the Palace of Kunning to wait for the arrival of the concubines.After seeing off the concubines, he hurried to the Chinese Academy to listen to the teacher's lecture.In this way, a full morning passed.

After a short nap in the afternoon, Chu Yueyin got up and headed to the Chinese Academy again.The Guoxuetang did not arrange lectures in the afternoon. Except for the secretary, master bookkeeper and recorder who worked in the front yard, most of the teachers who gave lectures held certain official positions in the six departments and went back to each department.But Wen Hui was an exception. He was originally a commoner and was hired as a court teacher because of Yu Wenhua's appreciation. He had no other official positions with real power.

Wen Hui has a separate small courtyard behind the Chinese Academy, called Yayuan.Every afternoon, Chu Yueyin went to Yayuan to learn piano skills from Wenhui.Wen Hui taught her affectionately, and Chu Yueyin studied hard. After a month, she was able to complete a simple piece of music.

After dinner, Aunt Xinyi will briefly report on the situation of the harem for a day, and let Chu Yueyin make decisions on important matters, which are nothing more than concubines sleeping, the distribution of money and expenses for each palace, and the distribution of palace staff. arrangements and the like.

For more than a month, Yu Wenhua strictly abided by the bed-serving system that had been discussed at the beginning, and did not give Concubine Xue Shu any special care.If it happened that a certain concubine came to the moon letter or caught a cold on the day when she went to bed, Yu Wenhua would simply stay in the Kunning Palace, and he hadn't set foot in his own Qianqing Palace for several months.

Chu Yueyin felt very surprised, which one is the real Yu Wenhua and the Yu Wenhua who is so angry that she is a beauty?Subconsciously, she faintly felt that Yu Wenhua had bigger plans, but she couldn't say what it was.It is said that "a woman's heart is a needle under the sea", but Chu Yueyin feels that the heart of an emperor is the most unfathomable!

On this day, the concubines came to Kunning Palace to pay their respects as usual, Chu Yueyin casually asked each concubine a few words, and then asked Zixia to see the guests off.Mrs. Li lingered behind and seemed to want to say something.Chu Yueyin saw it, but just pretended not to see it, and waited for Madam Li to speak.

Sure enough, after a while, Mrs. Li went back and forth, sending a message in front of the Kunning Palace to see the queen.Chu Yueyin ordered Zixia to invite Mrs. Li in.After Mrs. Li entered the hall, she saluted respectfully and stood aside.

"Zi Xia, go and see if the chariot is ready." Zi Xia went as he said.

Chu Yueyin didn't look at Mrs. Li, neither asked her what was the matter, nor gave her a seat, but asked Yinqiao to help her put on the cloak, as if she was about to go out.

Mrs. Li was left out and felt unhappy, but Chu Yueyin's status was much higher than hers, and she asked Chu Yueyin for help, so she had to suppress her unhappiness.Seeing Chu Yueyin put on her cloak and walking out of the hall, she became anxious and blurted out: "Empress, my concubine has something to ask for."

"Oh." Chu Yueyin stopped, looked back at Mrs. Li, and said calmly, "Just talk about Mrs. Li if you have something to do."

Although Chu Yueyin's tone was very flat, Mrs. Li still felt that her aura was a little low, and said embarrassingly: "On the twelfth day, the concubine should serve the bed, but the concubine came to the moon letter and failed to serve the emperor... ...The concubine was thinking, can I... ask the empress to make arrangements to supply the concubine... on that day?"

Chu Yueyin looked at Mrs. Li, and said coldly: "The days are all fixed. You have come to the Yuexin, and you can only say that you are not blessed to serve the emperor. You can ask the imperial doctor to prescribe some medicine to recuperate it. Just avoid it next month." No. Why did you make such a request without knowing what is good or bad! Could it be that you want me to give you fifteen? But do you have this blessing?! Are you the queen or I am the queen?!"

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This month, because Mrs. Li sent a monthly letter, Mrs. Zhao contracted the cold. Since November, Yu Wenhua has been in Kunning Palace for four days. Yin waited on the side, asking her to grind ink for a while, and serve tea for a while.Today is the fifteenth day again, according to the ancestral system, Yu Wenhua will naturally spend the night in the Kunning Palace again, it is conceivable that he will suffer from the colder tonight, and will not be able to sleep well.

Chu Yueyin was so enraged by Yu Wenhua's torment, she dared not speak out, but seeing Mrs. Li making such a request at this time, she just took advantage of it and reprimanded Mrs. Li severely.

Mrs. Li lowered her head, not daring to make a sound, her face was red and blue with changing colors, she was really pretty.

After Chu Yueyin vented, she ignored Mrs. Li, tightened the cloak around her body, turned around with Yinqiao and left Kunning Palace, got into the chariot, and went down to the Guoxue Hall in two neat rows of guards and palace guards.

Mrs. Li raised her head, and glared at Chu Yueyin's back with hatred, her eyes were extremely vicious.She left Kunning Palace in a hurry, passed Chuxiu Palace instead of entering, but went to Yili Palace.She didn't notice that there was a "tail" following her all the way, watching her walk into Yili Palace, showing an unpredictable expression, and turned back to Kunning Palace.

After more than half a month, Chu Yueyin had completely forgotten what happened on the fifteenth day.This afternoon, she still went to Yayuan behind the Chinese Academy, and asked Wen Hui to teach her piano skills.

Originally teaching piano art in the yard, but temporarily changed to indoors because of the cold and windy weather.Half an hour later, Wen Liang gently knocked on the door and entered the room after getting permission.

Wen Liang bowed and saluted, and said: "Empress Empress, the Palace of Compassion and Ning sent Yinqiao and Miss Zixia to come over, saying that Empress Dowager has something to ask."

Chu Yueyin thought to herself that the Empress Dowager Zhao might just ask about Yu Wenhua and her married life, and would not make things difficult for Yinqiao and Zixia, so she gave Yinqiao a wink and let her go.

Once Yinqiao and Zixia left, only Chu Yueyin and Wen Hui were left in the room.The wind poured in through the open door, bringing bursts of chill.