Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

Regarding her own way out, Baoqin came to a conclusion after being beaten by Aunt Cuizhu and after careful consideration: she probably couldn't get out.

One can still find a good match when leaving the palace at this age, that is a beautiful legend that only exists in story books.As for staying in the palace as a nanny, Aunt Cuizhu is a lesson from the past.

Then there is only one possibility, concubine.

There are many benefits of being a concubine, the first of which is being able to justifiably crush Yuanchun and take revenge on Jia's family.A concubine is basically a lifelong concubine. Although she can only leave the palace after death, once the title of imperial use is placed on her head, anyone who plots against you has to think about whether they can bear the emperor's anger.

As the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat a dog. Although the words are not pleasant, it is just such a rationale.

In this way, the goal is very clear.

Looking back on Baoqin's journey, she didn't make any major mistakes, even small ones, and she made a good impression in front of the emperor and queen mother.However, although Baoqin is confident, she has to admit that she is a bit older, and compared with the emperor, her conditions are more than a little bit worse.

What could the emperor see in her?Is it true love?

Your Majesty's true love is obviously yam and jujube cake...

In a world where engagements begin at thirteen and most marriages occur, she is well over twenty.

However, her advantages are also unparalleled. For example, she can chat with His Majesty, which is unique among court ladies. Among palace concubines, it is rare to use Yuan Chun as a reference.

Baoqin began to bite her little finger and think about the problem again.

How can she be serious and happy to be the emperor's concubine?After becoming a concubine, what kind of changes will happen to her relationship with the emperor, empress and queen mother?

The Queen Mother often said that Baoqin has a meticulous mind, which is formed on the basis of repeated deduction, especially this step that can never be turned back, so it has to be carefully calculated.

After struggling for a few days, Baoqin returned to normal before the start of the draft.

This time the draft was a bit late, the spring was busy, the summer was hot, and it finally dragged on to autumn.The autumn is crisp and the weather is good and not too hot. In short, except for the anxiety of those with beautiful women, the others are fine.

In the first round of the draft, eunuchs and court ladies came to see each other, and asked the Queen Mother for instructions with Baoqin, expressing that she also wanted to go and see.

"I followed into the palace directly in the third round back then. I haven't seen it much before, and I kind of want to go..." Baoqin's voice was soft, and most of the performances in front of the queen mother were mature and steady. She is not very old, and it is the best way to be soft once in a while.

The queen mother agreed with a smile, and said: "I can't walk anymore, you go and have a look and come back and tell me."

In fact, the age of the queen mother is not too old. The emperor is probably no more than 25, and the queen mother is at most in her early forties. However, referring to the last Qing Dynasty, the average age was only 35 years old, and the highest emperor was only 52 years old. The queen mother can actually be counted. The last one is longevity.

Baoqin went to the east side of the palace specially opened for drafting, there were quite a lot of people, seeing her coming, a few aunts and aunts in charge smiled and said: "But the Queen Mother sent you to take a look, here is good."

Especially those few aunts who were recommended by Baoqin to have this good job, they hurried over with tea.This three-year talent show is considered the best job in the palace, with as little as a few hundred and as many as a thousand, even if each of them is given a five taels of money, that is still a lot of money.

Sitting with the piano in his arms for a while, he felt a little noisy, so he went back to answer the queen mother.

On the way back, she walked a little faster, and entered the gate of the Palace of Compassion, but saw the emperor was there, she bowed her head and turned to the apse.

Ruicheng came here to discuss the candidates for this draft with the Queen Mother. He had already selected a few show girls who could be used to numb ministers or reward his own people, and told the Queen Mother that if there was no major problem, he would stay in the palace.

Seeing Baoqin coming in, the queen mother glanced at her, blushing?

The queen mother smiled, she also thought about the way out of Baoqin. As early as before the late emperor passed away, she thought that when Yuanchun came to Ruicheng's residence, she might as well take Baoqin together. Anyway, most of the maids are do this.

Later, when things were busy, Baoqin helped their mother and son a lot, and then they carefully planned, such as taking Baoqin to her palace, firstly, to take a closer look, and secondly, the maid beside the queen mother gave it to her son. The maid next to the concubine was given to the emperor, and the former was obviously much nicer.

It just depends on what position to give, now my son is obviously going to use the position in the harem to do big things, and we will talk about it after the draft is over.

The queen mother nodded, and said: "I remember the three people you mentioned." After finishing the serious matter, the queen mother smiled and said: "Then what kind of Ruicheng likes, the 72nd concubine of Sangong Sixth Courtyard, this is allowed Three out, and dozens more?"

Facing his mother, Ruicheng twitched in a rare way. He looked left and right, and found that there was no one in the palace, and said: "Gentle and virtuous, easy to give birth to."

The queen mother laughed out loud, as the only person who could pat the emperor on the shoulder, the queen mother would not let this opportunity pass by.She put her hand on Ruicheng's shoulder and didn't come down. Although she didn't say anything, the emperor was embarrassed to laugh from time to time.

After the first round of the draft, within a few days the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent in the list of the second selection.There are a lot of people participating in the draft this year. First of all, His Majesty the Emperor is only in his early twenties this year. There are kittens in the harem waiting for their chance to fly to the sky. Relevant officials have been dismissed and investigated a lot. In the past, they could be exempted from the draft because of a serious illness or a death in the family, but this year it will not work.

So there were more than 500 women's football teams sent to the palace in the second round. The queen mother, Qingmei and Yuanchun were bound to come back. The emperor and queen had time to take a look.

The audition was held in the Qin'an Palace in the Imperial Garden. There were five people in a group, and they had to ask a few questions when they met the empress dowager. In this way, it would be considered good to see three or fifty people a day.

So within three days, the Empress Dowager began to suffer from back pain and leg cramps, while Yuan Chun and Qing Mei began to be irritable.

This is choosing a concubine for their emperor's "husband-in-law", finding a rival in love for themselves, and showing off the royal demeanor with a frankly amiable face. This is simply not human work!

The only survivor is Baoqin. She does a lot of work every day, walks around the palace, and has the best physical strength.

This day, after sending the queen mother back, Baoqin was very energetic and went out for a return visit.It's been a month since the new maids were sent over, let me ask the masters if they are using it smoothly.

The first one went to the Queen's Palace, Shulan didn't know what she was busy with, and Huiyan didn't see her, but Hui Ting, her sister-in-law-to-be, came out to talk to her.

Baoqin has never been a queen. Although she stayed in the former queen's palace for a while, she has a pretty good relationship with the current queen, but she has no clue what the queen is busy with all day long, and why the queen is so busy , she was completely unexpected.

Coming out of the Queen's Palace, Baoqin thought about it and went to Yuanchun Palace first. Now that she has nothing to do, she went to Yuanchun to show her presence in front of Yuanchun. Although she hated Yuanchun to death, revenge must be rational.Looking at Yuan Chun's awkward look, and the extreme emotions flashing in his eyes from time to time, it's good to eat.

Moreover, Baoqin is currently at the second grade, and Yuan Chun wants to salute when she sees her.

Yin Yang said angrily: "My lord, you are very polite." Baoqin sat opposite Yuan Chun, and said: "The maid sent last time, the little lord is still able to handle it smoothly? No, I will change two for you?"

Yuan Chun worked for a day, and just caught up with the small days again, his back was sore, and he felt restless, so he immediately turned his face away, "The one my aunt gave is not useful, even if it is not useful, I dare not say it."

"Okay, when I go back to the queen mother, I will say that the young master is dissatisfied with the employer and will change again."

"you!"

Yuan Chun has already changed people twice. The first time the queen mother didn't pay attention, the second time the queen mother recruited someone to come and see. The two little girls, Wen Wenjing and Jingjing, spoke and acted quickly, and the queen mother's evaluation of Yuan Chun was different. Much lower.

There was nothing left, if Ruicheng hadn't kept her, it would still be useful...

Baoqin came out of Yuanchun Palace, a little scared, she almost made a foolish move just now.When she entered Jingren Palace, she wanted to provoke Yuan Chun, diverted the topic from the talent show to the emperor, and then deliberately said something that misunderstood her. She had already thought out the lines.

"In the seventh prince's mansion, he can only have two side concubines. When I go up, I will be nothing more than a concubine. But when he becomes emperor, I will at least be a noble person, but now I am a member of the empress dowager's palace. I can be a concubine."

Yuan Chun would rush to the Empress Dowager angrily and buy her, saying that she misses the emperor or something, and everything will be logical after that.

Fortunately not, she hugged the piano and patted her chest, if Yuan Chun acted impulsively and ruined the emperor's reputation, neither of them would be able to please them.

Returning to the Compassionate Ning Palace with lingering fears, why is there a row of imperial physicians standing in the palace?

Baoqin rushed to the inner hall, the queen mother was lying on the bed, Liangxue and Liangqian were waiting by her side, and the nanny Yunrong was wiping away her tears, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why did you faint when you were fine?"

Baoqin stepped forward cautiously to see that at least the queen mother had writing on her head, she said: "Don't worry, mother, the queen mother will wake up in a while."

Mammy glanced at her, but said nothing.

After a while, Ruicheng and Shulan came forward.

Ruicheng took a look at the queen mother who was still awake, and went to the main hall to ask the imperial doctor in a panic, while Shulan sat by the bed, wiped the queen mother's face with a handkerchief, and said in a stern voice: "How do you serve the queen mother? How can the mother faint? In the past!"

Several people were immediately frightened and fell to their knees on the ground.

Ruicheng came in, saw a circle of people kneeling on the ground, all of them were mother's confidantes, frowned and said: "You reprimand them for what they are, they are all people who are used to serving people."

Shulan tilted her head and stopped talking.

But presumably the imperial physician didn't say anything good outside, Ruicheng said: "The queen mother is not awake yet, so I arranged for someone to take care of the sick, I will take care of it tonight."

Soon the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician was ready and delivered. Aunt Yunrong pried open the Queen Mother's mouth with a small spoon, and poured half a bowl of medicine into it little by little. Ruicheng felt relieved and went out to ask the imperial physician again.

The empress dowager was dizzy, and now the master in the palace is Yun Rong. She looked at the two confidantes of the empress dowager, and the zither that the empress dowager read to and fro before the emperor ascended the throne, and said: "Tonight I'll take someone to watch, hold the qin and watch it until midnight, tomorrow I will change to Liangxue and Liangqian during the day, and hold the qin again at night."

Several people split up to arrange things, Baoqin followed Liangxue, walked out of the palace and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, Your Majesty?"

Liangxue turned her head back, "The imperial doctor said that it was because of being too tired these past two days, which caused the old illness."

It was getting dark soon, and everyone in the Compassionate Ning Palace had no intention of eating at all, and the whole table of dishes was sent back with only a few chopsticks moved.

Shulan stayed until after dark, and did not leave until Ruicheng came. Baoqin was a little worried, how weak the eldest prince's body was, so that she could choose a son between the queen mother and her son. Does it look good?

Baoqin went to make a strong pot of tea. She thought about the kindness of the queen mother to her, and she naturally did her best to take care of her.Seeing that Baoqin was doing things properly, Sister Yunrong was relieved a lot, thinking that the Empress Dowager finally believed in the wrong person.

In the middle of the night, Sister Yunrong leaned on the side and couldn't hold her hands anymore. She held the piano and covered her with a blanket, and said to the emperor who was sitting beside the queen mother's bed: "Your Majesty, it will be dawn in two hours. Tomorrow It's the morning sun, your Majesty will either be crooked, and I will watch over it."

Ruicheng said for a while: "When will the mother wake up?"

"It's coming soon, it's coming soon." Baoqin repeated twice, and pulled Ruicheng onto the couch, "Sleep, I'll watch."