[Qing wear + Red House] Lin's Royal Concubine

The coffin of the Empress Dowager was removed to the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty and temporarily placed there, but was not sent back to Shengjing to be buried with Huang Taiji.

According to Su Mo'er, this is the last wish of the Empress Dowager, she only said that the Emperor Taiji had been sleeping peacefully for a long time, so it should not be disturbed, and she was also reluctant to stay away from the late emperor.

At first glance, these words do not sound too serious, but they can't help but cause people to mutter. All the concubines in the harem should be buried with the emperor. A resting place is left behind, how many people pursue the husband and wife to "live in the same bed and die in the same hole". Other concubines can't ask for it, why is she not willing?

As a result, some rumors spread. Some people thought of the beautiful love that was envied in private until death-Huang Taiji and Concubine Chen, so they guessed that the Empress Dowager probably didn't want to be married after death. Looking at those two people is very sad.

There were also those conspiracy theorists who secretly guessed that maybe this person had done something bad before, and he didn't dare to face Huang Taiji and Concubine Chen after his death.

Of course, no matter what you say, you can only mutter a few words secretly. No one dares to question it on the stage. Besides, the dead are the most important, and it is not appropriate to say what is there. Since it is someone's last wish, then follow it Do it, it has nothing to do with them.

After a funeral, almost everyone lost weight, and the young children were even more miserable.

The chubby milk fat on Yin Xiaosi's face lost a lot, his knees were bruised, and Baocheng was in the same misery. It was over, but it made Lin Shiyu's heart ache enough.

That's all right, anyway, the two children's health has always been pretty good, that is, they look a little miserable, but Xiaoliu of Tong Zhilan's family is different.

The child was born very weak, before one year old, the imperial doctor wished he could live in Yongshou Palace to watch him, and if he accidentally caught a little cold, he would procrastinate for two months, and fever was even more common In the summer, when the other children ran around with their buttocks naked, he was still wrapped in three layers, and he was allergic to that and couldn't touch it.

It can be said that it is not easy to stumble and pull it to such a big size. It is still a thin and small one, and it is unhealthy just by looking at it.

No, even if Kangxi took special care of him and just told him to follow his mother to have a good time every day, he still fell ill again.

When I came to Yongshou Palace, I saw the child lying on the bed in a dazed state, with a blushing little face, he knew that the fever was serious. The imperial physician and the palace maid carefully fed the medicine little by little, and Tong Zhilan was standing beside him. Pregnant belly keeps wiping away tears.

Seeing this situation, Lin Shiyu couldn't help sighing softly, stepped forward and asked, "How is the child?"

"It depends on when the body temperature will drop..." Tong Zhilan choked up.

Both eyes were as red as rabbits, and it was obvious that they had never shed tears.

Lin Shiyu patted her on the shoulder lightly, and comforted her in a soft voice: "Our Xiaoliu has been through so many hurdles since he was born, it can be seen that he is a lucky person, and he will definitely get through this time safely, you Just don't be too sad, don't forget that there is another child in your belly, what if you also fall ill? Both children are pointing at you. "

Tong Zhilan said nothing, only wept and nodded slowly.

She understands the truth, but the child is the heart and soul of the mother, how can she not be worried or sad?

"My body is getting weaker and weaker, come and sit with me and rest for a while." Then he pulled her to the side, "You can see Xiao Liu clearly even if you sit here, don't worry."

The two big bellies sat down, and several other sisters came one after another. Looking at the situation, no one had the time to grind their teeth, and just sat quietly beside Tong Zhilan.

It took nearly half an hour to feed a bowl of medicine. When the last mouthful was successfully fed, the imperial physician and servants all heaved a sigh of relief. When they stood up, they realized that their bodies were soaked and their calves were all wet. It's numb, so I didn't fall down, thanks to the little eunuch next to me who had poor eyesight and quickly helped me.

The elderly old doctor waved his hand and said: "Go and wipe the sixth elder brother's body."

They didn't give any special orders for the extra ones. The servants of Yongshou Palace have already been used to doing these things. They know what temperature of water to use, where to wipe and when to wipe.

Yin Xiaosi stood by the bed and quietly watched the servants wipe Xiao Liu's body, looking at his extraordinarily pale skin, slender hands and feet, and obvious ribs, he felt as if a big stone was crushed in his heart , too dull to breathe.

When the house was silent, there was a sudden noise outside.

Lin Shiyu frowned unhappily, "Rianyi, go out and have a look."

However, before Lianyi could go out the door, she saw Princess Shuhui barging in with crutches and asked someone to help her.

"Your Majesty, forgive me, but the slave couldn't stop me..." The little eunuch chasing after plopped and knelt down to plead guilty, with a slap mark on his face.

Now Tong Zhilan was also annoyed, she waved her hand to tell him to back out, and said with a sneer, "I am also a dignified imperial concubine, how can I be reduced to the palace where people can break into the palace whenever they want, and the slaves can be beaten whenever they want? Princess Shuhui is not immune. It's too deceiving!"

But Atu only glanced at her contemptuously, "I even dare to scold the emperor face to face, so what are you?"

Lin Shiyu frowned even tighter, and said sarcastically, "Princess Shuhui, she forgot about the pain before her injury healed? I advise you not to be too domineering, otherwise I'm afraid that God will not be able to see it again." eyes."

As soon as this remark came out, the hatred was instantly pulled over.

"Sorceress!" Attu's eyes were about to burn when he looked at her, and his nose, ribs, and left leg seemed to be aching again, and he really wanted to tear her apart.

Yin Xiaosi's face suddenly turned cold, and he lowered his head and stared straight at her tightly wrapped left leg.

"Whether I am a witch or not is not up to you to decide." Lin Shiyu stroked her temples with an understated expression, "Princess Shuhui's visit with her sick body must not be just for the sake of it." Let's play with your prestige? If you have anything to say, just say it."

At this point, Ah Tu thought of something serious, and his face was even more ugly. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'm afraid the imperial concubine is used to being domineering in the harem, and she used that little trick to deal with me. Don’t you? Think I’m just useless things for you to bully? You’re so naive! Stupid!”

"I am Taizong's Princess Gu Lun, and my aunt today. How can you allow a mere junior like you to insult me ​​like this? Even a dignified queen has to obediently salute and greet me when she sees me. You are a royal concubine who dare to shake the sky! It's still too late, the imperial concubine better kneel down and make a good apology for this palace, maybe if this palace is in a good mood, I will spare you once, otherwise this palace will sue the emperor!"

As he said that, he sat down on the chair, straightened his back and raised his chin slightly, as if he was waiting for someone to kneel down and plead guilty.

Lin Shiyu looked puzzled and asked in confusion: "What's the meaning? What did the concubine do? Why did she insult you?"

But Atu was convinced that she was pretending, and immediately pulled his face longer, "You still want to pretend? In this case, I will go to the emperor to seek justice!"

After saying that, he got up on crutches and walked out, but when he reached the door, he tripped over the high threshold, and immediately fell into a ball with the maid supporting him, his injured left leg still knocked on the threshold I folded it up.

Everything happened too quickly and too inexplicably. When everyone reacted, they saw Princess Shuhui hugging her left leg and curling up like a shrimp, wailing continuously, obviously in severe pain.

The imperial physician who was guarding Xiao Liu came in handy. He stepped forward and took a quick look, and immediately changed his face, "The old wound on the calf bone has not healed, and a new injury has been added. The situation is not optimistic. Please hurry up and ask Imperial Physician Xu for a careful diagnosis and treatment." , slaves are not good at healing bones."

"Bring the princess back, please ask the doctor Xu."

Several servants hurriedly picked up Princess Shuhui and ran outside. After a commotion, there was only a strange silence in the room.

Seeing the scene that happened just now, Yin Xiaosi was completely dumbfounded.

He was thinking about looking for an opportunity to attack, but who would have thought... this would not be of any use to him?

The weird little eyes stared at his mother-in-law, with a look of amazement.

"Did you understand what she meant just now? Could it be that I missed something?" Lin Shiyu felt very inexplicable, what was all this nonsense?

Concubine Rong coughed twice in embarrassment, "That's what happened..."

They are all sisters who have a close personal relationship on weekdays, and the imperial concubine was almost whipped, so can they not be angry?Can I sit idly by?Although the eldest princess Shuhui has a high status, she obviously cannot afford to offend her, but in private, she can barely vent her anger by tossing and tossing people with some small tricks.

These few sisters want status and status, they need to be loved and loved, and their sons add up to a string. If they open their mouths and hint down, there will naturally be many people who are willing to share their worries, so Princess Shuhui is recovering from her injuries. Life is not easy.

The tea is old, probably due to improper storage, it has a musty smell after brewing, making it difficult to drink.

The hot water is not going back and forth for three or five times, and you don’t even think about it. It’s not deliberately suppressed, but the water quality always seems to be not good, either there are strange sediments or it’s cloudy and you can’t see the bottom. The majestic princess Where can this kind of water be used?Tossing and changing for new ones again and again, I often have to wait at least half a day to scrub my body.

The food will never be palatable. It may taste salty, sour, or bitter, but it will not be just right.

Even the clothes washed by the Huanyi Bureau did not know what happened, and the upper body began to itch all over. The new clothes sent out were the same. Nothing serious happened, but a red rash on the body that was itchy.

And there are always weird noises every night. Today, wild cats scream and scream and fight fiercely. Tomorrow, they whimper and cry for a while, accompanied by the looming opera singing... It’s really scary in the middle of the night. Dead man.

In short, there is nothing comfortable about food, clothing and housing. Who is not irritable or aggrieved?You can think of it with your toes, it must be someone deliberately tormenting her, that's why today's disturbance happened.

After hearing this, Lin Shiyu couldn't help being moved and amused, and said angrily, "What's the matter with me? I was so confused by the trouble. You guys are so courageous. She belongs to the emperor after all." What about my aunt, aren't you afraid that the emperor will be angry?"

Concubine Yi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, can the Emperor punish us all together? Besides, with that temper, do you think she has never approached the Emperor? That's because Jian Tian'er sent someone to invite her." As for the emperor, it's a pity that the emperor has never been there once, and he just doesn't want to see her."

"Then she just vowed to go to the emperor to seek justice?" Mrs. Dai was a little puzzled, where did she get her confidence?

"She is spoiled and pampered, I'm afraid she won't believe that the emperor doesn't want to see her." Wei Guiren smiled softly, "I'm afraid she still thinks in her heart that the slaves are fooling her. You never invited the emperor at all." At the end of the sentence, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing softly.

Although there is a saying that is not pleasant to listen to, it is also true-it is cold when people walk away.

Why is Princess Gu Lun Shuhui feared and respected?Isn't it because of the existence of the first emperor and the empress dowager?It's a pity that the first emperor left too early, the gap between this younger brother and his nephew is too great, not to mention that now that the only remaining empress dowager has gone, what is she, the eldest princess of Gu Lun, worth?

If she could recognize the reality and adjust her mentality and words and deeds in a timely manner, she wouldn't be too much of a superficial emperor, but it's a pity that this one is obviously too high to let her down, and the domineering and domineering of half a lifetime has already penetrated into the marrow of her bones.

Look what she's been up to these days?As soon as he entered the capital, he pointed to the emperor's nose and called him by his name, opened his mouth and closed his eyes and closed his eyes like a wolf, and abruptly scolded the queen mother until she fainted from anger, and even dared to do something to the pregnant imperial concubine... What a shame People have opened their eyes.

How could it be possible for the emperor to pamper and pamper her with such an indistinct eldest princess?My aunt is not my mother, so what are you thinking about?

Sure enough, from the beginning to the end, Kangxi seemed to be ignorant of what happened in the harem. Knowing that Princess Shuhui's leg was broken again and it was very likely that there would be sequelae that would be unfavorable, he just took a look at it as if going through the motions, and then He plunged into the Qianqing Palace as if he was so busy that he hit the back of his head.

When Xiao Liu was finally able to get out of bed, Concubine Wan Shu gave birth to a little princess safely.

The little one is delicate and weak, but fortunately, there are no major problems in the bones of the body, and it should not be a problem to take care of it carefully.

This made Concubine Yi envious.

Just when the sun was scorching, Xue Baochai's second workshop was finally completed. As soon as the recruitment notice was posted, all the women who had been waiting for a long time flocked to it.

The rouge and gouache are already relatively profitable, not to mention that they are in the name of the empress in the palace, so the price is much higher. Now the supply is far short of demand, so Xue Baochai's wages are relatively high. You can get five hundred wen a month.

You must know that nowadays a liter of rice is only seven or eight yuan, and a catty of delicious pork is about thirty yuan, and a man can only get ten or twenty yuan for a day of hard work outside. The salary of five hundred wen is really not small, just look at the endless long queue at the door to know how popular this job is.

The Xue family once again attracted the attention of most of the capital, and only then did everyone suddenly realize that there were many women's faces in other properties of the Xue family.

Now those sour talents are jumping around even more, working in the workshop is not counted, but they still have to show their faces in the shop to greet them?Simply indecent!

As a result, a wave of more fierce criticism came in an instant, but no matter how they scolded, no matter how others pointed, Xue Baochai was still unmoved. Guang is too lazy to give alms to these sour talents who are too busy to panic.

Such a strange behavior and firm attitude inevitably aroused some doubts. Some smart people had already vaguely noticed something, and some people who dealt with business on weekdays began to insinuate.

Xue Baochai was just waiting for them to take the bait, and naturally she would not hide anything. After she had explained everything she had to say, she would no longer care about these people, and she was not worried at all about their ignorance. It is the instinct of a businessman to pursue profit. Aren't you envious of the title of imperial merchant?Since the imperial concubine can decide to give the Xue family this job, why can't she afford the second and third?

In the past, if one wanted to make a living, one could only go to those noble families of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but now there is a great opportunity to directly win the favor of the imperial concubine, who would not be tempted?As for whether all the hard work will end in nothing?Just a joke, isn't there less gold and silver thrown to the Coating Family every year?Is there anyone who listens loudly?But isn't it still full of energy to drill camp?No businessman lacks this gambler mentality.

Soon, many shops and workshops suddenly appeared in the capital and began to recruit female workers, which aroused all kinds of doubts and criticisms, and I don't know who the bold and sour scholar actually wrote a letter to Zuodu Censor Chen Tingjing directly. .

This morning, Chen Tingjing stepped out in one stride.

"Your Majesty, I have an instruction book..."

As the censor of Zuodu, he naturally didn't listen to the wind and the rain. The first thing he got the letter, he personally sent someone to inquire carefully, and only after he had grasped the whole situation could he make a big splash in front of the emperor.

She was very logical and articulate, and quickly explained the matter clearly, and finally said: "I don't know why the imperial concubine's original intention is, but this behavior is really against the ancient teachings and ethics, and now there are already turmoil in the capital. Four cases, if not restrained and stopped in time, I am afraid that more women will go astray, the emperor must be careful!"

Immediately after, a few more censors also stepped forward, but some of them were not as gentle as he was, and they could be seen as radicals by the appearance of spittle flying all over the place.

Suo'etu glanced at Lin Ruhai seemingly unintentionally, and seeing his serious face, he immediately raised the corner of his mouth, and winked at some people intentionally or unintentionally.

Then Gao Shiqi stood up and said: "Women are supposed to care for their husbands and children at home and serve their parents-in-law. It is really indecent to show their faces outside. The empress and concubine are the same as the vice queen. Instead of setting an example for the women in the world, they ignore the etiquette and try their best. What is your intention to lead the world's women to be restless in their homes? Your Majesty forgives me, I think such a deviant person is really not worthy of being a deputy queen!"

"My minister!" Li Guangdi shouted loudly, and said angrily, "The imperial concubine's behavior has already lost her woman's virtue, and the dignity of a deputy empress is not worthy. Please punish me severely!"

After these two took the lead, the rest of Suo'etu's faction naturally followed suit. What's more, it was rare that Mingzhu's faction temporarily put aside their prejudices and stood by him, shouting "Second" .

This time the momentum was spectacular, and the rest of the people could not help but glance at Lin Ruhai, waiting to see how he would react.

Kangxi looked at the scene in front of him calmly, and after a moment of silence, he said lightly: "The imperial concubine has always been a dignified and virtuous person. We don't know what the purpose of this behavior may be, but there is no need to rush to a conclusion." , why don't I ask the imperial concubine personally to discuss this matter later."

"emperor……"

Without waiting for anyone to continue, Li Dequan shook the dust of the Buddha, and said sharply: "If you have a book, you will retreat!"

After the next court, Lin Ruhai, Suo'etu, Mingzhu and several ministers followed to Qianqing Palace, waiting for the arrival of the imperial concubine.

As soon as she heard the news, Lin Shiyu knew that the one who was supposed to come had finally arrived, she smiled slightly, and tidied things up calmly, and then got into the sedan chair and left under Yinzhen's worried eyes.

"The imperial concubine is here!"

The heated debate in the hall stopped abruptly.

"Respectfully, the emperor's peace."

"The imperial concubine is exempt from the ceremony, and I will give you a seat."

Just as Lin Shiyu took her seat thanks to En, someone was impatiently attacking her.

"The imperial concubine is also a lady from a scholarly family. You should have learned "The Analects of Confucius". How can you forget the admonition 'Don't peep outside the wall, don't go out of the court'? I dare to ask that the imperial concubine is causing women to feel uneasy. What is the intention of the room?"

Lin Shiyu frowned slightly, turned his head and asked Kangxi, "Who is this lord?"

"He is Li Guangdi, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion."

"So it's Baocheng's master." He was one of Suo'etu's henchmen, no wonder he spoke so aggressively.

Inadvertently looking at her father's worried eyes, Lin Shiyu smiled lightly to signal her peace of mind, and then looked at Li Guangdi, "Dare to ask Mr. Li, why does this Palace attract women to be uneasy in the room?"

"The empress ordered a group of merchants headed by the Xue family to recruit women to work, didn't she?" Then she repeated the theory that "women should be husbands and children".

"So it's considered uneasy in the room?" Lin Shiyu took a sip of tea slowly, and said with a smile: "In this case, it's better for Mrs. Li to drive those women who run small businesses and set up stalls on the street home first. Going in? By the way, there are also those farming, after all, there are many old men coming and going between the countryside, how is this appropriate?"

"You...you are sophistry!"