Force a good concubine

This year seems to be doomed to be troublesome. First, the Zheng case, and then the Haizhou case. One was involved in the water transportation, and the other was linked to the Haizhou navy. They were all very difficult.

Although the pro-government ceremony will not be held until the first day of the first lunar month, at this moment the ruling power of the court has been tacitly handed over to the emperor by the cabinet and Luan Yisi. , and then transferred to the palace, forming a high mountain on top of the imperial case.The winter hunting affairs are complicated. In addition to reading the booklets on a daily basis, the emperor also presides over the imperial examination, gives banquets and rewards to the elders and important officials who have retired, and has to go to various imperial mausoleums to offer wine and sacrifices once every three days. He didn't even care about eating, and he simply rested in the warm pavilion in the front hall for rest, which made the work of Dongshe and others a lot easier.

Seeing that it was the Winter Sacrifice Ceremony, on this day, all the drivers in front of the main gate of the palace were laid out, the emperor led a group of clan and important officials to drive, and the courtiers and guards were too busy to touch the ground, but the female officials in the palace behind were still irrelevant. Quiet and leisurely.Qiu Rong sat in a place sheltered from the wind by the porch of the duty room with a hand stove in her sleeves, listening to the lively sound brought back by the distant wind, and sighed melancholy: "It's time to start playing big music, it's time to start driving, um, there is a whip sound , what about the clean street ahead—”

"If you have the time to think wildly, why don't you come over and give me a hand." Dongshe sat in front of the window of the duty room and sewed. Seeing Qiurong muttering non-stop, she glared at her through the window, "Here comes the palace ahead." At that time, didn’t you already know Dajia? Why are you still so shallow-sighted?”

Qiurong turned her head and smiled at her, lifted the curtain and went back to the duty room, and leaned closer to Dongshe: "At that time, I only took a look at it, but I didn't know what it was, so I started driving! Auntie, you said, when you return When we’re in Beijing, we can still join in the fun—Huh?” She picked up the pile of waistbands on the big copper plate next to Dongshe and looked at them, “This pattern, this material, could it be—”

"It was just sent in by the Needlework Bureau." Dongshen looked at the main waist up to the light carefully, and then carefully inspected the needlework everywhere, "Although there are usually no mistakes, but this is an entry. The things on the table are the clothes next to the young master’s body, so they must be inspected by themselves before they can be presented, remember?”

"Yes." Qiu Rong smiled, Su Rong responded, and sat down to look through Dongrong's appearance, but couldn't help muttering during the look, "The one who taught me the rules first was the Empress Dowager's Madam Si Shi Mom, I haven't mentioned this one, so is there any taboo here?"

"You," Dong Rong sighed while holding his forehead, "You, when you should be thinking more, you are always lazy, but now you think too much - when you were a little maid in the past, you helped your aunts mend and wash, When did you get your hands on the close-fitting clothes? The old lady’s close-fitting clothes don’t need to be stitched, they are made by a few of the closest old mothers, and others don’t have the blessing to be filial.”

"Then why—"

"My old lady used to prepare the clothes for me, but now that I'm older, I'm embarrassed to use the people there. I ordered a few reliable old people from the needlework bureau to do these. In fact, this work In the past, the masters in the harem did it themselves, even the emperor's husband and servants, and there were also specially appointed trusted female officials. One was afraid that someone would take these clothes for other purposes, so people who were not close and trusted could not touch them. Second, after all, it is something close to my daughter's house, so how can the eunuchs know the size and pattern?"

"Auntie said yes." Qiu Rong pouted in response, and pouted at Nuan Ge, "There was none before, but now the palace is about to add a master—"

"What are you talking about!" Dongshui immediately changed color, "Who are you talking to so much?"

"I didn't say anything, it was the little eunuchs who said it." Qiu Rong shrank her neck in fright, "My master told Tong Shi that every night, Ruan Niang will follow the routine of the master of the harem, and now Let her be in charge of the Eight Music Hall, and everyone said that they will be promoted when they return to Beijing, can this be fake?"

"As long as you don't get dizzy." Dongchun breathed a sigh of relief, "Niang Ruan's gossip can't be said casually, we will check the scene in the future, since Cui Chengxiu and Wei Fengchun are looking for them to settle accounts, let's not get involved Lost face, you know?"

"Understood." Qiurong nodded, but couldn't help it after all, and after a pause, she whispered to Dongchun, "Aunt Dong, you have been in the palace for many years, and you have a lot of knowledge. Master, what position did you give at the beginning, and what happened later?"

Dong Chun thought for a while: "Although the secretary is not selected in the serious general election, it is different from the ordinary servants. There are not many such masters, and they are not too few. According to the old practice of the first, most of them It all starts with the promise to always be there, and those who have not been promoted will also be blessed to be promoted to nobles and concubines."

"The promise is only one level higher than ours. I think the young master must be reluctant to part with it, probably because he is a nobleman." Qiu Rong lowered her voice, "But Aunt Dong, some people say that the young master has not made an order until now. , in order to learn from Emperor Taizu in the future, and want to become a queen!"

"Who is talking nonsense?" Dong Shu raised his eyebrows, "I didn't make an order because I didn't want to go past the empress dowager, and I don't even know such a simple rule?"

Qiu Rong shrinks her neck again when she sees her: "Now that Chengjue has passed both civil and military examinations, I have not expressed anything, so it can be seen that my husband--"

"Isn't it three years before the emperor's husband will be elected? What's the rush?" Dongchun said firmly, "I have a sense of propriety about Jiangshan Sheji. What are you guessing?"

"What if it's not Jiangshan Sheji?" Qiu Rong's voice was lower, but still unyielding, "Based on the young master's thoughts on Ruan Niang, what will happen to Ruan Niang in the future?"

Dong Shu didn't think about it: "What will happen in the future? Ruan Niang, she naturally—" Those words slipped from her lips, and she swallowed them again: The late emperor once doted on a few servants, so sleeping and eating together like that is as precious as treasure It's not that she has never seen the treatment of Gu Yuan before, but the emperor's treatment of Gu Yuan is somewhat different from that of the former emperor's treatment of his servants, which made her feel that the words "love the six palaces" are not appropriate. "She is a person who understands the rules," she almost sighed, "naturally she is a lucky one."

Qiu Rong was naturally not satisfied with such an answer, but she didn't dare to ask any more, she just curled up her neck and murmured to herself: "The two are so good, wouldn't God let them be a real couple?"

Dong Chun glared at her again: "The more you talk, the more—" She hadn't finished a word, when there was a sudden sound of footsteps, it was Wei Fengchun who led Cui Sanshun through the curtain and came in one by one. After entering the door, he took a look and said, "" Where is Gu Nushi?"

"Watching the little girls changing incense in the Nuan Pavilion." Seeing that the two of them were sweating all over their faces, and they were obviously rushing all the way, Dong She felt a sudden bump in her heart and stood up, "Ruan Niang Others, what other errands do you have?"

"My aunt is an old man." Wei Fengchun took off the manager's pair of cards from his waist and handed it over, "My little monkey boy is still not good enough, and he will be able to obey my aunt's orders, and all these little boys in the yard will be handed over to my aunt. If anyone talks nonsense and walks around, I will ask my aunt to deal with it for me, and I will treat my aunt to a drink later."

Seeing that Cui Sanshun had already led Gu Yuan out, without further ado, he cupped his hands, turned around and left.Standing behind Dongchun, Qiu Rong saw that although Gu Yan looked calm, his face was much paler than usual, and whispered to Dongchun: "Auntie, let's—"

"We have done our part by maintaining this place well." Dongchun watched the three of them out of the courtyard, held the pair of cards in his hands, and turned around solemnly, "Go, first let Wei Lian secretly fix the courtyard, Let’s work together on an errand and quietly bring someone in to see me!”

At this moment, Gu Yan has followed Wei Fengchun, and quietly left the palace from the west corner gate in a green felt-wrapped chariot.Wei Fengchun changed into a businessman's attire, sat side by side with the driver on the shaft of the chariot, and galloped all the way. Seeing that Chongling was in sight, he reined in. After walking more than half a circle, he entered the fasting palace through the corner gate.

As a rule, every time the emperor visits the ancestral temple, he has to fast in the fasting palace for three to five days. With a serious expression on his face, Lin Yuan came out from the palace, first asked the foreman of the imperial physician to ask a few words, and then beckoned to Gu Yuan who had just got off the car: "Did Wei Fengchun tell you?"

Gu Yan nodded, and secretly clenched his cuffs: "Master, does it matter to her?"

"All the imperial physicians have said that it's okay for a few days. I thought that the winter scorpion would be in charge in the palace, and you are considered safe among other people, so I recruited you here without authorization. But judging from what I mean, it should be I want you to come here." Seeing Cui Chengxiu rushing over from Dongtou Moon Gate, she stopped talking and said, "I still have to go play tricks with those noisy lords, and I will leave this place to you and Wei Fengchun. , you will serve in front of the young master, and you are not allowed to leave without permission, if anything goes wrong," a stern look flashed between her brows, "Do you understand?"

Gu Yan bowed deeply to her silently, turned and entered the hall.The hall is deep and wide, and the whole hall is filled with the scent of tranquilizing incense, with a faint medicinal fragrance. Gu Yuan didn't have time to look at the furnishings in the hall, so he raised the curtain and entered the Xinuan Pavilion. Wei Fengchun came in one step earlier than her, and was looking at the imperial hospital. Just as he was taking the emperor's pulse, he only took one look at Gu Yuan, and then led the group of people to retreat, leaving only Gu Yuan and the emperor in the hall.

Gu Yan gently opened the curtain, the emperor was still asleep in the tent, he hadn't seen him for more than ten days, his face seemed to have lost weight, sunken in the bright yellow pillow, he looked extraordinarily thin, his brows were tightly frowned Yes, with beads of sweat on his forehead, he obviously slept very restlessly.Gu Yan took a step forward, knelt on the pedal, and gently brushed the hair that was sticking to the face for the emperor. The emperor muttered very lightly. Gu Yuan leaned over to listen, and only heard clearly from the emperor's lips: " The word "A Yuan" sounded soft and soft, as if it fell directly into the bottom of her heart, making her suddenly understand why the emperor always likes to hug her on weekdays. At this moment, she can't let go of this person either. up.