Hou Kun

Chapter 318 Yanxi Palace

It has been snowing in the capital for a few rounds, and the New Year is here. Regardless of what happened this year, everyone wants to have some good luck in the new year.

Although the festivities this year are a little less, the rewards for the slaves are more.It stands to reason that it is still in the country's filial piety, and the courtiers have to keep the system for three years, and the queen mother is still in plain clothes.But the Empress Dowager who just moved into the Palace of Compassion and Peace, not only has her complexion improved in the past few months, but she has also gained a lot of weight.

Hai Ruo hurriedly entered the door, put down the box in her hand and came over. The Empress Dowager was talking to a few court ladies in the room. I’m tired too, you guys like this cat, hold it down and get close to it, whoever falls in love with it, give me a cat hug later.”

The maids in the house hurriedly responded, giggling and carrying the one-month-old kitten out.

"Uncle Guo has grown up now, and he knows how much he loves his master, so he sent the cat here. I'm afraid that it will be freezing in the snow and spoil Uncle Guo's thoughts." Hai Ruo forced a smile.

This cat is very rare, with a tuft of black hair on the top of its head, other than that, its whole body is covered in dark cloud hair.Although it is gray, its coat color is extremely bright, and it looks like a gray cloud from a distance.The eyes are black and bright, and the empress dowager loved them very much as soon as they were sent in.Now that the queen mother in front is gone, no one has asked about the rule of not being able to raise animals in the palace.

The queen mother glanced at her and said with a smile, "Just say what you have to say, and don't mingle with me."

Hai Ruo frowned and said, "Master, you can be sure when you look at this slave. The slave has a glass heart in front of you and can't hide anything." Then he said, "Master guesses, what's on the slave's mind?"

The young emperor ascended the throne and the empress dowager listened to the government behind the curtain. Both things were handled very smoothly. Now the Daxia Kingdom is in the hands of her master, and the Compassionate Ning Palace is the same as before. It seems that everything is going well in this palace.

After a great battle, the majesty of the empress dowager has been established, and everyone in the harem is obedient. At the end of the new year, the annual gift given by the governor-general is even more different than in previous years. In order to win the favor of the new empress dowager, they have tried their best , a jade screen hanging in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, with an orchid on it, and the cat lying next to it, the cat's eyes are actually dotted with top-grade jadeite, it looks dark during the day, but at night when the lights are on, the cat's eyes are slit, green, and follow people go.

Wealth has reached the extreme, and people don't care much about these things.The Empress Dowager Shulan is at a high place, and the only one who can talk to her is the maid in front of her.So when Hai Ruo was in front of her, sometimes she would say a few words, but she didn't care, but liked it very much.

"You went to the Yonghe Palace just now, so it must be the concubine who gave you nothing. Now that the whole palace has no one to look down on you, she is the only one." The empress dowager chuckled.

Hai Ruo was surprised when he heard it, "Master, you seem to have seen it."

She had just gone to the Yonghe Palace to give the princess new clothes for the queen mother, and was slapped by the noble concubine.

"The crown prince said that the princess is the most honorable Princess Gu Lun in the Great Xia Kingdom, but no one looked at her, she couldn't look down on anything good, and she shed tears while talking, and said," she looked at the Queen Mother's face, Shu Lan The Empress Dowager seemed not impatient, but instead she laughed when she heard this, which was quite interesting, and she continued, "If the Emperor Daxing is here, they can't be wronged at all."

The empress dowager pinched a fruit and stuffed it into her mouth, leaning back and said, "I'm afraid people in her palace are tired of hearing her complaints... I didn't tell you, for the sake of the princess, Yanxi Palace's rules Doubling, how could someone detain her?"

Hai Ruodao didn't, "now the palace knows that you treat her differently, master, and you treat her closely first. I asked, and the quotas are all paid out in full, but now because her family is walking into the palace, There are few, and there are few offerings, and the crown prince doesn't know how much cinnamon is, and even the princess's belt is not enough for her to spend every month. No, it's the end of the year again... I also know that I am the person in front of you, Complain to me a few words, you know here, and you can take care of her more."

If the life of a concubine depends only on the role in the palace, it is actually difficult to be rich.Not to mention the expenses in the various palaces, there is a lot of money to spend.The reward for the next one is the face of the concubines, and with that little bit of credit, how can there be any face?

Qing Ning compared with the example of the imperial concubine, only 600 taels of silver a year, doubled, plus 400 taels for the princess and 400 dendrobium for Lumi, less than 2000 taels.

No wonder she cried poor.

The empress dowager sneered, "Who told her that she is used to luxury? It's me. I used to be the empress, and I spent only 1000 taels a year. My family is not rich, so why don't we come here too?" She shook her head again, "Forget it, from my treasury. Take 500 taels and let her take the princess to have a good New Year."

The princess suffers from asthma, so she drank yellow soup all the time at such a young age, but now she is as thin as a kitten.Hai Ruo couldn't help but feel sad when he saw it.

She agreed, changed her smiling face, and talked about other things. After a few words, the Queen Mother caught her back, "Is there anything else you haven't told me?"

So it is not unreasonable for her master to sit on the throne of the queen mother.

Hai Ruo frowned in embarrassment, but if there is something to say, the queen mother is most afraid, let alone she can see it again.

Concubine Ninggui had a princess, so she still went back to live in her Yonghe Palace. She was fine at first, but then something strange happened when winter came. Someone was heard crying in the palace in the middle of the night.

Don't talk about crying in the palace, laughing should be lighter. Concubine Ning Gui couldn't sleep well, she became angry, and woke up all the maids in her palace in the middle of the night to stand in the courtyard to count, but there were quite a few of them.No one was crying.

There's no way around it, it's not her own palace, she has no control over the other palaces.

But after dismissing the crowd, as soon as they returned to the house, they heard the cry again.This time the crying became more and more shrill, and even the princess was frightened awake.

Some people said that since the death of Concubine Zhang Guifei, the Palace of Yanxi Palace has not been inhabited.

Although Qing Ning is a concubine, she is still young and can't handle things. She was afraid when she heard about it. When she saw Hai Ruo today, she seemed to have seen a savior, and she trembled when she grabbed her.She didn't get enough sleep these days, her face turned blue, "To tell you the truth, my aunt, that voice really resembles the one in front!"

Hai Ruo had no choice but to comfort her, "She died for the emperor herself, and it has nothing to do with us. You can't scare yourself."

The Queen Mother frowned when she heard this, and Hai Ruo knew that the Queen Mother didn't want to hear about it.

High-ranking master, who would like to hear these demagogic things? Doesn't this mean that there are grievances in the palace, because they didn't take good care of the concubines?

For example, in the case of Concubine Zhang, it was obvious that she had harmed the princess, but not only could he not say it clearly, but he had to give her enough dignity to let this vicious woman be buried in the concubine's mausoleum.

But some rumors can't be ignored. If they spread for a long time, it will hurt her reputation.

Thinking of this, the empress dowager became even more irritable.

(End of this chapter)