The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 5 Grapes (2)

Jiaorong straightened her clothes and smiled warmly at Yizhu: "Fate is determined by the sky, just let nature take its course."

Not long after, a little eunuch came out of the respect room, holding a green booklet in his hand, opened it and read out: "Everyone is standing, now come to announce your distribution results. Sun Xiangning, Zheng Lanxiu, Wu Ya Jiaorong, Wanliuha Yizhu, Guo Shuote Ruiyi, separately placed Yanxi Palace; Liu Xiaoyuan, Wei Shuangyu, He Qingyu, Hada Sajia, Nimanggu Suzhen, divided clocks Cui Palace."

Hearing this, Yizhu held Jiaorong's hand in surprise, and said timidly: "Sister, I have been separated with you, and we can take care of each other in the palace from now on."

"Yeah, God's blessing, you and my sister don't need to be separated." As she said that, Jiao Rong looked at Shuang Concubine on the other side, and said in a calm voice, "It's just that I'm sorry for Shuang Concubine, I have to go to the Zhongcui Palace alone. .I heard that the noble Ma who lives in Zhongcui Palace is favored by the Holy Majesty, but he is an extremely domineering master. I am afraid that Shuangyu's life in the future will not be very easy."

Shuang Yu frowned slightly at this moment, and seemed to be aware of her situation, her sweet and immature face was now limp like an eggplant beaten by Frost.

"Zhang Qiujie, Chen Xiaohua, Uzaku Lurong, Ernuo Chunzhi, are assigned to Qixiang Palace." The little eunuch finally read out the list of maidservants in Qixiang Palace, and then closed the booklet, "Mother of the House of Internal Affairs We will take you to the palaces assigned to you later, and you will stay in the side rooms of each palace tonight, and you will go to greet your respective masters tomorrow morning so that you can assign errands."

"Yes." The maidservants bowed their heads in unison.

Shuang Concubine leaned towards Qiu Jie with a bitter face, a little envious: "Qiu Jie, you are so amazing, you can actually be assigned to Qixiang Palace. When I just wiped the table, I heard the little eunuchs chatting next to me, Qixiang The master of the palace has just been conferred the title of noble concubine today, but right now the concubine in the palace has the best chance of becoming the empress, and if you follow her from now on, you will definitely be promoted steadily."

Hearing the sound, Qiu Jie smiled lightly, and her tone was as calm as ever: "Okay, you will be punished if you speak falsely about the master, so don't say a few words."

"Got it, you just follow the rules." Shuangyu scolded coquettishly, pouted her lips unhappyly, lowered her head to pick her own fingers, her face showed a little nervousness and uneasiness.

At the second quarter of the first lunar month, it was already dark, and candles and octagonal lanterns were lit in all the palaces.Today is the day when Concubine Zhao was enshrined, the emperor stayed in Qixiang Palace, and the concubines in other palaces also washed up and got ready to go to bed.But at this moment, the corridors of the Sixth East Palace are still lively, Ma Guiren's picket is heading towards the Yanxi Palace, the red and black phoenix flags, plain fans, flower umbrellas and golden plain umbrellas are held on both sides, eunuchs and court ladies follow Beside, the scene is very grand.

It stands to reason that only concubines and above senior concubines in the harem are eligible to have exclusive sedan chairs, but Ma Guiren is now pregnant with a dragon fetus, and the concubine is just around the corner, so the emperor made an exception and allowed her to use concubine-level pickers so It is convenient for Ma Guiren to act during pregnancy.

The chariot landed in front of the main gate of Yanxi Palace, and Ma Guiren stood up holding Bai Kui's hand, holding a white handkerchief embroidered with autumn chrysanthemums.Ma Guiren stepped on the bottom of the flower pot, walked slowly and swayingly into the Palace of Yanxi Palace, looking very graceful, followed by a large number of palace people, who looked as if they were coming to smash someone's signboard.

The court lady who was cleaning with a broom in the courtyard of Yanxi Palace saw Ma Guiren coming, she put the broom on the side of the flower bed, and was about to enter the hall to announce, but Ma Guiren stopped her directly, with a high-ranking and unquestionable sense of dignity in her tone : "There is no need to report."

Hearing the sound, the maid had no choice but to retreat to the cleaning position, put her hands in front of her lower abdomen, bowed her head and saluted, "Hi, nobleman."

Bai Kui helped Ma Guiren up the steps, and walked slowly into the hall, while the eunuchs behind stayed outside the hall.When the two entered the hall, the eldest elder brother Yinfei was sitting on the wooden chair behind the desk, and the nobleman bowed behind the chair and held Yinfei's hand, and wrote a big sentence on the yellow rice paper on the table with a brush. "Wen" character, softly guided: "The Na here should be longer..."

"Sister." At this moment, a soft female voice in front broke the original silence, Ma Guiren smiled and walked slowly in front of Yougui.

Yougui raised his head, seeing that it was Ma Guiren, he straightened up a little, put the brush in his hand aside, put away all the tenderness on his face, and put on a cold and indifferent smile: "It's so late, Why is my sister here?"

After saying that, Yougui stretched out his hand and gently pushed Yinyi to the side of the case, and said to the maid beside him: "Bai Lan, take Yinyi back first."

Ma Guiren watched Bailan lead Yinyi away in a hurry, the smile on his face didn't diminish, but became more reckless.The maid of Yanxi Palace brought a mahogany round stool and put it behind Ma Guiren, and Ma Guiren sat down, with a posture of anti-customer: "My sister has been very sick recently, and I just want to eat something sweet and sour. I heard that my sister I got the grapes from the emperor, so I want to ask for it, I wonder if my sister can give it to my sister?"

At the same time, Yuan Xinggonggong, the chief eunuch of Yanxi Palace, took several beautiful women who had just arrived at Yanxi Palace on the promenade outside the hall, and while leading them to the side room, he introduced: "This is the main hall, and it is the nobleman Yougui." The place where you live and live on weekdays, I will bring you here to pay respects to the nobles tomorrow, you new maids, don't oversleep..."

Jiaorong was walking at the end of the line, she was walking slowly with her bag on her shoulders, when she suddenly heard the voice of a woman talking in her ears, Jiaorong couldn't help but stop, and looked behind the open window.

"It's a coincidence that my sister came here. My sister's leftover grapes were originally going to be sent to the Queen Mother tomorrow. If I gave them to my sister now, the Queen Mother might not be able to explain it." Yougui's voice was very weak, unable to hear the slightest bit. The waves, the whole person is full of dignified and solemn atmosphere.

"Really?" Ma Guiren stared into Yougui's eyes and smiled coquettishly, his tone was really not kind: "I heard that my sister just sent grapes to the imperial concubine today, but she will send them to the queen mother tomorrow. It's a distinction between superiority and inferiority, does it mean that my sister thinks that the noble concubine is a noble concubine, higher than the empress dowager?"

Jiaorong was listening intently, when Yizhu suddenly ran over from the side, panting slightly: "Jiaorong, why are you here? Come with me, Father Yuan Xing wants someone."

Jiaorong glanced at Yizhu lightly, gestured her to silence her, and said softly, "Don't talk yet."

Yi Zhu frowned slightly, very puzzled, she followed Jiao Rong's eyes to look into the window, and also took a step forward.

"Sister has no such intentions. My sister is so aggressive, but you want to order the grapes in my sister's palace?" Yougui chuckled indifferently, not wanting to talk deviously with Ma Guiren, so he directly pointed out Ma Guiren's intentions.In fact, both of them understood that what Ma Guiren wanted was not the grapes at all, but the only honor and favor.

(End of this chapter)