Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 22 The Queen
Lucky?

Shen Shiqing rested her arms on the armrest of the throne,

About Emperor Zhaode's harem, Shen Shiqing didn't know much, only that the queen's surname was Lin, and she was one of the appointed concubines who were raised in the palace since childhood. The former prince left before he was married when he was 19 years old. At the age of 15, he was crowned prince and married the Lin family in the same year. Less than half a year after the marriage, the first emperor left again, Emperor Zhaode ascended the throne, and the Lin family also became the queen.Since she married Emperor Zhaode, the Lin family has not moved much, she only serves the queen mother in the deep palace, and she almost never makes a sound during the occasional banquet in the palace.

A few years ago when the nobles in the capital talked about her, there was always something strange in their eyebrows. The Lin family was just a petty official, and it was only because the queen mother loved the daughter of the Lin family that she was called into the harem to be educated. She will marry her only after she reaches Ji. Who would have thought that the crown prince would go before the Lin family reached Ji, but Lin turned around and married the younger brother of the former prince before the prince's body was cold? Backseat" feeling.Because this matter is a bit bizarre, the wives will occasionally say "the queen is very capable" in a strange way when they talk.

It was only later that Emperor Zhaode became more and more powerful, and the empress was rarely seen in front of people, so these jealous words became less and less.

Looking at the memorial in front of her, Shen Shiqing thought over and over again in her heart, and she actually felt that this matter was more troublesome than dealing with the memorial of those vassal kings crying for poverty.

These eunuchs seldom mentioned the matter of the harem in front of her these days, they just coaxed her to eat, drink and have fun, which shows that Emperor Zhaode usually didn't care about female sex.

But if she keeps hiding, it will only make people suspect that there is something wrong with Emperor Zhaode's body. I'm afraid it will be a bigger trouble at that time, so it's better to deal with it first.

Having made up her mind, Shen Shiqing drew a circle on the memorial in front of her, and said casually, "Let's go to the queen."

Seeing that the emperor was interested, Yiji immediately answered and said: "Then why not put the dinner in the Changchun Palace? You also have a few more words with your empress."

"Alright. The dish I just ordered Three Cats to cook will be sent directly to Changchun Palace."

"Yes."

Yiji hurriedly walked out of the palace and ordered someone to send a letter to Changchun Palace, and he did not forget to order Shangshi Bureau to prepare a few dishes that the emperor liked to eat—according to the system of Dayong ancestors, the emperor would use the meals sent by Guanglu Temple as a token of appreciation. Sharing joys and sorrows with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, the meals for the concubines in the harem are prepared by the female officials of the Shangshi Bureau. In the past, when the emperor was in the palace, he often went to the queen, and half of the reason was to have a meal.

The little eunuchs waiting in front of the Qianqing Palace were ordered to leave, but Yiji called them back again:
"Let them be more vigilant when sending messages to Changchun Palace. The emperor will not enter the harem for a long time, so don't let the emperor lose his interest."

After the instructions, Yiji let the man go.

Because before Gao Huaiming urged the emperor to embarrass the courtiers, the emperor ordered to clean up the internal eunuchs, and there were no more than a dozen young eunuchs in Guangqianqing Palace overnight. Looking at the past, I saw that many people were just elected. .

A chicken barked at two dogs, and said in a low voice: "Tonight, while the emperor is away, I will be tight with the children and grandchildren below. If there is another Gao Huaiming, we cats, dogs, and beasts will also go down and carry Zhang Wan's shoes." Bar."

Zhang Wan was a great eunuch who was trusted by the first emperor. After the emperor ascended the throne, he became more and more powerful. Even those who served in front of the imperial court called him a grandfather, and carried his heels and spit pots for him. It's only by playing with Zhang Zhang that they can make their debut.Now that the grown-up emperor can't tolerate another Zhang Wan in the palace, there must be a shrewd person like Gao Huaiming waiting for the opportunity to rise to the throne. If the four of them can't take care of the emperor for the emperor, the emperor will kill them It was no more troublesome than killing Gao Huaiming.

This is a serious word, Ergou nodded in response.

Shen Shiqing read the memorial until she saw Shen Shimo, and the lights in Qianqing Palace were all on, so she put down the memorial.

On the way to the Changchun Palace, she made up her mind more and more. If Mrs. Lin was really as cowardly and peaceful as the rumors said, she would coax her. Own.

The harem is headed by the empress, as long as I can stabilize the empress, it will be easier for others.

Yu Jia went all the way to Changchun Palace, Shen Shiqing got off the dragon chariot, and saw a woman in bright red guarding the palace gate leading someone to meet her.

"Concubine welcomes Your Majesty."

Shen Shiqing took the opportunity to look at the current empress, and saw that she was also in her 20s, wearing a brown hat inlaid with all kinds of jewels, under the brown hat there was a forehead inlaid with jewels, and she wore a vertical collar and sleeve clip. The clothes are made of Zhenghongzhuang damask, and the lower body is a gold-woven skirt with cloud and dragon patterns, which is very luxurious.

When she straightened up, Shen Shiqing's first impression was that the queen was quite tall, not like a man, but two inches taller than Sishu, her hair reached between Emperor Zhaode's lips and nose, and she was dressed in a splendid embroidered suit. There is also a kind of beauty that Zhilan was born in front of the court.

Shen Shiqing walked in front as "Emperor Zhaode", and the empress followed half a step behind. A group of court ladies and eunuchs in Changchun Palace were kneeling beside the stone path. The two of them walked slowly and walked all the way to the palace.

Because His Majesty was coming to have a meal, the Changchun Palace was brightly lit. When Shen Shiqing entered the main hall, just as Shen Shiqing took a seat, she saw the maids and officials filing in and starting to serve the dishes, and quickly put more than twenty dishes on the table.

Empress Lin did not take her seat immediately, but took off the two red jewel rings from her hands, cleaned her hands again, and said to the other people in the hall:
"Go out, I will serve His Majesty for dinner."

As a queen, she has to serve His Majesty herself, no wonder people call her obedient.

Shen Shiqing took a sip of tea nervously.

The eunuchs and maids, including one chicken and three cats, responded and all retreated. In a blink of an eye, only the queen and her were left in the huge main hall of Changchun Palace.

Sitting on the seat, Shen Shiqing was thinking about how to not get so close to the queen, so she watched the queen walk over, and pinched her ears.

Shen Shiqing:?

The queen who pinched the emperor's ear poured a glass of wine for herself, but she drank it for herself: "Okay, those ministers won't let you build Xiyuan, so let's find other ways to get more money. How can you be angry for so long? You I must have taken the opportunity to go to Xiyuan to have fun again, and forgot your sister and me in the palace."

Shen Shiqing stared blankly at the woman in front of her, but she couldn't connect her with the respectful queen just now.

The sleeves of the full-sleeved jacket made of red makeup brocade were unbuttoned, and the long skirt woven with golden cloud and dragon patterns was lifted up. Lin, who was quite bizarre in various rumors, sat beside her in an even more bizarre posture.

Of course, Lin didn't know that the "emperor" beside her had changed. She picked up a cabbage bag with shrimps in it with her chopsticks, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile:
"This dish is really fresh. The fat white cat you raised finally has a brain."

Are emperors and queens like this?

Shen Shiqing tried her best to pick up the chopsticks calmly, and saw Lin put the cabbage bun on the small dish in front of her.

"You are pitiful as an emperor, except for big oil and sauce, there are some wild vegetables."

The tone of this speech is really not like that of Emperor Zhaode's wife, but more like a close friend of Emperor Zhaode.

Shen Shiqing looked at Lin's face, and found that she was very bright and generous, with clear eyebrows, high nose and red lips, with a cheerfulness rarely seen on women.

Fearing that she would see her flaws, Shen Shiqing no longer put on the emperor's airs, but smiled and said: "Thank you..."

"Why are you thanking my sister?" Mrs. Lin patted "Zhao Surui" on the arm, and took out a few bank notes from her bosom, "This is 5000 taels. My father sent it to the palace for several days. If you don't come I have to pretend to send you porridge and snacks... This money was obtained by my elder brother from the Jurchens in Liaodong. Besides the money, there is also a wonderful ginseng tree. My father didn't bring it in. You have time to spare Take the chicken to my house and bring it back."

Speaking of sending porridge and snacks, Lin's face was full of disgust.

Shen Shiqing almost choked on the emerald shrimp roll she had made, so she quickly took the banknote and put it away:

"it is good."

Lin Miaozhen took a look at Zhao Surui, saw him lowering his eyes, only when he still couldn't lift his spirits, she picked up two more chopsticks for him, and then said with a smile: "If you want to imitate the bird gun, you have to take it step by step, wait for you Created a better one, it won’t blow up and hurt people on the battlefield, and naturally those ministers won’t talk to you about the ancestral rules, so why rush?”

Bird gun?It turns out that Emperor Zhaode asked for money to repair the garden in order to use the money to imitate Western firearms?
After figuring out the joints involved, Shen Shiqing simply put on a sullen look, and after eating a few mouthfuls of meat in the bowl, he said:
"We're going to fight Moxi next year, and I just want those people to see with their own eyes how my firearms make great achievements."

These words were a little childish, which made Lin Miaozhen smile: "There is always a chance. After the battle in Moxi, there are still Japanese people. Didn't you say that you want to make achievements that have never been seen in history, so that the spirit of Suqian in the sky will also be happy for you?"

While talking, Lin Miaozhen poured a glass of wine and drank it down.

This is already her sixth glass of wine tonight.

Shen Shiqing could vaguely see some traces of loneliness and sadness from the light in her eyes.

At this moment, Shen Shiqing thought through everything.

I see……

After dinner, Lin, who didn't look like a queen, pulled "Zhao Surui" and talked for another hour before letting him go. Seeing her natural and casual tone, Shen Shiqing naturally understood that Emperor Zhaode would never be in Changchun Palace. overnight.

Because it is not his wife who lives in Changchun Palace.

Sitting on the dragon chariot and looking at the stars in the sky, Shen Shiqing turned her head and saw a person at the gate of Changchun Palace holding a lamp and turning into the gate. The man was probably a little drunk, and his steps were a little staggering.

In a daze, she seemed to see Shen Shiqing who was reading, practicing calligraphy, coloring, and painting in Ning Anbo's mansion.

The women in this world seem to be talented and unrestrained, but in fact they have nothing. Talent cannot be exchanged for official titles, and frivolous and unrestrained nature cannot be exchanged for the end of the world. The wisdom praised by the world is just a flower in the clouds , in the end, they all have only their own weak bones, a life that they can't rely on, and they have to gamble all of these in exchange for a little bit of "getting what they want", just like walking barefoot In the wilderness full of thorns, relying on one's own blood to make a way, such a way is destined to be silent and unable to talk to this world.

Just like Lin's big lie and having such a nameless marriage with Emperor Zhaode, others will only say that she is crazy and rampant. While drinking, she thought about the young prince who promised her life with her back then.

What about her?She, Shen Shiqing, has been standing alone for seven years, what did she get in exchange?
Slowly kneading fingers together, as if holding a stone pestle in her hand, Shen Shiqing lowered her eyes,

Firearms... Gunpowder... This is what Emperor Zhaode wanted to do.

"A chicken."

"My lord."

"Tell me, I can see the recipes from the ancient books, will someone also see the method of refining gunpowder from the ancient books?"

A chicken trotted all the way beside the dragon chariot, and said with a smile: "There are so many capable people and strange people in the world. I thought to myself, maybe there really are such people."

Shen Shiqing rubbed her fingers, and continued to ask: "How can I find such a person?"

After finishing speaking, she laughed herself first.

She thought of His Majesty the Emperor who was in front of "Shen Shiqing" at the Zhuangzi outside the city at the moment. She had already discovered some unknown secrets of His Majesty. Did His Majesty find that what he had always wanted had already arrived in front of him?

"Ah!" On Zhuangzi, Zhao Surui, who was curled up into a shrimp on the bed because of menstrual pain, sneezed in a daze.

Opening his eyes, he smacked his lips regretfully.

Just now he seemed to dream that Shen Sanfei used his body to molested Sister Lin, but he was pushed to the ground by Sister Lin and beat him up. Before he could applaud, the dream was over.

　Shen Shiqing: I received 5000 taels, learned some secrets, had dinner at the same table with a beauty without revealing my identity, satisfied.

　　Siri Zhao: I'll kill you all when the Zhenyue affair is over!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)