Empress Huaishu of the Harem

Chapter 4 Snow Soul
I knew she already understood, so I had to persuade: "Sister, I have pity on the parents of the world. My sister is getting thinner day by day, but I don't know that the Queen Mother is also having trouble sleeping and eating. To tell you the truth, what the Queen Mother sent is not only these, but also a batch of high-quality blood." Yan."

"Did my sister forget who grounded me here?"

"The queen mother has always had an iron fist, and she just wanted to kill my sister's arrogance, so that you can come out obediently, but mother and daughter are united, it doesn't hurt to see you like this, but now, she is the honor of the queen mother after all, and she can't hold her back." The face is coming. I have to let me go this way."

The spring breeze caressed the bamboo outside the hall, and the only sound left was the rustling of bamboo leaves. Seeing that my sister had no intention of answering, I was thinking about finding a conversation topic so as not to be embarrassed.But without any warning, there was a sound of rings colliding, as clear as a girl's laughter.Lingxi and I looked at each other, we were both a little surprised, and were about to tell someone to go out to have a look, when another voice came: "Sister Lingxi, I'm here."

The person who came was a girl of twelve or thirteen years old. She was extremely tall, fair-skinned, with flat buns on her head. On the left and right she inserted a white jade hairpin inlaid with coral beads, which matched the elegant and elegant cloisonné earrings perfectly.The pink-purple hundred-flower zigzag skirt is paired with a gold-threaded begonia cloak of the same color.It seems that she is dignified and dare not look at her directly, and she is too bright and beautiful.

Lingxi was delighted to see her younger sister, and said with a slight smile, "Qianyu, why are you here?"

Xue Po's nickname is Qian Yu, she pursed her lips when she heard the words, she seemed to be aggrieved, and said: "It's my birthday soon, my sister won't visit me, so I have to come and see my sister." I'm afraid of Xue Po Tong Yan Wuji, touched her sister's sadness while talking, and quickly joked: "Look, from entering the house to now I just think I'm not there, then I won't go to your birthday next time, lest you just bully me." Good for you."

Xue Po hurriedly said: "Where did the sixth sister go? I just came here in a hurry because I knew you were here. Otherwise, when will the sisters get together?" Yes, let's laugh and make a fuss and go away, she will only be more deserted, I should come today, you come tomorrow, and call the third brother the day after tomorrow. Let my sister not be too lively or too deserted, right? "

Xue Po's young face was tender, seeing that he couldn't refute me, he paused with his left foot, and said slightly annoyed: "My mother also said that Sixth Sister is cautious and gentle. Tell me to learn more from you, so it can be seen that I have never seen you so eloquent. .”

I couldn't help being shocked when I heard it, it was just an ordinary joke between sisters, if Xue Po, a little girl, accidentally revealed her words to the queen mother, making her think that I am different from others, what if I cause future troubles?Although she may not be such a narrow-minded person, since the death of my father, my fate can be said to be controlled by her, and I can't make a mistake in one step.

Lingxi pretended to be angry and said: "You are a young girl, are you only allowed to love you and protect you, and you are not allowed to make jokes?" Then she pointed to the brocade box held in the beaded hand of her maid, and said: " What is that, but don’t eat anything, your sister Huai Shu just brought a bunch, and I really can’t stand it anymore.”

Xue Po slapped his head as if remembering it, hurriedly took the brocade box, opened it and said: "Lian Biao from the Ministry of Internal Affairs is really careful, it's not that the draft is about to happen, he has not enough clothes, jewelry and utensils, Baba prepared flower sticks, saying it was for the future ladies and lords to pass the time, I thought it was interesting, so I took some to play with."

Now even Lingxi couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing: "I don't know what a novel thing, women of all dynasties love to play with this thing, it's just a lottery and it's not true, no one can control it. "

Xue Po was even more proud when he heard the words, and said: "You don't know, this time they are all made in the same batch, and even the autographs are all sung by the famous "Huaxi guest" in the capital."

Lingxi and I were startled at the same time, and said, "What did you say?"

This Huaxi guest is the top upright official of Aifenglou, a famous fireworks venue in the capital.Scholars in the Great Zhou Dynasty loved elegance and never shied away from courting prostitutes, but it would be boring if prostitutes were blindly gaudy and without sentimentality.Therefore, a kind of Qing Dynasty ladies who started to perform shows and dances but did not receive guests gradually emerged. These women were generally well-educated, not to mention playing lyrics and singing songs, even reciting poems and prose.In recent years, a woman from Sichuan has come to the capital. It is said that she has the shameful face of the moon and the talent of Yan Rui and Xue Tao.In short, it is a mess of being sought after, and many princes and grandchildren flock to it.These are all gossips from Princess Qi when she entered the palace.As for her nickname, it seems to be derived from the saying "Falling red follows flowing water, tears are Huaxi".

Although women in Beijing can secretly imitate Huaxi guest's dress, but we, as imperial concubines, are role models for all women in the world.Every word and deed must not have the slightest connection with the prostitute.Otherwise, wouldn't it be a big joke.So I hurriedly said: "Sister, you didn't say anything today, so hurry up and return these, it's Xiao Lianzi's audacity, it has nothing to do with you."

Xue Po didn't care, and said: "Sixth sister, don't worry, since I dared to bring it here to invite you to play, it was naturally approved by my mother, sister Lingxi, my mother really cares about you!" In order for you to come out and commit a crime No matter how many taboos are taboo.

This girl has always spared no effort to bridge the gap between her mother and sister, but it's just that her abrupt words make it difficult for people to speak up.So I had no choice but to say: "The queen mother really agrees, you play these things that are circulated in the fireworks scene?"

Xue Po was dissatisfied and said, "Does Sixth Sister doubt me? I happened to be there when Lian Biao went to answer the call today. I heard that he ordered the bureau to make flower lotuses for future concubines to play with. The queen mother was very emotional and said: Reminds of the time when she played with Empress Dowager Zhaohui and Concubine Chunmin. I was curious and took a look at it. Unexpectedly, Hehe also came to pay her respects. She is a troublemaker. I kindly introduced her to her. As far as the face is concerned, this is played by an unclean woman. Isn't this a slap in the face of me and my mother?"

Lingxi frowned and said: "Nonsense, she is our sister, how can you resist like this."

Xue Po said aggrievedly: "You still treat her as a sister. I was young at the time. Could it be that how the Hu family framed the queen mother and almost incited the emperor father to abolish the queen mother? Didn't the sister personally experience it?"

Lingxi said: "The deceased is dead, Sister Hehe is the father's own flesh and blood after all, she is innocent."

"But she just hates her. She is always eccentric. Princess Zhenyi is her adoptive mother, so she loves and pities her so much. You can see how filial she is. Even the princess said that being friendly to her is not as good as sister Huaishu. She is so courteous and filial." Xue Po paused, and said: "That day, the queen mother was also angry, and asked her, 'Since it is an obscene song at the fireworks site, how do you, as an imperial concubine, know?', she actually said It was the third brother who said it, and even insinuated that the third brother behaved badly. The queen mother was in a hurry, saying that she was not filial as a child, did not work as a female worker, and only went to inquire about right and wrong. It's been half a month since Wu Liang Dian thought about it."

After hearing this, I didn't take it seriously. In the past, the Hu family was favored by his father, and he was so domineering and domineering.She was dissatisfied that Concubine Zhen refused to bow to her, and Concubine Zhen, who had always walked with Concubine Zhen and was favored by her father, was reprimanded and punished to kneel in Yanxi Palace.Even with the empress dowager and several concubines taking care of us in those years, life for our mother and daughter was quite difficult.Until the Hu family failed to curse the queen mother, she was deposed by her father as a talented person and died suddenly.He He was also adopted by Concubine Zhenmu, but Concubine Zhenmu hadn't angered her because of her biological mother, on the contrary, she was restless, just like what Xue Po said 'yin and yang'.Over time, even a good-tempered person like Concubine Zhen was so angry that she no longer cared about her moving out of the Sanshou Palace.

Xue Po's petty temper comes and goes quickly, seeing that Lingxi and I didn't refute, she also stopped the attack, and instead brought up the boxwood bottle, saying: "Don't talk about these things, if you say you don't smoke, don't smoke. Let's take a look at these flower lottery, can't we have anything more? In fact, I know that what we girls want most is reputation, but as the sixth sister said, lottery lottery has existed since ancient times, but it is only recently in those Chu The Guanqin building was booming, and the literati and poets saw the unique signature of the Huaxi guest, so they called "Huaxi lottery", but it was just a pout. It's not as unbearable as He He said."

　In ancient times, daughters all played flower sticks and used flowers as metaphors. This is just a gimmick

　　In addition, in the original work of Zhen Huan, there is no time limit for ladies and concubines to put on makeup, so I also used cloisonne and other crafts invented in the Ming Dynasty.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)