Ten Dragons Take the Inheritance

Chapter 50 The Golden Wind and Yulu Meet
Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, it is a big day, both inside and outside the palace are busy with the reunion festival, everywhere is decorated with lanterns and festoons, it is very busy.But at this juncture, Jiuge Ge Wenxian suddenly asked for a poetry meeting, saying that he wanted to invite the talented women in Beijing to gather together.This is a good thing, the old man Kangxi was quite refreshing, with a swipe of his pen, he made room for the royal garden - Changchun Garden, for Wen Xiangege to toss about by himself.

Changchun Garden was originally the "Tsinghua Garden" built by Li Wei, the grandfather of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, it was greatly expanded and became a royal garden. The old man Kangxi often lived here when he was not in court.Changchun Garden is about 1000 meters long from north to south, 600 meters wide from east to west, and covers an area of ​​900 mu. There are landscape buildings such as front lake, back lake, Yihai hall, Qingya Pavilion, Tingshuiyin, and Huaju Pavilion in the garden, with pleasant scenery.

Today, the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting organized by Gege Wenxian is at Jifengxuan by the Qianhu Lake.Hundreds of pots of autumn chrysanthemums of various colors were scattered along the lake, and dozens of pots were covered with various fruit spots. On the long table in Jifengxuan, there were pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Painting, reciting poems in the pavilion, or lingering in the beautiful scenery by the lake, there are mandarin and swallows everywhere, it can be said that people walking among flowers are better than chrysanthemums.

Confucian ethics are rampant in these years, and they emphasize the nonsense of incompatibility between men and women. Unmarried girls basically can only stay at home, and rarely go out once a year. This kind of argument is actually very popular, and there is a market among the people, and there is also a popular "three-inch golden lotus", but for Manchu women, these so-called etiquette have no market at all:

First of all, Banner women (including the Eight Banners of the Han Army) never bind their feet.Speaking of foot binding, there is another interesting fact: when the Qing Dynasty was established, some Manchu families followed the fashion and bound their daughters' feet like the Han people. It never occurred to Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty that he was very angry about this, and he issued an edict to strictly prohibit foot binding, not only Manchus were not allowed to bind their feet , nor allow other ethnic groups to bind their feet.This was originally a good thing, but it was unanimously opposed by all Han ministers, and the people also protested constantly.It is even more difficult to bind the feet without binding the feet, which is even more difficult than the implementation of "keep the hair but not the head, and keep the head but not the hair". "The ban is only a formality. The foot binding trend among the people has never stopped. This can be regarded as the victory of the "foot binding cloth". (Historical facts, from Qing History Draft.)
Secondly, most of the bannerman women in the Kangxi Dynasty practiced literature and martial arts, and all of them were able to take care of the house, including horseback riding and archery. Otherwise, it would be difficult to get married.As for the defense of men and women, hey, the Manchus didn't have this concept at all before entering the customs. Even the marriage was in a mess, and the shit was gone.When I first entered the customs, those who were jealous, incest, and cheating were commonplace, stirring up a miasma in the court. In anger, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty issued an edict to strictly prohibit such behaviors that were inconsistent with etiquette. People's officials cut off the heads of many people, and finally made these Manchus behave a little better, and began to pay attention to the different things between men and women.After the governance of the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties, it has achieved results at this moment, and there are some rules.

Compared with folks, Banner women are still more open, of course, they are also wilder, and they have more opportunities to go out on weekdays. They don't completely avoid men when they participate in a poetry meeting or something, but today It was in the royal garden, and the host was Wen Xiangege, whom Mr. Kangxi loved the most. Of course, those talented people could not enter this gate. Apart from some serving maids and eunuchs, there were only a group of young people beside the huge front lake. The woman was there, but she let go of her play and smiled like a flower for a while, speaking mandarin fluently, like spring in autumn.

Such a "beautiful scene" is cheap for a certain wretched man—Yin Zuo, dressed in eunuch clothes, standing in an inconspicuous corner, seemingly ready to be summoned at any time, but his eyes are very bright, and his mouth is constantly chattering. Say a few words in a low voice: "Well, this shoulder is too broad, um, that butt is too small, hey, why does this face have acne..."

Bu Xiao said that this so-called Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Fair was naturally Yinzuo's idea, and he took out a lot of good things, bought Jiuge Wenxian, and staged this drama of secretly looking at beauty.Taking advantage of the occasion when Yin Zuo went to pay his respects to Concubine De, he figured out that there were three candidates for his marriage this time—the daughter of Zhengbai Banner Niulu Ezhen Xingna in Manchuria, whose nickname is Lanyue. Son; Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner Niulu Ezhen Dunbai's granddaughter Fucha, whose nickname is Guiqi; Manzhou Xianghuang Banner Jiala Ezhenji's daughter Zhang Jiashi, whose nickname is Chalan.Without exception, these three families are all after meritorious service, but at this time they are all idle bannermen. Although their status is still there, they actually no longer have any power.

Hey, the old man is guarding against us, just because he is afraid that we will take advantage of the power of my husband's family. Tsk, the old man is really narrow-minded, guarding against his own son is like guarding against thieves, so I don't bother to care about him.You have to try on the size of the shoes when you buy them. When we marry a wife, we have to choose one by ourselves.Yin Zuo used [-] kinds of martial arts, and pestered Concubine De in a daze, begging Concubine De not to nod in a hurry, and to delay the matter of referring to the marriage for a few days, and wait until after the Mid-Autumn Festival.Ordinarily, the matter of referring to the marriage is all decided by the old man Kangxi. Taking the portrait to see the concubine De is just a formality. , and there is nowhere to point it out, what Yin Zuo asked for was to let Concubine De delay the handing over of the portrait for a few days.Although Concubine De was unwilling to play tricks on Mr. Kangxi's back, she couldn't stand Yinzuo's torment, and Concubine De had always loved Yinzuo. It happened that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, and Mr. Kangxi was also busy, so she agreed smoothly. There is a scene of Yinzuo peeping in Changchun Garden.

Not to mention, girls who can date Wen Xiangege are considered beauties. This garden is full of young girls around fifteen or sixteen years old. Once they are lively, they will naturally laugh and make trouble, which really makes Yin Zuo see Dazzled, almost drooling.Hey, I'm lustful, let's admit it, as long as I'm a normal man, I can't avoid this hobby.Well, is it easy for us?I didn't succeed in the practice before, I was holding back and didn't dare to be casual, now it's finally done, I was just about to throw off my shoulders and have a good time, but the old man gave us a finger-pointing thing, that's us, If it were someone else, he might become a "brother impotent".

Heh, the one in the light blue cheongsam who has been following Wen Xiangege's side looks like Chalan. She has a nice face and skin, but she's a bit small, um, not plump enough.The one who has been frolicking in the bushes looks like Gui Qi, with a good figure and a decent appearance, but unfortunately her skin is a little darker and not fresh enough.Eh, it's strange, why didn't I see Lan Yue'er, whom Wen Xian was praising so much, maybe she didn't come, it's impossible, this girl Wen Xian made a promise.look for it!Yinzuo strolled towards Jifengxuan...

(End of this chapter)