Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 2302 Seven Volumes 2 White Moon ([-] words completed)
From the second day of the first lunar month, the emperor fasted for three days by praying to God.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the emperor went to the southern suburb of the fasting palace and stayed overnight.On the next day, the fifth day of the first lunar month, pray to God.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the emperor sent officials to enjoy the Taimiao and worship the god of Taisui; the emperor himself led his officials to the Chonghua Palace for a tin banquet.

The front and back palaces, the monarch and his ministers are all in harmony.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the envoys of the "Haohan Kingdom" met with Qianqing Palace and presented the head of Xiaohe Zhuohuo Jizhan to the emperor.

So far, the battle of the Pinghui Ministry has come to an end.
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On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Dingsi Day, a prisoner offering ceremony is held.

The emperor personally climbed the Meridian Gate tower, and the princes and officials attended the service class.

The emperor ascended the city tower, and on the Meridian Gate Square, there were singing, singing, and golden drums.

The officials of the Ministry of War knelt down and asked for the order with the captured chieftain Mendosopi and others.

The emperor ordered the prisoners to be handed over to the Ministry of Punishment.The officials of the Ministry of punishment knelt down to receive the decree and escorted the prisoners out of the right gate of Tianan.The princes and officials lined up the celebration ceremony.Seeking life hanging Huo Ji accounted for the first level in the thoroughfare.

At this ceremony of offering captives, the emperor reiterated that the chaos in Huibu was the fault of brothers big and small and Zhuo, and had nothing to do with the rest of Burke and the people of Huibu.Therefore, the imperial court asked about the crimes, only about the crimes of the big and small Hezhuo brothers; now they have won the heads of the big and small Hezhuo brothers, and the rest of the rebel chieftains were all plundered by the big and small Hezhuo brothers. It is not their own wish to betray the court.

Therefore, the emperor announced on the Meridian Gate Tower that he would pardon Mendosopi and others who were kneeling underground.
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On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the emperor left the Forbidden City and went to the Old Summer Palace in honor of the Empress Dowager and led the harem.

Every year around the Lantern Festival, there are lively banquets and fire dramas in the Yuanmingyuan.The Empress Dowager lived in the "Changchun Immortal Hall" instead of going back to Changchun Garden.

On this winding road, the most talked about by the concubines in the harem was the prisoner offering ceremony that had just ended.

Wanxi, Yuqin, and Concubine Ying rode in the same carriage, so the topic naturally couldn't get around this.

"I heard that besides the officials of the imperial court, many princes and princes from the Hui Ministry came to Beijing to escort the rebel chief to Beijing." Concubine Ying blinked at Chao Wanxi, "I don't know if there is something that makes my sister miss her heart. The legendary woman Reyimu?"

Wanxi shook her head regretfully, "Yu Rui has already asked her Ama for me. The letter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not include Reyimu."

"In November and December last year, the emperor once issued an order, saying that Aksu's management affairs were busy, and the court only believed in E Dui Burke and asked E Dui Burke to stay in Aksu, so he had to separate from his family. The emperor also I can't bear it, this is the rule that E Tuozhun and Prince Chenggun Zhabu are stationed in Uliasutai, and E Duo and his family are also allowed to take office."

According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, officials are not allowed to bring their family members with them when they take up their posts in other places.Unless, the court is special.

"Mrs. Reimu is going to accompany E Duiboke in charge of affairs in Aksu, so she can't come to Beijing to see her."

Concubine Ying sighed after hearing this, "Oh, I didn't see you again. After hearing what elder sister Ling said, I really want to see her."

Yuqin pursed her lips and smiled, "I don't really care about Mrs. Reyimu, I just think it's interesting that Wanxi mentioned Prince Cheng Gunzabu in Wanxi's words—the emperor is really special to Prince Chenggunzabu. En Lianlian, even the family members are allowed to take the post together, so that the family will not be separated from the flesh and blood."

Wanxi lowered her head, "...I just feel sorry for little Lawang. His parents are both in Uliasutai, but he is alone in the palace. I don't even know how to love him enough."

Yuqin laughed, "Look at you, I feel sorry for my little son-in-law again! It's just like the folk saying, 'Mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she likes her son-in-law,' huh?"

Several people also laughed.
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When we arrived at Yuanmingyuan, the garden became lively from the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor gave a banquet to the Mongolian king Belle Erfu Taiji and the envoys of Kokand, Badakshan, Qilike, Boror, and Bruut at the "high mountains and long rivers".

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the "Tongyuan" stage located in the northeast of Houhu Lake has opened.

In Tongyuan, there is the largest stage in the entire Old Summer Palace - the three-story "Qingyin Pavilion".There is a ground well under the first floor of the stage, and the second and third floors are connected by partitions. If the play requires water, the ground well can be sprayed, and the second and third floors can be connected freely.Therefore, no matter what kind of drama is about magic soldiers descending from the sky, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, or even the ghosts of the underworld, it can be performed realistically on this big stage, making people feel like they are there.

Next to Xitai is the "theater building" for the royal family to watch operas, and the plaque of Tongyuan is hung on this theater building.When watching a play, the emperor sat in the hall on the first floor, while the empress dowager, empress, and concubines sat upstairs to watch the play.

There are fourteen two-story corner auxiliary buildings on both sides of the theater building, which are the places where the emperor bestows clan relatives and princes and ministers to watch the theater.

This year is the Qing Dynasty for the whole country, and the emperor bestowed the imperial clan, Mongolian vassals, and Kokand envoys to watch a play together in the same paradise; even Princess Gege, clan Fujin, etc. who usually live outside the palace also came to watch the play in the garden .

For a while, it was really a family of monarch and ministers, and the world was happy together.

On this day, there was an extra person upstairs where the harem concubine was sitting.
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Ordinarily, there are so many female relatives upstairs today, it is not easy to take a special look at any one of them, but there are so many women today, it is impossible to see.

——Because she is a returning woman.

Huibu women are born with a very different appearance from Manchus and Han people; moreover, she is also wearing Huibu attire.

She was wearing a white robe with a hood half covering her face.Looking from the outside, the whole body is just a very plain white robe, without any decorations.

This kind of sobriety, in today's occasion where everyone is wearing heavy make-up and wearing dazzling decorations, it is so plain that people can't help but look at it.

However, because of her extreme innocence, she was surrounded by a lot of makeup and powder, as clear as the bright moon in the night sky.

What's more, even though the whole body is extremely plain, but such a face is exquisite and three-dimensional, without any makeup or makeup, you can still get the feeling of "beautiful color".

Even Wanxi, ever since this woman came upstairs, she couldn't help but fix her eyes tightly, and couldn't let go of her eyes no matter what.

"Who is this?" Yu Rui couldn't help asking in a low voice, "Could it be the family member of a Huibu prince who has entered the pilgrimage?"

Wanxi smiled and said, "I've been imagining Mrs. Reimu's appearance. I think it should be similar to the woman in front of me, right?"

"She is a woman from the Hezhuo family." Concubine Yu came over and bowed to Wanxi, "This lineage of the Hezhuo family belongs to the 'Baishan School', so only women from the Hezhuo family are worthy of being completely white. Need any other color, jewelry, makeup decoration."

Because her mother's family was once ruled by the Junggar tribe and had lived in the Western Regions for a long time, Concubine Yu knew the local customs of the Hui tribe very well.

Wanxi was also taken aback for a moment, "And the woman from the Zhuo family?"

Concubine Yu glanced at Wanxi and nodded, "He Zhuo's family is a 'holy descendant', so He Zhuo's family has an outstanding status in Huibu. Even a woman is as honorable as a princess in Huibu."

Wanxi regretted a little, "If so, this woman must not be Mrs. Reyimu."

She turned her head and asked Yurui, "Did you hear your ama mention which members of the Hezhuo family came to Beijing to see you?"

Yurui hurriedly said: "The Hezhuo who came to Beijing are 'Erke and Zhuo' Eseyin, Erseyin's younger brother Parsa; 'E Tuolanzhu and Zhuo' Mamut, and Turdu and Zhuo ... They are a family, Erseyin and Parsa are uncles, and Mamut and Tuer are nephews."

"This lineage is Hezhuo, and the emperor has ordered him to live in Beijing. Among them, Eseryin has been appointed as the Duke of Fuguo, Mamut is the first-class Taiji, Turdu is the first-class Taiji, and Parsa is the third-class prince. Wait for Taiji."

The emperor awarded the high-ranking officials of this family, and Ming Wanxi was also a little surprised.

Wanxi nodded slightly, "No wonder. With the status of the Hezhuo family in Huibu, there is such a reward from the emperor. This girl from the Hezhuo family has a noble status."

As he spoke, it was already in front of him.

Fujin, an official under the House of Internal Affairs who followed the woman from the Hezhuo family, hurriedly introduced to the woman in a low voice.

The woman looked up at Wanxi.

Her eyeballs are like amber buried in the desert for thousands of years; her eyelashes are as long as the wings of a butterfly.

And her eyebrows, so thin, so long, with a rich black color, the brows of the two eyebrows seem to be connected in one place.

These eyebrows and eyes are completely different from those in the Central Plains.Just like the misty eyebrows popular among the Han people, or the "Yuanshan eyebrows" of Zhuo Wenjun in the Han Dynasty, they are both elegant and delicate; the girl Hezhuo in front of her looks strong and powerful in color. It is commensurate with her pair of deep sunken eyes, which makes her facial features more picturesque and dazzling.

At this time, as the noble concubine Wanxi, she is only under the empress in the harem, so Miss He Zhuo should take the initiative to come forward to salute and pay her respects.But that girl Hezhuo didn't show the slightest bit of humility on her face, she just stood where she was and bowed slightly.

Fu Jin, an official under the House of Internal Affairs, was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly came forward to pay respects, and explained in a low voice in Manchu, "...this girl has just entered the palace from the Western Regions after all, and she doesn't know the etiquette in the palace. She is also a slave." The teaching is not good, after a few days of careful teaching, the girl still hasn't learned it."

Wanxi smiled, shook her head lightly, "It's okay."

Wanxi went straight to the girl, thinking about what language to use to speak.Thinking about coming here, Ms. Zhuo must not speak Manchu or Chinese.

This time Concubine Yu's experience of living in the Western Regions came in handy.Concubine Yu reminded softly behind Wanxi, "She must be able to speak Mongolian, so it's good to ask the imperial concubine to speak Mongolian with her."

Wanxi nodded first, but then her heart moved slightly, but she shook her head.

Wanxi insisted not to speak Mongolian in front of the girl, so she couldn't speak, so she just smiled and stretched out her hand to the girl.

That Fujin from the House of Internal Affairs hurried forward to introduce to Miss Hezhuo.Wanxi could understand, and the language used by Fujin's interpreter was also Mongolian.

In the Mongolian voice that Fujin spoke, Wanxi stared at Miss Hezhuo quietly.

Sure enough... In the corner of the girl's eyes, there was a very light, very light look of contempt.

Wanxi also stopped that Fujin, and just faced the girl with a smile.

A smile should be the kindness that can be understood in this world regardless of language or country.

Finally, Miss Na Hezhuo also responded with a faint smile.

Although there was no salute, and none of the courtiers showed reverence for the imperial concubine, they still responded with the same smile.

Wanxi didn't stay any longer, she nodded and walked away, walking towards her seat.

Yurui had already made some inquiries and came back, and reported in a low voice, "This girl Hezhuo is the niece of E Seyin, the Duke of Fuguo, and the younger sister of the first-class Jiturdu Hezhuo."

Wanxi nodded, turned her head to look at the stage, with a slight smile on her lips.

"Let's watch the play. The big show is about to start..."
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Empress Nala is the last one to serve the empress dowager.

Naturally, Nala also saw Miss Hezhuo.

All the concubines, princesses, and clan Fujin hurriedly stood up to salute the empress dowager and empress.That and Miss Zhuo also paid their respects together.

According to her status, she should have retreated to the last row.But maybe it was because he was unfamiliar with the rules of the palace, so he still stood where he was, refusing to retreat even a single step.

Those who can stand in this row are Wanxi, Yuqin and other concubines and above. Such a girl in plain white clothes standing together like this is really shocking.

Wanxi smiled and gave the girl a hand, and asked the girl to stand by her side, so as not to embarrass her.She first bowed slowly by herself, how to bend her knees, how to straighten her shoulders and waist while bending her knees, she explained in detail for the girl to demonstrate.

The girl agreed, although she was still a little hesitant, she still imitated Wanxi's appearance and gave a big gift to the two mistresses of the harem.

The Empress Dowager and Nala looked at each other, and the Empress Dowager also nodded, "Get up. Today is our monarch, ministers, and family having fun together. There is no need for so many rules, let's all sit down."
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Nala assisted the Empress Dowager to sit down, turned around and sat down in her own seat, and hurriedly summoned Fujin from the House of Internal Affairs to come over for questioning.

"...What does that girl mean?"

Fujin from the Ministry of Internal Affairs saluted and replied, "The servant just received an errand to buy Miss Rick's guidance. The servant doesn't know about the rest."

"Slave wants to come, today is the emperor's banquet for the clan and foreign vassals; Miss Mailik is an honorable girl of the Hezhuo family, so she was also invited to come. The regulations are the same as that of Fujin and Gege from all parts of Mongolia. of."

Nala squinted her eyes at Mai Rick, "Her name is Mai Rick?"

Na Fujin replied, "Exactly."

Nala glanced at Tana, "It looks like she's not too young, maybe 27 or [-] years old. I'm afraid it's the Fujin of some Huibu prince?"

Tana then asked the female officer, "Then why do you still call her 'Miss Mai Rick'?"

The female officer hurriedly replied, "Master, Miss Tana, the servant did not see her husband's name in the list, she just came with her mother's uncle and elder brother today. Therefore, the servant has to call her 'girl'."

The Yigui man in the Queen's Palace is also from Erut, and his understanding of Huibu is similar to that of Concubine Yu, so he got up and walked over to Nala's ear and introduced, "Mairik, in Huibu's language, Means 'princess'."

Nala couldn't help but sneered, "Hey, those who dare to take such a name, no wonder they saluted me and the empress dowager before, and refused to back down."

The Yigui people also whispered about the status of the Hezhuo family in Huijiang.

Nala raised his eyebrows, "They think they are some kind of 'sacred descendants', and this time the various tribes in Xinjiang are naturally their subjects and are under their control? The imperial court did not give them this right! Whose are they? Descendants, I don’t know the gods they believe in, so I don’t bother to care about them.”

The Nala family bought Rick again, "...here comes another person who believes in a different god! Since he is also from the Hezhuo family, and he is also from the same clan as Hezhuo, he is a sinner of the court!"

Yigui hurriedly explained, "Her uncle Erse Yin and Zhuo, and her older brothers Tuerdu and Zhuo, neither agreed with the rebellion of Xiaohe Zhuo, and their families even raised troops to assist the court and made meritorious service."

Nala snorted softly, "That's also the imperial army's oppression. Their family has no choice but to do it in order to protect themselves? I don't believe that they sincerely surrendered, otherwise you can see that she was unwilling to salute me just now." Energetic!"
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The emperor was busy until the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. He took the harem and officials to watch the fire show in the "high mountains and long rivers", and went to the middle of the night.

Wanxi was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open, the emperor raised her eyelids with two fingers, so she reluctantly looked at him.

Wanxi glanced at the emperor and smiled.

The emperor's face was slightly red, and he stepped forward to grab Wanxi's hand, "What are you laughing at?"

Wanxi quietly stretched out her finger and poked the emperor's belly.

"Slave is laughing. Master has decided on the Northwest this time, so he has a big heart and a fat body. After this year, he seems to be a little rich."

In the past, the emperor's face was long and his cheeks were shaved; now the emperor's cheeks have been enlarged a lot, and his face has become long.

The emperor snorted, "Is it ugly?"

Wanxi smiled and shook her head, raising her hand to support the emperor's face.

The former emperor had a long, thin face with a heroic appearance and sharp eyes like a knife; the current emperor's cheeks have become softer due to fat, which makes his eyes more forgiving.

Wanxi laughed, "I think, my master's appearance at this time is more like a king in a prosperous age. Especially this year is the year when the war in the Northwest was pacified, and it is also the year of my fiftieth birthday. You have such a lenient face. , it is more in line with the right time and place and the harmony of people."

The emperor snorted, stretched out his hand and pinched Wanxi's face.

Both of them knew it in their hearts, but they didn't say it - half of the reason why the emperor got fat was because he was 50 years old after all. People who are 50 years old will inevitably have to send some blessings.

The emperor withdrew his hand, and wrapped Wanxi into his arms, "...my lord hopes to see you get fatter. You have worked so hard these years, and you will never lose weight."

Wanxi deliberately got up and turned around in front of the emperor, "This looks like a slave with a light figure, so what's wrong?"

The emperor hurriedly grabbed him back, "It's good to have a light body, but I'm afraid that you will be blown away by a gust of wind~~"

Wanxi smiled, and leaned on the emperor's heart, "Look at what the Lord said, can the slave become a flying swallow? The slave can't do it, no matter how thin the slave is, there is a lump of lead hanging on the slave—— This lump of lead is the emperor and our children."

"With this lump of lead, the slave will not go anywhere. No matter what the wind is, the slave will not be blown away."

However, the emperor still held Wanxi so tightly and refused to let go.
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This night the emperor was careful with Wanxi, worried about her body after losing her child.

Wanxi herself didn't know whether it was because she was too sleepy, or because the emperor treated her so gently, she felt that her body was extra soft and stretched tonight.Even if the emperor plays with any shape, he can do whatever he wants.

The emperor became more and more aroused, and his exaltation could not be calmed down. He nibbled at her earballs and murmured hoarsely over and over again, "...you swallowed up my father. How could you swallow my whole father when you are so young?" down?"

Wanxi was sleepy, and couldn't help laughing, she just made her body turn into catkins following the wind, swinging her waist, leading the boat straight into the lotus flower, deeper, deeper...

After lingering for several times, the night is already getting deeper.It's just because today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the folks have also opened the night ban, so the sound of firecrackers can still be heard from nowhere in the sky above the capital.

The distance was far, and the sound was not loud, just "da" sounded again and again, resounding in the distant night sky.With this sound, it seems that the night is more peaceful and warm.

Wanxi was so tired that she couldn't open her eyes, she couldn't even twist her waist, but she couldn't bear it and fell asleep. She leaned against the emperor's arms and raised her hand to stroke the beard on the emperor's chin.

There was a soft click on the windowpane.

Only then did Wanxi forcefully open her eyes, "...Master, I'm afraid Wei Zhu and the others have something to do. Master, let's go and have a look."

The emperor stood up impatiently, opened the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?"

There was a rustle outside the window, but no one answered directly; after a while, Yuchan came in with a lamp and whispered outside the door of the Nuan Pavilion, "It is inconvenient for Director Wei to answer outside the window, so I appointed a servant to come in and play... Going back to the emperor, Manager Wei said, tonight is the fifteenth day, and someone from the queen's master asked several times to see if the emperor has returned to Jiuzhou Qingyan, and said that the queen's master personally made the sober soup..."
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Wanxi woke up halfway from her drowsiness.

"My servant forgot, tonight is the fifteenth day... the master is supposed to visit the master tonight. The concubine has broken the rules."

The emperor snorted softly, "Where did the problem come from! These years, the rules of the first and fifteenth day of the junior high school have not been discussed anymore, why did she suddenly bring it up again this year?"

In front of Wanxi was the night of the Kunning Palace family banquet again, when their hands collided, Nala's face showed disgust.

Wanxi chuckled, "Perhaps this year, the mistress misses the grace of the Lord very much, right? After all, this year is the 50th birthday of the master, so the mistress cares about the time alone with the master."

The emperor snorted, "Let's just say that after watching the fire drama tonight, I drank too much with the clan and foreign vassals. I have already fallen asleep and can't wake up. The queen's sober soup asked Jiuzhou Qingyan to take it first and put it away." That's it."

Yuchan then went out to spread the word again, and came back later.

"Back to the emperor, Director Wei has supported the people in the queen's womb in this way before... But the queen's master said that because he knew that the emperor was happy tonight and drank a lot of wine, he was not at ease. He had to see the emperor with his own eyes. , personally serve the emperor to drink the hangover soup, so that you can feel at ease."
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Wanxi couldn't help laughing, turned her face away, and gently pushed the emperor.

"Let's go, sir. It's hard to be the queen's master. It's so cold and it's midnight, and I'm still waiting for the emperor without sleep."

The emperor frowned, "Tell her to wait! If you can't wait anymore, it's not that there is no nearby enclosure in Jiuzhou Qingyan, just tell her to go and settle it!"

(End of this chapter)