Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 2303 Seven Volumes 3 Cold and Warm
Wanxi raised her eyes to look at the emperor, and also smiled slightly.

Turn around and tell Yuchan, "It's very cold at night, you ask the eunuchs outside to warm some rice wine in the small charcoal stove under the verandah."

Yuchan hurriedly agreed, and went outside to order.

It's quick to warm the wine with a small siaozi, and it will be ready in a short time. Yuchan brought in the rice wine in the small silver siaozi.

Wanxi smiled, "Don't use the silver ones, but white tin ones. The emperor likes hot wine in white tin wine vessels, it tastes sweet."

The emperor stared at Wanxi, the corners of his lips twitching slightly.

Wanxi met the emperor's eyes with a smile, "My lord has a big banquet tonight for clan relatives and foreign vassals, and watched a fire show at 'High Mountains and Long Rivers'. It's past time."

"It's almost dawn at this moment. It's late, and I haven't had a rest yet. Why don't you take a sip of rice wine to dissipate the cold and warm your stomach, and sleep peacefully for a while. Let's get on with politics."

Wanxi stretched out her hand and gently stroked the emperor's stomach, "Although I drank a lot of wine at the banquet tonight, the servants prepared rice wine instead of white wine for you. The rice wine has a low alcohol content and is warmed up. Drinking it won't hurt your body, it's just so that you can close your eyes for a while."

Shaoqing Yuchan also brought in the wine that had been scalded by Baixi Diaozi.

Wanxi took it in person, distributed the wine to the emperor, and turned around and asked, "You just ironed the ones with silver slings, don't waste them. The eunuchs outside are also cold; you also go in and out like this." I drank it a few times, and I got cold too. You can take this wine and taste it.”

"Although there are rules in the palace, you are not allowed to drink alcohol when you are on duty; it's just that tonight is the Lantern Festival, and the folk curfew is over, so it doesn't matter if you have a taste."

Yuchan hurriedly saluted with a smile and thanked her.

Wanxi pulled Yuchan over and whispered in her ear, "...an extra hot pot, send it to the people in the Queen's Palace."

Yuchan raised her eyes in surprise.

Wanxi blinked mischievously, and Yuchan smiled too, and left.

Wanxi turned her head, and took out her Yongshou Palace's exclusive candied crabapple fruit from the small drawer of her kang quilt, picked two of them, put them in the wine cup, and handed them to the emperor.

The hot rice wine, with two crabapple fruits in it, is sour and sweet, very delicious.

The emperor narrowed his eyes and stared at Wanxi, and suddenly came over with a smirk, leaned against Wanxi's ear, and said hoarsely, "...why do you need wine? If you are willing to ask me to take another sip from your bottom, I will naturally be drunk. Sleeps most soundly."

Wanxi took a deep breath, her cheeks were already red, but she still reached out and took the wine cup directly, and drank the wine with her head raised.

Her beautiful eyes were stained with wine, and she turned lightly, "... In this way, I will wait for a while, and when it flows down, I will be able to drink fine wine and nectar together."

The emperor's throat swelled, and he rushed over, covering Wanxi tightly.
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This night, the island of "Jiuzhou Qingyan" was extremely cold.

The back lake was already frozen, and the wind blowing from the back lake seemed to be wrapped in ice balls, and it hurt like cutting flesh when it hit the face.

Nala stood under the eaves of the corridor, looking to the east.

"Natural Picture" is to the east of "Jiuzhou Qingyan", and Tianguang's Ximing is also to the east.

Therefore, when Nalashi looked to the east, what he saw was not only the faint "natural picture" in the light of night, but also the sky that lit up bit by bit in the eastern sky.

After all, this night was a waste of time.

It was the first time that Tana came out to persuade Nalashi, and this time she even took out the hand stove that had re-fired charcoal, stuffed it into Nalashi's muff, and carefully touched Nalashi's hand, for fear that she would Rachel was cold.

Nalashi sneered, "It's so cold, what are you afraid of! I'm wearing big hairy clothes, I have a hand stove and a foot stove, and there are palace walls around me to protect me from the wind; I climbed the ice and lay in the snow outside the pass with the ancestors of the Manchus." In comparison, I don't know how much warmer it is!"

"I am Manchu Gege, and I don't have the word 'fear of cold' in my bones!"

Tana and Dege looked at each other, and could only persuade in a low voice, "It's almost dawn. Later, the empress dowager will get up, and the master has to go and wait on her... It's better to go inside for a while, anyway. Warm hands and feet."

Hearing the Empress Dowager, Nala could only frown, turned around abruptly, and finally returned to the enclosure.

As soon as I entered, I saw the warm wine pot on the table.

The utensils in each palace have the marks of each palace. When Nalashi saw the wine vessel, he became angry, "She is very thoughtful! Not only did she bring the wine, but also the wine warmer, and the charcoal base Bring it together. It's dawn, but her wine is still not cold!"

Tana couldn't help biting her lips, "The imperial concubine is too deceptive! Even if she doesn't say anything, none of us would know that the emperor went to her side? Fortunately, she even specially sent wine... This is not to be provocative. Show off, what is it?"

Nala sat down slowly, "Wine can warm the stomach, but people can chill the heart. She is... deliberately protesting to me! Revenge for me for disturbing her good business tonight!"

Tana and Dege looked at each other again, Dege hurriedly stepped forward to help Nalashi take off his cloak, went outside again, and asked the eunuch who was in charge of burning charcoal in the ground cage to heat up the fire in the ground cage, and called the floor and walls of the warm pavilion There could be more heating.

Tana said in a low voice, "...Actually, why does the master have to be angry with her tonight? Tonight, the emperor's big banquet, plus the fire show, is already too late. Even if the emperor comes back, the master will accompany you." There is only half a night left in the emperor's hour."

"Even if I give Ling Guifei half the night, what can I do? If the master can bear it, maybe the emperor will be able to come to accompany the master early on the night of the sixteenth... At that time, it will be a whole night. "

Narashi lowered his head, stared at Tana with cold eyes for a while, and then suddenly laughed.

"All night? Tana, is it possible?"

Nala's eyes were filled with pain from the coldness of the forest, "...how long has it been since Yongjing passed away that the emperor has not come to accompany me? All those nights added up to one What is the number, can you still count it?"

Tana lowered her eyes sadly, not daring to speak anymore.

Nala raised her head, her eyes hit the wall.There is the candlelight and the twilight in the charcoal basin, together tracing and outlining the shape of her figure.

How many nights, when she couldn't sleep, she looked at the shadow on the wall like this.

A shadow of herself alone.

The body can be warmed and wrapped in the queen's bright yellow robe and the crown of the Eastern Pearl; however, the shadow cannot.When a person becomes a shadow on the wall, no noble status, no gorgeous clothes can make that shadow look a little less bleak...

She looked at the lonely shadow on the wall and laughed.

"Of course I know that there is only half of the fifteenth night left. If I snatch it, how long can I be with the emperor? I can take a step back and wait for the emperor to feel guilty. I don't want the fifteenth night." It’s going to be sixteen...but! On the night of the fifteenth, it belongs to the empress of the main palace. Even if there is only half left, it still belongs to the main palace of the emperor! Why don’t I, why should I hand it over to others?! "

"Just like the position of the main palace can never be given away, I can not compete for the night of the fifteenth, but don't ever expect me to take the initiative to give it up!"

"I don't have that good temper, and this position in the palace won't allow me to bow my knees to a servant under Xin Zheku!"
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If the master is like this, how can he feel comfortable as a slave?Tana looked at Nala's sadly, and couldn't help but whispered, "...Master, this year is the emperor's 50 birthday."

Nala's narrow eyes widened fiercely.

"The emperor is 50 years old... what do you want to remind me?"

Tana trembled, and hurriedly fell to the ground, "The slave is talking too much. But the slave, all his heart is for the master."

But Nala smiled, and lowered his eyes to stare at the top of Tana's head, "You want to remind me that the emperor is 50 years old, and he is not so interested in women, is he? Then why did the emperor go to Ling Guifei?" there?"

"Or you want to remind me that the emperor is fifty, and I am over 40... But what if I am over 40, I am a little old, but who said that I can't go to bed? The rules in the palace, concubines I took off the green card at the age of 50 and stopped serving the bed; I am in my 40s, but I am not yet 50, why are you worrying about me?!"

The age of 50 is a threshold for women in the harem: after the age of 50, the emperor's concubines can no longer serve the bed, and the opportunity to serve the bed should be reserved for young concubines who can still make a contribution to the royal family; 50 years old is also reserved by the late emperor The age at which the imperial concubines could meet the emperor alone—that is to say, the age of 50 in the palace became a symbol of a woman's loss of reproductive function and fertility opportunities.

Nala was over forty at this time, although she was not yet fifty, but as she got closer and closer to the threshold, her heart became more and more frightened.

"...Do you think that I want to fight for favor because of myself? No, I am for Yongxi. Everything I do at this time is still for Yongxi!"

Nalashi lowered his head, mist welled up from the corners of his eyes.

"When I was young, my family always said 'more sons, more blessings'. This is for the prosperity of a family; for us, having one more brother or sister means we can rely on one more person in this world."

"Ama and Erniang will grow old one day. When their parents ascend to heaven and leave, only brothers and sisters will be left to help us in this world. But as for Yongxi, although he is the eldest son of the Qing Dynasty, after all, this He is the only one in the meeting."

"On the night of the family banquet in the Kunning Palace, I saw him leading the way and kneeling in front of the Empress Dowager. He is a legitimate son, and he knelt in the first row. No one dared to stand alongside him; but he is such a person, and he Behind, there is a dense mass of princes and grandchildren... Everyone is staring up at my Yongxie, everyone is eyeing his unique status as the son of the eldest son!"

As Nala said, he raised his hand and squeezed his heart tightly.

"I felt very worried, and I was inexplicably afraid that I had never had before... This kind of fear has never been seen before; but now that Yongxi is nine years old, and I have grown up, I am even more afraid."

"When he is over ten years old, when he needs to compete with his brothers for real, who will stand with him, and who can depend on him for life?"

Nala's fingertips trembled uncontrollably.

"It's the heir Yong Rong, he still has an elder brother and a younger sister! There is also the fourth elder brother Yong Xing, and under him are the eighth brother and the eleventh brother!"

"It's Yong Qi, although he is also his own son, but he is old, and now he has a wife and children...Only we Yong Qi, although we are the first sons, are alone."

Nalashi stood up and walked to the window, his gaze was filled with the darkness before dawn outside the window.

"I can't help but think back to Lord Kangxi's time when Nine Dragons seized the heir. At that time, Prince Yinfeng was not fighting alone! It seems that the first emperor supported him the most, but in the end it was not the first emperor who became the biggest winner. Those who benefit will get the world of the eldest son!"

"If Yinreng had a few more brothers in his own life at that time, and he would have more siblings and support when he fought with the brothers, wouldn't he have been harmed by those bastards like that..."

Tana was so startled that she hurriedly got up and hugged Nala's leg, "Master, that's the late emperor, the emperor and master, your emperor's father...Master must never say such things again."

Nala sighed, "I know, I was just making an analogy, and I didn't say that the late emperor's world was not clear or right."

Nala walked back and sat down slowly again.He stared quietly at the candlelight on the table for a while, and then turned to the warm wine pot that Wanxi called to send over.

"I just think, even for the sake of Yongzheng, I have to try to have another child with the emperor before the age of 50. It is best to be a prince. It is not to let that child fight for the throne again, but also to call that child." The child becomes Yongxin's helper and reliance."

Nala sighed, "Therefore, I know that what I did tonight is a bit stupid, but I will still do it. Time is running out for me. I am 43 years old this year, and I am not far from 50 years old." Far away. I have to strive to achieve this wish in the last few years left."
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At dawn the next day, Nala finished serving the Empress Dowager in the "Changchun Immortal Hall", and returned to "Tiandi Family Spring", all the concubines have come to pay their respects.

Nala smiled and glanced at Wanxi, "I eat Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so the imperial concubine's palace eats glutinous rice balls, right?"

Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls are the difference between the north and the south.

Wanxi's heart moved slightly, but she said with a smile, "Master, my wife, last night, the slaves and children were all with the emperor, and it was too late to make a fuss. So I didn't bother to eat Yuanxiao, let alone eat glutinous rice balls."

Nala laughed lightly, "Why is the noble concubine Ling so good, she gave me rice wine on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month? Only people in the south drink rice wine, I'm not used to it."

As Nala said, she asked Tana to bring the wine jug over, she took it and walked up to Wanxi, and stuffed it back into Wanxi's hand.

"It's better for a woman with a Han surname like the noble concubine to keep these southern things for herself."

Wanxi took it with a faint smile, "That's why I got it wrong. I thought that if the emperor likes it, the master and empress must like it. Last night, the emperor drank several glasses of this wine and praised it. Therefore, this concubine Only then did I send a pot to the master and empress to taste."

"This is 'winter brewing'. As the saying goes, 'Xiaoxue makes the right wine before and after, planting the wine into the wine and observing the smell. It takes a master to open the rake. One, two, three rakes are 99, and the two fermentations are three months before and after. The late blooming fragrance will last forever'...Xiaoxue It was brewed that day, and the altar was not opened until two months ago, so the master and empress don’t use it, what a pity.”

Wanxi said and handed the jug to Yuchan.

She turned around and smiled, and looked lightly at Nalashi, "This rice wine has a unique taste. If it is hot, it will taste soft and long; The wine that was sent was sent with a wine warming pot and a charcoal fire base, and it was warm wine that was intended to be imported by the master and empress."

"But seeing that the master doesn't like it so much, I can't help worrying—the master is probably drinking it coldly, right? Then the rice wine will turn into vinegar, so it's really inappropriate."

Nala raised her eyes suddenly, showing a cold expression.

Wanxi smiled and looked away, and only said to Yuchan, "But it doesn't matter. Wine is good wine, and it will always be good wine. Even if the master and empress return it, we can keep it for ourselves."

"Even if the scalded wine is cold, it won't go bad. Let's take it back and reheat it again. It's still delicious and heart-warming after drinking it."

Yuchan also smiled and bent her knees to continue.

Wanxi looked back and glanced at Nala, "Master, don't worry, this wine concubine will not be spoiled. Li Shizhen said that 'the wine brewed in the twelfth lunar month will not go bad after decades'. This wine, the concubine's body will be with the emperor. Let's drink it together for the master and empress."

Nala's eyes widened immediately, staring at Wanxi bitterly.

Wanxi raised her eyes with a smile, met Nala's gaze, and did not dodge at all; in Nala's gaze, she turned around with a smile, walked back to her seat, and sat down firmly.
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Yuqin finished watching this scene with a smile, and couldn't help smiling and whispering to Wanxi, "You're not used to her temper today~"

Wanxi breathed a sigh of relief, "Last night, she asked someone to come to my island to call her a few times, so why was she being polite to me? I should bear her, bear it; I should express my heart." , and have expressed it, but she still regards me as Xin Zheku's slave, I can bear it myself, and I can't bear it as a noble concubine, and I won't ask the children to bear it like this!"

On the night of the Kunning Palace family banquet, the three children arrived at the Kunning Palace with the Empress Dowager, and Yongzheng took the lead in kowtowing to the Empress Dowager; afterward, the princes and grandchildren saluted each other, and Xiao Luer also went to greet the Twelfth Brother salute.

Wanxi saw it with her own eyes. At that moment, Yongzhen stretched out her hand and pulled the little deer away.

Xiao Luer came back and asked her aggrievedly, "Why didn't Brother Twelfth ask me to salute him? Didn't he prepare a purse, no money for me to celebrate the New Year? That's okay, I just don't want his money."

Fortunately, there were so many people at that meeting, and others may not have seen this little behavior among the children.But Wanxi saw it and heard the child's wronged words, the pain flooded her heart, she couldn't bear it anymore.

No matter how Nalashi treated her that day, she herself can take it lightly; but if the child is wronged because of this, then I'm sorry, she will definitely return it as it is! ——She couldn't return that child to Yongxin, so she had no choice but to return it to Nalashi.
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Not long after the six palaces gathered together, word came from outside that the emperor would be here soon.

Nala's face brightened, he got up hurriedly, and led Liu Gong to the main entrance of "Heaven and Earth Family Spring".

In the distance, I saw the emperor's warm sedan chair followed by another small sedan chair.

The color of the sedan chair is a bit special, it is blue with a white top.Looking at it suddenly, it looks like the color of the felt tents used on the prairie when the emperor was besieging Mulan.

Especially on the top of the sedan chair, there is no phoenix or di bird decoration, but a crescent moon.

Wanxi also looked back, and glanced at Concubine Yu.

Concubine Yu came forward and whispered, "Just like us Mongolians, Hui tribes also favor blue and white. Look at the sedan chair top—the Hui tribe worships the stars and the moon."

Wanxi became more and more aware, and nodded to Concubine Yu with a smile.

Not long after, the two sedan chairs came before the eyes. After the emperor got off the sedan chair, he was not in a hurry to get in front of the crowd, but stood by the side of the sedan chair, waiting for the small sedan chair behind to settle down, and waited for the people in the sedan chair with a smile on his face. walk out.
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Wanxi waited quietly with a smile on her face, but Nala couldn't stand still, walked quickly to the emperor's side, and asked, "...is this the emperor?"

While talking, the person in the blue sedan chair has slowly walked out.

Her body is still plain, with a robe tightly covering her whole body, and a hood covering half of her face—but even if only a pair of eyes and eyebrows are exposed, it is enough to make people's eyes shine brightly.

It was the girl from Huibu and Zhuo's family - Mailik named "Princess".

Nala's throat tightened suddenly, and his heart was beating fast.It's just that as the main palace, she couldn't help but keep smiling at this moment.

"Your Majesty, why did this girl from He Zhuo's family come into the inner court? It is a family member who returned to Burke, who can go to the garden to watch a play, but it is not suitable to enter the inner court?"

The emperor shook his head lightly, "She is not a family member of any Burke."

The emperor didn't say much, and stepped forward to the palace gate first.

Wanxi bowed her knees to meet the emperor at the gate of the palace.

The emperor walked up to Wanxi, stretched out his hand to lift Wanxi up, and then said to Liu Gong behind, "Get up, everyone. Those who celebrate the New Year don't need to be formal."
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Walking into the main hall of "Heaven and Earth Family Spring", the emperor sat down and nodded to everyone with a smile, "I have decreed this morning that the Fuguo Gong Eseyin and the first-class Taiji Turdu will return to the Fanyuan Court." Jurisdiction; the rest of the musicians, craftsmen, etc. who came to Beijing with Er Seyin, Turdu, etc., jointly compiled a assistant leader, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After that, Hui people who came to Beijing one after another were all under this assistant leader. "

Nala's eyes narrowed, "If this is the case, the Hui people living in Beijing have already been brought under the command of the Eight Banners?"

The emperor nodded and smiled, "That's right, it's 'Hui Ren Zuo Ling'."

"Since it is under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners, according to the selection rules of the harem, the women who are in the leadership of Huiren can also participate in the selection."

The emperor pointed to Merik who was wrapped in a white robe and stood quietly on the ground.

"I have selected the sister of the first-class Taiji Turdu, the niece of Ese Yin, the Duke of Fuguo, and Mai Like, the daughter of the Zhuo family, to enter the palace."

The emperor spoke in a calm voice, but all the concubines stared wide-eyed in shock.

Nala Shiyou took a deep breath, tried to force a smile, and said to the emperor, "Returning to the people is to enter the Zuo Ling, and the women who return to the Zuo Ling can participate in the selection... But after all, this is not the year for women to choose ah."

"If the emperor chooses a woman to enter the palace without knowing why, it will be against the rules! Why don't the emperor wait for two more years, and then choose a suitable Hui Renzuo to lead the woman to serve in the palace in the next year's selection year."

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