Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 2582 Nine Volumes 64 Calmly Arranging

"My son, where did you come from, and how did you get covered in snow?"

The Empress Dowager hurriedly summoned Yong Yan to come over, patted the sable's end cap for him with her own hands, reached out and touched his cheek, "The face is also frozen hard."

Yong Yan said with a smile, "Grandson went to pick ice with them! In fact, the inside of the body is hot, only this layer of skin is blown cold, don't worry, Huang Mamu."

There is an ice cellar in the palace, which is stocked with ice. In summer, the refrigerators and ice buckets in the palace are used to relieve the heat.

These ices have to be fetched from Tongzi River every winter.

When mining ice, the ice in the Tongzi River needs to be divided into large ice blocks, and then transported back to the ice cellar and stacked one by one.

In addition to climbing ice and lying on snow, this job is also a labor job, and it is one of the hardest jobs.When the empress dowager heard that Yongyan went to pick ice with her, she was still in a hurry.

"Oh, what are you doing with that? It's the twelfth lunar month, and your jaw is freezing in Laqi Laba, let alone on the Tongzi River!"

Yongyan smiled, but helped the Empress Dowager to get up, and walked to the window.

The severe cold of the twelfth lunar month froze the windowpanes, and a thick layer of ice formed on the glass.

Yongyan put his hands on the ice and melted the ice—but he couldn't even melt a thick layer of ice, he could only melt the small dimples on his fingers, at least The frost surface can be turned into a transparent ice surface, so that the empress dowager can see the outside from the inside.

This feeling looks like poking a hole in the window paper, so that one can secretly see a world that has never been seen before.

As the empress dowager, how many years have you been unable to do such a thing of peeking through the window paper?But the empress dowager was once young, poor, and naughty, so she did such things when she was a child.

After Yongyan finished, he helped the Empress Dowager to come over to see.

The Empress Dowager closed one eye curiously, and looked out of the small hole with the other...

It was already late when Yong Yan came, and the sky in the twelfth lunar month was very early, besides, it was snowing today, and the sky was full of dark clouds, so it should have been dark outside.

It's just that it's not yet time to light the lamp, so it should still be dark outside.

But the Empress Dowager looked out, only to see sparkling ice lanterns lit up in her yard!
This ice lantern is to hollow out the middle of a big ice cube and light a candle inside.

The ice cubes can block the wind outside and protect the lights from going out; and the ice cubes are transparent, so they become the best lampshades without damaging the light of the lights.

"Oh, did you make this?" The Empress Dowager also looked at Yong Yan happily, "You silly boy, in the twelfth lunar month, you braved the white snow to go up the Tongzi River to pick ice with them. I get this ice lamp?"

Yongyan smiled embarrassedly, "Grandson has seen them carve flowers on ice cubes, or carve ice cubes into various shapes... It's a pity that grandson is clumsy and hasn't learned this yet. So My grandson thought, even the simplest one would have to be the ice that my grandson hewed from the Tongzi River with his own hands, to be filial."

The empress dowager smiled, and stretched out her arms to hug Yongyan, "You silly boy... what is simplicity? I already like it very much if you have such a heart. Why bother to take the cold, if you catch a cold, you can't take it anymore." How nice!"

In the blink of an eye, Yong Yan is already 13 years old, and has grown into an adult.But the relationship between him and the empress dowager's grandparents has not weakened.

Everyone in the imperial concubine knows the restrictions imposed by the empress dowager on the imperial concubine; Yongyan was born of the empress dowager, and now he is an adult, so it is impossible for him not to know.

But Yong Yan never created any estrangement with the Empress Dowager because of this.How he was intimate with the empress dowager when he was a child, and it is still the same when he grows up.

Whenever he learned a new skill, or found something delicious or interesting, he was the first to offer it to the empress dowager.

This made the empress dowager also unable to harden her heart.She can stop Wanxi, so that Wanxi's status cannot go any further; but she can't resist the family affection brought by Yongyan, a sensible grandson.

Especially now that the emperor has reached this age, even if she still has the ability to choose another lady from a famous Manchurian family to be the empress for the emperor, but she can no longer guarantee whether the little empress can give birth to a prince for the emperor...

Therefore, the empress dowager's affection for Yongyan and Xiaoshiqi's grandparents and grandchildren is still sincere, and the empress dowager's love for these two grandchildren is not affected by the estrangement between her and Wanxi.

The Empress Dowager patted her grandson on the back and sighed with satisfaction, "Your Empress Mama said that you have grown up. Then next year it's time to pick a Fujin for you! Good boy, it's been many years since Empress Dowager Mama took care of her grandson herself. The show girls are selected; but next year, Huang Mamu insists on going out in person to pick a Fujin for you, my son!"

Yong Yan laughed, "Grandson is not in a hurry... Grandson still wants to be mischievous at the knee of the Queen Mother for a few more years."

"Besides, how did the Queen Mother forget that next year is not the year for the introduction of the Eight Banners Show Girls. Let's wait until the year after next, so that the grandson can be at ease for another year."

The empress dowager was already determined, "...In short, the empress mother will definitely pick out a distinguished princess for you, and make up for your mother's regret!"
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Just in this December, news of the success of the battle in Xiaojinchuan gradually came.

Agui, who was convicted in the first battle to pacify Burma, took the lead this time and repeatedly attacked cities and villages, and was rewarded by the emperor with a black fox crown.

The emperor also bestowed the frontline coach Wen Fu as Dingbian General and Agui as Dingbian Right Deputy General.

Because both of them were on the front line in Sichuan, the emperor had to send someone to Xiaojinchuan for these two general seals.

The emperor finally made up his mind and chose Fukang'an as the sender of the seal.

Fukang'an was ordered to rush to Xiaojinchuan this time, the emperor simply stayed Fukang'an to work in Xiaojinchuan, and awarded Fukang'an the title of Minister of the Team Leader.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and when the taste of the year is getting stronger, Fukang'an still wears a cape and snow and leaves Beijing with his seal.

Wanxi expected it, but when this day finally came, there was still too much reluctance in her heart.

——I thought I would go when the weather was good, but I didn’t expect that it was the time of Chinese New Year in the cold winter months, but I had to gallop to Sichuan, so far away.

Wanxi opened her warehouse, specially selected a piece of the best leopard skin, matched it with a lynx cat, and made an end cover for Fukan'an.

Tell him to wear this big hairy clothes and go all the way out of Beijing to resist the wind and cold.

Xiao Qi also came to the palace when she heard about it, and accompanied Er Niang, and personally fitted the end shield with a moon white satin lining.

Wanxi's own needlework skills are not good, but Xiaoqi learned needlework from her concubine Wanxi since she was a child, and she is better than Wanxi.

This lynx mantle with leopard skin and moon-white satin lining was originally a first-class guard's regulation, so Wanxi's preparation naturally did not exceed the regulation.But Xiao Qi can still see that this end cover has more leopard skin and less lynx mantle skin. The fine-tuning of this ratio has raised the level of the end cover.

From this, Xiao Qi also understood E Nie's intentions better.

Therefore, when she sewed the moon white satin lining with her own hands, the stitches were finer and tighter, and she put extra effort into it.

Finally, the Buddhist mantra was embroidered on the lining to pray for a safe journey.
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In the first month of the 38th year of Qianlong, Fukang arrived in Xiaojinchuan with two general seals.Just when Ah Gui was attacking Danggarla Mountain, Fukang'an accepted Ah Gui's invitation and stayed to assist Ah Gui to lead the battle.

In February, the emperor ordered the compilation of "Siku Quanshu".

Both civil and military events in the previous dynasty were carried out in an orderly manner.

In the royal family, apart from the Chinese New Year in the first lunar month, something happened in Yongxuan's residence, which was particularly eye-catching.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Yongxuan's eldest son, brother Mianzhi, gave birth to happy flowers; on the 23rd of the first lunar month, Yongxuan's eldest daughter gave birth to happy flowers again...

The Chinese New Year in the first month is not the time to vaccinate.Therefore, the acne that Yongxuan's son and daughter had during the first month was not vaccinated.

Among them, brother Mianzhi's happy flowers this time are even more wrong-brother Mianzhi was born in March of the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign, and he was six years old by the time of the 38th year of Qianlong's reign.

The princes and grandchildren of the Qing Dynasty were mostly vaccinated between the ages of two and four, and they were officially named after the pox god was delivered; One of the situations in my life - the vaccination failed, so I got pox again.

After the Chinese New Year, the children were all playing together, and Mianzhi's acne passed to Yongxuan's eldest daughter, so the two brothers and sisters were struggling again.

Mian Zhi is from Cui Huan, and Wan Xi is naturally more concerned about it.

Originally, acne was the most serious threat to the heirs of the Qing Dynasty.Vaccination is a method that Lord Kangxi found with great difficulty. Human intervention can be used to ensure the health of the children and grandchildren... But manpower is limited after all, and it cannot always be sure to defeat the heavens.Therefore, vaccination is also ineffective.

Unexpectedly, this time it would fall on Yongxuan and Cuihuan's son.

After Yongxuan and Qingzao got married and had no children, Cui Huan finally married in and gave birth to Yongxuan's elder brother.This elder brother Mianzhi was originally written by Jingui, but he encountered such a thing.

Not to mention that Yong Xuan and Cui Huan were heartbroken, even Qing Zao cried for days and was unable to enter the inner court to celebrate the New Year with the Empress Dowager.

Although Wanxi's own children are grown up, Wanxi still can't help whispering to Yuqin, "I heard that vaccination has no effect...even though the queen of acne was sent away safely at that time, but then There will still be acne in a few years."

"But I only heard about it in the past, but I haven't seen it in the children around us. This time I saw Mianzhi's child like this, which made me feel a little uneasy."

Yuqin smiled, and patted Wanxi lightly, "What are you worried about? Our little fifteen is an adult and is going to marry a wife soon; even little seventeen is eight years old and has a strong body It's all right. We're past that worrying age."

Wanxi herself smiled embarrassedly, "Yeah, I was thinking too much."

Wanxi let go of her worries when she brought them up. Firstly, it was because her children had grown up, so she shouldn't have to worry about it anymore; secondly, there was a big event coming up in February.

The emperor has decreed that women will be selected on the fifth day of February.

In fact, this year is not the year when Eight Banners show girls are selected, even if the girls are selected this year, they are also selected by the girls under the inner three flags, who enter the palace as handmaidens.

But on the day the emperor finished his decree, he squeezed Wanxi's hand and said implicitly, "You have to pay extra attention to choosing a woman this time."

Wanxi couldn't help but startled in her heart.

The emperor issued a special decree in November to announce that Xiao Shiwu has come of age, so this year's selection of women is to choose people around him for Xiao Shiwu?
——Up to this moment, Wanxi only dared to think that she was helping Xiao Shiwu pick a "brother's maid", that is, someone who would become Xiao Shiwu's concubine in the future.

Wanxi herself never thought that the emperor's intention was to pick Fujin for Xiaoshiwu!
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On the fourth day of February, the emperor brought Wanxi back to the palace from Yuanmingyuan.

On the fifth day of February, the emperor held the mid-spring feast, so it is not surprising that the emperor returned to the palace.

It's just that outsiders don't know that the emperor and Wanxi saw this year's woman together after the Mid-Spring Sutra Feast.

——Originally, if it was only selected by the servant girl under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the emperor would no longer have to come and see it in person.

When the list of women to be selected was presented to Wanxi, Wanxi unfolded it, was surprised, and turned her eyes to look at the emperor.

In that row, there are not only women under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also Ge ​​Ge who have already raised the flag and the family has already set aside the flag from the coat.Some of them, judging by the official positions of their fathers and grandfathers, were already well-known ladies.

The emperor nodded with a smile and shook Wanxi's hand.

"Looking at women this way, I don't need to use them, and the queen's mother has a long lifespan, so I don't need to use them..."

A warm current surged in Wanxi's heart, and she already understood the emperor's mind.

If it is the year when the Eight Banners Show Girls are officially selected, how can the Empress Dowager not exert influence on the candidates for the [-]th Fujin?Only in this way can Wanxi choose as many as she wants when the year is not chosen by the Eight Banners Show Girls and the Empress Dowager doesn't care.

After repeated selection and viewing, Wanxi's eyes fell on the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the daughter of Dutonghe Er Jinger, Sita Lashi, whose nickname is Buerhe.

For the "secret selection" this time, the emperor also took great pains, playing a sloppy eye - the Sitara family was originally a coater under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the coater was allocated in the early years of the emperor's accession to the throne.

Therefore, the identity of the Sitara family, if the old people remember it, is indeed the identity of the coat, which is in line with the scope of women's selection this year; but their family has actually been raising the flag for 30 years, and it is no longer a coat. It is also in line with the status of being elected as the prince's concubine Fujin.

The reason why Wanxi took a fancy to this girl was not only her beautiful and dignified appearance, but also because the girl's family was from the Xi Tara family - the mother of the emperor Nurhachi, the great ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, was the Xi Tara family.

Wanxi understands too well that because of her status, the empress dowager and even the clan members are not without contempt.Then to choose Fujin for Xiao Shiwu, one must choose someone with a suitable status.

——It was the Sitara family who used to be the coat, but the birth mother of the Taizu Emperor Nurhaci was the Sitara family. Some people will despise the girls of the Sitara family because of this, thinking that the girls of this family are not worthy of betrothed to love Is the prince from the Xinjueluo family going?

After seeing it, the emperor smiled approvingly, and gently squeezed Wanxi's hand, "Good choice."

The emperor looked at Wanxi with a smile, and carefully hid his own thoughts—in fact, he wanted to pick Fujin for Xiao Shiwu this year in order to avoid the influence of the Empress Dowager; at the same time, why not think about Jiu'er?

In the emperor's heart, he himself was 16 years older than Jiu'er, so he must go before Jiu'er.

Then in the future, Jiu'er, as the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother, will first face Xiao Shiwu, the concubine Fujin, in the harem.

If this Fujin's family background is too high, such as Concubine Shu and Concubine Shun, it is inevitable that he will be raised in front of Jiu'er.Even if she is a daughter-in-law, maybe the master dares to disrespect Jiu'er in private behind his back.

Therefore, the emperor also deliberately chose a family background who had once been a coat for Xiao Shiwu.Although it is no longer coated, but after all, the ancestors used to be coated, so they dare not entrust him in front of Jiu'er.

Besides, the birth mother of Emperor Taizu Nurhachi was the Sitara family. With this identity, all the descendants of the Qing Dynasty, who would dare to go to the Sitara family?

This Gege of the Xitara family is extremely noble, but he can't be arrogant in front of Wanxi, so he is most in line with the emperor's expectations.

The emperor quietly ordered Boole to live in the palace and learn the rules in the palace.
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After choosing his daughter-in-law, in March, the emperor appointed the empress dowager and led the harem to visit Tianjin.

The accompanying concubines on this tour are: Imperial Concubine, Concubine Yu, Concubine Rong, Concubine Shun, Lin Guiren, Lan Guiren, Xin Changzai, Ming Changzai, and Ning Changzai.

At this time in previous years, the emperor had to visit the mausoleum in person after the Chinese New Year. This year, after paying homage to Lord Yongzheng’s Tai Mausoleum in person, the emperor officially sent his [-]th elder brother Yongyan to pay homage to Tai Mausoleum a few days later on the Ching Ming Festival. Mausoleum.

There is another incident that is more intriguing. Starting from this incident, all records of the name of the fifteen elder brothers were officially changed from "Yongyan" to "Yongyan".

——In November of the 37th year of Qianlong, the emperor rewarded Duanmiao and announced that when the [-]th elder brother came of age, the official record was still "Yongyan".Only four months later, the name of Brother Fifteen has been changed to "Yong Yan".

Although the "secret storage system" was established by Lord Yongzheng, the emperor naturally had to follow it, and he had to follow it.However, the emperor has made the word "secret" less secret in the past few months, such as the explicit decree and the change of the name and taboo secretly instructed.
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The Emperor Shengjia left Beijing, and the Old Summer Palace and the palace were quiet, which made people feel a little melancholy.

Among them, the one who was more melancholy was Concubine Dun.

Now the structure of the harem is obvious, among the young concubines, there are only two concubines, she and Shun.

But this time, the emperor ordered the empress dowager to visit Tianjin and took concubine Shun there, but he didn't take her there.

She looked at herself in the mirror, feeling annoyed, and couldn't help but recall the arrogance of Concubine Shun who came to her to "settle after autumn".

——After returning from Changchun Garden, she knew that it was impossible for Concubine Shun not to know the news, and she would never let her go.She was well prepared, prepared a lot of good things, and only waited for Concubine Shun Xingshi to question her, so that she could use it as a shield for herself.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Shun rushed into her bedroom and was so arrogant that she slapped her face with a mouth!

"What do you think of yourself! A man with a Chinese surname and a coat of arms, how dare you go to the emperor and the empress dowager to sow discord and chew my tongue!"

(End of this chapter)