The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 532 The Lantern Festival
Soon it will be the new year, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Yongzheng, Yanhua asked people to hang many exquisite palace lanterns in the imperial garden, and planned to have a lively game of watching lanterns and guessing riddles.

Yinzhen has always been frugal, and during the Chinese New Year, she was only let all the officials congratulate her, and she was not allowed to be extravagant, even the fireworks were only set off for a short while.

So simple, she has nothing to say.She knew that before the death of the late emperor, the national treasury was always tight, and the money lost was not recovered in time. Those officials who lost a lot had a shocking amount of money, and even if they ransacked their homes, they could not recover all the money.

In the early years of Yongzheng, the war in the Western Frontier was tight and too much money was consumed, so Yanhua was very clear about Yinzhen's reason for frugality.

However, there is not much lively atmosphere during the Chinese New Year, and it is still possible to hang a few more palace lanterns on the Lantern Festival.The Ministry of Internal Affairs itself has a lot of old palace lanterns for spare, and it is enough to buy some new ones.Because they knew Concubine Xi's intentions, they also bought a lot of lanterns. Although they were not as luxurious as the palace lanterns, they were a bit more lively.

Qian Gui went to work in the imperial garden early in the morning, and the ladies wanted to enjoy the lanterns and guess the crossword puzzles, this was the first time since Yinzhen took the throne.Not only the palace people who arranged the imperial garden were very excited, but those who promised to live in the deep palace for a long time and had no chance to see the holy face were even more excited.

The Lantern Festival will not start until after dinner, but when Qian Gui supervised the palace staff to arrange the imperial garden, he had already seen wave after wave of people agreeing to go and observe.They have heard that the emperor himself said that whoever can guess the most lantern riddles will turn over their signboard to sleep tonight.

In fact, Yinzhen really never said that sentence, it was Yanhua who forced him to agree.She just wanted him to be intimate with other people, so that he could flourish.However, Yinzhen felt that Yanhua was the smartest in the harem, and she was the one who guessed the most answers, so she let go when she was soft-spoken.

As soon as Yan Hua finished her dinner, she went to the Imperial Garden to see how Qian Gui was getting ready.However, she went around the imperial garden and didn't see Qian Gui'er, but she saw Xiao Yu'er ordering everyone there.

"How about money? Why not here?"

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Su called him away, as if something happened. There will be chaos here if no one is watching, so I will take care of you for a while." Xiao Yu'er nodded and bowed.

"Well, how are you getting ready? It's getting dark, so hurry up, the most important thing is not to get out of the water."

"Go back to your mother, I'm almost ready." Xiao Yu'er nodded, remembering her requests one by one.

"Huh? This one is interesting." Yanhua saw two snowmen not far away, they looked like rabbits. The funniest thing was that the two rabbits were looking at each other's heads, and the tops of their heads were placed just right. A lantern is really interesting.

"Go back to your mother, this is made by Mr. Qian's servants." An eunuch next to the rabbit hurriedly knelt down and said.

"Well, he's put his heart into it, so hurry up and go." Yanhua smiled approvingly, glanced at the two lifelike rabbits, and then looked away.

In fact, after Yanhua arrived at the Royal Garden, she saw that there were already two or three people who agreed to look around from a distance.But they didn't go in for a stroll, but waited and watched for a while before leaving again.

Yan Hua shook her head lightly, thinking: If he was here, they would definitely come here in droves.

She looked at the neat and orderly busy figures in the imperial garden, felt relieved, and went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.At such a lively moment, if he forgets it in a hurry, it will be a disappointment, so she thinks it's better for her to hurry up.

She didn't see Qian Gui in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but she did see Su Peisheng, and thought that Qian Gui was sent to do something, so she didn't think much about it.

As the night fell, Yinzhen seemed to have forgotten the time, kept his head down, and wrote earnestly, without any thought of getting up to watch the lantern festival.

Yanhua curled her lips helplessly: "The concubine knew this would happen, did the emperor forget something?"

Yinzhen raised his head, looked at her with a frown, and pondered for a while before asking, "What's the matter?"

Looking at his appearance, Yanhua knew that he really forgot about it, so she stepped forward helplessly and pulled the pen from his hand: "Today there is a lantern festival in the imperial garden, how can the emperor forget it? My concubine two days ago I also reminded the emperor...Huh? This is..."

Only then did she realize that the pen drawn from her hand was not a cinnabar pen, and Yinzhen wasn't critiquing a notebook just now, but writing lantern riddles on a piece of paper!
She smiled helplessly, and then saw a lot of notes in a box in his hand: "Okay, your majesty, get ready to go to the imperial garden, where a hundred flowers bloom." It's time to be there, let's all dress up and show off.

"Aren't the flowers right here? I can see them every day." He smiled lightly, looking very handsome.

Yan Hua's face was reddish, and she pulled him up: "Your Majesty, don't be serious, they are all waiting, if you finish the reward early, you can come back to rest earlier."

"You've never been so anxious recently." He raised his brows, and stopped making her wait, and obediently went in and changed his clothes.

When the two of them arrived at the imperial garden, it was already full of purples and reds, and it was filled with neon-like colorful brilliance, setting off the snow in the bushes in a gorgeous and colorful way.

The promisers knelt down on the ground. In the chilly first month of spring, they were wearing less clothes than the other, and their thin bodies looked unusually slender.They are like spring flowers competing for beauty, all dressed in a charming and affectionate manner.A few of them had already blushed from the cold, and even their noses were as red as cherries, but it inadvertently added a cute and pitiful look to them.

Among them, only two of them were dressed plainly, and they were not as thin as the others promised.One is An Xu, and the other Yan Hua has no impression, but the dress is more frugal than An Xu's, but it can't hide her pure face and transparent eyes, which is extremely delicate.She is not the most outstanding looking, but she feels very comfortable.

Seeing Yanhua staring at Xu Xu, Shao Yao whispered to her: "Madam, that is Guo Xu, who has been in the palace for three years and rarely walks out."

"Yeah." Yanhua nodded slightly, remembering Guo's promise in her heart.If he is a quiet person, he is a good candidate to serve the bed.

"Get up. Su Peisheng, hang up the lantern riddles. Those who can guess the lantern riddles can just bring the note to me or Concubine Xi and give the answer. I will reward the person who guesses the most." Yinzhen gave Yanhua a lot of face. Seeing her working so hard to arrange such an event, I don't want to spoil the fun.

After he finished speaking, he took Yanhua to watch the lanterns, but there were always a few feet away who agreed to linger.

Qian Gui also put a lot of thought into it, except for the pair of snow rabbits that Yanhua saw, there are also birds, puppies, and kittens carved from snow and ice...

That night, the entire Forbidden City was brightly lit, except for one place—Chengqian Palace. The palace people who had to pass by here all walked past the walls and feet like the wind, because there were crying and crying people inside day and night. The sound of laughter came out.No one cares, and no one cares.It was like a cemetery there, gloomy and cold, lifeless.

This kind of unlucky thing or place is very taboo in the palace, so no one would take the palace road at the gate of Chengqian Palace, and those with plenty of time would rather take a detour.

It is also sad that Li Qinyu, who was once a glorious man, has ended up in such a field now.The most embarrassing thing is that so far no one has tried to enter Chengqian Palace to visit her, except for the two times when Yanhua wanted to go in to find out.

At such a lively moment, Yanhua would not have thought of Concubine Qi at first, if there was not a sudden commotion in the crowd, she would not be willing to distract herself from thinking about those unpleasant things.

It turned out that because the imperial garden was quite lively today, some palace people became restless and sneaked over to take a look, even if they couldn't see Longyan, they could just take a look at the lanterns.Among the two eunuchs looking at the Song family, one sneaked over to watch the excitement.As a result, the remaining eunuch was negligent, and Mrs. Song escaped.

Mrs. Song is already crazy now, she just giggles when she sees people, or points at them and swears foolishly.The eunuch was scared out of his wits, and wanted to chase it out but was afraid of losing the other Xiangtan inside.Just as he was hesitating, Mrs. Song had already followed the light and ran away.

He yelled inwardly that he was not good, so he had to lock the door and quickly chased him out.

The Song family usually couldn't eat enough to eat or keep warm, but when he went crazy, he had enough energy.The eunuch saw her running into the imperial garden all the way, and was so frightened that she lost most of her soul and six souls, and only chased after her desperately.

She ran very fast along the way, and there have been rumors of ghosts in the palace recently, so when a few young palace ladies and eunuchs saw her, they were so scared that they hid their heads in the wall and hid at the base of the wall, not daring to make a sound, let alone Help stop her.The Song family's son was born running around, the eunuchs watching the night saw someone running wildly, so they ordered someone to arrest him, since the emperor was in the imperial garden, they didn't dare to make any noise, so they had to chase after him quickly. Dare to make a big noise.As a result, the Song family ran madly to the most dazzling place - the imperial garden.

Fortunately, where the emperor was, the imperial guards were well protected, and the Song family was stopped just as soon as they set foot in the imperial garden.

But she still yelled crazily: "Lamp! Lamp! I want a lamp!" As she spoke, she smelled a sweet smell of pastry, and she wanted to squeeze it in, "Smell! It smells so good! I, I want it!" Eat! I want to eat!"

Seeing the commotion, Yanhua took the time to look at it. After all, she organized the lantern festival. If it doesn't go well, she will be hit in the face. Of course she doesn't want to make trouble.When she saw Mrs. Song with messy hair and stinky body, she hurriedly raised her hand to cover her nose: "Who is this? Why are you making such noise!"

After hearing her voice, Mrs. Song suddenly raised her head, stared at her face for a while, and suddenly pointed at her and cursed: "You... bitch! You... you steal a man! I'm calling you Shameless, steal a man!"

"Bastard!" Wei Changan came over at this time, and after hearing her cursing, he was naturally angry for Yanhua.

It was only after hearing her voice that Yanhua recognized her as Song Wan'er, and frowned in disgust.

Shaoyao sternly snapped: "Take her down quickly, how can she let her escape? Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs investigate who has neglected his duties! He will definitely be severely punished!"

She didn't take Song's crazy words to heart, but there were more than one or two people who agreed to these words around her. They all secretly glanced at Concubine Xi, and her heart kept shaking with Song's words: Concubine Xi actually steal man!

When they came to their senses, the crazy Song family had already been escorted away, and Concubine Xi, who looked normal, had also left.Only Lingxi stood in front of them with fierce eyes.

(End of this chapter)