The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 158
It rained all morning and the weather was cooler.

Wan Lai went to drink tea with Rong Yue early in the morning, the two of them hadn't chatted for a long time, then they heard some movement outside the hall, Lian Xin came to report that it was the emperor, and the two rushed to greet her.

When the emperor came in, he saw Wanyu was there, and his eyes and eyebrows were smiling like a crescent moon: "Coincidentally, I originally said that I would go to your palace after seeing Concubine Xian, but now that you are here, it saves a lot of money." Work hard."

The emperor stretched out his hands from left to right to help the two people who had bowed to greet them to stand up, and the three of them each entered the warm seat with a smile on their lips and sat down.

Lian Xin served the new tea on the table, and Wan Lai handed the tea cup to the emperor, seeing him slowly blowing the heat rising from the surface of the tea cup, she jokingly said: "The emperor will also say that he will come to the concubine's palace only after seeing his sister, Really biased."

Rong Yue frowned at her, nodded and said: "Sister, is she going to be jealous? Then the emperor will call you to bed three times in five days, sister, don't fall into that jar of jealousy."

The emperor smiled heartily, took a sip of the new tea, held the hands of the two of them and said, "You two are more affectionate than Jin Lan, and your temperament is also gentle and virtuous, I like them both."

As he spoke, he ordered Liang Jiugong to enter, and took a picture album and handed it to the two of them: "A few days ago, a folk painter entered the womb. Shenghui is best at anthropomorphic forms in his brushes, and he has the amazing ability to draw from dictation. , I ordered him to draw these pictures, the queen and concubine Yi had a look at them first, and then I wanted to show them for your enjoyment."

Rong Yue curiously took the picture album and opened it. At the top of the page was a queen wearing a bright yellow single cloak embroidered with peony flat gold circle longevity patterns, with a dignified and virtuous face, sitting with a smile on her face.

The painter painted ink and color carefully under the nose, and even the hair was painted vividly, and Wan Lai and Rong Yue couldn't help admiring it.

On the next page, Concubine Yi is standing alone among thousands of flowers, wearing her favorite crimson Nasha gold and silver lotus cloak on weekdays, with three gold-encrusted tourmaline peach bat hairpins on her head, a faint smile hanging from the corner of her mouth, and she is holding her hair in her hands. Sniffing a peony with two pedicles on the tip of the nose.

And on the next page, it depicts two people, Wan Lai and Rong Yue.

Under the setting sun, the two of them walked side by side on the long street with lotus steps. The two-colored clothes, one blue and one red, complemented each other quite well. The hanging three-clamp gold pendant with east beads and tassels trembled slightly as if it moved with the person's body.

Rong Yue covered her face with a fan and smiled coquettishly, showing a shy look.

Wannai's skin is better than snow and her demeanor is charming, but the person in the painting is more beautiful than herself.

"The description of the emperor and the painter is not true, how can the concubine be as beautiful as in the painting?" Wan Lai pursed her red lips in a coquettish manner, then pointed to Rong Yue in the painting and said: "It is my sister who was born beautiful , the picture is as lovely as the outside.”

The emperor smiled faintly: "I don't like to add oil and vinegar to the painter like you said. What you two look like in your heart is what you look like in the painting. Static things, even if they jump on the paper, can't be compared with the two of you." Comparing looks."

Rong Yue's cheeks turned red from what the emperor said, she turned backwards, but she couldn't see the painting anymore, so she closed the album and asked, "Why don't you see the concubine next to me?"

The emperor replied: "I have to spend a long time with the artist for these fine works before I can produce a pair. If everyone has them, don't tire me out. Besides, this is my friendship for you after all. If other people want to paint, isn’t it enough that there are people in the building office at their disposal?”

The three of them were gossiping when they heard a thin and sharp eunuch's voice from outside the room: "Your Majesty, Mrs. An is seeking to see you outside."

Wan Lai and Rong Yue looked at each other, and wondered: "Mr. An seldom comes out for a walk, why did you come to my sister's place today?"

Rong Yue smiled and shook her head, but she didn't know, the emperor ordered the eunuch to invite him in.

When An Xihua came, she was wearing a long blue embroidered gown with no pattern, holding a brocade box in her hand, and she walked in with a smile on her face.

Seeing that the emperor was chatting happily with the two, he greeted Ann with a smile, and said: "I don't think the emperor is here today."

The emperor stretched out his hand to signal her to stand up: "There's no need to be formal, it's hot outside, you don't like to walk around, why are you here today?"

Xi Wei smiled timidly: "I used to be bored in that dead end and refused to come out because I lost my child. Now I have figured it out, and because I hated Concubine Wan before, I blamed the child's death on her. I did a lot of stupid things." She said, put the brocade box on the table, took out a pair of gold ring inlaid pearl earrings from inside, and shook it to the sun outside the window.

The earrings are [-]% gold, made of chiseled gold and threaded silk, each inlaid with two large east beads, strung up and down, and the bottom is chiseled with a small plum-shaped button.

Although it is not considered as expensive jewelry, but seeing that Mrs. An is usually dressed so plainly, this pair of earrings is probably the best thing she can get.

The emperor recognized it at a glance, pondered for a moment and sighed: "This was given to you by the empress dowager when you were first pregnant, and you have always been reluctant to wear it."

Xi Yu nodded her head, seeming a bit sad: "It's been three years." She shook her head and smiled, and quickly pressed the thing into Wan Yu's hand: "In the past, there were many mistakes made by concubines, and they were embarrassing both openly and secretly. I feel really guilty for having missed my concubine many times. Today I wanted to go to your palace to apologize to you, but unfortunately the palace people said that you came to the concubine Xian, so the concubine rushed here."

Wannai understood what she meant, and said with a faint smile: "Concubine Hui harbored evil intentions about what happened that day, and it's because your beloved son was so eager to figure it out for a while." She put the earrings back into the brocade box, Pushing to Mrs. An: "But this thing is too expensive, and keeping it is also a tribute to the child in your womb. How can I accept this thing from my sister?"

Xi Yan shook her head with some shame: "Your Majesty is like this, so she doesn't want to forgive me. When I came here, my concubine saw the injury on Miss Yunchan's hand, and now it is mostly healed, but the scar is still on it. Concubine I thought to myself, if I really made a wrong decision that day and hurt my mother, it would be a great crime, and I will not be able to settle down in my heart in this life." She said, her eyes were red, and she was about to cry.

Wannai couldn't bear to see her like this, even though she didn't get on well with her on weekdays, she almost killed her when she lived in Yanxi Palace.

But in the end, she was also blinded by Concubine Hui, thinking that she was the culprit who caused her miscarriage.

Now that she apologized so sincerely, if she refused to accept it, the emperor would think that she was not generous.

She thought about it for a while, and then she accepted the earrings. When she was about to comfort Xi Wei, Rong Yue stopped her, and said to Xi Wei in a deep voice: "The matter of Concubine Hui has passed for a long time now, why did Mrs. An suddenly wake up now?" ?”

Xiyi was stunned by Rong Yue's question, she hesitated for a moment, before she could not believe it: "It turned out that I was confused and only cared about my own sorrow, so I failed the two empresses." She said, raising her teary eyes to look at the emperor: " He also failed the emperor."

(End of this chapter)