The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 16
When the queen rushed to the Yanxi Palace in a sedan chair, she heard the emperor's hearty laughter when she entered the palace gate from a long distance.

The royal driver waited outside the house, seeing that the person who came was the empress, they knelt down and saluted. Liang Jiugong waved his whip and opened his mouth to pass it on to the inside. The empress gestured to him to stop him. The fetus who agreed, then bowed to support the queen's hand and opened the curtain to enter.

As soon as he entered the hall, Li Ying's shy voice came from the dormitory: "Your Majesty, touch your concubine's belly to see if the little elder brother is making a fuss inside?"

The queen frowned, and Qingyue glanced sideways at the direction of the dormitory, and said softly: "What a vixen, she looks peaceful on weekdays, but now she is pregnant, and she is even more pretentious than Ma Jiachang. The imperial doctor reported that the baby was only Two months, how can there be trouble in her belly?"

The queen gave Qingyue a cold look, Qingyue hurriedly stopped talking, and bowed slightly.

The two stepped into the dormitory, the queen's frowning brows eased as she entered, she smiled from a distance, and respectfully greeted the emperor: "My concubine greets the emperor."

The emperor raised his hand to signal the queen to get up. Li Ying, who was sitting on the bed, sat up straight in a panic, and wanted to go down to greet the queen, but the queen held her hand lightly and said: "The red tape is all Second, how can it compare to my sister's stomach now?"

"Empress, my concubine is afraid." Li promised timidly: "The concubine is pregnant, so I should have gone back to the empress first, but the doctor who came to see you today is Dr. Zhang, who has diagnosed the happy pulse and notified the empress, so that it will be convenient for the early court and later. When I asked the emperor for the morning pulse, I informed the emperor, and I still hope for the empress."

"What did my sister say? This is a happy event. The emperor knows that this palace is naturally happy." The queen looked kindly, raised her eyebrows happily and stroked Li Xu's belly: "The imperial doctor came to report that it has been two months, and this palace is with you every day. When you met each other, you didn't see anything wrong, it was really a mistake."

"Why is the empress blaming herself?" On the side, the emperor ordered someone to move a carved imperial chair to give the empress a seat: "You have never given birth, and Xiyi is barren, she is a fool herself, how can she blame others? "The emperor joked, and tapped Li Xu's forehead casually, Li Xu smiled shyly, his cheeks flushed instantly.

The queen's expression froze, she felt a little disappointed, and smiled again for a moment: "When the concubine came, she had already prepared the imperial dining room for life, and the blood swallow and donkey-hide gelatin were all kept tight for the best for my sister's palace. Pointing to Imperial Physician Liu, a master of gynecology, to take care of her, if there is anything missing in my sister's palace, just ask me to mention it."

Li promised to thank him one after another, the emperor also boasted and praised the empress for her virtuousness, and pointed to the direction of the main hall and asked: "When I came, I saw the maids and eunuchs in the main hall busy, but the empress pointed to the concubine Xian to live here?"

"Concubine Xian bestowed Chengqian Palace and moved to live with Ma Jia. As for the person living in the main hall, it is nobleman Wan."

Seeing that the emperor seemed to have doubts, the queen explained: "Although nobleman Wan is not the lord of the first palace, she is the sister of concubine Yi after all, and her background is prominent. I think she can live in the main hall."

The queen's words were an understatement of the words of a prominent background, but every word was poked at the apex of the emperor's heart.

His face darkened, and he asked in silence for a moment: "But Concubine Yi begged you to make such an arrangement?"

The queen smiled and said nothing, the emperor understood what she meant, so he waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I see that she is quite smart, and she is a compatriot with Concubine Yi, Concubine Yi seldom asks for anything, since you have allowed her , let nobleman Wan live here."

The emperor held Li Xu's hand again, and told her to be good at self-cultivation in gentle words, and then said that the previous court had to leave beforehand, and he did not forget to tell the queen that Ma Jiachang was born and raised, and there was nothing to let her Spend more time with Li and promise to talk, so as to teach her some experience in pregnancy.

The queen smiled and sent the emperor out of the palace with Li Xu.

The two went back to the dormitory. After the empress greeted Li Xu with a little greeting, she told the maid who took care of Li Ying to serve her carefully, and ordered Qingyue to pile up all the rewards she had brought in Li Ying's palace, and everything was properly arranged. , and then asked Li to promise to rest well, and found an excuse to say that he would go to visit the Empress Dowager, and left the palace.

Before stepping out of the gate of Yanxi Palace, the smile on the Queen's face disappeared.

Qingyue helped her into Jiaojiao, seeing that the queen was in a bad mood, she didn't dare to talk to her, and just followed Jiaojiao all the way.

Fengjiao walked out of the promenade outside Yanxi Palace, only to hear the queen in the sedan chair sigh and say: "After laughing for a while, my face is going to be sore."

"Your Majesty flattered her. She just promised that if she is pregnant, she will be taken care of by the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the rules. Why do you bother with everything?"

"When she is pregnant, the eyes of the emperor and the empress dowager are eagerly staring at Yanxi Palace. This palace must make some appearances so that others can't find fault."

The queen paused for a moment, then twirled the warm jade hollow bracelet on her wrist, and said in a slightly disappointed tone: "Looking at the emperor's appearance, he really likes children. Ma Jia is pregnant and gave birth to a child, and she loves her more than before. Seeing her now Li promised to be pregnant, and hurried over after the court, caring and considerate."

She lowered her eyebrows and glanced at her stomach, and lightly rested her right hand on it to stroke it: "I have used a lot of the birth control medicine sent by Imperial Physician Liu, but why hasn't there been any movement for so long."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the matter of begging for a son is all about the right time, place and people, and no matter how many children they have, the status of the prince will not be as noble as the eldest son you will give birth to in the future."

"Having said that, but I have no children for a day, and I feel uneasy. Tomorrow you ask your father to find some famous doctors outside the palace and ask them to prescribe prescriptions. I have to try it too. Although the imperial physicians in the palace Okay, but after all, I am a bit more conservative in doing things, saying that it is a miscarriage medicine, and the prescriptions are all warming and tonic medicinal materials, and I don’t want to be meritorious, but to be invincible.”

The queen's words fell for a long while, but Qingyue did not reply, but outside the phoenix sedan chair, Qingyue seemed to be whispering something to the maid beside her.

She opened the delicate curtain, and saw that the palace maid retreated after finishing her speech, while Qingyue frowned, the empress coughed twice at her, and then called her spirit back: "What are you muttering furtively?"

"Going back to Empress, the corpse of a court lady was found in the corner of the abandoned pavilion." Qingyue replied in a low voice.

The queen felt unlucky, covered her nose and blamed: "In the huge Forbidden City, there is nothing to make a fuss about when a court lady passes by."

"Back to the queen, the man was discovered by Concubine Yi and nobleman Wan. His body was half buried in the soil. Perhaps it was because of the heavy rain a few days ago that the body was washed out. I heard that nobleman Wan was terrified."

"After all, Concubine Yi has been immersed in the palace for a long time, and she has a more serious temper. She has an idea. I came to report to Wu for an examination, and said that she was beaten to death." Qingyue approached the sedan chair curtain, and whispered into the Queen's ear: " It was Fuer who died."

"Fu'er?" The queen's tone was slightly shocked, her eyebrows lowered and she thought for a moment: "I only saw her in the Japanese palace a few days ago, why was she beaten to death?"

This Fu'er was originally a court lady who served Ma Jia often, and her monthly salary was originally meager, but her mother's serious illness wiped out her years of savings.

Then in desperation, he made the wrong idea, and privately brought some silk handkerchiefs and jade silks to the eunuch and sent them out of the palace to sell.

This matter got to the queen's ears, and instead of punishing her, the queen rewarded her with a sum of money to relieve her urgent need.

After that, Fu'er became the queen's eyeliner by Ma Jia's side, and she told the queen truthfully about every move in Chengqian Palace.

Now that people are beaten to death and then dragged to a remote corner to be buried indiscriminately, it is natural to make people suspect that this matter has something to do with Ma Jiachang.

The sudden news of Qingyue was unknown, so the queen gave up when she couldn't find anything to ask, and changed the subject: "Just now you said that concubine Yi and nobleman Wan discovered the man?" She sneered, put down the sedan chair curtain, and sat upright : "The two of them refused to go to their bedroom. They had to go to that remote place. I don't know what shameful things they wanted to say."

(End of this chapter)