The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 401 Kunqu Opera ([-])

It was late at night, and the courtyard palace was extremely quiet.

The sky is dark and thick, like a painting scroll painted with ink, spreading out, covering the clouds and avoiding the moon.

The emperor was angry across his face, but towards Rong Yue, he restrained himself after all.

In his eyes, Rong Yue was probably the most gentle and docile person in the harem, and now that he did something like this, he always felt that there might be something hidden, which was not Rong Yue's original intention.

The emperor looked carefully at Rong Yue who was lined with pajamas lined with padded brocade with flower and bird patterns, his complexion was cloudy, and after a while he sighed softly: "Imperial Concubine, it's getting late at night, let's call the Nanfu stage to disperse. "

The emperor didn't ask her to get up, Rong Yue was full of embarrassment, she knelt down and didn't dare to move, she just responded in a soft voice: "Your Majesty, my concubine can't sleep at night, so I called the singer to sing two songs, I don't want to forget Sister De Concubine has now moved to the Yonghe Palace next to the concubine, disturbing the rest of De Concubine's sister is really a sin."

The emperor walked slowly to her side, and stretched out his hand to help her up: "I know your temperament, but it was an unintentional mistake if you think about it. It's just that Concubine De is pregnant now, and there are many things that you still need to worry about."

"That's natural, that's natural." Rong Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but from the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Lin Lan looking at her coldly and smiling secretly, and only then did she realize that she had fallen for her trick.

Before she could regain her composure, she heard the emperor say again in a concentrated voice: "The servant girl who stopped at the door just now"

Lian Xin hurriedly walked up to the emperor, knelt down and blessed with a flattering face: "Slave Lian Xin, kowtow to the emperor!"

"Speaking disrespectfully, contradicting the concubine, serving the concubine, is even more of a master's posture than the concubine, so rebellious, it is really presumptuous." The emperor raised his hand, summoned the inner eunuch who was waiting outside the palace, and said in a solemn voice : "Drag it on, you will be punished fifty times with a stick, and you will be fined to serve in Xinzhe's treasury!"

The inner eunuch wanted to arrest someone after receiving the order, Lian Xin was so frightened that she was sweating, kowtowed her head like pounding garlic and said in horror: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! This servant is confused! This servant is confused!"

Seeing that he was about to be dragged away by the inner jailer, Rong Yue hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Your Majesty, Lian Xin is a servant who has been serving my concubines for a long time. Although she is a bit arrogant on weekdays, she is always considerate in serving my concubines. If you move her away After joining the Department of Punishment, there is no one who is willing to serve by your side for a while, and many things are inconvenient."

The emperor thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Since I want to serve the concubine, I have to change my disposition of being arrogant and domineering, so I will punish you eighty times and move it back to Chengqian Palace to recuperate."

Rong Yue thanked Jun En when she heard the words, while Lian Xin was dragged into the Punishment Division by the inner prison attendant, shouting for forgiveness, Liang Jiugong thought she was noisy, so he winked at the inner prison and quickly covered her tongue with a rag .

Early the next morning, when Liugong greeted Chengqian Palace, they all heard what happened last night, Rong Yue felt that she couldn't keep up, so she sent everyone there early.

When Lai Punishment Division took Lian Xin back to the palace, he saw the man's face was pale and his butt was covered with blood, he couldn't help frowning and said: "You are so stupid, you deserve to be beaten to death!"

Lian Xin felt wronged and said, "Your Majesty, how do you know that the Emperor will meet you."

"I'm afraid the person you found in the respect room will be useless. The emperor clearly turned over the sign of Concubine Wan last night, how could someone else give you the name of Noble Luo?" Rong Yue snorted, and said with a flick of his sleeve: "It must be the lowly servant girl and concubine Wan conspiring against the palace together. She is pregnant, how could the emperor stay in her palace? Do you think you are Feiyan Hede?"

"Your Majesty, this is clearly Concubine Wan's plan to plot against you with the Emperor in order to vent her anger for Xiao Lang."

Seeing that Lian couldn't stand still with heartache, and could not help but howl in mourning, Rong Yue frowned slightly and ordered several palace servants with her to help her back to Chengqian Palace.

On the other side, Wannao, who came out of Chengqian Palace to ask for peace, was forcibly dragged into Yonghe Palace by Lin Lan. As soon as the two of them entered the palace, they saw Lin Lan smiling from ear to ear: "Sister, I didn't see you yesterday. Concubine Li's face is almost turning green."

Wan Lai smiled lightly, raised the silk and said, "Sit still, and be careful of your body."

"Happy, really happy! Eighty-eight boards. Hahahaha." Lin Lan laughed so hard, covering her lips and teeth, "Lian Xin has suffered such a punishment, and I'm afraid she won't be able to hang around in front of us for a few days. Thanks to the noble concubine Backing up, she yells and yells all day long, and I get annoyed just looking at her."

Wan Yu didn't say a word, just casually took a cup of freshly brewed jasmine tea and drank it, only when Lin Lan's laughter fell silent, she suddenly said suspiciously: "I can't figure it out, how docile people like imperial concubines and empresses in the past , how did it become like this now?"

Wan Yu slowly blew the hot air lingering on the teacup, and said indifferently: "How do you know that she has changed? Maybe people are always like that, but they used to pretend to be powerful in front of us."

"Sister." Linlan rested her chin on her hands and looked at Wanyu quietly: "I always feel that my sister is different from before."

"Oh?" Wan Lai raised her voice suspiciously, placed the teacup on the table, and said, "How is it different?"

Lin Lan shook her head: "I don't know, it's just that if it was the past, my sister would definitely go to comfort the imperial concubine, unlike now, she would go straight to the point and ask her to learn to be good. And that day when I became popular , It's obviously not a serious matter, but my sister kept it from the emperor, made the matter so serious, and somehow begged for a concubine for my sister."

Wannai tied the slightly drooping black hair behind her ears, and said with a smile: "In the past, I didn't ask for anything, and I didn't care about anything. I always thought that I would be at ease when I let go. Now that I think about it, the emperor and concubine in the Forbidden City are both The ancestors set the rules, there is a distinction between status and power, so they naturally regarded us as female officials in the harem. Officials of the former dynasty can still be promoted for meritorious service, but we are favored by the emperor, but we don’t want anything, we don’t want anything, that’s For what?"

She looked at Lin Lan with clear eyes, shook her head and sneered: "It's like an official who doesn't think about making progress, but only feels down-to-earth. So, what kind of good official is this?"

"Sister, I always feel that when you smile now, you don't look as good-looking as before." Lin Lan said slowly with a slightly sad face: "If you have something on your mind, you can tell your sister, don't always be bored by yourself."

Wanyu shook her head and said, "Nothing." Then she placed her hand lightly on Lin Lan's lower abdomen, raised her eyebrows with a smile, "If there is, I just hope that this child will be born sooner, I can make half his forehead mother."

Lin Lan also smiled: "Where is the half, my child is my sister's child." As she said that, she put her hand on Wanyu's and said in a fixed voice: "Sister, the dangers that happen several times are all the same. You help me, in this palace, I only trust you."

Wan Yu kept the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and remained silent.

In the past, Rong Yue also told her about this.

It's just that things are different now.

(End of this chapter)