The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 8 Domineering
Guarjiashi covered the sweat falling from his forehead with a powder puff, looked at his own face in the bronze mirror, and smiled with satisfaction.

She looked into the imperial garden, and saw that the eunuchs guarding the door remained motionless, and she had no intention of choosing an order for them to have an audience, so she lazily complained: "This scorching hot weather is suffocating, I have to wait for the sisters to see you." Did you announce your confession with all the makeup on your face?"

She got up, kicked the plate fragments and grapes aside, and said displeasedly: "It's been an hour, and no eunuch and maid have gone in to pass it on?"

A group of beautiful girls next to him flattered Guerjia's words, and they were also full of complaints.

In the distance, a slightly older court lady walked out of the imperial garden, dressed in palace maid attire.

She took the broom, looked at the mess on the ground, and walked towards the Guerjia family.

Walking to the side, he saluted Guarjia, bowed and swept the broken tiles and fruits on the ground without saying a word.

The broom kicked up dust and splashed a little on the hem of Guerjia's clothes. Guerjia was furious, slammed the stone table to get up, and stepped on the maid's broom under his feet.

"Are you blind, you bastard? The water on my body was newly made for Face Saint, and it was stained by your hoof. What should I do?"

The palace maid was cowardly, put down the broomstick and took two steps back, bowed her body and apologized: "This servant is getting old, her eyes can't see clearly, it's really unintentional to stain the girl's clothes."

As she spoke, she leaned over and stretched out her hand to brush the dust off her body for Mrs. Guarja, but as soon as she touched the hem of her clothes, Mrs. Guarja pushed the maid aside with all her strength, and glanced at her with disgust and annoyance. , sarcastically said: "Go away, because you are worthy of serving me?"

The maid couldn't stop apologizing, Guerjia couldn't see how shabby she looked, so he waved her hand and told her to roll aside to serve.

The palace maid trembled and picked up the broom, and hid aside from a distance, gently sweeping the dust on the ground.

Mrs. Guarjia lifted up the hem of her clothes, saw the dust on it, frowned and looked around, and saw Wannai and Rongyue under the shade of the tree in the corner staring at her intently, so she pointed at Wanya and said loudly: "You What are you two looking at?"

Wannai and Rongyue ignored her, and started talking and laughing to themselves, but this action made Guarjia very angry.

She let out a strange 'ah', and wanted to find trouble between the two of them, but there were some smart girls around her who flattered her, so she hurriedly stopped her and persuaded her softly: "Sister, one of them is Ye Bilong. The second daughter, one is the niece of the Empress Dowager Cihe, her identities are all precious, so don't provoke them."

"Get up." Guerjia impatiently pushed away Xiunu's hand holding her arm, grunted and said with a sneer: "The Empress Dowager Cihe is just a concubine who was detested by the late emperor. At that time, she was terrified all day long, and even the present majesty was almost sent to be raised by the noble concubine Dong E, so cowardly, how could her niece be any better?"

Guarjia walked towards Wanyu and Rongyue, his mouth full of provocative words.

These three could be regarded as the most valuable of the group of show girls. The maids around saw them making a fuss, and they didn't say anything, but they all watched the jokes in their hearts, covered their mouths for fun, and whispered to each other.

Rong Yue has an aloof personality, when she heard that the Guerjia family insulted her aunt, she wanted to give her some seriousness, but Wan Yu was calmer and stopped Rong Yue who was about to blurt out the words.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Guerjia thought that he was afraid of himself, so he was even more proud.

Wanyu prevented Rong Yue from getting into trouble with her, but instead she joked about Wanyu: "In the final analysis, it's the general knowledge of Niu Hulu's family." She stopped a foot away from Wanyu, holding her palm She waved her palm downwards, and gestured at Wanyu like teasing a puppy: "My clothes are dirty, and the rough envoy's servants have never seen good materials. It's not good if they are clumsy and wrinkled. I don't know if my sister is willing to help." ?”

"You're presumptuous!" Rong Yue couldn't hold back the anger in her heart, glared at the Guerjia family, and said fiercely: "Ama Wannai's official position is higher than yours, but the daughter of General Zhengnan is so arrogant?"

"She, Ama, can serve my uncle well, why can't she serve me?"

"You..." Rong Yue wanted to argue with her, but Wanna pressed her hand, smiled and shook her head.

She said in her mouth that what Guerjia said was very true, under the watchful eyes of everyone, regardless of Rongyue's persuasion, she leaned over to clean up the hem of Guerjia's clothes.

At the side, Xiu Nu pointed at Wan Lai, and Guar Jia felt at ease, raised her eyebrows and looked at Rong Yue who was staring at her with a proud expression.

At this moment, Wanyu whispered to the Guerjia family: "My sister is beautiful, and with the support of Lord Oboi, she will definitely win the first place in one fell swoop. I think the emperor will give you the concubine position anyway."

"You can talk." Mrs. Guarjia caressed the hair on her temples, looked down at Wannai's careful and clean waiter, cleared her throat and said to her solemnly: "Look at you, if you are lucky enough to be selected together today, you will be chosen in the future." I will mention it more in front of the emperor, so that he can also be promoted to your position."

Wanyu was full of joy, looked up at Guerjia with a smile, and said gratefully: "If so, then thank you sister."

She got up and approached Mr. Guerjia, lowered her voice, and said: "My sister treats me so kindly, my sister has something to do, I don't know if I should talk about it or not."

"But it doesn't matter."

Wanyi raised her eyes, looked at the maid who had just had a dispute with the Guerjia family, and whispered in her ear: "The maid just now surprised my sister, she didn't kneel down, and she didn't use honorifics, because she was disrespectful to her. My sister indulged her kindly, but if she is elected to the palace in the future, the news of today will surely spread. Don’t you know about those eunuchs and maids? It's ugly, but you can even say such stupid things as you are soft and easy to deceive."

Wanyu observed the change in Guerjia's expression, and then said: "From what my sister sees, this person must not be indulged lightly. Right now most of the show girls are gathered here, why don't my sister punish her, so I can take advantage of this Opportunity to stand up in front of everyone?"

After Guerjia heard this, she winked at Wanyu and nodded her thanks: "Sister is really thoughtful, if you don't tell me something like this, sister will definitely not think about it."

Wan Lai smiled, bowed to salute Guarjia, turned around and returned to the shade of the tree.

"Why should my sister bow down to that shrew?"

Rong Yue saw that Wanyu was wronged and still smiled, feeling depressed in her heart, she said angrily: "All the beautiful girls are watching, sister like this, wouldn't it make the Guerjia clan even more arrogant?"

Wanyu shook her head with a coquettish smile, and took Rong Yue's hand: "Don't talk about that. Do you want a good position for sister?"

"When you and I enter the palace, we naturally want to get a good position. Serving the king will also bring glory to our mother's family. But the holy will is unpredictable, how can you and I get it if we want it?"

"My elder sister is dignified and gentle, and she was born beautiful. The emperor will be happy to see her." Wan Lai leaned closer and smiled softly, "Guarjia's family is about to go mad, if elder sister steps forward to stop her, there will be good fortune. "

Rong Yue frowned in confusion, completely unaware of what Wanyan was talking about.

Just when she was about to ask questions, the eunuch in charge came out from the imperial garden and said in a serious voice: "The emperor sent the beautiful women to meet. The beautiful women who read their names later, six of them entered the imperial garden one by one to have an audience. "

The eunuch in charge spread out the roster, first read the names of the six boudoirs, and led them inside.

After waiting for a whole morning, the draft finally started. This group of cardamom girls were somewhat nervous, and the sun was so hot that it made people feel even more flustered.

But at this time, Guarjia suddenly yelled, frightening everyone's souls.

"You, come here!"

Everyone was excited, looked around and saw that it was Mrs. Guarjia pointing at the old lady just now and yelling: "It's you, what are you talking about?"

The old maid did not dare to be negligent when she was summoned by Mrs. Guerjia, she just put the broom aside and leaned on it, walked in front of Mrs. Guerjia and bowed in small steps: "What's the matter, Miss?"

"You maid, why don't you kneel down when you see me, why don't you call me honorifics?"

After hearing this, the palace lady replied in a soft voice: "Returning to the girl, slaves and maidservants serve in the palace, and it is acceptable to kneel down to the emperor and empress dowager above, and to the ministers of the court below, but the girl is just a beautiful girl. Ceremony, but it is inconsistent with etiquette."

"Also, what the girl said is biased. Before the girl entered the palace, she taught the nanny what she should have taught. Only when the emperor left a sign and gave her a position, can she be called a decent young master. The girl has not yet Miansheng, it is already an honorific address for slaves to address you as a girl."

The old palace lady spoke clearly and logically, and the choking Guerjia blushed, faltering for a long time, seeing that she couldn't explain the reasoning, and the beautiful girls next to her were all staring at her, so she couldn't give in and let others see the joke.

So she raised her hand, slapped the old maid hard on the face, and said angrily: "You are just a lowly servant girl who has just entered the palace to serve, and you don't even know who I am, how dare you talk back to me?"

This move caused an uproar in all directions.

　Remark 1: Empress Dowager Cihe: Mother of Emperor Kangxi, Empress Xiao Kangzhang (1640-March 1663, 3), family of Tong Jia (original surname Tong, originally belonged to the Han Army of Zhenglan Banner, and carried the flag into Manchuria of Xianghuang Banner during Kangxi , changed her surname to Tong Jia), born in the fifth year of Chongde, the daughter of Tong Tulai, concubine of Emperor Shunzhi, and mother of Emperor Kangxi.The first queen of the Tong Jia family in the Qing Dynasty (chasing respect).

　　In the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), she entered the palace as a concubine, and in the 11th year of Shunzhi (1654), she gave birth to the third son of the emperor, Xuanye (Emperor Kangxi).In the first month of the 18th year of Shunzhi (1661), Emperor Shunzhi passed away. After Emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, he and Empress Xiaohuizhang were respected together.In the second year of Kangxi (1663), he died at the age of 23 and was buried in Xiaoling Mausoleum.Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong added posthumous titles repeatedly, and the full posthumous posthumous titles are: Xiao Kangci and Zhuang Yi Gong Hui Wen Mu Duan Jing Chongtian Yu Shengzhang Queen.

　　
　
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