Qing Palace - Biography of Concubine Wan

Chapter 14 Nobles (2)

The Temple of Compassion and Peace is permeated with the smell of sandalwood all year round. Sandalwood is also known as Buddha incense, which can calm the nerves and calm the soul.

Before Qingru came and bowed down, she was supported by a soft hand: "Forget it, don't be too polite, let the Aijia see you!" Xiaozhuang, who has always been known for his strictness, showed a rare kind side.

Qingru responded, raised her head timidly, and what caught her eyes was a kind and beautiful middle-aged woman. There was no trace of aging on her body, only maturity.

Xiaozhuang nodded after watching for a while, and waved the servants to retreat, leaving only Su Moer to wait by her side, she took Qingru's hand and sat down on the chair.

"You are much thinner than when you first came!" Xiao Zhuang sighed, caressing Qing Ru's thin cheeks, with a bit of pity in his eyes.

"Empress Dowager, have you seen me?" In the past, Qingru always heard people say how powerful and capable the Empress Dowager is, but now she finally saw it with her own eyes, and she never expected that she would be so kind to herself.

Xiaozhuang smiled and said: "Yes, when you first entered the palace, I saw you from afar. You at that time were much fatter than now, and you were not so haggard!"

Qing Ru lowered her head and stared sadly at the toe of her shoe. She had no reason not to be haggard...

Xiaozhuang is very clear about Qingru's feeling in her heart, the joy of the women in the palace is not tied to the emperor, she said softly: "Silly boy, the Ai family has seen all the suffering you have suffered, the reason why you are so late The reason why I didn't look for you is because the Ai family hoped that one day the emperor would realize the mistakes he made by himself, but unfortunately..." She shook her head in disappointment at this point: "It's a pity that the Ai family misjudged the emperor, he still doesn't understand the emperor's mistakes. The responsibility of the family, let alone the painstaking efforts of the Ai family!"

"Queen Mother, don't be sad, the emperor is wise, he will understand sooner or later, give him some time!" Will he really understand?Qingru didn't have any confidence at all, but she could only say this, comforting the Queen Mother and comforting herself.

"Stupid child, it would be great if the emperor was half as caring as you are!" Xiaozhuang patted Qingru's hand pitifully, she was right, she was a sensible child, and I believe she would be a qualified concubine.

Xiaozhuang took off the emerald bracelet from his hand and put it on Qingru's wrist: "This bracelet was the first thing that the emperor bestowed on Aijia when he first entered the palace. Now I will give it to you. If you want Keep it well!" The meaning of jade in the palace is far higher than that of gold and silver, Xiaozhuang gave Qingru the jade bracelet, which means that she recognized Qingru.

"This is so precious, Qing Ru can't accept it!" Hearing that this bracelet is so meaningful to the Queen Mother, how could Qing Ru dare to accept it, and was about to take it off, but her hand was firmly pressed: "Things are dead, people are dead!" Live, some things are enough to keep in mind, don't have to keep a thought!" Huang Taiji... She hasn't thought of him for a long time, only when she thinks of him, she will remember herself Still a woman, a woman who lost her husband very early.

She looked down at the emerald green on Qing Rujie's white wrist and said: "Your Ama is an important minister in the court, and you were ordered to enter the palace by Ai's relatives, let alone a noble person, even a concubine, a noble concubine should also be a concubine." , but the emperor only granted you a low-level promise, you don’t know how many people’s hearts have been chilled by this matter!” She sighed for a long time, as if she wanted to let go of the depression in her heart. This son, she has too much helplessness...

"But don't worry, since the Ai family has decided to intervene, they will no longer watch you suffer. The Ai family will help you get back what you deserve!" There is an unquestionable affirmation in this sentence.

Qingru hesitated for a while, and finally shook her head slowly. It wasn't that she didn't want to, but that she knew it was impossible. Fulin's misunderstanding of her was too deep to be resolved with words. She knew she couldn't do it, and she was destined not to. What a fate!
"You don't want to? Are you going to die of old age in this palace?" Xiaozhuang was very surprised by Qingru's answer, his kindness was rejected by her, and there was a hint of anger in his tone.

Qingru got off the chair and knelt in front of Xiaozhuang: "Queen Mother, Qingru can't think of any other way out except in the palace of old death. You know the emperor's temperament best. As long as he decides, no one can change it. So what if you forcibly push me to his side, it will only make him hate me even more! Qingru doesn't want to upset the Emperor anymore, Empress Dowager, if you really love me, please promise me!" , knocking his head heavily on the ground.

Last night, she thought about it all night, so what if she hates Fulin, loves him, hates him, in the end it is herself who suffers, instead of this, she might as well stop thinking about it as soon as possible, and force herself for so long, it should be time Let yourself go!

Listening to Qing Ru's words from the heart, Xiao Zhuang seemed to be touched, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, and murmured: "You actually have feelings for the emperor, it's rare... rare..." No one in the palace can compare She understands the preciousness of the word love, and it is his blessing that Fulin has a woman who loves him so deeply!

"You get up first."

"I beg the Queen Mother to help me!" Qing Ru knelt on the ground and refused to get up, repeating this sentence in her mouth.

A complex look flashed in Xiaozhuang's eyes, and she stroked her meticulously combed hair and said leisurely: "Once upon a time, Aijia was like you, thinking that if you take a step back, you will see a brighter future, but the reality is cruel, the more you step back The more you have no way out, the more you can only end up in pieces! In this palace, you have to fight, even if it is bloody, because this is the only way out for women in the deep palace, and it is also you The only way out, only in this way will you have a chance to stand out, and only in this way will it be possible for the emperor to know your love for him! Son, tell Aijia frankly that you really don’t want to be loved by the emperor anymore? ?”

"I...I think, but...but I really don't know what else I can do!" Qingru's determination, which had been hard to make before, was disintegrated by the queen mother in a few words. After all, she still underestimated herself. Fulin's feelings.

Xiaozhuang pulled Qingru up from the ground, and wiped the ashes on her forehead with a silk handkerchief: "Don't worry, Aijia will tell you what to do. To be favored by the emperor!"

Qing Ru lowered her head and thought for a long time, finally raised her head and took a deep breath, then nodded solemnly, she still decided to gamble again, and the bet was her whole life.

Just as he was talking, there was a court lady asking for instructions outside, Su Moer walked over to ask about the matter, and then bowed his hands to Xiaozhuang and said: "Report to the Queen Mother, the imperial concubine is asking to see you outside the palace."

"What is she here for?" Xiao Zhuang raised his eyebrows lightly.

"Slaves don't know!"

"Just say that Ai's family is not feeling well, and tell her to come back another day." Looking at Xiaozhuang's appearance, he didn't seem to like Dong E Xianglan very much.

Su Mo'er backed away, presumably going out to reply.

Qing Ru has never seen Dong E Xianglan since the palace election. She must be doing well now. She is also a woman, but the difference between her and her is as big as a fairy in the sky and a beggar on the ground.

Just as she was in a trance, she suddenly heard the queen mother calling her. Turning around, she saw that the kindness just now had disappeared from the queen mother's eyes, and her indifferent gaze was so piercing, she looked at the sky: "Ru'er, do you know that the palace What is the most taboo thing in the world?"

Before Qingru could answer, she went on to say: "It's a special pet! The most taboo word in the palace is the word special pet. Throughout the dynasties, those women who were favored by the emperor did not end well because too many people paid attention to them." So Ru'er, you have to remember that if one day in the future, you are favored by the emperor, you must not combine all the favors in one body. To collect favors in one body is to gather all grievances in one body. The emperor is the emperor of all the women in the harem. Make sure that the rain and dew are evenly covered, only in this way can the harem be peaceful, and only in this way can you be safe!"

Qingru hummed softly, looking at the profile of the Queen Mother, she couldn't help but think of the time when the Queen Mother was still Concubine Zhuang.Back then, the late emperor's favor to Concubine Zhuang's sister, Concubine Chen Hai Lanzhu, was not far behind Fulin's favor to Dong Exianglan today. Concubine Zhuang entered the Guanju Palace, but Concubine Zhuang, whose sister entered the palace first, was at the end of the five palaces. One can imagine how unwilling and resentful Concubine Zhuang was at that time.

Concubine Chen's son was crowned as the Crown Prince at birth, but Concubine Zhuang's son was born without anyone caring about it. Unfortunately, the Crown Prince died not long after, and Concubine Chen also died soon. The one who sat on the throne in the end was Fulin, the son of Concubine Zhuang of Yongfu Palace who was the least favored at first, they are the ones who have the last laugh!
It may be for this reason that the queen mother always dislikes Dong E Xianglan, even though she is so virtuous.

Xiao Zhuang looked at the scene of the wind blowing snowflakes outside in a daze, and said to himself: "It's time for the wind to blow again..."

In the following days, Qing Ru went to the Palace of Compassion and Peace every day to accompany the Empress Dowager to study the Buddha, and copied Buddhist scriptures in her spare time. Few young people could calm down like her, maybe she was destined for the Buddha...

The queen mother never mentioned the matter of helping her win favor, but Qingru was not in a hurry, she knew that the queen mother hadn't forgotten, she was just waiting for the right time, the most appropriate time.

During her time in the Palace of Compassion, Qingru met the queen a few times, her round face, round eyes, everything is so ordinary, even if she walks on the street, she won't attract attention, let alone here A harem full of beauties.However, she has a very good personality, honest and simple, even when she is not smiling, she seems to be smiling. She does not have the beauty, majesty, and authority that a queen should have. Zhuang also said that she is not suitable to be a queen, but unfortunately her surname is Borzigit, and Fulin's posthumous position can only be occupied by a woman with this surname.

Among the other concubines who came to pay respects to the Queen Mother, Qing Ru was most impressed by the former Empress Concubine Jing. In terms of beauty, she was not much inferior to Dong E Xianglan. Her beauty was a wild beauty, wild, stubborn, and unwilling to admit defeat. A typical prairie woman who grew up on horseback!

She looked at every woman with a bit of hostility in her eyes. It turned out that she was also from Ai Fulin...

Maybe Fulin also liked her at the beginning, and then two people who are equally arrogant and uncompromising are destined to have no good ending when they come together!Qingru once heard the queen mother call her name: Lalei...

This name reminded her of that frank boy again: Lazhuo!Back then, he and his father, Prince Wu Keshan, sent his younger sister to the capital to marry Fulin, and then she was abolished after only two years. In the 11th year of Shunzhi, he came to the capital again, this time to send his niece to marry Fulin , became his successor.

It was in that year that she met him, and she didn't know how he was doing on that grassland after a long separation...

I don't know if it's because the winter in the capital is so cold this year, the queen mother, who has always been in good health, is actually sick, and the condition is threatening.

The queen mother's illness is naturally not a trivial matter. Almost all the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital came that night, but the Qin imperial physician who treated Qingru last time was not among them.After the joint consultation of the imperial physicians, they came to a unanimous conclusion that the Empress Dowager suffered from the wind-cold syndrome due to the cold.

Several imperial physicians did not dare to prescribe the medicine right away, and after careful consideration, they prescribed all possible situations before prescribing the medicine.

Immediately, a court lady took the prescription to get the medicine, and Fulin just arrived at that time, and the one who came with him was not the queen but Dong E Xianglan. I thought that Lai Fulin was staying at Chengqian Palace again tonight. Xiao Zhuang saluted on the hospital bed, and Dong E Xianglan, who was an imperial concubine, also followed her.

From the moment Fulin appeared, Qingru involuntarily fixed her eyes on Fulin, wearing a dark blue dragon robe that completely set off his natural nobleness, still handsome, more confident than before.

It wasn't until this moment that Qingru clearly knew how much she loved Fulin. Just looking at him like this made her very excited, suppressing the excitement in her heart, she took out her handkerchief and saluted: "Qingru greets the emperor, Greetings to the imperial concubine!"

"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to rest in the palace? Why did you come to the Queen Mother?" Fulin noticed Qingru who was standing at the end of the bed. After being surprised, a series of questions followed.

Because Fulin didn't ask her to get up, Qingru could only continue to maintain a salute posture and reply: "The concubine came here to visit because she learned that the Queen Mother was ill."

"Visit? Are you an imperial doctor? You are really capable, and you don't even listen to my orders. Believe it or not, I will punish you right now?!" Fulin said angrily. His sleeve was Dong E Xianglan. She pursed her lips and shook her head towards Fulin, then pouted in the direction of the queen mother, signaling him to stop talking, so as not to disturb the queen mother and make her angry.

Fulin snorted, and although his face was pale, he finally stopped talking. Dong Exianglan turned his head and said softly to Qingru who was still squatting: "If you agree, get up!"

Thanks to En Qingru, she can finally straighten her sore legs, but the pain in her heart is even worse. She misses him so much, but he sees her like an enemy. It's really sad...

(End of this chapter)