Qing Palace - Biography of Concubine Wan

Chapter 21 Chess Game (3)

That night, I listened to Sanskrit singing all night, not for comprehension, but just to find your breath;
On that day, I closed my eyes in the incense mist of the scripture hall, not to make a pilgrimage to the Buddha, but to see your face;

In that month, I shook all the prayer wheels, not for extension, just to touch your fingertips;
That year, I kowtowed and hugged the dust, not for the audience, but just for your warmth;
In that life, I searched all the pagodas, not for the purpose of cultivating the next life, but just to meet you on the way.

As soon as Shuiyin entered the Bilin Pavilion, he saw these few lines of verses like Buddha's verses on the papers spread all over the table, Ru'er...you still haven't put it down!

Qing Ru, who was sitting behind the desk and writing, saw her coming in, smiled slightly and said, "Sister, why are you free to come and see me today?"

Shui Yin looked around, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "Why are you here alone, and no one is waiting for you, what about Xiao Fuzi and the others?"

Qing Ru put down her writing hand, stood up and said: "Sister, don't be angry, I told them to go down to rest, I just write, I don't need them to serve, and besides, the six of them have to clean this huge Chonghua Palace. Enough hard work, I can save as much as I can here!"

Hearing this, Shuiyin said in surprise: "Why are there six people? You have now been promoted to a nobleman, and you should be the same as me, with four maids and four eunuchs serving you!"

Qingru went around the table and walked to the front, wiped the table case with her hand, she said in a low voice: "Sister, have you forgotten how I came here as a nobleman? The excitement of Chonghua Palace is just a flash in the pan, and it has been restored here long ago. The desertedness of the past, no! It should be said that it is even more deserted than before... Your Majesty... He still doesn't like me after all. Since the Emperor doesn't like me, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs won't bother to call anyone anymore. The Empress Dowager can protect me for a while , can’t protect me for the rest of my life!”

Her voice was calm as if she was talking about other people's affairs, and she laughed again as she spoke: "That's fine, too many people will make you upset, and besides, the newcomers won't try their best like the few of them. Waiting on me, since this is the case, it is better not to."

Shuiyin lowered her hands and said silently, she didn't know how to comfort her, she wanted to help Qingru, but even the queen mother couldn't change the emperor's opinion of Qingru, how could she do it as a little nobleman, and her status is not very high now stable.

Qing Ru didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, she stepped forward and took Shui Yin's hand and said: "Sister, if you have time, why don't you help me sharpen the ink? I still have a lot of words to write!"

Shui Yin understood her thoughts, so she followed her thoughts: "Good little girl, it's rare that today I steal half a day to sit and sit with you, and I'm still being ordered around by you like a girl, be careful I ask you for wages!" He was joking, and he had already picked up the grindstone in his hand and was slowly grinding it on the inkstone.

Qingru dipped a pen into the inkstone, and the clear water turned into pitch black ink in an instant. She asked casually, "Sister, are you busy recently?"

This sentence aroused Shuiyin's thoughts, and a bitter taste passed over his carefully painted face: "I am so busy, the emperor has not turned over my sign for many days, and now I am a saint. What I care about is Rixi, maybe in a few days we will have to call her Xibi!" There was a hint of undetectable sourness in the words.

Qingru took a pen and moistened it in the inkstone and said softly: "Sister, why are you starting to get confused!"

"Oh? How do you say that?"

"Among the four of us, whoever is favored is better than the others, at least there will be no framing and calculations, and although Jinxi is a holy family, she doesn't know how to guess the holy meaning, and there is a concubine Tong beside her. We are staring at, what is Concubine Tong's plan, we all know very well in our hearts, it is hard to guarantee that one day we will not be murdered by her! Sister, you are careful and prudent, so I still need you to help me a little bit Sunset is!
The situation in this palace is extremely complicated. We have long been regarded as one camp by others. If you win, you may not win all, but if you lose, you will lose all! "

Qingru heard that Shuiyin had a grudge against Rixi's favor over her, so she hinted in her words that she should not ruin the friendship between the sisters for the sake of the king's temporary favor.

Shui Yin is also a smart person. She thought this way just now, but she was deceived for a while. As the saying goes, those who are in the dark are deluded by the bystanders. Now that Jing Qingru reminds her, she has no reason to understand, and immediately said: "My sister's words It’s really like a blow to the head, it’s my sister who is confused!” After a pause, she said regretfully: “It’s a pity that such a smart, beautiful, honest and kind person like you should end up alone in this deep palace, God is really unfair! "

Qingru's hand that was writing froze for a moment, and soon returned to normal. She picked up the pen and wrote slowly on the paper, and only after a while did she say: This is what fate is, and it is useless to force it!
"Is it because of the imperial concubine?" Shuiyin asked tentatively, while carefully paying attention to Qingru's reflection, she saw that when she heard the name, her expression appeared unnatural for a moment.

Seeing this, Shuiyin confirmed her guess even more, and asked: "Ru'er, what happened between you, the emperor and the imperial concubine, and why the emperor treats you so strangely?"

"Some things are in the past, let it be!" Because Qingru ordered Zijin and the others not to tell the story of meeting Fulin, Shuiyin still doesn't know about it.

"But……"

Shuiyin wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Qingru: "Sister, you don't have to worry about my affairs anymore, but there is one thing you must remember: it doesn't matter when or who comes to win me over. You, you can't mess with the imperial concubine, her weight in the emperor's heart is beyond your comprehension, so you must remember it!" Qing Ru said very seriously.

Shuiyin lowered her head and remained silent, then suddenly she raised her head to meet Qingru's concerned gaze, and asked word by word: "Do you want me to sit idly by and not fight for anything?"

Qingru shook her head helplessly, there were some words she didn't want to say at first: "Sister, can't you see that the imperial concubine's position in the palace is not stable? How many pairs of eyes are staring at her, do you think they Will she be able to swallow this breath? Concubine Tong alone will definitely not be reconciled. This time, the concubine Huang Guifei will give birth to a good-looking baby. If she is going to give birth to an elder brother, there will be big waves in the palace immediately! Once you are involved, it will be difficult to get out of the body, so sister, you must not get into this muddy water!"

"Sister, you have changed." This is the only feeling Shuiyin felt after hearing Qingru's explanation, "If you were the old you, you would never waste your time analyzing these stakes, because this is what you dislike the most. .”

"People will always change!" Qingru showed a heart-wrenching smile, sometimes she really didn't want to be so sober.

Shuiyin didn't go on talking anymore, she plucked the golden bracelet on her wrist for a while before saying in a deep voice: "Do you still remember the last time we met in the plum forest, Shu promised? A few days ago, there was also news that she was pregnant. Xun, I'm on my way today. I heard that someone told Concubine Jing about this. Concubine Jing was furious when she found out and ran to beat her. If someone didn't stop her, Shu promised that she would be killed on the spot. The miscarriage caused by the beating, just like this Concubine Jing still refused to give up, and ran to Qianqing Palace like crazy to make a scene in front of the emperor. The emperor was very angry and ordered her to be confined in the palace and not allowed to step out of the palace gate! The emperor hates it so much Concubine Jing, do you think you will deport her back to Mongolia one day?"

"will not!"

"Why?" Shuiyin didn't understand why she answered so positively, although she also thought it was impossible.

"Don't forget that behind Concubine Jing is the entire Horqin tribe. The abolition of the Empress is already the limit of what Prince Wu Keshan can endure. If Concubine Jing is expelled back to Horqin, just imagine, where will Wu Keshan's face go? What if a civil war is caused? , the consequences are disastrous, so even if the emperor wants to do this, the queen mother will never allow it!"

Shui Yin was stunned for a long time and then came back to his senses, he let out a long sigh and said: "Sister, you can see things so clearly now, you are much better than me, if one day, you and I compete for favor in this palace, we will It must not be your opponent!"

The hand that was as clear as holding the pen stopped in the air, and a drop of ink oozed from the nib that was full of water and dripped onto the paper, blurring instantly... Competing for favor?She shook her head with a wry smile, this word was no longer in her mind!

Changed a piece of paper and started writing again. I don’t know when, she started to write with her left hand. She was used to her right hand and suddenly switched to her left hand. As smooth and graceful.

Shuiyin found it strange, and asked her why she did this, Qingru smiled without answering, and showed her a piece of paper that had just been written, one row was written with the right hand, and the other row was written with the left hand, and asked if it was What is the difference between the two other than the quality of handwriting.

Shui Yin compared for a long time before he could see some eyebrows, and said: "The characters on the right hand are delicate and round, but relatively weak. Every word is strong and powerful, exuding a cloud-like aura, and faintly has a charm that is different from the right hand, sister, am I right?"

"Then sister, do you like the right-handed me or the left-handed me?" Qing Ru tilted her head slightly, with a hint of a smile, the gloom between her brows seemed to dissipate a little.

Shuiyin caressed Qingru's brows that couldn't be flattened distressedly. She knew in her heart that Qingru didn't want to change, but was forced to change by the environment. She replied with a tearful smile: "I like them all. It's the Ru'er I know!" The Siquan girl who once threatened to marry the best man in the world was so arrogant and outstanding, but now...

The warm tears could no longer hold back and fell from the eye sockets, just dripping on the paper that Qingru had just finished writing, like broken beads, Qingru wiped the tears on Shuiyin's face with a handkerchief: " Sister, why are you crying, I am not bitter, I really am not bitter!"

The more she said this, the more tears flowed from Shui Yin, and soon, the ink stains on the paper were blurred by tears, and I couldn't see what was written on it, but the words were clear as I didn't know how many times the...

Sorrow arises from love, fear arises from love, if you are apart from the one you love, there is neither worry nor fear!
(End of this chapter)