Kangxi Harem Ⅰ: Green Years

Chapter 11 ([-]) The Lonely Phoenix Palace Sighs
【The Phoenix Palace is a lonely place, sighing every night and not seeing you;】

[See Longevity at the Longevity Festival banquet, but you have not seen Jun Yan from a close look. 】

In the evening when the maids came back, Aunt Chunxing told Gai Ronger and Wang Jingzhi about the queen's living habits and some rules of the palace maids of Kunning in detail, and they officially started their errands the next day.

It is not particularly hard for the maids to come to the Kunning Palace as errands. The heavy work is usually done by the father-in-law and the maids of the rough envoys. The accompanying maids just serve the queen every day. It will be locked, and the father-in-law will also go out, so everyone has to take turns to stay on duty at night.

Gai Ronger and the others entered the palace on February 23rd, and they were assigned to Kunning Palace on the third day of March. The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent someone to measure their clothes. Aunt Chunxing said that they each had a red dress for the festival. Wear, in half a month, March [-]th is the Longevity Festival, which is the birthday of the emperor. On this day, the palace ladies are specially allowed to wear red clothes and can make up a little. In order to prepare for the Longevity Festival, many places in the palace are also busy.

On this day, Gai Rong'er was serving in front of the queen. It has been seven or eight days since he entered the Kunning Palace, and he has not seen the emperor. Zhang promised to only pass it on once, and Rong'er has no news of Yin Ruolan and the others, after all. She didn't know anyone well in the palace, and she couldn't find out. In fact, sometimes looking at the queen, Gai Rong'er was also quite worried. The queen was really good-natured, and she never punished them, and she seemed to hit it off with Rong'er very much. She liked to be with her very much, the queen leaned on the warm kang with a book of poems in her hand, and couldn't help but whisper softly:

"Lonely in a deep boudoir, with a tender heart full of worries.

Xichun is gone, what time will the flowers rain.

Leaning all over the railing, just without emotion.

Where is the person, the sky is full of fragrant grass, and the way back is broken. "

Gai Rong'er, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but get hot in his eyes, and couldn't help saying: "Master, reading these books too often will hurt your health."

The queen was taken aback and asked, "Rong'er, you know this word."

"Back to the master, this is "Crimson Lips; Lonely Boudoir" written by Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Song Dynasty. I didn't expect the master to like the poems of the Han people."

The queen smiled, "Many poems written by the Han people are very situational. I have lost my composure, Ronger, I am laughing at you."

Gai Rong'er hurriedly said: "The servant is talking too much, but Queen, you have treated Rong'er so well, Rong'er still has to say this, the master will only be energetic when he is happy."

The queen smiled and said nothing.

Rong'er lay on the pit at night and thought, would it be good to be the emperor's woman?The queen is the most respected woman in the world. Although she is virtuous, gentle and kind, she has never seen her smile sincerely, and she has not been loved by her husband. Even if she is rich, it is difficult to hide the depression and sorrow in her heart.

This morning when Gai Ronger woke up and just left the house, she saw Su Ya walking past their house with a water basin but didn't see her. Gai Ronger called "Su Ya." Subconsciously pulled her arm, and heard Su Ya: "Ah." With a retracted arm, the water basin fell to the ground.

"Su Ya, what's wrong with you?" Gai Rong'er felt that something was wrong, so she wanted to pull Su Ya's arm again.

"Rong'er..." Su Ya retracted her arms, and tears fell. Rong'er was about to ask again, when Sun Xiaoqiao shouted, "Hurry up, Su Ya, the young master is so anxious and angry again." " Su Ya answered and picked up the basin and hurried away.

On the second day after they arrived at Kunning Palace, Zhang promised to move in. Every morning, he would pay homage to the queen, and then go to Kunning Palace with the queen to pay her respects. Occasionally, she would come over to chat with the queen during the day. Every time, she respected the queen very much, spoke very pleasantly, and looked very kind, but this Su Ya obviously had a wound on her arm. What's going on?In fact, it is much harder for Su Ya to serve Zhang Xiaozhu than Rong Er and the others. After all, they are ten people serving the queen, and they can take turns, while Zhang Xiaozhu only has the two of them, and they have to do all the big and small things. I don't know if there is any medicine for the injury, so Rong'er plans to ask about it after getting off work at night.

This afternoon, Zhang Xiaozhu came to chat with the queen again, and it was obvious that the queen still liked to chat with her. First, the queen was bored by herself, so she could relieve the boredom. In addition, Gai Ronger guessed that the queen wanted to hear news from the emperor.In fact, Zhang Xiaozhu was summoned only once in such a long time, and all she could say was that she had served the emperor in Baohe Palace before. Sun Xiaoqiao accompanied Zhang Xiaozhu, and she did not see Su Ya.

Having said that, the only people officially given the title by the emperor are the queen and Xiaozhu Zhang, and the Hall of Preserving Harmony has never heard of anyone being lucky again, so Gai Ronger knows that the emperor is still not greedy for women, and he has also heard about it these days. Zhang promised to say that the emperor reads until very late every day in the Palace of Preserving Harmony. In addition to going to court and listening to politics during the day, he practiced martial arts, riding and archery, and studied. Let's put more emphasis on the country and the country.

Serving the master in the evening and resting today, it happened that Gai Rong'er was not on duty today, so she went to find Shu Ya, Shu Ya and Sun Xiaoqiao lived in a small side room to the west of Kunning Gate, knocked on the door, and there was only Su Ya in the room .

"Su Ya, where's Sun Xiaoqiao?" Gai Ronger asked.

"She is serving the young master, and the young master likes her very much." Su Ya said.

"Su Ya, is your arm hurt?" Gai Rong'er went into the house and asked beside the pit.

"No...no..." Su Ya said evasively.

"You still said no, show me." Rong'er didn't believe it, so he stretched out his hand to pull her arm.

"Rong'er..." As she spoke, Su Ya's tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Su Ya, what's the matter with you? Tell me, we are good sisters, who will you tell me if you don't tell me?" Gai Ronger was also anxious, grabbed Su Ya's arm and lifted her sleeve up , The whole arm is blue and purple.

"Su Ya, what's going on? Who pinched it." Rong'er asked anxiously.

"It's the young master, Su Ya did something wrong, so the young master punishes Su Ya." Su Ya said with a choked voice.

"What did you do wrong to pinch you like this?" Gai Rong'er said with some dissatisfaction.

"No, it's not a big deal, it's just making the young master unhappy or something, such as not putting things well, saying something that the young master doesn't like to hear." Su Ya murmured softly.

"What about Sun Xiaoqiao? She also has so many injuries?" Rong'er asked.

"No, the young master likes Xiao Qiao, so I won't punish her." Su Ya's voice was very low, but Rong'er could still hear her clearly.

"This Sun Xiaoqiao is sweet-mouthed. When she first came in, she coaxed Aunt Xiao to please her. You must not be so sweet-mouthed." Rong'er said, "I really didn't expect Mrs. Zhang to be so ruthless. I'll go tell the queen tomorrow, the queen is the best!" Benevolent, let her persuade young master Zhang." Rong'er felt sorry for Su Ya.

"No, Rong'er, don't say it. If the queen talks about her, she will feel unhappy, and Su Ya will feel better when she comes back." It's better to say something, I can't help but feel sad for Su Ya. "Su Ya, come, I'll give you medicine, if you get hurt in the future, come to me, and I'll give you medicine."

Rong'er deeply understood a truth, is the empress pitiful?But in this deep palace, the master will never be the most pitiful person, so if you want not to be bullied and not to be the most pitiful person, you must make yourself strong.

In a blink of an eye, March 18th is the Longevity Day. On this day, the maids in the palace are allowed to wear red clothes for joy. The whole palace is full of joy. This is Xuanye's 13th birthday. There are many banquets in the palace. The ladies and fathers-in-law followed suit, and the Kunning Palace was also the place to hold a banquet. In the morning, the emperor accepted the congratulatory gifts from the Baigong Palace and held a banquet in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Gathered at the Empress Dowager's place in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the emperor would also come here after giving the ministers a banquet at noon.The queen was dressed in a phoenix robe, and she brought four maids to accompany her, Rong'er among them.

Just after the noon banquet started, Xuan Ye arrived and sat beside the Empress Dowager. This was the second time that Gai Ronger saw the emperor. Although it was only half a month, there was still a kind of heartbeat in her heart. This time he wore a much more formal dress than the last time. He was wearing a yellow dragon robe embroidered with golden dragons, with a collar hanging on his shoulders, which made him even more majestic. To be honest, who could believe that this was just a 13-year-old boy.

Xuan Ye was seated next to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress was seated on his right. Standing beside the Empress, it was the first time that Gai Rong'er looked at the Emperor from such a close distance, only to find that there were a few faint spots on the Emperor's face. I remembered what Aunt Xiao said when I first entered the palace that the emperor had smallpox when he was young, it must have been left at that time, but this did not affect the handsome appearance of the emperor at all, the emperor is worthy of being an emperor, enough to make women all over the world fall in love with him.It's a pity that the emperor's eyes will not stop on her.

After the banquet, Xuan Ye went to Qianqing Palace, where Xuan Ye would summon the princes and nobles in the afternoon.After talking with the empress dowager for a while, the queen got up and went back to Kunning Palace. The queen seemed very happy today, because the birthday banquet tonight was arranged in Kunning Palace. The emperor will come and stay overnight in Kunning Palace .

In a busy afternoon, Gai Ronger was accompanying the queen, seeing the queen's expression of joy and sorrow, worrying about loss and gain, Gai Ronger really felt a little distressed. In the blink of an eye, the birthday banquet of Kunning Palace was ready , Waiting for the emperor.

"The emperor is here!" Gai Rong'er knew that the emperor was coming as the father-in-law outside the palace gate shouted.

(End of this chapter)