Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 180 Punishment
Chen Wenxin has been away from the palace to visit her relatives for seven or eight days. During these days, she has been very happy in Nianxin Garden.

Either the whole family gathers together to enjoy the fun of composing poems by the side of the rain pavilion.

Either to meet the visiting people, such as Xiangming Nalan Rongruo, she will meet, and she will reject those who are ordered by the Madam.

These women don't know how much gossip they have around them, and she doesn't want to be cautious in her words and deeds, so as not to leave any clues in front of outsiders.

Furthermore, they chatted with Chen Wenyi about the modification of the shotgun, or about his marriage.

Sometimes I gossip with Zheng Shi and Zeng Shi and others, do embroidery work and so on.

These seven or eight days passed quickly for her, and rumors abounded inside and outside the palace.

Concubine Tong's poisoning of Chen Wenxin was suppressed, Xiao Duzi's fate was uncertain, and the emperor did not reveal any news.

The same is true for the former doctor Haihong who served Yipin's Ximai, and it suddenly became an unsolved case.

Yu Changzai was still the new favorite in the palace, since Chen Wenxin left, the emperor entered the harem more frequently.

The two unnamed concubines are both pregnant with dragon sons, and the emperor ordered them to give birth to a prince before they can be enfeoffed.

But Yu Chang, who was in the body of the holy favor, had no movement in his stomach.

The Qin concubine who was favored before, it is said that the emperor took pity on her when she was young, so she was not allowed to conceive.

This Yu Changzai looks like a mature woman in terms of face and figure, so it is reasonable to say that she can conceive.

But the concubine, who was carried out of the palace with a golden-topped goose-yellow embroidered phoenix luan, was completely silent.

It is a great honor for a concubine to visit relatives, but it takes several days for the relatives to return home, which is too abnormal.

How can a concubine visiting relatives stay overnight at home?

And she seemed to be exiled, the emperor didn't mention when she would come back.

This doesn't look like visiting relatives, but like giving up.

Everyone really can't understand, is this concubine in favor or out of favor?

If she was favored, why would the emperor let her stay at her mother's house for several days?

If she fell out of favor, how could the emperor use the concubine's ceremonial stick to carry her out of the palace gracefully?

In any case, it is certain that there will be discord between her and the emperor.

Concubine Tong Guifei saw Chen Wenxin leaving the palace, but the emperor did not do anything to her, so she gradually relaxed.

The emperor is a suspicious person, she asked Xiao Duzi to confess directly, but the emperor didn't believe it.

She won the bet, and this round was her victory.

Unfortunately, Chen Wenxin did not die.

The Buddha said: Sweeping the floor may hurt the lives of ants, cherish the moth veil lamp.

She is not a vicious person, as long as Chen Wenxin leaves, as long as she does not hinder her way to be sealed.

She can no longer continue to kill.

And Yu Changzai, who is the most favored nowadays, at the same time flattered the emperor and the empress dowager, and became her new enemy...

She suspects that Yu Changzai is the chief culprit who caused Yibi to be unable to have children anymore.

She kept thinking, Haihong's incident was covered up by the emperor as if it had never happened, why?
Did the emperor find out that Yuchang had bought Haihong in order to keep Yuchang alive, so he just pretended that this didn't happen?

But this matter is a little unreasonable, Yuchang was still a small promise at that time, and he was not favored.

Why did Haihong abandon the big tree of Yipin, and instead resort to risky tactics for Yuchang?
This is really unreasonable.

She has to keep an eye on Yu Changzai, and she must find out her lies.

At the same time, in order to quell the rumors in the harem about the Qin concubine's family visit, she had to release some rumors...

Rumors about Chen Wenxin's visiting relatives, who were actually abandoned, spread from the palace to the outside.

The palace people from Yikun Palace and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Nianxin Garden are not as diligent as before.

Although they are outside the palace, they still have close ties with the palace, and they are very clear about rumors.

But from Chen Wenxin's point of view, the palace talents in the harem are the most ruthless.

What they see is which concubine is favored, and those who are favored will climb up like tarsal maggots, and those who are not favored will scatter like birds and beasts.

How cool.

Chen Wenxin not only hated these people for following others, but also felt sorry for them for not having their own ideas and only knowing to follow the crowd.

When she still agreed, Bai Lu treated her with great respect.

If it wasn't so, how could she be allowed to be the first lady of the Yikun Palace after she was promoted step by step to the position of concubine?
It was even worse for Bai Shuang, she was slacking off in Chuxiu Palace back then, if it wasn't for Bai Lu's protection, Chen Wenxin wouldn't be able to keep her.

The small table and the small chairs, one is now the chief manager of Yikun Palace, and the other is the little eunuch of Yonghe Palace.

Bai Lu and Xiao Zhuo are smart and loyal people, they are different from those palace people in the harem.

They didn't follow suit, that's why they were promoted all the way to such a high position.

If those palace people who are listening to Yu Pavilion at this moment also have this awareness, why not be able to stand out?

Fortunately, Bailu and Xiaozhuo have set an example for the palace people below, so that Yikun Palace can be safe and peaceful.

Who would have thought that going out of the palace and rumors together would make Nianxin Garden uneasy.

She listened to Bai Lu's report, which palace daughter started to behave viciously, and which little eunuch started to be lazy.

Can't help but feel upset.

Bai Lu said: "These are all palace servants appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came with Yizhang, and they are usually only assigned to do some minor and rough work in Tingyu Pavilion. The people in Yikun Palace are all fine, master don't need to worry."

The people sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs don't know what is good or bad, they don't know the inside story, and they can only listen to the rumors from outside.

The people in Yikun Palace were different, they all noticed the emperor's love for Chen Wenxin.

Don't be so easily fooled by rumors.

Taking a ten thousand step back, just relying on the rewards Chen Wenxin usually gave them, it would always be beneficial for them to protect the Lord faithfully.

Chen Wenxin said: "These slaves are also pitiful. They have learned to bow to the high and step on the low all their lives. What is the use of it?"

As if they could make a fortune this way.

"It's better to send back all the palace servants sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even the palace servants of Yikun Palace who want to go back to the palace should also be sent back."

The Chen family has no shortage of servants who are well-dressed now, so it's not annoying to keep this screwdriver here to gossip and not do any work.

Bai Lu frowned and said: "Master, if these palace people are sent back, you will not have all the ceremonial staff back to the palace, that would be ugly..."

These palace people used to hold incense and hold fans, which were decorations inside the ceremonial rods. If so many people were sent back to the palace at once, who would carry the fans and incense burners?

Chen Wenxin frowned, "Since we can't keep up, we must work hard and teach them well."

"Gather all the slaves brought out of the palace here."

The palace people brought out from the palace ranged from four to fifty people.

It took a lot of effort to gather all these people, and everyone in the Chen family in Nianxin Garden was also alarmed.

Chen Wenyi, who was closest, came first. He was ordered to supervise the construction of Tsinghua Garden. Tsinghua Garden and Nianxin Garden are only separated by a wall, so he spends most of his time at home.

Then Chen Wenren and his wife also came, and Chen Xihai seldom stayed in the palace recently when he was in court, so he brought the Zheng family along.

I saw Bai Lu set up a grand teacher's chair and the young lady was sitting on the porch, while Chen Wenxin was sitting leisurely, with an incense burner beside her.

An iceberg was placed in front of her, and Baishuang and Baixue took turns fanning the ice.

And at the bottom of the stone steps leading down from the room, twenty or thirty court ladies and eunuchs were kneeling.

The foreheads of those palace people were covered with beads of sweat, and they didn't dare to wipe the sweat.

As long as there is a movement, Chen Wenxin will ask someone to write down the name of the person who moved it.

"What did you say, I asked Bai Lu to summon all the palace people, what are the parents, elder brother and sister-in-law doing here?"

Chen Wenxin was staring at the palace people below, and was a little surprised to see that everyone from the Chen family had come.

She hastily invited everyone to the back room, and she still did not forget to tell Bai Lu: "Look, anyone who moves should be recorded."

Everyone went to the back room to talk, and Bai Shuang waited in for a while, and put icebergs, melons and fruits on display.

Seeing that Bai Shuang and the others retreated, Mrs. Zheng said, "Nian Nian, what are you doing?"

Mrs. Zheng was sensitive to the fact that this matter was probably related to the rumors circulating outside.

She was afraid that Chen Wenxin would do something stupid in a moment of impatience, so she rushed to dissuade him.

"These palace people became restless after hearing the rumors. I have already left the palace, and I don't want to see these dirty things brought home, so I want to punish them."

What Chen Wenxin said was also reasonable, and her face was calm, not like she was in a hurry.

Only then did Zheng feel relieved, "That's good, you should punish the palace servants. It's just that you had the problem of getting angry before, and mother is afraid that you will do it again when you get angry?"

"As long as you don't get angry, it's okay if you play wild or scold these palace people."

Chen Wenxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What's the rush? It's that Lu Zong's alarmist talk again!"

She pulled Zheng Shi and said: "Mother just doesn't believe me, she insists on believing that Lu Heilian."

Black face was originally the nickname given to Jin Fu by those local officials when he was in Suqian. Chen Wenxin gave this nickname to Lu Zong, which was quite fitting.

Zeng helped Chen Wenxin to persuade: "Mom is seeing you now, aunt is fine, so please relax."

She said to Chen Wenxin again: "My father wrote to me a few days ago and told me something, I think I should tell my aunt."

Zeng's father is Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple, could it be a matter of Dali Temple?

She immediately remembered that in the case of Yipin Xiangjiwan, that Haihong was still locked up in Dali Temple.

"master."

When Bai Shuang came in to spread the message, there seemed to be something unspeakable.

"Father and mother sit down for a while, sister-in-law wait for me for a while, and say this when I come back."

After she said that, she got up and walked outside.

(End of this chapter)