Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 198
The second elder brother felt a little guilty about this, after all Concubine Tong Gui was his adoptive mother in name.

"Qin'eniang, if you lack any medicinal materials here, please tell us. We will tell Hui'eniang, and Hui'eniang will definitely give it to you, won't you?"

The second elder brother said and looked at the eldest elder brother, who nodded, "Yes, if there is anything Qin Erniang needs, please tell us."

The third elder brother sat silently, staring at Chen Wenxin, and nodded accordingly.

She didn't expect that the older brothers cared so much about her, which moved her very much for a while.

Her status is embarrassing now, even Zhang Changzai and Debi are not easy to visit.

Unexpectedly, it was these elder brothers who came to visit her first.

The nature of a child is indeed the most precious nature.

She said: "Doctor Lu is here, he can get any medicine, don't worry about it."

"It's the second elder brother," she looked at the second elder brother, "I have heard about the deprivation of the imperial concubine's phoenix seal. If the second elder brother speaks so bluntly, won't he offend the imperial concubine? She is your adoptive mother, we I'm afraid..."

What she didn't say was that she was afraid that Concubine Tong Gui would be unfavorable to the second elder brother.

Naturally, she couldn't say such words full of harem conspiracy in front of several children.

The second elder brother looked at the other three elder brothers, and after thinking about it, Debi was obviously on Chen Wenxin's side.

Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong still prefer Chen Wenxin.

They were used to being suppressed by Concubine Tong Gui in the palace, and they had long been dissatisfied.Then he doesn't have to avoid them when he speaks.

The second elder brother said: "Don't worry, Mother Qin, I am Huang Ama's son, no one dares to do anything to me."

His words were full of disdain for Concubine Tong Gui, "My minister's mother-in-law is the former Empress Hesheli, so there is no need to use the concubine to honor her."

Also the emperor's son, the second elder brother has the full confidence to say this, the other elder brothers may not have it.

This shows the rarity of the fourth elder brother all the more.

Concubine De has always kept a low profile and disciplined the fourth prince very strictly.

As for the second elder brother and fourth elder brother singing and performing in front of the emperor, Tong Guifei must be able to figure it out.

This is tantamount to the fact that Depin and the fourth elder brother have completely offended Concubine Tong Gui.

This may not be Debi's original intention, but the trend of the fourth elder brother forced her to do this.

If she doesn't help the fourth elder brother plan, maybe the fourth elder brother will be harmed.

Their mother and son were tied together, one was prosperous and the other was damaged, and Debi had no choice but to formally tear herself apart from Concubine Tong Gui.

This means that Debi has officially become her firm ally, not just a temporary alliance of interests.

It is certainly a good thing for Chen Wenxin to have another steadfast ally, but she is also afraid that Concubine Tong Gui will take action against Debi and Si Age.

She sighed softly, and said to her elder brothers: "Nowadays no one in the palace dares to visit me, just you guys, you are really brave."

She said it in a reproachful tone, which made all the older brothers laugh.

The second elder brother hurriedly said: "The eldest brother wants to ask Qin Erniang about math problems, even the master will ask."

"Oh? What's the topic, let me see."

The second elder brother took out the volume of questions from his sleeve and gave it to her, "Master said, if Mother Qin'er's condition is not recovering, she will use it to relieve boredom. The minister brought Qin Erniang's answer back to him."

The emperor is very knowledgeable, and the masters he selected for his elder brothers are all upright and knowledgeable.

After competing with Spanish envoys in mathematics, Lu Zong and Huang Ji, among the grand scholars, praised her for her talents and virtues during her southern tour.

This made Chen Wenxin's image shine among these civil servants.

In ancient times, there was Ban Zhao who wrote Han books, and today there is a Qin concubine who is an enemy envoy to the west.

Although it is said that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, once that talent reaches the level that can be compared with these great scholars, they will have to obey.

Chen Wenxin took the topic, looked at it, and began to break down his train of thought with all the elder brothers as if he was teaching in his elder brother's class.

There are a few questions among them, and she herself is not very sure about the answers.

"This question is really difficult. I think so. Listen to it and see if it makes sense."

Chen Wenxin frowned and hesitated for a moment, then expressed her thoughts.

After all, she was a liberal arts student in her previous life, and she was not good at mathematics, relying on the skills and experience accumulated by the ancients.

After serving as the master of the elder brothers, she supplemented a lot of ancient arithmetic knowledge, integrating ancient and modern habits, and her thinking is indeed much broader than ordinary people.

The eldest brother listened to her words and unconsciously lost his mind.

Brother's masters are also very good, but they never directly say that they don't know how to do it like Chen Wenxin, and then discuss with them.

In the eyes of the masters, they are always children, and they cannot compare with the attainments of the masters.

Chen Wenxin is on the contrary. She likes a few elder brothers to put forward their own ideas and questions when she is explaining.

In her opinion, only by knowing exactly what students are thinking can they be guided in a targeted manner.

As everyone knows, for brothers, what they feel is respect.

Even the third elder brother, who has always been timid and reticent, dared to say a few words when giving a lecture.

Even if his questions are naive, Chen Wenxin will encourage him to dare to ask questions, and then patiently explain his questions.

Over time, every time she gave a lecture, the elder brothers became very enthusiastic.

The master at my brother's office also secretly watched Chen Wenxin's way of teaching, and discussed in private how to teach such a brother.

They follow the traditional Confucian education, unsmiling and serious.

What Chen Wenxin said about encouraging children, giving them enthusiasm, etc., the masters listened to some and gave up some.

She also does not expect to be able to change the masters to have a modern teaching philosophy.

The traditional education method is not necessarily bad. Strict teachers produce excellent students.

She uses her way, and the masters use theirs. In this way, brothers will know what is the most suitable learning method for them.

Bai Lu was at the side, and saw that the elder brothers were all chattering when they heard the topic.

When Mrs. Zeng just left, she praised the elder brothers for being polite. If she saw the appearance of the elder brothers now, she would not know how surprised she would be.

Taking advantage of the pause when another question was finished, she came up and said with a smile: "Master, you have been talking for a long time, you should take a rest. The fresh snacks in the small kitchen were made by Grandma herself, please." Do you want to try it, buddy?"

Eldest brother blamed himself: "It's all because of my son's fault, Qin Erniang's illness has just recovered, and it has cost you so much energy."

He is the oldest among the elder brothers, so he is naturally responsible for any problems.

Chen Wenxin smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, it's because I haven't read the topic for a long time, and it's a moment of itch. Come and taste the dim sum in Nianxin Garden, and see if it suits your appetite."

She invited all the elder brothers to sit around the round table and eat snacks, instead of letting them each sit one and eat alone.

She likes the round table, and feels that sitting around it is intimate, and eating is also delicious.

The elder brothers put down the topic and followed Chen Wenxin to sit around the round table, when the maids brought copper basins and handkerchiefs for washing hands.

After cleaning their hands, everyone looked at the snacks on the table.

On the table were several small and delicate plates, one in the shape of a jasper lotus leaf, with a small lotus leaf cake on it.

A golden onyx crystal plate filled with golden pineapple crumbs.

A wide-mouthed white porcelain jar contained bright red plum cakes and hawthorn cakes dotted with a little powdered sugar.

There is also a big saving box with gold wire, which contains various fresh fruits, such as lychees and grapes.

The elder brothers saw that although her house is not big, it is very delicately decorated, especially the hollow and uninterrupted design.

It looks spacious and transparent.

The nuns who drank tea in the cubicle looked over from time to time through the hollowed-out partition, and they dared to rest assured when they saw that the elder brothers were doing well.

Even these plates for fruit snacks, in any pattern and color, are very suitable for the items on the plate.

It seemed that everything around Chen Wenxin was as beautiful as herself.

"Brother likes the fragrance. This little lotus leaf cake is made of lotus leaves picked from the garden. It may suit your taste."

"The second elder brother and the third elder brother both like sweet and sour. This plum cake and hawthorn cake are specially prepared for you. The powdered sugar on the top is not sucrose but milk sugar. It tastes sweet and delicious."

"Si elder brother likes sweet things. The pineapple juice in this pineapple shortcake is sweet but not greasy."

She remembers every elder brother's taste very clearly. Unlike the emperor, the children are not like the emperor, they pay attention to their emotions and anger, and their preferences are unknown.

When they are eating, they will eat a few more mouthfuls of what they like, and they will not touch what they don't like.

I still remember that when Chen Wenxin ate the royal meal with the emperor for the first time, the emperor took an extra bite of the iced pear cake.

She always thought that the emperor ate an extra bite because he liked it, but after being with him for a long time, she realized that it was just his habit.

It is his habit to eat a few more mouthfuls of different dishes for each meal, which makes others uncertain about his preferences.

In this way, if there is a food eunuch who does not check strictly, it is difficult for others to know which dish he will eat if he wants to poison his imperial food.

Of course, the emperor has been with her for a long time, and he will reveal his true liking to her, that's something for another time.

She sometimes thinks that the emperor is suspicious, the emperor's overall situation is the most important, and the emperor's pride.

Maybe it's not that the emperor treats her with affection enough, it's just that he is in a special status, which is not enough to use Chen Wenxin's cognition to speculate.

In her previous life, in her circle of life, everyone was equal.

And the identity of the emperor is supreme, the most unique existence in this world.

She has come to the Qing Dynasty, so she should follow the Romans and follow the rules of the Qing Dynasty.

Just like Bai Lu's way of being a slave, in the society where everyone was equal in her previous life, it could be criticized and not self-respecting.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was the most correct value.

On the premise of not violating her heart, it is time for her to view her relationship with the emperor as the emperor and concubine...

"Chen Erniang, what are you thinking?"

The fourth elder brother took a bite of the pineapple shortbread. He didn't expect that the shortcake inside was so soft that it overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Bai Lu came up with a handkerchief, Chen Wenxin took the handkerchief, and wiped the corners of Si elder brother's mouth herself.

"I'm thinking about the question just now, let's take a break and continue reading, and then I'll take you to Ziyu Pavilion to have a look, okay?"

She smiled with relief in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)