Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 199

The emperor's royal driver seemed to have no intention of leaving after staying in Tsinghua Garden.

Seeing that the expansion project supervised by Chen Wenyi was almost finished, the emperor had no intention of getting up and driving back to the palace.

Last year, the emperor only stayed for a month, and he returned to the palace before the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Longevity Festival.

Now that the summer is coming to an end and the autumn wind is picking up, the emperor has no intention of asking the Qi family to return to the palace.

The emperor stayed in Tsinghua Garden, and Chen Wenxin continued to stay in Nianxin Garden as a matter of course.

Although the two gardens are separated by a wall, the weather is very different.

In Tsinghua Garden, the concubines competed for favor, and the world was turned upside down.

Concubine Hui's face softened, the emperor ignored her voice, and all of a sudden there were no tigers and monkeys in the mountains calling themselves king.

The family reunion in the Nianxin Garden is enjoyable.

Because of the close distance, there is another Chen Wenxin who is a concubine after all, and the news of Tsinghua Garden is often revealed by the palace people who come and go.

For a while, Yuchang was spoiled and spoiled, insulting Yipin, calling her a hen that doesn't lay eggs.

After a while, Yi concubine took revenge on Yu Changzai and punished Yu Changzai by using her status as the lord of the first palace.

What's more, Guanlan Pavilion, who often sneaked into the emperor in the middle of the night, intended to climb onto the dragon bed, but was invited out by Li Dequan.

There is also Concubine Tong's confidant who disobeys Concubine Hui's discipline, and disobeys orders when receiving errands, which makes Concubine Hui look ugly...

and many more.

These messy things were heard by Chen Wenxin as a joke, she laughed while listening, and even peeled a handful of melon seeds.

"The master is still laughing? Fortunately, the master is not there, otherwise I will be dragged into these messy and dirty things."

Angry, Bai Lu stepped forward to remove the plate of fried five-spice sunflower seeds, and put on a plate of light green sunflower seeds.

Huh?Did the Qing Dynasty have matcha-flavored melon seeds?

She tried to pick one up, and the taste was crisp and crisp, but the taste was light, with a faint smell of traditional Chinese medicine...

"Bai Lu, what melon seeds did you bring?"

Seeing her look of disgust, Bai Lu patiently explained: "Master, this is made from the prescription given by Lu Taiyi, it's called herbal tea melon seeds."

"I use the herbal tea made from chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, banlangen, and fat sea, and then put raw melon seeds in it to absorb the juice, and then take it out and dry it in the sun."

Chen Wenxin was discouraged when he heard it, how could the boiled melon seeds taste as good as roasted?

It is still cooked with these medicines.

"Then you put the two plates of melon seeds, and I can take whichever I like."

She lightly pointed to the plate of fried melon seeds with five spices that Bai Lu was going to take away, pretending not to care.

"No, master has heard too many jokes over there recently, and he wants to eat sunflower seeds when he hears it. It was Doctor Lu who said that master's pulse was a little hot, that's why he made this herbal tea sunflower seeds."

She is not stupid, two plates of melon seeds are placed here together, Chen Wenxin must only choose the one fried with five spices.

It's Lu Zong again!

She suddenly lost the mood to listen to gossip, gossip is to be accompanied by delicious melon seeds, without melon seeds, there will be no atmosphere.

Come on, come on, today's gossip is over.

"By the way, don't let my father and mother know about these messy things in the garden."

Sooner or later, she still had to return to the palace, and to that environment.

Parents listened to these things, but it only increased their worries.

As a child, you can't always be filial by your side, but make your parents worry, that's too unfilial.

In her mind, she already regarded Chen Xihai and his wife as her biological parents.

After she recovered from her illness, apart from occasionally listening to these jokes from the palace people, she went to Chen Xihai and his wife to talk with Mrs. Zheng.

Sometimes wipe the dominoes, sometimes play mahjong.

Naturally, Mrs. Zeng couldn't have company, sometimes Chen Wenyi and Chen Wenren would be there, and they were always pulled to make up the number.

The days were so uneventful, and the fights between those concubines seemed to have nothing to do with her.

Just when the title of Concubine Qin was almost forgotten by everyone, Li Dequan invited her to Guanlan Pavilion according to the emperor's order that night.

"Eunuch Lao, I will change clothes first and then go with Eunuch."

There was no surprise on her face, as if the emperor ignored her for several months and she didn't care at all.Now that the emperor suddenly summoned her, she was not surprised at all.

When she watched Li Dequan speak, she was slightly alienated.

——Li Dequan is the emperor's confidant, alienating him means alienating the emperor.

Bai Lu accompanied her to the inner room to change clothes, Chen Wenxin asked: "What day is it today?"

Bai Lu thought for a while and said, "On the third day of the eighth lunar month, this servant girl is thinking about it. This year, there is no movement even on Concubine Tong's birthday."

Concubine Tong Gui's birthday is the first day of August, which can't be more memorable.In previous years, it was held so grandly, but this year she said that she was not in good health.

It's not that she is really in poor health, but that she has lost the power to control the harem.Even if it is done, it will not be as luxurious and rich as she wants.

There is even a possibility of being squeezed by Yu Changzai and his ilk.

The third day of August.

Autumn is almost here.

She smiled faintly, stretched her arms and put on the outer dress that Bai Lu had put on her.

But she changed into a brighter-colored skirt with large sleeves, combed her temples lazily, and did not wear makeup, so she quickly walked out of the inner room.

Li Dequan looked at how simple her dress was, there was no gold, jade or jewelry on her bun.He only wears a pendant bead walking swing, and there are two exquisite heart-shaped pieces attached to it.

Clearly dressed so casually, she is still too beautiful to look away.

Since the Qin concubine, there are countless concubines in the harem who have imitated each other, trying to attract the emperor's attention by wearing Hanfu.

However, there is no one else who can wear the elegant fairy spirit and poetic charm of Hanfu like her.

How could a woman who grew up on horseback have the gentleness and coquettishness of a woman from the Han family?
It is also impossible for a woman who is immersed in power in the harem to wear that free and easy charm.

Concubine Qin is a different woman after all.

Li Dequan bowed deeply, "Ma'am, please."

A palanquin was carried from Nianxin Garden to Tsinghua Garden, until it reached Guanlan Pavilion Courtyard.

She got off the sedan chair slowly, and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar house, as if it had been a lifetime away.

She looked at the place for a while, and then went straight to the back of the main house, where there was a water pavilion covered with colorful veils.

The veil flutters in the night wind, the colors are bright, and it is unique against the turquoise lake.

There was a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, and she trotted towards the water pavilion.

Layers of gauze brushed her cheeks, and the delicate touch made people itchy slightly.

She simply closed her eyes, and walked slowly forward in the direction of the veil.

"careful!"

Her feet were suspended in the air, her body was unstable and she was about to fall into the water, but her waist was embraced by a powerful arm.

She was so frightened that she hurriedly turned her head to look, and the person behind her turned out to be the emperor.

It was vaguely still the eyebrows and eyes from before, although it seemed like half a lifetime had passed, they were still so familiar after all.

His thick eyebrows are like swords, his eyes are like stars, and he is handsome and handsome, with a touch of vicissitudes.

Those palace people told her so much, that Yipin, Yuchang is here, and Dingchang is here.But no one told her that the emperor lost weight.

The line of his mandible became more and more rigid due to his thinness, his side face was like a chiseled knife, and there was a small circular scar behind his ear.

That was the imprint left by his childhood smallpox.

The emperor also stared at her face, and then smiled bitterly, "You have suffered."

She was full of grievances and helplessness, but after hearing these words, she was also relieved.

She said softly: "The emperor has lost weight."

As if stimulated by these words, he put Chen Wenxin's hand on his face, and said eagerly: "You know, I've been thinking about it day and night, and I've been waiting for you to come back."

Everything in Guanlan Pavilion remained the same as before, and he did not let any concubines come here, everything remained the same until Chen Wenxin came back.

She frowned slightly, "Didn't the emperor leave me in the cold for a big plan?"

In the beginning, the emperor was angry with her because of Xiang Ming.

Then a letter from Lord Horqin Daguer completely angered the emperor.

He decided to use Yu Changzai's infidelity to complete a grand plan, and by the way, stimulate Chen Wenxin to make her soften her attitude.

He is the emperor, he is angry, shouldn't Chen Wenxin come to coax him?
Unexpectedly, she was really so arrogant, she would rather fall out of favor than go to Qianqing Palace to ask for an audience.

And Chen Wenxin was holding back her anger in Yangzhou at that time, the old anger was still unresolved, and the new grievances were resurfacing, she would not take the initiative to bow her head and give in.

The two stalemate each other like bulls, so that the emperor didn't even have a chance to tell her the truth about Yu Chang's existence.

Knowing Concubine Hui's birthday, she became anxious and fell ill.

The emperor allowed her to visit relatives in the palace, so as not to let her see Yu Changzai's face in the palace, and instructed Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple to tell her about Haihong through Zeng Shi.

This was already the emperor's biggest concession, and let Chen Wenxin know that he didn't change his mind, but just had important things to do.

Plus a little pique.

Originally, everything was safe, but who knew that Concubine Tong Gui and Yu Chang were colluding, and there was another trouble in the rainy night.

Chen Wenxin fell ill again, which made the emperor regret it.

Just withdrawing Concubine Tong Gui's power to control the harem, he is far from being able to relieve his anger.

But these are not important, the most important thing right now is Chen Wenxin.

"I don't go to Niannian, and Niannian doesn't come to me. Who is neglecting whom?"

Chen Wenxin looked at the emperor's heartbroken look in surprise, what he meant was that she had neglected the emperor...

She retorted: "I thought the emperor was angry about Xiang Ming and didn't want to talk to me, so I didn't go to the emperor."

Although she didn't tell the emperor about Xiang Ming, she didn't deliberately hide it either.

The emperor later figured this out, so he was not angry with her.

If she wanted to hide it, she wouldn't leave so many flaws for the emperor to see easily.

The emperor also lost his temper, and sighed: "It is clear that you made me angry, if you don't come to coax me, how dare you take Joe?"

When the emperor said this, it seemed that this matter was her fault from the beginning to the end.

(End of this chapter)