Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 201
This night, the Emperor never allowed other concubines to stay in Guanlan Pavilion, but there was a sound of joking and laughing.

Some palace people passing by near Guanlan Pavilion started to discuss curiously. Even the Qingxi Bookstore on the other side of the lake saw that the lights of Guanlan Pavilion were extraordinarily bright tonight.

"Could it be that the emperor asked any master to stay overnight at Guanlan Pavilion?"

A nun stood by the window, looked towards the other side of the lake, and said to herself.

The fourth elder brother was sitting at the desk with a book in his hands, and when he saw Mammy standing there talking to himself, he asked, "Mammy, what did you say?"

The nanny came to her senses after being called by the fourth elder brother.

She performed a blessed ceremony, "My servant, look at the Emperor's Guanlan Pavilion, it seems to be very lively tonight."

The fourth elder brother put down the book, and looked suspiciously at the window.

The Guanlan Pavilion was originally where Chen Wenxin lived, and the fourth elder brother always felt that the emperor did not allow other concubines to live there because of Chen Wenxin.

Now that he heard that there seemed to be other people entering Guanlan Pavilion besides the emperor, he naturally wanted to take a look.

The mother said: "It seems that several young eunuchs went in with food boxes. I am afraid that the emperor is eating in it, but I don't know who will accompany them."

The fourth elder brother tilted his head, "It must be Chen Erniang."

Mammy laughed, everyone knew that the fourth elder brother and the concubine Qin had a good relationship, but they didn't expect it to be this good.

If people don't know this, I'm afraid they will think that the two of them are mother and son.

"How does the fourth elder brother know that it is the concubine Qin? Did the concubine Qin tell you?"

That's not right, the fourth elder brother has not been in contact with Concubine Qin recently, and the last time I visited Nianxin Garden was half a month ago.

The fourth elder brother is very confident, "Don't you believe it? Try it and you will know."

Mammy was taken aback, "How do you try this?"

The fourth elder brother cleared his throat, facing the lake outside the window, and began to chant loudly.

"The Master said, don't you say that learning and practicing it from time to time? Wouldn't it be a pleasure to have friends come from afar?"

His voice was exceptionally loud, and Mammy was a little worried: "Brother, will this disturb the emperor?"

He originally wanted to let Guanlan Pavilion hear his voice.

The fourth elder brother continued to chant aloud, "Aren't you a gentleman if you don't know what you don't know?"

On the other side of Guanlan Pavilion, the emperor and Chen Wenxin really heard the sound of reciting.

Chen Wenxin was surprised: "This is, is the fourth elder brother studying?"

The emperor frowned, and then relaxed, "Does it need to be so loud when reading? Brother Si is a ghost."

She remembered that it was here last year when she rescued the fourth elder brother from the poisonous hands of Concubine Tong.

At that time, the fourth elder brother got her attention by shouting across the lake.

It seems that the fourth elder brother is reading aloud now, is it to attract her attention?
What the emperor said is correct, the fourth elder brother is indeed a ghost.

How did he know he was here?

When the autumn wind blows, the horse market at the border is about to end trade, and the matter of Yuchang's presence can be resolved.

The emperor no longer has to hide it from others, and she no longer has to act as an abandoned concubine.

In fact, the emperor has recently shown a little coldness towards Yu Changzai, and he is not as favored as before.

She got up and walked to the window, opened the casement, and the voice of the fourth elder brother came into her ears more clearly.

"Zengzi said, I examine myself three times a day: Are you not loyal to others? Are you not trusting your friends? Are you not accustomed to passing on?"

In front of a small window of Qingxi Bookstore in the distance, there was indeed a small figure standing, and beside it was a figure that seemed to be a nun.

Seeing the window on her side open, the sound of reading on the other side stopped abruptly.

Chen Wenxin raised his hand and waved it over there.

The fourth elder brother jumped up happily, "Nurse, did you see it? I said it was Chen Erniang."

Mammy did see the window of the Guanlan Pavilion across the street opened, and a figure of a woman walked up to the window and waved towards them.

The hair bun that the woman combed was unique, not the two hairs that Manchu women used to, but an asymmetrical bun.

The bun is slanted to one side at the back of the head. This is the bun of Han women.

And in front of the emperor, it seems that only Qin concubines have the privilege of wearing Han clothes and combing Han buns.

Some time ago, Ding often went to the emperor frequently, and I heard that once, Ding often begged to see the emperor, wearing a Hanfu that imitated the clothes of the concubine Qin.

It's just that she made a bolder style, with transparent tulle on both arms and a bare chest.

The emperor got angry when he saw her, and scolded her for being ugly.

Ding Changzai still has plausible arguments, saying that she is imitating the chest-length skirt in the heyday of Tang Dynasty.

How did she know that when Chen Wenxin started making Hanfu, the emperor rejected this style?

After all, this is the Qing Dynasty, not the prosperous Tang Dynasty with open folk customs, and the chest-length skirt is too revealing.

Ding often took a sip, and went back to study the styles of Hanfu.

Chen Wenxin saw that the fourth elder brother was also waving to her desperately, but he didn't call her.

The fourth elder brother is very smart and knows when to call her and when not to call her.

It's not just him, in fact, the emperor's sons are all outstanding.

She returned to the table and sat down, continuing to eat.

The emperor teased her, "It's all right if the fourth elder brother likes you, all my elder brothers like you, how do you say that?"

Chen Wenxin is a kind and generous person who is full of fun.

As long as there is no conflict of interest, basically everyone likes her.

The emperor likes her, the empress dowager likes her, and the brothers also like her.

Even Lu Zong, Wang Xi and others were full of praise for her.

The emperor has heard about it for a long time. In ancient times, there was Ban Zhao who wrote Han books, but now there are Qin concubines and enemy envoys to the west.

Comparing her with Ban Zhao, a famous talented woman in history, is a great recognition of her by civil servants.

She replied: "Didn't you ask me to explain arithmetic to my elder brothers? I am a half-teacher to them, and I have no bad intentions towards them."

The implication is that I treat them well, isn't it normal for them to like me?
The emperor was very happy to see this, and he preferred the second elder brother to be the prince.

The second elder brother has a friendship with Chen Wenxin, so when he succeeds to the throne in the future, he will definitely treat Chen Wenxin and her children well.

The emperor nodded, "I have made the right decision. The second elder brother likes you. If something happens to me in the future, your life will not be sad."

Fortunately, he asked Chen Wenxin to teach the elder brothers, otherwise, except for the fourth elder brother, the other elder brothers would have no chance to contact her at all.

Not to mention liking it or not.

Chen Wenxin was silent. If the emperor was really worried about this, why didn't he think about choosing their child as the crown prince when they had a child?
——Even if the emperor really thinks so, she will refuse, because she doesn't want her child to become the emperor.

But whether she is willing to accept it is her business.

The emperor didn't even think about it, it would make her feel that the emperor didn't value her.

If the emperor treated her sincerely, how could he not even wait for her to have a child, so he had already decided on the candidate for the crown prince?

The emperor asked her tentatively, "Nian Nian, don't you want the second elder brother to become the prince?"

When they talked about this topic earlier, Chen Wenxin still had the anger of returning from Yangzhou in his heart.

So her statement may be false.

Now that the two of them have untied their knots, the emperor wants to ask her again what she thinks.

"Still, you hope that after our child is born, let our child..."

Chen Wenxin hurriedly stopped him, "No, I don't want our child to become the crown prince."

The emperor said: "I believe that our child will be fine. But Nian Nian, the second elder brother is my only legitimate son. Only by making him the crown prince can we avoid many disputes."

"Throughout the ages, in the struggle for the throne, there have been too many cases of father and son killing each other. Only by establishing my only legitimate son can other elder brothers dare not act recklessly. As for who will succeed in the future, that is not certain."

Chen Wenxin's eyes widened in surprise, it turned out that the emperor meant to put the second elder brother in the position of prince to deter other elder brothers.

The second elder brother is the first son, and his status is higher than other elder brothers, they have to be convinced.

Elder brother is the second choice because he is long.

If you set up an elder brother who is not the first son but not the eldest, it is easy for other elder brothers to covet him.

——He is a concubine like me, so why can he be the prince and I can't?

As for the second elder brother Li, there are so many suspicions less, and the brotherhood between the elder brothers can also be protected.

And who will finally be enthroned as the emperor, the emperor has not yet determined.

After all, the elder brothers are still young, so the emperor will naturally choose an elder brother with good moral character and outstanding talents to succeed him in the future.

Your Majesty, you really have worked so hard.

Perhaps with his wisdom, he has long foreseen that with the excellence of his children, there will be a fight sooner or later, right?

That event that shocked Qing history, Kowloon seized the throne.

She said embarrassedly: "I thought Xuan Ye didn't take me seriously at all, and he didn't even look at what my child looked like, so he decided that he had no talent."

The emperor helped his forehead helplessly, "Nian Nian, I found out that you are really..."

"What is it?"

"here."

The emperor poked her head lightly with his finger, "There may be a bottomless pit inside, your ideas are always beyond my imagination."

Her unique ideas sometimes seemed very valuable, and sometimes made the emperor very helpless.

Chen Wen slandered inwardly, what does the emperor mean by saying that she has a hole in her head?

It's really fresh and refined to scold people like this.

She rolled her eyes, "This is called rich imagination."

"Then next time you think of something weird, you must tell me. Don't let me make you angry for no reason, okay?"

Chen Wenxin nodded vigorously.

If after this incident, she doesn't have a long memory, and only knows to hide her self-torture words in her heart——

Then she would be stupid.

(End of this chapter)