Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 21 Four Brothers

Chen Wenxin, who had been wandering far and wide, suddenly saw Concubine Tong standing up, and then everyone stood up as well.

She also got up quickly, pretending to be calm.

After Concubine Tong walked past them first, and then in the order from Concubine Hui, Concubine Rong to Concubine De Yigui, everyone filed out one by one.

Only then did Chen Wenxin realize that this is the third program of today.

Say hello, talk, eat.

This is going to eat.

The place to eat was directly set up in Shufangzhai, and after everyone was seated according to their positions, the meal was not held directly.

A danjiaoer dressed as a fairy came on stage first and sang "Magu Offers Her Birthday".

Chen Wenxin was bored, but his mind was still empty.After finally listening to the little Dan babbling and babbling, he finally made a gesture of offering birthday peaches.

Listening to those auspicious words, Concubine Tong smiled and gestured to the female officer beside her.

"Sycamore."

The female official nodded in understanding, and said loudly to the stage:
"The imperial concubine appreciates Magu's birthday."

Xiaodan, who was pretending to be a Magu, bowed her head and knelt down, shouting the imperial concubine and empress Wanfu Jinan, it turned out to be a male voice.

Everyone was incredulous, and laughed at Xiao Dan again.He wondered why his singing voice was so charming, but it turned out to be such a rough voice.

For these concubines, they are either maids or eunuchs. Although the eunuchs are half men, their voices are not much thicker than the maids.

So when I first heard such a rough voice, I was surprised and liked it at the same time.

Chen Wenxin didn't have such a hobby, she looked around for a while, and after accidentally seeing the vermilion pillars, a small head poked out, looking at them.

Suddenly meeting Chen Wenxin's eyes, that little head shrank back anxiously, turned around and ran away.

Chen Wenxin only saw an indigo skirt, which quickly disappeared behind the pillars.

Whose child is this?
Look at the material of the clothes, either rich or expensive.

Concubine Tong Guifei's birthday today is not a full birthday, so there is no big event.I didn't hear that a woman was ordered to enter the palace to pay her respects, so I guess it wasn't a child brought into the palace by a prince or minister.

It could only be a child in the palace.

Will it be the fourth elder brother?

Chen Wenxin just didn't take it seriously, and couldn't tell how old the child was.

The elder brother is old, and with the teaching of Concubine Hui, he should not do such things as peeking.

The second elder brother is a legitimate son, with a noble status, so it should be ruled out.

Third elder brother is sick.

So only the fourth elder brother is left, he is for...

Peek at Debi?

Chen Wenxin looked at his first concubine De, who was talking to Concubine Hui, probably didn't notice.

She thought about it, and told Zhang Changzai that she was going to change clothes and would come back later.
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In the palace, changing clothes has many meanings.In addition to really changing clothes, going to the toilet can also be said to be changing.After all, it is really indecent to speak respectfully in public.

Zhang Changzai nodded knowingly, "If girls ask, I will tell you."

Chen Wenxin escaped out of the game and went to Shufangzhai's apse.

"What are you going to do, master? The changing place is not here."

Seeing Chen Wenxin's appearance, Bai Lu didn't seem to want to change clothes, nor did she seem to want to show respect, as if she was looking for someone.

Chen Wenxin said: "I saw a child running here just now, I want to look for it."

child?
What kind of children can there be in the palace, either an elder brother or a princess.

"Today, all the empresses did not bring their children, and Concubine Tong's second elder brother and fourth elder brother also stayed in Chengqian Palace, and did not come to Shufangzhai."

But she clearly saw a child popping out.

"Look again, there must be."

Chen Wen didn't give up, she always wanted to find a chance to meet the fourth elder brother, if that child was really him, she would have missed it for nothing.

The master and servant walked around a section of female wall, and sure enough, by the side of a rose plant, they saw a boy dressed in indigo with a braid hanging from the back of his head.

Judging from the back, he is about five or six years old.

He was holding a rose branch with his feet, and he was still muttering something.

Chen Wenxin leaned over, only listening to him saying something like "Don't let me see Er Niang, you are all bad people".

The soft child's voice sounds very cute.

Hearing footsteps behind him, the little boy turned his head vigilantly, and immediately recognized the woman who saw him just now.

"Who are you!"

The little boy tried his best to make his voice appear dignified, and his white and tender little bun face swelled up, trying to pretend to be serious.

Chen Wenxin was stared at by his stubborn little eyes, wanted to laugh but suppressed it.

"I am Chen Changzai from Yonghe Palace, who are you?"

Chen Wenxin bent down to the child who had just reached his waist, and stared at him curiously.

The little boy was originally looked a little shy, but his face changed when he heard this, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"You said you belonged to the Yonghe Palace?"

"Exactly."

Chen Wenxin can almost conclude that the little boy in front of him is the fourth elder brother Yinzhen.So he has a different sensitivity to the three words Yonghe Palace.

The little boy hesitated for a while, and said, "I am the fourth elder brother."

"It turns out to be the fourth elder brother. I often hear the Empress Debi talk about you. If the fourth elder brother is free, he often comes to Yonghe Palace to play."

She omitted the second half of her sentence, often coming to give me a chance to pinch your bun face...

"What kind of broken place is the Yonghe Palace, I hate it the most!"

The fourth elder brother suddenly jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and said, "I don't care about that!"

Chen Wenxin took a step back in surprise, not understanding why the fourth elder brother was suddenly angry.

If he really rejected the Yonghe Palace, he wouldn't have peeked at Concubine De just now, and he wouldn't have heard that she was from the Yonghe Palace, so his attitude would have improved a bit.

So which sentence did you say wrong just now?
Before Chen Wenxin could figure it out, the little boy frowned, glared at her angrily, and ran away quickly.

Only the trampled roses were left on the ground, and the red juice splashed on the green leaves.

He died before leaving the teacher.This sentence appeared in her mind inexplicably, seeing how the fourth elder brother stared with white eyes before leaving, she was really wronged.

No wonder Yongzheng was criticized by Kangxi for being moody in history, and judging by the way he was just now, he was indeed.

But he was never happy, just petty and violent.

The future is long, she thought about it and became proud again.I wonder if the emperor's four sons are all so cute?

The fourth elder brother's little bun face has not yet grown up, and his eyebrows and eyes look like the embryo of a handsome guy.

The royal family's genes are really good, the emperor himself is very handsome, and none of his concubines are ugly.

Can a child born in this way not look good?

Thinking of the good-looking little kid, Chen Wenxin's maternal love is overflowing.

Although she doesn't want to give birth yet, she doesn't mind playing with other people's cuties~
Thinking about leaving the banquet for too long, Chen Wenxin rushed back to the main hall.She walked in from the side, and saw a rose red figure kneeling in the center of the hall from a distance.

Everyone's attention was on there, and Chen Wenxin quickly slipped into his seat and sat down.

The conspicuous woman in the rose red dress is naturally Ding Shi.

Seeing that she was so bold and dared to wear a color similar to her own, Tong Guifei had already shown an angry expression when she was in Chengqian Palace.

Just using this as an excuse to admonish Dingshi directly makes her seem stingy.So she endured all the way here, trying to find a reason to send Luo Dingshi.

Of course, it's also possible that Concubine Tong was not looking for a reason, but that Ding's murderer really did something.

But Fan Dingshi is smart, he saw Concubine Tong's clothes when he greeted Chengqian Palace in the morning, and then he should find a reason to change clothes and change to another color.

It's a pity that Ding Shi didn't know whether he was too stupid or too arrogant.

Chen Wenxin pricked up his ears, listening to Dingshi whose voice was as weak as a mosquito's humming:

"Your Majesty is clear, the concubine has absolutely no intention of offending your Majesty, please forgive me."

Guifei Tong, who was at the top, was furious, she slapped the table and said: "You mean that I wronged you? The pomegranate flowers you embroidered for me have no stamens, do you want to curse me that I can't have a son!"

Tong Guifei has two major taboos, one of which is that she has nothing to do.

A high-ranking concubine has nothing to do, which can only mean that she is deeply favored, or her mother's family has a prominent status.

Concubine Tong Gui is the latter, but the latter is what the emperor fears the most.So she has been looking forward to having a son born by herself, so as to stabilize her position, so that the emperor can make her a queen...

This is the second taboo of Concubine Tong. She judges the people around her by the queen's standard. If someone denies her authority, she will definitely keep this person in her heart and find a way to get rid of it.

Chen Wenxin listened for a while, and finally understood the cause and effect of the incident.

It turned out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent Tong Guifei's birthday gift just now, and inside it was a newly made palace flower in the shape of a pomegranate flower.

She liked it very much, so she ordered Director Liu of the House of Internal Affairs to reward her on the spot, and she put a hairpin on her temples in front of the mirror.

Ding Shi also came out to joke, saying that the birthday gift he presented to Concubine Tong in the morning was a sachet embroidered with pomegranate flowers.

Concubine Tong Gui always didn't like to talk to her, but today she was in a good mood, so she asked the female officer to find out the sachet embroidered by Ding's family for everyone to have a look at.

Looking at it, the sharp-eyed Yigui caught Ding's fault, saying that the golden stamens in the center of the pomegranate flower were not embroidered.

Pomegranate flower is the meaning of many children and many blessings. How can a pomegranate flower without stamens bear fruit?

Concubine Tong was so angry that she threw the sachet on the ground and cursed Ding Shi to curse her.

Ding hurriedly stood up and knelt down to admit his mistake, saying that he missed the embroidered stamen because of his carelessness, and it was not deliberate.

Concubine Tong was already displeased with the color of Ding's clothes today, seeing Ding's kneeling on the ground pretending to be cute and pitiful, she felt even more annoyed.

Even Yigui, who had long been displeased with Dingshi, fanned the flames, saying that Dingshi had always been arrogant, which was clearly on purpose.

As for Ding's side, she just repeated those few words by herself, and no concubine pleaded for her.

poor person must have something mean.

Seeing Ding's appearance like this, Chen Wenxin knew how many people she had offended.

Just as the situation here was at a stalemate, the eunuch's shrill voice could be heard outside, reporting loudly:
"The Emperor is here!"

(End of this chapter)