Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 221
Immediately afterwards, a series of ceremonies from the past, such as offering sacrifices to stoves, hanging lanterns in various palaces, posting Spring Festival couplets and palace training pictures.

Everywhere in the palace was busy and chaotic, only the emperor who was usually the busiest was free.

The court seals, the emperor also seals the pen, and can sleep with Chen Wenxin in Yikun Palace every day until he wakes up naturally.

Chen Wenxin is almost too busy, and now there is only the family dinner on New Year's Eve.

This year's New Year's Eve family banquet was extraordinarily lively. There was a Princess Heshuo Wenyi and two princesses added to the palace, both of whom were going to attend the family banquet.

The family banquet list was drafted by Chen Wenxin. She planned to let the two princesses, one princess, and one of the emperor's five princesses sit in the seat behind the elder brothers.

The fifth princess came first, followed by Princess Wen Yi, and then the two untitled Ge Ge.

The emperor reversed the order of Princess Wenyi and the fifth princess, saying that the fifth princess was still young, and Princess Wenyi had a title, so she should be at the top.

That being said, the fifth princess is a serious imperial daughter, while Princess Wen Yi is an adopted daughter.

Chen Wenxin didn't expect that the emperor would give Princess Wen Yi such an honor and make her sit in front of the fifth princess.

This is not only an honor for Princess Wen Yi, but more importantly, it makes Prince Yu feel the grace of the emperor.

It is also to let Prince Gong know that the honor given to Princess Wen Yi by the emperor now will also be given to the two princesses of his family in the future.

——As long as Prince Gong is obedient.

This year's newly promoted Zhang Guiren and Wei Chang are here, because Yigui has a son, Zhang Guiren's seat is right behind her.

Wei Changzai's seat is also ranked behind the original Dingchangzai, because Dingchangzai's family is rich and noble, and he was granted first.

Although they have been promoted, the ranking in the palace remains unchanged.

Except Concubine Tong is behind Concubine Hui.

The emperor pointed to her seat on the list, and said, "I think you should also move your seat."

From the beginning, he didn't want Chen Wenxin to be under Concubine Rong and Concubine De. Although they had children, their status in the emperor's heart could not be compared with that of Chen Wenxin.

Now she is the harem assistant in name, but in fact she manages more matters than Concubine Hui, and is more decisive than Concubine Hui.

The golden seal of Yikun's concubine Qin is no worse than the phoenix seal.

"Now that you have a foundation and dignity in the palace, do you still want to be subordinate to others?"

She also knew in her heart that her status in the palace had long surpassed Concubine Rong and Concubine De.

If it weren't for the lower rank, she would be on par with Concubine Hui and Concubine Tong.

It's just that at this moment, the position was suddenly moved, which instead caused Concubine Rong and the others to complain.

Not for their sake, but also for the sake of brothers.

She has a very good relationship with her brothers now, and they treat her like a mother and child.

She is also a teacher, a friend, and a mother, and she cherishes this relationship very much.

"Do you still remember what Xuan Ye said before the second brother set off?"

"Of course I remember, I said that when Lan Xiang returns in triumph, I will make you my concubine."

"Second elder brother is coming back soon, when Xuan Ye Jin made me a concubine, wouldn't it be better for me to sit in front of Concubine Rong and the others?"

That would be justifiable and would not provoke criticism.

"Lan Xiang is still in Horqin now, helping the new Prince Daruer whom I have chosen to assume the position. After he secures his position and the battle on the Horqin Grassland resumes, Lan Xiang will come back."

Chen Wenyi was not only the general who crusaded Horqin, the emperor also entrusted him with the task of appeasement afterwards.

Originally supporting the new king in Horqin, this kind of thing should be left to the civil servants.

Chen Wenyi was a war fighter, and he was supposed to return to the court after the battle.

The emperor wanted to give him more credit, so he also entrusted him with the errands for the later settlement.

Chen Wenxin pouted, "Then I'm afraid Second Brother won't be back before my birthday."

It is a good thing that the emperor wants to give him more credit, but in this way, Chen Wenyi has stayed in Horqin for too long.

Not only his parents miss him, but Chen Wenxin also misses him very much.

She pouted, motioning the emperor to look at the long altar over there.

I saw that there were various gifts piled up on it, all with red stickers, and there was a large stack of neat gift slips in the corner of the table.

The emperor was surprised and said: "What did Bai Lu do? She didn't register the annual ceremonies after all these years and put them away."

Chen Wenxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "That's all, that's all you said? Bai Lu has already registered all morning. She is not good at pen and ink, and her wrist hurts from writing. I just let her go out for a walk, and come back to write later."

It turns out that there are so many annual gifts, but some of them have already been registered and put away.

"Those who gave gifts all missed my second brother. Including the eldest lady of Nalan's family, the second young lady of Guo Luoluo's family..."

Originally, there were concubines and foreign ministers in various palaces, including Chen Wenxin's mother's family and in-law Zeng's family.There are also the ministers who are friends with the Chen family, and the senior scholars who are friends with Chen Wenxin, such as Wang Xi, Huang Ji, and Xiang Ming...

Just from these people alone, Chen Wenxin was overwhelmed by the New Year's gift.

Who would have thought that there would be many strange names popping up, just Nalan's family and Guo Luoluo's family, at least she has met the young ladies of these two families.

I've seen her before, so it doesn't seem too abrupt to give her a New Year gift.

The most embarrassing thing was that those ministers who had never heard of their names also sent Lilai, making her think that the palace servants who gave the gifts had gone wrong.

What are the second-class Zhongmingbo's mansion, the Hubu Shangshu's mansion, the nine-door admiral's mansion...

Chen Wenxin asked the little table to inquire, only to find that these few families have nothing in common, that is, each family has one, two or three daughters who are waiting to be married.

Then send someone to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to ask Chen Xihai, and the matter will be completely clear.

——The Chen family also received annual gifts from these ministers.

It seems that the ladies of the adults' families are very strong, and there is a way to force their elders to give gifts directly to the door like this.

Of course, it's also possible that they weren't forced to, but that these adults also fell in love with Chen Wenyi, the wealthy son-in-law.

The emperor understood what she meant, and couldn't help laughing, "It's time for Lan Xiang to find a marriage. What do Nian Nian's parents think, you might as well tell me."

"Whoever Lan Xiang likes, I can give him a marriage. If I have a princess who grows up, I would like to marry Lan Xiang, let alone those ministers."

The emperor's words were just talking, he couldn't even find out the princess who was sent to Mongolia to get married, and he wanted to rob two princes' daughters.

Chen Wenxin said helplessly: "It would be great if I knew whose young lady he likes, but he doesn't reveal it at all. I don't think he really likes it."

The emperor hugged Chen Wenxin triumphantly, "The beauty of the world is already in my arms, so Lan Xiang can't find it naturally. I have to persuade him to settle for the next best thing."

She shook her head, "I don't think the second brother is such a person. Beauty is important in marrying a wife and a virtuous person. This Nalan Yulu or Guo Luo Mingyuan, who is not beautiful?"

Why do you have to be so beautiful that you can cry ghosts and gods?
When the emperor heard the name Guo Luo Luo Mingyuan, he asked, "Is this Guo Luo Luo Mingyuan the sister of Yigui?"

"Exactly, among so many ladies who admire my second brother, she is the most persistent."

The emperor didn't take it seriously, "Yigui has such a character, Guo Luoluo's family's tutor is not good, what can this young lady be good for?"

It was only after the Xiangjiwan incident that the emperor began to dislike Yigui.

He never expected that in order to protect himself, Mrs. Yigui would push all the responsibility for Xiangjiwan to her mother's family.

If such a vicious woman was beside his pillow, he would hardly be able to sleep soundly.

As Yigui wanted, he did not demote her, but his father.

That's only temporary.

Later, when the Yuchang incident happened, the emperor found a reason to demote Yigui.

He has no feelings for Yigui right now, and the slight favor he gave her before was just to numb Yu Changzai.

Let Yu Changzai think that he came to Yongshou Palace to meet Yigui, and then saw Yu Changzai by the way, and then pampered her.

Since Guo Luo and Luo Mingyuan are Yigui's younger sister, the emperor naturally doesn't like her.

"What's more, with the status of Guo Luoluo's family, they are not worthy of marriage with the Chen family."

The emperor knew in his heart that the status of the Chen family was by no means limited to the current situation.

"That's because our family has a lot of status. People with daughters all over the capital are here to curry favor with us."

Chen Wenxin raised his eyebrows proudly, which made the emperor laugh out loud.

"It's a good thing you entered the palace early, otherwise the Chen family would rely on Lan Xiang and you, and all the families with sons and daughters in the capital would have gone to fawn on your family."

Who doesn't have a son or daughter?

Doesn't that mean that people all over the capital are about to break through the threshold of the Chen family.

Chen Wenxin said disdainfully: "If I were at home, it would be the second elder brother's turn to show off his prestige. Those who come to propose marriage must be the most handsome young man in Beijing."

"oops!"

She suddenly thought of something, "Your Majesty, is this year's Qiu Wei over?"

She asked a stupid question, seeing that the Chinese New Year was over, and of course the autumn was over.

"Second brother said that he wants to participate in the martial arts test in Qiuwei. It's all right now. The emperor sent him to Horqin, so he can't participate."

It's fine if Qiuwei fails to participate, and he won't even be able to come back for the New Year.

Speaking of this, the emperor thought of another person.

"The eldest son of Mingzhu's family, Rong Ruo, is also gone. I asked him the last time I saw him. Guess what he said?"

Earlier in Nianxin Garden, Nalan Rongruo seemed to have said that he and Chen Wenyi would participate in Qiu Wei.

"Did he say that if my second brother doesn't go, he won't go either?"

Now the emperor was surprised, "How did Nian Nian know?"

Chen Wenxin had a bad thought, she frowned and hesitated to speak.

After a long time, she seemed to muster up great courage, and asked the emperor seriously.

"Xuan Ye, tell me, my second brother and Nalan Rongruo don't have the habit of cutting sleeves?"

puff--

The emperor took a sip of tea and sprayed it on the ground.

(End of this chapter)