Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 309
Bai Lu quickly fetched water and came back. Seeing that the emperor was still standing outside the porch, she went in silently.

She waited for Chen Wenxin to wash her face, after a while, the emperor came in from the door.

As if he didn't hear Chen Wenxin's words just now, he just said: "I'm late, is Nian Nian hungry? Pass the meal!"

Seeing the emperor coming in, she was secretly delighted, but luckily she washed her face early, otherwise the emperor would have caught her in the face.

She pretended to be annoyed and said: "It's my birthday today, and the emperor told me to wait hungry, hum."

The emperor smiled, "Don't coax me. When have you been hungry? Didn't you have dinner, didn't you eat any snacks?"

He glanced at the various refreshments on the kang table, but none of them moved, which showed that she was really sad so she didn't even eat the snacks.

It's hard for her to be sad, and she pretended to be happy in order not to make herself sad.

The emperor's heart softened, and he dragged her to the table to sit down.

The palace people served dinner, which was a little more delicate than usual, and it was a fresh meaning for a birthday.

"Hurry up and eat. Today is your birthday, why don't you make some dishes you like?"

Chen Wenxin likes to eat fish, shrimp and meat. The emperor believes in Buddhism and pays attention to health care, so he prefers to eat some vegetarian vegetables.

At first glance, the dishes on the table are all exquisite and delicious, but there is less meat and more vegetables. At first glance, they are specially prepared for myself.

Did this silly girl know that she was in a bad mood, so she made these dishes to coax herself?
Chen Wenxin said: "It's not specially made for the emperor, I like to eat these too."

She picked up a chopstick of stir-fried mushrooms without any hesitation. This dish is refreshing and suitable for the emperor to eat now.

When he gets angry, he naturally loses his appetite, and he finds it difficult to swallow some big fish and meat, so he got some refreshing and delicious vegetarian dishes to coax him to eat two more bites.

"Well, this mushroom is really delicious. Your Majesty, try it. It's a new trick in the small kitchen."

The emperor picked up his chopsticks and deliberately pretended to be disdainful.

"What new gimmick? Looks like it's stir-fried, but it can still produce flowers?"

Chen Wenxin was excited by this, and as expected, when he lifted his shoulders, he became energetic.

"Taste it and you'll know, try it!"

This dish is smooth and tender, and it is indeed more refreshing than the usual mushrooms.

The emperor couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and Chen Wenxin smiled triumphantly.

"How about it? Shall I say it's different? This mushroom is soaked with the egg white part of the chicken egg. The soaking time can't be too long or too short. If it's too much, it will be soft and rotten; if it's too little, it will be hard."

Being distracted by the emperor, she couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing: "Speaking of this, there is another joke. The small kitchen tried many times when thinking about this dish, but they couldn't find the most suitable soaking time."

"The steward made a lot of mushrooms because of this, and he didn't dare to waste them according to the emperor's will, so he put them in the regular dishes of the palace people. Naturally, he didn't dare to fool Bailu and other big palace ladies. What if there are more? He even added this to the fat thief's meal! Hahaha!"

She laughed out loud, and Bai Lu and other palace servants beside her couldn't help laughing too.

The emperor didn't think it was funny at first, but he couldn't help laughing when he saw that her laugh was even funnier than this joke.

Chen Wenxin laughed for a while, then breathed out and said: "Fortunately, Fu Guier found out that he was sneaking around, so he went to check the fat thief's rice bowl, and then he found out about it. The two of them were fighting like chickens and gooses, which made me so noisy. I heard."

"The fat thief usually eats jerky. I think he can't eat jerky, so Fu Guier quarreled with him?"

When the emperor asked such a question, Chen Wenxin couldn't help laughing.

"That's not true! It's the fat thief who ate too much meat, so he liked this mushroom very much, so he wagged his tail at the eunuch in charge of the small kitchen. Fu Gui was jealous, so he refused to forgive him."

The two talked and laughed, tacitly maintaining a happy atmosphere with each other, not wanting to make each other sad.

After a meal, the emperor went to bed at Guanlan Pavilion at night, and the two extinguished the candles early.

The two were lying on the embroidery bed, looking at the gold and silver embroidery threads on the top of the curtain that faintly reflected the moonlight outside the window, neither of them said anything.

For a long time, Chen Wenxin made the sound of friction between hair and pillow.

She turned sideways in the dim candlelight, and turned to look at the emperor lying beside her.

"Xuan Ye, are you asleep?"

The emperor used to sleep late, but today was so abnormal, he slept under the bed tent without reviewing papers or reading books.

—He certainly couldn't sleep.

Sure enough, the emperor hummed lightly.

"Why doesn't Nian Nian fall asleep? You always fall asleep when you touch the pillow, but now you've changed your mind."

Chen Wenxin sighed softly, thinking that sooner or later the princess's marriage will be discussed, the harem always prepares a dowry for the princess, doesn't it?
The emperor can't sleep, so it's better to persuade him to make him feel better.

She then said: "I heard rumors in the garden that the envoys of the Zhungeer Ministry asked to marry the princess, did Xuanye agree?"

In the end, this matter is still mentioned, and the emperor is also thinking about this matter. Listen to this question and answer honestly.

"No. I told the envoy that I need to think about it before replying. But today, all the ministers intend to agree to this request, and I also want to agree."

This was Chen Wenxin's expected answer, and she asked again: "Among the three princesses, Princess Heshuo Jingke is the right age. Is Xuanye planning to send her to Zhungeer?"

Princess Heshuo Jingke is the title of Da Gege.

The emperor hummed again, "It's precisely because of age. If my fifth princess is of the right age, I would rather send her to be married."

Chen Wenxin gently covered the emperor's mouth, "Xuan Ye and Prince Gong have a deep brotherhood, so I'm afraid of indebting him. It's just that the fifth princess is your own child, so it's all right for you to treat her equally, why bother to make your own be treated harshly?" .”

In the past, Prince Gong had a quarrel with the emperor because of two of his family's being out of character into the palace.

At that time, the emperor cursed in front of Chen Wenxin, saying that all the princesses of the emperor can go to make marriage, so is the daughter of Prince Gong more noble than the princess of the emperor?
In the end, the emperor was still duplicity. In his heart, he would rather send his own princess to get married than wrong his brother's daughter.

This is really brotherhood.

The emperor had such a heart, but God's will tricked people, causing all the princesses of the emperor to die young, leaving only one underage fifth princess.

He sighed, "I want to make up for Da Gege, and then promote her as Princess Gu Lun, and marry her beautifully, what do you think?"

The debt in his heart can only be made up in this way.

Chen Wenxin frowned slightly, Da Gege is Gege from Prince Gong's residence, and being named Princess Heshuo is already decent enough.

Princess Gu Lun is a reward that can only be granted to princesses who are descendants of queens, which is inconsistent with the ancestral system.

This is still a trivial matter, the most important thing is that the emperor's move is to make up for Da Gege.

But would it make people think that the emperor is afraid of the Zhungeer Ministry and wants to please Galdan?
No, this is absolutely impossible.

"The Zhungeer department is a serious concern, and the glory given to Da Gege is also given to Galdan. This is absolutely impossible!"

That's right, the emperor was confused for a moment because of guilt in his heart, and forgot about this.

"It's because I'm in a daze. If you don't seal her up, then seal up Prince Gong's Mansion."

Giving glory to Prince Gong's mansion is the benefit that Da Gege can see, a real grace.

"I just remembered that Princess Gong has a son who is only five or six years old this year. He also came to the Empress Dowager's funeral last year, do you remember?"

Of course Chen Wenxin remembered that the child was so small and pitiful, it was she who told Princess Gong not to bring him into the palace to guard the spirit.

"Prince Gong's mansion has an eldest son who is the eldest son, and he was conferred the title of Beizi. Now that the younger one is also named Beizi, it can be regarded as making up for my guilt."

Prince Gong's Mansion has long conferred the title of one of his eldest sons as Bei Zi, and now conferring another one is really a great honor for the family.

It is enough honor for the emperor to do this.

(End of this chapter)