At this time, Taohong came in. She was also tortured and looked haggard, but she still managed to keep up the energy to manage the affairs in Yikun Palace. As for the two of them being able to talk well at this moment, she was not surprised. Everything was planned before.
Under Hui Bin's instruction, her master hesitated for three or four days. After the crazy Guo Guiren almost bit her, she finally figured it out. Guo Guiren could not escape death, so don't waste it and co-act with Hui Bin in this scene.
, let her be a good sister who is affectionate and righteous in front of Empress Dowager De.
"Guo Guiren has been laid to rest. Do her eunuchs and maids want to obey? Do they want..."
"What clothes are you holding? I'm just a noble person." Hui Bin stood up tiredly and seemed to be leaving, "Let's keep everything simple. Rong Bin just said a few polite words. How could she go to the trouble and ask for grace for such a person?
?Now that everything has been sorted out, I won’t stay for long. Anyway, there are rules. You just need to cooperate. You don’t need to worry."
Hui Bin also asked Yi Bin to keep her spirits up, and then led the servants away. Tao Hong came back from seeing off the guests. As soon as she entered the door, she heard her master say: "Call all her people here, I have something to say."
Taohong agreed, and within a short time, the palace maids and eunuchs gathered in the inner hall. Yibin, regardless of her embarrassment, faced them openly, and said kindly: "She was not very good to you when she was alive. She often beat and scolded her, and the whole house was in trouble."
There are always things going on in the palace, and I want to take care of it, but I can't interfere because of my face. Now that she is gone, you may have to disperse to work in various places in the palace. I thought about it, so I asked for grace to keep you here.
Continue to take care of Yi Kun Palace and do some idle things here, it is better to go somewhere else and let others bully you."
Everyone kowtowed and thanked her, saying that Yi concubine was merciful. I think these palace maids and eunuchs were frightened by Guo Guiren's torture. Some time ago, they served a crazy person. Guo Guiren ran out on the day when the eighth prince was born. They were not implicated or convicted.
Yi Bin said that she had asked for love for them, and now everyone regarded Yi Bin as a living Bodhisattva.
Yi Bin said again: "But since you stay here, you must be loyal to me. You should forget everything about my sister's past, and just pretend that she has never been such a person. Don't think that I am ruthless. In front of her, I
He was very good to her. Being sad after death will only exhaust your own blessings. You also know that you will be better when I am better. When I take care of her for a while, Yikun Palace will still be the same as before. Your Majesty
You will come here often, you must take good care of this place and me, so that no one in the palace can bully you."
Everyone pledged their allegiance with one voice. Yi Bin asked Tao Hong to reward them with silver and let them continue to deal with the aftermath of their sister. The Queen Mother also sent a decree from Ningshou Palace, saying that the emperor was moving the two queens to the mausoleum. Guo Guiren's
Everything about the funeral was kept simple and there was no conflict. I just wanted her to give birth to Princess Kejing, and since the concubine was still alive as a biological sister, it was considered an honor to give the mother's pension the standard of a concubine.
When the news of the Queen Mother's decision reached Cining Palace, the Queen Mother had already come out of the Great Buddha Hall. When she heard that Guo Guiren's concubines would be given pensions according to their rank, she just smiled: "My wife here is too soft-hearted. Such people are full of sins.
What should I do for her?"
Lan Qi followed and did not dare to speak. She helped her sit down and served tea. Then she bent her knees to give the Empress Dowager a squeeze on her legs and feet. However, she was pulled up to sit on the edge together and said: "After a hundred years of me, there will be only one in the palace."
The Queen Mother makes the decision, but she was careless when she was young, and now she is caught between me and the Emperor. She doesn’t understand anything. I don’t blame her at all. It is her blessing and her helplessness. But now I am looking forward to you.
If you succeed in the future, you can take care of everything in this palace. I know you are smart enough to learn, but you also have the heart of a Bodhisattva. Let me ask you, Lan Qi, if you were the Queen Mother, how would you issue orders?"
Lan Qi was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and replied: "I will also honor Guo Guiren. I don't think about anything else, just for Princess Kejing. What if she is despised when she grows up? She is the emperor's
daughter."
The Empress Dowager smiled bitterly and called Aunt Sumala: "What's so great, she is also a soft-hearted person."
But Mammy smiled: "You are asking now, how do you want Empress Dowager De to respond? Could it be that you are blaming the Queen Mother and pushing her idea away? You can't even say it's hard to interfere. How dare Empress De concubine dare to overstep. But you just said a few words
Didn’t you hear what I said, our empress, Concubine De, is not a soft-spoken master."
After that, the mother told Lan Qi's doubts to the Empress Dowager. The old man frowned and thought for a while, then asked Lan Qi: "Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Lan Qi nodded slightly awkwardly: "I find it strange. It doesn't seem true. If the emperor had not told me that he hinted that Concubine Hui wanted to end Guo Guiren's affairs, I probably wouldn't have thought that way. But now I feel strange. What do you think?"
How could it be such a coincidence?”
"True or false, you judge in your own heart. I am very happy that you can doubt it. Remember this incident today. When you are in charge of others or affairs in the palace in the future, don't soften your heart at the sight of tears. Calm down your heart.
Come and think about it, are the tears shed by those people worth anything?" The Empress Dowager also had doubts in her heart, but without evidence, she couldn't clearly say that Yi Bin was acting, but Lan Qi could think of this, and she was very satisfied, and she was in a bad mood for a while.
He also left and said with a smile, "Xuan Ye told me before he went out that you should ask him to invite people from Horqin to come to the capital to see me. Silly boy, there are not many people in my generation from Horqin now, and all the people who come are Mao."
I don’t recognize you guys, what are you doing here?”
Lan Qi smiled and said: "We are all blood relatives. You will definitely like it when you see it." She whispered again, "It is not easy to invite princes to the capital. I am ignorant and just talked about it, but the emperor agreed.
The princes and adults in the hospital will be busy for a long time, so it can be seen that the emperor also has his own intentions, so if you accept this sentiment, it will be considered as a favor to you and a favor to the emperor."
But the Empress Dowager gently pinched her ears: "What you said is dangerous. Remember, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, unless one day you..." The old man didn't finish what he said. Those words were unlucky and meaningless, and he spat in his heart.
After a few times, she just smiled and lectured Lan Qi, "Don't say such things on your own initiative again, causing others to find fault. If I hear it again, I will make you kneel in the corridor, no matter how shameless you are."
Lan Qi smiled and agreed obediently, and then they chatted with her. She only waited for the Empress Dowager to take a break in the afternoon before she withdrew. However, she seemed to be relieved. When she saw her grandma coming out, she got close to her and acted like a baby.
Said: "Mommy still loves me, otherwise I will definitely get scolded. Mammy, do you have anything you want to buy? There is still a lot of money that Long live the Lord rewarded me with, so I will send someone out of the palace to buy it for you.
.”
Mammy smiled softly: "I'm not kidding you, my slave. If you dare to say to the Queen Mother that Yi is pitiful and you have a sister so you sympathize with her, you will be punished again today. Poor people must be hated."
In the Forbidden City, the word "poor" is the most worthless. Also, Chengqian Palace and Xianfu Palace used to be opposite you, but now they are not bad. You can loosen the knot a little.
Xian, if we look at the words and deeds of the other two, we can see that the truly bad people are the ones who don’t show off their appearance.”
"Remember it, remember it. You can tell me something and I'll let them buy it." Lan Qi just let her grandma act coquettishly. She didn't act like a master or servant at all. The two of them chatted and laughed for a while, and grandma also went to take a rest.
Only then did Lan Qi take Yu Kui and Xiang Yue out.
The two girls were having dinner and drinking tea with the maids and eunuchs of Cining Palace. Xiangyue even touched her belly when she went out and said, "No wonder Ziyu always likes to follow his master to Cining Palace. The slaves always think that there are strict rules here and don't want to suffer."
Restriction, it turns out that it is so good, it is different from when I was here, it is good to be a guest."
These are all maids from Cining Palace. They had to endure hardships when they learned the rules and skills from their nanny. Now they follow Lan Qi. They don't work every time they come back. They just wait outside while the other maids and eunuchs do nothing.
Treat them with delicious food and drinks, no wonder Xiangyue said so.
I was in a good mood all the way back. When I passed the West Sixth Palace, I saw someone moving things in the distance. Yu Kui said, "Empress Hui will move into Changchun Palace tomorrow, and Empress Dowager Rong will also move into Jingyang Palace."
Lan Qi also knew this, so she joked: "Xiangyue is thinking about the ladies serving you wine and delicious food, but now that the emperor has gone to do serious business and the two queens have entered the mausoleum, how can you prepare a banquet in the palace? You
Wait a minute, I asked Concubine Rong to save another food box for you, hide it and eat it slowly."
The three masters and servants chatted and laughed all the way back to Yonghe Palace. Lan Qi waited until the house was quiet and told Huan Chun about the whole morning's experience.
Huan Chun asked: "Am I too hard-hearted?"
"I don't know, but this morning when I heard that Guo Guiren was gone, I screamed." Huan Chun curled her lips and said, "Otherwise, who knows when she will come out and harm others. She can't be blameless just because she is crazy.
Come on. Let me have a look at it, it’s your concubine too..."
"Don't say it, it's not what you can say." When Lan Qi mentioned Yi concubine, her heart palpitated even more. Yi concubine or Hui concubine must be careful to get along with each other in the future. As long as they are in the palace for one day, everyone will look up.
Don't bow your head, Xuan Ye has his own reasons for keeping them. Just like Concubine Tong was so arrogant and domineering in the past, he didn't even move his eyebrows. There must be all kinds of people in the harem to achieve balance.
"Hui Bin and Sister Rong will be moving in the next few days. Please remember to remind me to send gifts. There is no need to go to Yikun Palace to express condolences. The Empress Dowager said that it is not necessary." Lan Qi said and became contradictory again, "Huanchun, you
It would be great if you were here. You really didn't see Yi Bin crying. If it was fake, how could she be so cruel? I can't say this to the Empress Dowager, but in my heart, I would rather Yi Bin was really sad and she was just acting
Show me, I won’t get along well with her, so why bother?”
On this day, it was not until dusk and sunset that things in Yikun Palace were put in order. Guo Guiren had been sent away. There was no mourning hall set up where she lived. All the used things were collected and burned later.
, and they were cleaned inside and out. Except for the immovable beams, doors and windows, all the other furniture and furnishings were replaced with new ones. Even the paper on the windows was torn off and pasted on new ones. When the people in the Imperial Service Room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had dispersed,
After that, Yi Bin came out of the main hall with weak steps.
Standing in front of the side hall where my sister lived in the past, looking at everything that had been brand new without any trace anymore, thinking about the past bits and pieces, and thinking about the scene when my sister came into the palace to play when I still lived here, I finally got emotional.
, couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Eniang..." Kejing called out. Yibin looked back and saw the little girl lying on the threshold from a distance. The wet nurse behind her was panicking and wanted to carry her away, but Yibin said, "Bring her here."
The wet nurse hurriedly carried the little princess across the threshold. The little girl came staggeringly, threw herself under Yibi's knees, raised her head and shouted: "E Niang goes to play, E Niang plays with Ke Jing."
Squatting down and hugging the child, Ke Jing was very similar to her own mother when she was a child. Although the age difference between the two sisters was not big, she also watched her sister grow up. Now that her sister is gone, her child is still in front of her.
Maybe Ke Jing will look more like her mother in more than ten years. Thinking of this, Yi Bin suddenly trembled in her heart. She kept asking everyone in the palace to forget about Guo Guiren, but as long as Ke Jing is around, she will always have her mother in her body.
shadow.
Involuntarily pushing the child away, the little princess was stunned for a moment, holding her mouth and feeling aggrieved, and then came closer to act coquettishly, shouting incessantly, although Guo Guiren would confess to her daughter from time to time that she was the biological mother, but because of the
Most people are good at tempting, and most of them listen to the teachings of wet nurses. The little princess only recognizes Yibin as her biological mother, and does not understand what a biological mother is.
"Mom, let's go play." The little girl took Yi Bin's hand, but Yi Bin fell to the ground. Seeing her mother like this, Ke Jing was very scared, and she held her mouth and started crying. Yi Bin also choked with sobs and was vague.
Qing said, "Cry, cry loudly, your mother is gone, you should cry."
Crying, she still held the child in her arms. Everything these days seemed like a dream. She finally gave in to Hui Bin and insisted on keeping her sister alive for several days, but she was so crazy that she even
She almost bit herself. Hui Bin tried to persuade her again and again, saying that keeping it would be a burden and a disaster. When she thought that because of her sister's existence, Yikun Palace would become a cold palace in the future, she became scared and hesitated. As she said
, she doesn’t want to be a resentful wife like Concubine Zhao, she wants to live in the palace with glory, her sister will inevitably die, she can’t deal with the concubines, and she can’t deal with the emperor.
"Ke Jing, your Ama is so cruel, he is so cruel." Yi Bin hugged the child and cried loudly, which made Ke Jing tremble all over. Tao Hong and the wet nurse rushed to persuade her, but this time, Yi Bin really cried.
Fainted.
In the morning, I pretended to faint in order to keep Wu Yashi, and this time I actually fell into the darkness. But while I was sleeping, I dreamed of my sister showing her teeth and claws. I woke up in the middle of the night in a sweat. The maid on duty outside heard the noise and was still waiting.
Before he could hold the lamp and come in, he heard cries coming from the darkness. Someone had died in Yikun Palace. The palace maid was so frightened that she knocked over the candlestick and almost caused disaster.