187 There Are Other Concubines Raised in Outside Houses
In Lan Qi's memory, the words Concubine Wen said to her the most were "I won't harm you". The first time she heard such words, she would be a little moved, but hearing them more often would only make her spine shiver.
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"Concubine, please leave." Lan Qi turned to leave, but heard Concubine Wen ask from behind, "I am so annoying to you, why can't you get along with me like you do with concubines and nobles? I'm thinking, the emperor likes you so much
You, your likes and dislikes must be similar. If you hate me, does that mean that the emperor will hate me in the same way?"
Lan Qi stayed where she was, Concubine Wen was talking to her, she couldn't wave her sleeves away rudely, and said with a heavy heart: "How can I hate your empress? Your Majesty will not do that either. I am aware of the disparity in status.
Talents are very important, and Duan Concubine and Bu Guiren have been under the same roof with me for many years, so their friendship is bound to be different from others. It is my concubine's blessing that the empress is willing to be on good terms with me."
"Then why did you ignore me and stay away?" Concubine Wen came over anxiously and asked, "The last time I had tea, you never came again. Could it be that, as the palace people said, you hate me?
Have you repeatedly asked the emperor to leave Yonghe Palace?"
Lan Qi was helpless and couldn't break up with her. Even if it didn't matter what kind of friendship or difference in status, she couldn't say rude words to Concubine Wen. She just sighed in her heart, if Concubine Wen could pretend to be weak and cowardly like she did back then.
How great it would be, that kind of person would make people feel protective and caring, but her so-called true temperament now is really too much for people to bear.
"I don't think so, and my concubine doesn't like to listen to gossip in the palace. In this case, why should you take gossip seriously? Please rest assured, my concubine has never had such thoughts." Lan Qi slowly said
He stepped back and said, "The Empress Dowager is still waiting for me to reply. If the empress has any advice, I will listen to you next time. Summer has not passed yet, and the days here are still very long. There is always a chance."
say."
After saying this, Lan Qi didn't care anymore. The rain outside hadn't completely stopped yet, so she rushed into the rain curtain without looking back. Huan Chun, who was waiting in the distance, was startled when he saw it. He took an umbrella and chased after her.
, but the journey after that was fast, and although she was not wet, her shoes, socks, skirts, and pants were still soaked. She was so embarrassed that she could not go to see the Empress Dowager, so Lan Qi could only retreat to her house first.
After bathing and changing clothes, after Lan Qi had finished packing, the heavy rain outside had stopped, and the sun was shining brilliantly. A rainbow slanted in the clouds, but it dispersed as soon as the wind blew. When Lan Qi called Huan Chun to come and see, only blue sky and white clouds were left.
"It is said that the rainbow is a bridge to heaven. Only the master can see it because he is a blessed person. How can I, a mere mortal, see it?" Huan Chun smiled and coaxed her, and asked if he was going to see the Empress Dowager immediately, as he was afraid of it.
She was anxious to wait, but Lan Qi lazily pushed her away and said, "I'm afraid that Concubine Wen's fuss will show up on my face when I go there, so why don't you go and tell me that I ate too much with the emperor at lunch and choked?"
Now, I need to take a rest."
"Then you go to the house and lie down, otherwise the Empress Dowager will send someone and the slaves back. If they see you in good condition, they will make a joke." Huan Chun agreed, fixed his bun, took the umbrella and went out. There is no comparison here.
The palaces and pavilions in the Forbidden City gathered together far away, and in the blink of an eye, Lan Qi sat and watched the purple jade being tied. Before one of the purple jade was finished, Huanchun came back.
"The Empress Dowager has taken a nap, and Aunt Sumala is not here either. I don't want to talk much. I think you don't have to go there. It's not too late to go there in the evening." Huan Chun said, putting down a big cantaloupe and smiling.
He said: "I'm going to get some water from the well. The day before yesterday, Long live the Lord, I told you that the melons were too hot to taste. If I come back tonight, I'll have something cold to eat."
"Why do you remember everything? I'm too lazy to remember." Lan Qi smiled lazily, waving the fan in her hand, thinking about the fun the two had when Xuan Ye came, and she was in a good mood. Suddenly, she remembered what she had just seen.
people.
The way Concubine Wen looked at her was indeed not hostile, but Lan Qi couldn't stand that pitiful look. It seemed that every time she looked at her, she was saying: How about you give me some of the emperor? It's not that Lan Qi is stingy and careless.
, women are inherently sensitive to such things, not to mention that they are women who share the same husband, so this feeling is even more acute. At least when Duanbi and Bu Guiren are around, Lan Qi never thinks like this.
Then I remembered that Concubine Wen said that the reason for Jue Chan's illness was that she didn't care about Xianfu Palace. She didn't know she was sick until she came to Yingtai. She thought it was a natural cold and discomfort, so she didn't take it to heart. Now
It seems that Jue Chan must have a heart disease.
Just as I was sighing, laughter came from outside, and I heard the sound of milk, and Duanbi was joking: "She is lazy, and now she has left all the sixth brothers to my place, and my place has become my brother's property. It turns out that she is lazy.
Your master is here to be used, and I'm here to be the mother-in-law?"
The speaker came in. Duan concubine was holding Yinzuo in her arms. The little boy wanted to hug his mother as soon as he saw her. There were tears on his face. Duan concubine sat down and said, "I woke up and didn't see you for a nap. I cried so much that I
Here you go."
"Thank you for your hard work, sister." Lan Qi coaxed her son. The little guy lay softly in E Niang's arms. It seemed that he was not full from his nap and was tired and sleepy. From time to time, he rubbed his eyes with his hands. Lan Qi coaxed him.
After a few clicks and pats, she fell asleep again, and then the wet nurse came to take her away.
"The children played wildly all morning and are exhausted. Yinzhi and the others are still sleeping. They were afraid of waking them up, so I brought them to you. If you are busy, I will carry them back later." Duan Bi drank the tea and smiled bitterly.
"I've been chattering with them all morning, and my ears are still ringing. I want to take a nap, but my heart can't calm down. Think about what Long Live Lord asked me to do. Isn't it just to give you some time to do your bidding?"
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Lan Qi smiled and peeled the grapes for her to eat, and said: "Long live the Lord, from now on, the only person in the palace who can be entrusted to take care of my brother and princess is my sister. I am also irritable. The children are best with you. I
I don’t care if Long Live Master doesn’t let me touch it.”
"You're coaxing me?" Duanbi ate the grapes and praised them for being sweet. She even smiled and said, "You're happy even if you coax me. Sister Rong and I are both very young. We can still remember being called Long Live Lord, and we feel better in our hearts."
It’s still sweet after eating honey.”
Lan Qi joked with her a little, not wanting to mention what she heard about meeting Concubine Wen, but she knew that Duan Concubine and Rong Concubine were close, and Concubine Rong knew the most things in the palace, so she chatted casually and quickly.
The conversation started: "When I just returned from the emperor, I met Master Mingzhu. I heard a few words that Eunuch Li said to him. Is it appropriate to ask about their son's affairs? I only heard Master Mingzhu sighing and didn't know.
What's the matter? Both father and son are capable ministers of the Emperor. If anything happens to them, the Emperor will sigh."
As expected, Duanbi knew about it, and peeled the grapes herself, telling Lan Qi: "Before I went out, sister Rong came to tell me about Rong Xian and Yinzhi, and she talked about the eldest son of the Nalan family, saying that there was a big trouble.
It’s a joke, you keep a concubine secretly outside your house. You know, what is the origin of the eldest mistress of the Nalan family? She was married by Long Live Master. Although this young mistress has a good temper, her mother-in-law’s family is powerful, who can tolerate his own girl?
Are you being wronged by your husband's family? If you are brought into the family as a child, what else can you say, you have to live in an outhouse, and the two houses are equal? When the family members go to Mingzhu Mansion, Master Mingzhu is half-dead angry, but he can't put it down
How about that woman? After all, there are so many pairs of eyes staring at her."
Lan Qi secretly sighed, there was such a thing, and then she thought about how Nalan Rongruo must have been very fond of her after he brought her back from the south. No wonder Mrs. Juechan fell ill when she heard about it. Her old relationship here is still there, and he has moved on to another family.
If there is a new love, if there is a mistress and a concubine in the family, whether it is a marriage granted by the emperor or a gift from the family elders, Nalan Rongruo is not a woman who can make the decision on his own. I guess Jue Chan is still open to it, but now he is doing everything he can to make it happen.
If you don't like the woman you bring back, how can you have the guts to destroy the family tradition and keep it outside?
Duan concubine ate four or five grapes, called the palace maid to fetch water for her to wash her hands, and continued to talk: "Sister Rong said that the Mingzhu Mansion wanted to send this woman back, and she could go back and forth wherever she wanted, but Nalan Rong
If he didn't agree, he said that he would either take him home or raise him in another house. The father and son had a huge quarrel, and the young mistress's mother-in-law refused to let go and kept putting pressure on the Mingzhu Mansion. They were just a step away from the quarrel with the Long Live Lord. Of course.
, How can a person who is so concerned about face like the Prime Minister allow such a thing to be decided by Long Live Lord? But Long Live Lord does not say anything, and Mingzhu has power in the government, and no one dares to make irresponsible remarks, so that everyone will not know about it. "
"Yes, if I hadn't heard a few words from Eunuch Li and Master Mingzhu today, I wouldn't have heard anything at all." Lan Qi responded, feeling excited in her heart, and said with a smile, "Then Empress Hui must know."
"Of course I know. Most of Sister Rong's remarks were made by Hui Concubine." Duan Concubine clicked her tongue, "I heard that Madam Mingzhu walked in a swaggering way when she entered the palace in the past. But a few days ago when she entered the palace to see Concubine Hui, she was so arrogant.
Sneaking away, I heard Hui Bin say that she cried when he saw her, saying that her son's future was ruined, and asked Hui Bin to give her advice. We here are just gossips and don't dare to interfere in the affairs of the court, but there is something strange.
, Long Live Lord used to think highly of Nalan Rongruo and would accompany him wherever he went. Why don't you pay attention to him now? I heard that when he came back from disaster relief, the emperor didn't even say a word of praise, but other disaster relief officials were rewarded. People said it was because of him.
It's missing, how is it possible? There must be something wrong."
Lan Qi nodded and said: "Maybe the emperor has other plans, and we shouldn't worry about this matter, but they are all women. I am very curious about what will happen to the woman Nalan Rongruo brings back. Lord Mingzhu, please don't be cruel.
What happened to her?"
Duanbi smiled and said: "Nalan Rongruo is a filial son, but he is really stubborn about this matter. We are all waiting to see what happens next. But you are right, they are all women. That woman from the south of the Yangtze River, don't