"Your Majesty!" Lan Qi suddenly yelled at him out of control, as she usually did when she taught her sons to calm down. But now she immediately realized that she was losing her temper with the emperor, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed, "I have lost my temper.
Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Xuan Ye was also frightened by her low roar. He was stunned for a long time before dragging her up and saying, "You are getting more and more presumptuous."
Lan Qi lowered her eyes and said solemnly: "I am just getting anxious. Your Majesty, if you want to keep so many beauties from the south of the Yangtze River in the palace, I cannot stop you. But how should the imperial court and the harem treat this matter? I
What can I do for you? Come and discuss it with me. What can be the outcome? Even if you leave a few or two, I can still take care of you just like I did for Wang Changzai." She looked up suddenly.
Turning to Xuan Ye, "There are five or six people. Your Majesty, do you know how many maids there are in Yonghe Palace who can serve the concubines at close range?"
Xuan Ye pulled her to sit down. Seeing that her face changed with anger, he was frightened and kept saying: "I didn't say to keep them all in the palace. I want to keep them all in the capital. The palace
You see, if there are no suitable ones, that’s it. I can keep none of them, but I must stuff them into the palace of the royal prince, Baylor. But someone has to start this matter, and others will accept it with sincerity.
I don’t want to beg anyone, and I don’t want to look at any of their faces, except you. I am willing to make you complain or coax you.”
Lan Qi was puzzled by the emperor's meaning, shook her head and asked: "What on earth does the emperor want to do?"
Xuan Ye said: "The daughter of the prefect Li Wenye has the best birth and character among this group of women. I sent people to check her out and wanted to point her out to Yinzhen as a concubine, but I'm afraid you won't agree.
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Lan Qi didn't expect that after Xuan Ye had been wandering around for a long time, the matter turned out to be on her son. The candidate for his son's side blessing had never been finalized. However, the Queen Mother had already selected the fifth blessing and was waiting for the imperial edict to be announced. Just because Lan Qi was better than the others.
The Queen Mother and Xuan Ye agreed to choose a suitable one from among the draftees to send to their son, but she became dazzled after seeing too much. Although she was just looking at Fujin, she still had to consider no less than choosing a real wife.
In fact, she had never done anything like this before. It was clearly Empress Xiaoyi who had the final say back then.
This matter has been delayed until now, because she has not chosen the candidate for the fourth elder brother's side, and the affairs of the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother are waiting for her, and none of them have been decided. The Queen Mother has been at ease for five years.
Fujin had no intention of urging him to choose someone, so up to this moment, she had not chosen anyone for her son.
"If you are worried, why don't you go and take a look yourself?" Xuan Ye was very sincere and said carefully, "I want them to welcome these Han women into the palace to be Fujin or Gege. There are some among the princes.
If you accept it, they won't dare to talk nonsense with me. Lan Qi, can you promise me?"
She was depressed and refused to let go for a while, complaining: "Your Majesty, look at the daughter-in-law you chose for Yinzhi. It's too late to regret it now."
Xuan Ye hurriedly said: "So I'm here to discuss it with you. If you go and take a look, if it's not suitable, you may choose again or give up. I won't force you, I just have this wish."
Lan Qi said angrily: "Your Majesty clearly knows that there is nothing wrong with me here that cannot fulfill your wish?"
A smile appeared on Xuan Ye's face: "Then you agreed?"
Lan Qi immediately shook her head: "I want to see it with my own eyes, and I have to think about my son and his wife." But on the other hand, she said, "If the child is really good-looking, it is a good thing. Your Majesty, do you think we have a concubine for our son? Although
It's unfair to newcomers, but she entered the profession just to open up branches for Yinzhen. If she can have more children and more blessings, she will be a meritorious official, but Chenconcubine is worried that she will take credit and be arrogant in the future and try to overtake Yuxi. So Chenconcubine has always thought, side Fujin
Her family background cannot be high, and she must be destined not to cross Yuxi from the moment she enters the family, so that she can keep her position honestly and dutifully, and we can have peace of mind. But the beautiful girls to be selected this time have good backgrounds.
, so I have been delayed until now, without any explanation to the Queen Mother."
Xuan Ye seized the opportunity and said: "You see how considerate I am of you. I know that you are in trouble for this, so I quickly came to give you some advice."
Lan Qi glared at him angrily, pushed him away gently and said, "But it's one thing to have your son's side friends. The emperor should keep one or two in the palace, right?"
Xuan Yehou said to her: "Didn't you say last time that I should not favor one over the other among the three major weaving houses? This time, although they were blindly attentive, I also avoided the embarrassment of taking the initiative to speak, so I just followed the trend and left one or two.
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"Yes, yes, I will go with the flow and go to Jiangnan next time and bring one or two back with me." Lan Qi said these words and suddenly stretched out her hand wearing an emerald ring. The gemstone was too big and her fingers looked even more slender.
She shook her hand and said seriously: "I have to wear it on all five fingers, otherwise I won't agree."
The emperor chose concubines for his son and took concubines for himself, and even bribed his favorite concubine and waited for her to nod before he could do it. Although Xuan Ye mostly wanted to make others happy, he had already made up his mind, but his attitude
Such sincerity was rare among the infatuated emperors in history. Lan Qi knew very well that Xuan Ye respected her and she had to respect this friendship.
As for the helplessness and sadness, there is nowhere to resolve it, but at this juncture, all the sons she gave birth to are married. If she still can't understand what is the imperial court and what is the harem, then she really feels sorry for Xuan Ye's friendship.
Her husband is a powerful emperor, and when you think about it like this, nothing is a big deal.
Later, Lan Qi became Xuan Ye's lobbyist and went to tell the Queen Mother to choose a girl from the Han Army Banner to be Yinzhen's concubine. The Queen Mother seemed unhappy. In her eyes, after all, a girl with a full face was better, but Lan Qi was fine.
After counting the pros and cons, Lan Qi finally coaxed the Queen Mother to nod. After that, Lan Qi, under the arrangement of Prince Yu Fujin, went in hiding to take a look at the daughter of Magistrate Li's family. Needless to say, she looked pretty, but what could be seen in one or two glances
Character and temperament.
When Prince Yu returned home, he comforted her and said, "You have seen our jokes in the early years. Neither the Chang Ning family nor I know how to take care of household affairs. We made the concubines quarrel and caused a lot of trouble in the house. Only now do we understand that in fact, they
Whether there is peace or not depends entirely on the mistress of the house. Instead of worrying about how powerful your concubines are, why not educate Yuxi to be more powerful so that she can maintain her position as mistress and worry about one or two concubines making trouble?"
Lan Qi also sighed at that time: "The Empress Dowager always said in the past that children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. I shouldn't worry about it. It doesn't matter if I choose carefully. There are also people who later find out that their character is not what they want, so let's leave it like this.
What my sister-in-law is saying is that whether Yuxi can control the concubines is actually all up to her."
She finally nodded to the emperor, and Xuan Ye begged for nothing and sent her four more dazzling large gemstone rings. Lan Qi wore them all over her hand. She really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and then issued the decree before the emperor.
According to the decree, his daughter-in-law was first summoned to express his righteousness to her, but Yuxi had been waiting for someone to come in and help Yinzhen. Naturally, she was not unhappy, but in the end, the emperor messed with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
When the imperial edict was announced on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xuanye finally gave Yinzhen two girls from the Han army flag. In addition to the prefect Li Wenye, there was also a young lady in charge of the Song family. The Li family was the side of Fujin, while the Song family only gave
Princess's reputation.
This was something Lan Qi didn't expect, and Yinzhen was also very anxious, but the eldest brother and the third brother both gave Fujin a check, but they were not all Han. The fourth brother had no chance to refute, except to rush
After losing my temper for a few times, I had no choice but to accept this matter.
Lan Qi was caught between Xuan Ye and her son, and she was so angry that she refused to talk to Xuan Ye anymore. The two times the emperor visited her in person, she complained behind closed doors that she was ill. It was not until the third time that he barged in that the two of them spoke.
Xuan Ye knew that he was in the wrong and comforted her in every possible way. Lan Qi did not dare to go too far, and nothing unpleasant happened in the end. She told Bu Guiren privately that she deliberately wanted to fall out with the emperor this time, but she ended up doing whatever it took to make trouble for her.
, he did not escape from his Wuzhishan after all.
At that time, Bu Guiren smiled and said: "Everything is going well with the family. Now you are a virtuous wife. If you don't coax the virtuous wife to be good, how can the family be harmonious?" He also said, "The king is always in the limelight, and now he has a new one."
She is a prince, and suddenly someone from her hometown comes to share her favor. If it were me, I would be heartbroken."
Lan Qi was disdainful: "Why is she feeling cold? Everyone has the right to feel cold, but she is not qualified."
The three princes, Xiang Fujin and Ge Ge, entered the house on different days. The eldest brother and the third prince welcomed the newcomers at the end of the first month, while the fourth prince's place did not arrive until late February, and the other princes' Baylor Mansion also had their new arrivals. As for the emperor's family,
In the palace, there are two beauties who are about to arrive. One is the daughter of the second-class guard Chen Xi'an. She once escorted the emperor during his two tours to the south of the Yangtze River. Now that his own daughter can enter the palace, it can be regarded as the emperor's support for the Chen family.
There was another Wang family member who had a good background. She was actually the cousin of Wang Changzai who was favored now. She was fifteen years old and was said by people in the palace to be even more beautiful than Wang Changzai.
Before the newlyweds entered the palace, the imperial edict was issued. As soon as Chen came in, he offered Chang Zai's position, but Wang Chang Zai's sister didn't even agree. As soon as the news spread, the palace became lively, and they all said that the emperor was afraid of the king.
Chang Zai is jealous, but then again, I am really afraid that Wang Chang Zai is jealous, so why would he bring his cousin here?
I came to pay my respects to the Queen Mother that day. When leaving, Concubine Yi called Concubine Hui and asked her son if Fu Jin was doing well in the palace. I heard that he often came to the palace to pay her respects and was much more attentive than Da Fu Jin. Concubine Hui said with a few perfunctory words.
After leaving, when Lan Qi and Concubine Rong were about to leave, Concubine Yi suddenly rushed to the front and asked: "The two sisters are in charge of the affairs of the palace. I would like to ask, when will the two Han women enter the palace? By that time
But remember to ask them to come to Yikun Palace to kowtow and salute me."
Concubine Rong smiled and said: "Of course I don't need your respect, but right now I don't know how to arrange the residence for the two of them. My sister's Yikun Palace is spacious. Are you willing to take care of the new couple for the emperor?"