No matter how big something happens, time will always wash away everything and reduce the intensity of the matter.
As Concubine Niu Hulu remained unconscious, the main hall of Yongshou Palace was taken over by the palace officials of Qianqing Palace. The Yongshou Palace, which was once a hot spot in the Forbidden City, seemed to be extinguished by the pouring of ice water. It suddenly became extremely quiet in the harem, and even the appearance seemed a bit desolate for no reason.
In the harems of past dynasties, suicide by a concubine was a heinous crime that brought shame to the king and could not be tolerated. In the smallest case, she was not allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum after death, and in the worst case, it would harm the lives of her family members.
Even though Xiao Niu Hulu was rescued by Bai Lu in time and did not die from hitting the pillar, what she did made Kangxi extremely sick. In the end, Kangxi still pinched his nose and endured it for the sake of the Niu Hulu clan and Xiao Shi. However, Xiao Niu Hulu was not demoted. She was still the only noble concubine in the palace, but only in name.
But a fire broke out at the city gate, affecting Chi Yu. Because Niu Hulu Mingya was alone, Kangxi was no longer willing to step into Yongshou Palace. Now the nobles who lived in the side halls and backyards of Yongshou Palace were always there, and promised to Also indirectly lost the opportunity to gain favor.
Some of the little masters who were dawdling in Buddhism were okay and happy, but some of the little masters who were ambitious had their mentality completely broken. They shed tears day and night looking at the Qianqing Palace in the east and looking at the palace that was serving them. People, they were tossing and scolding Concubine Niu Hulu who was sleeping unconsciously in the main hall.
The empress and the palace people in the Forbidden City watched helplessly as this symmetrical palace with an excellent geographical location, very close to the Qianqing Palace, and across the central axis of the Forbidden City from the former residence of Empress Xiaokangzhang (Jingren Palace), gradually became a "Leng Palace", when occasionally passing by on the palace road, they would lower their heads and shrink their necks, and walk quickly through this unlucky place...
The master lost power, and the maids, nuns, and eunuchs who used to serve Concubine Niu Hulu in the main hall were also in bad luck. They all returned to the House of Internal Affairs. Those who had the connections could still find a good place to do their errands, but those who had no connections, Or perhaps the former confidants of Imperial Concubine Niu Hulu could only go to remote palaces or Xinzheku to do menial work.
Aunt Liu was the worst one, because at that time her heart was focused on Brother Ten and she did not bandage the wound on her face properly. After the gauze was removed, she was shocked to find that there was a strip of blood on her right cheek. The scar is about as long as a little finger.
The rules in the palace were strict, and the palace servants with damaged faces would affect the mood of the masters every day. As a rule, they could not wait in front of the masters, so Grandma Liu was sent to the clothes washing bureau by the eunuch in charge.
In every corner of the Forbidden City, things like flattery and flattery exist. Because of the scars on Nanny Liu's face, the rough officials of the Huanyi Bureau agreed that this person would not be reused in the future, and they were jealous that she could be a concubine in the past. In the palace, she worked as a wet nurse for the tenth prince, and they bullied her overtly and covertly, assigning her many tasks.
Sometimes Grandma Liu spent the whole day soaking her hands in cold water and scrubbing her clothes. She was so tired that at the end of the day she could barely straighten her waist.
When Bai Lu came to the Clothes Bureau, she saw Nanny Liu wearing a pair of thin clothes of rough workmanship, sitting on a short bamboo stool, washing her brown skin with soaking water until her skin was wrinkled, and her red hands were washing Clothes in a large tub.
Her eyesight was very good, and she could see clearly at a glance that the clothes being washed in Nanny Liu's hands did not belong to the women in the palace, but were the same clothes worn by the palace officials of the Huanyi Bureau. It was full of a big basin, obviously.
This was because he was bullied by his colleagues. Bai Lu couldn't help but frown tightly.
At this time, the grand stewardess, who was wearing a brown flag uniform and had a slim figure and powdered face, just walked out of the room with a cup of hot tea. She saw a young girl dressed as a palace maid standing at the door of the Clothing Bureau.
When she took a closer look, she realized that the person who came was actually the most capable and capable confidant of the Imperial Concubine Chuxiu Palace. She quickly placed the coarse porcelain cup in her hand on the long table at the door and straightened her temples with her right hand.
Smiling and beaming, he hurried forward to greet him and shouted:
"Oh, Aunt Bai Lu, why did the wind blow you here?"
The steward's voice was loud and obviously flattering, causing the palace people who were busy in the yard to stop their work and raise their heads to look at the door.
Aunt Liu sprinkled a handful of soap powder in her right hand evenly on the clothes in her hand. A little water accidentally splashed on her face. She raised her left arm and planned to wipe the water off her face with her left shoulder.
Unexpectedly, he just raised his head and saw Bai Lu standing side by side with the steward, and his body froze instantly.
When Bai Lu saw the gaze directed towards her by Mother Liu, she also smiled at the steward next to her:
"Mommy, the Imperial Concubine has no instructions for the Huanyi Bureau. Your errands are done very well. I was ordered to come here today with the intention of bringing Mrs. Liu to Chuxiu Palace. Well, this is my respect.
Take a look for yourself at the palace transfer order that the manager of the office has brought."
"Ah, this."
After Bai Lu said this, she put a palace transfer order book with the red seal of the Jingshi Room into the hands of the steward. She didn't intend to talk to her anymore, raised her feet and walked straight towards Grandma Liu.
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After hearing this, the stewardess' smile suddenly stopped on her face. She looked down at the order book in her hand and was completely dumbfounded. She never thought that the disfigured Liu woman would be attracted by the imperial concubine.
day!
Thinking of how she had turned a blind eye to the bullying of Liu by her subordinates in the past half month, she couldn't help but feel anxious in her heart, fearing that Liu would take advantage of the imperial concubine's reputation in the future.
When he came back to clean up her little shrimp, he turned around with a shy smile and quickly followed Bai Lu towards Grandma Liu.
Aunt Liu saw the steward and Bai Lu walking towards her. She stood up from the stool and quickly rubbed her wet hands on her coarse clothes. She looked at Bai Lu with some embarrassment.
Then he looked slightly uneasily at the usually majestic housekeeper.
Before Ms. Liu and Bai Lu could speak, the housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward and made a familiar gesture. She stretched out her hand to pull Ms. Liu over from the wash basin, smiled and patted the back of her hand and said:
"Sister Liu, I have seen before that you have a kind face and a good heart."
"No, Auntie Bailu has come here specifically to ask you to serve the imperial concubine in the Chuxiu Palace. You should quickly go back to the penthouse, pack up your things, and follow Auntie Bailu back."
"this."
When Grandma Liu heard this, her eyes widened immediately. She never expected that she would have such a good fortune. Thinking of the tenth brother she had been thinking about day and night these days, she looked at Bai Lu in anticipation and disbelief.
Bai Lu also nodded and said with a warm smile:
"You go pack your things first. If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it on the way."
Aunt Liu nodded with tears of joy and quickly turned around and went to the ear room.
After listening to the conversation between the three of them, the court ladies could not help but rub the wet clothes in their hands, envious of Mrs. Liu's good luck.
As soon as he entered the palace, he was so lucky that he became the wet nurse of the tenth prince in the Yongshou Palace. His master failed, so he worked in the Huanyi Bureau for more than ten days, and then he was promoted to Chu Xiu with a "promotion and salary increase".
In the palace, this is really irritating! The other maids who usually bully the Liu family quietly quietly carried the washbasin and retreated to an inconspicuous position, for fear that after this lady regained power, she would clean up the palace.
Own.
Bai Lu saw all the little moves of these people and didn't say anything. After a while, she saw Mrs. Liu carrying a small blue cloth bag and hurried over with the steward. She also took Liu with her.
Shi immediately turned around and left the Huanyi Bureau.
When the two of them were walking on the bluestone palace road, one behind the other, only half a meter apart, Grandma Liu couldn't bear it any longer. She still asked softly:
"Aunt Bai Lu, I don't know, are you used to living in Chuxiu Palace these days?"
Bai Lu heard that Liu was silent for most of the way, and the first thing she asked her was about the tenth prince, not why she was transferred to the Chuxiu Palace by the imperial concubine. She turned to look at Liu's extremely sincere eyes,
Bai Lu couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the hearts of the tenth prince's wet nurse and his biological mother were really at odds with each other! If Concubine Niu Hulu had such a motherly heart towards the tenth prince, how could she have pulled out all this mess?
Something!
Although they were not very familiar with each other, Bai Lu still smiled, raised her hand and patted Mrs. Liu's shoulder gently and said:
"Mother Liu, just call me Bai Lu. Don't worry. Doctor Zhang went to Chuxiu Palace in the morning and removed the white gauze from the forehead of the tenth elder brother. The tenth elder brother's injury has recovered.
The ground is very good, there are no scars, the memory, well, the memory has recovered to a certain extent, and I have adapted to the life in Chuxiu Palace."
"That's great, great."
After waiting for so many days, Grandma Liu finally heard the news about her little master. She almost cried with joy, and she never noticed the pause in the second half of Bai Lu's sentence.
Bai Lu was quite touched when she saw her like this. She thought that she should wait until she saw Brother Ten after returning to the palace to tell her something in detail. When she saw that she had turned the corner and reached Chuxiu Palace, Bai Lu coughed lightly.
He made two sounds, tilted his head to the side, and asked in a low voice:
"Mother Liu, have you ever felt resentful these days?"
"What?"
Grandma Liu, who was very happy in her heart, was stunned for a moment when she heard what Bai Lu said. Then she realized that Bai Lu was referring to her injured face and the unfair experience in the clothing bureau.
She shook her head with relief, looked calmly ahead and said with a smile:
"I will tell you the truth from Miss Bai Lu. The injury on my face was in order to protect Brother Ten. That day, I saw Brother Ten struggling excitedly under the hands of the imperial concubine because he saw the blood on my face. He accidentally cut his head off.
It hit the back of the chair, triggering a series of events that followed."
"In these days, every time I think about the scene of that day, I feel very regretful. I regret that I scared the tenth brother, but I don't have any resentment at all. The imperial concubine is the master, the slave is the palace servant, and the master punishes the palace servants.
Isn’t it just common sense? Isn’t this slave?
I resented the imperial concubine, if it had to happen again, the servant would still rush forward without hesitation to stop the imperial concubine from beating the tenth prince. The tenth prince is a good boy with a pure personality. He should not have been killed by the imperial concubine after his brain was damaged by high fever.
The empress expresses her disdain in secret and overtly."
"As for the Huanyi Bureau," Grandma Liu couldn't help laughing, sighed, and continued to speak in a calm tone:
"Most of the people in this world bully the weak and fear the strong, and they are the best at adding insult to injury. Even when a tiger falls flat, it is bullied by a dog. I am a newcomer, and I am a newcomer who got along well as soon as I entered the palace. I have just arrived at the Huanyi Bureau.
It's normal to be bullied by people there."
"Human nature is like this. Some people feel that suppressing someone who was much stronger than them before can bring great pleasure. I understand the truth in this, so naturally I will not get so helpless and angry, wasting my energy in vain.
, it is better to seize the time to rest more after finishing the work."
When Bai Lu heard Mrs. Liu's words, she couldn't help but turn her head and look at her twice. She felt that Grandma Liu was really a wise person in life. No wonder the tenth elder brother could "come out of the mire without being stained" and cultivate his temperament.
During this period, I was not supported by Imperial Concubine Niu Hulu!
After the conversation started between the two of them, you and I started chatting again and again around Brother Ten. When the two of them crossed the mahogany threshold of Chuxiu Palace and entered the front yard, they heard the sound of wind blowing along the east wall.
A few childish sounds of milk and milk came from the room.
When Grandma Liu heard the familiar little milky voice, she couldn't hide her excitement and turned to look at the east wall, where she saw that the tall ginkgo tree was gradually turning yellow.
The bleak autumn wind blew by, and the fan-shaped leaves flew down from the tree crown like butterflies. The clusters of ginkgo fruits with slightly wrinkled skin growing on the branches were also blown by the wind to the green leaves on the ground.
On the stone slabs, on the tree roof, and one by one rolling along the tree roof to the big slide.
The imperial concubine, who was wearing a dress embroidered with large peony flowers with silver thread, was sitting on the cradle swing with a smile on her face. The fourteenth elder brother in red clothes, and the thirteenth elder brother in royal blue clothes, had little heads.
Wearing a furry warm tiger head hat, Shangdu stood in the walker, "gurgling" and laughing, slowly learning to walk behind the tenth and ninth elder brothers.
The ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother were both wearing golden robes. The former wore a black warm hat inlaid with sapphires, and the latter wore a silver-gray warm hat inlaid with white pearls.
Holding a small bamboo basket in each hand, they bent down to pick up the ginkgo fruits on the ground.
Every time, Brother Jiu would put the ginkgo he picked up under the tip of his nose and smell it. His delicate facial features would wrinkle together, and he would shout in a milky voice:
"Hey, Queen Mother, this white fruit really stinks to death. The leaves of the ginkgo tree are so beautiful, but why do its fruits smell so bad? It stinks Xiao Jiu to death!"
Brother 10 had obviously heard this too many times. His little round face turned red due to exercise. He happily bent down to pick up the ginkgo fruits on the ground one by one and put them into his own small bamboo basket without turning his head.
He persuaded Xiao Yinzhen, who was only three days older than him next to him:
"Brother Ninth, stop talking and pick them up quickly. Every time I pick up ginkgo fruits in the afternoon, you are the one who talks the most and dislikes the most. When Master Bai makes the ginkgo fruits into delicious snacks and serves them, so do you.
The one who eats the most.”
"Xiao Shi!"
The arrogant little Yinzhen's face turned "shua" when he heard that his tenth brother, who was a straight child like his eldest brother Yinzhen, was acting stupidly and said something that did not save him any face in front of so many palace people.
His face turned red and he shouted in embarrassment.
Xiao Yiner, who was immersed in work, heard Xiao Jiu's angrily moaning, and couldn't help scratching his little head in confusion, and turned to look at Brother Jiu. His eyes were full of confusion. He didn't know what Brother Jiu was doing.
Annoyed.
Xiao Jiu saw Xiao Shi demolishing his own stage and looking confused. Suddenly, the beautiful pair of peach blossoms became angry.
The imperial concubine, who was sitting on the swing behind the four brothers, saw Xiao Jiu looking at the twins with their little heads tilted and curiously looking at him, with a look of confusion on their faces. She hurriedly stood up from the swing and walked forward to smooth things over.
She knew that Xiaojiu was very talented in languages. At just over two years old, he could speak Manchu very smoothly, and he could also speak a few words in Chinese and Mongolian. He was praised by adults for being good at speaking.
After acquiring the skills, the arrogant Xiao Jiu is just like Xiao Si when he was a child. He is a talkative person with the same "de b b b b b b" skills. Even if no one pays attention to him, he can still amuse himself by talking about what he is doing.
Moreover, he also inherited Yi Fei's eloquent ability. Sometimes he would be naughty and turn the main hall of Yikun Palace upside down. Yi Fei was so angry that she jumped up and wanted to spank him with a feather duster. Xiao Jiu was stunned to be able to rely on it.
With a sweet mouth, he escaped being spanked by Concubine Yi, and even coaxed his aunt Guo Guiren and Concubine An next door to say good things to him.
Xiao Yinzhen has an arrogant temperament and has a strong self-esteem. He and Xiao Shi are the closest in age, and they entered Nansan School for enlightenment together. The two brothers have the best relationship, but Xiao Shi is a sincere fool, just like Yinzhen.
He doesn't know how to speak, but he can always make Xiaojiu almost cry with one sentence. He is still confused and doesn't understand what happened to Brother Jiu.
"Oh, Xiao Jiu, why are you so capable? The ginkgo is so smelly, Huang's mother thought you didn't pick up much, but who would have thought that you picked up as much as Xiao Shi! The two of you together can just make Bai Guo...
The imperial chef has made a big plate! We can’t even finish it."
Qingyan knelt down and took off the small bamboo baskets from Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi's hands, put them together, and praised them in an exaggerated tone.
The two little brothers are only two years and three months old. The small bamboo basket in their hands is about the same size as a full-moon cat. Even if it is filled with ginkgo nuts, it is not enough to make a whole dish. However, they heard the imperial concubine’s straightforward praise.
, as if the two brothers had done something extraordinary, they couldn't help but puff up their chests.
Xiao Yinzhen also put aside the emotion that Xiao Yiner was angry with just now. With bright peach blossom eyes, he looked at the imperial concubine at eye level and said in a milky voice and a little shyly:
"Empress Huang, I want to pick up two baskets of ginkgo fruits today and ask Master Bai to make them for me. The pulp inside is soft, glutinous and fragrant. I want to take them back to my mother, aunt, and Xiao Shiyi.
Have a taste.”
"Okay, then you have to pick up more."
Xiao Yiner also hurriedly stretched out his little hand to pat Xiao Jiu's shoulder, and said with a good-natured smile: "Brother Ninth, Brother Ninth, I'll help you pick it up too. The basket can't fit in, so I'll lift up my robe and help you carry it."
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When Xiao Jiu heard that the ginkgo smelled so bad that Xiao Shi was willing to carry it in his robe, he immediately felt that this was his "twin" brother who was born to the wrong mother and ended up in the belly of Concubine Niu Hulu.
Qingyan watched the two brothers get back together, put their little heads together intimately, ran to the big slide to pick up ginkgo, then stretched out her two hands to pull the walker left and right, trying to catch up.
The twins were pulled to his side.
The two little brothers had been in the walker for a long time, and the imperial concubine was about to bend down to take out Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen to eat custard.
Bai Lu took Nanny Liu and walked over briskly.
"Master, this slave has brought someone here."
Qingyan followed the sound and looked to the west, and saw Bai Lu walking towards her with a smile and the plainly dressed Liu.
Aunt Liu followed Bai Lu's movements with a grateful look on her face and bowed to the imperial concubine.
When she was at the door, she could see that the tenth prince was really happy in Chuxiu Palace and lived very comfortably. There was an extra ring of soft flesh on his belly. She understood that the emperor's concubine was half
Over the past many months, I have treated my little master sincerely.
She was holding the baggage in her hand and was about to speak. Xiao Yiner, who was standing side by side with Xiao Yinzhen by the big slide not far away, raised his little head and looked at her carefully for a while. After he recognized who she was, he immediately put the hand in his hand.
The little basket was placed on the ground, and he ran over quickly, jumping up and down, and said happily with a purr of milk:
"Mommy, have you come back from home after visiting your children?"