In the flower pavilion of Cining Palace, Concubine Wen and Empress Dowager Qin were sitting opposite each other on both sides of the chessboard. There was fragrance burning beside the chess table, and there were maids cooking tea and playing the piano around them. The sound of music and the fragrance of flowers lingered in the pavilion. Looking from a distance, they looked so elegant!
After a quick game of chess, Concubine Wen held up the tea cup with a smile: "Sister's chess moves are still unclear to me!"
The Empress Dowager Qin stroked her newly dyed nails and said with a smile: "When I play chess with others, I pay attention to changes and changes according to the situation. I don't stick to the style and give people no rules. The emperor even laughed at my irregular chess moves before! "
"The emperor is not laughing at you, he is clearly close to you! Our emperor is filial, what a blessing for our sister!" Concubine Wen sighed, if the previous prince had ascended the throne, the queen mother might not be as calm and comfortable as she is today.
The Empress Dowager Qin felt even more proud when she thought that the Emperor was not perfunctory in his morning and dusk routine, and would chat and laugh with her for at least two quarters of an hour every time.
"You are also a blessed person! That girl Lening is also sincere in her filial piety. She has written to the emperor three times to take you to the princess's residence to raise you."
The Princess Lening that Queen Qin was talking about was the eldest daughter of the late emperor, descended from Concubine Wen.
Precisely because of her eldest daughter, this princess was always the most favored by the late emperor, because the late emperor did not want to abandon her to marry far away, so he specially selected Zheng Guogong's youngest son with a suitable appearance and temperament to be his consort.
The late Emperor was very accurate in judging people. The young Princess Lening had been married for twenty-two years, but now she looked much younger than the four princesses who were born from the same mother.
When the princess married the vassal king far away, the late emperor had four princesses who were all close in age, but he chose the next three princesses to marry. For this reason, the sisters Princess Lening and Princess Le'an were born. Dislike.
Speaking of which, although they were both concubines Wen, Princess Lening held very different positions in the hearts of the two emperors.
The late emperor never concealed his partiality, and the same is true today.
In the first year of Jinghe's reign, the emperor granted the title of Princess Lening to Princess Lening. The former Crown Princess, Princess Hong'an, was also canonized as the eldest princess.
"The child Le Ning is a little willful for the emperor's favor. Has any princess ever taken a concubine out of the palace to live in her since ancient times?" Concubine Wen said this, but the smile on her face could not be concealed.
Empress Dowager Qin said with a smile: "Since Le Ning submitted the memorial, the three princesses Le Pei, Le An and Le Yue have also submitted the memorial. Both Princess Dai and Princess Jia are looking forward to it!"
Princess Le'an is the second daughter of Concubine Wen, and she married the prince Luo Hao.
"They can leave if they want to. Ever since Concubine Cen and Concubine He left the palace, they have often lamented why they did not have a son. If this could happen, Tai'an Palace would be much quieter! However, they have nothing to do with me. Anyway, I am I have to stay in the palace to keep my sister company."
Queen Mother Qin glanced at her with a smile: "You don't want to accompany me. You clearly don't know which daughter you should go back to with!"
Concubine Wen Taigui smiled bitterly and nodded: "Sure enough, the one who knows me is my sister."
Seeing her admission, Queen Mother Qin straightened her back and shook her head and said, "You don't know what to do, but I have an idea. If you coax me..."
"Come on, come on, my sister is pouring tea for the Queen Mother. I hope our wise, beautiful and eternally youthful Queen Mother can give us some advice." Concubine Wen stood up and poured tea, handed it over like a drama, and asked with a smile, "Do you want my sister to feed you? ?”
"The Ai family has suffered!" Empress Dowager Qin took the tea and said this in a joking tone. After looking at each other and Concubine Wen, she couldn't help laughing.
After the two had a laugh, Empress Dowager Qin blew some tea and looked at Concubine Wen: "Sisters Le Ning and Le An are both good children, but they are both a bit energetic, so how to choose... it is most appropriate to just follow the rules. Choose The standards are long-term and respectful. You will never go wrong by choosing Le Ning.
What's more, you live in the eldest princess's mansion in Le'an, why can't Le'an go over to pay your respects? There has never been any enmity between the sisters. The reason why they are unhappy is because Le'an married far away and the two sisters did not interact with each other for a long time.
Later, with you holding hands in the eldest princess's mansion, the two sisters often came and went. Slowly they began to talk, and they became affectionate and warm as a family again. How wonderful! "
The Empress Dowager Qin's words moved Concubine Wen's heart.
Seeing Concubine Wen wishing she could go back and pack her luggage immediately, Empress Dowager Qin pointed at her with a smile and said with a smile to the maid next to her: "Did you see that you just said that you would stay with me in this palace? In the blink of an eye, your heart skipped a beat. It’s the eldest princess’s mansion!”
Concubine Wen Tai was not embarrassed: "As the saying goes, one moment is another, and besides, after my sister leaves the palace, she can still enter the palace to greet you! If you are bored living in the palace, you can also leave the palace to be naughty with your sister."
"Good fellow, you haven't even left the palace yet, and you've already become the head of the family!" Empress Dowager Qin called to Nanny with a smile, "Hurry up, go pack some good things and give them to Concubine Wen, as a gift from us. Live money.”
Concubine Wen knew in her heart that the Empress Dowager Qin was subsidizing her, so she hurriedly declined: "My sister has been in the palace for decades, and I don't know how many good things I have given to my sister, but I don't dare to lick my face again to ask for it."
"I don't know how many things you have?" Empress Qin shook her head with a smile, "Lening Le'an got almost all your good things after marrying twice! When you leave the palace and become an ancestor, you should also have something to give. It’s the best stuff for your grandkids and granddaughters! Stop talking and just listen to me!”
She didn't want to listen to Concubine Wen's polite words, so she turned to Sheng Han, whom the late emperor asked her to keep in front of her: "You can't take her with you when you go out this time, what are your plans?"
"My sister doesn't have a charter either. What's your idea?" Concubine Wen originally wanted to raise Sheng Han as a half-granddaughter, but for some reason, she didn't like the child. He was obviously a pretty and generous child. She It just looks a little awkward.
Therefore, we can only follow the rules and make people eat, drink and watch.
The Empress Dowager Qin didn't like the other three members of the Sheng family because of her nephew Sheng Xiangxun, and she didn't like the sixth lady of the Sheng family because of Sheng Yuan.
"Let's ask the emperor later." Empress Qin thought that it would be best to use this election to send the girl out of the palace.
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"Your Majesty, it is indeed the norm for a prince to have a midwife to leave the palace, but for a princess to have a midwife to live outside the palace... This, this is unreasonable!"
Emperor Jinghe didn't expect that even though he was working hard to correct the memorials, these ministers who had nothing to do would come after him to protest over such a trivial matter. It was simply unreasonable!
"My dear, the prince delivered his mother out of the palace to take care of her... This matter can only be traced back to two or three hundred years ago. Going forward, it is rare. Can you guess why this has become a common practice?"
When the ministers heard the words, although they did not understand what Emperor Jinghe meant, they knew that the emperor probably wanted to tease them again, so they refused to answer and just said in unison: "I am ignorant."
"Haha." Seeing that they were not fooled, Emperor Jinghe was not angry. He patted the table with a smile and said loudly, "That's because Emperor Chen Jing's ministers were not so boring back then! They were busy helping the emperor share his worries! They didn't like it. Mind your own business!”
(End of chapter)
