Bang!
A wrist wrapped around an emerald rosary swiped to the right, and a precious white-glazed vase with the Eight Immortals was swept off the table. The tribute that took only three years to produce one, shattered into a waste in an instant.
Jiabi came across this scene as soon as she entered the door. A few pieces of debris jumped to her feet, which made her take a few steps back and said in a slight panic: "The noble concubine, you are so good, why are you so angry?"
The interior of Chuxiu Palace is splendid, especially an ancient frame, which is filled with various gold, silver and jade articles, antiques and rare treasures, jade pillows that have been used in the West, the pipa held by Wang Zhaojun, the bright moon worn by Diaochan, and Yang Guifei. The painted plates used to hold the lychees have now been swept to the ground by Concubine Huigui mercilessly, and she said angrily, "You don't need to worry about it, go away, go as far as this palace!"
Jia Concubine reluctantly exited the door, pulling the palace maid outside the door and asking, "What's going on?"
The palace maid whispered: "You don't know, the imperial concubine was fine when she first came back. Who would have thought that the emperor gave a "Picture of Ban Ji's Ci Ran", and the empress was furious when she saw it!"
Jiabi pondered for a moment, then pushed the door open again, and said with a smile, "Niangniang, I heard that the emperor gave you a "Picture of Ban Ji's Ci Ran"? Congratulations!"
"What are you happy about?" Concubine Huigui's face turned blue with anger, "Emperor Han invited Ban Jieyu to ride in the same car, but Ban Jieyu refused on the grounds that it was inappropriate, so she became a virtuous concubine of a generation, he is trying to warn me about what It's the concubine of Zhili!"
Jia Concubine: "Niang Niang, you think it's bad..."
"It's all for her!" Concubine Huigui threw another jade plate, and then walked back and forth in the house, with a look of anger and resentment, "Once she entered the palace, she was the empress of the Qing Dynasty, and she was one year old. The palace is divided into 1,000 taels, and I miss her 400 taels; Changchun Palace uses gold utensils, and Chuxiu Palace only uses silver utensils; she uses ceremonial chariots, I use ceremonial guards, even if the rewards for festivals, I will be much less! Good! , this palace can endure, but what about the emperor! I was standing there just now, a big living person, the emperor was stunned to see her, his eyes were full of her, whether it was bearable or unbearable! He rewarded this broken picture, that is to say I overstepped and bullied his beloved queen!"
"Niangniang." Jia Concubine hurriedly came over and calmed down in a soft voice, "You misunderstood the emperor."
"Oh?" Concubine Huigui raised her brows and squinted at her, "You said, what did I misunderstand the emperor?"
"The emperor gave it more than this "Picture of Banji Cilan"." Jia Concubine said, "At the Zhong Cui Palace, there is the "Xu Hou Feng's Design Picture", and at the Qixiang Palace is the "Jiang Empress Takes Off the Hairpin". Picture", even the Queen sent it, it's a "Taisi Teaching Zi Picture"."
Concubine Huigui was stunned when she heard the words: "She also received it? "Taisi Teaching Zi Tu", what does it mean?"
"According to the concubine's opinion, this time is just a whim of the emperor, who gave some portraits of ancient concubines and concubines, and asked the concubines and concubines in the harem to follow the example." Jia Concubine smiled, "Why are you angry about this? "
Hearing that the Queen had received a similar portrait, Concubine Hui Gui's anger disappeared immediately, she sat down on the chair, the maid beside her hurriedly brought her a cup of tea, she took a sip, and then tilted it up beautifully He smiled at Jia Concubine Wan Wan's style: "You are born with a clever mouth, and you say what Ben Gong likes to hear."
Jia Concubine lowered her brows and said pleasingly to her eyes: "Concubines and concubines are not talented, I would like to share the worries for the Empress."
"Continue talking." Concubine Huigui ordered, "I don't believe that the emperor will aimlessly. In your opinion, what is the deep meaning of the emperor's move?"
Living in the palace means seeing more, listening more, and thinking more. The master above coughed, and the people below had to distinguish one or two from the cough. Whether the master was thirsty or sick, whether he was serving tea or medicine, the emperor only gave him a few paintings, but it was enough to receive. The person who arrived at the painting pondered until dawn.
Jiabi thought for a moment and replied: "The emperor gave a total of twelve paintings, and the concubine guessed that these twelve paintings together represent his ideal of a perfect concubine. For example, "Concubine Xu Zhijian" is a hope The concubines followed the example of Concubine Xu Hui, and when Tang Taizong made mistakes, he bravely spoke out bluntly, and "The Empress Cao Heavy Agriculture"..."
""Empress Cao Zhongnong"?" When Concubine Huigui heard the name, she laughed out loud, and the pearl hairpin on her head swayed and shone brightly, "Who is so unlucky to receive this rubbish thing, the emperor wants to Does she go to farm?"
"I hope that Empress Cao can be as simple and economical as Song Renzong's Empress Cao, and pay attention to agriculture and mulberry." Jia Concubine smiled, "This is nothing, concubine heard that there are still people who received "Jieyu When Bear". ."
"Ouch, Ben Gong's stomach!" Concubine Huigui clutched her stomach, leaned back and forth, almost falling off the chair with laughter, "Who is this? Is the emperor persuading her not to be a human being, and to go up the mountain to be a blind bear?"
"I guess she hopes that she can be like Feng Jieyu in the past, when Emperor Yuan of Han is in danger, she will use her life to protect him and keep him safe." Jiabi explained.
After explaining the twelve pictures one by one, Concubine Huigui rubbed her belly and said thoughtfully: "So, the emperor wants us to be concubines, not only beautiful, but also filial and virtuous, simple and simple, and necessary. Can you tear tigers with your hands and catch bears with your bare hands?"
"Yes." Jia Concubine smiled, "The lady is really smart, she can see through it at one point."
Concubine Huigui sneered, and then leaned back on the chair with some disinterest, looked up at the ceiling, and murmured, "Is this a woman or a god?"
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Some people were tossing and turning, some people were worried, and in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the most honorable person in the world, also had not yet gone to bed, and was still approving his memorial under the candlelight.
The side face illuminated by candlelight is plated with a layer of warm gold, like a golden statue in a temple, solemn, solemn and aloof, how many palace people are willing to give everything, just ask him to look down.
"Your Majesty." Li Yu, the great eunuch who had served him for many years, approached, holding a tray in his hand, "The Empress has brought supper here, you should take a break."
There was a bowl of ice-sugar Sydney soup on the tray. Hongli took a few sips, and the sweetness entered his heart. He leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes and said, "Has anything unusual happened in the palace recently?"
"What does the emperor want to hear?" Li Yu smiled.
"Anything will do." Hongli said lazily, "What interesting things have happened in the harem recently, let me sober up."
Although the harem is large, it is actually small. There are only a few masters. The real ones are the palace maids and the eunuchs. As the head of the eunuchs, Li Yu is in charge of countless pairs of eyes and ears. Many secrets are not secrets at all. To him, a harem was like a wall that was always ventilated.
This is also one of the reasons why Hongli reuses him. With him, Hongli can always know the status of the harem.
"If you talk about the harem, the little masters are having a headache recently about the same thing." Li Yu smiled.
"Oh?" Hongli didn't open his eyes, clasped his hands on his chest, "What's the matter?"
"The source of the matter is the paintings that you gave the emperor..." Li Yu briefly described the situation on Concubine Huigui's side. If Concubine Huigui was here, she would definitely be terrified, because what happened in her own palace The matter was repeated by Li Yu in less than an hour. The content was extremely detailed, and even the demeanor she described when she spoke was the same, "... This is the situation on the Chuxiu Palace side. "Ban Ji Ci Rian Tu", I've lost a lot of temper."
"When will she not lose her temper?" Hongli was noncommittal, "What about the others?"
"Concubine Xian's side, her mother-in-law came over and asked her to blow some pillow wind with you, so that her Ama could move up to the nest, but she was dismissed by the reason that Concubine Xian was not allowed to do politics in the harem. Li Yu sighed, "She left angrily, Concubine Xian didn't stop her, she just offered up the paintings you gave, prayed with incense, and said, "I wish my husband a thousand years, the second wish that my concubine will be healthy, and the third wish to be like Liang Shangyan, see you every year."
Hongli opened his eyes and closed them again: "... Where's the Queen?"
"The Empress doesn't seem to be in a good mood." Li Yu replied, "Although she didn't say anything, the two maids under her hand were discussing in secret, saying yes..."
He hesitated to speak, leaving half a sentence, Hongli urged impatiently: "What did you say?"
"Say... You are using this picture to remind the Empress, don't worry about everything because of what happened three years ago." Li Yu said this and carefully looked at Hongli's face.
Three years ago, the second prince from the Empress suddenly disappeared.
The mother and son were deeply in love, so the Empress was almost at a loss for it. She only recovered a little this year. Although in the eyes of outsiders, she and Hongli are still deeply and righteous, and they raise their eyebrows together, but Li Yu knows that the two are ultimately because of this matter. And some quarrels arose.
Seeing that Hongli frowned slightly, he obviously didn't want to discuss this matter anymore.
Li Yu decided to put an end to this matter, pretending to be surprised: "Your Majesty, the servant dares to ask, do you have your hope for the concubine when the twelve pictures of the palace are linked together?"
Hongli shook his head gently, drank the remaining half of the rock candy Sydney soup in one go, and then picked up the memorial again, but he looked a little absent-minded, no longer focused.
Seeing that his heart was not on the memorial, Li Yu dared to continue talking to him, only to see him say with a shy face: "Your Majesty, this servant is half a man, and I have seen many women in the Forbidden City! This is a woman. You are beautiful and charming, with a slender and charming figure, and if you can learn some poems and songs, and play and sing, it will be a rare thing, and you need to gather thousands of virtues in one body, where can you find it?”
"I think they are too busy." Hongli said without raising his head, staring at the memorial in his hand.
Li Yu was stunned when he heard the words: "Huh?"
"If you are idle, you will cause trouble." Hongli smiled slightly, this smile was a little cunning, diluting the solemnity on his face, making the statues in the temple fall to the mortal world, "I gave the harem a palace instruction map, enough for them Been thinking about it for a while."
The concubines in the harem were only afraid of breaking their heads, but they couldn't think of the answer behind the twelve pictures of the ancient concubine, so even Li Yu was stunned for a moment, and then murmured: "After thinking about it for a while, what can I do? use?"
Hongli laughed, folded a scroll in his hand, and tapped on his forehead affectionately: "Because most of them are as stupid as you, they will only think that I am reminding them to know how to be virtuous and virtuous. I want to be a virtuous concubine to please me, they are bound to live in peace for a few days, and I will be quiet for a few days!"
"Ah?" Li Yulen said, "Your Majesty, are you kidding them!"
Haha laughter sounded in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the two imperial guards who were guarding the door looked at each other, not knowing why the emperor laughed so happily.