After a while, the palace servants led the three concubines in.
Those three people are quite old. Perhaps because of their low status and lack of favor, there are even fine lines at the corners of their eyes and eyebrows, and their skin is not even as tender as some of the older palace ladies in front of them.
It can be seen that the clothes have been carefully tidied up, but regardless of the material or the style, they are all popular in the past years and are now out of date.
The hairpin ring on the temples is also dim and dull.
After entering, he bowed to Yun Fenghuang with sincerity. Although the concubines were kind and gave him a seat as soon as they were called, and ordered them to make tea, they were still very restrained. For a while, they didn't even dare to speak.
Seeing this, the imperial concubine was relieved. She thought that there was another life-threatening dispute.
Since you didn’t start crying and complaining as soon as you arrived, there shouldn’t be anything urgent to do
While guessing, she asked about the situation of the three of them with a smile, and learned that there were two old men who entered the palace during Chunjia's wedding. They were both in the same batch as Yi Xing'en, so they had the same common characteristics. I have no favor, so I am just lingering in the palace for the rest of my confinement.
Yun Fenghuang took a special look at the concubine who was Yi Xingen's contemporary. He calculated that she entered the palace much later than her, but she looked like she was already at her age. Her appearance was not bad, but her vitality seemed to have been drained. , not very exciting.
Considering that the emperor could even turn around and forget the name he personally gave to his own son, is that situation understandable
Yu Che exchanged pleasantries and saw that they were more relaxed, so he asked about their intentions.
It turned out that the three of them had talked about their future intentions. Yun Fenghuang was a little bit dumbfounded: he thought that something had happened to Yin Ying Palace. The three of them had the courage to come to the door!
Who knows, but he said it was because he heard that the queen was ill and wanted to ask if the concubines were allowed to attend the illness according to the rules.
Originally, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Queen were lying on the couch, and the concubines were waiting in front of the couch. This was not a matter of course. But the country and the DPRK have not implemented this point very rigorously.
I wonder if there is such a thorn in Yun Fenghuang's mind, such as a loving mother, the Empress Dowager, etc. Asking her to serve her is no different from urging her to die.
It's better to avoid this matter and stay in peace and quiet, it will be better soon.
In addition, Gu Zhen was in good health and had not suffered from mental illness during the past two years. In such a situation, it was disturbing to see a bunch of people coming to greet him.
So if I heard that the Queen's body was not in harmony with her body, the concubines would not even think of visiting her once to send something to her, and they would not even think of attending to her illness, and the Queen herself would not have mentioned that.
Now the concubines of Yinyip Palace came to ask. Yun Fenghuang was surprised and couldn't help but have some doubts, so he asked them: "Why did you suddenly think of that? I just came back from the Empress, haven't you heard that she mentioned that? thing."
When the three concubines heard this, they showed obvious disappointment. They forced a smile and said: "I'm a humble concubine. Have you heard that there were such rules in the past? Thinking about the many years in the palace... they are not serious either. I have served the emperor and ladies, and I want to do my best to chat with you."
"That's it." Yun Fenghuang knew that it was definitely not true, so he didn't bother to ask harshly. He smiled and encouraged them, then made an excuse to send them away, and then summoned Chen Jing to ask the reason.
Chen Jing had never noticed Yin Ying Palace before. After hearing this, he confessed his crime and went out for a walk. Then he came back and said to Yun Fenghuang: "When I return to the empress, maybe it's because they want to ask for some benefits."
Seeing that Yun Fenghuang was puzzled, he explained that if a low-level concubine from a poor family was not favored, her confinement life in the palace would actually be very bad.
Even though Yun Fenghuang had promoted two large-scale promotions to the Sixth Palace after he came to power, for the kind of concubine who started out as a concubine and basically stayed in positions east of Baolin because she was not favored, the promotion was actually It doesn't mean much... They have a difficult time every month.
"I have told you not to deduct the status of low-level concubines early in the morning. Why didn't the people of Didong listen?" Yun Fenghuang became unhappy when he heard this, "Then you will turn a deaf ear to my words?! If not? How can we have such a hard time if we have fully distributed the quotas? Are we going to serve Bidong’s people? Even if we adopt female quotas, it will be much better than their original families!"
Chen Jing said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please let me tell you something heart-breaking: Although your Majesty is kind-hearted, why don't you keep looking at them? At that time, apart from a group of people, after a few months of confinement, there were always people who came later." The idea of their status. The servant thought, maybe it was because they took the initiative to ask for the queen's health. Even if they were slaves and maids in front of the queen, after such a relationship, the stewards would not dare to do it again in the future. It’s easy to handle them.”
Yun Fenghuang frowned. She had previously told the Didong people not to deprive the Sixth Palace of their power. If the Lord asked not to do so, he would not establish authority. If she asked, she would not necessarily say that she truly cared for those people.
And what Chen Jing said is very wrong. Does she care about the low-level concubines visibly...
"Those who are thoughtful and courageous." The imperial concubine thought about it carefully at this moment. She felt that she was not wrong and did not want to spend any effort to help, so she ordered, "But if this matter is not what I say, then it will be settled. I will look back later." Report to the Queen and see what the Queen wants."
Chen Jing even went to bow down and said that he would express the grace of Concubine Yinyin on behalf of Yinya Palace.
Because both the master and the servant knew clearly about the queen's role, they would basically agree to it if they asked the concubine not to go back on her wrongdoing.
Sure enough, after the news was passed to Gu Zhen, Gu Zhen agreed without much thought, and asked the other concubines in the palace who were not in charge to arrange their shifts and take turns to serve.
Speaking of whether to serve, in fact, the queen has her own attendants to serve her. Firstly, the concubines may not be as attentive and as considerate as the attendants; secondly, for safety reasons, they are not needed at all for that kind of thing.
So I simply opened a room in the side hall of Chongchang Palace and asked the concubines who had their turn to come over to copy scriptures and pray for blessings. This would be considered as a sign of filial piety to the queen.