The Woman Behind Kangxi: The Biography of Virtuous Concubine

Chapter 124
surfing the sand and looking at the sea

The mirage was half blurred, and Talang exclaimed.Any general knows how to laugh at the rivers and lakes.I want to take advantage of the brilliance of the sun and the moon.

Did you catch six turtles?Brush the coral with the pole.Sang Tian Qingqian asked Magu.The water air float catches water every day, is that a Penghu?
The sky in winter brightens slowly, but the Qianqing Palace only looks at the time and not the sky.Before Yinshi, the maids and eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace had already gathered in the west wing next to the Yuehua Gate. Except for those on duty, rough envoys and those without status, almost all of them were present.

The Forbidden City is most afraid of running water, so there are no chimneys, and the bases under each hall are hollowed out. Every day, the burnt charcoal is stuffed into the ground kang below with a cart, and the whole hall is like a big warm kang. Come on, don't let the hosts get cold feet.Because charcoal gas is easy to get angry, so the charcoal basin is only available in the palace of the concubine and the empress dowager, and young people generally don't use it, except for the Qianqing palace, because the ministers are all old, and Xuan Ye is sympathetic to the old ministers, and only in the open when things happen. There is a charcoal basin in the main seat, which is not found in the east and west warm pavilions.

The west side room is usually a resting place for ministers and servants. There is no charcoal basin. On special days, the maids and eunuchs are only allowed to borrow a place to gather.From the Ming Dynasty that enters the door, men Zhao and women Mu stand straight according to their pins.

Wei Wanqing noticed that on a low stool next to him was Liang Jiugong, the general manager of the Qianqing Palace, wearing an azurite official uniform, embroidered with dragons and flowers on the front and back, a pair of long boots, and on the back of the ice-patterned hat was his crown, which was inlaid. Wearing a seven-grade plain gold crown; across from Liang Jiugong, there is Su Xin, a palace maid, standing in a horizontal position. She wears a purple-brown spring silk robe with green sheepskin turned out, and a short waistcoat of the same color as her coat. Her pine braids are neatly combed. Flutters with almost invisible powder, not a little rouge.

The court ladies, big and small, all have clear faces, purple-brown gowns, and braided hair.This is the rule set by the Empress Dowager, not to let the maids spend their minds on competing for beauty, so that they can serve the lord wholeheartedly.Especially in the Qianqing Palace, the guards are even more strict. Except for a little rouge during the Chinese New Year and the two holy birthday festivals, the maids are not allowed to wear rouge even on the March Longevity Festival.

It has been a month since I arrived at Qianqing Palace, and everything is not as I thought. Walking in front of the imperial palace, that is the beauty of many maids in the harem. Still washing clothes in the clothes bureau, this situation is unimaginable. The emperor seems to have forgotten himself, but he has been scared and worried for so long. In Dai Jia's family, he got the seventh son of the emperor, and the emperor gave him the name Yinyou.Instead, she calmed down and started to be her own little maid in the Qianqing Palace. Although she must be cautious and not careless at all times, she is much better than in the clothes bureau before. It's just a pawn in the harem, and the chess player can put it wherever he wants.

(End of this chapter)