Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 61 Flowers

The emperor returned to Yikun Palace as soon as he came to court today. For some reason, he wanted to see Chen Wenxin with an itch in his heart.

Seeing the fat thief in Li Dequan's arms, she gave it a dissatisfied look.

The emperor asked Fu Gui'er in surprise, "Is this fat thief making your master angry?"

The fat thief made the master unhappy, and Fu Guier, as the breeder of the fat thief, quickly knelt down and reported to the emperor.

"Back to the emperor, the fat thief is greedy for food, so he just cared about eating jerky, but he ignored it when he saw the master. As a result..."

Fu Guier stopped talking, he couldn't say anything, because the fat thief put down his jerky and rushed out to meet the emperor, so his master is jealous, right?
The emperor guessed it, and pretended to be serious: "Since this little beast has offended your master, why don't you throw it out and beat him to death?"

"The emperor doesn't want it!"

Chen Wenxin believed it was true, and hurried up to snatch the fat thief from Li Dequan's hands.

When she looked up, the emperor was looking at her with a smile on her face.

She was tricked again!

She helplessly put the fat thief on the ground, and stepped forward to hold the emperor's hand.

"The emperor won't approve the papers today? You have returned to the harem so early."

In front of everyone, how could the emperor have the nerve to say that he was anxious to see her?

I had no choice but to change the subject, "You are wrapped in a cloak, where are you going? Why don't you ask Bai Lu and the others to follow?"

The emperor reached out to touch the fluff on her cloak, the soft touch was so similar to the hair she wrapped around her fingertips last night.

He took a breath, and the fluff fell to Chen Wenxin's neck, making her neck itchy.

Bai Lu was inside, tidying up the mess they left last night.

Chen Wenxin blushed unconsciously, whether it was because of Bai Lu and the others seeing what happened on the couch, or because the fluff was tickling.

"I'll just sit on the swing in the backyard, and don't go anywhere."

"I'm free today, and I'll take you to admire the chrysanthemums in the imperial garden. The cosmoses are so colorful, I'll pick some and put them in a vase for you."

The emperor knew that Chen Wenxin liked to play with flowers. As the saying goes, beauties love flowers, heroes love swords.

Chen Wenxin said happily: "Okay, I'm going to pick five willow chrysanthemums."

These five willows and chrysanthemums come from Tao Yuanming, a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. He has a saying that has been passed down through the ages: "Pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and see Nanshan leisurely."

Tao Yuanming is also called Mr. Wuliu, so the chrysanthemum he planted is also called Wuliuju.

The emperor went to the imperial garden to have a look, what is the five willow chrysanthemum, isn't it the most common rhubarb/chrysanthemum?
Although it was autumn and the flowers withered, there was no such situation in the imperial garden.

There are special gardeners in the palace to cultivate flowers, and the heat of charcoal stoves can also be used to smoke spring flowers in cold solar terms.

It's just laborious and time-consuming, and the quantity is limited.

With so many exotic flowers, why does she only like the most common one?

The emperor thought of Tao Yuanming's allusion, and suddenly became cheerful.

Tao Yuanming is so uninhibited and open-minded in dealing with the world, presumably Chen Wenxin has reverence in his heart, so he loves this kind of chrysanthemum very much, right?
Chen Wenxin asked the emperor while choosing the most brightly blooming flowers, "This kind of chrysanthemum is the best for eating. Does the emperor like honey chrysanthemum cake or five-nut chrysanthemum porridge?"

emperor:"……"

After a while, Chen Wenxin picked a small basket of chrysanthemums.She asked the little eunuch to follow with a flower basket, and she and the emperor picked a lot of cosmos together.

This is what the bottle is for.

The emperor said: "The emperor's grandmother likes cosmos the most. She said that this flower blooms beautifully and calmly, but it is not too red."

Chen Wenxin seldom heard the emperor mention the empress dowager, so he said: "Then let's pick some and send them to the empress dowager, shall we?"

The Empress Dowager lives in the Palace of Compassion and Peace, and does not like to be in contact with concubines.

It is said that when the former Empress Hesheli was here, she often went to serve the Empress Dowager.At that time, the Empress Dowager was still managing government affairs for the emperor, she was not very old, and her mind was not so dead.

She added: "Ask the slaves to send them to the Palace of Compassion and Ning. Let's not go, so as not to disturb the purity of the Empress Dowager. Your majesty, do you agree?"

Chen Wen thought so thoughtfully, the emperor patted her head in relief, "Naturally."

Thoughtfulness is on the one hand, on the other hand, she knows that the emperor will definitely be able to see the empress dowager on the Longevity Day.

The Longevity Festival is almost here, and the palace has already made preparations.Originally, the Double Ninth Festival was to be celebrated with great fanfare, but because it was too close to the Longevity Festival, the emperor avoided the celebration of this festival.

Longevity is the emperor's birthday.

On the emperor's 29th birthday, should she prepare something?

As she was thinking here, the emperor picked a pink and white cosmos and put it on her temple.

The emperor looked closely at her temples, "A beauty is like a new flower, shining in the spring of the year."

This poem is about orchids.

The Manchus admire white, and in their eyes, white flowers are a symbol of purity and nobility.The emperor also likes light-colored flowers the most, and doesn't like rich and colorful flowers.

"Since the emperor likes it, why don't you put some more in the Qianqing Palace during the Longevity Festival."

Every year on Longevity Day, the emperor would go to the Qianqing Palace to receive congratulations from all the officials as usual. This was a rare day for him not to go to court.

Chen Wenxin didn't pass by, this was her first Longevity Day in the palace.

The emperor shook his head, "The Qianqing Palace can only display your five willow chrysanthemums."

The five willow chrysanthemums are bright yellow, which is worthy of the emperor's ceremonial staff, bright yellow.

It looks glorious and glorious.

"Isn't there a red peony on the Qianqiu Festival?"

The emperor's birthday is called Longevity Festival, and the queen's birthday is called Qianqiu Festival.It's just that the emperor has not established a queen for many years, and the Qianqiu Festival has not been held for a long time.

The emperor smiled and said: "You are smart about these things. However, the Qianqiu Festival will not be done for the time being."

What the emperor meant was that he had no plans to become a queen yet.

"It's fine if the emperor doesn't have a queen, but there can be fewer rules in the harem. Just talking about morning and evening peace, I'm going to have a terrible headache."

On the day of Concubine Tong's birthday, all the concubines went to Chengqian Palace to pay their respects.She was very restrained, and she was afraid that someone with a heart like Yipin would speak up and provoke trouble.

If there is a queen in the palace, such greetings will be repeated every day.

Wouldn't she be bored to death?

The empress dowager is really kind, she doesn't do such a thing.

The emperor glanced at her, "Then tell me, why didn't I make a queen?"

The emperor asked her to guess this, isn't that good?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason for the emperor not conferring a queen is to check and balance power.He didn't want Concubine Tong and Tong Jia's family to become powerful, nor would other wealthy families become powerful to affect his rule.

She once thought, why is the emperor afraid of his own queen?

It is not surprising that China's feudal history reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty.

What is it if the emperor does not have a queen?According to historical records, Emperor Yongzheng didn't let the queen live in the Kunning Palace, which forced the queen to the same status as the concubine.

The emperor ascended the throne at the age of eight, and experienced the empress dowager assisting the government, Oboi abusing power, and the San Francisco rioting.He was overwhelmed by these things, so he wanted to hold on to power even more.

Chen Wenxin would rather believe this kind of statement than the other.

There is a saying in the harem that the reason why the emperor did not stand up for a long time was because of the former queen Hesheli.

The emperor and the Hesheli family were young couples. When they got married, the emperor was only twelve years old and the Hesheli family was thirteen.

It is said that the emperor never forgets her and loves her deeply, so he refuses to make another queen.

She pondered the emperor's face, not knowing which one to say.

She's a little bit hesitant to say...

She can easily talk about every concubine in the harem with the emperor, but she doesn't want to talk about this former queen of Hesheli.

Perhaps, that is really the love of the emperor's life.

Then, as a latecomer, she doesn't know which of them is more important in the emperor's heart?

That should be the queen's weight first, right?
Chen Wenxin was a little frustrated, the emperor was a person who cared a lot about his status, which was why he insisted on giving himself a promotion.

He felt that to dote on her was to give her an honorable position.

The Hesheli family is the empress, the only direct wife of the emperor.She is just a concubine, one of the emperor's many concubines.

See you all.

With a kind of reluctance, she tentatively asked: "Is it because the emperor is afraid that the power of the descendants will become stronger and endanger the state affairs, so he has been slow to become a queen?"

The emperor nodded, then shook his head: "This is also one of the reasons."

It seems that there is really a reason for Hershey's.

Seeing that she did not speak, the emperor felt that it was a bit taboo to say this, so it was better not to speak.

After a long time, wouldn't she know it?

"Go back to the palace when you've collected enough. I'll accompany you for lunch today. The new Cantonese crab roe soup dumplings in the imperial dining room are good to eat, and you will definitely like them."

The emperor changed the subject, presumably because he didn't want to talk about it.

Forget it, she is a little concubine, she just needs to live her current life well, why bother to think so much.

Delusional thinking that the emperor only loves her deeply?
That's why she's stupid.

She cheered up, smiled and said to the emperor: "Crab roe buns!"

That was her previous favorite!
(End of this chapter)