With a slender hand, he lifted the lid of the cinnabar cartridge, placed the brush on the silver pen holder, and pulled up his lilac soft satin cuffs, revealing a green white forearm. At the wrist, there is a water-green bracelet, which is emerald and gorgeous.

"Ruyi, you go back to the emperor, these folds can be done in about half an hour."

"Huh." The little eunuch Ruyi bowed at the door and repeated: "Concubine Yi was ordered to approve the book, and she can resume her life in half an hour." ”

When Ruyi went, Concubine Yi, who was sitting on the small number, did not rush to look at the excerpts, but glanced at the empty throne.

"He doesn't even want to see me now." She was stunned for a while, sighed softly, and then picked up the folds on the case and batched them one by one.

Concubine Yi, who is only twenty-five years old this year, has been giving instructions to the emperor for more than three years. At first, it was only done occasionally under Xianfeng's teaching, but then the number of times gradually increased, and after arriving in Rehe, because Xianfeng's health was not good, it became the norm to order Concubine Yi to approve the book on his behalf.

She learns quickly. At first, Xianfeng just regarded teaching her to mark the book as a kind of fun, in order to appreciate her delicate and ignorant and helpless appearance. But now, for her, the approval of the book has become a commonplace, and it has become a very skilled thing.

All the folds were seen by Xianfeng in advance, and the nails left a pinch mark in the upper right corner of the fold, and Yi Guifei wrote the corresponding comments according to the number of pinch marks, horizontally and vertically. A pinch mark means "view", two pinch marks indicate "according to the proposal", and a slash is pinched between the two to indicate "the part of the echo", a total of more than a dozen, all of which are clear in mind.

The folds without pinch marks account for about half of them, indicating that the emperor has no prejudices, and will be sent to the military aircraft department and will be played back after being discussed by the minister of military aircraft. Such an excerpt, or the transfer of money and food, or the strategy of the war, are all important military affairs, and Concubine Yi often takes them very seriously.

After more than 20 excerpts were approved, it only took half an hour. She carefully put these folds into a yellow box, locked them, and handed them to Qin Meimei, the eunuch waiting at the door, who sent them to the military plane. An Dehai took another little eunuch and waited ten steps away from the imperial study, waiting to send her back to the palace.

Concubine Yi glanced at the Yanbo Zhishuang Hall in the distance, and knew that the emperor was being accompanied by a concubine at the moment, talking and laughing in the hall. She felt a little sour in her heart, and she was also a little unwilling, but her face was still calm like water, and she was served by Xiao Anzi, and returned to her own dormitory, Chuduo Palace in the West Sixth Palace.

An Dehai helped her to sit down, handed over a hot hand towel, and whispered: "Master, Master Zhao has already saluted at the gate of the palace, and he is waiting for the master's order at this time." ”

Zhaoxiang is the eldest brother of Concubine Yi, and the imperial court has given him a third-class grace according to the rules. Today is the Zuihou day of the first lunar month, and he, as the maiden relative of Concubine Yi, can come to visit her on this day.

The so-called visit, in fact, can not enter the inner palace, can only salute at the gate of the palace, and then ask the eunuch to hand over the little things brought by the mother's family to Concubine Yi.

And "waiting for orders", to put it bluntly, is waiting for his sister to reward something. Concubine Yi's maiden home is a Fang family in the capital, and her two elder brothers live here with their mother. The situation of the family is not very good, the two elder brothers are not successful, and the reward of Concubine Yi twice a year has become a hope for the family.

Of course, Concubine Yi knew this, sighed, and said, "Xiao Anzi, go and take out my box." ”

An Dehai took out a gilded leather box from the cabinet in the back, carefully took it out and placed it in front of her. Concubine Yi opened the box and picked out a pair of earrings with emerald nails, a pair of gold bracelets, an uninlaid rhinestone, and two hundred taels of silver tickets. After hesitating for a moment, he was ruthless and added another hundred taels.

"You tell him that these things are to be given to the old lady to divide." There was a hint of helplessness in her tone, "If he hides something by himself, let me know, I won't follow!" ”

In fact, she doesn't have a lot of money - the concubine's annual silver is only six hundred taels, plus some miscellaneous income, and the annual income is only as much as one thousand taels, which is really far from the imagination of outsiders. It's just that she is a person who cares for her family very much, and most of this silver is subsidized to Fang Jiayuan.

An Dehai was clear about these situations, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for his master, and said hatefully: "Su Shunke detained us too ruthlessly." ”

Concubine Yi glared at him coldly, and said expressionlessly: "You go, call the beads and them, I will go to greet the queen." After you finish handing over your things, go to the middle palace and wait. ”

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In the entire harem, the queen is the only person who Yi Guifei respects. According to the etiquette law, the queen and the emperor are enemies - this "enemy" does not mean enemies, but refers to equality in status. The queen is the emperor's wife and has the power and responsibility to control the six palaces, while all other concubines can only be concubines in terms of identity, even if they are imperial concubines.

Concubine Yi's title is "concubine", which is one level lower than the imperial concubine, but her respect for the queen is not only because of the difference in identity. Although the queen is a year younger than her, she is upright and peaceful, and when she rarely loses her temper, she always acts according to reason, which is convincing. And the queen is even more kind to Concubine Yi - after all, she gave birth to the only royal brother. In the days when she fell out of favor, the queen's care and care for her was no different from the past, which made her extremely grateful, and there was a sincere sisterhood with the queen.

The elder sister among the "sisters", regardless of age, is naturally the queen. Concubine Yi greeted the queen and sat down obediently. The queen looked at her and knew that she had something to say, so she smiled and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The emperor's illness seems to be serious again." Concubine Yi Guifei told the queen the news that An Dehai had inquired about for her, "Yesterday, it was rumored that Li Qiusheng from the Tai Hospital came to ask for a pulse, and I heard that the pulse case that came out was not very good. ”

The smile on the queen's face was gone: "What did Li Qiusheng say?" ”

Concubine Yi sighed and said, "Isn't it a few words of pure heart and recuperation?" It's useless to say what you know you can't do. ”

The queen was silent. Since Xianfeng arrived in Rehe, he has been anxious about the difficulties of state affairs, and he is disheartened, and he has a little sign of indulging in suicide. Obviously she is sick, but she is still a concubine inside, hunting people outside, and she hardly stops for a day. The relationship between the queen and the emperor is very good, and they have been persuaded several times, and Xianfeng is willing to listen to them in person, but after a few days, they will relapse into their old ways. The queen is a kind person, and when she sees him like this, she is anxious, but there is no more way to do it.

"Zaiyuan and Duanhua are too disagreeable." The queen held back such a sentence. She has always known that these two people can't do big things, but when it comes to coaxing the emperor to have fun, she is always ingenious.

"Who said it wasn't," Concubine Yi echoed, thought about it, and told the queen a secret: "I heard that a few days ago, they also got a widow Xu for the emperor to ......."

"What Widow Xu?" The queen was shocked.

"What kind of seriousness can it be, it's not ......" Concubine Yi stopped when she said this, and both of them blushed slightly. It is no secret that the emperor likes the new flowers on the bed, but there is no way to say anything about this kind of bed, between two young women.

"Well, it would be nice to go back to Luan." The queen sighed slightly. When he returned to the capital, the palace was strictly forbidden, so he would never let the emperor mess around like this again.

"How can Su Shun be willing?" Concubine Yi saw it more thoroughly, and said with a sneer, "How comfortable you are here, inside and outside the palace, everything is up to him." ”

"If you want to talk about Su Shun, it is a little too much," the queen said, "but no one is perfect, and he still has to rely on him to share the emperor's worries in government and military affairs." ”

Concubine Yi filled a cigarette for the queen and whispered, "What worries can you share?" Two days ago, for the matter of horse bandits outside the Guan, the emperor scolded the Admiral of Zhili and General Fengtian. I look at the excerpts, hundreds of horse bandits, from the Xifeng Pass into the Great Wall, and then through Zunhua, Yantian, and now I don't know where to go! There are only a few hundred people, and Su Shun just watched it, and there was nothing he could do. ”

Although the queen does not understand military affairs, Zunhua Yantian is not far from the capital and Rehe, this is always known, and she is worried in her heart, and she has nothing to say for a while. The two of them sat like this, chatting closely for a long time, until the palace gate was about to fall, Concubine Yi said goodbye to the queen, and An Dehai and several other eunuchs and palace maids followed, and returned to Chuduo Palace.

After serving the envoy, Andehai retreated and went to the outer hall to find a familiar Sula. Tomorrow is the first day of the second lunar month, and the year will be over, and there is one thing that I have been thinking about for a few days, and I want to do it before the palace gate is dropped.

"You go to the infantry Yamen horse team in Ruyizhou and find a Qian general named Guan Zhuofan." He took a tael of silver and gave it to Sulla, and said, "Just say that I will invite him to drink wine tomorrow at the West Corner Gate." ”

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